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WMST 300 - Genders, Cultures and Identities

(3 units) CO10, CO13
Historical, representational, cultural, institutional constructions of identities, those that are hegemonic and those that are ”subaltern”, and the relationships and experiences created by those constructions.

Prerequisite(s): CH 201 or CH 202 or CH 203; ENG 102; and Junior or Senior standing.

Units of Lecture: 3
Core Status: CO10, CO13
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to critically compare and appraise theories and methods for examining gender, cultures, and identities.
2. Students will be able to articulate the significance of relationships among intersecting gender, class, race, sexual orientation, nationality, physical ability, and other identity categories in shaping experiences and perspectives. 
3. Students will be able to explain the interplay among different disciplinary fields to make complex critical connection(s) between women’s or gender issues and race, class, sexuality, colonialism, multiculturalism, and/or globalization. 
4. Students will be able to read, discuss, analyze, and write about the experiences and perspectives of people of a variety of intersecting identities in a variety of social and historical contexts.
5. Students will be able to articulate relationships among identities, institutions, socialization processes, and power.
6. Students will be able to articulate the concept of socially constructed identities and related ideas.
7. Students will be able to describe different identity categories and how they are constructed and experienced.


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