ECTS credits ECTS credits: 5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 85 Hours of tutorials: 5 Expository Class: 15 Interactive Classroom: 20 Total: 125
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology, Political Science and Sociology
Areas: Basic Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology
Center Faculty of Education Sciences
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
Students will handle the various theories on the development of identity and gender identity, as well as the multiple mechanisms involved in the process of constructing gender identities, acquiring critical awareness of the complex processes involved in the construction of such identities. They will learn different ways of evaluating and measuring gender identities, as well as the various research instruments used for that purpose. Students will become familiar with different theoretical approaches to gender identity, including the most recent contributions, and will be equipped to act toward modifying the socialization conditions that influence the processes of gender identity construction.
BLOCK I: Theoretical-explanatory approaches to gender identity construction processes.
• Process of construction of gender identities: multifactorial and complex.
• Theoretical explanatory models.
• Towards integrative theories.
• Gender biases.
BLOCK II: Gender identity assessment.
• Conceptual bases of psychometry and measurement tools.
• Sandra Bem: Assessment of masculinity, femininity and androgyny.
• The concepts of Agency/Communality and Instrumentality/Expressiveness.
• Assessment of socially valued and unvalued characteristics of gender roles and gender identity.
BLOCK III: Recent theoretical contributions on sexual-affective and gender diversity.
• Recent theoretical approaches on gender identities.
• Sexual and affective diversity, intersectionality, and interconnectedness between different inequalities.
• Intersexuality, trans and non binary realities.
• Accompanying and integral support for sexual-affective and gender diversity.
Basic bibliography:
BLOCK I:
• Barbera, E. y Martínez Benlloch, I. (2004). Psicología y género. Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN: 84-205-3725-X
BLOCK II:
• Marshall, C. y Young, M. (2006). Gender and Methodology. En C. Skelton, B. Francis y L. Smulyan (eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education. Sage Publications
BLOCK III:
• Rubin, G. (1986). El tráfico de mujeres. Notas sobre la “economía política” del género. Nueva Antropología, VIII(30), 95-145.
Complementary bibliography:
BLOCK I:
• Martínez, N., Vinas, A., y Matute, H. (2021). Examining potential gender bias in automated-job alerts in the Spanish market. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0260409. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260409• Against Me! (2014). Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Xtra mile recordings.
• Bornstein, K. (2013). My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity. Routledge.
• Bornstein, K. y Bear Bergman, S. (2018). Disidentes del género: La nueva generación. Continta me tienes. ISBN: 978-84-94793-88-2
• Wilchins, R. (2019). Gender Norms and Intersectionality. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN: 978-1-78661-085-0
• Wilchins, R. (2004). Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer. Alyson Pubns. ISBN: 978-15-5583798-3
BLOCK II:
• Páez, D. y Fernández, I. (2003). Masculinidad-Feminidad como dimensión cultural y del autoconcepto. En D. Páez, I. Fernández, S. Ubillos y E. Zubieta (Coords.) Psicología Social, Cultura y Educación. Pearson. Prentice Hall
• Burr, V. (1998). Gender and Psychological Research. En K. Trew y J. Kremer: Gender and Psychology. Routledge.
• Martínez-Benlloch, E. y Barberá, E. y Pastor, R. (1988). Medida de la masculinidad, feminidad y androginia psicológica. En J. Fernández (Coord.) Nuevas perspectivas en el desarrollo del sexo y del género. Pirámide.
BLOCK III:
• Sánchez Sáinz, M. (2020). Pedagogías queer. ¿Nos arriesgamos a hacer otra educación? Los Libros de la Catarata.
• Ley 2/2014, de 14 de abril, por la igualdad de trato y la no discriminación de lesbianas, gays, transexuales, bisexuales e intersexuales en Galicia. (2014). DOG, 79, de 25 de abril.
• Ley 4/2023, de 28 de febrero, para la igualdad real y efectiva de las personas trans y para la garantía de los derechos de las personas LGTBI. (2023). BOE, 51, de 1 de marzo.
• Missé, M. (2018). A la conquista del cuerpo equivocado (2ª ed.). Egales.
• Platero, L. (2014). Transexualidades. Acompañamiento, factores de salud y recursos educativos. Bellaterra.
