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This course looks at wome n? s education in the developing world. It raises questions on social mobility, inequality, wom en ? role in the economic and social development of the third world society. Recent research on the topic will be reviewed; case studies will be drawn from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A comparative analysis approach will be used throughout this cours e. 3 Cr.
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Examines issues of violent crime and personal victimization, especially for women, and the implications for personal crime prevention. Includes an in-depth examination of these violent crimes (e.g.: sexual assault, relationship violence), followed by a focus on individual strategies for maintaining personal safety and reducing crime risks. Considers crime prevention for children and other special populations. 3 Cr.
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Crosslisted as ENL 427. Provides in-depth examination of select novels, with some touching upon novels from other countries, to consider their thematic forms and functions, their literary significance, and especially what they reveal about the roles of women and attitudes to patriarchy. 3 Cr.
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Cross-listed as HST 429. A reading seminar. Investigates how women ? history is constructed as social and cultural history with an emphasis on class, and how the discipline interacts with cultural studies in analyzing representations of women in popular culture, biography, and visual media. 3 Cr.
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Crosslisted as PSH 433. Prerequisites: PSH 101, PSH 110 or PSH 112. Surveys the psychological and social impact of sex differences, sex roles, and the development of gender identity on behavior. Examines historical antecedents of gender differences, development of gender identity, and sex differences in performance, attribution, achievement, cognition, interpersonal behavior, psychopathology, and response to therapy to illustrate facts and fictions in gender research. 3 Cr.
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Cross-listed as AAS 435, PLS 435. As an issue-oriented course, provides an understanding of how the US system can be used to improve the status of the disadvantaged, such as blacks, Hispanics, women, prisoners, the poor, students, Native Americans, homosexuals, and those with mental and physical disabilities. 3 Cr.
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Cross-listed as HST 438. As an advanced course, examines the diversity of Latin- American and Caribbean women ? experiences from the Iberian conquest to the 20th-century. Analyzes the gender dynamics of colonial, national, dictatorial and revolutionary states, economies and cultures, and the importance of wome n? s movements and feminism. Includes discussion of Latina history in the US and of Latin-American and Caribbean masculinity in historical perspective . 3 Cr.
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Cross-listed as ENL 441. Provides an intensive study of the novel as a form of wome n? s self-representation and cultural criticism. May include novels about family life, antislavery and temperance, slave narratives; historical novels; and representations of urban and industrial experience . 3 Cr.
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Analyzes the myths and realities of women, health and illness. Includes a review of the place of women in the health-care system as patients and health-care providers. Concentrates on women/health/illness in the 20th-century US, but uses cross-cultural and historical materials to give an added dimension to the theories and substantive materials of this field. 3 Cr.
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Cross-listed as SOC 453. Focuses on issues concerning women and their changing role in toda y? s society. Although various issues are singled 370 Women and Gender Studies out for analysis through reading, lecture, and class discussion, all of them are interrelated by virtue of their focus on women . 3 Cr.
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