Abstract
Gender, Politics and Governance: Global and Comparative Perspectives is a student-centred graduate seminar course designed to develop graduate students' knowledge and analytical skills on how gender shapes politics and political processes from global and cross-cultural perspectives. The course will be taught in two segments: Part one focuses on the gender, politics and power nexus. It interrogates how socially constructed gender norms, roles, stereotypes, assumptions, and power relations are implicated in the discourse of feminism, gender, politics, power and decision-making from global, third world and African perspectives. It equally builds students' capacity relative to the gender dynamics of contemporary politics and political thought.
Part two is dedicated to the study of gender and governance in Africa. It aims at improving students' knowledge and skills in analyzing African governance systems from a gender perspective. It also undertakes a comparative analysis of governance processes, success stories and challenges from Africa and other geographical contexts.