PROGRAMS
WOMEN, CULTURE & DEVELOPMENT MINOR - ABOUT

Are you interested in Third World issues?

Are you concerned about how development affects, and is affected by, women in the Third World?

Do you wonder how culture affects people's agency and resistance in the Third World?

Then consider the new minor in Women, Culture and Development - an interdisciplinary minor that draws on courses in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and whose core faculty are based in six departments: Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Environmental Studies, History, Political Science and Sociology.

The WCD minor has wide geographic coverage of countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, focuses analysis on how gender affects, and is affected by development, and, forces discussion of the ways in which the lived experiences (cultures) of peoples in the Third World affect the origins and outcomes of development.


For more information about this program, contact:

Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Chair, Advisor
Women, Culture and Development
Sociology
Tel: (805) 893-3240
Email: bhavnani@soc.ucsb.edu

Jodi Cutler
Undergraduate Advisor
Global & International Studies
Tel: (805) 893-7860
Email: cutler@global.ucsb.edu