Introduction to the Gender Approach from Masculinities

This course seeks to know the various theoretical categories about feminisms and masculinities in order to relate them to their daily experiences and scenarios and interculturalities. Identify key criteria to reflect on the importance of gender within the academic field so that they are put into practice from their daily relationships. Raise awareness of the forms of patriarchy to achieve an exercise in personal deconstruction.

General Objective:

Know the main theoretical lines on feminisms and masculinities to reflect on our own social construction of gender and its repercussions on the relationship with others in everyday life.

Specific objectives:

1. Identify the most important lines within the approaches in feminisms and masculinities to generate critical and reflective lines about our sex-generic constructs

2. Identify the anthropological, psychological and sociological implications of gender to create experimental exercises of deconstruction in everyday life.

3. Reflect on our daily looks and attitudes from masculinities and femininity to generate relational empathy.

Methodology:

The course is proposed for eighteen hours (18) face-to-face. 3 (three) short texts and four videos related to the theme of masculinities will be worked on. What will be complemented with 14 hours of autonomous work. 

The main characteristic that defines this course is the interaction between the participants, for which the debate, criticism and reflection based on the texts and audiovisual documentation previously sent on the subject matter is decisive. 

The modality is face-to-face and is presented in three criteria for evaluation.

The first criterion will be participatory interaction in which the teacher opens the class by pointing out the main lines of discussion about the texts to later generate a debate with the students.

The second will consist of tutorials by the teacher in relation to: a) clarifications regarding the topics of the Methodological Guide; b) The doubts that the students have about the revised texts. The tutorials may be carried out through: a) specific messaging requested by the course participants; and b) personalized messaging or chats with the participants requested by the teacher and by the participants.

The third criterion will be defined on the basis of class work by the students, forming three discussion groups: the first for men, the second for women, and the third for men and women. This is to extract dimensional perspectives disaggregated by gender. The teacher in consensus with the students will raise the issue so that the main lines of argument are discussed in plenary.

Total 32 hours

18 classroom hours

14 hours of autonomous work

Unit 1: Introduction to the theories of feminisms and masculinities.

Topic 2: The centrality of the gender question. Patriarchal pedagogy, cruelty and war.

Unit 3: Masculinities and Imaginaries. Masculinities in Ecuador. Context and particularities

Once the activities and requirements for the development of the course have been fulfilled, the participants will receive the certificate of approval of the Course "Gender Approach from Masculinities", based on the provisions of the Regulations of the Continuing Training Department, that is, that the participant obtain a minimum of 70% in the academic evaluation and 80% of attendance.

Administrative staff of the University of Azuay that is within the Intensive Baccalaureate Program and teachers and staff of the DECE of the La Asunción Educational Unit.

Master Diego Yela Dávalos

Free course

Free course

University of Azuay

formacion.continua@uazuay.edu.ec