SOC 239 - Women and Development in Latin America

3 Credit(s)

This team-taught service-learning travel course engages students in thinking about the challenges of development in Latin America, with particular emphasis placed upon the gendered dimensions of both development theory and practice. Through a combination of readings, films, lectures, discussion, and travel to a developing region in Mexico, Central America, or South America where women play key roles in development, students will be challenged to understand the burdens placed on women in underdeveloped nations as well as the roles that women have played in that region’s development. During all phases of this course, students are expected to reflect on their readings, service, and other experiences.
This course fulfills the requirements for the GWS major and minor.
(SAME AS GWS 239 AND ANTH 239)