PLSC 2660 Feminist Political Thought

Project Summary

The course was designed to foster cross-cultural dialogue and collaborative learning around issues of gender, identity, and power. Students will meet in small, mixed groups on a weekly basis to complete structured assignments, starting with icebreakers and progressing to comparative discussions on gendered political experiences in their respective countries. The course will culminate in a creative group project, potentially a digital magazine, website, or video that captures the students' comparative reflections on feminist issues across cultural contexts.

Project Length

• 4-5 weeks

Learning Outcomes

• Students will develop global self awareness, through increased understanding of gendered identity, expression, and oppression in a global context.
• Students will cultivate their skills in perspective taking by comparing and contrasting gendered experience across diverse perspectives.
• Students will gain a deeper awareness of cultural diversity through intercultural discussions of the power structures of feminist experience and practice.
• (for partner's course) Students will gain English language practice with native speakers.
• (for my course) Students will understand some main theoretical debates around feminist theory and be familiar with examples from the political world (especially inboth the United States and Mexico) to which the debates speak.

Technology Tools Used

• Zoom
• Google Docs
• Padlet

Interaction Mode

• Asynchronous
• Synchronous