Workshop 1 01/12 Humanities (social & political science) GEMMA : Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies and Gender

1. Workshop 1 01/12Humanities (social & political science) GEMMA : Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies and Gender Adelina Sánchez Espinosa, University of Granada Consortium: Speaker:

2. GEMMA ConsortiumUniversity of Granada. ES (coordinator)University of Bologna. IT Central European University. HUUniversity of Hull. UKUniversity of Lodz. PLInstitutum Studiorum Humanitatis. SIUniversity of Oviedo. ESUniversity of Utrecht. NL Consortium: Speaker:

3. Constructing a joint European Masters in Women’s and Gender Studies. An attempt at a SWOT analysis… How we made it: By asking lots of questions, making informed choices and…taking risks First stage: informed choices: • The consortium 2. The curriculum Consortium: Speaker:

4. The consortium Large consortium: • Weaknesses: coordination, amount of grants per partner • Strengths: European dimension (North, South and Central. Old and new members of EU) Ratio 1/1 teacher/student Previous cooperation: • Thematic networks (TN ATHENA, ACUME) • 5th/6th framework research ( Marie Curie Gendergraduates, Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Employment and Women’s Studies) • European associations (AOIFE) Largely representative of European feminism • W’S & Gender studies play a major role at all consortium institutions • Institutionalised MA/PhD programmes at all institutions Consortium: Speaker:

5. 2. The curriculum Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences and Humanities Duration: 120 ECTS (fitting most partners) All institutions teach whole programme (120 ECTS) Core modules: main issues of European feminism Complementary offer for optional modules: Based on excellence of each institution involved. Work placement and Summer Schools included within options. A la càrte menu: attractiveness Consortium: Speaker:

6. ERASMUS MUNDUS Master: Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA) Length: 4 semesters, 2 years full-time (2007-2009) ECTS: 120 (30 per semester) GENERAL STRUCTURE: First Semester (Autumn / Winter 2007 -2008) Core Cluster: 30 ECTS (Same at all institutions) Cluster A: 30 ECTS (Specific to each institution) Second Semester (Winter/ Spring 2008) Cluster B (Mobility Cluster): 30 ECTS (to be taken at partner university) Optional courses (Including practical training and intensive summer schools. Specific to each institution) Third Semester (Autumn / Winter 2008 - 2009) Fourth Semester (Winter / Spring 2009) Master Thesis: 30 ECTS Either at host or partner institution Consortium: Speaker:

7. WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS WORLDWIDE (5 ECTS) • FEMINIST HISTORIOGRAPHY (5 ECTS) Consortium: Speaker:

8. University of Granada (Coordinating institution): All these courses are taught in Spanish • Gender, the Body and Women: Health Practices and Scientific Discourses (16th – 20th century) (5 ECTS) • Representations of Gender, Relationships and Sexuality in a Local-global Context (5 ECTS) • Gender, Class and Race in Colonial America (5 ECTS) • Women’s Education in Contemporary Spain (5 ECTS) • Psychology and Ecofeminism related to needs and values (5 ECTS) • The Construction of Gender in Discourse (5 ECTS) • Feminist Perspectives in Discourse Analysis: Re-reading of Literary Texts and Didactic Applications (5 ECTS) • Women’s Political Representation and Parity Democracy (5 ECTS) • Practical work at equal opportunities institutions (10 ects) University of Bologna: All these courses are taught in English and Italian • Italian Women’s Literature (6 ECTS) • English Women’s Literature (6 ECTS) • German Women’s Literature (6 ECTS) • Spanish Women’s Literature (6 ECTS) • Russian Women’s Literature (6 ECTS) • Medieval Women’s Literature (6 ECTS) • Women’s Movements in Italian Modern History (6 ECTS) Central European University of Budapest: All these courses are taught in English • Gendering Globalization and Postcolonial Theory (4 ECTS) • Women and Politics in Europe (6 ECTS) • The Gender of Poverty (6 ECTS) • Gender, Nation and State: Anthropological Perspectives (6 ECTS) • Comparing Internationalisms: the 19th and& 20th Centuries (6 ECTS) • The Politics of Popular Culture in a Globalized World (4 ECTS) Cluster A: 30 ECTS Second Semester Consortium: Speaker:

