IDIS 10600 - Introduction To Gender Studies

Credit Hours: 3.00. An interdisciplinary course introducing students to the study of gender as a category for social and cultural analysis. Examines how ideas about sexual and gender differences have shaped experiences in a global society. Explores construction of gender roles and sexuality; biological arguments about gender and sexuality; the interplay of gender with sexuality, class, race/ethnicity, and nationality; the ways gender shapes families, workplaces, and other institutions. Assists students in learning about theories of gender and methods of analysis in order to formulate questions about gender as it relates to their on-going work in various disciplines across the curriculum. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

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