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Jul 31, 2025
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PSC 1902 - WOMEN, POLITICS, AND PUBLIC VOICE
credits: 3.0
In this term III class, will carry out two parallel projects: understanding more about women’s public voice in politics, and developing students’ own skills of self-expression. Themes of study will include women’s voting patterns, research on gender in the workplace and other small-group dynamics, and public perceptions of women in elected office, as well as biographies of women in political leadership today. Students will identify and clarify their own political positions and build skills to express those views orally and in writing. Students will learn strategies for listening to and understanding a range of views that may be different from their own. Objectives: A) Recognize the role of civil discourse in a democratic society; B) Identify key scholarship on interactional-level gender processes; C) Identify key scholarship on political polarization; D) Demonstrate information literacy skills; E) Analyze current political issues; F) Construct cohesive oral and written positions. Method of Instruction: Will be delivered through a combination of lectures, group discussions, readings, and attention to current events. Throughout the course, students will work on a four-part project where they identify political issues they find significant, clarify their own positions on current affairs, construct a solid argument about a specific current political issue, and discuss that issue at length with their colleagues. Students will have the opportunity to learn strategies for listening to and understanding a range of unfamiliar and varied political perspectives. Method of Evaluation: 10% participation and attendance; 20% quizzes and short written responses to readings; 40% written project, completed in four-stages; 20% oral presentation of issues, including discussion assignments; 10% reflection paper.
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