Postgraduate Diploma in Intersectionality and Gender: Approaches to Public Issues

Coordinator: Dr. Javiera Cubillos Almendra

Description:

The Postgraduate Diploma in Intersectionality and Gender: Approaches to Public Issues emerges from the accumulated reflection of our R&D+I Core on Diversity and Gender, which aims to deepen complex readings of the various situations of exclusion and social inequalities. It also responds to the challenges faced by public action and social intervention processes that address gender inequalities through the application of intersectionality.

Addressing social inequalities in general, and gender inequalities in particular, from an intersectional perspective allows for an understanding of how certain social issues are reinforced, thereby increasing the complexity of analyzing these realities and of designing interventions aimed at advancing the guarantee of rights. Within this framework, the program seeks to analyze both the subtler forms of domination—those that operate under false premises of “equality,” “diversity,” and “social well-being”—and the resurgence of more explicit forms of discrimination and maintenance of the dominant social order, characterized as heteropatriarchal, capitalist, and colonial.

This program is part of the Social Work academic offering, as it addresses the complexity of social phenomena—particularly the various situations involving discrimination and gender inequalities—with social transformation as its ultimate goal. Likewise, the diploma proposes a shift in perspective regarding social policies and social interventions, viewing them as a system of enunciation expressed through diverse operational dimensions. That is, it focuses not only on direct practices but also on the theoretical frameworks through which social phenomena—such as gender inequalities—are constructed.

General Objective:

To analyze social inequalities and the processes of inclusion and exclusion that professionals in Social Work and other disciplines encounter in their daily practice, and from there, to develop critical approaches based on intersectional feminist perspectives.

Specific Objectives:

• Understand the epistemological, theoretical, methodological, and ethical-political foundations of feminist and gender studies, through the review of their key debates and contributions to the Social Sciences.
• Examine and comprehend the contributions of intersectional feminist perspectives to the complex understanding of social inequalities and processes of social exclusion.
• Problematicize unidimensional interpretations of gender inequalities from an intersectional feminist perspective.
• Reflect on the design and implementation of social interventions from an intersectional feminist perspective.
• Critically analyze public policies addressing social issues related to gender, from an intersectional feminist standpoint.

Entry Profile:

The diploma is open to national and international applicants holding a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional qualification in the Social Sciences (Social Work, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, Education) or related fields (Health, Engineering, Administration, Economics, Law, Geography, Communication, Philosophy, among others), who work in public or private institutions, with or without profit motives. The program also welcomes fifth-year students from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Chile.

Academic Staff:

Javiera Cubillos Almendra

Hillary Hiner Carroll

Lelya Troncoso Pérez

Caterine Galaz Valderrama

Carolina Muñoz Rojas