Student Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain and apply the social construction of sex, gender and sexuality.
- Explain and apply intersectional feminist perspectives to analyses of power, privilege, and oppression.
- Explain how the structure and power of social and economic institutions affect us individually and collectively.
- Identify and describe dominant culture portrayals of gender and sexuality, including the ways that they are shaped by other axes of difference; describe how these representations impinge on us as individuals and members of social groups.
- Recognize the differences as well as the similarities among different groups of women, and the ways that different systems of domination intersect in women’s lives.
- Identify social change strategies employed by feminists to address forms of inequality.
General Education Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the historical, social, cultural, or political perspectives in the US society of at least one cultural, ethnic, racial or historically underrepresented group towards itself and its place in society.
- Identify national and global forces that have influenced or shaped the perspectives of others toward the underrepresented group(s) being studied.
- Analyze and synthesize sources objectively, incorporating some primary sources in the voices of that group.