Periods
(4-Sep-2017
– 22-Oct-2017)
(23-Oct-2017
– 15-Dec-2017)
(8-Jan-2018
– 4-Mar-2018)
(5-Mar-2018
– 27-May-2018)
The course provides an overview of the central concepts and multiple domains of wellbeing. Special attention is paid to important issues in wellbeing among children and young people within different stages and contexts in their lives. Each lecture will look at wellbeing from a different point of view and discuss that particular perspective's connections to wider socio-economic, political and cultural frameworks.
The open seminar Children’s wellbeing in Finland (11th October 2017, 13–16 p.m.) organized by PERLA is one part of the course. The seminar covers topics such as children’s wellbeing in an increasingly diverse and multicultural Finland, as well as the position of refugee children and the rights of young immigrants.
The course is organised in co-operation with Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Research, PERLA.
Wednesday 15-17. Virta building, lecture hall 109 ,
Note:
Wednesday 4th October, 15-17, Väinö Linna- hall, Linna-building
Wednesday 11th October, 13-16 (Pinni, lecture hall B1097)
Program:
20.9. Katja Repo: Children and Finnish Welfare State
27.9. Arja Rimpelä: Trends and distributions in adolescent health
4.10. Eerika Finell: Schools’ indoor environment and students’ psychosocial wellbeing and learning
11.10. Open seminar on Children’s wellbeing in Finland (a separate program)
- 13.00–13.10 Katja Repo: Welcome
- 13.10–14.00 Ombudsman for Children in Finland, Tuomas Kurttila: Children’s wellbeing in Finland
- 14.00–14.45 Kirsi Peltonen: The mental health challenges of refugee children
- 14.45–15.05 Coffee
- 15.05–15.50 Marja Peltola: Intergenerational relations and wellbeing of young people with ethnic minority backgrounds
- 15.50–16.00 Discussion
25.10 Tiina Soini: Pedagogical wellbeing – Interrelations of learning and wellbeing in school'
1.11. Liina Sointu: The promise or peril of the best possible care? The role of private health insurance for the welfare state change
We see and hear about globalization all the time: in the media, in statements by politicians, and buzzing around our social networks. We have a broad sense that politics, cultures, people, and organizations are all connected around the world. Yet, most people are hard-pressed to define what, precisely, globalization means. This course provides students with the basis for making sense of globalization and transnational connections in the contemporary world. It will go beyond popular, political and media rhetoric about globalization, and build a basis for students to gain a critical understanding of transnational connectivity. We will understand how events and forces outside national borders inform local trends, by examining global aspects of politics, policies, economics, environment, migration, history, popular culture, and religion. To do this, the course will unpack the three major social theoretic perspectives on making sense of globalization in these areas of modern life, with a spotlight on the emerging, cutting-edge, World Society Theory. We will also focus on the global-local interface: on how the local becomes global and how the global in turn, shapes what we think about as entirely local. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe how globalization impacts their own life, and to apply social theories of globalization to an empirical case of their interest.
In order to be able to participate in the course, students are required to complete either
(a) the lectures (5 ECTS), or (b) the lectures plus seminars (10 ECTS). It is not possible to attend only the seminars.
Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).
Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
We see and hear about globalization all the time: in the media, in statements by politicians, and buzzing around our social networks. We have a broad sense that politics, cultures, people, and organizations are all connected around the world. Yet, most people are hard-pressed to define what, precisely, globalization means. This course provides students with the basis for making sense of globalization and transnational connections in the contemporary world. It will go beyond popular, political and media rhetoric about globalization, and build a basis for students to gain a critical understanding of transnational connectivity. We will understand how events and forces outside national borders inform local trends, by examining global aspects of politics, policies, economics, environment, migration, history, popular culture, and religion. To do this, the course will unpack the three major social theoretic perspectives on making sense of globalization in these areas of modern life, with a spotlight on the emerging, cutting-edge, World Society Theory. We will also focus on the global-local interface: on how the local becomes global and how the global in turn, shapes what we think about as entirely local. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe how globalization impacts their own life, and to apply social theories of globalization to an empirical case of their interest.
