Description: This theme focuses on the roles of human gender identities and examines the influence of gender on society. It would include educational, biological, psychological, and social aspects of gender, as well as the role that these constructs have played in history, society and cultural expression. To understand this theme in more depth, students are are encouraged to include one or more of the following:

• Explore gender identity development.
• Differentiate private gender identity from public gender expression.
• Explore cultural implications of gender in different societies.
• Analyze how gender affects learning and the learning environment.
• Analyze the roles and impact that gender has on other identities, such as, race and ethnicity.
• Critically analyze the impact of gender identity/gender expression in the schools, the workplace, and other institutions.
• Analyze the connections among the scientific, social, and cultural issues that make gender identity so significant in a modern society.

GEP Courses associated with the Gender and Society theme:  (12 credit hours required) 

GEP Humanities and Social Science courses:

Choose at least 1 of the following:

ENG/WGS 305       Women and Literature                                        (HUM)(USD)

HI 412                    The Sexes & Society in Early Modern Europe      (HUM)

HI 423                    Women in European Enlightenment*                    (HUM)

HI/WGS 447           History of American Women to 1900*                  (HUM)

HI/WGS 448           American Women in the 20th Cent.                     (HUM)

HI 452                    Recent America                                                 (HUM)

HI 457                    Twentieth-Century U.S. Intellectual Hist.               (HUM)

HI 462                    Social History of the New South*                         (HUM)

HI 477                    Women in the Middle East*                                 (HUM) (GK)

REL/WGS 472        Women and Religion*                                         (HUM)

WGS/ENG 305       Women and Literature                                         (HUM) (USD)

WGS 492                Theoretical Issues Women & Gender Studies*     (HUM) (USD)

ANT 252                 Cultural Anthropology                                          (SS) (GK)

PS 204                   Problems in American Democracy                       (SS)

PS 205                   Law & Justice                                                     (SS)

PS 309                   Equality and Justice in US Law                            (SS) (USD)

PSY/WGS 406        Psychology of Gender*                                       (SS) (USD)

SOC 203                Current Social Problems                                      (SS) (USD)

SOC/WGS 204       Sociology of Family                                             (SS) (USD)

SOC/WGS 304       Women and Men in Society*                                (SS) (USD)

GEP Natural Sciences and Mathematics courses:

 
Choose at least 1 of the following:

ST 101                  Statistics by Example                                        (MA)

ST 311                  Introduction to Statistics                                    (MA)

ST/BUS 350           Economics and Business Statistics*                  (MA)

ST 361                  Introduction to Statistics for Engineers*              (MA)

BIO 105                 Biology in the Modern World                             (NS)

BIO 181                 Intro Bio: Eco, Evolution & Biodiversity              (NS)

BIO 212                 Basic Human Anatomy & Physiology*                (NS)

GN 301                  Genetics in Human Affairs                                 (NS)

Additional associated GEP courses:

HON 361                Eco-Realism: Hum Nature, Pol & Ecol Con          (IP)

STS/WGS 210        Women & Gender in Science & Technology       (IP) (USD)

WGS 200               Intro to Women’s & Gender Studies                   (USD)

WGS/MUS 360       Women in Music                                               (VPA) (USD)

*Course has a pre-requisite

GEP Category abbreviations:

(HUM)  Course fulfills a GEP Humanities requirement

(SS)     Course fulfills a GEP Social Sciences requirement

(NS)     Course fulfills a GEP Natural Sciences requirement

(MA)     Course fulfills a GEP Mathematical Sciences requirement

(IP)       Course fulfills a GEP Interdisciplinary Perspectives requirement

(GK)     Course also fulfills the GEP Global Knowledge co-requisite

(USD)   Course also fulfills the GEP U.S. Diversity co-requisite