WGS 1010 - Gender and Society

Credits: 4

This course focuses on gender as a useful category to analyze structures, institutions, relationships, and social problems in the U.S. and globally. Students will learn such key concepts as the social construction of gender, power and privilege, patriarchy, and intersectionality. Topics include gender-based violence, workplace discrimination, and the relationship between sexism, racism, homophobia and other systems of oppression and inequality. The course looks at the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and nation with such areas as work, education, media/technology, family, religion, and politics. Students will also social movements that have and continue to emerge to promotegender equality and social justice in the US and globally.
Fulfills: Social Science distribution requirement. SOSC requirement and D in LS Core.
Note: Required for the Women’s and Gender Studies Major and Minor.