Webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality. The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be 8.10.-30.11.2018. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

Application to the course (max. 30 students)10.9.-28.9.2018 by e-form.For further information and enrolment, please see:

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies.

If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna-Mari Ikonen, hanna-mari.ikonen@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.

The course consists of the following lectures:

Pekka Räsänen (UTU): Consumption from the perspective of economic sociology

Taru Lindblom(UTU): Food consumption, status struggle and  economic inequality

Atte Oksanen (UTA): Debt problems and life-course transitions

Mette Ranta(JYU): Towards youth financial independence: Psychological and societal factors

Minna Autio(HU): Sustainability in consumption: goods, services and innovations

Semi Purhonen(UTA): Cultural stratification: Starting points and recent debates

Terhi-Anna Wilska(JYU): Consumption, necessities and excess

Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen & Olli Pyyhtinen(UTA): Consumption and waste

In addition, thematic readings will be suggested for each lecture. All the lecture videos and course readings are available for students in the Moodle platform. 

Students from university of Tampere, Turku or Jyväskylä may enrol via email (anu.sirola[at]uta.fi) to get the access to the course?s Moodle platform.

This online course can be started and accomplished during the periods I and II. Due date for the course assignments is 12th December.

This course examines the ways in which certain forms of behavior are defined as being outside the bounds of the "normal" or acceptable, and the ways in which members of social groupings attempt to control such behavior.  Among the issues we will consider are the effects of deviant labels on identity, pathways to deviance, and alternative constructions of deviance. 

A variety of forms of deviance will be discussed, including deviance related to crime, sex, religion, drugs, body art, and mental illness.  We will pursue these topics from a sociological framework which seeks to understand the meaning of such behavior for the people involved.  No effort will be made to pass moral judgment on the behaviors or the people engaged in them.

Programme

1. lecture: Brief history of Hungarian Gypsies, their number according to Gypsy researches and censuses, the groups of the Romani people in Hungary

2. lecture: Watching and reflexion on a documetary (Romani Kris)

3. lecture: Gypsies in the communism (characteristics, initiatives)

4. lecture: Watching and reflexion on a documetary  (Cséplő Gyuri)

5. lecture: Gypsies from the change of regime (characteristics, measures and projects of the state, civil society and the churches)

6. lecture: Watching and reflexion on a documetary (Roma Picture- Gypsy Picture)

7. lecture: Culture of the Roma

About the essay:

Titles

1. The students should compare the situation of Finnish Gypsies with the situation of Hungarian ones. They can choose one topic, e.g. education, interest represantion, criminal issues, literature, music, traditional way of life, etc. or they can give a general picture.

2. They can make the above mentioned comparison with any other European country's Gypsies (and the Hungarian ones.)

3. They can write on Gypsy emmigration into Finland or the emmigration of Hungarian Gypsies to other countries.

• Quotation of at least 10 texts.
• Length: 20-25 000 characters

Webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality. The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be 8.10.-30.11.2018. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

Application to the course (max. 30 students)10.9.-28.9.2018 by e-form.For further information and enrolment, please see:

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies.

If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna-Mari Ikonen, hanna-mari.ikonen@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.

The course consists of the following lectures:

Pekka Räsänen (UTU): Consumption from the perspective of economic sociology

Taru Lindblom(UTU): Food consumption, status struggle and  economic inequality

Atte Oksanen (UTA): Debt problems and life-course transitions

Mette Ranta(JYU): Towards youth financial independence: Psychological and societal factors

Minna Autio(HU): Sustainability in consumption: goods, services and innovations

Semi Purhonen(UTA): Cultural stratification: Starting points and recent debates

Terhi-Anna Wilska(JYU): Consumption, necessities and excess

Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen & Olli Pyyhtinen(UTA): Consumption and waste

In addition, thematic readings will be suggested for each lecture. All the lecture videos and course readings are available for students in the Moodle platform. 

Students from university of Tampere, Turku or Jyväskylä may enrol via email (anu.sirola[at]uta.fi) to get the access to the course?s Moodle platform.

This online course can be started and accomplished during the periods I and II. Due date for the course assignments is 12th December.

This course examines the ways in which certain forms of behavior are defined as being outside the bounds of the "normal" or acceptable, and the ways in which members of social groupings attempt to control such behavior.  Among the issues we will consider are the effects of deviant labels on identity, pathways to deviance, and alternative constructions of deviance. 

