GSS 210 Gender Studies
This interdisciplinary course will provide an overview of the key texts, topics, debates, and politics that inform the field of gender studies. Course instruction involves readings, lectures, media clips, and discussion, as well as student assignments. Topics include the debate between nature versus nurture, intersections of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, and sexuality, and social institutions such as family, education, work, and sport. We will pay particular attention to the connection between social structure and human agency -- how people’s lived experiences are both shaped by social forces and reshaped through human action.