Spring 2024 - GSWS 824 G100
Gender and Social Policy (5)
Class Number: 3141
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 8 – Apr 12, 2024: Fri, 12:30–4:20 p.m.
Surrey
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Instructor:
Jennifer Marchbank
jmarchba@sfu.ca
1 778 782-7607
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Focuses on one or more social issues and policies in such fields as law, health, economics, social welfare, and science and technology. It uses an intersectional or Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) lens on social and/or public policies. Students will apply course content to an evaluation of policy in their own areas of concentration.
COURSE DETAILS:
This seminar-based course provides a gendered analysis of violence and resistance to violence. It ranges from a gendered understanding of political states through to individual experiences, institutional situations and militarized aspects. We will address violence and resistance through feminist perspectives and use theories from critical studies of masculinity to come to an interdisciplinary understanding of the course themes. We will examine violence and resistance in the home, in the streets, in communities, in discourses and during conflict and war. Some cases will be historical other contemporary. Throughout we will explore the constructions of gender, women, men, transgender and the interplay of ethnicity and sexuality. In doing so we will question assumptions, such as women are more peaceful, and problematize essentialist paradigms. The material in this course is difficult and sometimes upsetting.
Throughout we will explore gender in combination with other social differences, such as ethnicity, sexuality, dis/ability, gender expression, age, class, citizenship and others.
This course comprises of several themes, including:
- Gender and states of conflict
- Engendering states and nation
- Gender and nationalism
- Inter and intra state conflict
- Post conflict
- Interpersonal violence
- Sexual violence
- Peace and resistance
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
For more detailed information please see the GSWS website: http://www.sfu.ca/gsws/graduate/courses/Educational_Goals.html
Grading
- Artefact Responses 20%
- Research Essay 30%
- Group Facilitation 20%
- Reading Analysis 10%
- Graduate Workshop 20%
NOTES:
Artefact Responses 20%
I will offer a number of materials to stimulate discussion. For 4 of these you will provide a response for the next class, it may be written, poetry, creative, visual. Maximum length is 500 words. The cumulative value of these responses is 20% of your grade.
Research Essay 30%
An essay on a topic selected by you (and agreed with me in advance) incorporating both course material and your own research. In addition to course readings you should aim to include at least two further academic sources and one other external source (could be a policy document, media source, website, e.g. UN site). Length should be around 3,000 words. The grade is worth 30% of the overall mark.
Group Facilitation 20%
Each graduate student will be required teach a particular reading to the undergraduates for 15 minutes, followed by a further 15 minutes for class discussion and/or exercises. The ability to teach is a very good indication of the level of mastery of the subject. There will be a discussion of pedagogy in the Graduate Workshop. This is worth 20% of the overall grade.
Reading Analysis 10%
You are required to select one of the articles or chapters listed in Required Reading (cannot be the reading you present on for Group Facilitation) and write a Reading Analysis that not only summarises the piece but provides a critique of its strengths and weaknesses. Approximately 1000 words, submitted at any time that is convenient for you before Week 10 (November 18). This is worth 10% of your grade.
Graduate Workshop 20%
This graduate only section of the course is where we will tackle real world projects related to course themes, working in partnership with local agencies and services to create deliverable outcomes for current projects. The project this year is for the Network to Eliminate Violence in Relationships and is to update and edit the 'living e-book' Gurm et al and will lead to a publication credit in addition to academic credit. The grade for this workshop constitutes 20% of your final grade.
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
- Gurm, B., Salgado, G., Marchbank, J., & Early, S. D. (2020). Making Sense of a Global Pandemic: Relationship Violence & Working Together Towards a Violence Free Society. Kwantlen Polytechnic University: Surrey, BC. Free Ebook. https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/nevr/
- Readings on Canvas
- Electronic journal articles and online reports – available through your SFU library account.
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.
Graduate Studies Notes:
Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html