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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

SOCL 556 Gendered Globalization: Economic, Political and Cultural Dimensions


This course approaches globalization as both a gendered and multidimensional process. It provides an overview of how the gendered economic, political and cultural dimensions of globalization impact gender inequalities across countries and cultures. The course examines the intersections of gender and class, race, ethnicity, location and sexualities from a transnational comparative approach.

Often cross-listed with SOCL 456 , WGST 456 , and WGST 556 

Credit 3 hrs
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Winter (in-person/hybrid, occasionally online)

Prerequisites -
Restriction by Major -
Restriction by Degree Type - Masters or Graduate Certificate Standing

Additional Information - Qualified Seniors should see department for permission to enroll

Equivalent Course(s) - SOCL 456, WGST 456, WGST 556
Course History -
Course Rotation added 12/2014; Course revisions 7/2014, effective Winter 2015


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