SSJ20060 Gender and Development: Local and Global Issues

Academic Year 2019/2020

The objective of this module is to enable students to understand the role of gender relations and inequalities in processes of development, both at local and global levels. The module will provide students with the tools to understand and analyse gender relations and inequalities in their myriad forms, and will enable them to consider different approaches to development through a gender lens. The impact of North-South power relations and global inequalities on gender and development, the role of the United Nations in establishing and monitoring human rights and development norms and principles, and the intersections between local and global feminisms will be explored throughout. The module will address topics and issues such as economics, poverty, development, sexuality and sexual health, gender based violence and the role of men and masculinities. Overall, the module will provide students with critical conceptual and analytical tools for understanding and aiming to transform gender relations within an unequal world.

This module is taught by Lorraine Mancey.

We encourage you to search for other School of Social Justice (SSJ) modules. Graduates who have completed at least 15 credits of undergraduate electives offered by the School of Social Justice will have this noted on their UCD transcripts as the completion of Structured Electives in Social Justice.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students have developed their ability to: 1. Outline and explain key aspects of gender inequality and the impacts of such inequality on women and men and on development processes at local and global levels. 2. Demonstrate an advanced, theoretically informed understanding of gender and development and how they intersect in different contexts around the world. 3. Make critical and informed judgments about current debates on the politics of gender and development in an unequal global world. 4. Apply different conceptual tools to understanding the complex gender inequality dimensions within concrete social problems. 5. Reflect critically on what changes may be required to transform gender relations in local and global contexts.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

12
Tutorial

12
Specified Learning Activities

24
Autonomous Student Learning

54
Total

102
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Peer and group work; lectures; student presentations, 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

There are no prior learning requirements for this module


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Equivalents:
Gender and Development 1 (SSJ10080)


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: Written course work completed during the semester Varies over the Trimester n/a Graded No

30
Essay: Research essay Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

70

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

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Name Role
Dr Lorraine Mancey Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Karen Smith Lecturer / Co-Lecturer