COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 6003 CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Women's and Family Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR NEVZAT KAYA

Offered to

Women's and Family Studies

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to show students that "gender" and all "knowledge" related to "gender" is a narration, and that this narration is a construction that should be handled in the context of cultural "evolution".

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To examine gender as the most important catalyst for shaping the semiosphere.
2   To distinguish the importance of "gender" intake of socio-economic conditions.
3   To determine how humanist discourse overlaps with patriarchal ideology.
4   To analyze how antihümanist rhetoric tries to dissolve the patriarchal semiosphere.
5   To determine that antihümanist discourse is based on ancient and pre- cultural " elements.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Course Content
2 What is the semiosphere
3 First Semiosphere: Instinctive Behavior Patterns
4 Second Semiosphere: Cultural Behavior Patterns
5 Humanist Discourse: Suppressing the dynamics of the First Semiosphere
6 Antihumanist Discourse: The decay of the dynamics of the Second Semiosphere
7 Midterm Exam
8 Carel van Schaik: Cultural Evolution
9 Text Analysis
10 Text Analysis
11 Text Analysis
12 Student presentations
13 Student presentations
14 Student presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Carel van Schaik, Elisabeth Bronfen, Judith Butler, Juri Lotman.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, in class discussions, assignments and presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Will be announced.

Assessment Criteria

Will be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance is obligatory.
2. Any kind of plagiarism will be subject to disciplinary action.
3. Preparation to weekly lectures (reading the respective material) and contribution to in class discussion is obligatory.
4. Students prepare presentations about topics given by the instructor.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

nevzat.kaya@deu.edu.tr
Phone: 02323019494

Office Hours

Will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 3 33
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 11 5 55
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 144

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.15
LO.24
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55

CONTACT INFORMATION
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