WGSS 101
Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Fall 2018 (also offered Spring 2019)
Division II Difference, Power, and Equity
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This course is designed to initiate you into the pleasures, pains and perplexities of critical thinking about gender and the situations of women across the globe. We will survey a wide variety of writers and issues–historical and contemporary, theoretical and practical. Above all, the course is intended as an exploration of the tremendous diversity of thought contained under the general rubrics of feminist and gender studies and a vehicle for developing skills in writing and research as well as analytical tools for further work in the field. The goal is not to bring about a specific point of view, but rather to learn to analyze issues critically using the methods and frameworks that feminist theory and queer theory have developed as academic disciplines.
The Class: Format: lecture; mix of lecture and seminar meetings
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 1465
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: two short papers, research proposal and final paper; participation
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: none
Unit Notes: required course for the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies major
Distributions: Division II Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes: DPE: This course meets the DPE requirement because it asks students to reflect critically on issues of gender and sexuality around the world in a comparative contextual framework. Students will be asked in seminar space to discuss the operation of difference and power within as well as across different gender, class, racial, and sexual identities while learning in lecture meetings about feminist and queer studies' history, activism, and theory.
Attributes: AMST Critical and Cultural Theory Electives

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