Open when gep_category = HUM
Each course in the Humanities category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = MATH
Each course in the Mathematial Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = NATSCI
Each course in the Natural Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = SOCSCI
Each course in the Social Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Explain the role of gender within American political institutions and within mass political behavior.
Paper assignment: What is the gender gap in mass political participation and why does it exist? What is the political knowledge gap and how is it related to the gap in participation?
Paper assignment: Why are women half the population but only 24% of state legislators, only 20% of Congress and 0% of Presidents/VP’s ever? Make sure you also address why these percentages are different at every level of office.
Properly use and critically evaluate political science data on gender and politics (e.g., public opinion polls, turnout figures, etc.)
Test question using instructor-provided data. "What factors do you think may account for women’s equal participation in turnout, but lower participation in political discussion as reflected in the data presented above?”
Analyze the impact of gender on issues of contemporary public policy.
Paper assignment: Propose a policy reform for a policy area affecting women or men in an unfair/disproportionate way that you think needs improvement/reform. What are the key issues involved in this policy area? Why do you think this reform would be needed? How/why would it improve things for women/men? What would be the prospects for this reform in becoming law?
Open when gep_category = INTERDISC
Each course in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = VPA
Each course in the Visual and Performing Arts category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = HES
Each course in the Health and Exercise Studies category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Open when gep_category = GLOBAL
Each course in the Global Knowledge category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve objective #1 plus at least one of objectives 2, 3, and 4:
Please complete at least 1 of the following student objectives.
Open when gep_category = USDIV
Each course in the US Diversity category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following
objectives:
Please complete at least 2 of the following student objectives.
Analyze the impact of gender on issues of contemporary public policy, especially as they relate to issues of gender equality.
Paper Assignment: Propose a policy reform for a policy area affecting women or men in an unfair/disproportionate way that you think needs improvement/reform. What are the key issues involved in this policy area? Why do you think this reform would be needed? How/why would it increase gender equality? What would be the prospects for this reform in becoming law?
Interpret and explain how the waves of the women’s movement have shaped the pursuit for legal, political, and social equality within the American political context.
Sample test question: "When you get down to it, women can bear children and men cannot." How does this fact shape what we have learned about this semester—especially in the areas of public policy? How have the various waves of the women's movement differed in their policy-relevant views of this fact? What does this fact suggest about possibilities for future advances and change in the social and political equality of women? Make sure you are supporting your answer with evidence and methods derived from course material.