This course seeks to critically examine how development processes affect women, men and gender relations. By doing so it aims to contribute to an ongoing policy discussion on the meaning and operationalization of diverse, inclusive, and equitable development. The course begins with theoretical approaches to gender and development, development economics, feminist critiques, and their methodological implications for mainstreaming gender into development practice. In the second half, the course studies how gender relations are impacted by social change in the form of positive or negative development. In this policy applied section, the discussions focus on a set of policy issues including reproductive health, migration, climate change, ITCs, work, citizenship and leadership. The overarching goal in both sections is to encourage students to review and debate what we already know and what we still don't know about policies designed to close gender gaps globally. The course concludes with a discussion in the form of a mini-conference on the progress record of the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development