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Undergraduate Course Approval Form (Faculty Submission)

Courses approved by the Women's and Gender Studies Programs offer students an opportunity to study gender, sex, or sexuality in different disciplines. WGST-approved courses must have 50% of their content related to gender, sex, or sexuality.
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Learning Outcomes*
All proposals must meet Outcome 1 and ONE additional outcome. Please only choose one additional outcome from 2-4 and give an in-depth explanation, as opposed to checking all of the boxes and giving a cursory explanation.
Application & Activism Elective
Application & Activism electives are a subset of electives that include active learning, activist, or professionalization projects. WGST Bachelor of Science students choose from these electives for their major requirements. Select ONE additional learning outcome for your course to be considered as an Application & Activism elective. (Please only select one and give an in-depth explanation of it). Note: Most courses will not meet this requirement, so carefully consider whether yours does.
Syllabus, Assignments and Practices as Evidence of Student Action Steps: Upload your course syllabus below. WGST-approved courses must demonstrate how students will achieve learning outcomes through their syllabi and assignments. Your syllabus must include a complete schedule of readings and two assignment prompts (assignments may be placed in the box below if not embedded in the syllabus). Be sure that your syllabus clearly indicates the content related to gender, sex, and sexuality and the selected learning outcomes. A list of chapter numbers and page numbers often obscures content for non-specialists. Themes and unit titles can help. A submission will not be approved if the syllabus does not clearly indicate to non-specialists through detailed explanation that 50% of course content relates to gender, sex, or sexuality.

Upload a copy of the course syllabus.

Please attach copies of any relevant assignments/assignment prompts, if they are not included on your syllabus already. It is impossible for us to assesses a course without seeing the assignments that students will complete to demonstrate that they have met our learning outcomes.
Outcome 1: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the social and/or historical construction of gender, sex, or sexuality. Describe what students will produce or the experiences they will have that provide evidence of the learning outcome. Supplemental, non-syllabus evidence may include essay questions, threads, service learning, classroom practice, collaborative learning or other assignments.
Outcome 1: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the social and/or historical construction of gender, sex, or sexuality.
Provide specific examples of the work students will produce that demonstrates their attainment of at least one additional learning outcome through syllabus or supplemental evidence. Examples may include oral presentations, threaded discussion, research questions, advocacy work, interviews or data collection, or creative output, such as the production of a film, new media or digital media, design, choreography, sculpture, or painting.
Please explain clearly how your class meets the 50% threshold of content related to women, gender, and/or sexuality. Please be explicit, especially in the case of texts/readings with which non-specialists may not be familiar (or that do not name women, gender, and/or sexuality in the title). If you use feminist/queer approaches to explore texts that are not explicitly about gender/sexuality, please indicate that here is well.
If applying for the Application & Activism attribute, provide specific examples of the work students will produce that demonstrates their attainment of one of these learning outcomes.