GWS459

This course uses the concept of social construction to analyze how gender organizes our social experiences. It shows how cultural understandings of gender, particularly those that permeate language, media representations, and socialization processes, impact how individuals understand the self, interpret the social world, and interact with social institutions. It encourages students to move beyond an understanding of gender as an individual attribute, and towards understanding gender as a broad and enduring social structure that operates at multiple levels.

CE - CL (Cross Listed), GE - GEDE (Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis), GEED - EPSOC (Gen Ed: EP Social Scientist)