Yuming Liu 1630005 Professor Arthur Writ 2-Essay One Oct 31,2018 Xxx Hi Katharine Mitchell, I am Jessica Waldorf, a scholar research in Sex and Gender for 5 years, who just travel to Santa Cruz. And I write this paper for suggesting that UCSC should add a new major or some courses for students, which deal with the topic of Sex and Gender. Over the last couple of years, significant changes have taken place in the world. As the world has entered the “Internet Age”, it has changed the entire face of the world, how life used to be and how things are right now. With this border context, some emerging problems which might be only cared for by a small group of people might evolve a heated discussion. Nowadays, with more and more incident and city news came out, like Harvey Weinstein’s and Trump’s sexual harassment news, more and more people start to care about “Sex and Gender” problems. What’s more, recently, in the scientific community, interdisciplinary research become a general trend of subject development. Because of this, the research of “Sex and Gender” as a cross-disciplinary subject must have more and more scientists to commit. The importance of Sex and Gender research can also be understood by the statement of Carol Colaterlla who is the associate dean at the Ivan Allen CLA and also co-director of the Center for the Study of Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, “Gender students as a field illustrates the potential of interdisciplinary scholarship in today’s scientific and technical university” (Carol, 2014). How can we miss the chance to build up such a subject, which is popular and have scientific research value, in such a beautiful campus? In the United States, sex and gender education has always remained a hot debate or issue. “While the debate about sex and gender studies are mostly related to grad school and high school, there were rarely any talk about the discussion of sex and gender course at the collegiate level or graduation level” (Sollie, Donna & Kaetz, 1992). This actually tells a lot about as educationists and as a nation, we have failed to understand the importance of this education for students and how it will help them in the rest of their lives. Because of the resource available nowadays, there remains no reason why gender and sex courses should not become a part of educational institutions and teach to students. This is a humble effort of convincing the school to include gender and sex courses in their curriculum and play their part in educating students and prepare them for life completely. It should be taught as an essential course to all students – regardless of their fields. Just like language composition, report writing and math is taught to every student, sex and gender courses should also be introduced in the school. This task can be accomplished by creating multiple courses that meet the health science general education requirements. Although, we are always debate about when sex education shoul.

1. Yuming Liu
1630005
Professor Arthur
Writ 2-Essay One
Oct 31,2018
Xxx
Hi Katharine Mitchell,
I am Jessica Waldorf, a scholar research in Sex and Gender for
5 years, who just travel to Santa Cruz. And I write this paper
for suggesting that UCSC should add a new major or some
courses for students, which deal with the topic of Sex and
Gender.
Over the last couple of years, significant changes have taken
place in the world. As the world has entered the “Internet Age”,
it has changed the entire face of the world, how life used to be
and how things are right now. With this border context, some
emerging problems which might be only cared for by a small
group of people might evolve a heated discussion. Nowadays,
with more and more incident and city news came out, like
Harvey Weinstein’s and Trump’s sexual harassment news, more
and more people start to care about “Sex and Gender” problems.
What’s more, recently, in the scientific community,
interdisciplinary research become a general trend of subject
development. Because of this, the research of “Sex and Gender”
as a cross-disciplinary subject must have more and more
scientists to commit. The importance of Sex and Gender
research can also be understood by the statement of Carol
Colaterlla who is the associate dean at the Ivan Allen CLA and
also co-director of the Center for the Study of Technology at the

2. Georgia Institute of Technology, “Gender students as a field
illustrates the potential of interdisciplinary scholarship in
today’s scientific and technical university” (Carol, 2014). How
can we miss the chance to build up such a subject, which is
popular and have scientific research value, in such a beautiful
campus?
In the United States, sex and gender education has always
remained a hot debate or issue. “While the debate about sex and
gender studies are mostly related to grad school and high
school, there were rarely any talk about the discussion of sex
and gender course at the collegiate level or graduation level”
(Sollie, Donna & Kaetz, 1992). This actually tells a lot about as
educationists and as a nation, we have failed to understand the
importance of this education for students and how it will help
them in the rest of their lives. Because of the resource available
nowadays, there remains no reason why gender and sex courses
should not become a part of educational institutions and teach
to students. This is a humble effort of convincing the school to
include gender and sex courses in their curriculum and play
their part in educating students and prepare them for life
completely. It should be taught as an essential course to all
students – regardless of their fields. Just like language
composition, report writing and math is taught to every student,
sex and gender courses should also be introduced in the school.
This task can be accomplished by creating multiple courses that
meet the health science general education requirements.
Although, we are always debate about when sex education
should be taught to student and what age is the most appropriate
for them to be taught about what sex and gender is and their
importance, it is seldom talked about how much crucial it is for
students to understand this concept thoroughly before being
forced by the society or traditions to follow what they believe is
right (Stephen, 2005) . The addition of “Sex and Gender”
courses can definitely help those students who have a little bit
confuse about those problems like “Who I Am?” or “Am I

