Apr 15, 2025  
2024-2025 University Catalog 
    

POLSC 342 - Women, Gender, and Global Development


Prerequisites: POLSC.110 or POLSC.120 or consent of the instructor - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills an elective requirement in the Political Science major and minor. Fulfills a track elective requirement for International Relations major and minor.
Note: Offered alternate fall.
Delivery: Lecture

Provides an introduction to the study of global development with a gendered lens, focusing on how women impact and are impacted by global development processes especially in the Global South.  Explores the history and theoretical underpinnings of the role of gender in development and analyzes the gendered dimensions of central topics in global development, which may include economic development, labor, health, the environment, climate change, globalization, and social mobilization. No.

3 credits
Fall



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