Path to Equality Course 3900-KRPDUW-OG

Understanding Equality Course is an interactive e-course that you can do by yourself.
During the course you will learn what discrimination is, how to recognize it and what to do when you are a witness or a victim.
The course consists of 4 modules:
1. Gender equality policy:
the broader social context of gender equality,
historical and social changes in the area of women’s higher education,
basic terminology regarding gender equality policy,
the definition of gender.
2. Equality barriers:
how to identify individual and social barriers of gender equality,
how our personal beliefs and convictions can affect our relations with others,
the relationship between stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination.
3. Discrimination:
different forms of discrimination,
how to recognize discriminatory behaviour,
the consequences of discrimination.

4. Responding to discrimination:
various types of intervention and ways of responding to discrimination, responses to discrimination and anti-discrimination procedures are available at the University of Warsaw.

The registration to the course is via platform CKC Kampus.

Type of course

general courses

Mode

Remote learning

Prerequisites (description)

(in Polish) Przedmiot dedykowany studentom kierunku lekarskiego W trakcie studiów na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, bez względu na sposób studiowania, etapy studiów czy język wykładowy, bez względu na jednostkę organizującą kurs (ogólny o kodzie 0000-KRPDUW-OG czy kursy wydziałowe o tym samym tytule) ,,Kurs na Równość – przeciwdziałanie dyskryminacji na UW” może być realizowany tylko raz. W przypadku nieprzestrzegania tej zasady, zastrzegamy sobie możliwość usunięcia osoby studiującej z listy osób zapisanych na kurs zastrzegamy sobie możliwość usunięcia osoby studiującej z listy osób zapisanych na kurs.

Course coordinators

Term 2023L:

Julia Kubisa
Kamil Kurdej

Term 2024Z:

Zuzanna Kaszuba
Kamil Kurdej

Learning outcomes

After completing the course students:
- can recognize discrimination, know its kinds
- know the historical contexts of equality policies and the terminology related to equality
- can recognize and diagnose barriers to equality in the individual and social dimension
- know the concepts of stereotypes, prejudices and their impact on discrimination
- can react to discrimination
- know the paths of response to discrimination at the University of Warsaw
- know ideas and vocabulary in English related to equality and antidiscrimination
- can use the knowledge and vocabulary related to equality and antidiscrimination in English

Assessment criteria

Completing the entire interactive course equals 5.
Lower grades represent the percentage of completion of the course. The lowest positive rating is 60% of the course.

Additional information

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 3900-KRPDUW-OG in USOSweb