English Translation and Interpretation
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code: UNI370
Course Name: Gender Studies
Semester: Fall
Course Credits:
ECTS
5
Language of instruction: English
Course Condition:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: University Elective
Course Level:
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:First Cycle EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: E-Learning
Course Coordinator: Doç. Dr. ZEYNEP BANU DALAMAN
Course Lecturer(s): Zeynep Banu Dalaman
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: The course objectives focus on enhancing students' knowledge of theoretical foundations and key concepts in gender studies, examining gender roles and discrimination in various contexts, analyzing the interaction between gender and other social factors, and developing critical thinking skills to analyze gender-related issues and their societal impacts. Through this course, students will gain valuable insights into the complexities of gender dynamics in modern society and develop the ability to critically approach gender-related issues across various disciplines
Course Content: Gender Studies course offers a comprehensive exploration of gender-related topics, aiming to provide students with a deep understanding of gender studies and its contemporary relevance. The course content covers a wide range of subjects, including gender concepts, roles, stereotypes, discrimination, feminism, violence, and the intersection of gender with various social domains such as media, education, family, work, and politics.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Students will be able to define and explain the fundamental concepts and theories in gender studies.
2) They will be able to identify and analyze gender roles and stereotypes in various social contexts
3) They will be able to understand the historical development and different waves of feminism.
4) They will be able to recognize and critically analyze forms of gender-based violence and discrimination.
5) They will be able to evaluate gender representation in media and educational materials.
6) They will be able to analyze gender dynamics in family structures and interpersonal relationships.
7) They will be able to assess gender inequalities in the labor market and workplace.
8) They will be able to comprehend the challenges and importance of gender equality in political participation.
9) They will be able to develop and express informed perspectives on current gender issues.

Course Flow Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction
2) What is Gender? Theoretical Framework • Richardson, D. (2015). Conceptualising gender. Introducing gender and women's studies, 4. • Council of Europe. (2016). Gender Equality Glossary. https://edoc.coe.int/en/gender-equality/6947-gender-equality-glossary.html • Keane, Erin. (2014, July 22). 10 questions Taylor Swift could have asked herself before picking a fight with Nicki Minaj. Salon.
3) Gender Roles / Stereotypes • UN OHCHR. Gender stereotyping OHCHR and women’s human rights and gender equality. https://www.ohchr.org/en/women/gender-stereotyping • What are Gender Roles and Stereotypes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuLbyz0Jp08
4) Gender Discrimination: Key Concepts • Paksoy, S., & Kiliç, S. B. (2016). Analysis of Gender Discrimination with Respect to The Socio-Economic Perspective. Çukurova Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 25(1), 59-76. • Cusacks, S. ve Pusey, L. (2013). CEDAW and the rights to non-discrimination and equality. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 14(1), 1-34.
5) Feminism and Waves • Mohajan, H. (2022). Four Waves of Feminism: A Blessing for Global Humanity. • Dalaman, Z. B. (2023). New Women Identities Created by Feminist Alternative Media: Inspecting Türkiye. IntechOpen.
6) Gender-based Violence • Council of Europe. (2019). Gender Matters: a manual on addressing gender-based violence affecting young people. https://www.coe.int/en/web/campaign-free-to-speak-safe-to-learn/-/gender-matters-a-manual-on-addressing-gender-based-violence-affecting-young-people-2007-reprint-2013- • Russo, N. F., & Pirlott, A. (2006). Gender‐based violence: concepts, methods, and findings. Annals of the New York academy of sciences, 1087(1), 178-205.
7) Friendship and Dating • Baumgarte, R. (2002). Cross-gender friendship: The troublesome relationship. Inappropriate relationships: The unconventional, the disapproved,
8) Midterm
9) Gender and Media • Wood, J. T. (1994). Gendered media: The influence of media on views of gender. Gendered lives: Communication, gender, and culture, 9, 231-244. • Sharda, A. (2014). Media and gender stereotyping: The need for media literacy. International Research Journal of Social Sciences, 3(8), 43-49.
10) Gender in Textbooks • Dawar, T. & Anand, S. (2017). Gender bias in textbooks across the world. International Journal of Applied Home Science, 4, 224-235.
11) Gender and Family • Flynn, S. I. (2011). Family gender roles. Sociology Reference Guide: Gender Roles and Equality, 64-76.
12) Labor from Gender Perspective • UN. (2012). Promoting gender equality and women’s economic empowerment on the road to sustainable development: Good practice from the UNECE region: https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/publications/gender/PromotingGenderEqualityBro chure_EN_web.pdf • Frader, L. L. (2020). Gender and labor in world history. A companion to global gender history, 27-42.
13) Gender in Workplace • Purcell, D., MacArthur, K. R., & Samblanet, S. (2010). Gender and the glass ceiling at work. Sociology Compass, 4(9), 705-717. • World Economic Forum. (2023). 5 charts showing workforce gender gaps. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/04/workforce-gender-gap-crisis/#:~:text=An%20analysis%20of%20102%20countries,Image%3A%20World%20Economic%20Forum.
14) Gender and Political Participation • Bari, F. (2005, November). Women’s political participation: Issues and Challenges. In United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women Expert Group Meeting: Enhancing Participation of Women in Development through an Enabling Environment for Achieving Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women. Bangkok (Vol. 393). • Dalaman, Z. B. (2024). Women's Political Participation in Türkiye: A Century of Progress and Ongoing Challenges. Journal of Sustainable Equity and Social Research, 1(Special Issue on Women). • UN Türkiye (2023). According to the UN Women - IPU "Women in Politics 2023" Map: Women's participation in politics is still far from equality.: https://turkiye.un.org/en/224322-according-un-women-ipu-women-politics-2023-map-womens-

