Gender and Sexuality: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

2019/2020

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент психологии

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1-3 модуль

Course Syllabus

Abstract

What is sex? What is gender? What is sexuality? What do we mean by LGBTQIA? How are these concepts related to the workplace? How have our understandings of these terms changed over time, and how have these changes impacted work and culture? To help you answer these important questions, this course will introduce you to the exciting field of gender, sexuality, and women's studies, and to LGBTQIA identities.

Learning Objectives

• We will use a range of interdisciplinary concepts, tools, and methods to understand and analyze how identity shapes our experiences in culture and in the workplace. Because we all live with gender expectations, this course is crucial for any profession, and for understanding the world around us. Also, you will learn key concepts that will help you to interpret and understand the world we share.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• To introduce key concepts of gender psychology
• We will use a range of interdisciplinary concepts, tools, and methods to understand and analyze how identity shapes our experiences in culture and in the workplace. Because we all live with gender expectations, this course is crucial for any profession, and for understanding the world around us. Also, you will learn key concepts that will help you to interpret and understand the world we share

Course Contents

• 1. Changing Landscapes, Identities, and Discourse
  This week, we introduce a set of key terms (specifically, LGBTQIA) and explore the significance of these terms in a wider social and political context. This sets the groundwork for the following weeks by providing a shared language to discuss key issues in gender and sexuality studies and by introducing a range of critical issues that are directly related to gender and sexuality.
• 2. The History of Gender and Gender in Theory
  This week, we cover a range of topics on gender including the evolution of ideas about gender, the history of gender in the U.S. workplace, and key theories of gender from the 1970s to the present.
• 3. The History of Sexuality and Sexuality in Theory
  This week, we provide a brief overview of the historical and emerging understanding of sexuality and sexual identity. We then explore the history of sexuality and sexual identity discrimination in the workplace (early days of allowed discrimination against LGB people; larger issue of job insecurity for LGB folks; advent of ENDA, controversies around ENDA –how that has played out to pit LGB people and trans* people against one another).
• 4. Trans Topics Today and Trans in Theory
  This week, you will learn about the evolution of understanding about transgender people’s lives and identities, exploring the long history of gender transgression across different cultural contexts, and talk about the ways we understand gender transgression to function. We then discuss how those who identify outside the gender binary present important challenges to fixed ways of being/thinking about gender. Finally, we examine the ways that transgender individuals have faced and surmounted oppression in the workplace (also known as genderism, a term coined by Riki Wilchins), and the kinds of laws that are designed to protect their rights.

Assessment Elements

• Activity at the online course
  The course should be done in order to get access to a final exam.
• Final 10 multiple choice questions
  Online multiple-choice exam

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (3 module)
  0.6 * Activity at the online course + 0.4 * Final 10 multiple choice questions

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Issitt, M. L. (2018). Gender : Roles & Rights. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2105113

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Swim, J. (1993). In search of gender bias in evaluations and trait inferences: The role of diagnosticity and.. Sex Roles, 29(3–4), 213–237. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00289937