Updated 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog
Gender and Women's Studies Courses
All Gender and Women's Studies Courses
GWS 3220 Gender Politics (3 credits)
This course will include examination of the capacity of political thought and action among women and men. Students explore how women and men approach the public sphere, and their identification with particular parties in the United States. Political issues are further examined by looking at the ways in which men and women understand political thinking and how they evaluate issues and candidates. In an attempt to go beyond conventional understandings of political engagement and leadership, students will discuss what it means to engage in contested forms of political interpretation, how the public and private sphere is politicized, and how a discussion of politics is intimately related to politics of the body. Prerequisite: GWS 1100. Liberal Education Goal Areas 7 & 9.
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