SOCI3240 - Women In Society

This course is designed to examine critical issues in women?s lives from a sociological perspective. The course will demonstrate how gender is socially constructed and that the social definitions of gender have profound implications for the rights and privileges extended to women (and men) historically and in contemporary times. Students will learn how gender ?intersects? with race, class, and sexuality and how social processes affect women?s experiences in the economy, media, government, within families, and in relation to bodies, health, and sexuality.
Prerequisite: Principles of Sociology (SOCI1010) or Contemporary American Social Problems (SOCI1020)
3 Credits