GST 200 - Introduction to Gender Studies

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the field of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the range of interdisciplinary tools and methods for understanding and analyzing sex, gender, and sexuality in the culture.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of both feminist and queer approaches to the social and cultural construction of gender and sexuality.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of intersectionality, including the complex intersections of gender and sexuality with other social, cultural, and biological categories such as sex, race, ethnicity, class, nationality, ability, and age.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of historical and contemporary issues related to gender and sexuality within the culture and social institutions such as family, the state, work, medicine, and education.
5. Think critically and thoughtfully about the self and others through a deepened understanding of how social, cultural, and biological categories shape our lives and our understandings of the world. (GELO 3)
6. Apply scholarship in the field to understand a range of perspectives and lived experiences. (GELO 4)
7. Use written and oral skills to demonstrate knowledge of critical vocabulary in the field. (GELO 2)

I.  Introduction to Gender Studies

II.  Feminist and Queer Perspectives

III.  Intersectionality, Privilege, and Oppression

IV.  Historical Perspectives

V.  Femininities and Masculinities

VI.  Sexualities

VII.  Social Institutions: Family, Media, Work, The State, Medicine, Education

VIII.  Gendered Violence

IX.  Global Perspectives

X.  Social Movements

XI.  Advocacy and Liberation

Large and Small Group Discussion: 25-50%

Mediated Instruction: 0-25%

Group Work: 0-25%