WGS 100 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

This course introduces students to the origins, purposes, subject matters, and methods of Women's and Gender Studies and considers fundamental questions such as the definition of a woman, the role of culture in gender construction, and the ways that gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation intersect. Through interdisciplinary investigation of an evolving body of scholarship about women and gender, this course asks students to consider women's lives from social, psychological, historical, political, economic, and cultural frames of reference, with the goal of introducing analytical concepts and critical frameworks for thinking about gender as a spectrum. Fulfills diversity and interdisciplinary studies requirements. Offered as needed.

Credits

3