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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to current debates and scholarship in the field of women and sport. The course examines the cultural production of the female athlete and explores the underpinning historical, social, economic and political implications of women in sports. Topics include: media representations of female athletes, media coverage of women's sport, women's sporting bodies, female physicality, and theiconic image of the athlete in U.S. culture. Prerequisite(s) WST 2500 (C) or CMS 2100 (C) or CMS 2010 (C) or SOSC 2501 (C) or AFAM 2010 (C)
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3.00 Credits
This course will review recent scholarship on globalization, gender and culture in several advanced and developing countries. Putting gender at the center of globalization discourses highlights the historical and cultural variability of gender relations intersecting with class, race and nationality, and highlights the impact of restructuring on workers, organizations and institutions at the local, national and regional levels. Topics for the course will include: ERSAP (Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Programs), transnational families, migration, global gender gap, sex segregated employment, the service economy, and cultural flow of commodities, capital, information, technology, and labor. Prerequisite(s) WST 2500 (C) or CMS 2100 (C) or CMS 2010 (C) or SOSC 2501 (C) or AFAM 2010 (C)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with a better understanding of the unique positionalities and standpoints of women of colors living in the U.S. and focuses on Native American, African American, Latina and Asian American women. The historical and contemporary experiences of U.S. women of colors will be at the center of the course, and students will use critical theories of race, class, gender and sexuality to examine these experiences in terms of the contributions U.S. women of colors have made in shaping the nation. Course content and class discussions will focus on visual representations, ethnographies and writings of U.S. women of colors. Prerequisite(s) WST 2500 (C) or CMS 2100 (C) or CMS 2010 (C) or SOSC 2501 (C) or AFAM 2010 (C)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of western and nonwestern feminist thinkers from a variety of disciplines. Students will be trained to use theory as a tool of analysis. Through the lens of interdisciplinary feminist theory students will critically examine and explore global, social, and cultural issues. Prerequisite(s): WST 2500 (C) or PHIL 2201 (C) or PHIL 2401 (C).
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the intersection of media culture (i.e., production, representation, reception, and identity), commercial media imperatives, feminism, and gender, examining the development, direction and contributions of scholarly/research approaches to these areas. Topics include: feminist media histories, gender roles in the media, feminist cultural studies, women and advertising, cultivation theory, the culture industry, agency through consumption and decades of women on television. Prerequisite(s): WST 2500 (C) or CMS 2100 (C) or CMS 2010 (C) or SOSC 2501 (C) or AFAM 2010 (C)
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3.00 Credits
This course will be conducted as a revolving- topics seminar that may be repeated when topics vary. Topics will address relevant themes in Women's Studies; for example, possible themes might include major historical and/or cultural movements, women's work, women's creative works, representations of women, or women incross- cultural perspectives, as facilitated by the direction and expertise of the instructor. Prerequisite(s): WST 2500 (C).
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