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Goal: To improve the fluency in English of non-native speakers through the study and practice of the processes, rhetorical modes, and conventions of the language expected in an American college setting. Content: This course addresses challenges faced by non-native speakers as they apply the principles of good writing in a variety of assignments. Such principles include paying attention to the process of writing (prewriting, planning, drafting, seeking feedback, revising, and editing) and accommodating readers' expectations for content and style. In particular, the course encourages writers to marshal evidence in support of a thesis while acknowledging opposing viewpoints. Taught: Fall. Credit: 3 hours.
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Goal: To produce confident and capable readers and writers. To introduce students to the rigors of college-level reading and writing. To introduce students to the processes, rhetorical modes, and conventions of research-based argumentative writing. Content: This course enhances writing skills by asking students to apply the principles of good writing in a variety of assignments. Such principles include paying attention to the process of writing (prewriting, planning, drafting, seeking feedback, revising, and editing) and accommodating readers' expectations for content and style. In particular, the course encourages writers to marshal evidence in support of a thesis while acknowledging opposing viewpoints. Taught: Fall, Spring. Credit: 3 hours.
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Goal To explore in an interdisciplinary context the wide range of social and cultural issues which affect women's experiences across time and cultures. Content Topics to be explored may include family, reproduction, and parenthood; work, employment, and the economics of gender; law, government, and politics; gender roles and images in history, language, literature, religion, art and science; sexuality and sexual orientation; contemporary feminist movements. Methods include cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural study of women's lives, gender analysis and the questioning of the role that gender plays in all fields of study, cooperative and collaborative learning, sharing and learning from each other's experiences as a method of personal empowerment. Taught Spring. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To provide an introduction to the biological, psychological, interpersonal, and socio-cultural aspects of human sexuality. Content Topics surveyed include sexual structure and function, sexual reproduction, sexual development, variation in sexual behavior, sex and human relationships, and sex and society. Taught Spring. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as PSY 201.
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Goal To study the impact of economic change on women by analyzing how age, sex and race hierarchies modify changes in women's roles in different societies of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Content This course will focus on the effects of economic growth on the socioeconomic status of women. Most importantly, students will study the means by which patriarchy has persisted in various parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America by redefining itself, even as economies have modernized. The course will also explore the socioeconomic effect of export industries owned by multinational firms on the lives of women in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Taught Fall. Alternate years. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as ECO 210; cross-cultural.
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Goals The course will enhance the student's ability to analyze, interpret, and critique texts with a view to purpose, evidence, and effect. Content The relationship between gender, power, and society in the developed and developing world is treated in fictional, biographical, and analytical accounts of the role of women in politics and society. The changing political and social status of women with an emphasis on the developing world will form an important part of the analysis. Taught Fall. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking; cross-cultural. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as POL 225.
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Goal To introduce students to philosophical questions and problems regarding the role of gender in the formation of intellectual positions, and to consider a variety of significant attempts to answer those questions and resolve those problems. Content Writings that consider the relationships between gender and philosophical methods and positions, including feminist philosophical texts. Taught Alternate years. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as PHI 228.
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Goal To enhance understanding of the socio-cultural and historical differences and similarities among African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women. Content Through the literature of Maxine Hong Kingston, Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, Buchi Emecheta, and Mariama Ba, students will explore the socio-cultural and historical root systems of African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women. Films, art exhibits, music, and visits with women representing each cultural group will be included. (Note Non-Western emphasis.) Taught Spring. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours; cross-cultural.
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Goal To introduce students to writing from around the world by women and/or focusing on women's issues. To enable students to study literature in a cross-cultural context. Content Fiction, poetry, drama, essays primarily by women and/or about women. Representative writers might include Shikibu, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, Gita Mehta, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,Sawako Ariyoshi,Wang Anyi, Isabelle Allende. Taught Annually Prerequisites WIS 101 or ENG 101 Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking; cross-cultural. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as HUM260.
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Goal To explore the similarities and differences in men's and women's communication styles; to explore such issues asfriendship, workplace experience, leadership styles, professional relationships, and gendered interactions in family communication. Content Critical analysis and discussion of a variety of journal articles, theoretical texts, films, and speeches, with primary focus given to those produced by women. Taught Alternate years. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as COM 300.
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