9. Cluster A: 30 ECTS Cluster A: 30 ECTS Second Semester • University of Hull: All these courses are taught in English • Gender Theory Workshop 2 (10 ECTS) • Gender Issues in Development 2 (10 ECTS) • Independent Learning Journal (10 ECTS) • Other(ed) Bodies: Anthropology of Gender and Sexual Diversity (10 ECTS) • Sociology of the Family (10 ECTS) • Gender, Ethnicity and Crime (10 ECTS) • Contemporary Women’s Writing (10 ECTS) • Sex and Gender (10 ECTS) • Ethnographic Practice (10 ECTS) • The Research Interview (10 ECTS) • University of Lodz: All these courses are taught in English • Human Rights and Gender (5 ECTS) • Gender and Welfare State: International Perspective (5 ECTS) • Postcolonial and Postcommunist Approaches to Gender in Politics and Culture (5 ECTS) • Race, Class and Gender vs. the Politics of Globalization (5 ECTS) • Gender and Ethnicity, Aspects of (Im)migration in Europe(5 ECTS) • Critical Studies of Whiteness (5 ECTS) • Gender in the Media: International Perspective. (5 ECTS) • Ljubljana (ISH): All these courses are taught in English • Introduction to the History of Women, Feminisms and Concepts of Gender (7.5 ECTS) • History of Women’s Culture (7.5 ECTS) • Women and War (7.5 ECTS) • Language and Gender (7.5 ECTS) Consortium: Speaker:

10. Cluster A: 30 ECTS Cluster A: 30 ECTS Second Semester • University of Oviedo: All these courses are taught in Spanish. There will be partial use of English • Cultural Diversity, Diaspora and Feminism (6 ECTS) • Literature, National Identity and Gender (6 ECTS) • Gender, Theory and Practice in Films and the Visual Arts (6 ECTS) • Equal Opportunities Policies for Citizenship and Employment (6 ECTS) • Gender Violence: Psychological and Social Analysis (6 ECTS) • University of Utrecht: All these courses are taught in English • Politics of Representation: Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Cultural Practice (7.5 ECTS). • Women’s Representations of Eros and Pathos (7.5 ECTS). • The Linguistic Turn and Beyond (7.5 ECTS). • Body Zones: Contested Zones of Body Politics in the Visual Cultures of Science, Feminist Thoughts and Popular Media (7.5 ECTS) • Tutorials on specific expertise Braidotti, Buikema, Waaldijk, Wekker (7,5 ECTS) • Issues in postcoloniality: cinema and new media, literature and culture (7,5 ECTS) • Gender, Trauma and Memory (7,5 ECTS) • Body course in feminist theory and practice (7,5 ECTS) • General introductory course in Women's Studies (7,5 ECTS) Consortium: Speaker:

11. Third Semester Cluster B (Mobility): 30 ECTS • Granada (Coordinating Institution): Courses taught either in Spanish or English (as indicated bellow) • Medicalization and Discomfort. Women Using Psychoactive Substances (5 ECTS) – (Spanish) • Gender, Culture and Development: African and Diasporic Feminisms (5 ECTS) (English) • Ethnic Minorities and Gender Relationships in Social History and Anthropology (5 ECTS) (English) • Gender and Archeology (5 ECTS) (English) • Gender and Equal Opportunities in Education: Feminist Politics for an Equal Education. Knowledge practices and discourses on Women Education in History (5 ECTS) (Spanish) • Documental Bibliographic Resources for Women’s Studies (5 ECTS) (Spanish) • Gender, Art and Literature: The Representation of Women in Literary and Visual Discourse (5 ECTS) (English) • Gender and Peace (5 ECTS) (Spanish) • Mediterranean summer course in women and gender studies (10 ECTS) (Spanish and English) • Practical work at equal opportunities institutions (10 ECTS) (Spanish) University of Bologna: All these courses are taught in English and Italian • Women Painters in Western History of Arts (6 ECTS) • Women and Law (6 ECTS) • The Revision of the Body in Women Literature (6 ECTS) • Women Travel Literature (6 ECTS) • Critical Utopias (6 ECTS) • Woman and Social Sciences (6 ECTS) • Women and Science (6 ECTS) Central European University of Budapest: All these courses are taught in English • Feminism and Masculinity (4 ECTS) • Orientalism and Gender (4 ECTS) • Contemporary Literary Theory and its Feminisms (7 ECTS) • Reading Women’s Literature (7 ECTS) • Women’s Oral History: Qualitative Methods in Social Science Research (4 ECTS) • The Sexuality/Gender Intersection (4 ECTS) Consortium: Speaker:

