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4.00 Credits
4 sem hrs. Explores 19th and 20th century literature written by and about women. Considers how women writers have challenged conventional notions of who women really are and who they long to become. Studies writers including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Shelley, Dorothy Canfield, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ahdaf Soueif, and others. Hager.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Explores the links between women, gender, race, colonialism and nationalism. Focuses on women at the center of debates of tradition and modernity, as representatives of culture and nationhood, as central actors and objects of war and conflict, and as participants in the arena of international politics. Explores the possibilities of feminist alliances across cultural and national borders. Puri.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: One of the following: WGST 100, WGST 111,WGST 125, WGST 193 and sophomore standing. Explores the historic roots of the demand for political, social, and economic justice for women. Studies the development of feminist theory and activism through comparative analysis. Emphasizes the diversity of feminist thought and how successive generations have revised the meaning of feminist theory and practice. Treacy.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Focuses on theoretical and thematic considerations of gender and sexuality, including the role of different discourses in constructing notions of gender and heterosexuality; sexuality as an instrument of power; and the links with nationalisms, queer theory, hybridities, and political possibilities. Puri, Taylor.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the unique perspective of healthcare from the cultural lens appropriate to women of color. Historical, social, environmental, and political factors that contribute to racial and gender disparities in healthcare are analyzed. Students will develop cultural competency tools for more effective healthcare delivery with individuals and families of color. Thomas.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines an issue, theme, or subject of importance in the field of women's and gender studies. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq: One of the four 100-level WGST courses, or AST 101, or SOCI 101; junior standing; or consent of the instructor. Examines the scope and variety of violence in the family from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes: (a) a theoretical framework of economics, law, public policy, psychology, and sociology; (b) a cross-cultural understanding of family violence against girls and women; and (c) an exploration of the sociopolitical, legal, and cultural response to family violence. Discussion of the theories used to describe and research family violence that include: violence against women, children, intimate partners, and elderly family members. Thomas
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Consent of the faculty supervisor. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq.: WGST 200 or 204; junior standing; or consent of the instructor. Intensively examines a significant issue in women's and gender studies. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: WGST 200 and 204 and junior standing, or consent of the instructor. Examines the development and current manifestations of different feminist views, including liberal, radical, and Marxist feminism, as well as more recent feminist theory deploying psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and multiculturalism. Raymond, Trigilio.
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