20809245Gender and Politics
Course Information
Description
Gender and Politics examines the relationship between gender and politics in an interdisciplinary context. Students (a) summarize gender and politics history, (b) analyze formal and informal gender and political institutions, and (c) evaluate the relationship between gender and politics. Students will complete exams and written assignments.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Summarize key concepts related to the study of gender and politics.
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral Presentation
    Essay
    Written Objective Test
    Criteria
    Summarize the significance of sex, gender, intersectionality, power, feminism, and representation to the study of gender and politics.
    Analyze the relationship between gender and politics.
    Evaluate the relationship between gender and social movements, political parties, elections, political representation, public policy, and the state.

  2. Analyze the global history of gender and politics, women’s suffrage and other movements, and feminist political theory.
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral Presentation
    Essay
    Written Objective Test
    Criteria
    Summarize the major moments in the history of gender and politics, women’s suffrage, and other historic political and social movements.
    Analyze the major political theories that contributed to social and political movements for equal rights and women’s suffrage.
    Evaluate the impact of social change makers, and social and political movements on the relationship between gender and politics today.

  3. Evaluate the impact of women’s social movements in cross-cultural perspective.
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral Presentation
    Essay
    Written Objective Test
    Criteria
    Summarize the impact of social movements on women’s involvement in political parties, political representation, democracy, and the state.
    Analyze women’s movements in cross-cultural perspective.
    Evaluate the impact of collective action and social movements on enhancing political opportunities for women in comparative perspective.

  4. Evaluate how political culture and party structures affect women’s political participation and elections.
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral Presentation
    Essay
    Written Objective Test
    Criteria
    Summarize the relationship between political parties and women’s political participation in cross-cultural perspective.
    Analyze strategies to increase women’s political participation as party members, voters, and activists.
    Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to increase women’s political participation in cross-cultural perspective.

  5. Compare the effectiveness of methods to increase women’s representation in cross-cultural perspective.
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral Presentation
    Essay
    Written Objective Test
    Criteria
    Summarize women’s representation across political institutions around the world.
    Analyze strategies to increase women’s descriptive representation.
    Evaluate the effectiveness of quotas and other methods to increase women’s descriptive representation.

  6. Examine how gender affects representation and policy outcomes.
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral Presentation
    Essay
    Written Objective Test
    Criteria
    Summarize women’s substantive representation in cross-cultural perspective.
    Analyze the impact of women’s substantive representation on leadership and policy outcomes.
    Evaluate the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation.

  7. Analyze how gender and representation impact the functions of the state in cross-cultural perspective.
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral Presentation
    Essay
    Written Objective Test
    Criteria
    Summarize the relationship between gender, feminism, and the functions of government and the state.
    Analyze feminist approaches to governance, policymaking, and leadership.
    Evaluate how state feminism affects policy and other functions of the state.

  8. Examine the impact of social movements and women’s political participation by evaluating how governments and institutions today respond to gender-related issues.
    Assessment Strategies
    Oral Presentation
    Essay
    Written Objective Test
    Criteria
    Summarize recent social movements and their efforts to change power dynamics within institutions.
    Analyze the impact of recent social movements on policy outcomes and state behavior.
    Evaluate political strategies to enhance gender equity and equality in cross-cultural perspective.