- Students become acquainted with and learn to practice a new, critical way of looking at cultural practices.
- Students know the main themes, theories and methods as employed in Women's and Gender Studies in the Humanities and learn the historical development of intersectional theory.
- Students know how to make an academic presentation pertaining to above issues.
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The aim of this interdisciplinary course is to develop and practice a critical way of looking at contemporary cultural practices. In these practices of production, dissemination and reception, masculinity and femininity are permanently (re)constructed, just as are concepts of class, race, ethnicity, and geopolitical location.
We will be studying cultural practices in various manifestations: popular culture (e.g. soaps, advertising, music icons) but also the cultural logic underlying art practice and visual etnographis research. In all these sites old and new identities are being contested and reconstructed. The interaction between text and image will be main point of focus.
Early Exit option for international exchange students (5 ECTS)
Exchange students who are required to return to their home university before January, are allowed to choose an Early Exit option for this course. The Early Exit option means that students can finish the course before Christmas break, receiving 5 ECTS for the course. Students must make arrangements with the course coordinator at the start of the course.
This course is the second course in the minor Gender Studies.
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