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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Film, television, radio and music and other media artifacts are the material from which we forge parts of our identities including our gender: what it means to be women, men, or transgender. Media images help shape and reflect our views of the world around us and our deepest values. As a cultural story-teller media guides us on how to be women and men, what to think, feel, believe and desire. Media spectacles dramatize who has power and who is powerless. In this course we will explore media representations of gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, and age in advertising, film, music, magazines and more. We will address issues of social inequality in the media and explore alternative media, media literacy, and media democracy. We will explore how different audiences read the media. Finally we will experiment with creating our own media as students create group videos about gender. Three hours a week.
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An examination of representations, politics andmethods of analysis of women in front of the camera and women behind the camera. We will compare popular films, independent documentaries and popular artifacts made about and by women and will explore how race, class, ethnicity, sex and gender are represented, negotiated and recieved by audiences. Three hours a week.
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This interdisciplinary course will focus how gender identities and sexualities are constructed, contested and mapped on bodies and the culture. We will explore the social meanings and consequences of what it is to be a woman or a man in contemporary US society. How do US gender and sex identities differ from other culture's ideas of sex and gender and how have our ideas about gender and sex shifted historically, socially, and politically? A major concentration of the course will be looking at transgender, transsexual, gender queer and intersex politics, identity and representation. We will also examine queer theory, hate crimes and what feminism has to do with gender politics.
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An exploration of the history of women in America from the contact period to the present. Alook at women's roles in US Society and the intersection of class, culture and ethnicity in shaping women's historical experiences across time. The course will examine the transformations and continuities in women's lives, as well as the political, social, economic, and cultural factors that inspired, infused or inhibited women's changing roles. This class also explores the ways in which race, class, and ethnicity have operated to unite and divide disparate groups of women. Three hours a week.
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This course on Southwest Studies will examine the great diversity of women in the Southwest from ranching women and cowgirls to Native American artists and Hispanic and Chicana writers and activists. The desert landscape has inspired and enchanted countless artists and writers. We will explore the writing, art, activism and traditional practices that define the culture and the region. We will look at the importance of the land in shaping visions, art, and architecture as well as the economic forces and struggles that shape the people. The women that we will study encounter the sacred and speak of environmental and other visions for the future. Three hours a week.
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This course will begin with an introduction to constitutional law and develop into an intimate study of the inner workings of the Supreme Court and its major decisions affecting gender. Such topics as marriage and divorce, pornography, the right to privacy, as well as sex discrimination cases involving Title IX and transgender issues, will be discussed and evaluated through an historical and legal framework. Debate and discussion regarding the historical evolution of these legal issues and their current trends will be emphasized. Three hours a week.
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In lieu of a formal course, qualified upper class students may, with the approval of the director and the instructor, substitute an intensive program of reading and research under the direction of a member of the program. Three hours a week.
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3.00 Credits
This is the capstone seminar for Women’s Studies Minors. Students will embark on a semester long project which brings together their work and interest on women and gender. The seminar will provide feedback and aid students in their semester long journey and projects. For Advanced Women’s Studies Minors only. Three hours a week.
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