Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Summer 2023 - IS 310 D100

Gender and Security (4)

Class Number: 3770

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 8 – Aug 4, 2023: Mon, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
    Vancouver

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Aug 13, 2023
    Sun, 3:30–6:30 p.m.
    Vancouver

  • Prerequisites:

    45 units.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Examines security issues and events with attention to gender. Focuses on themes related to war, political violence, post-war reconstruction, militarism, military culture, and peace activism with attention to women and marginalised communities, gender norms, and feminist and queer approaches to rethinking security and imagining peace.

COURSE DETAILS:

Examines security issues and events with attention to gender, including examining ways that individuals experience security and insecurity differently, depending on their gender; engaging with feminist and queer theory challenges to ‘traditional’ definitions and understandings of war, security, and insecurity; and centring sources of insecurity that largely impact women, transgender, and racialized communities. The unit covers themes related to war, political violence, post-war reconstruction, militarism, military culture, and peace activism.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

The learning goals of the course are: a) to gain knowledge of feminist and queer theories of security, war, and peace; b) to explore a range of definitions and theories of security and relate these to ‘real world’ security events and wars; c) to consider how vulnerable populations might experience war and security differently; d) to consider innovative alternative and solutions to pressing global issues related to gender, security and development; e) to engage with scholarship that crosses several disciplines, including international relations, security studies, gender studies, and Indigenous studies.

Grading

  • Essay proposal 15%
  • Major essay 35%
  • Tutorial quizzes (5x10%) 50%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Not one less : mourning, disobedience and desire / María Pia López ; translated by Frances Riddle. María Pia López ,Frances Riddle translator. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020


The book will be available on reserve at the Belzberg library and through the library as an e-book. A full reading list and resources will be made available on Canvas. 


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION

Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the semester are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.