Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies

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This interdisciplinary course examines the history, role and theories surrounding women and gender from a global perspective. It will explore how gender is produced and how it intersects with other identity categories such as race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity. Women’s/Gender Studies uses gender as a tool for critically analyzing societies. The class includes a service-learning component, wherein students will engage in a semester-long project that takes them into the community to initiate political change, one of the cornerstones of feminism as social movement. * Prerequisite