In order to be able to participate in the seminar, students are required to complete the lecture part of this course. It is not possible to attend only the seminars.
Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).
Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
The course consists of ten lectures, moodle assignments connected to the course readings, and a final exam.
The lectures are held on Mondays at 14-16. They run from 9 October to 11 December.
The course explores connections between social change, empowerment and theory. What is grassroots? The course aspires to develop the students’ understanding of concepts central to feminist and post-colonial theory within the context of different movements for social change and peace. Examples include grassroots women’s activism in sub Sahara Africa, feminist and queer self-defense groups and anti-consumerist and eco- and animal-friendly activism in Europe and the US. During the course students will question and discuss different kinds of social movements. Students will also engage in discussions on peace and conflict related to intersections of gender and race.
The students will be expected to read the course material and actively take part in online discussions in small groups. There will be video lectures and a field work in which the students will do an analysis and discussion of a chosen area alternatively a comparison of two groups or organizations. Participation throughout the course is obligatory. The course will be made in weekly cycles and is foremost for students on a basic level in gender studies.
After the completed course the student should be able to:
– recognize different forms of activism
– express own critical thoughts on activism
– make an intersectional analysis.
The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies.
If you will selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.
On this intensive course, we examine the leading contemporary philosophical theories of well-being, and consider their implications for empirical research and public policy. Students are expected to read several articles in advance for each meeting of the class to enable discussion.
The texts are now available in moodle - the self-enrolment key is "Well". Self-enrolment in moodle, and reading the main texts in advance, is strongly encouraged!
The course provides an overview of the central concepts and multiple domains of wellbeing. Special attention is paid to important issues in wellbeing among children and young people within different stages and contexts in their lives. Each lecture will look at wellbeing from a different point of view and discuss that particular perspective's connections to wider socio-economic, political and cultural frameworks.
The open seminar Children’s wellbeing in Finland (11th October 2017, 13–16 p.m.) organized by PERLA is one part of the course. The seminar covers topics such as children’s wellbeing in an increasingly diverse and multicultural Finland, as well as the position of refugee children and the rights of young immigrants.
The course is organised in co-operation with Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Research, PERLA.
Wednesday 15-17. Virta building, lecture hall 109 ,
Note:
Wednesday 4th October, 15-17, Väinö Linna- hall, Linna-building
Wednesday 11th October, 13-16 (Pinni, lecture hall B1097)
Program:
20.9. Katja Repo: Children and Finnish Welfare State
27.9. Arja Rimpelä: Trends and distributions in adolescent health
4.10. Eerika Finell: Schools’ indoor environment and students’ psychosocial wellbeing and learning
11.10. Open seminar on Children’s wellbeing in Finland (a separate program)
- 13.00–13.10 Katja Repo: Welcome
- 13.10–14.00 Ombudsman for Children in Finland, Tuomas Kurttila: Children’s wellbeing in Finland
- 14.00–14.45 Kirsi Peltonen: The mental health challenges of refugee children
- 14.45–15.05 Coffee
- 15.05–15.50 Marja Peltola: Intergenerational relations and wellbeing of young people with ethnic minority backgrounds
- 15.50–16.00 Discussion
25.10 Tiina Soini: Pedagogical wellbeing – Interrelations of learning and wellbeing in school'
1.11. Liina Sointu: The promise or peril of the best possible care? The role of private health insurance for the welfare state change
We see and hear about globalization all the time: in the media, in statements by politicians, and buzzing around our social networks. We have a broad sense that politics, cultures, people, and organizations are all connected around the world. Yet, most people are hard-pressed to define what, precisely, globalization means. This course provides students with the basis for making sense of globalization and transnational connections in the contemporary world. It will go beyond popular, political and media rhetoric about globalization, and build a basis for students to gain a critical understanding of transnational connectivity. We will understand how events and forces outside national borders inform local trends, by examining global aspects of politics, policies, economics, environment, migration, history, popular culture, and religion. To do this, the course will unpack the three major social theoretic perspectives on making sense of globalization in these areas of modern life, with a spotlight on the emerging, cutting-edge, World Society Theory. We will also focus on the global-local interface: on how the local becomes global and how the global in turn, shapes what we think about as entirely local. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe how globalization impacts their own life, and to apply social theories of globalization to an empirical case of their interest.
