| ARH 284 |
Women and Art |
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| ATH 250 |
Anthropology of Sex & Gender |
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A scientific examination of cross-cultural differences in the definition of sex and gender and of the behavior associated with specific gender categories. Topics covered include the distinction between sex and gender; “Third Genders”; household economy and organization; monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry; infanticide; violence and aggression; gender stratification; circumcision and subincision; and the evolution of gender roles in human society. |
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Prerequisite: ATH 112 Cultural Anthropology or SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology |
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Meets general academic requirement W. |
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| COM 374 OR 375 |
Gender, Communication, & Culture |
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Examines gendered forms of communication: differences in how women and men are socialized to think, talk, and make sense in American culture; the implications of these differences for communication; the ways race and social class intersect with these differences; and the ways commercial mass media both cultivate and undermine gendered forms of communication. |
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Prerequisite: COM 101 Introduction to Communication or COM 201 or 202 Media & Society recommended. |
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Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 375. |
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| ECN 247 OR 248 |
Economics of Men & Women at Work |
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An examination and comparison of the behavior and problems of men and women in the economy as workers, consumers, and household members. Economic institutions and outcomes will be analyzed using neoclassical or mainstream economic theories contrasted with newly emerging feminist economic research and theoretical perspectives. Offered in fall semesters of odd numbered years. |
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Prerequisite: ECN 101 Principles of Macroeconomics or ECN 102 Principles of Microeconomics |
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Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 248. |
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| ENG 233 OR 234 |
Women Writers |
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An introduction to women’s writing in English and feminist literary perspectives that highlights the circumstances differentiating women’s and men’s writing and the recovery of once-neglected women’s writing in relation to more familiar work by writers such as Austen, the Brontes, Dickinson, Cather, and Woolf. |
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Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 234 only). |
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| ENG 267 OR 268 |
Literature & Sexuality |
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An exploration of the way literature reflects and shapes understandings, attitudes toward, and representations of sexual identities and practices. |
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Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 268 only). |
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| ENG 330-00 |
19th Century British Fiction: The Evolution of the Heroine (* Fall 08 only) |
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| FLM 382-00 |
Special Topic: Women Filmmakers |
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| HST 114 |
Introduction to History: Women's Spenish Caribbean |
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| HST 327 OR 328 |
Women's America |
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Women, whether as daughters, wives, mothers, workers, scholars, or political activists, have played pivotal roles in American history. This course, an overview of American women’s history from colonial times to the present, examines the variety of women’s experiences through time by analyzing the myriad roles they played in the family, society, economy, and national politics. Specifically, using gender as its primary lens of analysis, this course seeks to uncover the broader contexts of American women’s experience by examining the dynamic interplay of women and men, values and culture, and discussing how structures of power linked especially to gender, but also to class and race, shaped women’s lives and mediated their experiences in the private and public worlds of America. |
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Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 328 only). |
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| HST 382 |
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| HST 387 |
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| PSC 201-00 |
Political Ideologies |
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An examination of the philosophical and historical foundations of major political ideologies of the modern era. Students will investigate how ideologies make claims about human nature, history, and the state; how they attempt to understand the relationship between socio-economic conditions and the state; how they envision a just political order; and how they prescribe and justify programs of action. Among the ideologies examined: liberalism, civic republicanism, conservatism, socialism, communism, anarchism, nationalism, fascism, Nazism, fundamentalism, and feminism. Intended for those planning to major or minor in political
science. |
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| PSC 303 |
Gender, Politics, & Policy |
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Gender both shapes and is shaped by politics. This course explores this fundamental proposition in the context of several primary themes, including feminist political activism in historical perspective; women in American electoral politics (both mass politics and as political elites); globalization and gender equity; and gender and public policy. A major portion of the course is devoted to considering contemporary public policy issues through the lens of gender—as it intersects with race, class, and other social divisions—focusing on policies such as welfare, sexual harassment, reproduction and women’s health, and gender discrimination in sports, education, and the military. |
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Prerequisite: PSC 101 or WST 101 or permission of instructor. |
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Meets general academic requirement B (and W which applies to 304 only). |
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| PSY 211-00 |
Multicultural Psychology |
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| PSY 314 |
Psychology of Women |
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This course will examine theory and research on gender differences, specifically female gender development, taking into consideration biological, cognitive, behavioral, and social influences. Emphasis will be placed on a critical analysis of the assumptions about human behavior and the methods used to test these ideas. Topics include gender-role development, achievement motivation, women and work, sexuality and health, and violence against women. Taught in alternate years. |
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Prerequisite: PSY 101 Introductory Psychology and PSY 103 Psychological Statistics or WST 101 Introduction to Women’s Studies |
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| PBH 100-00 |
Issues in Public Health |
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Using a topical approach, this course is designed to introduce students to the wide variety of disciplines associated with the field of Public Health. Based on the issue or issues selected as the focal point of the course, students will examine the global impact of disease from various points of view—historically, biologically, economically, psychologically, and politically. In doing so, the course will explore the roles of those in Public Health such as epidemiologists, health care managers, media broadcasters, health specialists, environmentalists, and public policy makers in maintaining the health safety of the public. |
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| REL 104 |
Sex, Gender, & Religion |
