THEORIZING INTERSECTIONALITY

GEN&WS 105

Analysis of disability as an identity, culture, community, and political concern. Brief introduction to disability studies and intersectionality. Examines historical, political, artistic and cultural representations of disability as it intersects with gender, sexuality, race, class and other systems of oppression. Engage with a variety of academic, literary, visual and other cultural representations by and about disabled people.

COUNPSY 225

An introduction to the intersectionality framework in the United States to enhance skills necessary for culturally responsive awareness and interactions, with specific emphasis on how to think critically about and hold multiple perspectives and how to prepare for service learning. In addition to learning how contexts and social histories matter to situate an understanding of experience, develop self-awareness and understanding of social location as well as learn how contextual factors shape identity, opportunities, and barriers for others. Relevant for all students of different identities, backgrounds, and experiences, who are interested in developing their awareness, knowledge and skills with multiculturalism and diversity.

GEN&WS 330

Topics in the feminist study of inequality and difference based on class, gender and race/ethnicity, with a humanities emphasis.

GEN&WS 830

Examines assumptions and debates in contemporary theorizing about gender and women including what constitutes "good" gender and women studies' theorizing, how to recognize gender-based oppression when we see it, how gender, race, sexuality, and other hierarchies of power intersect, as well as the merits of transnational theorizing about gender and women. Explores whether gender and women's studies' theorizing is a form of activism, how to teach theory in gender and women's studies' classrooms, the value of cultivating distinct gender and women studies' methods, and other dimensions of putting gender and women's studies' theorizing into practice.

GEN&WS 331

Topics in the feminist study of inequality and difference based on class, gender and race/ethnicity, with a social science emphasis.