Free Gender Studies Courses

The final segment of the Women Have Always Worked series begins with an examination of how the Cold War reinforced the ideals of the suburban, nuclear family and how these ideals impacted women's trajectory towards independence and equality.

This course examines the contributions of women artists throughout history and addresses the question of why women’s art has been ignored or denigrated in the study and criticism of art.

The goal of this course is to explore the psychology of gender through an understanding of biological and archetypal dimensions of Female/Male, Feminine/Masculine and contra-sexuality as a basis for gender differences, social behaviors, roles and public policies.

The 19th Amendment– women's right to vote–is our launching point for Course 3. As new cultural and economic opportunities emerged for women in the 1920s, so too did racial, familial, and legal structures place constraints on that independence.

Course two departs from the Civil War, examining how gender shaped women's work outside the home in the late 19th century. We will learn about how gender influenced the shape of the labor force.

Independent student research and writing in addition to a seminar style classroom atmosphere for the study of selected texts and / or topics from either or both testaments, thematically arranged to emphasize biblical, historical and / or systematic theology.

After surveying the the emergence of women's history as an academic field and its impact on the study of history as a whole, we begin course one with the experiences of women in Colonial America.

Dr. Tim Muehlhoff takes an advanced look at the intersecting worlds of communication and gender studies.

Feminism and Social Justice is an adaptation of Distinguished Professor Bettina Aptheker's long-running course at UC Santa Cruz.

This course focuses on women's health and human rights issues from infancy through old age, including information about positive interventions relating to those issues.