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3.00 Credits
Understanding research as inherently political and therefore powerful in its ability to create social change, this course deeply explores research ethics and praxis. Researchers, learners, leaders/activists must learn practices of self reflection and inquiry in order to avoid inevitable blindspots that result from unexamined beliefs. Students learn theory and methodology associated with action research and engage in first and second person action research projects that examine power, privilege, and leadership.
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3.00 Credits
Queer Studies is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of LGBTQ Studies, including the areas of history, science, psychology, theory, culture, literature and the arts, and politics.
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3.00 Credits
This course foregrounds social, political, and cultural discussions about human rights as it examines the importance of human rights for the humanities, specifically analyzing the intersections of literature and film in representing rights and rights violations within 20th-21st century contexts.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of how global issues impact women and how women impact global issues. This course examines the effects of such issues as poverty, war, and environmental degradation on women in differing contexts, and the responses of diverse women's movements, locally, nationally, and internationally, to such global problems, applying concepts and methodologies from multiple disciplines in the social sciences to the analysis of these issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of women's representation in politics and women's effects on political agendas. It will examine various national and international strategies and policies for increasing women's roles in an array of governance institutions and the impact that women who gain political power have on those institutions. Students will study legislation and policymaking, including if and how these contribute to greater gender justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship between economic systems and gender relations, using concepts and methodologies from multiple disciplines in the Social Sciences. It considers theories about the gender division of labor over time, the relationship between class and gender in theory and practice, and women's and other social movement struggles against economic injustice in various locales.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the foundational texts, both indigenous and immigrant, that have defined the study of American Ethnic Literature: Native American, African American, Hispanic, Asian, and European. Some attention is given to various minority discourse theories.
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3.00 Credits
This is a multi-topic course designed to explore the issues of gender, race, class, narrative styles and ethnic identities of America's ethnic authors, including texts by contemporary Native American, African American, Hispanic, Caribbean, and Asian writers. Typical topics will be ethnic women writers, the immigrant experience in American Literature, exile and return, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Using both the "high" and the popular literature from this period as well as legal documents, essays, and film, students will examine the peculiar phenomenon known as race in America, focusing specifically on how race difference impacts relationships.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the concept of magic and the role of witchcraft in history from antiquity to the present, focusing on their influence on European social and political history, religious ideas and discourse, and European colonization. Students in this course will be exposed to primary and secondary sources on the phenomenon and mechanism of magical thought and its impact upon persons and societies.
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