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May 27, 2024
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2015-2016 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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WGS 101 - Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Nature of US Society Lecture / 3 hours per week Basic concepts and perspectives in Women’s Studies, placing women’s experience at the center of interpretation. With focus on women’s history and contemporary issues, the course examines women’s lives with emphasis on how gender interacts with race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. The central aim is to foster critical reading and thinking about women’s lives: how the interlocking systems of oppression, colonialism, racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism shape women’s lives; and how women have worked to resist these oppressions. This course satisfies a social science distribution requirement and the general education diversity requirement. Graded
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