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Aug 31, 2024
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2024-2025 Catalog
Arts and Sciences Transfer - Gender and Sexuality Studies (A.A.)
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Official Title of Major: Arts and Sciences - Gender and Sexuality Studies, A.A.
Award: Associate of Arts degree, A.A.
Code: AA.ARTS-SCI.GSS
Total Credit Hours: 60
About the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
Purpose: To provide concentrated study of gender and sexuality within a larger liberal arts focus. This option is suitable for students who want to pursue a profession where the demonstration of specialized training in issues related to gender and sexuality is an asset, and/or for students who intend to transfer to a 4-year institution, but who have not decided on a specific major or career path and so prefer a interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary field of study. Because Gender and Sexuality Studies courses teach widely-applicable skills like critical thinking, problem solving, understanding other viewpoints, effective communication, and ethical decision making, this option is strong preparation for many career fields and for students who plan to pursue graduate or professional school degrees. The focus on issues of equity and inclusion make this option particularly useful for those who wish to work on social justice issues.
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Online Degrees and Credit Certificates
This program can be completed fully online. Some online courses may require proctored exams or on-campus assessments at a testing center.
Planning Tool: Two-Year Sequence of Courses
Arts and Sciences Transfer Program Core Course Requirements
The Program Requirements for this degree are simultaneously satisfied by three of the General Education Requirements listed below: (1) the Communication Arts and Humanities general education requirement, (2) the Sophomore Literature Arts and Humanities general education requirement, and (3) one of the History Social and Behavioral Sciences general education requirement courses (HIS 111 or HIS 112 or HIS 113 or HIS 114 or HIS 211 or HIS 212 or HIS 214 .)
Arts and Humanities: 6 credits
Mathematics: 3 credits
Students must choose one Mathematics course from the following: Social and Behavioral Sciences: 6 credits
Additional General Education Courses: 6 credits
Area of Concentration: 26 credits
Required courses: 6 credits
Choose one course from the following: 3 credits
Choose one course from the following: 3 credits
GSS Electives: 6 credits
Students should check with GSS Coordinator to determine which course is most appropriate depending on the student’s chosen transfer institution.
Electives: 8 credits
Students should check with GSS Coordinator to determine which course is most appropriate depending on the student’s chosen transfer institution. No more than 3 credits of physical activity courses may be used as electives.
Technology Requirement
All students in associate degree programs must satisfy the Technology Requirement . In many cases, students may satisfy this requirement simultaneously as they satisfy a general education course requirement or with an elective.
Wellness Requirement
Satisfied by GSS 113 . Program Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Explain the significance of social diversity and the ways in which cultural values are historically and socially situated.
- Explain the ways in which gender and sexuality intersect with race, ethnicity, class, dis/ability, religion, and other variables of identity.
- Apply the concepts of structural inequality, power, privilege, and oppression to explain difference.
- Explain the role of gender and sexuality in the construction of individual identities, interpersonal relationships, and social institutions.
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