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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Examination of roles and images of women in Jewish literature, law and liturgy from Biblical and Rabbinic times through the medieval period.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores important themes (e.g., childhood and growing up, coming out and finding community, families, oppression and resistance, bisexuality, relationships and friendships, AIDS and aging) in lesbian and gay literature using literary materials -- novels, poetry, plays -- as the primary focus and considering an interdisciplinary context for the study of those materials.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines fiction, poetry, drama, oratory, and political rhetoric that can be read as "outrageous," either contemporaneously or in its historical context. The course will consider why certain literary forms or the content of literary output is or has been deemed "outrageous" from the standpoint of different disciplines in the humanities.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes popular culture as both a source of anti-feminism and a site of feminist work toward social change. It is designed to introduce students to feminist media analysis, to genre in fiction, non-fiction, and film, as well as to a range of other popular media useful in studying the way gender and sexuality are viewed in popular culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a critical investigation of how women, past and present, influence and engage in social justice activism. Includes service/experiential learning assignments in the community.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a wide range of issues related to women and aging in contemporary American society. Within a feminist interdisciplinary framework, students will use concepts and methodologies from multiple disciplines in the social sciences to examine ways in which women growing old are impacted by demographic, economic, and physiological changes in late life and how issues of gender relate to those changes.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of feminist spiritual alternatives to patriarchal religions. Students will learn why some women have chosen to move outside of mainstream religion to create their own spiritual experiences. The course will examine the various ways that women express their spirituality and examine how some women have challenged and changed the patriarchal ideology of their inherited religions.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the intersection of women's studies, feminism and religion/spirituality. Students will learn about feminist perspectives on the religious traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (including language and power), as well as about feminist spiritualities that are outside traditional religious structures (including Wicca and Goddess Spiritualities).
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes women's participation in, and contributions to, contemporary business and corporate structures and practices, using feminist perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways women from diverse cultures represent their lives in published autobiographical writing. Students will be invited to consider the relationship between the autobiographer and the act of life-writing from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course will introduce students to analytical tools of multiple disciplines, including but not limited to literary criticism, psychology, philosophy, feminist theory, and postcolonial studies.
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