Variable Topics In Women’s, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

Catalog description

to 4.00. This course examines in-depth particular topics from the introductory course in Women’s Studies. It addresses gender issues for both men and women. Possible topics include gender and popular culture, women’s bodies, body image, and health, masculinities, queering gender and gender transgression. Course Learning Outcomes 1. Understand the basic principles of feminist critical race, queer, class, transgender, and crip theories and methods. 2. Operationalize intersectional transnational analysis using the basic principles of social location, privilege, and oppression. 3. Cultivate critical consciousness and reflexive thinking that enable interventions that foster equity and social justice. 4. Acquire knowledge of and skills in anti-oppression activism. 5. Understand the regulatory functions of social institutions and identify strategies for transforming them to maximize their liberatory potential and minimize oppression. 6. Execute justice-oriented critiques of historical developments and current perspectives associated with feminist, anti-racist, queer, class, and literary and film studies. 7. Analyze how cultural values about identity and social location such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, caste, nationality, immigrant status, ability, religious affiliation, structure societies locally and globally to create inequity and privilege. View Class Schedule