WGS.101 | Spring 2023 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Course Description

This course offers an introduction to women’s and gender studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that explores critical questions about the meaning of gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions, and debates in women’s and gender studies scholarship, …
This course offers an introduction to women’s and gender studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that explores critical questions about the meaning of gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions, and debates in women’s and gender studies scholarship, both historical and contemporary. Gender scholarship critically analyzes themes of gendered performance and power in a range of social spheres, such as law, culture, work, education, medicine, social policy, and the family, and explores the intersection of gender, race, class, and sexuality in individual lives and social institutions.
Learning Resource Types
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Written Assignments with Examples
A poster for the course WGS.101. In the background is abstract art. The text reads WGS.101, and there are three images; Sojourner Truth; a political rally; and women in march in the early part of the 20th century
The flyer that the Women’s and Gender Studies program used to advertise WGS.101. Images, clockwise from top left, include Sojourner Truth, a political rally, and women protesting for workers’ rights in the early 20th century, all topics covered in the course. (Image created by the WGS program. Photos: Soujourner Truth and the workers’ rights images are in the public domain. The political rally image is by bones64 on Pixabay.)