Graduate Programmes

MSc in Gender and Development

Programme Goals

To improve the quality of gender-based analysis in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors;
To demonstrate the breadth of the field of gender studies: its history of thought, research methods and applications to the Caribbean;
To provide senior professionals with a range of modern techniques and an enhanced capacity to address developmental issues in a globalizing world;
To strengthen and improve the pool of academic institutions that teach women’s/gender and development studies at different levels;
To inculcate attitudes essential for lifelong learning and professional problem-solving;
To develop a cadre of well-trained gender specialists;
To facilitate gender-based research and publication in diverse subject areas;
To expose students to the importance of appreciating difference vis à is gender and other social categories of analysis.

Admission requirements

Applicants should have a First Degree with at least lower 2^nd Class Honours (GPA 2.0-2.99). Preference will be given to students with some prior training in gender studies. This could include the UWI Minor in Gender and Development or Gender Studies or its equivalent.

OR

UWI Diploma in Gender and Development Studies or equivalent tertiary level diploma and extensive working experience in a related field;

Duration

This programme is 18 months full-time or 24 months part-time during which time the candidate will have completed 35 credits.

Course of Study

Candidates are required to complete thirty-five credits (35), consisting of:

5 compulsory core courses (19 credits)
2 elective courses (8 credits)
1 research paper or internship project supervised by a gender specialist (15,000 -20,000 words, 8 credits).
1 research seminar (non-credit)

Core Courses

Contemporary Feminist Theorizing (4 credits)
Feminist Epistemology and Methodology (4 credits)
Issues in Caribbean Feminism and Gender Relations (3 credits)
Gender Analysis for Development, Policy and Planning (4 credits)
Sexualities, Bodies and Power in Society (4 credits)

Electives

Students may take elective courses from other graduate programmes, depending on interest and availability. The offer of IGDS electives for any academic year will depend on the grouped research interests of the cohort as well as the availability of staff to offer these courses. In the initial stages of the programme not all electives will be offered. The expansion of the number of electives will depend on the numbers of students enrolled and the availability of teaching staff.

The student could select either two (2) IGDS electives or one (1) IGDS elective and one (1) elective from other graduate programmes depending on their interest.

Select 1 or 2 from the following:

IGDS Electives

GEND6105 Key Issues in Gender and Transformation in the Caribbean
GEND6601 Key Theories & Debates in Gender & Development
GEND6102 Data Collection and Analysis: A Gendered Approach
GEND6402 Gender & Political Mobilisation & Activism
GEND6202 Gender and Globalization
********* Gender and Human Rights (new course)
********* Regulating Sexual Citizenship in ‘Postcolonial’ Nations (new course)

1 Elective from other Graduate Programmes

CLTR6270 Under Western Eyes: Rethinking Cultural Hegemony in Caribbean Gender Relations
LITS6201 Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory
LITS6202 Women, Fiction and Gender

*Or any other approved Graduate course or reading course relevant to student’s research area

Cost of the MSc in Gender and Development Studies: $25, 000 BDS

For Application Form and additional information please see the Graduate student handbook or visit: http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/gradstudies/home.aspx

Quotes

" By denying or refusing the myriad unscripted ways in which people chance upon, live and love each other, different categories of belonging are created, rendering some families less normal or less valued. This is similar, by the way, to how we tend to think of households headed by women as secondary to the nuclear/male breadwinner family, despite the fact that they represent the family experience of over forty percent of children in the region, or the laws that outlaw lesbian and gay sex and make criminals and non-citizens out of all of us whose desires refuse to be strai(gh)tjacketed. "
Gender, Generation and Memory: Remembering a Future Caribbean, Alissa Trotz

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