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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to inform students about aging issues that differentially affect women and men. Students will analyze the sources and manifestations of both healthy and problematic aging and apply concepts drawn from the behavioral and social sciences, and from clinical and community practice. The course will incorporate knowledge of the biophysical-social aspects of the aging process and the interplay of interpersonal, environmental, and cultural forces that influence aging. Students are expected to acquire skills in assessing individual behavior of older persons based on application of theoretical ideas to contemporary situations and to enhance their human service practice with elders and their families. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
From the anguished poses of patients at 19th-century psychiatric hospitals to war neuroses to PTSD, clinical and literary accounts of hysteria both reflect and construct gendered assumptions about psychology, femininity, and manliness. In literature of WWI, in accounts of multiple personality, in such books as Robert Lifton's The Protean Self, these assumptions also serve to define what we consider "modern,"how we address anxieties of modern life in health care and social policy, and how we imagine the modernist world of 20th- and 21st-century poetry and fiction. Readings include Janet, Freud, Morton Prince, histories of hysteria and trauma, and literary texts including Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Pat Barker's Trilogy on WWI, Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway, and individual readings in the disciplines of members of the class. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with a detailed study of the Salem witch trials and moving through the 19th century into the present, this course investigates the American contexts of witchcraft in several historical periods as well as contemporary representations and practices of witchcraft. The image of the witch addresses the ways in which powerful institutions criminalize, ostracize, and sometimes mobilize figures of resisstance and obscurity. Afocus on witches and witchcraft presents many opportunities through which to study some of the social, economic, and religious forces that shaped various discussions and practices linked to gender and sexuality; therefore the course draws on many disciplines to interrogate the cultural "work" of the witch. The first part of the course isdedicated to a study of the 1692 witchcraft "outbreak"in Salem. The last section of the course will examine popular images of the witch as they emerge in various genres and media: prose, poetry, drama, film, and television. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides junior and senior students with the opportunity to pursue a project independently, concentrate on a particular subject of concern, or conduct individually arranged reading or research studies under the advice and direction of a faculty member. Prerequisites: advanced standing and permission of the instructor. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
The internship requires students to work closely with a group, business, or organization for one semester. Students will write a 20-page paper on their experience and report to the Women and Gender Studies Council in the spring semester. Prerequisites: senior standing and women and gender studies major or minor. Cr 4-6.
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3.00 Credits
The thesis allows students to pursue guided research on a topic of their choosing. Thesis students should choose three readers, including an advisor whose interests and scholarship are in line with their own. The minimum length for a thesis is 30 pages, and should include a substantial bibliography. Students will report to the Women and Gender Studies Council in the spring semester. Prerequisites: senior standing and women and gender studies major or minor. Cr 4.
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2.00 Credits
All majors are required to select a capstone experience, with the guidance of their advisor, from the following two options: WST 485 or WST 486. Students enrolled in either option are required to participate in a bi-weekly seminar. Students are expected to co-enroll in WST 490 and WST 485 or 486. Offered in the spring semester only. Cr 2.
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