 Aims
To enable students to acquire a basic knowledge of the issue of gender, particularly in its relationship to questions of population, from a historical and north/south perspective.
To encourage students to reflect on the methodological plan (e.g. information systems and statistical indicators).
Main themes
- A general issue, history and importance of the concept, and recent definitions.
- Quantitative and qualitative systems of observing questions of gender.
- The most common instruments and indicators of analysis.
- The effects of gender relations on marriage rates and fertility.
- Gender relations, health and mortality.
- Gender relations, modes of production and migration.
- A report on current knowledge on relationship between gender and demography.
- Questions of gender in present-day demographic policies.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Assessment: This will take the form of a synthesis of reading and applied work.
Other credits in programs
|
DEMO3DA
|
Diplôme d'études approfondies en démographie
|
(2 credits)
| |
|
DEMO3DS
|
Diplôme d'études spécialisées en populations et sociétés
|
(2 credits)
|
Mandatory
|
|
DVLP3DS
|
Diplôme d'études spécialisées en études du développement
|
(2 credits)
| |
|
DVLP3DS/AD
|
Diplôme d'études spécialisées en études du développement (Analyse du développement)
|
(2 credits)
| |
|
DVLP3DS/PR
|
Diplôme d'études spécialisées en études du développement (Programme et projets de développement)
|
(2 credits)
| |
|
