WS 487 - International Organizations,Gender,and Development

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University at Buffalo

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Description:

Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Recommended - WS 241 or WS 40 or completion of a lower level theory course in another discipline Corequisites: None Type: SEM This seminar provides students critical frameworks of current and emerging theories, paradigms, and approaches on gender, development, and global change from an interdisciplinary perspective. Second, it provides students a forum to analyze and appraise development policies and practices from a gender perspective incorporating economic, social, cultural, and legal aspects of development. Third, it offers the opportunity to link theory and practice, as well as revisit the actual practice of development through policy analysis, discursive analysis of development polices, project appraisal, critical assessment of international organizations agendas, and forms of resistance to globalization. This seminar emphasizes students active participation and leadership in discussions and interactive scholarly groups. Students will gain exposure to the politics and economics of gender and development, the changing institutions and social context of development, and the mediating influence of international organizations such as the World Bank and the UN, to critically analyze and formulate strategies and actions plans for social change from a gender perspective.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.buffalo.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 645-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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