Request to Approve Course for Women’s Studies Credit
Course number: _________________ Course Name: _________________________________________________________
Instructor Name: ________________________________ Department: __________ Semester to be offered: _________
Note: All courses are approved for a 5 year period.
Please answer the following questions. Use additional pages if necessary. A syllabus may also be provided, but is not required.
1.
Briefly describe your course (or attach a syllabus with a course description):
2.
Please provide a likely readings/authors list and outline major assignments/workload (or attach a syllabus with this
information):
3.
Please list your SLOs and/or course goals and discuss how they reflect the SLOs and/or mission statement of the Women’s
Studies program (see p 2 for WS SLO’s and mission statement):
4.
Please list any previous courses taught on this topic or publications in this area (or attach a 2 p cv with this information):
5.
If this is an undergraduate course: which cluster would you like this course to be listed under? (Check one):
[ ] Theory and Construction of Identity
[ ] Law and the Public Arena
[ ] Arts and Representations
[ ] Health, Science, and Technology
[ ] Social Change, Social Justice, and Education
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For Women’s Studies office use only
Curriculum Committee: (Circle one) reject/accept/return for changes
WS faculty: (Circle one) reject/accept/return for changes
Director: (Circle one) reject/accept/return for changes
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Women’s Studies Department, KSU
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of the Women’s Studies major, students will be able to:
1. analyze the ways in which identity, culture, and society are structured by intersections
of social categories (such as gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, global location,
coloniality)
2. create and articulate verbal and written ideas and arguments related to Women’s
Studies research and scholarship
3. demonstrate knowledge of historical and contemporary social relations, hierarchies of
power, resistances, and movements
4. understand and apply feminist and related theories, methodologies, and methods
5. demonstrate ability to assess needs, develop (or design), and implement plans related to
women’s needs and goals
MISSION STATEMENT:
Women's Studies is an academic discipline that uses the social construction of gender as the framework for understanding the social
and cultural milieu in which women live. This framework examines gender in the context of diversity, including the variables of
class, race, age, ethnicity, nationality, and sexual identity.
The mission of the Women's Studies Department is to stimulate an on-going campus-wide examination of diversity issues focused on
but not limited to gender, to provide students with a critical framework with which to examine themselves and their society, to
promote interdisciplinary research that incorporates the social construction of gender, and to prepare students for careers and/or
graduate study in a variety of disciplines and professions.