If you complete this course and do well, you will be able to:

1. Communication
1. Through written, visual and/or oral presentations, describe and construct responses to questions related to Women and Gender Studies.
2. Critical Thinking
1. Discuss and analyze the pros and cons of the various topics and theories associated with Women?s and Gender Studies.
3. Cultural and Social Understanding
1. Demonstrate an understanding of Women and Gender issues within global communities and contexts.
4. Women's and Gender's Studies as an area of study in the humanities
1. Articulate and respond to the question, "Why/What is Women's and Gender's Studies?"
2. Discover how gender has been socially constructed and maintained through a variety of institutions in both American society and worldwide.
5. Intersectionality
1. Discuss and analyze intersectionality theory and the complexity of group membership and identities, and the matrix of oppression.
2. Examine the extent to which gender affects access to opportunity, power, and resources
6. Influence of Women
1. Examine the impact of women within the cultural and historical contexts of social groups throughout the world by focusing on interdisciplinary topics involving interrelationships among Women in the Humanities and related fields.