Program Overview

Women and Gender in Today's World: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Course Description

This interdisciplinary course analyzes the nature, status, image, and changing roles of women and men in the world today, placing gender at the forefront of analysis from a cross-cultural perspective, with comparisons to Canada. The course may be taken for major or minor credit in Canadian Studies and Sociology.

Course Details

• Prerequisite: Second-year standing
• Instructor: Ann-Marie Powers
• Course Type: Online; Continuous-intake, allowing students to register anytime and learn at their own pace

Course Overview

This course is a women's studies course as well as a sociological/anthropological analysis of the nature, status, image, and changing roles of women in the modern world. It places women as both the subject and object of inquiry and puts women's experiences at the forefront of analysis. Although it questions traditional assumptions about gender and the "masculinist" perspective that has dominated many theoretical perspectives in the human sciences, the course is designed not to replace, but to complement and at times correct, the scholarly record. Since women's studies is interdisciplinary in scope and method, material from various disciplines will be used, including psychology, economics, history, political science, philosophy, genetics, etc. Therefore, the course is simultaneously interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, although comparisons with women from Canada and the United States will be made. This course may be offered for major credit in Sociology, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Women's Studies.