Analyzing Race Class Gender
General
Code: BSC_IT6
Language: English
Delivery: In person
Prerequisites: None
Workload
- Lectures: 39.0 hours
- Lab: 0.0 hours
- Study: 73.0 hours
- Project: 13.0 hours
Course Content
Week 1: Introduction to race, class, gender
Week 2: Historical perspectives and theories
Week 3: Race and ethnicity
Week 4: Social class and inequality
Week 5: Gender and social construction
Week 6: Intersectionality
Week 7: Discrimination and exclusion
Week 8: Media representations
Week 9: Globalization and diversity
Week 10: Technology and inequality
Week 11: Equality policies and rights
Week 12: Review and presentatio
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
Understand key concepts such as race, class, and gender
Identify forms of inequality and discrimination
Analyze social issues using critical frameworks
Understand intersectionality
Relate social theories to contemporary contexts
Evaluate sources and arguments
Develop well-supported arguments on social topics
Appreciate diversity in international contexts
Apply social awareness in professional environments
Skills
The course fosters the following competences:
Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
Adapting to new situations
Decision-making
Working independently
Team work
Working in an international environment
Working in an interdisciplinary environment
Production of new research ideas
Project planning and management
Respect for difference and multiculturalism
Respect for the natural environment
Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
Criticism and self-criticism
Production of free, creative and inductive thinking