In order to be able to participate in the course, students are required to complete either
(a) the lectures (5 ECTS), or (b) the lectures plus seminars (10 ECTS). It is not possible to attend only the seminars.
Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).
Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
We see and hear about globalization all the time: in the media, in statements by politicians, and buzzing around our social networks. We have a broad sense that politics, cultures, people, and organizations are all connected around the world. Yet, most people are hard-pressed to define what, precisely, globalization means. This course provides students with the basis for making sense of globalization and transnational connections in the contemporary world. It will go beyond popular, political and media rhetoric about globalization, and build a basis for students to gain a critical understanding of transnational connectivity. We will understand how events and forces outside national borders inform local trends, by examining global aspects of politics, policies, economics, environment, migration, history, popular culture, and religion. To do this, the course will unpack the three major social theoretic perspectives on making sense of globalization in these areas of modern life, with a spotlight on the emerging, cutting-edge, World Society Theory. We will also focus on the global-local interface: on how the local becomes global and how the global in turn, shapes what we think about as entirely local. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe how globalization impacts their own life, and to apply social theories of globalization to an empirical case of their interest.
In order to be able to participate in the seminar, students are required to complete the lecture part of this course. It is not possible to attend only the seminars.
Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).
Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
The course deepens the students' understanding of the functioning of world society and the role of epistemic governance in it. In addition to showing how world culture is seen in the global spread of world models, the course approaches the circulation of global ideas from the perspective of national actors, especially policymakers. In the national political fields, actors justify new policies by international comparisons and by the successes and failures of models adopted in other countries. Consequently, national policies are synchronized with each other. Yet, because of the way such domestication of global trends takes place, citizens retain and reproduce the understanding that they follow a sovereign national trajectory. The lectures introduce the key ideas of the neoinstitutional global sociology coupled with perspectives from studies on epistemic governance.
The course consists of ten lectures, moodle assignments connected to the course readings, and a final exam.
The lectures are held on Mondays at 14-16. They run from 9 October to 11 December.
In this course students learn to critically examine the arguments in favour and against basic income and to place the basic income model within the broader context of challenges to and reform of the modern welfare state. Students will also learn to differentiate different basic income models, and to understand the practical and political challenges that emerge when moving from a social idea to a social policy. Throughout this course students will gain understanding of the practical problems of social policy design and implementation.
Course consists of a series of lectures by different lecturers. Students will watch one lecture per week, read one text in advance per every lecture and participate weekly to the discussion in moodle. Students will also write an essay (3-5 pages).
The course explores connections between social change, empowerment and theory. What is grassroots? The course aspires to develop the students’ understanding of concepts central to feminist and post-colonial theory within the context of different movements for social change and peace. Examples include grassroots women’s activism in sub Sahara Africa, feminist and queer self-defense groups and anti-consumerist and eco- and animal-friendly activism in Europe and the US. During the course students will question and discuss different kinds of social movements. Students will also engage in discussions on peace and conflict related to intersections of gender and race.
The students will be expected to read the course material and actively take part in online discussions in small groups. There will be video lectures and a field work in which the students will do an analysis and discussion of a chosen area alternatively a comparison of two groups or organizations. Participation throughout the course is obligatory. The course will be made in weekly cycles and is foremost for students on a basic level in gender studies.
After the completed course the student should be able to:
– recognize different forms of activism
– express own critical thoughts on activism
– make an intersectional analysis.
The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies.
If you will selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.
