Summary
Aims and contents:
- analyzing and engaging core theories, methods and concepts of gender studies
- investigating discrimination in connection to diversity and intersectionality (for example based on gender, skin color, religion, social status, sexual orientation, etc.)
- scientifically researching differences and hierarchies, stereotypes and clichés within one’s own discipline as well as transdisciplinary
- deconstructing categorical assignments and attributions such as, for example, “gender”/“sex”
- applying feminist, queer, postcolonial and intersectional academic critique
- becoming acquainted with the fields of practice and professions of gender studies
Extension curriculum Gender Studies – 32 ECTS
Scope of studies/modules:
Compulsory subjects 8 ECTS
I. Introduction
further/supplementary subjects 24 ECTS
II. Spaces of living
III. Economy and work
IV. Historicity – remembering – experience
V. Communication – representation
VI.Body – psyche – corporeality
VI. Technology
Contact
Dr. Kirstin Mertlitsch, gender.zentrum@aau.at
Implemented/introduced
At the University of Klagenfurt from winter term of 2020/21 onwards
Attachments
Folder_Extension Curriculum (German content only)