| WOST 1108 Biology of Women, 3 credits
(Cross-listed as BIOL 1108)
(Meets MnTC Goal 7)
Study of the biological aspects of being a woman. Analysis of assumptions concerning women’s biology and women’s health care. Emphasis on importance of taking a responsible role in personal health care. Explores female and male reproductive anatomy and physiology, sexual development, issues related to women’s health and disease, pregnancy and birth, contraception and infertility, menopause, and other topics. Open to both men and women. Three lecture hours per week.
WOST 1126 Women’s Ways of Knowing,
2 credits
Designed for students to understand the varieties of knowledge and the ways it develops. Emphasis is on understanding the relationship of thinking and gender and enhancing skills in multiple ways of knowing.
WOST 1145 Sociology of Women, 3 credits
(Cross-listed as SOC 1145)
(Meets MnTC Goal 5 and 7)
An introduction for female and male students to the meaning of gender and its social, economic, and cultural implications. Topics include past and present theories about gender differences, gender expectations, language, education, religion, work, and cultural and class variations of the social construction of female and male roles.
WOST 2233 Women in American Culture,
3 credits
(Cross-listed as HUM 2233)
(Meets MnTC Goal 6 and 7)
Designed to introduce students to issues of gender, class, and race in the United States social and cultural histories. Examines the cultural legacies and traditions, which have shaped both the past and present. Provides an appreciation for the role women have had in this country’s progress and examines the impacts gender assumptions play in work, social values, and directions for our nation’s future.
WOST 2234 Women in a Global Perspective,
3 credits
(Cross-listed as HUM 2234)
(Meets MnTC Goal 6 and 8)
Introduces the study of gender and women’s issues in countries outside the USA. Designed to examine issues of cultural diversity, race, class, religious and social structures, literature and the arts, politics and economic development in countries such as China, Africa, the Pacific Rim, Europe, Russia, and Latin America.
WOST 2242 History of Women in Modern
America, 3 credits
(Cross-listed as HIST 2242)
(Meets MnTC Goal area 5 and 7)
This course examines women’s experiences in America from 1900 to the present. We will consider the relationship between race, class, gender and sexuality as we learn about women’s roles as reformers, consumers, activists, students, mothers, workers, immigrants, etc. Topics covered include: African-American women and the “Jim Crow” south, women’s participation in reform movements, the achievement of the right to vote and the debate about the Equal Rights Amendment, women in the “Roaring Twenties” and Great Depression, the “Feminine Mystique” and Cold War America, women’s participation in major social movements such as the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Black Power movement, and the Women’s Rights Movement. We will read extensively from original documents (“primary sources”) for class discussion and to develop critical-thinking skills about historical methods.
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