Gender & Society
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Gender & Society

Issued by Quinnipiac University

This micro-credential is awarded to learners who demonstrate competencies surrounding contemporary issues of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies in local and global contexts. Learners gain nuanced, interdisciplinary understandings of various concepts and are able to analyze current social and political issues through a contemporary lens to address inequity and oppression. Learners are able to identify social problems across institutions and apply new knowledge in a range of contexts.

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  • Learners complete a project (e.g., digital story, short film, poster presentation) where they identify a social/structural problem based on gender/sexual inequality, provide historical/background information about the problem, demonstrate how various disciplines both view and understand the problem, identify steps to resolve or lessen inequality, analyze why or how this process is or is not currently taking place, and discuss how this problem intersects with one’s own context or setting.
  • Learners must complete two courses from two different disciplines chosen from an identified list of courses related to gender, sexuality, and women's studies.
  • This micro-credential is associated with academic credit.
  • Assessment of completion of micro-credential requirements is completed by a faculty panel and through course faculty.