DSOC 3230

Gender and Development

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

Find, access, critically evaluate, and ethically use information. This course examines men's and women's lives and the impacts on them of incorporation into global economic and political systems. It asks how inequalities within and across gender categories are created in the process of social change, how gender intersects with class, race, and culture to shape the way change is experienced, and how institutions and social spaces become gendered. The course begins with the study of theoretical approaches or gender planning models to promote gender equality in policies and programs. We then turn to specific substantive areas of social life to consider how gender operates in different spaces, and we consider prospects for change beyond gender planning models in the form of social movements, politics, and the law.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (D)

• Find, access, critically evaluate, and ethically use information.
• Communicate effectively through writing, speech and visual information.
• Articulate the views of people with diverse perspectives.
• Demonstrate the capability to work both independently and in cooperation with others.

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