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Women’s and Gender Studies Major Learning Outcomes

    • Students are able to define terms relevant to the field, which might include identity, gender, economic status, nationality, race, region, disability, religion and sexuality
    • Students are able to identify a situation in which these dynamics intersect
    • Students are able to explain how that intersection impacts an individual’s experience
    • Students are able to define social inequality
    • Students are able to explain historical, social and/or cultural causes of inequality
    • Students are able to propose a solution or intervention that addresses this inequality
    • Students are able to compare and contrast the experiences of people within a social or cultural category (e.g. women) in different historical periods and/or locations
    • Students use ethical and culturally competent language when discussing the experiences of other social, cultural and/or historical groups
    • Students explain intragroup diversity in relation to social, cultural, and/or historical categories
    • Students identify theoretical concepts relevant to analyzing cultural texts, experiences and/or events
    • Students explain the theory relevant to cultural texts, experiences and/or events
    • Students apply the theory to a specific cultural text, experience and/or event
    • Students engage in conversations among a range of perspectives on a cultural text, experience and/or event
    • Students take a clear position on issue(s) and provide reasoning to support that stance
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