Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

The role of gender as an unspoken element in research, and as a vital factor in human interaction has received increasing focus in recent years. This unit helps you understand the role gender plays in the structuring of the human personality as well as using insights generated to critique psychological research, methodology and psychological theory.

Aims

This unit aims to:

1. assist students to develop critical thinking around the topic of gender.


2. provide an overview of current academic thinking about gender, with a specific focus on psychology.

Objectives

1. To familiarise you with the various approaches to gender taken by psychology and other disciplines.


2. To assist you to think critically about gender and to establish a basis for understanding the role gender plays in structuring the human life span and human interactions.


3. To expose you to research in psychology which involves gender as a variable.


4. To expose you to a gendered/ feminist critique of psychological methodology and research and to introduce methods of researching and counselling deemed to be friendly to women (and children and men).


5. To help you develop critical thinking skills and evaluate issues, theories and research where gender is (or should have been) an important variable.


6. To broaden your understanding of your own gender development, and the importance of gender in all of our lives.

Content

The experience of gender in everyday life, evaluating gender research, paradigms of explanation, selected gender topics.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

The unit is conducted with the lecture periods used as extended workshops and will proceed via short lectures with powerpoint assistance, occasional guest lectures, readings, video presentations, and group discussions and exercises, varying the pace of the material across the three hours of lecture time.

Assessment

Assessment is conducted through a self-reflective written process which includes an essay and an essay examination.Feedback processes are both formal through marking and grading and informal through discussion and written comments on reflective pieces.

Assessment name: Reflective Journal
Relates to objectives: 2, 4, 5 and 6
Weight: 10%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Weekly

Assessment name: Essay
Description: Essay topic 2000 words.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, and 5.
Weight: 50%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid semester

Assessment name: Final Exam
Description: Final Exam (two essay questions)
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Nil, readings provided on Course Material Data Base.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 13-Sep-2012