Historical & Contemporary or Behavioral & Social Perspectives

HONS WGST 373-01 // Spring 2021

I know I enjoyed this class a lot more than I was expecting to. At first I signed up because a friend asked me to and to get the honors credit, but I ended up having the best time learning about this topic and I had an amazing professor.

We learned about how reproductive justice changed throughout time, even though we are still fighting for rights and battling issues in today’s society. There were some unbelievable things that happened to women in society in history and I wish it wasn’t true.

At the end of the class, we had to pick a topic and interview someone in that field and in the end, make a podcast episode. My partner and I picked the topic of intimate partner violence and we had an amazing interview with a woman in Farmville who worked for a woman’s shelter. I truly learned so much in this class and I’m very happy I took it.

For homework, we would be given an article, chapter of a book, or another piece of a reading, and we would have to go through an annotated that piece, as shown below. This allowed me to make marking on anything I felt necessary. This gave me the opportunity to really learn new things and really take the time to understand everything that was told. This also added great key points to my sociology class later on and during discussion in class.