Women in the World (WLD 120)

This interdisciplinary course highlights the contributions of women across cultures, examines the status of and conditions for women globally, and analyzes the systemic forces affecting those conditions. Students read autobiographies of women in different parts of the world to familiarize themselves with the lives of women in different cultures, for example: Rachel Caloff's Story, I - Rigoberta Menchu and First They Killed My Father. Students then prepare presentations to share with the community at the annual WORLD Conference.

When students complete Women in the World (WLD 120), they will have learned:

• to analyze and understand the systemic forces affecting women in social institutions,
• to see and understand the status and conditions for women globally,
• to become aware of contributions of women across cultures and disciplines.

Since this course is intended to be taken within the first two years, any student with 12 or more credits earned at The Sage Colleges or 24 accumulated credits, who has not yet received credit for or been waived from WLD 120, must register for the course in the next available semester, and continue to register for it each semester thereafter until taken and passed. (Waived for all second baccalaureate degree students. Waived for all transfer students with a comparable course, or an associate degree, or 54 or more transferred credits at the time of matriculation.)