University of the West Indies

This course analyzes the issues of power, leadership, and authority from the perspective of gender, and the strategies of women's leadership that contribute to altering controversial barriers and produce benefits for men and women. It examines the contribution of women in developing countries whose domestic, professional, and public activities have transformed communities at the local and global level.

This course examines the theory and practice of phonology. It covers concerns of phonology; phonetic and phonological representations; phonemic analysis; phonological processes; underlying representations; feature theory; morphophonemics; interacting phonological rules; the syllable; and stress, tone and intonation.

In this course students study the politics of developing nations from the perspective and theory of political development. Additionally, students examine and discuss the patterns of political rule and political economies of chosen state systems. The class focuses on several case studies from Latin America, Africa, and South Asia.

This course investigates the paradigm shifts within psychology and provides students with the critical skills necessary to evaluate theories of psychology within their historical, disciplinary, social, and political context. Students explore psychology's development as a science in order to critically evaluate the assumptions, procedures, and issues concerning psychology as a science.

This course focuses on several of the ecological environments on the island of Barbados. Topics include: geology and climate, terrestrial and aquatic environments and their flora, and vertebrates and invertebrates of the Caribbean. In addition to lectures, this course includes six fields trips throughout the term. Assessment is based on a midterm, final, and field notebook.