Request to Approve Course

for Credit for Major and Minor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

Course number: ______Course Name:______

Instructor Name: ______Department: ______

Semester to be offered: ______

Note: All courses are approved for a 5 year period.

Please answer the following questions.Use additional pages if necessary. A syllabus may also be provided, but is not required.

  1. Please provide a syllabus with course description and student learning outcomes or briefly describe your course and provide student learning outcomes, a likely readings/authors list, as well as outline major assignments/workload.(N.B. Course slos should clearly relate to the slos of the GWSS major listed below).
  2. Using the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Student Learning Outcomes, please describe how your course fits into and contributes to the GWSS curriculum (but does not duplicate existing GWSS course offerings).
  3. Please provide either a CV that illustrates your background/research in relation to the course you are proposing or provide a brief narrative summary of this information.

Which cluster would you like this course to be listed under? (Check one):

[ ] Theory and Construction of Identity

[ ] Arts and Representations

[ ] Social Change, Social Justice, and Education

[ ] Law and the Public Arena

[ ] Health, Science, and Technology

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For Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies office use only

Curriculum Committee: (Circle one) reject/accept/return for changes DATE:

GWSS faculty: (Circle one) reject/accept/return for changes DATE:

Head: (Circle one) reject/accept/return for changes DATE:

Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department, KSU

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies major, students will be able to:

1.analyze the ways in which diverse identities, cultures, and societies are structured by the intersections of social categories including gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, global location, and coloniality;

2.communicate effectively in verbal and written form, concepts and arguments related to gender, women,and sexualities;

3.critically analyze historical and social relations, hierarchies of power, resistance, and movements relevant to gender, women, and sexualities;

4.understand and apply feminist and related theories, methodologies, and methods;

5.demonstrate the ability to work with, develop, or implement plans related to the needs and goals of diverse people.

MISSION STATEMENT:

Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies is an academic discipline that analyzes personal experience and social institutions as they shape and are shaped by gender, sex, sexuality, class, “race”/ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, and global location. The mission of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department is to stimulate an on-going campus-wide examination of diversity and social justice, to provide students with a critical framework with which to examine themselves and their society, to promote interdisciplinary and intersectional research that focuses on gender, women, and sexuality; and to prepare students for careers and graduate study in a variety of disciplines and professions.