| CODE | GDS1005 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Gender and Psychology | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Gender and Sexualities | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will serve as an introduction to psychology as a discipline, and core theorists and theories. At the same time, it will view those theories through a gender lens and present an understanding of the meaning of gender and gender issues as understood in this discipline. Aims and Outcomes: The aim of this study-unit it to introduce students to key concepts in psychology as a discipline. The study unit will introduce students to key theorists and their theories. The second aim of the unit is to review these theories through a gender lens and question how this standpoint challenges those theories. The third aim of the study unit is to encounter and understand the important role feminist psychologists have played in reordering and rethinking key psychological concepts. On successful completion of this five (5) credit study unit students will be able to: - express an understanding of key psychological concepts; - discuss key theorists and their role and historical place in the development and growth of the discipline; and - understand those key theorists and their theories in relation to gender; and how these theorists positioned ‘gender’ in their work and theories - apply a gender lens to dimensions of human living, thinking and feeling; - express a critical understanding of those theories by applying them to everyday life, everyday sexism scenarios; - understand the link between psychology and gender issues and a express a critical understanding of androcentric psychological standpoints and alternative feminist schools of thought; - discuss ‘gender differences, stereotypes and attitudes’ in the realm of social reality, at the workplace, in marriage and in cultures embracing religious values and beliefs. Learning Objectives: This study-unit is intended to equip students with: - an general introduction to, and understanding of, Psychology as a discipline; - an introduction to core theorists and their place in the development and growth of psychology as a discipline, - an understanding of the key theorists and their theories; - a focus on how these theorists positioned ‘gender’ in their theorising and to apply those theories in order to understand aspects of human living, thinking and feeling in relation to gender issues; - exploring gender differences, stereotypes and attitudes in relation to the social and cultural spaces that we occupy. Themes covered: - Introduction to Psychology - Main approaches/schools to Psychology - Becoming gendered and doing gender 1. Sex roles and gender identity at personal, social & institutional level 2. Perception, consciousness & intelligence 3. Emotions 4. Societal, personal and cultural myths about gender 5. Male and female sexual stereotypes and myths - Androgyny and Sandra Bem - Feminist Contributions to Psychology Reading List: Basic Texts: - Nolen-Hoeksema, S. et al 2014, Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology, Cengage, UK. - Magnusson E & Maracec J, 2012 Gender and Culture in Psychology: Theories and Practices Cambridge University Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Presentation | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Sandy Calleja Portelli |
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