SEX/GENDER-RELATED ISSUES IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

EDPOL/GEN&WS 560

Examines the relationship between gender and education and explores notions of gender as socially constructed categories and identities. Identify the ways schools (re)produce and mediate gender identities and explore the experiences of students. Draws on critical and feminist perspectives to analyze the ways gender intersects with understandings of identity performance and expression such as masculinity and femininity, as well as at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in schooling processes.

GEN&WS 840

Provides an introduction to feminist pedagogy in Gender and Women's Studies, Focuses upon: (1) the historical importance of an explicit feminist pedagogy in the foundation of GWS, (2) the development of feminist pedagogical theory and (3) a hands-on experience with developing feminist pedagogical materials, classroom strategies and a teaching portfolio. Considers the ways that feminist pedagogical approaches reconsider and challenge aspects of traditional pedagogical practices and training. Engages the development of feminist pedagogical thought and interrogates the different intellectual traditions that have shaped debates and issues within feminist politics and practices.

GEN&WS 720

Advanced level investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies.

GEN&WS 370

Examines the social, cultural, political, and symbolic constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability.

EDPOL/GEN&WS 160

Explores how gender, sexuality, and gender identity are conceptualized, practiced, protected, and policed in K-12 schools and in out-of-school contexts in the United States and globally. Examines how gender, sexuality, and gender identity intersect with race, class, language, nationality, and religion to shape the experiences of school-age children and youth.