GWS 1100 - Gender, Race, and American Culture
3 Credits
Explores the historical and contemporary intersections of race, class and gender in the United States, as expressed at the level of individual, society, and ideal. Examines US social movements and how categories of meaning and social practices changeover time. ?
Major Content Areas
Race, class, and gender as systems of power and inequality Interplay between ideals and practices and beliefs expressed at the level of individual and society Physical integrity: sexual violence, reproduction, and health Social movements and activism Transformative and regulatory power of social institutions and popular culture
Learning Outcomes
Recognize the evolution and role of social institutions in maintaining and disrupting social norms, ideals, and individual practices. Describe individual and social dynamics of unequal power relations of race, class, and gender. Explore points of change and transformation aimed at achieving gender, racial, and economic equity. Express the structures and functions of intersectionality and matrix of domination at the level of individual, society, and ideal.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
7B - Race/Power/Justice 05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci
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