COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEXISM AND VIOLENCE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ESH 0068 SEXISM AND VIOLENCE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Faculty Of Letters

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ÖZLEM DUVA KAYA

Offered to

American Culture and Literature
Archeology
Museology
.
Translation and Interpreting
.
Turkish Language and Literature
Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Psychology
Archeology
Comparative Literature
Sociology
Sociology
Philosophy
Linguistics
History
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
History
Comparative Literature

Course Objective

This course explores the public nature of private violence, spesicifically violence against women, LGBTQI people. Students will investigate the social, political and personal meaning of violence within gendered context. Throughout the course students will analyze the ways in which philosophical, social, cultural, economic and political factors teach us to think about discrimination on women and LGBTQI people. In result of that analysis, students will also examine the social phenomena such as race, ethnicity and class affect the degree and type of violence against women, LGBTQI people and all the disadvantaged groups in Turkey as well as in the world.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Analyzing the social and personal significance of gender in contemporary life by way of diverse philosophical perspectives,
2   Understanding the key concepts in gender theory in relation to the acts of violence,
3   Being aware of the relations between violence and sexism,
4   Speaking and writing skillfully about gender issues,
5   Making a discussion on discrimation in the society against women, LGBTQI people,
6   Being aware of some phenomena which causes violence such as racism, ethnicity etc. and discovering their relations with sexism.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The basic concepts about gender and violence
2 The nature of the violence and types of the acts of force.
3 Gender and its normative character
4 Discussion on the cases about gender-based violence.
5 Discussion on the cases about gender-based violence.
6 Intimate partner violence against women and its cultural character
7 Mid-term Exam
8 Discussion on discrimation in the society against women, LGBTQI people.
9 Discussion on discrimation in the society against women, LGBTQI people.
10 Racism and gender-based violence
11 Ethnicity, culture and gender-based violence
12 Sexism,power, discrimination and gender-based violence
13 Sexual assaults, power and hierarchical relations in the society.
14 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Iktidar, R.W. Connell, Ayrıntı Yayınları, Çev: Cem Soydemir, Istanbul, 1998
2. Tarihin Cinsiyeti, Fatmagül Berktay, Metis Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 2003
3. Cinsiyet Belası, Judith Butler, Çev: Başak Ertür, Metis Yayınları, Istanbul, 2008
4.Milliyetçilik ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Derleyenler: Aylin Özman, Simten Coşar, Iletişim Yayınları, Istanbul, 2015

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Achievement in the Exams, participation to sessions and exercises/practices.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance to at least 70% for the lectures is an essential requirement of this course and is the responsibility of the student. It is necessary that attendance to the lecture and homework delivery must be on time. Any unethical behavior that occurs either in presentations or in exams will be dealt with as outlined in school policy.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

DEU Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü
e-mail: ozlem.duva@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be noticed before the classes begin.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Tutorials 6 1 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 88

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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