WOST 403 - Comparative Perspectives on Global Feminism

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: Social Justice
Women globally in transnational and local contexts; issues of economic and social justice. Including violence against women and children, poverty, migration, political fundamentalism, globalization of capitalist economy, sexual and civil rights, immigration and citizenship, and sex trafficking.

Prerequisites: Junior, senior or post-baccalaureate standing.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Fall ONLY

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

Identify and analyze feminist intersectional perspectives on global gender systems, with particular attention paid to poverty, education, political economies, sex trafficking, women’s health, and mass media.
Discuss challenges to achieving social justice, students will read historical and contemporary research on how girls and women have worked collectively and individually to resist oppression at the community and grassroots level, and through national and international women’s movements.
Examine issues of how nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, race, immigration status, disability and gender intersect to shape systems of women’s oppression globally.
Analyze theoretical and empirical studies on women and girls around the globe in order to identify the ways in which individuals and/or groups contribute to social justice locally, nationally and internationally.
Identify and explore how sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, homophobia, ageism, and ideologies, intersect to shape women’s and girl’s oppression and injustice internationally and identify ways to expose and overcome these oppressions.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.