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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed as ENL 378. Examines the ways in which American women writers address the particular circumstances of women ? lives during particular decades. Explores the diversity of wome n? s writing by including the works of best-selling writers, women of color, working-class women, and radical experimentalists. Provides students with an historical, social and cultural context in which to locate various works . 3 Cr. Spring
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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed as NUR 380 . Examines various perspectives and issues related to the health care of women and men across the lifespan. Past and present historical, biological, psychosocial, political, cultural, religious, ethical, moral and legal issues affecting health care will be investigated. Develops an awareness about the roles men and women play in health and healing; providing a framework for appropriate decision making on health care issues, and exploring preventative and holistic health care. Topics include sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases, abortion, birth control methods, rape, violence in the family, eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, reproductive technology, pregnancy, healthy aging, health promotion, and interacting with the medical system. Includes discussion of relevant biological, sociological, psychological, cultural, religious, ethical, moral and legal factors that infl uence them . 3 Cr.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed as PES 396. Examines the historical, contemporary, and future perspectives of women in sport. Reviews insights from history, psychology, and sociology related to women in sport, as well as athletes?perceptions of their performance. Focuses on information and issues which are fundamental to understanding women ? participation in sport. 3 Cr. Every Semester
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: WMS 101 and WMS 301. Integrates service-learning and research on gender and wome n? s studies. Students complete an internship experience in connection with this course. Students also produce a senior-level paper based on their internship experience and connected research under the directorship of the faculty leader. Major requirement . 3 Cr.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed as HLS 402. Provides a study of women as healthy functioning human beings. Includes lecture and discussion with guest speakers (when available) to present positive information and insights on the anatomical, physiological, mental, spiritual, and emotional aspects of contemporary women. 3 Cr.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the expression of life stories, their collection and recording, and their presentation in written format. Covers the evolution of the life history in anthropology and oral history; life history as a Western genre; life stories in non-Western form; gender and life stories; the life history as an expression of the self versus the life history as a window on culture; and the limitations of life history research. 3 Cr. Spring
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12.00 Credits
Course focuses on the issue of gender in schools K-12. It identifies and examines the ways in which gender roles are reinforced in schools. It studies the ways in which race and class interact with gender to infl uence the schooling experience. Students learn the ways in which teachers and other educators can promote equitable educational experience for all students. 3 Cr. Every Semester
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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed as THE 410. Explores ways in which contemporary female playwrights present gender and gendered experiences, and how the construction of women is staged in a variety of cultural contexts through an examination of selected works by 20th-century female playwrights from America, Africa, China and England (with units on African-American, Chicana, Lesbian and Asian-American writers). Includes an investigation of feminist theory as it applies to theatre practices. 3 Cr.
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3.00 Credits
Feminist research methods challenges traditional quantitative and qualitative research methods in the social sciences. Feminist research methods are explicitly concerned with the choice of research subjects, the standpoint of the researcher, the effects of social structures on knowledge creation, and with aspects of social reality that may be hidWomen and Gender Studies 369 den from traditional research methods. Students will complete a research project that responds to the main themes of the course. Major requirement. 3 Cr.
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3.00 Credits
Gives students the opportunity to work on a service-learning project under faculty direction. Students will complete an internship in an organization where they work on gender and/or wome n? s issues. Students will devise a project that makes use of their internship experience, and places that experience within a larger theoretical and research framework. With approval of WMS director . 3 Cr.
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