WMST 100 - Introduction to Women’s Studies

3 Credit (0 lecture, 3 lab) 3 Contact Hours

This course familiarizes beginning students with the basic concepts and theories of feminist thought central to the growing field of Women’s Studies. Students examine how traditional gender roles have affected women’s lives throughout history both publicly (discussing issues such as women in the workplace, women and the law, and women and medicine) and privately (discussing issues such as women and gender stereotypes, women and their bodies, women and religion and race and gender).
OFFERED: odd-year spring semesters