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: • Ayata, A. & Gölgeloğlu, Ö. (2011) Siyaset ve Katılım. Toplumsal Cinsiyet Sosyolojisi, Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi Yay, 64-82.
• Büker, S. (200(). Toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği. https://ceidizler.ceid.org.tr/dosya/Medyada-Toplumsal-Cinsiyet-Esitligi.pdf
• Dalaman, Z. B. (2020). Kadın hareketinde feminist alternatif medyanın rolü: Türkiye ve Tunus örnekleri (Doctoral dissertation, İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü).
• Dalaman, Z. B. (2021). Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Siyasi Temsil, Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Hukuk Cilt 2, Onikilevha, 329-361.
• Dalaman, Z. B., & Demirtaş, M. (2022). Türkiye’de Dizi Sektöründe Dijital Aktivizm Bağlamında Değişen Çalışma Koşulları. Electronic Turkish Studies, 17(6).
• Doğancı, H. K., & Tuncay, T. (2020). Tarihsel Süreçte Kadının Aile içindeki Konumunun Feminist Sosyal Hizmet Yaklaşımı Temelinde Değerlendirilmesi. Toplum ve Sosyal Hizmet, 31(3), 1324-1351. https://doi.org/10.33417/tsh.687922
• Ecevit, Y. (2021). Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliğinin Temel Kavramları. 2021. https://avys.omu.edu.tr/storage/app/public/kokdener/142391/toplumsal-cinsiyet-esitliginin-temel-kavramlaripdf.pdf
• Gümüşoğlu, F. (2008). Ders kitaplarında toplumsal cinsiyet. Toplum ve Demokrasi Dergisi, 2(4), 39-50.
• Koçak, Y. Ç., & Can, H. Ö. (2019). Flört şiddeti: Tanımı, sınıflaması ve değerlendirmesi. Turkiye klinikleri obstetric-women's health and diseases nursing-special topics, 5(3), 43-53.
• Pekel, E. (2019). Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rolleri ve Kadının Çalışma Hayatındaki Konumu. Balkan & Near Eastern Journal of Social Sciences (BNEJSS), 5(1).
• Saraç, S. (2013). Toplumsal cinsiyet. Toplumsal cinsiyet ve yansımaları, 27-32.
References: • Richardson, D. (2015). Conceptualising gender. Introducing gender and women's studies, 4.
• Council of Europe. (2016). Gender Equality Glossary. https://edoc.coe.int/en/gender-equality/6947-gender-equality-glossary.html
• Keane, Erin. (2014, July 22). 10 questions Taylor Swift could have asked herself before picking a fight with Nicki Minaj. Salon.

• UN OHCHR. Gender stereotyping OHCHR and women’s human rights and gender equality. https://www.ohchr.org/en/women/gender-stereotyping
• What are Gender Roles and Stereotypes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuLbyz0Jp08

• Paksoy, S., & Kiliç, S. B. (2016). Analysis of Gender Discrimination with Respect to The Socio-Economic Perspective. Çukurova Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 25(1), 59-76.
• Cusacks, S. ve Pusey, L. (2013). CEDAW and the rights to non-discrimination and equality. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 14(1), 1-34.
• Mohajan, H. (2022). Four Waves of Feminism: A Blessing for Global Humanity.
• Dalaman, Z. B. (2023). New Women Identities Created by Feminist Alternative Media: Inspecting Türkiye. IntechOpen.
• Council of Europe. (2019). Gender Matters: a manual on addressing gender-based violence affecting young people. https://www.coe.int/en/web/campaign-free-to-speak-safe-to-learn/-/gender-matters-a-manual-on-addressing-gender-based-violence-affecting-young-people-2007-reprint-2013-
• Russo, N. F., & Pirlott, A. (2006). Gender‐based violence: concepts, methods, and findings. Annals of the New York academy of sciences, 1087(1), 178-205.

• Baumgarte, R. (2002). Cross-gender friendship: The troublesome relationship. Inappropriate relationships: The unconventional, the disapproved, and the forbidden, 103-124.

