Extension curriculum Gender Studies – University of Klagenfurt

Aims and contents:

• analyzing and engaging core theories, methods and concepts of gender studies
• investigating discrimination in connection to diversity and intersectionality (for example based on gender, skin color, religion, social status, sexual orientation, etc.)
• scientifically researching differences and hierarchies, stereotypes and clichés within one’s own discipline as well as transdisciplinary
• deconstructing categorical assignments and attributions such as, for example, “gender”/“sex”
• applying feminist, queer, postcolonial and intersectional academic critique
• becoming acquainted with the fields of practice and professions of gender studies

Extension curriculum Gender Studies – 32 ECTS

Scope of studies/modules:

Compulsory subjects 8 ECTS
I. Introduction

further/supplementary subjects 24 ECTS

II. Spaces of living
III. Economy and work
IV. Historicity – remembering – experience
V. Communication – representation
VI.Body – psyche – corporeality
VI. Technology