Study of Women and Gender

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The study of women and gender is an interdisciplinary program that addresses the dynamics of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and power. This minor aims to expand capacities for critical reflection and analysis and to engage students with varied approaches to women’s and gender research, uniting areas of knowledge such as philosophy, the humanities, the social sciences, and history. The minor emphasizes a critical, feminist, cross-cultural, multiracial, and transnational understanding of the diversity of women’s experiences and life chances. It also seeks to reach an understanding of how questions of gender are embedded in the liberal arts and sciences tradition. The minor in the study of women and gender introduces diverse perspectives and understandings concerning the reproduction of femininity and masculinity, inequality and poverty, violence and crime, race and social class, culture and media, politics and the law, and sexuality and reproductive rights in historical and contemporary contexts.

Programs

• Study of Women and Gender Minor

Courses

• SWG 200 - Introduction to the Study of Women and Gender
• SWG 230 - Sociology of Gender
• SWG 235 - Women in Political Philosophy
• SWG 257 - Women and Religion
• SWG 269 - Women Leaders in the World
• SWG 277 - Women and Film
• SWG 297 - Women in Politics
• SWG 299 - Service Learning
• SWG 320 - Gender and Violence
• SWG 350 - Medieval Women and Gender
• SWG 351 - Women and Development
• SWG 352 - Images of Woman in Drama
• SWG 358 - Gender and Media
• SWG 382 - Constitutional Law III: Gender and Race
• SWG 400 - Interdisciplinary Frameworks for the Analysis of Women and Gender

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