WS 223 Intro to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Multidisciplinary introduction to women, gender, and sexuality studies. Focuses on the lives and status of women in society and explores ways institutions such as family, work, media, law and religion affect different groups of women. Explores issues of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, size and ability. Recommended: College-level writing.
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AAOT Social Sciences, AS Difference, Power & Oppression, Cultural Literacy AAOT/AAS
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Explain how ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate– using historical and contemporary examples – how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.