WST 4100: Gender & Development

In this course, students are exposed to feminist critique on ‘development’, theoretical approaches and key debates as they critically engage on issues affecting Guyana, Caribbean and the wider global community. Students examine the social structures that delineate systems of power, place and gender inequality.

IGS 4201: Gender & Sexuality

This course interrogates the power relations embedded in the concepts; gender and sexuality. Students critically engage with these concepts and how they intersect with categories of identity like race, ethnicity, and nationality, among others. Masculinities and femininities are interrogated not as unchanging categories but rather as varying categories

IGS 1201: Addressing Gender Based Violence: Awareness, Intervention Strategies & Social Change

This introductory course raises awareness of GBV by focusing on its causes and consequences and methods of intervention and social change. Students examine how gendered power relations and gender roles and norms are associated with GBV, and the ways socio-economic, cultural and religious factors impact the causes and consequences of GBV.

MID 1101: Migration, Gender & Human Resilience

This introductory course brings awareness to issues related to migration, gender and human resilience. It teaches students about the ways migration research is gendered and how intersecting identities including one’s class, race, sexuality and migrants’ abilities to live safe lives in the country they move to.