MA Gender Analysis in International Development

This course incorporates a number of topics, including concepts used in: gender analysis of development; social justice; gender and power; poverty and inequality; and gendered approaches to social and human development such as: capabilities; social exclusion and human rights; and violence religion and identities; it offers training integrating theory and development policy experience which is both sectoral (e.g. education, land and property, credit and finance, rural livelihoods, sustainable development, environment and conservation, HIV/AIDS) and cross cutting, (e.g. migration, and male gender identities and masculinities in development); the course covers both the theory and practice of gender in development; it provides students with the skills and knowledge needed to work in an advisory capacity for organisations concerned with integrating gender awareness into their programmes.