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WGST425 Women and Work

Credit Points 6
Offering Not offered in 2010
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
N/A N/A Mandatory
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions WGST225 or WGST325
Notes None
Combined Units WGST325 - Women and Work
Coordinator(s) To be advised
Unit Description

This interdisciplinary unit exposes students to a variety of perspectives on women and work. In particular, it seeks to make explicit some of the means by which assumptions about 'essential' differences between women and men impact on women's experience in the workplace for example, gendered assumptions about skills and knowledge; traditional and 'natural' (even universal) roles; inequity in the status and reward for labour; privileging of certain qualities and pursuits over others (brain work over manual work, work in financial spheres over 'caring' work). This unit is assessed by short written tasks and an essay.
Materials Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1 60% 4000
Assignment 2 40% 2000
Assessment Notes
Scenario analyses

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. reflect on their own experience and its contribution to their perception of women's working lives;
  2. understand how values impact on the choices people make, and the connection between values and ethics;
  3. recognise that there is a culturally constructed concept of 'essential difference' which underpins assumptions about women and work;
  4. identify the means by which these concepts are maintained and reproduced in society in general and in the workplace in particular. This process will be informed by specific modes of feminist critique;
  5. critically engage with the reading/viewing materials and recognise and evaluate their own thought processes and develop skills in the logical presentation of their ideas;
  6. describe and analyse the conditions of women in a particular workplace using the concepts and frameworks identified in the unit.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
2 Communication Skills
 True True True
3 Global Perspectives
 True True True
4 Information Literacy
 True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
 True False True
6 Problem Solving
 True True True
7 Social Responsibility
 True True True
8 Team Work
 True False True
   

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