Unit information: Gender and Development in 2020/21

Unit name	Gender and Development
Unit code	POLIM2032
Credit points	20
Level of study	M/7
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director	Dr. Egle Cesnulyte
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
School/department	School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Faculty	Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

The unit will introduce issues, theories and debates concerning the area of gender and development. Engaging with various academic literature and theoretical perspectives, it will explore how different social, economic and political developments interweave together to affect the lives of women and men in different areas of the Global South.

Intended Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit the student should be able to:

• Critically evaluate current theoretical perspectives in the field of gender and development.

• Gain an understanding of how contemporary economic and social processes shape the contemporary world; understand how gender is theorised, understood and incorporated into development practice.

• Evaluate research methodologies and develop critiques of them.

Teaching Information

The unit will be taught through blended learning methods, including a mix of synchronous and asynchronous teaching activities

Assessment Information

Formative assessment: Critical Reading Exercise

Summative assessment: a 4000 word essay

A full statement of the relationship between the programme outcomes and types/methods of assessment is contained in accompanying Programme Specifications and section B7 of the Major Change to Current Programme forms for the programmes of which this unit is a part. The assessment for each unit is designed to fit within and contribute to that approach in terms of intellectual development across each of the two teaching blocks, and in relation to knowledge and understanding, intellectual skills and attributes, and transferable skills.

Reading and References

• Mohanty, C. T. (1984) “Under Western Eyes. Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” Boundary 2 Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12 no. 3 – Vol. 13 no. 1 On Humanism and the University I. The Discourse of Humanism (spring – Autumn, 1984) pp.333-358.

• Momsen, J. (2009) Gender and Development London: Routledge.

• Oso, L. and Ribaes-Mateos, N. (2013) The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism: Global and Development Perspectives Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

• Sharp, J., Briggs, J., Yacoub, H., Hamed, N. (2003) “Doing Gender and Development: Understanding Empowerment and

• Local Gender Relations” in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 28. No. 3 pp.281-295.

• Shiva, V. (1993) ‘GATT, Agriculture and Third World Women’ in Mies, M. and Shiva, V. Ecofeminism pp.231-245 London: Zed.

• Visvanathan, N. Duggan, L. and Nisonoff L. (2011) The Gender and Development Reader 2nd Ed. London: Zed Books.