Student Learning Goals

Below are the departmental learning goals mapped to College-wide goals for student learning.

• Critically examine the dominant paradigms of sex and gender at different points across 时间与空间. (Ib Ia)
• Center knowledges that emerge from the lived experiences of women and
• 非二进制人民. (Ia, Ib, IId)
• Critically examine cultural assumptions about the gender binary and how it intersects with race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, sexual orientation, ability, and other vectors of power to construct identity. (IId, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, Iva, IVb)
• Identify how feminist theories and analyses contribute to the understanding of women and gender to challenge the boundaries and concepts of traditional disciplines. (活动花絮, ib, Iva, IVb)
• Gain an appreciation for the diversity of feminist theories and perspectives and how these have evolved over time. (Ia, Ib, Ic, IIa, IIb, IId, IVa)
• Understand the historical background of the academic discipline of 性别研究, including the development of Women’s Studies and its relationship to social justice 和解放. (Ia, Ib, Ic, IId, IIIa, IIb, IIId)
• Understand different types 的信息 and be able to distinguish amongst them: scholarly sources (primary and secondary; historical and contemporary), mass media, 评论文章等. (IIb, IIe, IIIc, IVa, IVb, IVc)
• Have a good sense of how to judge the veracity and reliability of different forms 的信息. (IIb, IIe, IIIc, IVa, IVb, IVc)
• Be able to locate and to appropriately utilize different types 的信息 for academic projects and assignments. (Also overlaps with 科技素养). (IIb, IIe, IIIc, IVa, IVb, IVc)
• Understand the specific context 的信息 literacy within gender studies, namely that gender gtudies has a particular history of accepting as legitimate some sources 的信息 that other academic disciplines consider “non-academic” — personal testimonies and lived experiences of women, people of color, non-binary people; critical readings of various types of texts; activist materials, songs/quilts, creative products, 等.). (活动花絮, IIb, IIc, IIIb, IVa)

口头交流

• Be confident and skilled in various forms of oral communication, including:
• Asking questions and participating in respectful and productive classroom discussions. (活动花絮, IIc, IId, IIe， IIIc, IIId, IVb, IVc)
• Presenting in front of an audience of one’s peers and faculty. (活动花絮, IIc, IId, IIe， IIIc, IIId, IVb, IVc)

科技素养

• Related to Information Literacy, be able to locate easily the multiple sources of digital information utilized in the discipline of gender studies. (二，二，三， IIIc)
• Be able to present information through a variety of technological means, including the creation of research papers, ‘zines, tables / graphs, and presentations using PowerPoint and other slideware. (IIb, IIc, IIe, IIIc, IIId,印度河流域文明)

视觉读写能力

• Learn to interpret critically a plethora of visual data — advertising, political propaganda, media images, graphs and tables — with a particular focus on the gendered messages conveyed by those images. (活动花絮, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IVc)

专业写作

• Develop the capacity to write clearly and persuasively in a variety of “academic” 模式:
• Research papers of various lengths and degrees of sophistication, which conform to disciplinary guidelines regarding composition, argumentation, citation and formatting. (i, IIa, IIb, IIc， IIId,印度河流域文明)
• Academic essays of various types: analytical, critical, personal. (i, IIa, IIb, IIc， IIId,印度河流域文明)