WGS 101: Intro Women's & Gender Studies

General Education requirement: 4B - US Society

Basic concepts and perspectives in Women's Studies, placing women's experience at the center of interpretation. With focus on women's history and contemporary issues, the course examines women's lives with emphasis on how gender interacts with race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. The central aim is to foster critical reading and thinking about women's lives: how the interlocking systems of oppression, colonialism, racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism shape women's lives; and how women have worked to resist these oppressions. This course satisfies a social science distribution requirement and the general education diversity requirement.

Class #3409 Course information

3.00 credits
Section 7101: Undergraduate Lecture
Class: #3409

Maymester Session
May 20, 2024 - Jun 7, 2024
Instructor(s): 

Cost: 
$
Status: 
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
Location: Online

COURSE INFORMATION: Basic concepts and perspectives in Women's Studies, placing women's experience at the center of interpretation. With focus on women's history and contemporary issues, the course examines women's lives with emphasis on how gender interacts with race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. The central aim is to foster critical reading and thinking about women's lives: how the interlocking systems of oppression, colonialism, racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism shape women's lives; and how women have worked to resist these oppressions. This course satisfies a Social Science distribution requirement. It also fulfills the University Studies requirement for Cluster 4B.

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Class #13074 Course information

3.00 credits
Section 7101: Undergraduate Lecture
Class: #13074

Fall 2024 First 7-week session
Sep 4, 2024 - Oct 25, 2024
Instructor(s): 

Cost: 
$
Status: 
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
Location: Online
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