The course focuses on feminist approaches to knowledge production, both earlier and current, and with different areas of feminist philosophy. Special focus is on contemporary discussions of differences and similarities between various feminist strands and theories.
Preliminary program with themes for lectures:
24.10. Marianne Liljeström: Identity knowledges
31.10. Marianne Liljeström: Gender and sexuality
07.11. Sade Kondelin: Trans issues
14.11. Katariina Kyrölä: Embodiment
21.11. Salla Tuori: Postcoloniality and intersectionality
28.11. Marianne Liljeström: Affects
05.12. Taru Leppänen: Discourses and representations
12.12. Taru Leppänen: Materialisms
The course is meant for Master's students and other students who have preliminary knowledge in Gender Studies, and it can be done either as a 5 credit course (lectures, articles and weekly assignments) or a 10 credit course (available for master's students, includes also study group work, Tuesdays 12.30-14, L4026, and a book exam).
The lectures will be broadcasted from the University of Turku, Gender Studies on Tuesdays at 10-12. Tampere students gather together to listen to the lectures, ask questions and discuss in Pinni B3107, and their assignments will be evaluated by the Tampere teacher.
Assignment: Learning diaries of assigned articles before each lecture
In this course students learn to critically examine the arguments in favour and against basic income and to place the basic income model within the broader context of challenges to and reform of the modern welfare state. Students will also learn to differentiate different basic income models, and to understand the practical and political challenges that emerge when moving from a social idea to a social policy. Throughout this course students will gain understanding of the practical problems of social policy design and implementation.
Course consists of a series of lectures by different lecturers. Students will watch one lecture per week, read one text in advance per every lecture and participate weekly to the discussion in moodle. Students will also write an essay (3-5 pages).
The course departs from the idea that the media is one of the central actors through which national actors become aware of far-away events and through which these events become integrated with domestic policy discourses. However, this process is a complex one. On one hand, the journalists are central players in it as they decide what is topical or newsworthy for domestic audiences. They also frame the events so that they make good sense to domestic addressees. On the other hand, in domestic contexts there are many other actors that aim to influence the public understanding of the reported events. These actors bring far-way events into their political argumentation in their attempts to advance their own political interests and desires. Interpretations that appear widely convincing are typically taken up and reported by the media.
Starting from these premises, the course suggests, the media serve not merely as an arena through which far-away events are introduced to local audiences. If anything, the media can be seen as a political arena in which different accounts of the reported events meet thus constructing public understanding of these events. Sooner or later, these understandings convert into domestic policy decisions and practices.
The course approaches the above phenomenon especially from the perspective of the traditional news media institution, i.e. of how the national media serve as a forum through which foreign news events are incorporated into domestic policy discourses. Additionally, the course discusses the role of social media in processes in which far-way news events are brought into local political argumentation, thus affecting domestic policies.
In order to be able to participate in the course, students are required to complete either
(a) the lectures (5 ECTS), or (b) the lectures plus seminars (10 ECTS). It is not possible to attend only the seminars.
Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).
Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Max. 40 students. Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
The course departs from the idea that the media is one of the central actors through which national actors become aware of far-away events and through which these events become integrated with domestic policy discourses. However, this process is a complex one. On one hand, the journalists are central players in it as they decide what is topical or newsworthy for domestic audiences. They also frame the events so that they make good sense to domestic addressees. On the other hand, in domestic contexts there are many other actors that aim to influence the public understanding of the reported events. These actors bring far-way events into their political argumentation in their attempts to advance their own political interests and desires. Interpretations that appear widely convincing are typically taken up and reported by the media.
Starting from these premises, the course suggests, the media serve not merely as an arena through which far-away events are introduced to local audiences. If anything, the media can be seen as a political arena in which different accounts of the reported events meet thus constructing public understanding of these events. Sooner or later, these understandings convert into domestic policy decisions and practices.
