1 to 4 credits
Spring 2026 Lecture Distance Learning JEDILower DivisionVariable Title
This course examines in depth particular topics from the introductory course in Women's Studies. It addresses gender issues for both men and women. Possible topics include gender and popular culture, women's bodies, body image, and health, masculinities, queering gender and gender transgression.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the basic principles of feminist critical race, queer, class, transgender, and crip theories and methods.
2Operationalize intersectional transnational analysis using the basic principles of social location, privilege, and oppression.
3Cultivate critical consciousness and reflexive thinking that enable interventions that foster equity and social justice.
4Acquire knowledge of and skills in anti-oppression activism.
5Understand the regulatory functions of social institutions and identify strategies for transforming them to maximize their liberatory potential and minimize oppression.
6Execute justice-oriented critiques of historical developments and current perspectives associated with feminist, anti-racist, queer, class, and literary and film studies.
7Analyze how cultural values about identity and social location such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, caste, nationality, immigrant status, ability, religious affiliation, structure societies locally and globally to create inequity and privilege.
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