GENDER AND EDUCATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the role schools and education play in enhancing or reproducing gender inequality Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain theories on the social construction of gender and sexuality Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe and reflect on the history of the gender equity movement in education Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Read, discuss, and write about research on students with diverse gender and sexual identities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop analytical skills necessary to think about intersectional identities how they are tied to students’ experiences in education Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Explain and analyze pedagogical approaches and school policies’ effects on learners of diverse gender and sexual identities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Analyze the role that educational research, policies and practices play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating gender inequities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Build the skills necessary to apply these concepts and approaches to our own final research project on a gender related topic Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 9. Read and evaluate scholarly research in the fields of education, sociology, feminist studies, anthropology, etc Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the role schools and education play in enhancing or reproducing gender inequality Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain theories on the social construction of gender and sexuality Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe and reflect on the history of the gender equity movement in education Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Read, discuss, and write about research on students with diverse gender and sexual identities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop analytical skills necessary to think about intersectional identities how they are tied to students’ experiences in education Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Explain and analyze pedagogical approaches and school policies’ effects on learners of diverse gender and sexual identities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Analyze the role that educational research, policies and practices play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating gender inequities Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Build the skills necessary to apply these concepts and approaches to our own final research project on a gender related topic Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 9. Read and evaluate scholarly research in the fields of education, sociology, feminist studies, anthropology, etc Audience: Graduate