Women's and Gender Studies B.A.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to identify and analyze gender as a central organizing principle of human experience, from local to global scales.

2. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to examine how sex, gender, and sexuality are socially constructed through scientific, medical, legal, moral, political, economic, and cultural discourses and institutions.

3. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to compare how societies have defined gender roles and identities differently across time and space, and explain how gender intersects with racial, ethnic, sexual, abled, classed and national identities.

4. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to summarize the history of feminism as a social movement and body of critical thought.

5. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to utilize key concepts and debates within contemporary feminist thought, to critique the social construction of gender, sex, and sexuality and their relation to other systems of privilege and inequality.

6. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to employ intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational feminist approaches and methods to study and account for gender differences and inequalities.

7. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to express skills in critical and analytical thinking, argumentation, writing, interdisciplinary and collaborative research design, and in the public presentation of research.