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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course will introduce studetns to the broad variety of scholarship on women throughout the world. The course content includes topics such as: gender, gender roles, and sexuality and power. The course will examine women's lives through the lens of history, race, class, ethnicity and sexuality. The course may also address: women and work, welfare, family issues, AIDS, violence, reproductive rights, civil rights, communication, health, literature, militarization and welfare.
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This course provides a survey of the history of women in America from colonial settlement until the present. Students consider women's economic contributions within the household and in waged work, as well as women's changing political status and the shifting ideologies defining women's roles.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the theories that account for variations, similarities and differences among femal speakers and between female and male speakers. Emphasis is placed on women's speech in a variety of contexts in both public and private settings. Alternate spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
This course will use economic methods to investigate the relationship between gender and economic outcomes, measured in terms of occupation, earnings, poverty rates and other standard measures of economic well-being. Topics will include the household as an economic unit, increasing labor force participation of women, consequences of female employment for the structure of the family, causes of earning differences, trade policy effects on women, and race and class difference in economic opportunities for women. Policy applications will be emphasized. A primary goal of the course is to enable students to understand the issues, and to formulate coherent positions on the topics covered. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the behaviors of women from various perspectives, such as physiological, psychoanalytic, social learning and cognitive points of view. The course is designed for persons who recognize the changing roles of women in our society and who wish to examine the psychological theories and research surrounding female development and behavior. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the principal ethnographic characteristics of major indigenous faith traditions of India (and of the Himalayan region) and their role in Indian culture and society. Special emphasis will be placed upon an examination of the operative aspects of Indian religions as anthropologists and sociologists study these within the social and cultural context of the region of India. Spring semester of odd numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with the oportunity to analyze society's impact on women's health. Students will become familiar with current practice and controversial issues in relation to psychophysical, socioeconomic, reproductive, and political factors affecting women's health and health care. The role of women as discriminating, proactive consumers of health care will be stressed.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of women in China from antiquity to the present, focusing on the sociopolitical, economic, ideological, and cultural forces that shaped the lives of Chinese women. Topics include gender roles in Confucian ideology, women and the family, the cultural politics of the female body, alternative visions of women in Chinese religions, the 20th-century feminist movement, and women and the communist revolution. The class will examine a variety of primary sources, literary works, and films.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores issues surrounding women as offenders, victims, and criminal justice professionals. It investigates explanations for the involvement of women in illegal activites, analyzes the plight of battered women, rape victims, and other female victims, and examines the participation of women in law enforcement, judicial proceedings, corrections, and law-making.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the native people of the American Southwest in terms of their prehistoric background, archaelogical traditions, world view, cosmology, mythology, and the diversity of cultures during the historic period. Of particular interest for this course are those groups that are matriarchal, like the Hopi Indian. What kind of power did the women of that tribe possess Was it real of figurative This course will also examine narrative of the turbulent history of cultural contact between Indians and the Spanish and later, the Anglos. Offered periodically.
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