The course approaches the above phenomenon especially from the perspective of the traditional news media institution, i.e. of how the national media serve as a forum through which foreign news events are incorporated into domestic policy discourses. Additionally, the course discusses the role of social media in processes in which far-way news events are brought into local political argumentation, thus affecting domestic policies.
In order to be able to participate in the seminar, students are required to complete the lecture part of this course. It is not possible to attend only the seminars.
Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).
Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
Tampere students: through electronic enrolment.
Others: by sending email to the teacher: Meyda.Yegenoglu at uta.fi
The course is meant for Master's level and doctoral students, as well as interested researchers, max 15 participants. All participants are required to do the 'must' readings BEFORE the couse.
All students will write a paper based on readings (4-5 p), present it in the course, and submit a final paper (5-8 p) after the course
DL for final submissions (papers 5-8 p), to be sent in email to the teacher: March the 19th, 2018.
Course dates: either 22.1-6.5. 2018 (long) or 12.3-6.5.2018 (intensive)
The course content offers an outline of debates about gender and gender equality in social sciences and Development Studies. The historical shifts from Women and/in Development to Gender and Development will be studied. Major theoretical perspectives within Gender Studies and postcolonial feminist theory are made familiar through a study of texts. One thematic field (health, poverty, education, democracy) will be studied more thoroughly by each student through a case study Project.
Learning Methods:
Reading, video lectures, on-line discussions in teams, case study. Please make sure you can participate (on-line) throughout the entire period: the course requires continuous work throughout the 9 weeks, all weeks are equally demanding, and absences longer than one week cause problems for the team you work in.
The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course no later than 19.1.2018. For further information and enrolment, please see:
The course is designed for BA students with a background in Development Studies, Gender Studies or Social Sciences. The preferred level is roughly second year BA students, but depending on your interests and needs, even PhD students are welcome. Dates of the course & application procedure will be announced later.
If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.
In this text seminar we will be reading Axel Honneth's book Freedom's Right. The text is available in the moodle page, the password is Honneth.
Meetings (Preliminary):
10.1. Introductory lecture + pp.1-12
31.1. pp. 13-62
14.2.pp 63 - 94
28.2 pp 95 - 130
14.3. pp 131-175
11.4 pp 176-222
25.4. pp.223-280
9.5. pp.281-335
Researching Gender, Work and Transforming Organisations: Methodologies, theories and practices
See the course page: https://coursepages.uta.fi/nordwit1/
Preliminary programme
April 18th, 2018
15.00-18 Workshop on readings, small groups, discussion
Teachers: Rebecca Lund, Marja Vehviläinen
18.30 Dinner (self-paid)
April 19th, 2018
9.00-12 Julia Nentwich: Researching (un)doing gender at work
- Discussion based on the readings and lectures: teachers, participants.
13-18 Thematic seminars based on the papers of course participants. 2 parallel sessions: 5-6 papers and comments from 1. Julia Nentwich & Päivi Korvajärvi; 2. Gabriele Griffin, Marja Vehviläinen & Oili-Helena Ylijoki
April 20th, 2018
9.00-12 Minna Leinonen & Tiina Suopajärvi: Transforming gendered practices, action research approaches.
- Lecture and workshop
13-14.45 Discussion, ending
Guidelines
The course consists of lectures, workshops, readings, tasks and discussions about the readings, a research seminar session, and either a learning diary/essay or a research paper. The course requirements:
1. Active participation in the lectures, workshops, seminars and discussion during the course April 18-20;
2. Readings BEFORE the course: Please, read carefully the readings before the course: all texts in the list of Readings, and the research papers of one (Thursday April the 19th afternoon) session, of your own choice, available in the Moodle in April;
3. Tasks BEFORE the course: Please, write a 'task guided learning diary' on the readings (4 - 7 pages, font 12) and submit it to the course Moodle by Tuesday April the 17th noon (see TASKS); Prepare also comments for research papers in one of the Thursday April the 19th afternoon sessions;
4. Final course work: please write either a learning diary or an essay that covers both the readings and course lectures, seminars and discussions by May the 15th, 2018.
