Course Description
GENDER AND SEXUALITY, GSST 001S
5 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to theories of sex and gender differences, the origins of patriarchy, and variations in sexual behavior and sexual norms. Credit is awarded for one of the following GSST 001S, GSST 001, or GSST 001H.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Riverside, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: GE-Social Analysis
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units
UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle - 1 Social Science; TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Sixth - 1 course Social Analysis
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: This course will apply to Area D-Social Science and to Ethnicity upon completion
UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: CC
More About The Course
This course provides and introduction to the ways in which gender and sexuality are both influenced by neurobiology, and socially and culturally constructed. Course materials and activities will expose students to research on the sex/gender continuum the ways in which gender and sexuality are produced in and through society, institutions, and our interactions with each other. We will pay particular attention to race, class, location, and other social categories, which intersect with gender and sexuality, further complicating these categories.
Course Creators
Katja Guenther
Juliann Allison
Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Faculty Chair of Sustainability and Director of Global Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her teaching and research emphasizes feminist global political economy, critical environmental justice in the context of air quality and energy politics and policy, and community-based social change. Allison’s current research examines the sustainability of Southern California’s warehousing industry, gender and transitions to renewable energy sources, and ecological grief. Recent work appears in The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics, ed. by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison, The Cost of Free Shipping, ed. by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese, Energy Research and Social Science, the Journal of Labor and Society, and the Journal of Poverty.
Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Faculty Chair of Sustainability and Director of Global Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her teaching and research emphasizes feminist global political economy, critical environmental justice in the context of air quality and energy politics and policy, and community-based social change. Allison’s ...Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Faculty Chair of Sustainability and Director of Global Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her teaching and research emphasizes feminist global political economy, critical environmental justice in the context of air quality and energy politics and policy, and community-based social change. Allison’s current research examines the sustainability of Southern California’s warehousing industry, gender and transitions to renewable energy sources, and ecological grief. Recent work appears in The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics, ed. by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison, The Cost of Free Shipping, ed. by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese, Energy Research and Social Science, the Journal of Labor and Society, and the Journal of Poverty.