3. Boy/Girls?” find their answer about that problem. And for
students who don’t have such confusion, these courses may help
them learn themselves better. Several research studies have
been conducted to emphasize how sex and gender education can
help students in changing their perspective in the United States
since sex education has been introduced in the 1970s. An
article, ‘The Impact of a Human Sexuality College Course
According to Gender: Comparisons of the 1970s and the 1990s’
published in 2003 explored how the subject sex and gender
course impacted the perceptions of the students. Another
research was conducted by researchers Barbara Rabinowitz,
Mary F. Ruckstuhl and David Weis worked on similar grounds
in ‘Individual Human Sexuality Courses’. The research found
out that students had a noticeable difference in their attitudes
after completing human sexuality and gender courses and that
female gender showed more impact.
When gender and sex are introduced at school as a major, it
could be divided into a number of courses so that students
enroll themselves in the major just like any other major such as
math or economics. For instance, the introductory course detail
the difference between sex and gender or what is the difference
between a transgender and intersex person.
When we discuss gender and sexuality studies are being done,
the first step is to understand what is meant by gender studies.
In gender studies, students will be first taught about
interdisciplinary approaches to inequality and gender (Steven &
Fischer, 2011). His next course can deal with the gender
socialization and generalizations, the course will be dedicated
on how genders and sex play a pivotal role in an individual’s
life and govern the way they act in the society. The third course
could be about how the gender is more than just the physical
appearance and give a detailed account of how people deal with
gender issues, the concept of gender fluidity and how there are
more genders than just the basic tow. As the student start to

4. transition towards the mid-level courses, they can be taught on
specific topics such as a gender and disability, gender in
different parts of the world and the stigmas attached to both sex
and gender. The courses will also lay out the history of gender
and the research that has been conducted on gender and sex in
the past. The theory courses of the sex and gender major will
also cover the several important movements of history and how
they tried to change the world for the better. Movements like
feminism can be shed light on and discussed in detail.
Sex and gender as a major can give students the insights about
how they can shackle the gender roles assigned to them,
understand themselves better and also select gender studies as a
career in professional life. It empowers them as adults once they
have entered their practical life into having more empathy
towards people who are from different sexual orientations,
genders, and belong from LGBTQ community. Colleges are
perceived as placed where students deconstruct the world as
they see it, question everything and start afresh. The course sex
and gender provides students with insights about what questions
to ask from the world and the educators, how to get a firm
understanding about the social systems. It also trained students
reflective ability imperceptibly. The lasting benefits of sex and
gender education can be felt in every avenue of life, how the
students communicate with each other, how they interact with
others at a workplace and positive shifts in their overall social
values. Sex and gender courses will educate students and
provide them with more acceptance and inclusiveness towards
people from other backgrounds, and gender. The major and
courses will not only give students show more empathy towards
other genders but also in general towards everyone. There is no
doubt about the fact that the students are aware of their
surroundings and people of different preferences, the better
citizens and humans they can become.
It is hoped that after going through the different arguments that

5. have been given in the letter, the school administration is
convinced to include sex and gender as a major and also
introduce it as a major for students enrolled in school.
References
Colatrella, Carol. "Why STEM Students Need Gender Studies."
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Sollie, Donna L., and Julie F. Kaetz. "Teaching University-
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Valocchi, Stephen. "Not Yet Queer Enough: The Lessons Of
Queer Theory for the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality."
Gender & Society 19.6 (2005): 750-70. Print.
Seidman, Steven, and Nancy Fischer. Introducing the New
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