WGSS 2300 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in a Global Context

• Students will be able to define and critique geopolitical terms such as Developing/Developed, Third World/First World, Global South/Global North.
• Students will be able to identify the ways that the social identities of scholars and writers (including nationality, race, and class) affect their perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality in the Global South.
• Students will be able to define orientalism and identify patterns of orientalist thinking regarding women, gender, and sexuality in the Global South.
• Students will be able to state conclusions regarding how economic, social, and political contexts affects feminist and women’s organizing and activism, particularly in the Global South.
• Student will be able to make connections between political, economic, and cultural processes in their own home countries and the lives of women and LGBTQ people in a global context.
• Students will be able to identify ways that learning about gender and sexuality in a global context may inform their actions as global citizens, and identify supportive actions that recognize the feelings of cultural groups occupying the global periphery.
• Students will be able to identify and reflect on their own assumptions regarding issues of gender and sexuality in a global context, and particularly in reference to the Global South.
• Students will be able to state a specific position on issues regarding women and LGBTQ communities in a global context.
• Students will be able to demonstrate openness, empathy, and understanding in verbal and non-verbal interactions with culturally different others.