Catalog Course Description

Historical and comparative theories of gender and gender relations. Exploration of key institutions such as family, state, and workplace through which students can understand the social, economic, and cultural factors that create gender and shape what it means to be a man or a woman. Consideration of feminist movements, in a global context, and of relationships of gender to social class, sexuality, age, race/ethnicity, and nationality.

Summer Term

8 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 22 to 20 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 0 to 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Summer Term

6 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 16.5 to 14.5 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 0 to 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Spring Term

3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 9 to 7 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 0 to 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Fall Term

3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 9 to 7 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 0 to 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.