2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

WS 101 Introduction to Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of women, gender, and sexuality studies. In this course, we explore ideas about gender and sexuality in varied societies and periods and the subject of women in terms of their changing roles throughout history and across the world. Course readings and discussions will cover topics such as women and their relationships with systems of oppression and privilege; social and individual identities; the body and body politics; family, contraception, pregnancy, and motherhood; productive and reproductive labor; domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault; state law, and public policy; health and reproductive rights; sexuality; science, art, music, and creative expression; and power and empowerment.

Credits

3