2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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SO 325 Women: Local & Global Connections
(4 Credits)
In this course, we will undertake a critical study of gender performance, roles, and structures as they exist in varied parts of the world, and the factors that create or perpetuate both opportunities and inequalities for women. We will investigate the impacts and costs of such inequalities on human personal and social health, development, and stability. This course seeks to interrogate the similarities and differences between women in various environments and nations across the world; and by doing so, examine the definition and meanings of women. We will look at what are the relationships between and among women and how we can work to create justice.
Specifically, we will study the construction and reproduction of gender inequalities around the globe, as well as the ways women resist these processes in diverse societies. We will examine how social, economic, and political changes affect women’s and men’s lives, and their relations, family structures, and cultural conceptions. We will explore efforts for gender equality and justice all over the world. We will look at the diversity of experiences across class, racial-ethnic groups, sexualities, cultures, and regions. We will examine the role of international organizations, local and regional unions, civil society, and people to reduce gender inequality. Throughout the course, we will work from a feminist perspective which will guide our understanding, inquiries, and activism.
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