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Dec 04, 2025
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WOST 101 - Perspectives on Women
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
An examination of gendered behaviors and expectations, as depicted in art, history, literature, philosophy, biology, anthropology, sociology, and psychology; attends to historical contexts and contemporary circumstances and examines impacts on women’s lives.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- To acquaint students with historical and global perspectives on women and specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven.
- To explore individual and collective attitudes about gender and the ways in which sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems both produce, resist, and transform them.
- To make students aware of how social structures (such as class, race, gender age, urbanization, sexuality, ethnicity, and immigration, et. al) impact the lives of women.
- To trace the ways in which social problems impacting women are identified, perceived, and resolved.
- To teach students not to overgeneralize from personal experiences.
- To enable students to think critically about the social construction of gender and the ways in which it impacts principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.
GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
- Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
- Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
- Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
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