WGSX 210 - Introduction to Gender Studies

Institution:

St Mary's College of Maryland

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Description:

This team-taught course studies gender theory from interdisciplinary perspectives, involving the participation of faculty from the arts, the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. Readings, presentations and discussions contribute to students' understanding of competing definitions of gender in different cultures and at different points in history, especially as they shed light on the emergence of gender studies as a contemporary field of study. Students learn arguments for the importance or irrelevance of gender to issues such as personal identity and political power, and develop their own positions on the meaning, worth and practice of gender, and its intersection with such related concepts as sex and sexuality. The course explores constructions of masculinity and femininity, and recent work in feminist theory, masculinity studies, and queer theory. A group of 1 0-15 faculty collaborate in the teaching of this course. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Humanistic Foundations.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.smcm.edu

Phone Number:

(240) 895-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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