Spring 2027

Gender, Women, and Society in Global Perspective

Global, interdisciplinary social science analysis of gender, race, class, and sexuality in relation to social institutions and movements for social change.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Katherine Phelps4.4/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.86 GPA, 94.3% A/AB (n=228 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=235 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 96.1% A/AB (n=231 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Observe, think, and write critically and analytically about how gender, race, class, and sexuality are key concepts in the field of gender and women's studies in relation to social institutions and movements for social change.

  • Construct knowledge of foundational texts, theoretical frameworks, ideas, and praxis in gender and women’s studies.

  • Research and read different types of scholarly sources/different kinds of materials.

  • Practice personal reflection on your social location and understand how your social location connects to the broader social world.

  • Recognize and critically examine interlocking and interdependent systems of privilege and oppression.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Spring 2027

Katherine Phelps

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.77 GPA, 92.5% A/AB (n=226 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=235 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 96.1% A/AB (n=231 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KATHERINE PHELPS is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. 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 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 2400
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 309Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 310Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 311Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 312Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 399Classroom Instruction0 / 30

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.86 GPA, 94.3% A/AB (n=228 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=235 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 96.1% A/AB (n=231 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Gender and women in education, economy, family, law, media, medicine, and politics
  • Gender, race, class, and sexuality in relation to social institutions and movements
  • Personal reflection on social location and its connection to the broader social world

Skills

  • Critical and analytical writing about gender, race, class, and sexuality
  • Knowledge of foundational texts and theoretical frameworks in gender and women's studies
  • Researching and reading diverse scholarly sources and materials
  • Critical examination of interlocking systems of privilege and oppression

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 recent terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

7 earlier forecasts · 0.21 GPA average error.

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Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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GEN&WS 102 · Spring 2027

Gender, Women, and Society in Global Perspective

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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