WMST 12/ Introduction to Women’s Studies (4) 
An interdisciplinary course designed to lay the groundwork for the women's studies major and  minor.  Focused principally on the lives and experience of U.S. women, the course has several 
objectives: first, to consider some fundamental questions (What is a woman? What is gender? 
What is sex? How does culture construct gender and gender difference? How do gender, race,  class, ethnicity and sexual orientation intersect and interact?); second, to think about individual 
women's lives using these questions; and third, to introduce analytical and critical 
[skills]concepts and approaches for understanding particular women's lives within larger social,  political and cultural structures — skills that form the basis of further work in women's 
studies.  Required for Women's Studies majors and minors.  Offered spring semester 
annually.