6345 - Gender, Power, and Migration
Course information
- Title
- Gender, Power, and Migration
- Course number
- 6345.24
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 10.00
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- History and Social Sciences
- Educations
- BSSc in Political Science, BA in History, BSSc in Social Sciences
- Prerequisites
- Introductory level in Social Science (2 years) or equivalent qualifications
- Language of instruction
- Faroese
- Registration
- Students on the fifth semester of Bachelor of Social Science in Social Science are automatically enrolled. Applicants for an individual course must apply via the Student Service Center at lss@setur.fo
- Beginning date
- Tuesday, August 27, 2024
- End date
- Monday, November 18, 2024
Academic content
- Purpose
- The objective of the course is to introduce students to the field of Gender, Power, and Migration. And how power relations between countries (Global North and Global South) have an impact on individuals and migration. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to both gender and migration theories to provide students with analytical tools for understanding and analyzing how social structures impact gender, power and migration.
- Learning outcomes
- After completed course, students must demonstrate that they are able to: • Explain and discuss different migration theories and the reasons for migration. • Explain how social structures have an different impact on individuals according to where they come from • Explain the power relations between Global North and Global South • Engage in critical discussion using feminist theories and post colonial feminist theories • Explain and discuss different migration theories and different reasons to why migration takes place • Analyse gender and migration by using an interdisciplinary approach
- Content
- • Gender theories and social constructions of gender roles according to place and space. • Impact of migration on gender, work and moblity between Global North and South • Theories and different concepts on migration and the dymanics of migration /who migrates and why? • Gender relations and inequalities across bordersThe role of transnational activism and networks in addressing gender based oppression • Feminism and post colonial feminism theories in order to understand power, inequality and marginalisation • Theories on masculinity and change in masculinity – The Faroe Islands will be used as case study • Migration and migration politics in the Faroe Islands
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Lectures, presentations, group work, and discussion.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Written homeassignment approx. 4500 words (broyta til heimauppgáva)
- Examination (internal/external)
- External
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The exam is set for the 19th of November, 2024
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Runa Preeti Ísfeld
- Teachers
- Vár Eydnudóttir, Runa Preeti Ísfeld