HSRV208-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Gender Sensitivity and the Human Services

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2016

Description

This course provides students with the opportunity to critically analyse how gender is assembled and performed. The course develops students' knowledge of theories, experiences and issues of gender as they apply to areas of human services work. Students are encouraged to think about diverse ways in which social structure mechanisms can: support and maintain notions of femininity and masculinity, affect the choices available to women and men, and shape ideas regarding individual and social well-being. Examples will be provided by field practitioners to facilitate the examination of the economic, psychological, and social risks faced by women and men as consumers and providers of human services, and analyse the ways in which human services define, validate, and promote human well-being.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understanding of the social-cultural constructions of ‘gender’
  • Development of reflective skills in relation to understanding the complex constructions of gender in practice, institutional/structural and organisational frameworks.  
  • Understanding of the relationship between gender inequailities, power and change in human systems.
  • Appreciation of the ethical values and legal obligations of human service delivery systems

Prerequisites

30 points from HSRV101, HSRV102, HSRV103, HSRV104, SOWK101, SOWK102 and SOWK104. Students without this prerequisite but with at least 60 points in appropriate courses may enter the course with the permission of the Programme Coordinator.

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

Maria-Victoria Perez Y Perez

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Literature Review 01 Apr 2016 30%
Online Task x 1 08 Apr 2016 10%
Reflective Journal 16 May 2016 30%
Online Test 03 Jun 2016 30% Will be live Friday 27 May at 9 a.m.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Ryle, Robyn; Questioning gender : a sociological exploration ; Second Edition;

Notes

Course readings and resources will be available on LEARN.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $717.00

International fee $2,913.00

* 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 .

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