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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A comparative examination of birth control, abortion, childbirth, and motherhood. The course provides an interdisciplinary study of women's struggles for reproductive autonomy across the globe over the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
This course will highlight topical issues or emerging scholarship in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
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3.00 Credits
This is a skills-building course in feminist critical analysis and in reading and writing across disciplines; it focuses on developing students' critical reading skills as well as on familiarizing students with works by classic feminist thinkers. Each time this course is taught, it focuses on the research areas of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the role and importance of women in African history, with attention to women in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Africa.
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3.00 Credits
Students in this course will study social science readings from multiple disciplines and selected literature and film to achieve greater understanding of the ways in which gender and gender stereotypes influence attitudes about social interactions and relationships.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the significant role played by the salons of Jewish women in the development of art, literature, music, theater, philosophy, and politics in Europe and America from the late 18th century through the mid-20th century. Salons in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Milan, New York, and elsewhere proved to be innovative and radical vehicles that helped mediate the secularization of modern Jewish life and the democratization of the public sphere. They provided a context in which nobility, artists, and thinkers exchanged ideas across barriers of class, gender, nationality, socio-economic status, and religion, and fostered the careers of many important figures.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the way systems of race, class, and gender shape the experiences of African-American women in the United States, politically, socially, and culturally, with reference to concepts, theories, and methodologies from multiple disciplines in the social sciences. .
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3.00 Credits
This course explores multiple social constructions of masculinity produced through varying cultural social, political, and economic processes. Masculinity Studies encompasses not only what society would consider "traditional" male experiences, but also involves masculinity as it is experienced and expressed across genders, sexes, sexual orientations, and identities, as well as lived experiences of masculinity. In the tradition of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, this course is interdisciplinary and focused on intersectionality. The course examines masculinity in its various manifestations through a variety of media sources, including films, television clips, music lyrics, and contextualizes them with accessible theoretical texts.
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3.00 Credits
Since psychology's beginnings, there has been criticism of sexism in psychological theory, research, and practice. This course will be examining the paradigms of traditional psychology from a feminist perspective, to understand personality, the mainstream views of human behavior, and the importance of context to human development. Students will explore research methods, mainstream personality theories, feminist perspectives on psychopathology, and feminist therapies.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of specific biblical texts concerning women in the context of their Near Eastern environment, and of the influence of biblical material on contemporary attitudes to women.
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