Communication and sexual representations

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Chris Paulis

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit 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.).
Theme thread in 2012-2013: women, gender, and novels 2011-2012: the chick litt from Elisabeth Badinter view 2010-2011: Amen to Sex and the City, how women use the freedoms and cultural achievements of the 20 and 21st centuries 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...

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Objectives : - 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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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).

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Works : - reference works - thematic - list distributed or dictated during the first classes - specific media studied

Recommended or required readings

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Assessment methods and criteria

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.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Class attendance is mandatory
Schedule : 1st semester, Monday from 4 pm to 8 pm
Remark : Eating, drinking and smoking are forbidden in class as is the use of mobile phones, personal stereos, etc.

Contacts

office 2/25A Address : Department of the arts and sciences of communication, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Place du 20 Août, 7, Building A-1, ULg, 4000 Liège
Phone : 04/366 33 30
e-mail : C.Paulis@ulg.ac.be
There is someone on duty each year (not valid during holidays)