APG5078 Gender-based policy and planning
Faculty of Arts
APG5078 Gender-based policy and planning is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2020 in Summer A at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2020
- Summer A
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
- Workload
- 288 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2023 entry.
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Overview
The unit aims to provide students with the conceptual and technical knowledge skills required to work in the field of Gender, Peace and Security as a research or policy analyst or change agent. Students will be introduced to innovative established and new methodologies for generating evidence and developing evidence-based policies that are gender-sensitive, gender-inclusive and gender-responsive. The technical skills and methodologies covered will include:
1. gender analysis in the policy process
2. gender mainstreaming strategies
3. feminist political economy analysis
4. gender responsive budgeting
5. gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation
The methodologies will be tested and applied to key issues in peace and security policy, planning and practice pertinent to the work of government and non-government organisations including security sector organisations.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Summer semester A | Clayton | Block on |
Assessment
- Quiz Assessments10%
- In-class Group Assessment20%
- Policy Brief30%
- Research Report40%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
1. an understanding of innovative gender-analytical concepts, methodologies, techniques and tools, their strengths and limitations;
- 2
2. practical capacity to apply these methodologies, techniques and tools in peace and security research, policy and advocacy;
- 3
3. critical knowledge of how to enable the operational and practical capacity to address gender inequalities, exclusions and differences through action or implementation efforts that are feasible, monitored and evaluated.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Jacqui True
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Jacqui True
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5078?
APG5078 has no prerequisites.
When is APG5078 offered?
In 2020, APG5078 runs in Summer A at Clayton.
How much work is APG5078?
The handbook expects about 288 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does APG5078 have an exam?
No. APG5078 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.