HSRV208-25S1 (D) Semester One 2025 (Distance)

Gender Sensitivity and the Human Services

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course provides students with the opportunity to critically investigate shifting socio-cultural constructions of gender. Students are introduced to theories, experiences and issues of gender, to think about how gender matters in the choices and opportunities available to us; in shaping ideas regarding individual and social well-being; the ways in which gender is experienced, defined, validated, and reworked.

This course provides students with the opportunity to critically investigate shifting socio-cultural
constructions of gender. The course introduces students to theories, experiences and issues of gender and to think about how gender matters in the choices and opportunities available to us, and in shaping ideas regarding individual and social well-being. We explore examples of social, political, economic and cultural contexts inhabited by consumers and providers of human services to analyse the ways in which gender is experienced, defined, validated, and reworked.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to social-cultural constructions of ‘gender’
• To critically consider how gender matters
• To develop knowledge of the ideas, concepts, and theories used to understand the complexities and tensions of gender difference and inequality for human services
• To promote and develop gender sensitivity in human service contexts.
• To foster students’ ability to think critically, and to carry out independent research.

Learning Outcomes

  • On successful completion of the course, the student will be able to demonstrate:
  • Competent digital literacy and capacity to undertake literature searches, and assess the relevance of literature to topics/issues under consideration.
  • Apply an understanding of gender theories, concepts, history, methodologies, and activism
  • Critical analysis and reflexive skills in relation to understanding the complex constructions of gender.
  • Ability to demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of cultural diversity
  • Ability to articulate connections between individual experiences and wider social institutions and structures
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Engaged with the community

      Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

      Globally aware

      Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

15 points at 100 level in HSRV AND 15 points from either Schedule V to the BA, Schedule C to the BSW(Hons), Schedules C or E to the BCJ; OR 60 points from the BA, BSW(Hons) or BCJ.

Restrictions

HSRV308

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Live Stream Available
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

Maria-Victoria Perez Y Perez

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Class Participation 10% Weekly
Literature Review 22 Mar 2024 30%
Essay 13 May 2024 30%
End of Course Online Test 30 May 2024 30%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $894.00

International fee $4,100.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All HSRV208 Occurrences

  • HSRV208-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025
  • HSRV208-25S1 (D) Semester One 2025 (Distance)