• Wood, J. T. (1994). Gendered media: The influence of media on views of gender. Gendered lives: Communication, gender, and culture, 9, 231-244.
• Sharda, A. (2014). Media and gender stereotyping: The need for media literacy. International Research Journal of Social Sciences, 3(8), 43-49.
• Dawar, T. & Anand, S. (2017). Gender bias in textbooks across the world. International Journal of Applied Home Science, 4, 224-235.
• Flynn, S. I. (2011). Family gender roles. Sociology Reference Guide: Gender Roles and Equality, 64-76.

• UN. (2012). Promoting gender equality and women’s economic empowerment on the road to sustainable development: Good practice from the UNECE region: https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/publications/gender/PromotingGenderEqualityBro chure_EN_web.pdf
• Frader, L. L. (2020). Gender and labor in world history. A companion to global gender history, 27-42.
• Purcell, D., MacArthur, K. R., & Samblanet, S. (2010). Gender and the glass ceiling at work. Sociology Compass, 4(9), 705-717.
• World Economic Forum. (2023). 5 charts showing workforce gender gaps. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/04/workforce-gender-gap-crisis/#:~:text=An%20analysis%20of%20102%20countries,Image%3A%20World%20Economic%20Forum.
• Bari, F. (2005, November). Women’s political participation: Issues and Challenges. In United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women Expert Group Meeting: Enhancing Participation of Women in Development through an Enabling Environment for Achieving Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women. Bangkok (Vol. 393).
• UN Türkiye (2023). According to the UN Women - IPU "Women in Politics 2023" Map: Women's participation in politics is still far from equality.: https://turkiye.un.org/en/224322-according-un-women-ipu-women-politics-2023-map-womens-participation-politics-still-far#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20%22Women%20in,%25%20in%202021%20to%2022.7%25.

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes

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Program Outcomes
1) He / She acquires the professional skills theorical and practical translation and interpretation can use those skills for didactic and research purposes.
1) He / She uses modern teaching methods and techniques of teaching English as a foreign language.
1) He / She knows modern language and linguistics theories in a comprehensive way.
1) He / She knows the historical developmental process of translation and interpretation and develops an independent attitude on the role of translators and interpreters for modern research and applications.
1) He / She uses the academic language skills effectively and efficiently as by mastering the functional and structural form of English language.
2) He / She uses a second foreign language at least at B1 General Level according to European Language Portfolio criterion.
2) He / She knows the impact of fundamental and modern works in the translation and interpretation field, presents evaluations relying on them.
2) He / She knows the periods of English Literature, important genres and major works in detail with its cultural and historical features.
2) He / She uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at least at the fundamental level of European Computer Driving License.
2) He / She can evaluate the English language teaching materials and develop original teaching materials.
3) He / She takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups.
3) He / She develops practical and theoretical solutions for interpreting and translatological problems.
3) He / She takes ethical and practical training from beginning to advanced levels to develop consecutive and simultaneous interpreting skills in various fields such as health, media and law etc. Thanks to this training, he / she practices his/her profession in accordance with the standards of conference interpreting in various legal, health and media-communication fields nationally and internationally.
3) He / She acquires the ability to understand multicultural approaches in the field of translation and interpretation and reflects the efficient bilingual and bi-cultural practices on his/her works.
4) He / She knows and applies professional ethics, professional standards and practices in the field of translation and interpretation.
5) He / She applies basic research methods and theories in social sciences.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Average 3 Highest
       
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) He / She acquires the professional skills theorical and practical translation and interpretation can use those skills for didactic and research purposes.
1) He / She uses modern teaching methods and techniques of teaching English as a foreign language.
1) He / She knows modern language and linguistics theories in a comprehensive way.
1) He / She knows the historical developmental process of translation and interpretation and develops an independent attitude on the role of translators and interpreters for modern research and applications.
1) He / She uses the academic language skills effectively and efficiently as by mastering the functional and structural form of English language.
2) He / She uses a second foreign language at least at B1 General Level according to European Language Portfolio criterion.
2) He / She knows the impact of fundamental and modern works in the translation and interpretation field, presents evaluations relying on them.
2) He / She knows the periods of English Literature, important genres and major works in detail with its cultural and historical features.
2) He / She uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at least at the fundamental level of European Computer Driving License.
2) He / She can evaluate the English language teaching materials and develop original teaching materials.
3) He / She takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups.
3) He / She develops practical and theoretical solutions for interpreting and translatological problems.
3) He / She takes ethical and practical training from beginning to advanced levels to develop consecutive and simultaneous interpreting skills in various fields such as health, media and law etc. Thanks to this training, he / she practices his/her profession in accordance with the standards of conference interpreting in various legal, health and media-communication fields nationally and internationally.
3) He / She acquires the ability to understand multicultural approaches in the field of translation and interpretation and reflects the efficient bilingual and bi-cultural practices on his/her works.
4) He / She knows and applies professional ethics, professional standards and practices in the field of translation and interpretation.
5) He / She applies basic research methods and theories in social sciences.

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Project 1 % 20
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 50
total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 50
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 28
Study Hours Out of Class 2 18
Midterms 1 32
Final 1 47
Total Workload 125