Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / KMY 356 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Code: KMY 356 Course Title: SOCIAL GENDER STUDIES Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 3 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer LEYLA KAHRAMAN (lkahraman@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) LEYLA KAHRAMAN,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
On the basis of the fact that being a female and male is a social construction rather than a simple biological difference, the aim of this course is to examine the gender studies which include both women’s and masculinity studies through investigating how gender shapes social roles and identities and how ethnicity, race, gender, class and nation affect the formation of gender.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Will be able to develop a critical understanding towards gender roles in the society. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-2 Will be able to analyze gender in the framework of multidimensional components such as power relations, language, ethnicity, race, sexuality, class, nationality, religion, geography, age,… etc. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-3 Will be able to recognize the philosophical background of the social, historical, political, religious, literary and artistic manifestations of gender. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-4 Can use abstract concepts with their concrete contents. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-3 Analyze compenents of political, administrative and institutional systems, design institutional systems, and make operational the process of decision-making and coordination mechanisms which are effective for institutionalization;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
This course is based on topics such as the definition and content of gender studies, gender roles and socialisation, gender regimes and gender order, the reflections of women and masculinity studies on public and private realms.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction to course. Lecture.
2 Theoretical approaches about gender Lecture.
3 Theoretical approaches about gender Lecture.
4 Gender of power Lecture.
5 Feminist theories Lecture.
6 Liberal feminism Lecture.
7 Marxist and socialist feminism Lecture.
8 mid-term exam
9 Radical feminism Lecture.
10 The representation of gender in social institutions Lecture.
11 The representation of gender in political institutions Lecture.
12 The representation of gender in media Lecture.
13 Gender inequality in Turkey Lecture.
14 Intsruments for achieving gender equality Lecture.
15 Approaches to gender in the world and Turkey Lecture.
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 CONNELL, R.W, (1998), Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve İktidar, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları
2 AGACINSKI, Sylviane (1998), Cinsiyetler Siyaseti. Ankara: Dost Kitabevi.
3 SCOTT, Joan W. (2007), Toplumsal Cinsiyet:Faydalı Bir Tarihsel Analiz Kategorisi, İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı.
4 FINE, Cordelia (2010), Toplumsal Cinsiyet Yanılsaması, İstanbul: Sel Yayınları.
5 BUTLER, Judith (2007), Taklit ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet'e Karşı Durma, İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı.
6 GÜMÜŞOĞLU, Firdevs (2006), Ders kitaplarında Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Çağdaş Eğitim Vakfı Yayınları.
7 - BHASİN, Kamla (2003), Toplumsal Cinsiyet: Bize Yüklenen Roller, İstanbul: Kadınlarla Dayanışma Vakfı (KADAV)Yayını.
8 ECEVİT, Yıldız, Nadide Karkıner (Ed.) (2012) Toplumsal Cinsiyet Sosyolojisi, Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları.
9 KANDİYOTİ, Deniz (1997). Cariyeler, Bacılar, Yurttaşlar, İstanbul: Metis Yayınları
10 BUTLER, Judith (2008), Cinsiyet Belası, İstanbul: Metis Yayınları.
11 ADAÇAY, Funda Rana (2014), Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kalkınma, Bursa: Ekin Yayınları.
12 Uluocak, Şeref, Dilek Özbay, Gökhan Gökulu, Nigar Etizer Karacık, Olgun Bilir (2014), Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitsizliği ve Kadına Yönelik Şiddet, İstanbul: Paradigma Akademi Yayınları.
13 WOOLF, Virginia (2012), Kendine Ait Bir Oda, İstanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi.
14 BEAUVOIR, Simone de (1993), Kadın: İkinci Cins I Genç Kızlık Çağı, İstanbul: Payel Yayınları.
Required Course instruments and materials
Books, articles, films

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 10 20
       b) Search in internet/Library 1 10 10
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 7 14
mid-term exam 2 7 14
Own study for final exam 2 7 14
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 115