Gender and Sexuality in the Post-Post-Soviet Space (SZF_065)
About Study Course
Objective
To provide knowledge of the gender prism for the analysis of political and socio-economic dynamics in the post-Soviet space (Baltic States, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Belarus, South Caucasus, Central Asia and contemporary Russia); to provide students with critical analysis skills by introducing them to gender and sexuality studies.
Prerequisites
General knowledge of the cultural, socio-economic and political features of the societies of the Baltic States, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, Belarus, the South Caucasus, Central Asia and contemporary Russia.
Learning outcomes
Students will have an in-depth understanding of the concepts of gender and sexuality. By specialising in this topic in relation to the post-post-Soviet space, students will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of these issues in the post-post-Soviet space, as well as be able to describe the impact of concepts of gender and sexuality on the development of the post-post-Soviet space. While detailed, this knowledge will bring with it a broad contextual grasp of the historical, current and prospective framework of the political, academic and business environment.
Students will analyse a large body of data on the historical development of concepts of gender and sexuality and their emergence in the post-post-Soviet space, including the factors that characterise them. It will strengthen students’ general ability to critically select sources of information, as well as to comprehensively present their conclusions and reasoned answers to questions not only on the study course topics, but also on other directly and indirectly related topics.
Students will explain in a reasoned and a more in-depth way the possible perspectives and challenges of the development of concepts of gender and sexuality in the post-post-Soviet space and critically analyse problematic situations.
At the end of the study course, students will evaluate and explain in a reasoned way the influence of different factors on the formation of gender and sexuality in the post-post-Soviet space. Students will provide recommendations and generate new predictions on the prospective impact and role of gender and sexuality in the development of post-post-Soviet space. In other words, drawing on past experiences of the Soviet Union’s role in gender and sex issues and historical and present development perspectives, students will predict future trajectories and apply the established regularities in creating future scenarios.
