SPL515 THE EUROPEAN UNION AND GENDER EQUALITY POLICIES
| Course Code: |
8390515 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Social Policy |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Masters |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This course explores the conceptual foundations, approaches as well as the practices of EU and Gender Equality policy development framework. Current intellectual thought and debate on EU and equal opportunity policies and legislation within the framework of the European Social Model will constitute the main focus of this course’s content. Course participants will be guided, based on latest readings, to understand and to discuss gender equality policies with a detailed examination and interpretation of EU’s anti-discrimination policy framework. The course will further examine the manner in which equality policies are incorporated and/or mainstreamed in the European integration process, in relation to the political power processes of the Union, in particular. The course expects to provide to the participants/students the opportunity to compare and contrast the intellectual interpretations and responses that have been developed on gender equality. Gender equality policy framework in Turkey and the implementation of relevant public policies will be studied as a primary focus area. Finally, intellectual and policy challenges of understanding the dynamics and transpositions of the national political factors and the supranational institutions in the formulation of gender equality policies will be studied.
