WMST 201 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: As Needed

Surveys the study of women in society. The primary goal is to explore how gender shapes our views and understandings. A further goal is to explain how class, race, ethnicity and age shape the female experience historically and across cultures. The relationship between cultural definitions of feminine behavior and the reality of women’s lives, roles in work, the family, the arts, politics and the sciences is examined.