Learning Outcomes

Students will develop the skill of ‘gender/sexuality literacy,’ or the ability to identify, question, analyze, and explain how ideas about gender and sexuality shape the world. Gender and sexuality literacy is a skillset to:

• Understand and examine foundational concepts, varied perspectives, and debates related to gender and sexuality.

• Analyze and discuss shifting expectations and values around gender and sexuality across times, places, and contexts.

• Evaluate and critique how ideas and experiences of gender and sexuality interact with other factors to shape real-world situations 

• Apply interdisciplinary feminist-informed methods to challenge power dynamics, hierarchies, and inequality

• Propose solutions to create change in varied careers and life paths, focusing on a chosen subplan: the Humanities and the Arts; Technology, Medicine, and Science; Law and Social Science; or LGBTQ+ Studies. 

Students will be able to answer:

• How do ideas of gender and sexuality change over time, across cultures, and around the globe?

• How do they relate to other categories of difference such as race, class, nationality, religion, age, and disability? 

• How do they structure our social, political, and personal worlds?

• How do [groups and individuals] produce, perpetuate, and challenge structures of difference, power, and hierarchy?

Students will be able to apply a gender literacy framework to:

• Personal and professional life

• Multiple disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and STEM

• Research projects

• Practical experience