| Originator: | Bogue, Michele Status: Approved Department: WST Women's Studies |
| Date Created: | 02/03/2013 Submitted: 02/03/2013 Completed: 05/14/2013 |
| Effective Semester: | Fall |
| Catalog Year: | 2012-13 |
| Course Prefix: | WST |
| Course Number: | 101 |
| Course Full Title: | Introduction to Women's Studies |
| Reason for Evaluation: | Competencies Change |
| Current Credit: | 3 |
| Lecture Hours: | 3 |
| Lab Hours: | 0 |
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| SUN Course?: | No |
| AGEC Course?: | No |
| Articulated?: | Yes |
| Transfer: | ASU NAU UA |
| Prerequisite(s): | Appropriate assessment scores (able to enroll in ENG 101) or successful completion of TRE 089. |
| Corequisite(s): | None |
| Catalog Course Description: | Introduction to field of Women's Studies; the social construction of gender; the course examines, in a theoretical framework, women's issues to include health, women's roles, reproduction, parenting, religion, communication, employment, the media, law and policy, economics, crime and global awareness. Course is open to men and women. |
| Course Learning Outcomes: | 1. Outline the historical framework that led to the field of women?s studies and summarize what women?s studies seeks to accomplish as a discipline.
2. Explain the difference between sex and gender, with emphasis on the social construct of gender, to include gender as relational, encompassing constructs of woman/man, femininity/masculinity, and those who don't fit into the binary gender system. 3. Explore the influence of gender on the formation of male and female identity, to include how gender manifests itself in the work, home, and family environment, as well as educational, political, economic, and religious institutions. 4. Compare and contrast current theories in the field of women?s studies. 5. Summarize the role of women within major social institutions (to include work & economy, family, health & medicine, religion, education, and politics). 6. Analyze the media as a gendered and gendering institution in society and its relationship to views on women/men, feminine/masculine, and those beyond the binary gender system in society. 7. Discuss the relationship among feminist studies, masculinity studies, and gender studies. 8. Justify the importance of women?s studies as a discipline and the need for an on-going focus on the study of women and gender. |
| Course Competencies: | Competency 1 Define the discipline of Women?s Studies.
Objective 1.1 Define Feminism. Objective 1.2 Summarize the impact of the feminist movement on the development of women?s studies as a field of study. Objective 1.3 Outline the history of Women?s Studies. Competency 2 Analyze the influence of gender on the formation of male and female identity, to include how gender manifests itself in the work, home, and family environment, as well as educational, political, economic, and religious institutions. Objective 2.1 Explain the social construction of gender. Objective 2.2 Define the biological basis of sex identity. Objective 2.3 Summarize and offer examples of gender-based social constructs of woman/man, femininity/masculinity, as well as those who don't fit into the binary gender system. Objective 2.4 Assess the impact of culture on gender formation. Objective 2.5 Summarize the process of socialization as it relates to the formation of gender identity. Objective 2.6 Analyze the media as an agent of sex and gender socialization (a gendered as well as a gendering institution in society). Competency 3 Compare and contrast current theoretical perspectives on gender and the formation of personality. Objective 3.1 Explain the nature versus nurture approaches to development. Objective 3.2 Summarize the main points of biological determinism. Objective 3.3 Outline the key components of identification theory. Objective 3.4 Distinguish between the social learning and cognitive-development approaches to development. Objective 3.5 Explore the symbolic interaction approach to development (to include the ?doing gender? through gender displays perspective). Competency 4 Examine women and the institution of the family. Objective 4.1 Describe family structures in various cultural contexts. Objective 4.2 Summarize the history of the Western family. Objective 4.3 Critique the ideology of domesticity (cult of domesticity). Objective 4.4 Compare and contrast images of motherhood and fatherhood. Objective 4.5 Analyze the social expectations for women in their roles as daughter, spouse, and mother in various family structures. Objective 4.6 Summarize ways the media and the social construct of gender influence or impact the institution of the family. Competency 5 Survey the field of women?s health. Objective 5.1 Describe some of the major issues or concerns in the area of women?s physical and mental health. Objective 5.2 Examine