GBL 161 PREPARATORY SEMINAR FOR SEX, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS

This course helps prepare students academically, inter-culturally, linguistically and logistically for their short-term global experience. The seminar is offered on campus in the semester prior to the 4 sh global engagement experience. Completion of the pre-departure preparatory seminar is required for participation in GBL 261 SEX, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS. 

Credits

1

Course Types

Society

Offered

• Fall

Notes

As a course within the WGSS interdisciplinary field, this course clearly examines the human experience, including the individual, social, and cultural contexts of that experience, as their primary content area.

1. Students will be able to identify gender, sexuality, and sexual practices as complicated, socially-constructed aspects of identity and desire in their own culture to enable them to compare and contrast with manifestations of that construction in the host culture.
2. Students will gain a cross-cultural knowledge of different approaches to understanding and regulating, sex, gender, and sexuality.
3. Students will be able to describe U.S. approaches to sex & sexuality education, sex work, gender identities, and sexualities and will examine how these differences impact outcomes and policies related to public health, mental health, education, economy, and labor. This examination will provide the foundation for a cross-cultural comparison during the abroad portion of the course.
4. Students will be able to understand and describe one’s or a group’s social position through an intersectional lens.
5. Students will be able to connect course work to their lived experience, the lived experiences of others, and larger social constructs, structures, and systems. Students will be able to describe the social structures and systems that contribute to differences in access to sex and sexuality education, approaches to sex work, and degrees of sexual health within the U.S.