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The GenX class schedule allows you to make progress toward meeting your General Education Requirements, as well as participate in dynamic classrooms with fellow GenX students.
Two of your courses (WMST 2051 and WMST 1101) will be taught by the GenX Community Director, Kelly Finley, who will also offer individualized advising for you during the year.
Fall 2009
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WMST 2051
Gender, Activism & Leadership(3)
(Gen Ed/Writing Intensive)
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Kelly Finley
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T/R
3:30-4:45
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Special Course section for GenX only - This course will take students beyond the books and the classroom - into the real life experience of activists, leaders and agents of positive social change. Making the personal political, students enrolled in this course will select and complete a community activism project focusing on a gender issue. For students who actually want to "do something," this course will introduce you to real women and men working on gender issues (body image, politics, domestic violence, art authors, entrepreneurs, rebels, etc). Students will learn the key issues and controversies of past and present feminist/social movements, and what activists are doing today. While exploring the components of ethical leadership, students will learn how to apply classroom theory to the real world around them - gaining academic and professional experience.
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LBST 2101
Western History and Culture (3)
(Gen Ed/LBST Arts)
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Catherine Fuentes
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T/R 11:00- 12:15
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In this course we will examine 21st century concepts of gender (both male and female) in the United States and Europe by locating the historical context of our gender beliefs and associated gender roles. Students will note the specific ways in which various contexts (political, social, economic), both past and present, shape the cultural construction of gender. Explanations for both change and continuity in notions of gender will be examined in addition to current controversial gender topics such as men and women's right over women's body (i.e., abortion, in-vitro fertilization, stem-cell research), the role of women in the military, and women's roles as mothers.
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Spring 2010
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WMST 1101
Introduction to
Women's Studies. (3)
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Kelly Finley
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TBA
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Introduction to values associated with gender and basic issues confronting women in society, from a variety of cultural and feminist perspectives.
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LBST 2000
Ethical Issues (3)
(Gen Ed/LBST Ethics)
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TBA
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TBA
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