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 Department:    SOC

 Course #:    110

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    451301

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

Examines gender as a social construction, how it manifests intersectionally at individual, community, institutional, and national/global levels, and how it is used to maintain and/or resist inequitable systems of power, privilege, and oppression.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: ENGL 099 with a grade of C or higher OR placement into ENGL& 101.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic Social Sciences  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Define gender (as distinct from both sex and sexuality) as a social and cultural construction
2. Identify ways in which gender identity and presentation have changed over time and across cultures
3. Analyze intersections between gender and other social categories of difference and how those intersections influence relationships to systems of power in a society
4. Articulate critically their own identity with regard to gender and intersectional social categories of difference
5. Formulate informed and cogent oral and written responses to college-level communications about gender identity and presentation and their connections to power and privilege
6. Identify various forms of gender-based discrimination and oppression on individual, social, and institutional levels

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. Vocabulary that is central to discussions of gender in a sociocultural context
   • sex vs. gender vs. sexuality
   • social systems
   • micro, meso, macro, and global levels of identity
   • feminisms (theories and histories of)
   • intersectionality
   • power, privilege, and oppression
2. Individual Identity
3. (Intersectional) Relationships
4. Systems of Power, Privilege, and Oppression
5. Contemporary Systemic Social Problems (topics vary)
   • mass incarceration
   • health/wellness and medical bias/discrimination
   • immigration
   • bias, discrimination, and oppression in/by the militar
   • environmental issues
   • home and family
   • education
6. Forms of Resistance to Social Inequities