Social Work Ma, Ethnicity, Gender and Power 7,5 Credits
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Socialt arbete AV, Etnicitet, Genus och Makt, 7,5 hp
Social Work Ma, Ethnicity, Gender and Power 7,5 Credits
General data
- Code: SA006A
- Subject/Main field: Social Work
- Cycle: Second cycle
- Credits: 7,5
- Progressive specialization: A1N - Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
- Education area: Samhällsvetenskap 100%
- Answerable faculty: Faculty of Human Sciences
- Answerable department: Department of Social Work
- Approved: 2009-09-20
- Date of change: 2012-11-30
- Version valid from: 2013-01-01
Aim
The course aims to help students acquire theoretical and methodological knowledge on ethnicity, gender and power and their intersectional relationships. The aim is to improve the ability to perform critical analysis and apply scientific methods that lead to improved critical and self-reflecting capability as well as improved anti-racist and emancipatory practices in social work.
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, students shall demonstrate
- advanced knowledge of ethnicity and gender and power dimensions in various contexts as well as of how an intersectional analysis creates the conditions for complex understanding of power relationships.
- knowledge of the significance of post-structural, feminist and post-colonial knowledge theory traditions to understanding the consequences of various power relationships on discrimination and oppression.
- advanced ability to critically reflect on inequality-creating and discriminatory practices of language.
- scientific skills for applying anti-racist and emancipatory work methods in social work.
Content
The course provides advanced knowledge for analyses regarding ethnicity, gender and power with particular focus on how these power dimensions work together in various situations and contents, on a local, national and global level. Based on post-structural, feminist and post-colonial fields of knowledge, power relationships are problemized in theoretical and practical contexts in relation to social justice and social change work. Situated knowledge and self-reflection as well as inequality-creating and discriminatory practices of language are given particular attention.
Entry requirements
Bachelor of Science with 90 credits GR (A, B, C) in a behavioural or social science main field of study or passed studies equivalent to 180 Credits in the social work programme, including 15 credits of independent work.
Selection rules and procedures
The selection process is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance and the local order of admission.
Teaching form
Instruction is in the form of lectures, seminars and workshop.
Examination form
1) Seminars
2) Writing workshop
3) Group sessions with presentation of students' papers, where students are given the opportunity to present and critically discuss each others' work
Link to subject-specific grading criteria: www.miun.se/betygskriterier
Grading system
Seven-grade scale, A, B, C, D, E, Fx and F. Fx and F represent fail levels.
Course reading
Required literature
- Author: Van Dijk Teun
- Title: Discourse and Power.
- Ort: New York
- Edition: 2008, (308 s.)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Author: Pease, B. (2010)
- Title: Undoing Privilege. Unearned Advantage in a Divided World
- Ort: London
- Publisher: Zed Books. (224 pages)
- Author: Owen, David
- Title: Toward a critical theory of whiteness.
- Edition: 2007
- Publisher: Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 33, No 2: 203-222.
- Author: Moodysson, Lukas
- Title: Mammoth
- Edition: 2009, DVD-film
- Publisher: Sonet Film
- Author: Mohanty, Chandra Talpade
- Title: Under Western Eyes. Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.
- Edition: 1988
- Publisher: Feminist Review, nr 30: 61-88.
- Author: Loomba Ania
- Title: Colonialism/Postcolonialism.
- Ort: New York
- Edition: 2005, (263 s.)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Author: Livholts, M. (red.) (2012)
- Title: Emergent writing methodologies in feminist studies
- Ort: London and New York
- Publisher: Routledge, Introduction, chapters 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 (88 pages)
- Author: Lewis, Gail
- Title: Situated Voices. ‘Black women’s experience’ and social work.
- Edition: 1996
- Publisher: Feminist Review, No. 53 (Summer 1996): 24-56.
- Author: Kamali Masoud
- Title: Racial Discrimination: Institutional Patterns and Politics.
- Ort: New York
- Edition: 2008, (315 s.)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Author: June Allan, Briskman, Linda & Pease, Bob
- Title: Critical Social Work: Theories and Practices for a Socially Just World.
- Ort: New York
- Edition: 2009, 352 p.
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Author: Haraway, Donna
- Title: Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective.
- Edition: 1988
- Publisher: Feminist Studies, 14, no. 3 (Fall 1988): 575-599
- Author: Dominelli Lena
- Title: Anti-oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice.
- Ort: New York
- Edition: 2002, (211 s.)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Author: Connell, Raewyn
- Title: Gender in world perspective
- Ort: Cambridge
- Edition: 2009, (180 s.)
- Publisher: Polity Press
- Author: Brah, Avtar & Phoenix, Ann
- Title: Ain’t I a Woman? Revisiting intersectionality.
- Edition: 2004
- Publisher: Journal of International Women’s Studies. Vol. 5 No 3: 75-86.
- Author: Ahmed, Sara
- Title: A phenomenology of whiteness.
- Publisher: Feminist Theory, vol. 8(2): 149-168.