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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the important role women play in furthering environmental stewardship and social justice initiatives. Students will use feminist and gender theory to assess and position the sustainability movement within a wider debate concerning global poverty, climate change, neoliberalism, and global capitalism.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the roles and positionalities of black women on the African continent and in the African diaspora, and their impact on black feminist politics in differing locales. It takes a comparative and historical approach to the study of black feminist movements.
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3.00 Credits
This course will chart the development of cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic study, introducing students to theories, paradigms, and methods used to study cultural practices. Using different theoretical categories, including but not limited to gender, sexuality, postcolonialism, race, ethnicity, class, memorialization, and sustainability, the course will examine the politics of cultural production.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the political, cultural, and familial production of sexualities and on the complex relations between gender and sexuality, including the way in which gender and sex regulate identity and how that regulation might be contested.
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3.00 Credits
This is an advanced course in Sexuality Studies that analyzes an array of theories and perspectives. The course will present a broad range of theoretical and other writings related to Sexuality/LGBT Studies and will engage students in the application of that theoretical work to analyses of cultural and social constructions of sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines differing social constructions of sexual identities and practices in a cross-cultural perspective and investigates their implications for theorizing sexuality and sexual power relations. It also addresses global and transnational struggles against discrimination based on sexual and gender identity.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores feminist and queer perspectives on and participation of women and sexual minorities in select social movements (such as environmental, labor, anti-war, and human rights) at local, national, and/or transnational levels. It comparatively theorizes activism and strategies for social change, focusing both on conflicts and solidarities arising through social movement activism.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores contemporary sexuality theories from lesbian and queer perspectives which destabilize assumptions about relationships among chromosomal sex, gender, and sexual desire and influence new thinking about sexual identities and social critiques and movements arising from them.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines contemporary media treatments of childhood sexual violence. The goal is to understand the way contemporary popular media, including literature and film, both reflect and create knowledge and attitudes about child sexual abuse. Specifically, the course focuses on the way scholarship in the social and psychological sciences is "translated" into popular media about sexual violence perpetrated against children.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the definition of lesbianism as expressed by psychologists and writers. It engages students in a study of the complex relationship between images of mainstream psychological theory and lesbian fiction.
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