Hello!

Welcome to WGSS 20, Women of Color! I am Dr. Susana L. Gallardo and I've been teaching in WGSS (Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies) for fifteen years now. Your professor, a 50ish Latina with light brown skin, long black curly hair with a bit of gray, and glasses.

This course is an intro to the historical and contemporary experiences of women of color in the United States. We will analyze interacting inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality and nation to understand how structures of oppression deprivilege and marginalize women of color. We will also look at some amazing women and groups as they have resisted dominant cultures to document their history, incited social change, and lived out their lives with meaning and integrity.

This is a an online hybrid course - meaning that we have one weekly meeting on Zoom on Mondays at 1:30 pm (for section 81) or Tuesdays at 10:30 am (for section 80)--but we will only have one weekly meeting, and the rest of the week you will work on readings and assignments on your own schedule up until the given due dates. The course structure is composed of seven two-week modules. Each module contains reading, lecture, and/or film assignments that you should do the first week. The second week, there is an open-book quiz on Tuesday, and a discussion post or other activity due on Thursday.

This Canvas website will be central to our class as a place of information, learning, and exchange. You will have to check in at least 2-3 times/week, so please look around now and familiarize yourself with the links. You can also get started on the Week 0 module whenever you are ready.

I know this has a been a tumultuous year/s for all of us, so I am glad to be teaching this course online. I realize we are all under different levels of stress as we navigate this transition semester with COVID and all its consequences. Know that I will do everything I can to help you learn and succeed in this class. I will be accessible to you during office hours on Tuesdays 12-2 and by email in general. During regular business hours, I do my best to respond to your email within a day or so.

See you soon!

Dr. Susana L. Gallardo
Office hours: Tues 12-2
* Problems with Canvas? Email ecampus@sjsu.edu or call (408) 924-2337 *