BEH 2100 - Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

3 Credit(s) Hours: 3 hrs.

The purpose of this interdisciplinary class is for you to analyze structures of power and dimensions of difference by focusing on gender and sexuality and the ways in which it intersects with other social identities, such as race, class, ethnicity, nationality, ability, and age, among others. We will read a range of texts across disciplines (i.e., English, history, sociology, anthropology, and biology, etc.) You will learn about concepts of sex/gender systems, histories of social movements, interdisciplinary modes of inquiry, intersectional identities, binaries and taxonomies, diversity and multiculturalism, political debates, and cultural productions. You will engage in open discussion about social issues addressed in the works we will read. In addition, you will write exploratory and argumentative essays in which you interpret gender issues in your lives and in the world for your own research project.

Department: Behavioral Sciences