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Gender and sexuality as fundamental aspects of human experience play important roles in all major religious systems, whether explicit and positive or suppressed and denigrated. In this course we will explore how the varied understandings of gender and sexuality in different cultures and at different times have influenced religious practice and belief, and how, in turn, religions have affected these understandings. We will also consider how this interaction between gender and sexuality and religion has affected the status of men and women in their various roles and orientations. |
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Meets general academic requirement R. |
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| REL 351 |
The Feminine in South Asia |
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This course engages in a close study of the various roles of the feminine in Hindu mythology, religious belief, and practice, including the worship of goddesses and the principle of Shakti, the creative, animating force of the universe. Female identity and the lives of women in the cultures of South Asia are closely examined. Readings are chosen from the study of religion, anthropology, and narrative; film and audio media are also provided. |
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Meets general academic requirement D or R. |
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| REL 353 |
Gender & Sexuality in Judaism |
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In this course we will examine how issues relating to gender and sexuality have influenced Jewish experience. We will discuss a wide range of Jewish history and literature, extending from the Bible to contemporary Jewish culture, in order to gain a broad perspective on how gender and sexuality have played a role in Jewish life and thought over time. We will consider how gender and sexuality relate to questions of power and authority, and we will discuss the ways that bodies, both gendered and sexual, become meaningful in different Jewish contexts. |
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Meets general academic requirement R. |
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| SOC 101-00 |
Introduction to Sociology |
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What is sociology? How do sociologists go about their work? How is society structured? Is inequality an inherent part of human life? How and why do societies change? This course introduces the central concepts and principles of major sociological perspectives. It provides an overview of the study of social institutions, social stratification, and social change. |
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Meets general academic requirement B. |
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| SOC 105 |
The Family |
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A study of the family as a social institution, including its development in the United States and other urban industrial societies and the changes it is currently experiencing. |
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Meets general academic requirement B. |
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| SOC 243 |
Sexuality & Gender |
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| SOC 335 |
Inequality & Power |
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A sociological examination of the various factors underlying differences in wealth, power, and prestige in contemporary urban industrial societies, with emphasis on the dynamics of class, ethnic, racial, and gender stratification. Taught every other year. |
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Prerequisite: SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology |
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| SOC 382 |
Gender & the Health Sciences |
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This class is a sociological examination of the role of the health sciences in the social construct and control of gender. We will explore a wide range of health disciplines (e.g., genetics, public health) and health issues, including those that are traditionally seen as “gendered” (e.g., birth and erectile dysfunction) and seemingly “non-gendered” illness such as heart disease and mental illness. Contemporary notions of health will be contextualized through historical and international comparisons. Special attention will be given to how health-related gender constructs are complicated by race, class, sexuality, age, and ability and to social change efforts aimed at challenging gendered representations of gender health inequality. |
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Prerequisite: SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology |
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| THR 301 OR 302 |
Theories of the Theatre: Feminist Theories |
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This course introduces students to the intellectual viewpoints, critiques, and new questions (and the new objects of study to match the new questions) that have arisen in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries feminist theories of the theatre. In order to move through the theoretical models employed by feminist critics in the theatre, we will begin with those key essays in film theory, semiotics, and materialist analysis that contributed to the current body of theoretical feminist material. Reading theories of reception and representation, of race and whiteness, and of unmaking mimesis, students will become familiar with analyses articulated by contemporary scholars. As objects of study upon which to practice these theoretical approaches, the class will read contemporary plays of feminist writers. In addition, as part of our re-reading of canonical works, students will look at texts such as Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusage (Ladies Day). Reading theoretical essays as well as scripts, we will explore the complex embodiments of gender as performance. Ultimately, we will apply the materialist theories which integrate psychoanalytic approaches with Foucaultian analysis to reveal, through their re-framing, complex processes of making and experiencing theatrical representation. These critical languages will give us the tools to understand the implications of how plays construct our ideas about gender, race, sexuality, class, and national identity. |
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Prerequisite: THR 100 Theatre & Society: An Historical Introduction or permission of instructor |
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Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 302. |
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| WST 101 |
Introduction to Women's Studies |
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Introduction to Women’s Studies introduces students to basic issues, ideas, and approaches in women’s studies and allows students to improve their ability to think critically and write analytically. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of women’s studies, the course also emphasizes library research methods so that students learn to find and use sources and materials from a variety of academic disciplines. Basic issues, concepts, and approaches in women’s studies are introduced by focusing on a specific topic, such as motherhood or women and paid work, and approaching that topic from a variety of perspectives. Throughout the semester, students work on a research paper whose topic is related to the course topic, approaching their specific topic from a variety of perspectives. The course includes interactive pedagogies, such as small group work, so that students learn the interdisciplinary methods of women’s studies by engaging in interdisciplinary research themselves and by considering the research and writing of other students. |
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Meets general academic requirement W. |
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| WST 320 |
Sex, Gender, & Identity |
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An examination of the relationships among bodily sex, gender, personal, and social identity, including sexuality, social contexts, and the operations of power. The goal of the course is to understand and critically analyze the development of gender and sexuality in individuals, the persistence, pervasiveness, and social significance of gender differences, and the intersection of gender, sexuality, and power. Topics include the biological and evolutionary bases of sex and gender, and social psychological, sociological, psychoanalytic, and Foucauldian perspectives on sex, gender, and sexuality. |
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| WST 960 |
Women's Studies Internship |
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Supervised work and/or community service, arranged in consultation with the Director of Women’s Studies. |
2400 Chew St.