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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural study of sex, sexuality and gender. Sexual practice and organization, gender identities, interaction of biological and cultural aspects. Anthropological models of sex, gender and sexuality; relationship among these models and the sexual identities of Western anthropologists. Methodological and ethical issues in sex research.
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3.00 Credits
WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE U.S. Examination of the diverse struggles (political, economic, social, legal, etc.) of Asian, Native American, African American and Latina/Chicana women in the U.S. and the ways in which public institutions and agencies (federal, state, local) deal with women of color.
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3.00 Credits
Perspectives on family structure and functioning; consequences of social class and other variables on stability and effectiveness of family; effects of family on personality.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on history of United States women in social movements and public policy for past hundred years. Examines women's lives through their participation in social movements and their influence on public policy. Compares different groups of women, such as African American and white women in recent feminist movements. Particular emphasis given to women and creation of welfare state, and to legal changes affecting women's lives, such as affirmative action and abortion law.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the ways particular kinds of femininity are produced through visual culture with attention paid to the heterogeneity of women as subjects. Concentrates on teaching and practicing analytical skills that aim to identify the gender stereotypes that underlie the changing images of women in the visual culture. Provides students with the deconstructive techniques to become informed and critical consumers of visual culture.
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3.00 Credits
Study of how women are presented in film. How to analyze films from socio-historical perspective. Roles women are given in film narratives (wives, mothers, sisters, seductresses, objects of spectacle and male desire, career women); how such representations shape notions about function of family, fashion, race, class, insanity. How women have participated in or been excluded from creating the images that represent them. Women's relationship to men and the definition of males in film.
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3.00 Credits
Variety of approaches to the study of peace. Exploration of assumptions: that state of peace and justice among nations and people leaves much to be desired; that teaching needs to be more relevant to the search for peace and human well-being in a rapidly changing world; that only by feeling, thinking and acting as planetary citizens in a globally interdependent world can we begin to understand how to approach a state of world order; that a paradigm shift from one centered on war to one centered on peace is imperative; that a paradigm for peace must embrace an understanding of personal change in human beings, as well as structural change in the public order.
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3.00 Credits
Topics vary. Focuses on formations, representations or analyses of race, gender and sexuality, and class, with attention to the critique of whiteness.
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3.00 Credits
Topics vary. Focus on engagements with colonialisms, anti-colonial struggles, post-colonialities and the relationship of the "First" and "Third" Worlds as these articulate with gender.
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3.00 Credits
Issues in feminist ethics: aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of language, social philosophy and philosophy of science are studied in the work of contemporary feminist philosophers.
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