Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2019

WMST 202   Intro to Women's Studies
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2020 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
Pre-Requisites
Co-Requisites
Core Area Global Engagements
Area of Inquiry
Liberal Arts Practices

Explores gender from a variety of angles, and in tandem with race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality, and other markers of identity. Students develop vocabulary and tools to speak and think critically about oppression, patriarchy, social change, and common assumptions about the world and people around us. A primary goal is to explore both the forces that feed into inequality and discrimination, and ways to resist, challenge, and overcome those forces. Students explores issues ranging from bodies, work, families, identity, politics, medicine, history, and the media, as well as the ways in which feminist movements around the world have addressed these topics.