-- OBS. Those who present research papers in the course, please, submit your research papers into the Moodle by March the 31st.
TASKS for reading
1) Analyse the phenomena of gender equality work and/or feminist politics; processes and practices related to gender equality work and/or feminist politics; opportunities and limits of gender equality work and/or feminist politics.
2) What kind of research perspectives do you recognize in readings: What kind of theoretical and methodological argumentation have you detected in the readings? What does the specific approach mean to feminist politics? How do the research perspectives used in readings contribute to formulating feminist politics and action?
Write a "task guided learning diary" as you read, BEFORE the course, and complement the learning diary after the course to include the lectures and discussions during the course.
Credits: Participants get 5-7,5 credits:
5 ECTS: A learning diary/essay (3000 words minimum) based on the lectures, workshops and seminars in the course, and the readings (500 pages), and a 'task guided learning diary' (4-7 p) before the course, and active participation in the course. Obs. one can improve the grade by doing the 'task guided learning diary' carefully (20 % of the grade comes from it and the active course participation), and one can use its text also in the final course work (80 % of the grade). The 5 ECTS module is meant especially for Master's students.
7,5 ECTS are given for active participation, including readings (500 pages) and a 'task guided learning diary' (4-7 p) before the course, and an essay (research paper of 4000-5000 words, graded pass/fail). The 7,5 ECTS module can be taken by any participant who writes a 4000-5000 w essay/research paper.
Fill in application form
https://coursepages.uta.fi/nordwit1/
DL Dec 1, 2017
The course is organised in collaboration with the Nordic CoE Nordwit. The course participants will be Master's Students of the Gender Studies DP, and Doctoral Students and post doctoral researchers accross Nordic countries and beyond. Teachers: Julia Nentwich (St. Gallen), Tiina Suopajärvi, Minna Leinonen, Gabriele Griffin (Uppsala), Päivi Korvajärvi, Rebecca Lund, Marja Vehviläinen, Oili-Helena Ylijoki
The course departs from the idea that the media is one of the central actors through which national actors become aware of far-away events and through which these events become integrated with domestic policy discourses. However, this process is a complex one. On one hand, the journalists are central players in it as they decide what is topical or newsworthy for domestic audiences. They also frame the events so that they make good sense to domestic addressees. On the other hand, in domestic contexts there are many other actors that aim to influence the public understanding of the reported events. These actors bring far-way events into their political argumentation in their attempts to advance their own political interests and desires. Interpretations that appear widely convincing are typically taken up and reported by the media.
Starting from these premises, the course suggests, the media serve not merely as an arena through which far-away events are introduced to local audiences. If anything, the media can be seen as a political arena in which different accounts of the reported events meet thus constructing public understanding of these events. Sooner or later, these understandings convert into domestic policy decisions and practices.
The course approaches the above phenomenon especially from the perspective of the traditional news media institution, i.e. of how the national media serve as a forum through which foreign news events are incorporated into domestic policy discourses. Additionally, the course discusses the role of social media in processes in which far-way news events are brought into local political argumentation, thus affecting domestic policies.
In order to be able to participate in the course, students are required to complete either
(a) the lectures (5 ECTS), or (b) the lectures plus seminars (10 ECTS). It is not possible to attend only the seminars.
Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).
Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Max. 40 students. Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
The course departs from the idea that the media is one of the central actors through which national actors become aware of far-away events and through which these events become integrated with domestic policy discourses. However, this process is a complex one. On one hand, the journalists are central players in it as they decide what is topical or newsworthy for domestic audiences. They also frame the events so that they make good sense to domestic addressees. On the other hand, in domestic contexts there are many other actors that aim to influence the public understanding of the reported events. These actors bring far-way events into their political argumentation in their attempts to advance their own political interests and desires. Interpretations that appear widely convincing are typically taken up and reported by the media.
