Overview
Description
Historical, representational, cultural, institutional constructions of identities, those that are hegemonic and those that are ”subaltern”, and the relationships and experiences created by those constructions.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Core
CO10, CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- critically compare and appraise theories and methods for examining gender, cultures, and identities.
- articulate the significance of relationships among intersecting gender, class, race, sexual orientation, nationality, physical ability, and other identity categories in shaping experiences and perspectives.
- explain the interplay among different disciplinary fields to make complex critical connection(s) between women’s or gender issues and race, class, sexuality, colonialism, multiculturalism, and/or globalization.
- read, discuss, analyze, and write about the experiences and perspectives of people of a variety of intersecting identities in a variety of social and historical contexts.
- articulate relationships among identities, institutions, socialization processes, and power.
- articulate the concept of socially constructed identities and related ideas.
- describe different identity categories and how they are constructed and experienced.