Gender Studies 212HR - Women's and LGBTQI Rights

The course will study the contemporary state of LGBTQI and Women's Rights worldwide and the strategies available to further them. At once a seminar and a practice-based workshop, students will learn about international human rights law, human rights monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and gender justice policies. Students will simulate writing UN reports, International NGO reports, country-based NGO reports, and undertake research on LGBTQI and women's rights violations. The focus topics will be gender-based violence, humanitarian policy, transitional justice, and economic empowerment. Several practitioners will join the course throughout the semester.

Prereq: Introduction to Gender Studies or a social sciences introductory course (politics, sociology, anthropology, international relations, critical social thought, etc.).