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RELS385 Women, Gender and the World's Religions

Updated: 03 October 2012
Credit Points 6
Offering Not offered in 2013
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites 12cp in ANCH or ASST or ECON (units with a 4 or 5 as a second digit [denoting ECON HIST] only) or HIST or RELS or Women's and Gender Studies or candidature in BIntLangSt or BIntSt or BIntSt(Adv) or candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions HIST385 or HIST485 or HIST585 or RELS203 or RELS303 or RELS403 or RELS585
Notes

offered in even numbered years
Combined Units RELS585 - Women, Gender and the World's Religions
Coordinator(s) Adeel Khan (akhan4@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit studies women's experience and understanding of religion and spirituality in the broadest sense. It will analyse the role and experience of women as gendered beings, both in the context of the world's major religious traditions, and in ancient and non-traditional religions, and the ways in which religious institutions contribute to the gendering of women. Students will be introduced to the social scientific study of women in religious contexts, including critical engagement with religious phenomena as impacting on women's lives and the critique of methods by which scientific inquiries are conducted to ensure that gender biases are variously revealed and challenged.
Materials Textbook information will be displayed approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the teaching period. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the nature and variety of women's experience within the major world religions;
  2. reflect upon the diversity and pluralism of women's religious or spiritual experience;
  3. evaluate women's religious experience in terms of its positive and negative aspects;
  4. consider contemporary currents in women's religious experience and consider and reflect on their own experience in the light of this;
  5. write an in-depth study of a particular aspect of women's religious experience by means of the written assessment; and
  6. exhibit an informed and educated attitude towards, and a continuing curiosity and interest in, the variety of religious experience of humankind.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Knowledge of the studies in religion discipline will be taught through unit notes, essential readings and assessment tasks. It will be assessed in all of the assessments. 		True True
2 Communication Skills
Students will be taught communication skills through written feedback on the essay and online components of the unit. Students will learn valuable communication skills through participation in seminars and online discussion postings. Students will be assessed on the style of writing, clarity of writing, expression and development of ideas, and referencing. Students will practise their communication skills through completing the assessment tasks. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
This unit concentrates on a comparative perspective on world religions and this means it has an inherently global aspect. Women and Religion is a unit that require students to learn a global perspective through the basic content of the unit and the models of analysis provided. A global perspective is both practised and assessed in written and online assessment work. 		True True
4 Information Literacy
Students will be directed to relevant literature and taught how to assess its validity. Students will be assessed on their ability to identify and critically analyse the relevant literature. 		True True
5 Life-Long Learning
By completing the assessments, students will be provided with the necessary lifelong skills to be able to research, write and discuss social issues. These skills can be transferred to any discipline, and will be useful in any research positions. These attributes will be assessed in all of the assessments. 		True True
6 Problem Solving
Students will be assessed on their ability to deconstruct the essay question and to integrate theory and literature into their answer. Students will need to work out how to address the question and where the most appropriate material is to answer the question. 		True
7 Social Responsibility
Within the unit there are specific discussions concerning ethics in relation to the interpretation of texts, especially texts of other cultures than the student's own. Students are expected to practise such ethical approaches to the study of religions when doing their assignment work and in their online postings. 		True True
8 Team Work
Team work applies in general to discussions between students online about problems they encounter or interesting questions for discussion. 		True
   

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