KRIM2953 ¨C Criminological Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality and Violence

Course content

This course addresses gender, violence and sexuality through presenting and discussing literature, analytical perspectives and empirical case studies on sexual violence.

The course critically addresses criminalization processes and presentations of gender, sexuality and violence in research, policy and media. The course crosses disciplinary boundaries and emphasizes a variety of approaches to the issue, although with a criminological starting point.

With the course literature as a point of departure, each lecture will present and discuss the historical development and current status of theory and empirical research on sexual violence. This will include - but not be limited to - relevant research questions, dominating and alternative approaches and research challenges relevant to the overall thematic.

Learning outcome

The course emphasizes the special contribution that criminological gender research can offer to the understanding of violence and sexuality, and the relation and intersection between these at individual, symbolical and institutional levels. National, transnational and international contexts are addressed, with a primary focus on gender and sexuality (re)presentations in research on and debates about sexual violence.

Knowledge, at the end of the course, students are expected to know:

• central discussions and positions in contemporary social scientific research on sexual violence
• how sexual acts, relations and violence have been met by law and society
• different theoretical perspectives on sexual violence
• that presentations of violence, perpetrators and victimization processes are often gender-specific

Skills, at the end of the course, students are expected to:

• be able to account for central theoretical themes and empirical examples addressed during the course

• be able to identify how gender and sexuality constructs and ideals intersect in the construction and understandings of violent offenses

• be able to discuss how gender and sexuality ideals affect social and legal responses to sexual violence

Competences, at the end of the course, students will have:

• enhanced their respect and understanding for social scientific critical thinking and inquiry

• learned what it entails to interpret, analyze and discuss scholarly texts from a gendered perspective

• developed their capability to critically reflect on the meaning and intersection of gender and sexuality in relation to violence and in relation to the ways in which societies and policies address such violence.

Admission to the course

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

Recommended previous knowledge

General knowledge of gender and crime is recommended.

Overlapping courses

• 10 credits overlap with KRIM4953 ¨C Criminological Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality and Violence.

Teaching

Teaching on the course is given in the form of eight lectures. The students are also encouraged to form study groups and the teachers will facilitate this during the first lecture.

Examination

Students are graded on the basis of a final 3-day written home exam.

Size: Maximum 2500 words. Front page, contents page (optional) and bibliography are not included. If footnotes are used in the text (at the bottom of each page), they are included in the 2500 word limit.

Papers that exceed the 2500 word limit may be rejected.?

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Language of examination

Subjects taught in English will only offer the exam paper in English.

You may write your examination paper in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Marking criteria:?This guide is used by examiners for grading this course.

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• Use of sources and citations
• Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
• Withdrawal from an exam
• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Explanation of grades and appeals
• Resitting an exam
• Cheating/attempted cheating

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