WGSS 28900 - Introduction To Women’s, Gender, Sexuality, And Feminist Studies

Credit Hours: 3.00. This interdisciplinary course surveys cornerstone concepts of Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies and feminist, critical race, queer, class, transgender, and crip theories, especially intersectionality and transnationalism. Students will consider how cultural values about “identity” and social locations such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, caste, nationality, immigrant status, ability, and religious affiliation structure societies locally and globally to create inequity and privilege. Emphasis is on acquiring knowledge and skills in anti-oppression activism. Justice-oriented critiques of the historical development and current perspectives associated with the surveyed theories are included. Specific topics vary according to instructor’s specializations.

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