GSWS 0100 - INT TO GENDER, SEXTY, & WOMNST

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
What is sex? What is gender? What is sexuality? How are these concepts related to culture? To nature? To help you answer these important questions, this course will introduce you to the exciting field of gender and sexuality studies. We will use a range of interdisciplinary concepts, tools, and methods to understand and analyze sex, gender, femininity, masculinity, and sexuality. Through readings, multimedia, and class discussion, we will study how gender and sexuality are socially and culturally constructed. In addition, we will consider how gender intersects with other identity categories such as race, class, ethnicity, nation, age, ability, and sexuality. Because we all have a gender, this course is crucial for any profession and for understanding the world around us. It is also a great opportunity for you to develop your written and oral skills. The course is open to all students regardless of background. As a prerequisite for more advanced courses in the program and as the intro course for current or future students in the “certificate in the study of women, gender, and sexuality,” this course will prepare you for more advanced courses in the program. Also, you will learn to apply the critical vocabulary used in gender studies to your major and minor fields of study.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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