issues connected with the medicalization of reproductive life processes (to include menstruation, birth control, pregnancy, abortion, child birth, and menopause). Objective 5.3 Summarize ways race and class contribute to women?s health issues. Objective 5.4 Summarize ways the media and the social construct of gender influence or impact issues in the field of women?s health. Competency 6 Explore the field of women and education. Objective 6.1 Outline some of the struggles women have historically faced in their attempts to obtain an education. Objective 6.2 Summarize the impact of gender bias in education (at all age/grade levels). Objective 6.3 Summarize ways the media and the social construct of gender influence or impact the institution of education. Objective 6.4 Critique Title IX of the Educational Amendments Objective 6.5 Define standpoint theory and evaluate the importance of standpoint theory to women?s experiences in education. Objective 6.6 Explain the importance of equal access to education (at all age/grade levels) to prepare and empower women for success. Competency 7 Survey the field of women and religion. Objective 7.1 Summarize the status and roles of women in the main religions of the world. Objective 7.2 Compare and contrast images of women in religion. Objective 7.3 Summarize ways the media and the social construct of gender influence or impact the institution of religion. Objective 7.3 Identify ways in which religion contributed to the emergence of feminism. Objective 7.4 Examine ways religion is used to oppress and/or condone violence against women. Objective 7.5 Illustrate how religion can be a means of promoting social justice. Competency 8 Analyze issues related to the field of women and work. Objective 8.1 Define occupational sex segregation and its impact on the world of women and work. Objective 8.2 Describe the historical division of labor by sex and gender. Objective 8.3 Outline ways the media and the social construct of gender influence or impact the workplace. Objective 8.4 Summarize the importance of care work (with a focus on maintenance of the domestic unit) as a legitimate form of work. Objective 8.5 Evaluate the role of women in promoting changes in the modes of production (from domestic to capitalist). Objective 8.6 Examine select issues in the politics of work (to include competition in the workplace, sexual harassment, equal pay issues, impact of the ?second shift?, and the glass ceiling) Objective 8.7 List major contributions of women to economic development. Objective 8.8 Justify continued support and use versus removal of Affirmative Action as it pertains to the field of women, men, and those beyond the binary gender system in the workforce. Competency 9 Discuss women and their involvement in the political sphere of society. Objective 9.1 Survey the impact of women?s movements on women, politics, and the social structure of the United States from 1800 to present day (to include education of women, abolitionism, the temperance movement, the Nineteenth Amendment, the ERA, and changing views of feminism in the 21st century). Objective 9.2 List some of the obstacles women face in politics. Objective 9.3 Evaluate the arguments for and against women in elected offices making a difference in society. Objective 9.4 Provide examples of ways the media and the social construct of gender influence or impact political and economic spheres of society. Competency 10 Compare and Contrast frameworks in feminist theory. Objective 10.1 Explain the main tenets of Liberal Feminism. Objective 10.2 Summarize the main points of the Structuralist Oppression theories (socialist feminism and inter-sectional feminism). Objective 10.3 Outline the foundational principles of Gender Oppression theories (psychoanalytic feminism and radical feminism). Objective 10.4 Define Cultural Feminism. Objective 10.5 Explain the importance of postmodernism to contemporary feminist theory. Competency 11 Survey the emerging field of men?s (men and masculinities) studies. Objective 11.1 Summarize the history leading to the formal, recognized field of men?s studies. Objective 11.2 Compare and contrast the origins and purpose of the American Men?s Studies Association (AMSA), and the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS). Competency 12 Survey the field of gender studies. Objective 12.1 Compare and contrast various definitions of gender studies. Objective 12.2 Explain how different philosophies and approaches to gender studies can influence and impact the direction and focus of study in this field. Objective 12.3 Critique the movement of women?s studies versus gender studies? being independent fields of study to the women?s and gender studies (inclusive) paradigm. Objective 12.4 Describe the relationship among women?s (women and feminist) studies, men?s studies, and gender studies. |