WMST 28 - Sociology of Women and Men

Institution:

De Anza College

Subject:

Description:

(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Sociology 28. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture. Application of sociological perspectives to an understanding of gender. Focuses on how we come to think and act as men and women on gender as an organizing principle of social life. Includes investigation of masculinities and femininities, gender socialization, gender inequality, how gender is shaped by race, class, nation and sexuality, and the family, media, education, economics, politics and religion as gender institutions, from a cross-cultural and global perspective.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.deanza.edu/

Phone Number:

(408) 864-5678

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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