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Gender Issues, Equality, Human Rights and Swedish Society
Course Dates
June 20 – July 6, 2011
Target Group
Students from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Sweden with at least 3 years of university studies
Last application date
April 15, 2011
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 consists of seven themes:
- Key concepts
- Historical background
- Gender and Human Rights today – in Sweden and in an international perspective
- Gender, Media and Culture
- City Planning from a Gender Equality Perspective
- Gender, Equality and Sexuality
- Gender and Religion
Gender Issues, Equality, Human Rights and Swedish Society is a 2,5 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.
The course have been running four times before, from 2007-2010. You find more info on these previous courses on www.jamkomp.se. Click on Gender Studies.
Last modified 1 Mar 2011
Phone:
+46 46-2221459
E-mail:
Andreas.Bryngelson
@education.lu.se
1. Open the Application form
2. Fill out the application form
3. Print the form
4. Sign and attach a photo
5. Scan the application form
6. Attach copies of university degrees
7. Send all the material scanned to: andreas.bryngelson@education.lu.se
or by mail to
Lund University Commissioned Education
Att: Andreas Bryngelson
Box 117
221 00 Lund
Sweden