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| Course ID: | GEOG 4680/6680. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Gender and Geography | Course
Description: | Relationships between gender and globalization, women and development, industrialization, and developing regions. | | Oasis Title: | Gender and Geography | | Duplicate Credit: | 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 fall semester every even-numbered year. Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | 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 | |
| Course ID: | GEOG 4680E/6680E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Gender and Geography |
Course
Description: | Relationships between gender and globalization, women and development, industrialization, and developing regions. |
| Oasis Title: | Gender and Geography |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in GEOG 4680 or GEOG 6680 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Prerequisite: | GEOG 1101 or GEOG 1101E or WMST 1110 or WMST 1110E or WMST 1110H or permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| 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 |
Syllabus: No Syllabus Available
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