Course Description
Relationships between gender and globalization, women and development, industrialization, and developing regions.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will be expected to write a term paper that reveals research beyond the course material.
Athena Title
Gender and Geography
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in GEOG 4680E or GEOG 6680E
Prerequisite
GEOG 1101 or GEOG 1101E or WMST 1110 or WMST 1110E or WMST 1110H or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fallOffered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The class will be organized around both a lecture and a discussion component. Students will be expected to participate in discussions, prepare brief writing assignments, and work through the theoretical issues presented in lecture and in the the readings. The hope is that students will be able to articulate and reflect upon the complex interaction of gender, globalization, and international development. This course meets the following General Education Abilities by accomplishing the specific learning objectives listed below: Communicate effectively through writing Assimilate, analyze, and present in written forms, a body of information Adapt writing to circumstances and audience Interpret content of written materials on related topics from various disciplines Compose effective written materials for various academic and professional contexts Produce writing that is stylistically appropriate and mature Communicate effectively through speech Assimilate, analyze, and present in oral forms, a body of information Adapt communication to circumstances and audience Communicate in various modes and media, including the proper use of appropriate technology Produce communication that is stylistically appropriate and mature Communicate for academic and professional contexts Computer Literacy Use word processing software Use presentation software Use the web Use E-mail and use OASIS Critical Thinking (Engage in complex thought, analysis, and reasoning) Consider and engage opposing points of view Communicate for academic and professional contexts Support a consistent purpose and point of view Assimilate, analyze, and present a body of information Analyze arguments Interpret inferences and develop subtleties of symbolic and indirect discourse Moral Reasoning (Ethics) Recognize the community and the greater common good in addition to individual needs and goals Contribute to the eradication of stereotypes and prejudices that exist in society, either in crude forms or in more sophisticated and sometimes pseudo-scientific ones Judge and understand ethical behavior in social applications Apply societal ethics to scientific inquiry Use ethical models to make decisions
Topical Outline
This course will introduce students to the complex interaction between gender, globalization and international development. Readings will include the following sorts of texts: 1. Massey, D., The Spatial Division of Labor 2. McCowell, L., Space, Gender and Knowledge 3. Mies, M., Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labor 4. UNIFEM., A Commitment to the World's Women: Perspectives on Development for Beijing and Beyond 5. Hunt, D., Economic Theories of Development: An Analysis of Competing Paradigms