HSRV308-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014

Gender Sensitivity and the Human Services

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 25 May 2014

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.

Objectives:

•   To introduce students to how gender shapes, relfects and intersects with various arenas of
     social life.  
•   To understand the concepts of gender difference and inequality and the subsequent impact
     on social life, wellbeing and human systems.
•   To foster students' ability to think critically, and to carry out independent research.

Learning Outcomes

  •   Critical analysis and reflective skills in relation to understanding the complex constructions of
         gender.
  •   An understanding of the relationship between gender inequalities, power and change in
         human systems.  
  •   Be able to apply the theories learned to the analysis of gender and human systems.

Prerequisites

Any 30 points of Human Services at 200 level including HSRV204. Students without this prerequisite but with at least 60 points at 200 level or above 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
Essay 28 Mar 2014 30%
Directed Journal 16 May 2014 35%
Online Test 05 Jun 2014 35% Live: Thursday the 29th May at 9 a.m.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $670.00

International fee $2,850.00

* 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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