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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): General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. critically compare and appraise theories and methods for examining gender, cultures, and identities.
2. 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. 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. 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. articulate relationships among identities, institutions, socialization processes, and power.
6. articulate the concept of socially constructed identities and related ideas.
7. describe different identity categories and how they are constructed and experienced.


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