Women’s Studies - Gender and Culture
Gender and Culture (WOST 1140)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course looks at the relationship between women's and men's bodies and culturally constructed gender roles. You will examine gender differences and cultural expectations in the United States among people of various ethnicities, social classes, and sexualities. You will consider the interrelationship between social concepts of the feminine and the masculine and learn how gender ideologies have impacted the arts and humanities and other aspects of society.
Topical Outline:
Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Identify and analyze the critical importance of identifying and including women’s experience within a historical and cultural context
2. 2. Demonstrate a basic understanding of feminist theory
3. 3. Explain how issues of economic, private, and socio-political spheres affect women’s lives
4. 4. Understand women’s relationships to culture, their contributions to culture, and how culture constructs meaning, images, belief systems and identity in women’s lives across cultures
5. 5. Identify solutions to some of the issues faced by women and express and understanding of the factors that create that same situation for women
Prerequisites:
Placement score into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
MnTC: