Dec 21, 2024

2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog

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WGST 210 Gender in a Global Perspective [GEGA]

This course explores women and gender from a global economic, cultural, and political perspective. Students will critically examine cross-cultural gendered issues such as: CEDAW (the “women’s international bill of rights”), the family, education, the body, sexuality, religion, and gendered violence. Over the course of the semester students will critically investigate theories of globalization, transnationalism, cultural relativism, human rights, and intersectionality, examining the embedded power relations of class, race, ethnicity and sexuality.

Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter

Prerequisites -
Other Restrictions -
Restriction by Major -
Restriction by Class - Undergraduate standing

Rationale for Perspectives on a Diverse World - Gender relations have been increasingly impacted by economic, cultural and political globalization processes. This has led to new dynamics between the local and global in the construction and transformation of gender. By contextualizing and comparing gender issues across cultures and socio-economic contexts, this course fosters global understanding and values, as well as it builds necessary skills and knowledge to improve gender relations and combat gender inequalities within and among local and global locations. Critically understanding gender relations from a cross-cultural perspective becomes central to one’s full participation as citizens and workers in increasingly globalized gendered communities and workplaces. As such, WGST 210 - Gender in a Global Perspective meets the outcomes for a course in the Global Awareness category of the General Education program.

Keywords: gender, Global Awareness [GEGA], international
Updates: Change to title and description 11/2018, effective Fall 2019; Course Rotation added 11/2018; Approved for GEGA 1/2013, effective Summer 2013; New Course 11/2012, effective Winter 2013

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