Teaching

The Gender working area is responsible for and coordinates the gender sociology courses offered in all of the Faculty's degree programmes. The members of the working area offer courses primarily in the Bachelor module "Gender Studies and Gender Relations" as well as in the Master module "Gender Sociology" and in all modules of the degree programme "MA Gender Studies - Interdisciplinary Research and Application". Research training in the field of gender studies is also organised at irregular intervals.

The courses offered focus on interdisciplinary theories, methods and findings of Women's, Men's and Gender Studies as well as the following thematic focuses:

The focus area " Socialisation and Education " deals with the significance of gender and gender relations in connection with socialisation and educational processes in various formal and informal contexts.

The focus area " Work and Social Transformations" deals with theoretical concepts and empirical analyses of the interdependence of social order and gender order. The focus is on the gendered division of domestic, care and paid work, gendered labour market segregation and the gender-related structuring of organisations.

The specialisation "Body and Health" deals with the connections and interactions between body, health and gender. In this module, students acquire knowledge of different body theories and learn about different disciplinary perspectives on the body and its significance for gender and gender relations.

The course is designed to meet the increasing labour market demand for gender experts. Students are enabled in didactic and methodological terms to use the acquired knowledge and the corresponding practical skills to analyse and reflect on gender relations and to implement gender equality and equal opportunities in professional work contexts.

Finally, the MA in Gender Studies - Interdisciplinary Research and Application degree programme enables research-based learning and introduces students to the practice of transdisciplinary academic work. The systematic anchoring of inter- and transdisciplinarity in the courses offered (especially in the form of co- and team teaching) is ensured by the close connection to the research activities of the professors and junior researchers involved in the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZG).

Please refer to the electronic course catalogue (ekvv) for events organised by the working area.

In this document, students will find information and advice on the assessment and grading of written examinations. The checklist serves as an aid when writing term papers or final theses in courses organised by the Gender working area. Students should always consult their teaching staff, instructors, lecturers (e.g. during student consulting hours) at an early stage.