12. Third Semester Cluster B (Mobility): 30 ECTS • University of Hull: All these courses are taught in English • Independent Learning Journal (10 ECTS) • Research Methods in the Humanities (10 ECTS) • Women and Mental Health (10 ECTS) • Feminism, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalysis (10 ECTS) • Race, Ethnicity, Gender (10 ECTS) • Gender and Genre (10 ECTS) University of Lodz: All these courses are taught in English • Reproductive Psychology (5 ECTS) • La Frontera and the New Mestiza Consciousness: Race, Ethnicity and Gender at the EU –Mexican Border (5 ECTS) • Introduction to Gender in Postmodern Culture (5 ECTS) • Feminist Epistemologies (5 ECTS) • Gender Representations in Polish Advertising (5 ECTS) • Intersections of Class Gender and Ethnicity in Globalised Era (5 ECTS) • The Body in the Feminist Theory and Practice (5 ECTS) Ljubljana (ISH): All these courses are taught in English • Historical Anthropology of Women’s Writing (6 ECTS) • Gender and Religion: Historical Anthropology (6 ECTS) • Historical Anthropology of the Image of Women, Women Myths and Utopias from Antiquity until the Present (6 ECTS) • Women’s Reading of Film, Theatre and TV (6 ECTS) • Politics and Feminism, Policies of Feminism (6 ECTS) Consortium: Speaker:

13. Third Semester Cluster B (Mobility): 30 ECTS • University of Oviedo: Option 1 courses will be taught in English. Option 2 courses will be taught in Spanish • Option 1: Contemporary Textual and Cultural Studies. • Cultural Diversity, Diaspora and Feminism (6 ECTS) • Postcolonialism, Globalization and Representation of Women (6 ECTS) • Literature, (post) nation and Gender: Women Writers in English and Spanish (6 ECTS) • Gender, Theory and Practice in Films and the Visual Arts (6 ECTS) • Women in Contemporary European Texts: Research Seminar and Comparative Perspectives (6 ECTS) • Option 2: Sociology and Equal Opportunities • Gender Sociology and Methodology (6 ECTS) • Equal Opportunities Policies for Citizenship and Employment (6 ECTS) • Gender Violence: Psychological and Social Analysis (6 ECTS) • Equal Opportunities in Labour Relations (6 ECTS) • Labour Practices (6 ECTS) Utrecht: All these courses are taught in English • Researching Gender and Ethnicity: Theory and Methodology in Women’s Studies Research (7,5 ECTS) • Technobodies in Cyberspace (7,5 ECTS) • Theories of Sex/Gender (7,5 ECTS) • Gender Approaches to Literary Theory (7,5 ECTS) • Annual intensive summer course in European women and gender studies from multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives (7,5 ECTS) • Tutorials on specific expertise Braidotti, Buikema, Waaldijk, Wekker (7,5 ECTS) Fourth Semester Master Thesis: 30 ECTS Consortium: Speaker: Fourth Semester Master Thesis: 30 ECTS

14. Constructing a joint European Masters in Women’s and Gender StudiesAn attempt at a SWOT analysis… Final stage: the almost impossible daily threats • National legislation: Type of Degrees • Regional legislation: Official degree recognition • Local legislation: University regulations clashing with peculiarities of interuniversity network cooperation • Opening new ground: 8 different levels of formalities and red tape (records, further contracts, interpretation of Rector’s letters) 8 different fee traditions and new official fees Consortium: Speaker:

15. Constructing a joint European Masters in Women’s and Gender StudiesAn attempt at a SWOT analysis… And now, what? Opportunities for the future:-managing structure (steering committee, publicity taskforce, quality control taskforce, student forum)-alumni association: dissemination and feedback for improvement-annual review in ATHENA publications-creation of virtual tutoring platforms Consortium: Speaker:

16. Threats in the near future:-Asian windows not enough: need for LatinAmerican and Mediterranean windows-Not enough granted students for such a large consortium: need to call on other European actions-Grants urgently needed for European students: now at an obvious disadvantage in this programme-State of institutionalisation of W’S and Gender Studiesat undergraduate level is still less at South European countries. Significance for the selection of students? Consortium: Speaker:

17. Conclusion It was/is/will be hard… Consortium: Speaker:

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19. Conclusion But working together…it will be fun Consortium: Speaker:

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21. GEMMA http://www.ugr.es/~gemma Gemma@ugr.es Adelina Sánchez Espinosa adelina@ugr.es Consortium: Speaker: