Student Learning Outcomes

• To explore the historical development and contemporary manifestation of gender-based inequalities.
• To generate new knowledges about women’s lives and resistances in U.S. and global contexts.
• To advance critical research, thinking and writing skills as integral to professional development and political engagement.
• To foster understandings about how to transform inequalities of race, class, gender and nations through direct engagement with communities in service learning.

Knowledge

• The multidisciplinary nature and interdisciplinary methods of Women's and Gender Studies scholarship.
• The historical and contemporary cultural, social, political and economic contexts of gender in the United States and globally.
• The interaction of gender with other culturally constructed categories, such as race, age, etc., in order to foster a greater understanding of diversity.

Skills

• Think across disciplines.
• Understand and utilize the theories and methods of the various disciplines that contribute to Women’s and Gender Studies.
• Apply their knowledge to a variety of careers in business, nonprofit work and the public sector, as well as be qualified for graduate studies in any social science.
• Be knowledgeable activists for the human rights of all women and men, irrespective of cultural biases and stereotypes.

Experience

• Academic research and analysis in a variety of academic fields and disciplines.
• Professional and respectful interactions with disagreeing others in public discussions of gender issues (students will become teachers).
• Always maintain a recognition of human diversity and analyze each human issue from a "race", class and gender perspective (at a minimum).