6 courses with the subject WGST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WGST 1108Biology of Women3
Catalog Description This course studies the biological aspects of being a woman. Analysis of assumptions concerning women’s biology and women’s health care, including the importance of taking a responsible role in personal health care, will be addressed. The course explores female and male reproductive anatomy and physiology, sexual development, issues related to women’s health and disease, pregnancy and birth, contraception and infertility, menopause, and other topics. It also includes a reproductive anatomy and physiology-based lab-like experience. Open to both women and men.
Catalog Description This course is an introduction to the sociological study of gender and focuses on the sociological perspectives, research, and current issues related to gender. Topics covered include the distinction between sex and gender, the social construction of gender, and how gender intersects with other statuses and social institutions. The course will examine the role of social movements relating to gender identities and sexualities.
Catalog Description This course is an introduction to the theories and research concerning the psychology of women. The course will explore the way that biological, cultural, and psychosocial issues affect the psychological development of women. It will include topics such as sexism, the construction of gender categories, gender comparisons, and female identity formation. It will also explore contemporary women’s issues related to education, work, and family.
Catalog Description This course will introduce students to the varied experiences of women in the United States, as well as changing ideas about women and gender itself, through an interdisciplinary study within the arts and humanities. It examines the cultural legacies and traditions which have influenced the lives of women, and recognizes the creative contributions American women have made, and continue to make, within these contexts to the country’s development.
Catalog Description This course will introduce students to varied experiences of women in countries outside the U.S., as well as changing ideas about women and gender itself, through an interdisciplinary study within the arts and humanities. Students will examine issues of cultural diversity, race, class, religious and social structures, literature, the arts, politics, and economic development as they affect and reflect the historical and contemporary experiences of women around the globe.
Catalog Description This course examines women’s experiences in America from 1900 to the present. We will consider the relationship between race, class, gender, and sexuality as we learn about women’s roles as reformers, consumers, activists, students, mothers, workers, immigrants, etc. Topics covered include African-American women and the “Jim Crow” south, women’s participation in reform movements, the achievement of the right to vote and the debate about the Equal Rights Amendment, women in the “Roaring Twenties” and Great Depression, the “Feminine Mystique” and Cold War America, women’s participation in major social movements such as the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Black Power movement, and the Women’s Rights Movement. We will read extensively from original documents (“primary sources”) for class discussion and to develop critical-thinking skills about historical methods.
