Gender Sensitivity in Human Services

Description

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.