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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (May be taken four times for credit) (Prerequisite: THA 320 or permission of instructor) Direction of a major production with the approval of the program chair.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Open to all students; cross-listed as LGS 110.) Criminal and civil law, feminist legal theory and jurisprudence, legal reasoning, current issues in the courts, torts and case briefs figure in this introductory course. Legal and allied professionals serve as guest speakers. Students write weekly reaction papers.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Open to all students) This course introduces the major areas and methods of inquiry in the academic discipline of women's studies. Contemporary issues that impact women's lives are examined in the contexts of work, education, the family, health systems, economics, government, politics, etc. The status of women in many cultures is explored historically and comparatively with emphasis on historical precedents of women's studies and international women's rights movements of the 20th century.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
(1-3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: dependent upon topic) Study of specific topics that relate to women's issues and women's experience. Topics include: "Addicted Women: Substance Abuse" and "Compulsive Behaviors."
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: ENG102, 206 or LBA 108, 208 and one 3-hour 200-level ENG or WST course, or permission of the instructor; cross-listed as ENG 308) This course analyzes women's literatures in English of various cultures and periods considering the history of critical attention given to them. In addition to standard genres of poetry, fiction and drama, this course includes reading in nontraditional genres: essays, diaries and letters, and performance art.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: WST 210 and junior or senior standing or permission of the instructor) Biography, autobiography, literature and social science texts provide cross-cultural perspectives on the lives of girls and women in the 20th century. The focus of the course is on social, economic, legal and ideological aspects of women's position in selected developing societies compared with industrialized societies. Students explore ways in which attitudes about women have influenced women's material and cultural contributions to their respective societies. Both differences and connections will be shown to exist among women separated by cultural, racial and national boundaries.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: WST 210 or permission of instructor) The evolution of feminist theory in its cultural and historical contexts, examined through early writings of women's movements. Emphasis is on the writing of American, English and European women of the 19th and 20th centuries and the impact of their thought and action on American women and American society.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: WST 210 or permission of instructor) Examination of theories of the post-World War II wave of international women's movements, including the works of North and South American, African, British, Australian and French writers. Diversity of feminist perspectives is considered as the student develops a theoretical base of her own.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: ARH101 or permission of instructor; cross-listed as ARH355) This course explores the contributions women have made to painting, sculpture and architecture from the Renaissance to the present time in Europe and America.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor; cross-listed as NSC 365) This course will broaden the student's understanding of the far-reaching impact that feminist analysis has had on all fields of knowledge, including the field of science. Contemporary women in science are changing the way people think about science and practice it. Students in the course will benefit from exposure to cross-cultural analysis of science and some of the ways that people from various cultures understand the human relationship to the world.
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