Gender Inclusive Development – Course Outline

Course Code: N/A Contact: abdullah@numl.edu.pk

Instructor Name: Muhammad Abdullah
Class schedule: Friday 3:30pm -6:00pm Credit: 3hrs

Objectives:
The course of Gender Inclusive Development (GID) will help students engage in interdisciplinary
approaches to knowledge that allows for both creative synthesis of these various approaches and
productive debates within the discipline. They will also be able to conduct an analysis of gender in
relationship to power that recognizes gender and relevant aspects. This course also allows students to
learn about gender and its role in development. Participants will learn and practice tools and strategies to
model positive behaviors, confront gender stereotypes, prevent gender-based discrimination, promote
gender inclusiveness, respect, and self-awareness, maintain open minds in the classroom.

Grading Assessment
10% class participation/ activities discussions and debate exercises during class
10% Assignment – Research project
30% Mid-term examination
50% Final-term examination

Recommended/Pre-course Readings:
N/A
Session Module/ Reading Material Objectives Graded Component
Topic
What is Gender?
Week 1 Introduction No readings To familiarize students with No
to the course the basics of Gender and its
What, Why distinction from
and How? interchangeable terms.

Week 2 Gender as a https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html To help understand gender Class Discussion

construct https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/article different from sex and
s/232363 inequality based on
biological differences
Additional material: between men and women?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN-
wD8O9tRI

Week 3 Gender in https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/ To help understand societies Graded class

today’s world gender-identity/sex-gender-identity/what- perception of gender, discussion
are-gender-roles-and-stereotypes especially in context of
Pakistan.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/
cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context
=soc_facpub

Week 4 Historical https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/113/5 To understand the historical No

Perspective /1346/41254 background of gender and
of Gender https://youtu.be/lW1sfaWcwdM how it emerged.

Gender Equality
Week 5- Concept of https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/what-is- To understand the concept of Graded Class
6 Gender gender-equality/ gender equality and the Participation
Equality https://www.unicef.org/rosa/media/1761/fi challenges faced in today’s
(Part – 1) le/Genderglossarytermsandconcepts.pdf world Class Exercise

Week 7 Concept of
Gender
Equality
Class Exercise
(Part – 2) Project Discussion
MID TERM EXAMINATION
Gender Development
Week 9 What is https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psyc To understand the concept of Class Discussion
Gender hology/gender-development gender development what
certain indices are used in
 Development https://hdr.undp.org/gender-development- measuring Gender
? index#/indicies/GDI Development across the
world.
https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/inf
o/gender-inequality-index-(gii)

Week The WID https://medium.com/@DevonOMatthews/ To understand approaches to Graded Discussion

10-11 WAD and wid-wad-gad-or-what-9242552bb67e women and gender in
GAD https://www.developmenteducation.ie/med development.
ia/documents/women_gender_dev.pdf

Week Social
12 development Graded Class Debate
and Gender
Inclusion
Week Gender and https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/202 To help Understand the Class Participation
13-14 Economic 2/09/27/sp092722-ggopinath-kgef-gender- impact of gender inclusion
Contribution korea#:~:text=Gender%20equality%20goe on economy of a country.
s%20hand%2Din,performance%2C%20an
d%20reduce%20income%20inequality.

https://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/do
cuments/2017.2087_mh0117097enn_pdfw
eb_20170803130832.pdf

Week Gender https://www.concern.net/news/gender- To help understand the Graded Class

15 Inclusive inequalities-we-need-to-address current issues in gender Participation
Development https://www.un.org/en/global- inclusion and approaches to
issues and issues/gender-equality solve these issues.
approaches
Additional material
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW7J
XaNjXNE

REVISION & PROJECT SUBMISSION

FINAL EXAMINATION