HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Gender Studies
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Tal Nitsan
Coordinator Office Hours:
coordinate by email
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Tal Nizan
Course/Module description:
This course deals with mechanisms for social change in the neoliberal era and how they operate in global and local realities. Our departure points will be the human rights paradigm and the feminist movement and their intersections. The core part of the course will focus on a series of mechanisms, perceptions and practices for promoting social change. We will analyze connections between local grassroots organizations, state organizations and international organizations; between reformative and revolutionary approaches. Together with the different approaches, we will examine a variety of practices: advocacy, legislation, communication, education and the arts. We will ask: How do political trends and processes affect activism for social change (in a variety of global locations)? How mechanisms for promoting social justice are actually used to maintain the social reality? How can critical reading of these mechanisms promote social change (generally and specifically)?
Course/Module aims:
The course aims to promote a deep and complex understanding of social change processes
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The tools acquired in the course will enable students to analyze diverse modes of activism (different social movements, diverse practices) in global and local contexts.
Attendance requirements(%):
Obligatory attendance
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
This class combines theoretical academic texts with principles of feminist pedagogy that sees learners as agents of knowledge and change and promotes participatory and collaborative learning.
Course/Module Content:
Human Rights
FeminismS
Women’s Human Rights
Legislation
NGOization
Subversive Spaces
Education, Teaching and Learning
HERstories
Required Reading:
available on the course web page
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 20 %
Assignments 60 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Given the spread of the Corona Virus, clases will be delivered through ZOOM.
Students who wish to write a seminar paper in this course are requested to coordinate this with the lecturer in advance.
Detailed instructions for the seminar writing process (to be marked separately) are available on the course webpage
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