Course - Gendered Intersections in Popular Culture - KULT2221
Gendered Intersections in Popular Culture
About
About the course
Course content
This course explores popular culture through the lens of gender, and its intersections with other categories including race, class, sexuality, and disability. It engages with popular culture via themes such as heteronormativity and homophobia, racism and sexism, discrimination and colonization, equality, inclusion and diversity. It provides insights into how popular culture both shapes and critically engages with gendered ideals, drawing on a selection of popular culture productions which may include television, film, music, books, videos, magazines, comics, games, fashion, and advertising, as well as a variety of digital and/or social media.
The course is taught in Norwegian or English.
Learning outcome
The aim of the course is to provide knowledge about popular culture’s role in the production and reproduction, as well as the critique of gender norms and gendered subjects, from an intersectional perspective.
Students who complete this course will acquire knowledge of
- Foundational humanities and social scientific theories about gender, sexuality, racialisation and discrimination
- The role of popular culture in producing, reproducing and/or engaging critically with hegemonic (or potentially alternative) discourses about gender, as well as other differences
- The intersectional interplay between gender, sexuality and race in specific popular cultural productions.
Students who complete this course will be able to
- Apply theoretical concepts and perspectives to discuss gender, race, class, and sexuality, as well as other markers of differences such as class and disability in contemporary popular culture
- Recognise political and theoretical positions in current debates about gender, equality and diversity in popular culture
- Critically examine a range of popular culture media and apply the appropriate conceptual tools to independently analyse them
Learning methods and activities
The teaching and learning for this course will consist of lectures, and activity based learning. The learning activities will be participatory and rely on classroom discussion and group activities.
One mandatory task. The exam is in assignment form: It consists of one shorter exam assignment (constituting 20% of the total grade) and one longer exam assignment due towards the end of the semester (constituting 80% of the total grade). To qualify to sit the final exam, the mandatory course assignment must be approved.
The course is intended to be in Norwegian but adaptations can be made for English language students if the need arises.
Compulsory assignments
- Written exercises
- One mandatory task
Further on evaluation
The course has two exams: one written assignment that counts for 20% of the final grade and a longer final exam that counts for 80% the grade. Both are (written) assignments. To pass the course, both exams must be passed.
In case of illness or a grade of F on the shorter assignment, a resit exam will be organized before the final exam.
The student cannot appeal the grade before the total grade for both exams is announced.
Students who have completed the mandatory activity will have the opportunity to repeat or resit the exam whether or not the course is taught that semester. In a semester when the course is taught, both exams must be passed. In a semester when the course is not taught, there will only be one exam which will count for 100% of the grade
Course materials
Will be given at course start
Subject areas
- Social Sciences