Gender, identities and music education

Course Information
TitleΦύλο, ταυτότητες και μουσική εκπαίδευση / Gender, identities and music education
CodeΕΘ2009
FacultyFine Arts
SchoolMusic Studies
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID600015180

Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Mousikṓn Spoudṓn (2017-sīmera)

Registered students: 42
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
Musicology / Music EducationElective Courses535
Music CompositionElective Courses535

Class Information
Academic Year2020 – 2021
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Class ID
600167685
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
  • Distance learning
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
This course offers an examination of the intersections between Gender Studies and Music Education and asks critical questions about the meanings of sex and gender in society, music expression, creativity, and education. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions, and debates in Women's and Gender Studies, both historical and contemporary and to critically analyze themes of gendered performance and power in a range of social spheres, such as education and culture. The course draws on the bibliography multiple disciplines--such as the arts, history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and political science, among others -- to examine cultural assumptions about sex, gender, and sexuality with regard to music behavior. This course integrates analysis of current events through student student empirical research studies, aiming to increase awareness of contemporary experiences of women, on the one hand, and of the multiple ways that sex and gender interact with race, class, nationality and other social identities.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work in teams
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Respect natural environment
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course offers an examination of the intersections between Gender Studies and Music Education, an interdisciplinary research that asks critical questions about the meanings of sex and gender in society, music production and creativity, music theory and education. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions, and debates in Women's and Gender Studies, both historical and contemporary and to critically analyze themes of gendered performance and power in a range of social spheres, such as education and culture. The course draws on multiple disciplines--such as music literature, history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, anthropology and media studies-- to examine cultural assumptions about sex, gender, and sexuality. This course integrates analysis of current events through student group research studies, aiming to increase awareness of contemporary experiences of women, as well as of the multiple ways that sex and gender interact with race, class, nationality and other social identities.
Keywords
sex and gender, race, class, femilisms, music education, contemporary problems, migration
Educational Material Types
  • Video lectures
  • Podcast
  • Audio
  • Multimedia
  • multiple bibliography
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures391.3
Fieldwork150.5
Reading Assigment260.9
Project401.3
Written assigments301
Other / Others
Total1505
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
  • multiple homework assignments (Formative, Summative)
Last Update
11-11-2020