Learning Outcomes for the Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies Major

Students who take Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies courses at PLU will learn how to:

  1. Understand the social construction of gender, sexuality, and race.
  2. Analyze systems of privilege and oppression.
  3. Analyzes how the interdisciplinary field of gender, sexuality and critical race studies questions and transforms the norms of disciplinary knowledge.
  4. Communicate and collaborate across differences.
  5. Practice community-engaged scholarship and coalition building.
  6. Engage in critical imagining to envision alternative futures.

Critical Race Studies Minor Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyze the social construction of race and ethnic identity within an intersectional framework
  2. Understand how racism operates within systems of privilege and oppression
  3. Compare processes of racialization and racial formation across history and geography
  4. Identify collective strategies to resist race-based injustice and to cultivate resilient, diverse communities
  5. Assess the role of critical race studies in questioning and transforming the norms of academic knowledge

Gender and Sexuality Minor Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyze the social construction of gender and sexuality within an intersectional framework
  2. Understand how heterosexism operates within systems of privilege and oppression on individual, interpersonal and social levels
  3. Compare processes of social formation of gender identity and sexual orientation across history and geography
  4. Identify collective strategies to resist gender and sexual injustice and to cultivate inclusive communities
  5. Assess the role of feminist, queer and intersectional theories and pedagogies in transforming the norms of academic knowledge