Computer Technologies Institute (COMTECH), Inc.

Baliwasan Chico, Zamboanga City

SYLLABUS

Course Title: Gender and Society

Course Code: GE 12
Hours per week: 3
Credits/Units: 3
Pre-requisite: None
Course Description:
This course will explore the systems of power as they relate to women, men, gender non-
conforming people, and constructions of gender more generally, in Western society. To do
so, we will learn to view these phenomena through the lenses of foundational theoretical
approaches in Women’s and Gender Studies, including feminist theory, queer theory, critical
race theory, and more. This course will encourage us to reflect on how our intersectional
positionalities inform how we gender ourselves and gender others, to become critically
attune to the ways in which media, policy, structures, and institutions construct gender, and
to acknowledge that gender is socially constructed through multiple methods of disciplining.
These issues will be contextualized in an understanding of systems of power, privilege, and
oppression. Because gender is contingent upon race, class, sexuality, citizenship, ability,
etc., we will address all of these particularities throughout the semester. We will also explore
historical and contemporary social movements that organize around gender issues.
Throughout the semester we will consider not only what is in terms of gender roles, but also
what might be and how we, as change agents, may act to improve our individual and
collective lives. Your experiences, self-reflective insights, questions and ideas are a key part
of this course and participation is integral to your success.

Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
 To provide students with vocabulary and theory to articulate how gender is
fluid and socially constructed.
 To encourage students to work through their implication in systems of power.
 To provide space for students to evaluate the ways in which gender is
disciplined in Western society.
 To enable students to feel comfortable applying intersectional, feminist, and
queer theory.
 To teach students the impetus for and impact of different gender-related social
movements.
 To empower students to become critical, self-reflexive interpreters of gender in
their own personal, political, social and mediated worlds.
 Time Frame Course Outline

Week 1-4 1 Definition/ Introduction of the Course

Week 5-8 2 Gender Roles in Society
Week 9-12 3 Gender Identity and Socialization Process
Week 13-14 4 Gender and School Curriculum
Week 15-16 5 Violence on Safety if Girls and Women
Week 17-18 6 Mass Media and Gender

Learning Plan
LEARNING METHODOLOGY/ TIME
CONTENT/TOPIC OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT FRAME
TEACHING- LEARNING
(LO) ACTIVITIES (HRS)

1 Definition/ Able to share and Quiz

Introduction of know their ideas Lecture Dynamics 12
the Course about the course

2 Gender Roles in understand the Recitation

Power point slides
Society concept of gender 12
discussions
roles in society

3 Gender Identity Group dynamic lecture

and Socialization explain the gender Discussion
Process identity and Role playing
12
socialization Recitation
process

4 Gender and identify gender Long Quiz

Power point and Slide
School roles in textbooks 6
show Presentation
Curriculum and curriculum

5 Violence on discuss safety of Role Playing

Safety if Girls and girls and women at Video Presentation Recitation 6
Women school, home and Lecture Dynamics
workplace Quiz

6 Mass Media and Understand the Lecture Dynamic

Gender representation of Pen and Paper
Buzz Group 6
gender in various Test
mass media.
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