WOST 302 - Women and Families

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: Diversity
Gender and unpaid family care-work. Covered topics may include family formation and dissolution, parent-child relations, interaction and power, the diversity of families, heteronormativity, domestic violence, reproductive rights, and family policy.

Prerequisites: Junior, senior or post-baccalaureate standing.
Equivalent Quarter Course: WOST 3550 (WOST 3550 is equivalent to both WOST 301 & 302 when both taken and passed).
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Understand feminist theoretical and methodological perspectives on culture and society.
Critically reflect upon their own lives from a feminist perspective.
Comprehend the challenges of dismantling sexism and other oppressive beliefs.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.