HIST130L - Introduction to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
Dual Listed as WMST 130L This course provides an introduction to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), a field of scholarship dedicated to the inclusion of women’s experiences and feminist perspectives in the academy. The course places the emergence of WGSS in historical perspective, then examines the transformative power of WGSS in a number of fields. The goal will be to assess how including women, gender, sexuality and feminist perspectives changes academic methods, goals, and outcomes.