Amy Sneegas
Assistant, Department of Humanities & University Ministry
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About
Identify, evaluate, understand, and analyze our world.
Students pursuing this minor gain a better understanding of gender identity creation and reproduction, the channels by which individuals and society communicate values, normative frameworks of gender and gender-specific acts, and theories of power dynamics inherent in gender definitions.
Program Objectives
- Critically evaluate the social construction of gender roles within a variety of contexts
- Explain gender studies concepts, including the roles of theory and praxis
- Understand the historical and contemporary intersectionality of gender identities with racial, class, religious, and relational identities
- Analyze the values, traditions, and practices that create and re-create gender identities
- Identify the political, social, and economic consequences of gender (students will recognize positions of privilege, disenfranchisement/alienation, and the effects of such power dynamics)
Gender Studies Courses
Meet the Faculty
Dr. Ryan Gibb
Associate Professor of International Studies, Political Science
B.A., M.A. Marquette; Ph.D. University of Kansas
Office: Case 105C
Dr. Tamara Slankard
Professor of English
B.A. Belmont University, M.A. University of Tulsa, Ph.D. and Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Expertise: American literature, modernism, women’s and gender studies, cultural studies
Office: Case 305E
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