A variety of forms of deviance will be discussed, including deviance related to crime, sex, religion, drugs, body art, and mental illness.  We will pursue these topics from a sociological framework which seeks to understand the meaning of such behavior for the people involved.  No effort will be made to pass moral judgment on the behaviors or the people engaged in them.

The webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with an introduction to the concept of gender and gender studies and continues with the following topics: bodies & sexuality, social construction of gender, feminist theory, masculinities, family, gender & work, and gender & politics.
Each week the students will read a text/texts and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.
The course is meant for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be offered from 04.02. to 05.04.2019. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

Application to the course 03.12.2018-18.01.2019. There can be max 35 students in the course.

The course is organized by Hilma network for gender studies.

Deviant behavior is an important area of study for criminologists and criminal justice practitioners and is, therefore, one of the most important courses for graduate students in the field. Criminologists and criminal justice practitioners need to have a strong comprehension of both historic and modern theories of behavior in order to understand the rational for the policies and programs that are currently utilized by the organizations that employ them. A strong understanding of the concepts covered in this course will help students not only excel within the systems in which they work, but give them a basis for improving those systems.  

To put it simply, the focus of this criminal behavior course is centered on the question: Why are some people delinquent or criminal and why do others follow the law? This question is simple to pose, but challenging to answer. The course will first explore the standards by which a theoretical answer to the question should be judged and will then explore the theories proposed to explain deviance by criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, and geneticists over the last two centuries.    

The course is much more than a recitation of the most popular and empirically researched criminological theories. Students will need to critically evaluate theoretical propositions. They will learn to see theories as dynamic and understand how they evolve over time. They will learn how their hypotheses are empirically evaluated and in which settings each is most supported. They will explore how theories are related to policy and programmatic changes.

The course includes lectures and seminars, 4 hours on Tuesdays: 5-26.3.2019 and 2-16.4.2019

Programme

5.3.2019 Lecture at 12-14: Introduction to Gender Studies (Jaana Kuusipalo). Seminar at 14-16: ‘Who we are’ -round and instructions for the small group work for student presentations on 16th of April.

12.3.2019 Lecture at 12-14: Gender and Intersectionality in Working Life (Rebecca Lund). Seminar with readings at 14-16.

19.3.2019 Lecture at 12-14: Gender and Politics (Jaana Kuusipalo). Seminar with readings at 14-16.

26.3.2019 Lecture at 12-14: Gender, Naturecultures, Environmental Politics (Marja Vehviläinen). Seminar with readings at 14-16.

2.4.2019 Lecture at 12-14: Anti-gender backlash in Europe (Barbara Gaweda). Seminar with readings at 14-16.

9.4.2019 No teaching.

16.4.2019 Seminar at 12-16: Student presentations.

Teaching on Tuesday afternoons, 6 x 4 h.

The webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with an introduction to the concept of gender and gender studies and continues with the following topics: bodies & sexuality, social construction of gender, feminist theory, masculinities, family, gender & work, and gender & politics.
Each week the students will read a text/texts and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.
The course is meant for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be offered from 04.02. to 05.04.2019. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

Application to the course 03.12.2018-18.01.2019. There can be max 35 students in the course.

The course is organized by Hilma network for gender studies.

Deviant behavior is an important area of study for criminologists and criminal justice practitioners and is, therefore, one of the most important courses for graduate students in the field. Criminologists and criminal justice practitioners need to have a strong comprehension of both historic and modern theories of behavior in order to understand the rational for the policies and programs that are currently utilized by the organizations that employ them. A strong understanding of the concepts covered in this course will help students not only excel within the systems in which they work, but give them a basis for improving those systems.  

To put it simply, the focus of this criminal behavior course is centered on the question: Why are some people delinquent or criminal and why do others follow the law? This question is simple to pose, but challenging to answer. The course will first explore the standards by which a theoretical answer to the question should be judged and will then explore the theories proposed to explain deviance by criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, and geneticists over the last two centuries.    

The course is much more than a recitation of the most popular and empirically researched criminological theories. Students will need to critically evaluate theoretical propositions. They will learn to see theories as dynamic and understand how they evolve over time. They will learn how their hypotheses are empirically evaluated and in which settings each is most supported. They will explore how theories are related to policy and programmatic changes.