WOST 303 - Violence Against Women

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D; Diversity
Violence in intimate relationships from a feminist perspective. Violence against women and girls as instituting structured gender inequality and as perpetrated by political, social and economic institutions locally, nationally, and internationally.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences, Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

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

Examine how violence against girls and women institutes structured gender inequality.
Explore historical and contemporary research on sexual, physical and psychological abuse of, and violence against, women and girls by intimates, family members, partners, dates, friends, co-workers, acquaintances and strangers.
Examine issues of class, race, ethnicity, immigrant status, disability and gender and the ways these identity markers impact violence against girls and women.
Analyze studies of violence against women both nationally and internationally. Examine how gender, race, social class, nationality, disability, immigration status, sexuality, and age impact violence against girls and women.
Examine feminist critiques of violence against women and the ways in which law institutionalizes it.
Identify and discuss local, national and global tactics for positive change in the area of violence against girls and women and examine the importance of including an analysis of not only gender, but nation, religion, social class, race, sexuality, ethnicity, disability and immigration status and the ways these identity markers impact girl/women violence.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

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.