• Xunta de Galicia (2016). Protocolo educativo para garantir a igualdade, a non discriminación e a liberdade de identidade de xénero. https://www.edu.xunta.gal/portal/es/node/18883
Basic and general
• Possess the capacity for comprehension, analysis and synthesis and organizational skills.
• To develop an ethical and deontological commitment.
• That students know how to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
• That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
Transversal
• To be able to carry out evaluations and analysis of public policies and didactic planning from an interconnected and gender mainstreaming perspective.
• To have the ability to promote and manage the implementation of actions favoring gender equality from a gender mainstreaming perspective at the different levels of formal institutional education, that is, early childhood, primary and secondary education, and also in the fields of formal education at the community level.
Specific
• To have a basic and specific scientific training in Education, Gender and Equality and the ability to apply this knowledge in concrete practical actions in multiple areas such as social, educational, cultural, economic, labor, political and administrative.
• To be able to carry out and manage evaluations of multiple social, cultural, educational, economic and political situations from the point of view of scientific knowledge specific to women and gender.
• To be able to analyze empirical data concerning selected elements of the social structure from the point of view of women and gender.
• Lectures: 14 (100% attendance)
• Interactive classes: 14 (100% attendance)
• Tutorials: 5 hours (100% face-to-face)
Assessment of individual assignments with mandatory oral exposition: 60%
• Block I: 24%.
• Block II: 12%.
• Block III: 24%.
Continuous evaluation: 40%
• Attendance: 10% and mandatory for passing.
• Synthesis and quizes on the sessions: 30%.
CLASS ATTENDANCE
Class attendance is obligatory, so it is not possible to miss more than 20% of classes without justification. Attendance will not be mandatory for those students who are repeating the course, and the corresponding percentage of the continuous evaluations will be transferred to specific activities designed by the teaching team. For all matters not defined by this paragraph, attendance is defined and regulated by the Regulamento de asistencia a clase nas ensinanzas oficiais de grao e máster da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (aprobado en Consello de Goberno el 25/11/2024).
OFFICIAL TEACHING EXEMPTION
Students with a teaching exemption must contact the teaching team to design the tutoring design. The maximum grade will be 70% of the total mark, as not all the objectives and competences can be achieved. This assessment will include three individual assignments (corresponding to the three blocks).
EVALUATION IN COURSES WITHOUT TEACHING
As the master’s program is biennial and no in-person instruction is offered for this subject during the second year of each edition, enrolled students must contact the instructors responsible to determine the evaluation method. Unless otherwise agreed, evaluation will be based on assignments or activities scheduled in the official examination periods.
• Autonomous student work: 85 hours
- The work done by the students must be submitted through the virtual classroom.
- It is recommended to use non-sexist language, both in classroom work and in the assigned academic work.
- The use of the RAI e-mail account is compulsory.
- Institutional technological tools are required: Virtual Campus, Microsoft Office 365, and other tools provided by the faculty and authorised as institutional tools by the university.
- The mobile phone may not be used, except when it is used as a work tool following the instructions of the teaching staff, with students being responsible for the legal and academic consequences that may arise from their own failed work.
- It must be taken into account that teaching-learning (classes/tutorials) is a private process, understood as a process of communication and exchange between the teacher and the student enrolled in the subject.
- It is obligatory to comply with the data protection regulations https://www.usc.gal/es/politica-privacidad-proteccion-datos
- Fraudulent completion of assignments or examens: as per the Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos/as estudantes e de revisión de cualificación de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (aprobada en Consello de Goberno o 15/06/2011 e modificada o 05/04/2017), the fraudulent completion of any assignment or exam required for the evaluation of a course will result in a failing grade for the corresponding exam period, regardless of any disciplinary proceedings that may be initiated against the student. Fraudulent acts include, among others, submitting plagiarized work or work taken from publicly accessible sources without reworking or reinterpreting it, and without proper citation.
María Lourdes Mirón Redondo
- Department
- Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology
- Area
- Social Psychology
- Phone
- 881813922
- marialourdes.miron [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Marcos Diaz Lago
- Department
- Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology
- Area
- Basic Psychology
- Phone
- 881813791
- marcos.diaz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Intern Assistant LOSU
Ignacio Elpidio Dominguez Ruiz
Coordinador/a- Department
- Political Science and Sociology
- Area
- Sociology
- ignacioelpidio.dominguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Intern Assistant LOSU
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| 06.01.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | CLASSROOM 2-3 (LIFE CAMPUS -Module C2) |
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