PAFG697 Special Topics: Understanding Political Systems Worldwide
Course Description
This course focuses on gender and women within a variety of political systems around the world. The course proceeds in three parts: Part One provides students with a brief overview of political systems in general as well as a conceptual framework within which to situate gender in these systems, structures, and institutions. Part Two investigate the concept of gender from a global perspective, carefully examining how political systems and structures affect the status of women. We will explore how the "rules of the game" have gendered implications and study the consequence of these rules from a comparative perspective. Part Three emphasizes how women, as political actors, have navigated these political systems, advocated for policy changes, and impacted the political process within different cultural contexts.

Prerequisite: Graduate Student or Permission of Instructor.
Academic Information
Credits: 3
Schedule & Fee
Dates: Sep 13 - Dec 10
Class #: 20862
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total Course Fee: $1335
Instructor
Becki Scola
bscola@sju.edu | Bio
Book Information
  1. Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability (UNIFEM, available for purchase or download on their website at www.unifem.org/progress/2008/)
  2. Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium, 3rd Ed. (V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan, Westview Press, 2010)
Wimba Requirement
UMB online courses use Wimba classroom (a live discussion tool) at least twice during the semester. Information about Horizon Wimba can be found at www.dlvpc.umb.edu/wimbasupport.htm. Your course instructor will inform you about dates and times of course meetings in Wimba Classroom.