GSWS 201 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

4 credits
Provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Sources and readings are drawn from recent scholarship on gender and its implications for a number of disciplines. Topics may include exploring cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality and women; examining historical and contemporary experiences of women and other genders; analyzing the ways gender, sex, and sexuality are related to race, class, national origin, (dis) ability, body size and other social identities, as well as ways to prevent and/or remedy gender discrimination. Approved for University Studies (Explorations Strand F–Social Science).