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| ANTH0015-1 | Communication and Sexual Representations
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Chris Paulis |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Theme: All acts, all expressions, all sociocultural representations are sexed, sexualised and gendered.
The medium and/or the subject dealt with changes each year.
Study subject: Learning and study of the significance, the use and the strategy of gender. Approaching presumed constraints and choices. Analysis of sexual, sexualised and gender representations, discussions and behaviour, in daily life or an event, in and from, the media. Understanding and interpreting the gendered reality as translated and broadcast by the media and their "creators" (books, print media, television, internet, etc.).
Course methods:
- theory (courses, publications)
- empirical (experiments) individual areas, various experiments
- active student participation
- working on documents
- compulsory conferences and films
- conferences and debates (in and outside class).
Themes:
Running theme 2006-2007: anorexic women presented as role models, the influences and consequences of deviance being presented as an ideal norm. 2005-2006: women in the main roles of televised police series and similar. Other themes: presentation and explanation of a female typology in mainstream films; the expression of love; images of women in advertisements; the use of women in daily roles as broadcast by television adverts... |
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| Course objective : | - theory: study of a research method which is specific to a discipline (social anthropology), research and design, understanding intercultural modalities, either differentiated or sexualised, sexualisation of sociocultural norms, work on the subject/object, relationship with the other, Gender studies.
- empirical: understanding the area, encountering a sexual other, individual positioning, distancing, critical reading of the sociocultural construction of representations and roles. Understanding media content. Becoming aware of the role of the media in the broadcast, reproduction and maintenance of group memory. As well as in innovation. And social co-creation. |
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| Organization : | See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
In the 2nd term, Mondays from 4pm-8pm (hours may change). Presence in class is compulsory |
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| Written notes : | - -reference works
- thematic
- list distributed or dictated during the first classes
-specific media studied |
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| Assessment : | Active participation
- written work, prerequisite for the oral examination.
- an oral exam at the end of the year
Written work: methods will be explained during the first class, and will be explained again at every session and upon student request. |
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| Contacts : | Replacement teacher
Chris Paulis, head of research
Department of the arts and sciences of communication
Secretariat
Anne-Marie d'Acchille
Tel. 04 366 32 79
Surgery times adapted each year (not valid during holidays) |
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| Remarks : | Eating, drinking and smoking are forbidden in class as is the use of mobile phones, personal stereos, etc. |
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