THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (IGDS)

MONA CAMPUS UNIT

MINOR IN GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

The Institute offers a Minor in Gender and Development Studies.  To qualify, students must take five (5) Level II and Level III gender courses offered by the Institute OR three (3) gender courses offered by the Institute and two (2) approved gender courses offered in other Departments/Faculties, as listed below:

Gender courses offered in the IGDS

Level II

GEND2001  Gender in Caribbean Culture: History and Theology

GEND2002  Gender in Caribbean Culture: Linguistics, Popular Culture and Literature

GEND2004  Sexuality, Power and Illicit Desire

GEND2013  Men and Masculinity in the Caribbean

Level III

GEND3031  Gender, Sex and Society

GEND3032  Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management

GEND3033  Critical Perspectives on Gender & Violence

GEND3600  Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS

GEND3703  Gender Analysis, Development Policy and Planning

Gender courses offered in other Faculties

FREN2807   Francophone Women Writers: Perspectives on Women's Issues in Literature

SPAN3702   Spanish American Women’s Narrative

LITS2107     African /Diaspora Women’s Narrative

LITS3702     African American Women’s Writers

LING2501    Language Gender and Sex

HIST3003    Women and Gender in History of the English-Speaking Caribbean

COMM2907 Media Gender and Development

CLTR3507   Culture, Gender and Sexuality in Jamaican Popular Music

SOCI3027    Gender and Development

TOTAL: 5 Courses/15 Credits