This interdisciplinary seminar explores poverty, livelihoods, and international development through a gender lens, with an emphasis on intersectionality and power. The course engages both theoretical and practical analyses, critically examining donor-led approaches while identifying grassroots and policy-level opportunities for transformative gender equity.
This course is designed to model knowledge co-production through the learning lab setting of the classroom. Using interactive, problem-based learning approaches and real-world case studies, students explore their understandings of gender, apply gender analysis frameworks, and engage with questions of development, social justice, and inclusion. We will critically examine how systems of power, such as patriarchy, colonialism, and neoliberalism, intersect in shaping development outcomes. Students build co-production skills progressively across the semester, culminating in a fully student-organized Open Space session in Week 7.
The course incorporates reflective practice and critical use of AI tools to enhance learning and analytical skills. Students will explore how generative AI can be used, and misused, in the production of knowledge, particularly in relation to feminist, decolonial, and Global South perspectives.
This course is taught in English. All presentations and assessments must be submitted in English.
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- Enseignant: KAREN DELFAU