Attention current undergraduate and graduate students! Are you interested in learning more about women writers in the post-Soviet region, the experience of women in the Arab world, or Black feminist theory? Georgetown University is offering a host of Fall 2021 courses that incorporate a gender lens across a wide range of sectors, regions, and themes.
Use this blog post as a resource for making your course selections for the upcoming semester — click through the course numbers to access the course descriptions and schedule on MyAccess.
Certificate Courses
Georgetown graduate students: these classes count towards the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) Graduate Certificate in Gender, Peace and Security.
Gender, International Security and Development – GOVT 570
Professor: GIWPS Affiliate Researcher Dr. Seniha Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana
Time: 5-7:30pm on Mondays
This course aims to prepare students to work as diplomats, experts in peacebuilding, development, humanitarian relief, displacement, and post-conflict reconstruction, among other fields, with a knowledge of gender issues and the ability to apply a gender lens. The class contextualizes gender issues and asks the question: how would we think about international peace, security and development approaches and design intervention strategies if gender was treated as a central consideration in international affairs and peacebuilding programming? To answer this question, the class will explore both conceptual considerations related to gender and its practical application. Focusing on practical skills such as conflict-sensitive gender analysis, it will examine how to most effectively mainstream gender into policy making and programming related to international peace, security, and development. This is a mandatory, core course for the GIWPS graduate certificate.
Gender and Security Toolbox – GOVX 536
Professor: Karine Lepillez
Time: 6:30-9pm on Thursdays
Many development and peace organizations are now required to have a gender-sensitive approach in order to receive funding from agencies such as USAID, DfiD, and OECD. Graduates who have a robust understanding of these issues may be more desirable applicants for future positions in security, diplomacy, or development both abroad and in the United States. This advanced seminar will teach you concrete skills for ensuring gender is considered in peacebuilding, security, and development fields. The course will explore critical skills – from gender mainstreaming and gender analysis to gender-sensitive budgeting, research, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy, and social impact analysis (beyond gender). The course will enable students to capably serve as gender focal points and learn how practitioners have successfully advanced gender in their diplomacy, development, and defense work.
Gender and Terrorism – SEST 544
Professor: Mehreen Farooq
Time: 6:30-9pm on Tuesdays
From women of the Provisional Irish Republican Army to the all-female suicide bombing units of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, women have played critical roles in terrorist organizations across the globe for decades. Despite their prevalence, the gendered differential approaches to recruitment, processes of radicalization, and the roles that women can play in promoting peace and security are less understood. From theoretical foundations to policy implications, this course will address pressing terrorism threats to national and international security with an often overlooked gender lens. As part of the Graduate Certificate in Gender, Peace and Security, this course will explore gender dynamics in conflict, peacebuilding and stabilization – with a focus on preventing terrorism. We will explore, from a policymaker and practitioner’s perspective, how violent actors manipulate social, economic, political, ideological, or psychological factors to recruit both men and women. The course will also examine women’s role in stabilization efforts in fragile, or violent extremism affected environments. We will consider toxic masculinity, constructive male engagement, and capacity building measures to strengthen women’s roles in preventing violent extremism.
Graduate Courses
Women and Gender in the Arab World – ARST 532
Professor: TBA
Time: 3:30-6pm on Tuesdays
Gender and Migration in Europe – INAF 502
Professor: Joyce Mushaben
Time: 12:30-3pm on Tuesdays
(En)Gendered Security – SEST 639
Professor: Mariya Omelicheva
Time: 6:30-9pm on Wednesdays
Gender & Environment: Latin America – LASP 427
Professor: Joyce Marie Mushaben
Time: 6:30-9pm on Tuesdays
Gender and Care in Modern US Poetry – ENGL 443
Professor: Libbie Rifkin
Time: 12:30-1:45pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Undergraduate Courses
Women, Peace, and Security – IPOL 319
Professor: Seniha Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana and Robert Nagel
Time: 5-6:15pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
The course, taught by GIWPS fellows Dr. Seniha Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana and Dr. Robert Nagel, will introduce students to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Students will examine the gendered aspects of conflict and peace including the role women play in national and international security, conflict resolution, peace-building, and post-conflict recovery. Drawing on original research from the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the course will explore the impact of women’s participation in armed conflict, conflict prevention, peacekeeping, mitigating humanitarian emergencies, post-conflict transitions, and economic recovery. Using UN Security Council resolutions and other international mechanisms, we will introduce students to the international normative framework underpinning the WPS agenda. The course will also take a critical look at the implementation of the WPS Agenda to identify gaps and challenges and to develop a comprehensive, realistic, and effective response.
Men, Women and Gender in the Workplace – MGMT 296
Professor: Ella Washington
Time: 3:30-6:15 pm on Mondays
Gender and Feminism – PHIL 112
Professor: Alisa L Carse
Time: 11am-12:15pm on Mondays and Wednesdays
Black Feminism – AFAM 215
Professor: Dayo Gore
Time: 9:30-10:45am on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Population, Gender and Environment – WGST 247
Professor: Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano
Time: 3:30-6pm on Thursdays
Gender, Race, and Feminism – WGST 238
Professor: Emerald L Christopher
Time: 11am-12:15pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Feminist Disability Studies – WGST 234
Professor: Jaime Madden
Time: 3:30-4:45pm
Gender and the Law – WGST 251
Professor: Sara H. Collina
Time: 3:30-4:45pm on Mondays and Wednesdays
Violence, Gender, and Human Rights – WGST 260
Professor: You-me Park
Time: 3:30-6pm on Mondays
Women’s Writing after the Fall – WGST 255
Professor: Irina Denischenko
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Women in American Politics – WGST 266
Professor: Donna Brazile
Time: 2-4:30pm on Wednesdays
Women and the Civil Rights Movement – HIST 289
Professor: Marcia Chatelain
Time: 11am-12:15pm on Mondays and Wednesdays
Gender and Environment in Latin America – LASP 427
Professor: Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano
Time: 6:30-9pm on Tuesdays
Language, Gender and Sexuality – LING 343
Professor: Marissa Joanne Fond
Time: 2-3:15pm on Mondays and Wednesdays
Happy registering from GIWPS!
