2008/09 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PIED3220 Gender and Development

20 creditsClass Size: 45

Module manager: Ms Polly Wilding
Email: P.Wilding@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2008/09

This module is approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module introduces students to the main debates about women and gender in development policy-making, and explores some of the specific issues faced by women in developing countries and attempts that have been made to address them.

Objectives

This module is intended to assist students in understanding how gender relations impact on the development process at both policy and practice level. It will consider the different approaches that have characterized the integration of gender issues into international development, and will assess the extent to which government agencies and NGOs are 'gender aware'.

Skills outcomes
Ability to comprehend and analyse competing concepts and to relate conceptual debates to policy practice and lived realities. Ability to understand the relationships between separate issues.

Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly orally and in writing.

Syllabus

Week One - Contemporary approaches to Gender and Development
Week Two - Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Planning
Week Three - Gender, Poverty and Empowerment
Week Four - Microcredit schemes
Week Five - Women, Literacy and Development
Week Six - READING WEEK
Week Seven - From Population Control to Reproductive Rights
Week Eight - Women and HIV/AIDS
Week Nine - Domestic Violence: Practice and Policy
Week Ten - Women and environmental resource management: ecofeminism, essentialism and feminist environmentalism
Week Eleven - Making women's voices heard: From rhetoric to practice

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	10	1.00	10.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Independent online learning hours			58.00
Private study hours			122.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Literature-based research (120 hours)
Internet-based research (58 hours)
Examination (2 hours)
Total - 180 hours.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Non-assessed mid-term and in-class assignments.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	3,000 words	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr 00 mins	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 03/04/2009

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