Mainstream the gender perspective in teaching
Strategic objective 1
Ensure that all courses offer learning resources and contents without gender bias, thereby raising the profile of leading female figures
Actions:
- Design a tool to verify whether the gender perspective criterion is being met in course design
- Design a tool to verify whether the gender perspective criterion is being met in the content creation process
- Design a tool to verify whether the gender perspective criterion is being met in the creation and selection of learning resources
- Create a collection of UOC-made learning resources that address the topics of gender, women, feminism and sexuality
- Make a woman's voice available for multi-format materials
- Encourage students to undertake participatory final projects with organizations that embody the gender perspective
- Add statements to the final project guide that prompt students to adopt the gender perspective in their research
- Incorporate the gender perspective in the design and performance of student internships in businesses and organizations
- Update citation guidelines to make women's contributions visible in references
Make global ethical commitment, which includes the gender perspective, a cross-disciplinary competency in every official bachelor's and master's degree programme
Actions:
- Sort out which programmes already nurture this cross-disciplinary competency and which ones have the potential to do so
- Include global ethical commitment as a cross-disciplinary competency in all annual reports on new degree programmes for the 2021/2022 academic year and every year thereafter
- Provide coordinating professors with training in the Global ethical commitment course
Work the gender perspective into online classroom dynamics
Actions:
- Include guides to using gender-inclusive written and audiovisual language in the induction and initial training sessions for coordinating professors and course instructors
- Employ gender-inclusive language throughout the Virtual Campus
- Create a student resource to raise awareness of the value of gender equality in the learning process
- Create a tutoring resource that addresses matters related to gender equality in the UOC's online environment, to be gone over with students during the welcome process
- Write up a protocol to instruct teaching staff (coordinating professors and course instructors) on how to manage potential classroom conflict stemming from the roll out of the gender perspective in teaching
Map out a specific gender perspective training plan for all UOC teaching staff
Actions:
- Train coordinating professors in specific aspects of the gender perspective so that they can include it in their teaching
- Provide specific training for course instructors: consider gender equality in greater depth
- Provide training for coordinating professors and course instructors on how to use the Vives Network guides to teaching with a gender perspective, so that they can use and implement them
- Host events for coordinating professors so that they can share experiences and agree on best practices on the gender perspective in teaching
Launch specific courses and programmes focused on gender
Strategic objective 2
Determine which portfolio strategy is most optimal: official programmes, UOC-certified programmes, short-term activities, etc.
Actions:
- Coordinate with the faculties and research centres to put together an initial proposal
- Conduct a market analysis and a feasibility study
- Validate the final proposal and its deployment
Reduce horizontal student segregation in the UOC faculties
Strategic objective 3
Raise awareness within the UOC community of the importance of eliminating gender roles
Actions:
- Create promotional material for bachelor’s and master's degrees that defy gender roles and adhere to the principle of equity
- Encourage students to pursue topics with a gender perspective for their final projects
- Identify and shine a spotlight on female and male pathfinders who challenge horizontal segregation in the faculties
Instil in children and young people the importance of defying gender roles when choosing their degrees
Actions:
- Encourage the prominence of women scientists as active agents of change in traditionally male-dominated fields
- Promote technology-related social mentoring and volunteer programmes that motivate young and teen girls to hone their skills in traditionally male-dominated fields
Carry out actions that have a positive impact on student admission and success
Actions:
- Create scholarships to reduce horizontal segregation