The graduate specialization in Gender and Justice offers advanced study of contemporary practices and problems of justice ranging from international justice regimes to national legal cultures to social and economic justice claims with a particular focus on the Global South.

Requirements for the Diploma (2 courses)

GWST 570-03 Justice: Theories and Histories [semester 1]
GWST 500: Social Science Perspectives on Middle East/North Africa Gender and Women’s Studies [semester 1 or 2]

Electives for the Diploma Program (4 courses)

Students must take at least one course from each of the following groups:

Group 1: Geographies of Justice
GWST 570-01 Topic: New Diaporas
GWST 570-02 Topic: Critical Urbanism: Gender, Poverty Violence
ANTH  510 Topic: Land, Labor and Property in Africa
GWST 570-04 Gender and Citizenship

Group 2: Conflict, Identity, Reconstruction
GWST 501 Approaches to GWST: Women’s Rights, Human Rights
IHRL 517 Human Rights and Identity Groups
ANTH 510 Topic: History, Production, Memory

Group 3: The Gendered Subject of Law
LAW 505 Islamic Law Reform
GWST 570-05 Gender, Law and Social Change

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