BA WITH GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES

Activities in 2010-2011

BA Connect with Global Women’s Studies Fieldtrips

Fieldtrips form an integral part of learning in the third year of the BA CONNECT in Global Women’s Studies. Fieldtrips give students the opportunity to acquire experiential skills and knowledge during visits to sites of interest. Fieldtrips help students to increase their understanding and insight, raise awareness and deepen intellectual curiosity. Additionally, such visits aid cross-cultural understanding and networking, enhance confidence and personal development and suggest further study and career opportunities. Students gain important writing, reflective, reporting and analytical skills as a result of associated assignment preparation. Students also get a chance to travel to new locations, bond with their classmates and connect with students in affiliated programmes and have fun while learning!

In the 2010/2011 year, BA CONNECT students visited Dublin, Belfast, New York and London.

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Third-year BA CONNECT Students in New York, 2-4 March, 2011

Third-year BA CONNECT students in Global Women’s Studies were given the opportunity to travel to New York City for four days. While in New York, students visited a number of important locations including a policy planning session at the Commission on the Status of Women 55th conference at the United Nations. Students attended the session, Migrant Women Workers CSW 55, UN: Good Practices and Protections for Domestic Workers: The Role of Education and Training, attended by international delegates, including representatives of the International Labour organisation, trade unionists, government representatives, advocates and activists.

Students also visited the National Organisation of Women (NOW-NYC), on 28th Street and met with staff and college interns and discussed questions affecting students and women in Ireland and the US. They also attended a meeting with Global and attended a meeting with Global Goods Partners where they learned about fair trade and the experiences of women workers.

Students visited the site of the Triangle Factory fire, at the corner of Washington Place and Green Street, where 146 women jumped to their deaths when the building they were working in caught fire. Doors to the building were locked, preventing escape or rescue. Students then visited the Grey Art Gallery at New York University to take in the exhibition, Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. (To read student impressions of the experience, click here.)

Other visits included the New York Public Library, Tenement Museum (Lower East Side), The Cooper Union, Memorial and the site of the Twin Towers.

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BA CONNECT Students in Global Women’s Studies and Students of the MA in Gender, Globalization and Rights Travel to Stormont

BA CONNECT students in Global Women’s Studies and the MA class in Gender, Globalisation and Rights visited City Hall, Belfast and travelled to Stormont, where they were given a tour of parliament buildings.

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BA CONNECT Students in London, 30-31 March, 2011

BA CONNECT students in Global Women’s Studies spent two days in London, England. While there, they visited Westminster parliament, listened to a debate on policing, took in the exhibition: ’Emmeline Pankhurst, Parliament and Votes for Women’ and visited sites associated with suffragette protests. They saw memorials relating to women and war and No. 10 Downing Street. The group saw art and photographic exhibitions at the Tate Modern, The National Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery and St. Martin in the Fields. Students also visited the Royal Courts of Justice, walked Fleet Street and visited St. Bride’s Church. The trip concluded with a visit to the Museum of London to see photographic and suffrage exhibitions.

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Visit to Dáil and Seanad, Dublin, 24 February 2010

Senator Ivana Bacik and Labour Women hosted Third-year students from the BA CONNECT in Global Women's Studies as part of Aontas Adult Learners Festival.

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Other Activities

Third-year BA CONNECT students also get plenty of opportunity to participate in a wide range of advocacy and learning activities. These include various short and medium term internships where students make connections with organisations and institutions in Ireland, and develop practical skills. Our students tell us this is one of their favourite aspects of the course!

BA CONNECT Students Participate in the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence

Third-year students in the Global Women’s Studies programme participated in ’mini-internships’ in association with Global Women’s Studies activities in recognition of the 16 Days Campaign. Students helped to organise, co-ordinate and publicise seminars, including designing posters, held throughout the 16 Days of Activism. Students also gave interviews with radio stations such as Galway Bay FM and wrote press releases for local papers such as the Advertiser. Students were able to develop a number of practical skills and gained first hand experience of the challenges of running a campaign. Third-year students ran ’White Ribbon Stands’ at all GWS events during the 16 Days, raising awareness and funds to stop domestic violence. Students also had the opportunity to increase their knowledge of issues such as alcohol and sexual violence, rape, domestic violence, women’s cultural production and women’s political representation.

BA CONNECT Student Internships

Third-year students in the BA CONNECT in Global Women’s Studies spent the past three months working with national organisations including the National Women’s Council of Ireland, the Galway Rape Crisis Centre, The Galway City Museum and many others. Students gained valuable professional experience, made important contacts and learned a wide range of new skills that they will be able to put into practice upon graduation.

Students of the BA CONNECT Programme in Global Women's Studies Organise International Women's Day Event

In the second semester of Third-year, BA CONNECT in GWS students had the opportunity to work with BA CONNECT in Children’s studies students and the Career’s Centre to organise an event for International Women’s Day. Called Voices from the Field, the event featured academics and practitioners who discussed their experiences of activism and advocacy in the fields of gender and child equality.

Students Participate in Media Training

Radio production

In October, 2010, students undertook training in radio production organised by Connemara Community Radio tutors at their studio in Letterfrack. Students formed 2 teams for the purposes of researching, producing, presenting and editing radio programmes highlighting the forthcoming conference ’Claiming Our Future’ scheduled to take place in Dublin on Saturday, 30th October. The two short programmes were aired on Connemara Community Radio in October.

Film Training

Global Women’s Studies attended a course of film documentary training at the Galway Film Centre to gain skills in documentary making and to produce a short documentary. Students learnt how to think about ideas, select ideas, identify sources, use a camera, upload, edit and see a project through to its successful conclusion. The documentary was called ’Love At First Sight’ (March, 2011) and charts the story of a woman and her guide dog.

Media training was delivered by professionals in the fields during workshops held throughout the year.

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