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The following list of recommendations is designed to aid faculty, students and staff who are interested in promoting and exploring women's issues across the curriculum and in our classrooms. For faculty and staff, the listing of Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) will be particularly helpful, as well as the recommended syllabus statement regarding inclusiveness. The following is a listing of courses here at the College that focus on gender or have it as a listed topic that will be most relevant.

Recommended ELOs:

1. Civic Responsibility

Intended Learning Outcome: Analyze the results of actions and inactions, including likely effects on the larger local and/or global communities.

Assessment may include, but is not limited to, the following criteria and intended outcomes:

  • Analyzes community needs within an appropriate context
  • Identifies and analyzes characteristics of a community and its members
  • Identifies and analyzes the various contexts of a given community
  • Analyzes past community needs based on historical context to inform current or future needs
  • Analyzes present or future community needs based on understanding the contexts of that community
  • Identifies and analyzes impacts on community
  • Identifies how choices impact local or global communities
  • Analyzes how individuals can affect local or global communities in positive/negative ways
  • Analyzes how one's own choices can affect local or global communities in positive/negative ways
  • Connects knowledge to make an informed decision on community issues
  • Connects learning to make informed decisions
  • Applies learning to solve community problems/issues
  • Uses specific examples and experiences to demonstrate an understanding of community issues

2. Critical/Creative Thinking

Intended Learning Outcome: Analyze, evaluate and synthesize information in order to consider problems/ideas and transform them in innovative or imaginative ways.

Assessment may include, but is not limited to, the following criteria and intended outcomes:

  • Analyzes problems/ideas critically and/or creatively
  • Formulates appropriate questions to consider problems/issues
  • Evaluates costs and benefits of a solution
  • Identifies possible solutions to problems/resolution to issues
  • Applies innovative and imaginative approaches to problems/ideas
  • Synthesizes information/ideas into a coherent whole
  • Seeks and compares information that leads to informed decisions/opinions
  • Applies fact and opinion in an appropriate manner
  • Expands upon ideas to foster new lines of inquiry
  • Synthesizes ideas into a coherent whole
  • Evaluates synthesized information in order to transform problems/ideas in innovative or imaginative ways
  • Applies synthesized information to inform effective decisions
  • Experiments with creating a novel idea, question or product
  • Uses new approaches and takes appropriate risks without going beyond assignment guidelines
  • Evaluates and reflects on the decision through a process that considers the complexities of an issue

3. Cultural Sensitivity

Intended Learning Outcome: Demonstrate sensitivity to the beliefs, views, values and practices of cultures within and beyond the United States.

Assessment may include, but is not limited to, the following criteria and intended outcomes:

  • Identifies the significant beliefs, views, values and practices of culture(s)
  • Identifies the beliefs, views, values and practices that form a culture
  • Identifies other significant elements of culture (e.g., religion, clothing, food, language, family, history, economics)
  • Explains cultural similarities and differences
  • Explains similarities between, among and/or within cultures
  • Explains differences between, among and/or within cultures
  • Explains the ways in which culture shapes perceptions and worldview
  • Demonstrates sensitivity to other cultures by displaying self-reflection, introspection and appreciation of cultural differences
  • Recognizes one's own biases, prejudices, ethnocentric views, stereotypes, etc. through self-reflection and introspection
  • Evaluates the effects one's own cultural values have on their perception of other cultures
  • Analyzes and appreciates cultural differences

 

The following courses focus on women's and gender studies:

Anthropology

ANTH-1010  Cultural Anthropology
ANTH-2010   Peoples and Cultures of the World

History

HIST-2070 African American Women's History
HIST-2660 Women in American History

Sociology

SOC-1010  Introductory Sociology
SOC-2020   Sociology of the Family
SOC-2210 Dating and Intimate Relationships
SOC-2410 Sociology of Gender

Women's Studies

WST-1510 Introduction to Women's Studies
WST-1520  Women's Films
WST-179H Honors Contract: Women's Study
WST-1820 Independent Study/Research in Women's Studies
WST-182H Honors Independent Study/Research in Women's Studies
WST-200H Honors Women and Reform
WST-2010 Women in the World
WST-2020 Women, Science and Technology
WST-2030 Women and Art
WST-2120 Women and Politics
WST-279H Sophomore Honors Contract
WST-2820 Independent Advanced Study/Research in Women's Studies
WST-282H Honors Independent Advanced Study/Research in Women's Studies
WST-2850 Practicum — Women's Studies

 

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