Undergraduate Courses in Gender Studies
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AR22A: Women's Studies I: An Introduction
The primary objective of this course is to examine and interrogate the various feminist theories used to analyse conditions affecting women and to evaluate their relevance to understanding the experience of women in the Caribbean.
AR22B: Women's Studies II: Women and Development in the Caribbean
This course builds upon the feminist theories introduced in the course AR22A. The objective is to begin to critically evaluate the diverse experiences of Caribbean women as represented in history, politics and political participation, education, literature, religion and social policy and to relate these whenever possible to the development strategies pursued in the Caribbean.
AR37A: Men and Masculinities in the Caribbean: an Introduction
This course will examine and evaluate the four main theoretical approaches to studying masculinity and their relevance to understanding the experiences of Caribbean men. The responses of the men's movement to issues affecting men will also be examined.
AR37B: Men and Masculinities in the Caribbean: Contemporary Issues
This course will examine the various expressions of Caribbean masculinities and their implications for Caribbean men, women and society. The responses of the men's movement to issues affecting men will also be examined.
AR37C: Gender Analysis and Theories of Development:
Implications for Policy and Planning
This course examines the Neo-Marxist and the Neo-Classical school of economic thought and the modernisation approach to development from the perspective of gender. It traces how the modernisation paradigm has informed development planning in the Caribbean and explores the corresponding differential development of social and economic policy affecting women and men in the Caribbean. It includes examination of development plans produced in the Commonwealth Caribbean in teh postcolonial period to reveal how gender issues have been incorporated.
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Faculty of Humanities
- AR27B Women Writers from Africa and the Caribbean
- E23G Twentieth Century Literary Theory
- E25B West Indian Literature II: Women Writers
- E33D Post-Structuralisms and Post-colonialisms
- E35A Advanced Seminar in West Indian Literature
- E35B West Indian Literature "Special Author" Seminar
- H30C Women and Gender in the History of the English Speaking Caribbean
- H34F Women in Europe since 1750
- L25A Language, Gender and Society
- S27B Latin American Women Writers
- S37B Spanish American Women's Narrative
Faculty of Social Sciences
- SW42A Children and Family Services
- SY3 7A Gender and Development; An Anthropological Approach
Faculty of Law
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