Abstract
Gender is a topic wellsuited for an experiential learning approach in an undergraduate course; students often take gender differences for granted because of their ubiquity and popular perceptions that they are natural, "cultural," or predominantly psychological. [...]the professor wanted to bring a cross-cultural perspective to the course to help emphasize and illustrate the dynamics of gender in the Unted States, particularly as it is socially constructed among immigrant and nativeborn people and may change in the process of migration. A decision about goal ranking provides a consistent guidepost for the decisions that inevitably arise during planning and throughout the course. [...]when the goal ranking is made explicit to the different interests involved-students and partner organization(s)-their expectations may be clearer and in turn better met by the experience. According to this group of students, this lesson made them more engaged in their own contribution to LU. [...]she did not gain substantial insights from the interviews she did and turned to work on the survey project.