Government Pavilion, C/ Padre Herrera s/n
Post Office Box 456
38200, San Cristobal de La Laguna
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Spain
Switchboard Tel.: (+34) 922 31 90 00
Hours: Mon, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Anthropology of gender identities and sexual orientations
Anthropology of gender identities and sexual orientations
Overview
This microcredential offers a conceptual and epistemological framework for addressing gender and sexual orientations from a global, interrelated, and decolonized perspective. It provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding identity construction in diverse cultural contexts and analyzing power relations from an intersectional approach.
- To provide a basic conceptual and epistemological framework that allows addressing gender and
sexual orientations from a global, interrelated and decolonized perspective,
overcoming limited or ethnocentric views. - To provide key anthropological theoretical tools for understanding how the
Identity (including body and sexuality) is shaped and unfolds in diverse contexts
cultural, facilitating a transcultural vision of being. - Develop practical methodological tools to understand and communicate the
configuration of identity in the "self" and in "others", facilitating the analysis of power relations from an intersectional perspective.
Students must be between 25 and 64 years old on the date the training begins.
A university degree is not required to access this micro-credential. However, students wishing to access it must meet the following access requirements:
- Baccalaureate.
- Higher vocational training cycle (senior technician).
Academic program
- Theoretical foundations of gender and sexuality. What is identity? What is gender? What is sexual orientation? Decolonial autoethnography and conceptual debates. Biological, cultural, and symbolic conceptions of sex and desire. Ethnographic methods applied to the study of gender and sexuality: limitations and potential.
- Diversity of sexual identities and orientations in different sociocultural contexts. Gender systems in different contexts: historical and contemporary examples. Non-binary gender identities and third gender roles. Sexual orientations: categories, expressions, and meanings in different contexts.
- Power, intersectionality, and resistance. Identity from a postcolonial framework and reinterpretations from Canarian de/anticolonial feminisms. Interrelation of oppressions: there is no sex without racialization, global and local activism around gender and sexual diversity.
- Theoretical classes: expository, explanatory or demonstration sessions of the contents and knowledge.
- Independent work: independent and self-regulated activity of the student based on the documentation and guidelines proposed in the subject, preparation of classes and exams, preparation of final reports, internship reports…
- Tutoring (individual, group…): activity in which the teaching staff attends to, facilitates and guides one or more students in the training process.
- Assessment: continuous assessment tests and final exams. Tests may be in person or online, and may be written, oral, or consist of practical exercises.
The methodology will be as follows:
- Lectures/expository method: presentation or explanation by the teaching staff.
- Evaluation: written tests, oral tests, practical tests, etc.
- Tutoring: instruction period in which teachers and students interact with the aim of reviewing and discussing materials and topics presented in class.
- Active methodologies: cooperative learning, project-based learning, flipped classroom, service learning, game-based learning, case studies, problem solving, etc.
They are aimed at making learning a participatory process and are based on the leading role of the students.
- Objective tests (true/false, multiple choice, test-type, fill-in-the-blank, ordering, etc.): These are measurement instruments that allow for the evaluation of knowledge, skills, performance, aptitudes, etc. The answers are closed-ended, thus promoting objectivity during the scoring process.
- Case studies, exercises and problems: tests in which students must solve, in a reasoned manner, within a certain time, and according to the established criteria, the cases, exercises or problems posed by the teaching staff, with the aim of applying the knowledge acquired.
General information
Credits: 3 ECTS
Duration: 16/03/2026-29/05/2026
Teaching modality: Virtual
Location: Virtual Classroom
Valued at €217.50
The cost of tuition for this Microcredential will be subsidized by the 'Plan for the development of university microcredentials', investment 6 of component 21 of the Addendum to the 'Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan', financed by the European Union – Next Generation EU, year 2025.
Short courses available in various formats (in-person, online, or hybrid). Ideal for learning without interrupting your professional life.
Content created and delivered by professionals and experts in the field, designed for immediate application.
Endorsed by the University of La Laguna. You will receive an official ECTS certificate, valid in the European Higher Education Area.
Teaching staff
Professor of Spanish Literature, specializing in gender and sexual dissidence in theater and performance. His work and research focus on the relationships between cultural productions and LGBTQ+ history and activism, especially from a queer and transfeminist perspective.
A transdisciplinary researcher and creator born in Tenerife. With a PhD in Philosophy, Culture and Society from the University of La Laguna, she has contributed to various publications and has conducted research and shared her work at European, American and African universities.
