ADH714 - Gender, Race and Culture
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Maree Pardy |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 1.5-hour online seminar per trimester in weeks 4 - 11 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit explores how gender, sexuality, race, and culture are central to development and humanitarianism. We examine theoretically and through a series of case studies on controversial issues such as violence against women, sex work, sexual violence in war and conflict, feminisation of development agendas, reproductive tourism. The unit considers how development has classically considered such matters through sexual and reproductive rights, economic empowerment, and microfinance, and the shift today to a principal concern with gender-based violence. When did concern with macro structural issues become secondary to more culturally contextualised issues such as forms of violence such as forced and child marriage, dowry etc and what might this tell us about “gender rand development”. We consider how theories of coloniality, post colonialism, embodiment, critical race theory, embodiment, and queer theory have challenged and expanded capacities to think through these issues. For example, if we take the apparent global ubiquity of gender-based violence in development interventions we ask, what is being achieved here, how, and what might it prevent us from seeing. We ask also in this context, how has gender become embedded as sexism and phobias, race as racism, and culture as culturalism (particularly gender-based violence, racialized as problems of culture and cultural norms). How have these terms been appropriated by neoliberal agendas and how are communities across the globe responding?
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Identify and critically analyse the gendered dimensions of contemporary international and community development | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO2 | Critically evaluate the evolution of theories of gender and sexuality in the context of gender and development | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO3 | Generate informed approaches to address intersecting issues of gender, culture and development | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO4 | Apply community development principles and practices to contextually informed gender interventions | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Essay | 1250 words or equivalent | 25% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2: Presentation | 1250 words or equivalent | 25% | Week 8 |
| Assessment 3: Report | 2500 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ADH714 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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