General Education Courses 

 Courses that qualify for general education credit

Courses within a student's department shall not count as fulfilling general education requirements. (This restriction only applies to one major. For students with a double major, courses in the second major could count in fulfilling their requirements.)

General Education Introductory Courses

      WOM S 190 The American Woman in Popular Culture.(3)

General education introductory course. Examines how women of various races, classes, and ethnicities are represented in a wide variety of popular media. Encourages the critical analysis of why and how these popular representations are politically and socially significant in shaping society's perceptions of "the American woman." Also explores women's genres.

    WOM S 287 Women in Society: Social Issues. (3)

General education introductory course. Examines women's efforts to claim their identity from historical, legal and social perspectives. Includes recent laws relating to women; contemporary issues (such as rape, day care, working women, the future of marriage); agencies for change; theories of social change; and the relationship of women's rights to human rights.

General Education Further Studies Courses

    WOM S 240 Minority Women in America. (3)

Cross listed as ETH S 240. General Education further studies course. An examination of the lives, talents and contributions made by minority women to the American culture. an analysis of the misconceptions about minority women that have been generated and perpetuated through the ages by providing accurate information about their lives and attitudes. to help people better relate to minority women in America and understand their attitudes, sensitivities and emotions.

    WOM S 338 Philosophy of Feminism. (3)

Cross-listed as PHIL 338. General education further studies course. An exploration of philosophical issues raised by the feminist movement emphasizing conceptual and ethical questions.

    WOM S 361 Women and Work. (3)

General Education further studies course. Examines the image and reality of women's employment form minimum wage work to corporate board rooms, as well as women's unpaid work. It explores the impact of cultural values, societal arrangements, and public policy on occupations, wages, and family life.

  WOM S 387 Women in Society: Cultural Images. (3)

General education further studies course. Examines the roots of ideas about women in our society and women's responses to those ideas as they have attempted to define themselves. Emphasizes cultural images of women in literature, art, myth, philosophy, religion, psychology, education and politics. Also considers women in other cultures and other times and contemporary women's visions of an alternative future.

  WOM S 391 Women's Global Issues. (3)

General education further studies course. Explores women's issues form a global perspective in relation to policies approved by the International Women's Decade conferences of the United Nations. Emphasizes understanding the impact of nationalism, race, class and cultural values in creating obstacles to women's full participation in society. Explores strategies for achieving full human rights for women. Prerequisites: one course in women's studies and one course in history or political science.

  WOM S 511 Women in Early America 1600-1830 (3)

 General education further studies course.Traces women's contributions and experiences in building the U.S., from 1600 to the 1830's. Includes both conventional and newly developed methodologies in women's history research.

  WOM S 516 Sociology of Sex Roles. (3)

Cross-listed as Soc. 516. General education further studies course. Analyzes the institutional sources of man's and woman's roles, the source of changes in these roles, the consequent ambiguities and conflicts. Prerequisite: SOC 111

 General Education Issues and Perspectives Courses

  WOM S 534 Psychology of Women. (3)

Cross-listed as Psy 534. General education issues and perspectives course. Psychological assumptions, research and theories of the roles, behavior and potential of women in contemporary society. Prerequisite: PSY 111

  WOM S 541 Women, Children and Poverty. (3)

General education issues and perspectives course. Cross-listed as SOC WK 541. Addresses the problem of poverty among women in the U.S. today and e examines existing and proposed public policies designed to alleviate the problem. Explores theoretical models of poverty policy analysis and the role of values in their formulation and implementation. Discusses issues of age, race, and family; special attention to poverty among Kansas families. Prerequisites: 6 hours of social science

WOM S 586 Gender, Race, and Knowledge. (3)

General education issues and perspectives course. Examines the impact of gender, and race on knowledge (understanding of objects, people, events, and activities.) Assumes that gender, race, and knowledge are socially constructed categories. Concerned with science as a practice of representation. Focuses on the ñwhite masculinistî ideas or beliefs that motivate and affect the practice of academic disciplines. Considers: What is the relationship between the making of masculinity and femininity and science? How are gender and race woven into science and social science and with what results? Does the entrance of white women and people of color into sciences and humanities change how that are practiced? Do they produce significantly different understanding about the world? Central premise is that all knowledge emerges from some type of love or passion. What types of passion produce knowers, knowing and the known?