Starting from these premises, the course suggests, the media serve not merely as an arena through which far-away events are introduced to local audiences. If anything, the media can be seen as a political arena in which different accounts of the reported events meet thus constructing public understanding of these events. Sooner or later, these understandings convert into domestic policy decisions and practices.
The course approaches the above phenomenon especially from the perspective of the traditional news media institution, i.e. of how the national media serve as a forum through which foreign news events are incorporated into domestic policy discourses. Additionally, the course discusses the role of social media in processes in which far-way news events are brought into local political argumentation, thus affecting domestic policies.
In order to be able to participate in the seminar, students are required to complete the lecture part of this course. It is not possible to attend only the seminars.
Students of the Master's Degree Programme on Global and Transnational Sociology are required to complete full course (10 ECTS).
Please note that you must enroll separately for the lectures and the seminar.
Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:
1. degree students of the MDP Global and Transnational Sociology
2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Public Choice, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare, MDP in Gender Studies)
3. other degree students of UTA
4. exchange students
During the course we examine food production and eating from different feminist research perspectives. Food is considered a constitutive part of everyday life and politics and is therefore linked to the various intersecting differences central to feminist studies: gender, race, class, and sexuality. Also the question of non-human others as and in relation to food is examined in the course. The course deals with, for example, animal production through feminist and animal ethics, food from posthumanist and new materialist perspectives, food and racialization, postcolonial perspectives on food, everyday gendered practices around food production, preparation and eating, global and local food systems, and social movements related to food.
During the course, the student will learn how to think of food from the perspective of different feminist theories. The student will also learn how food is part of feminist politics and what kinds of tools feminist research provides to tackle food-related social and environmental issues.
Critical thinking, understanding of interlinked complexities, writing and handling texts, argumentation skills, writing and communication in English language online is required from the participants. Learning methods & assignments: Reading articles, watching/listening to online material, online discussions in small groups, practice-oriented assignments, final essay and self-assessment.
The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course 29.1-24.2.2018. For further information and enrolment, please see:
If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.
This course will familiarize students with fashion as a gendered and embodied phenomenon. The students are especially familiarized to concepts of class, body, gender, sexuality, identity, and ethnicity, and to the intersections of these concepts from the perspective of fashion and dress. After having completed the course the students are capable of explaining how understanding of gender has been shaped through fashion since the emergency of the fashion industries at the late-19th century. Texts range from early writers on fashion (e.g. Georg Simmel and Thorstein Veblen) to more contemporary scholarship published in e.g. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, which defines fashion as “the cultural construction of the embodied identity.
The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course 5.2-2.3.2018. For further information and enrolment, please see:
If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.
Course dates: either 22.1-6.5. 2018 (long) or 12.3-6.5.2018 (intensive)
The course content offers an outline of debates about gender and gender equality in social sciences and Development Studies. The historical shifts from Women and/in Development to Gender and Development will be studied. Major theoretical perspectives within Gender Studies and postcolonial feminist theory are made familiar through a study of texts. One thematic field (health, poverty, education, democracy) will be studied more thoroughly by each student through a case study Project.
Learning Methods:
Reading, video lectures, on-line discussions in teams, case study. Please make sure you can participate (on-line) throughout the entire period: the course requires continuous work throughout the 9 weeks, all weeks are equally demanding, and absences longer than one week cause problems for the team you work in.
The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course no later than 19.1.2018. For further information and enrolment, please see:
The course is designed for BA students with a background in Development Studies, Gender Studies or Social Sciences. The preferred level is roughly second year BA students, but depending on your interests and needs, even PhD students are welcome. Dates of the course & application procedure will be announced later.
If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.
In this text seminar we will be reading Axel Honneth's book Freedom's Right. The text is available in the moodle page, the password is Honneth.
Meetings (Preliminary):
10.1. Introductory lecture + pp.1-12
31.1. pp. 13-62
14.2.pp 63 - 94
28.2 pp 95 - 130
14.3. pp 131-175
11.4 pp 176-222
25.4. pp.223-280
9.5. pp.281-335