Gender Issues, Equality and Swedish Society
Course Dates
To be decided shortly, in June – July , 2010
Target Group
Students from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine with at least 3 years of university studies
Last application date
To be decided shortly 2010
Course objectives/Learning outcomes
“Gender equality is a matter of human rights. It is
also an effective way to reduce poverty in the world.”
In 2005 SIDA started a worldwide project on Gender Equality. The quotation above is from their webpage. Almost everyone has ideas of what Gender Equality means. The following course aims at giving a broad introduction to Gender Equality and how different aspects of Swedish society relates to it. The aims of this course are:
- To introduce gender and give a broad view of gender theory
- To provide tools for gender analysis
- To present and discuss gender equality in Swedish Society in an historical perspective
- To present the current legislation in Sweden on Gender Equality, on harassment and on Diversity
- To illustrate how one can work with gender equality questions by presenting actual examples from Swedish Society
Course description
The course consist of six themes:
1. Introduction
2. Historical background
3. Gender and Culture
4. Gender, Equality and Work
5. City Planning from a Gender Equality Perspective
6. Gender, Equality and Sexuality
Gender Issues, Equality and Swedish Society is a two week course with a guarantee of six hours teaching time per day. An ordinary course-day will start with a two hour lecture and then consist of discussion time, fieldtrips, excursions etc. During the two weeks the participating students will be assigned tasks to perform for example: papers to write, book rapports and presentations to prepare. For example; the historical theme will include in a discussion of Moa Martinson’s Women and Apple trees and a trip to Kulturen, a museum in Lund. The theme on City planning from a Gender Perspective will conclude in a presentation where each student group will with the help of cameras will document and discuss an area of Lund and a field trip to Malmö and “Turning Torso”. Examination will consist of two group assignments and an individual paper.
For general information from the Swedish Institute on the following subjects, click on the links
Swedish Institute Summer University 2008
Gender issues, Equality and the Swedish Society
The course have been running three times before, 2007, 2008 and 2009. You find more info on these previous courses on www.jamkomp.se. Click on Gender Studies.
Last modified 8 Feb 2010
Phone:
+46 46-2220739
E-mail:
Emma.Alfredsson
@education.lu.se
[pdf] Application form
Please fill out the application form and attach
1. Personal motivation of why you should attend the course
2. Your CV
3. A letter of recommendation from your university
4. Copies of university degrees
Send all the material scanned to: emma.alfredsson@education.lu.se
or by mail to
Lund University Commissioned Education
Att: Emma Alfredsson
Box 117
221 00 Lund
Sweden