Sociological Perspectives on Gender

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Understand the typical ways in which gender shapes identity and lived experience
• Reflect upon key institutions that are organized by gender
• Understand how and why gender intersects with race, class, age and sexual orientation
• Understand and evaluate how gender takes on different meanings across cultures and time periods and how such meaning shaped gendered social life
• Be able to identify, describe, apply, and understand the major theoretical perspectives in gender studies
• Be able to apply a social construction framework as a tool to critically evaluate gender
• Explain how gender is produced within social institutions and how these institutions affect individual lives.
• Analyze the mutual constitution of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and religion.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
12 Quizzes, one each week, 25 points each	300 points
5 Discussion Groups, roughly every two weeks, 40 points each	200 points
6 Films and written analyses, 50 points each	300 points
1 Final Research Project	200 points

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
1000-920 points	A
919-890 points	A-
889-870 points	B+
869-820 points	B
819-790 points	B-
789-770 points	C+
769-720 points	C
719-690 points	C-
689-670 points	D+
669-620 points	D
619-590 points	D-
Below 589 points	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance is not required for this asynchronous/online course

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Course materials will be provided by the instructor