Theory and Hystory on Gender, the Body and Violence

Code:

DE126

Acronym:

THGCV

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	20	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Eventualmente, inglês

Objectives

GOALS

- mobilize different theoretical contributions from history, sociology, gender studies and feminists to think about gender, body and gender violence;

Learning outcomes and competences

Learning outcomes
It is expected the students will be able:
- to identify concepts from different theoretical and historical perspectives on gender, the body and violence; 
- to connect research on the body with gender studies and the research on gender violence;
- to mobilize concepts and perspectives to critically analyse day-by-day situations, both locally, nationally and internationally;
- to mobilize knowledge to think about socio-educational intervention on gender violence;
- to mobilize theoretical and historical knowledge to case analysis and develop projects in educational field across the field on gender violence.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

See Master in Sciences on Education Rules.

Program

1. Historical studies on the body and the violence:
1.1. gender in historical studies around the body;
1.2. gender in historical studies on violence;

2. Gender:
2.2. Debate around concepts on gender and reality analysis;
2.2. Gender/sex/gender regime/patriarchy/dual systems

3. Gender and the body

4. Gender and violence

5. The body and violence

Mandatory literature

Roger Cooter; The turn of the body: history and the politics of the corporeal, Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura. CLXXXVI 743, 2016
Anabela Araújo de Carvalho Amaral; Da medicina Escolar à Saúde da Escola. A Medicina e a Saúde Escolares em Portugal (Finais do século XIX, Início do século XX), FPCEUP (PhD)
Magalhães, Maria José; Turner, Jackie & Hagemann-White, Carol ; Empowerment and intervention: perspectives of survivors and professionals, Berlin: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp 164-185, 2019

Teaching methods and learning activities

This UC constitutes the specific theoretical basis of the master domain. In this sense, the teaching methodology will privilege pedagogic strategic of mobilization of theoretical and historical studies and theories.
At the same time, the methodology will include:
- the presentaton of concepts and theories by group of students (or individually);
- debate, reflexion and analysis of texts and day-by-day situations.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	3,00
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	49,00
Trabalho de campo	15,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	187,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributive evaluation without final exam


Participation - 10%
Oral presentaton - 30%
Inidivual essay - 60%

Every components should have positive evaluation (mininum 9,5)

Calculation formula of final grade

Participation - 10%
Oral presentaton - 30%
Inidivual essay - 60%

Every components should have positive evaluation (mininum 9,5)

Internship work/project

N/A

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

General Rules of UP.

Classification improvement

Follows the rule of Master in Sciences of Education

Observations

Considering the recommendations to maintain lectures in the presence mode, they will be performed when possible. Due to the scarcity of phisical space, this discipline will occurr both in the presence and online modes, also with syncroninc moments of teaching.