EQUL40310 Masculinities, Gender and Equality

Academic Year 2023/2024


About the module coordinator and lecturer:
Dr. Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila is an Assistant Professor in Social Justice, UCD School of SocialPolicy, Social Work and Social Justice . By background, he is a medical anthropologist with a PhD from Columbia University, New York. His research expertise spans the topics of Masculinities, Migration, Sexualities, Ageing and Global Health based on research undertaken in Latin America, Ireland, and the USA. His latest publications include Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions (Routledge 2019) and Being a Man in a Transnational World: The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration (Routledge 2014). He has previously taught at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru); Georgetown University (Washington, DC, USA); and at the University of the Philippines (Manila, Philippines).

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

1. Encourage students to develop a critical analysis of how gender and masculinities organise and construct our everyday lives;

2. Gain a better understanding of diversity and ourselves through the comparative study of other cultures and their notions of gender and masculinities;

3. Critically analyse the ways our societies produce power, knowledge, discourses, and inequalities through gender and masculinities.

4. Embrace an intersectional approach that posits gender and masculinity at the interaction of other factors such as race/ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, among others.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

100
Autonomous Student Learning

80
Total

204
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures; specified readings; class/group guided discussions/activities
 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Incompatibles:
EQUL30080 - Men, Masculinities & Equality, SOC30320 - Men in Contemporary Society, SSJ30080 - Global Masculinities


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Multiple Choice Questionnaire: MCQ mid term assessment Unspecified n/a Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No

30
Assignment: Individual final assignment. Take-home assignment. You will choose ONE option of several choices. See guidelines provided Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

70

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Individual feedback will be provided to students post-assessment

Name Role
Dr Ernesto Vasquez Del Aguila Tutor
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 
Autumn
      
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 Tues 14:00 - 15:50