Program Contact: Kimberly O'Neill 203-582-6422
The Gender and Society microcredential allows learners to gain relevant skills and competencies surrounding contemporary issues of gender, sexuality and women’s studies in both a local and global context. Students will gain nuanced, interdisciplinary understandings of various concepts through several fields including but not limited to Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Criminal Justice, English, Philosophy, Legal Studies and Psychology. Students will be able to analyze current social and political issues about sex and gender through a contemporary lens in order to develop critical thinking skills to address issues of inequity and oppression. Through this badge pathway, students will be able to identify social problems across institutions (such as education, the family, politics and medicine, among others) and apply new knowledge to one’s own context and setting.
To complete the badge, students must take any two classes from the following list with at least two different disciplinary prefixes represented:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AN 210 | Gender/Sex/Sexuality | 3 |
| AN 252 | The Science of Human Diversity | 3 |
| CJ 232 | Women in the Criminal Justice System | 3 |
| CJ 253 | Sexual Violence | 3 |
| CJ 275 | Sexual Violence Victim Advocacy | 3 |
| DR 288 | From Script to Stage | 3 |
| EN 235 | Literature by Women | 3 |
| EN 338 | American Literature by Women of Color | 3 |
| HS 309 | Women in America 1920-PRESENT | 3 |
| HS 326 | Witches and Werewolves in the Early Modern World | 3 |
| HS 328 | Beyond the Veil: Issues in Gender History | 3 |
| LE 250 | Gender and the Law | 3 |
| PL 330 | Philosophy and Gender | 3 |
| PO 219 | Feminist Political Thought | 3 |
| PO 387 | Women and Public Policy | 3 |
| PS 210 | Human Sexuality | 3 |
| PS 262 | Psychology of Women and Gender | 3 |
| PS 284 | LGBTQ Identities and Communities | 3 |
| SO 255 | Sociology of Families | 3 |
| SO 302 | Sociology of Sexualities | 3 |
| SO 303 | Popular Culture and the Media (WGS 303) | 3 |
| SO 304 | Sociology of Gender | 3 |
| SO 306 | Masculinities | 3 |
| SO 392 | Internship in the Community | 3 |
| WGS 101 | Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies | 3 |
| WGS 202 | Gender and Aging | 3 |
| WGS 211 | Cross Cultural Perspectives on Gender, Sex and Sexuality | 3 |
| WGS 219 | Feminist Political Thought | 3 |
| WGS 232 | Women in the Criminal Justice System | 3 |
| WGS 235 | Literature by Women | 3 |
| WGS 250 | Gender and the Law | 3 |
| WGS 252 | The Science of Human Diversity | 3 |
| WGS 253 | Sexual Violence | 3 |
| WGS 255 | Sociology of Families | 3 |
| WGS 275 | Sexual Violence Victim Advocacy | 3 |
| WGS 288 | From Script to Stage | 3 |
| WGS 302 | Sociology of Sexualities | 3 |
| WGS 303 | Popular Culture and the Media | 3 |
| WGS 304 | Sociology of Gender | 3 |
| WGS 306 | Masculinities | 3 |
| WGS 308 | U.S. Women's History | 3 |
| WGS 309 | Women in America: 1920-PRESENT | 3 |
| WGS 326 | Witches and Werewolves in the Early Modern World | 3 |
| WGS 328 | Gender in the Non-Western World | 3 |
| WGS 330 | Philosophy and Gender | 3 |
| WGS 338 | American Literature by Women of Color | 3 |
| WGS 387 | Women and Public Policy | 3 |
| WGS 392 | Internship in the Community | 3 |
| WGS 395 | Feminist Theory and the Body | 4 |