Concentration in Women's Studies (Plan Code: LASDTAA, Subplan Code: WOMENSSTDY)
Associate in Arts
Program Details
Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field that identifies gender as one of the central organizing principles of human experience. Grounded in feminist theory and centered around feminist scholarship, Women's Studies confronts and challenges institutional, individual and ideological systems of power, privilege and inequity. Women's Studies analyzes socially constructed power imbalances based on gender, race, class, sexual identity, ability, age and other differences, allowing students profound insights into the origins of their own experience. Because Women's Studies seeks to understand how our gendered experience affects every aspect of our lives, course topics may include: gender socialization, family, work, politics, health, sexuality, body image, violence, spirituality, art and culture. We may also discuss feminists' roles in social justice movements of the past as well as current and future trends in scholarship and activism.
Concentration in Women's Studies (Plan Code: LASDTAA, Subplan Code: WOMENSSTDY) Pathways
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Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes help you work towards your educational goals.
- Analyze institutional, ideological, and individual components that maintain or challenge systems of oppression in contemporary U.S. society and throughout the world.
- Explain the social construction of identity and difference, analyzing power, privilege and inequality from feminist theoretical perspectives, distinguishing the intersections between gender and other social and cultural identities, such as race, sex, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, class, ability and sexuality, and locating oneself within the hierarchy of identities.
- escribe foundational concepts in Women's Studies such as: the personal is political; the waves of feminism; the diversity of women's experiences; the difference between sex and gender; the history of feminist activism for social justice; and, women's contributions to culture, politics, history, etc.