Gender Studies End of Course Reflection

 
Due:​ By the end of class on Monday May, 14th. 
 
Directions:​ Please answer the following questions. Each response should be 4-6 sentences. 
Please submit your responses through Google Classroom. 
 
Summary of course: 
Unit 1: Gender stereotypes, gender in the  Materials:​ Miss Representation, The Mask 
media, and violence against women  You Live In, gender in the media poems, 
human sex trafficking, domestic violence 
case studies, violence against women, 
sexual assault, pay gap, consent 

Unit 2: LGBTQ history and the gender  Materials:​ Stonewall Uprising film, AIDS 
spectrum  crisis carousel, LGBTQ struggles carousel 
(Don't ask don't tell, DOMA, Westboro 
Baptist Church, "Religious Freedom" Acts, 
Conversion Therapy), trans rights, Pulse 
shooting and what caused it, Gender 
Revolution documentary 

Unit 3: Intersectionality: class, race,  Materials: ​Privilege Test, Wealth inequality 

gender, sexuality  in America video, Roger and Me, racism in 
housing industry, The New Jim Crow, the 
documentary 13th, Bob the striped 
triangle, heterosexual privilege reading 
 
 
Questions: 
 

1. What is your major takeaway from unit 1? In other words, what did you learn about gender

stereotypes and the effect that they have on our society? ​Use specific examples.

What I learned from unit one is that gender stereotypes are most likely not true. They

come from old mentality. Like for example women are meant to stay at home to cook and clean

because men thought they didn’t have the ability to work. That was a norm developed a great

time ago.
2. What is your major takeaway from unit 2? What is something new that you learned about the

LGBTQIA community? ​Use specific examples.​ (You will not get credit for saying “I learned

nothing new”). My major takeaway from Unit two is that the LGBT community had to go

through a lot of pain and fight for a right that every person should have. For example Stonewall

riot. A riot that happened just because the police did not want to let LGBT community members

dance and party freely.

3. How would you say this course change who you are and how you see the world? ​Please be

specific.​ Feel free to say “Before taking this course I……but now I…

Before I took the class I didn’t notice little gender stereotypes on show and movies, and I didn’t

really understand what the LGBT community had to go through. After taking the class when I

hear gender stereotypes I think to myself that not true and that Sye would not think that is okay.

Also now I really understand why LGBT members are considered a minority but just like

colored people they had to fight and go through a lot.