Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.74 GPA, 92.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.87 GPA, 93.0% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Gender and Education
Gender and Education examines how schools reproduce gender identities using critical and feminist perspectives to analyze intersections with race, class, and sexuality.
offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Bailey Smolarek
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.74 GPA, 92.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.87 GPA, 93.0% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Understand the role schools and education play in enhancing or reproducing gender inequality
Explain theories on the social construction of gender and sexuality
Describe and reflect on the history of the gender equity movement in education
Read, discuss, and write about research on students with diverse gender and sexual identities
Develop analytical skills necessary to think about intersectional identities how they are tied to students’ experiences in education
Explain and analyze pedagogical approaches and school policies’ effects on learners of diverse gender and sexual identities
Analyze the role that educational research, policies and practices play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating gender inequities
Build the skills necessary to apply these concepts and approaches to our own final research project on a gender related topic
Read and evaluate scholarly research in the fields of education, sociology, feminist studies, anthropology, etc
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
Grade history
↗ average GPA
524524 letter grades
A77.7%77.7%
AB13.9%13.9%
B4.0%4.0%
BC1.7%1.7%
C0.8%0.8%
D1.0%1.0%
F1.0%1.0%
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Prerequisites
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- Junior standing
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Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
BAILEY SMOLAREK is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 30 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 30 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.74 GPA, 92.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.87 GPA, 93.0% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).
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Topics
- Social construction of gender and identity
- Schools' role in reproducing and mediating gender identities
- Intersectionality of gender with race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality
- History of the gender equity movement in education
Skills
- Analytical skills for thinking about intersectional identities and student experiences
- Reading and evaluating scholarly research across multiple disciplines
- Discussing and writing about research on diverse gender and sexual identities
- Applying concepts to a final research project on a gender-related topic
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A85.7%85.7%
AB7.1%7.1%
B3.6%3.6%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F3.6%3.6%
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Through Spring 2026
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Gender and Education
Recorded 2026-10-14Gender and Education
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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