Gender and Sexualities

Code:

PDSH05

Acronym:

GS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Programme in Human Sexuality

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDSH	10	Plano de Estudos em vigor	1	-	3	14	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The UC “Gender and Sexualities” main goal is to allow in-depth training in the research domain of Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities, allowing the students to be able to:

 

• Situate Gender in an historical analysis of feminisms and plural feminist epistemologies;
• Understand cultural and ideological dynamics of production of the sexes and sexuallities;
• Acquire knowledge on the intersection of different social belonging categories, and individual and relational experiences repeatedly associated with sex and sexualities.
• Understand the relevance of life cycle and, especially, ageing on a (non-)normative sexualities approach;
• Investigate and work carefully with diverse populations, taking into account social intersections, life trajectories and privilege / oppression dynamics related with such populations.

Learning outcomes and competences

Using mainly expositive methodologies and critical reflection, the UC allows the students to attain global aims essentially on a theoretical and conceptual nature and, more specifically, provide proficiency on critical self-reflection fundamental to the intervention and research with the populations named by the UC. Group discussion allows the consolidation of learnings through the necessary sustained argumentations

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Gender social construction and feminisms waves.


2. Gender, sexual double standard and feminine sexual fluidity


3. Feminist sexology


4. Sexual normalization disposals and plural sexual orientations


5. Oppression/Privilege matrixes - Intersectional theory, methodology and interseccional practices.

The first issue, Gender social construction and feminisms waves, will allow exploring Gender issues as part of an feminist historical perspective and the learning of plural feminists epistemologies;

Issues 2 and 3 of the syllabus will bring access and knowledge to a life cycle perspective, including issues such as feminine sexual fluidity and ageing;

Issues 4 and 5 of the syllabus will facilitate in-depth knowledge of sexualites and intervene/investigate in themes that intersect with sexualites and other sexual belonging categories.

Mandatory literature

Conceição Nogueira; Interseccionalidade e Psicologia Feminista, Editora DeVires, 2017
ROsenKrantz, D. & Mark K; The sociocultural context of sexually diverse women sexual desire, 2017
Nogueira Conceição 570; Estudo sobre a discriminação em função da orientação sexual e da identidade de género. ISBN: 978-972-597-326-4
Jackson Stevi; Gender, sexaulity and heterosexuality , 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

• Expositive method, aiming the update of core concepts.


• Critical review promotion, in order to capacitate the student on a reflexivity exercise.


• Group discussion, seeking the enforcement of perspectives and theories vindication.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	22,00
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

To obtain approval, students (groups of 2) should write the outline of a research project , in the last two hours of the module considering the specificities inherent to a intersectional project . The theme can be chosen by the team. 

Grades are presented on a 0 to 20 scale.

Calculation formula of final grade

Sum of the grade regarding the participation in classes (20%) with the writen assignment (80%).
The 20% on participation in classes results from the appreciation of presences  as well as participation in classes.

Classification improvement

A new written assignment can be submeted