WS 414 - Contemporary Global and Gender Issues

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University at Buffalo

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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM How is globalization (including capitalistic economic development) interconnected with gender Surveys recent debates about global development and gender equality, examining current research in this important field. Assess the impact forces of global development have on gender relations; culture and cultural identity; women vs. men social, economic, and political opportunities; and maternal health. Using a broad scope of most current theoretical approaches from theoretical frameworks of diffusion, modernization, rational choice theory, the dependency and the world system theory, and cultural relativism perspective, this course examines current research in several pertinent areas of globalization through the lens of gender equality particularly the effects of global trends in culture, globalization of democracy and capitalist economy on national politics, economy and culture are analyzed in view of gender relations.

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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

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Semester

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