Gender Studies Education

Tema Genus is a creative and dynamic environment since 1999 engaged in interdisciplinary research and graduate education. Tema Genus is at present situated in an expansionary phase, our researchers, teachers and graduate students come from around the world: Istanbul, London, Berlin, Prague, Teheran and Linköping. We collaborate with researchers from Cape Town and Luleå.

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Master Programme

Gender Studies - Intersectionality and Change, Master's Programme, 120 credits

You learn to challenge norms and structures in education, organisations, media and politics. Focusses in intersectional gender – gender in interplay with other social categorisation such as ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, age, (dis)ability etc.

Single Subject Courses in Gender Studies

Ground level

Gender Studies - Introduction, 7.5 credits

Are we sisters after all? Gender and postcolonialism, 7.5 credits

Is being a woman enough to share the same interests, values, and goals with all other women in the world? Is gender a universal denominator superseding racial, cultural, religious, social, and geopolitical differences? Is western feminism a templa...

The Body: Beyond flesh and blood, 7.5 credits

Master's level

Equality and justice in organisations, 7.5 credits

In an increasingly globalised and capitalist world predominately organised based on historically established racial and gender asymmetries, can we devise strategies that help us make organisations more equal and just for everyone? This course is i...

Feminist Pedagogy and Intersectional Gender Didactics, 7.5 credits

Do you believe that education can make a change in the world?If yes, this course is for you! In this course we learn what changes are needed in the pedagogical practices, how to think about content, teaching methods, learning activities, the role ...

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Feminist Enviromental Humanities, 7.5 credits

How are discourses about immigration connected to environmental thinking about plants and animals? Why do we call “Nature” our “mother”? Should climate change be reimagined as colonial violence?Questions like these and others drive our readings a...

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Gender studies (TEMAG)

At Tema Genus, we conduct research, PhD training, undergraduate and master’s education, and social outreach, all with a foundation in interdisciplinary gender studies and often together with international collaborators.

PhD Programme in Gender Studies

Doctoral students receive an education that provides gender analytical skills at a high, international level. The interdisciplinary approach gives opportunities to work with and analyze gender in many different contexts.

Education

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