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4.00 Credits
4 hours What is diversity The course will examine this complex question, asking students to examine American cultural stories about differences such as race, ethnicity, class and gender, how difference is experienced by people themselves, and the implications of each of these for social equality and inequality. In the examination of social equality's promise and reality's fact, the course will pay particular attention to groups of people that have been marginalized in American society. (Same as ANTH 201.) (HBSSM, Intcl)
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4 hours Women and men alike are defined by cultural expectations and roles which often deny their full human needs and expressions. Selective cross-cultural readings, films, and novels will be used to explore the religious, ideological and cultural forces which shape women's and men's lives within different societies.(Same as ANTH 202.) (HBSSM, Intcl)
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4 hours This course explores the constructions and representations of women and gender in ancient Greece and Rome through an examination of textual, art historical, and archaeological evidence. The course also addresses the intersections of women's and gender issues with issues of legal status, class, and ethnicity, and pays close attention to current scholarly methodologies and approaches to the subject. (Same as CLAS 220.) (HEPT)
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4 hours Examines the gendered structure of our everyday lives; makes gendered assumptions and practices explicit; and uncovers the impact of gender in the social world. Emphasis on historical and cross cultural constructions of gender that provide alternatives to gender inequality and a basis for social change. Prerequisite: SOC 101. (Same as SOC 242.) (HBSSM)
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4 hours This course, through the medium of literature and memoirs, focuses on Russia/Soviet Union in the early years after the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) until Gorbachev's glasnot and perestroika. Students will learn about the rise of Stalin, the time of terror and purges at the height of Stalin's regime (mid 1930s), WWII, the "Thaw" after Stalin's death in 1953, anthe implications Stalinism has on present-day Russia. We will seek answers to the questions of how Stalin was allowed to rise to power, retain political control, and instigate policies that caused the deaths of approximately 20 million Soviet citizens-many of whom were Bolsheviks and loyal members of the Communist Party. Literary readings include memoirs, poetry, and novels. A significant part of the course concerns the role of women in the Bolshevik Revolution and their fate under Stalinism. This course fulfills requirements of international studies, women's and gender studies, and Russian studies. The course is taught in English and readings are in English. (Same as FCUL 243.) Offered alternate years. (HEPT, Hist, Intcl)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours A study of how women writers from different historical periods use poems, stories, essays, and plays to address gender issues in the private and the public world. The course looks a how literature both presents and critiques culture and its construction of gender, as well as how it offers new visions and choices for women and men. Readings include such writers as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Prerequisite: PAID 111. (Same as ENG 245.) (HEPT)
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4 hours A survey of African-American literature. Primary emphasis will be on literature written since 1920 when the Harlem Renaissance began. Includes authors such as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison and gives attention to theories of race and culture formation. Prerequisite: PAID 111. (Same as AFRS 236, ENG 251.) (HEPT, Intcl, E, W)
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4 hours Examination of feminist philosophies, including issues in epistemology, ethics, social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of religion and historical interpretation. Focus on the challenges which feminist theory presents to traditional philosophical assumptions in the Western tradition. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy, or two courses in women's and gender studies. Offered alternate years. (Same as PHIL 260.) (HEPT)
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4 hours Faculty teaching this course will focus on the history of gender within their own period of expertise. The course will examine such gender questions as: Why and how should we study the history of gender What do gender roles from the past tell us about our own gender experience How do the historians of men and women as gendered persons intersect The course will focus on these questions as they are related to the history of work, family, politics, and social behavior for the particular period and nation the instructor selects. (Same as HIST 290.) (HBSSM, Hist)
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4 hours This course will explore the cultural, historical, political and economic dimensions of health and medicine, paying particular attention to the way gender, race, ethnicity, and class shape health experiences. We will also examine inequalities in health care and health outcomes, especially how inequalities such as racism, poverty, and sexism can create and perpetuate poor health. Using cross-cultural examples from around the globe, we will examine such topics as: the politics of health care delivery; international health care policy and development programs; the medicalization of women's bodies; and community based health care activism. By comparing a diversity of health experiences across cultures we can carefully examine the ways in which culture helps constructs perceptions of health and effective delivery of health care. Offered alternate years. (HBSSM, Intcl)
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