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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the political, cultural, 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. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4029, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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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. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4030, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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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. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4031, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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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 on both conflicts and solidarities arising through social movement activism. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4032, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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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. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4033, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines contemporary media treatments of childhood sexual violence. The goal is to come 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. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4034, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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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. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4035, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on struggles to have women's rights recognized as human rights in international law and policy. In addition to examining the use of women's human rights claims and instruments by social movements in various parts of the world, it also engages students in feminist debates over and critiques of the concept and use of women's human rights. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4040, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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3.00 Credits
This courses addresses the meaning and making of "development" in the global South in the post World War II period. It provides an historical understanding of the sub-field of Gender and Development (GAD) and the emergent field of sexuality and development, along with related fields of environmental, indigenous rights, and anti-racism advocacy and activism. It addresses how women's and sexual rights movements have organized to influence the agendas of institutions of global governance, and examines how activists have worked to incorporate broader notions of development and human rights into global and national agendas, including through anti-development protest and through sexual and economic justice movements. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4041, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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3.00 Credits
Through an examination of feminist and queer analyses of globalization, this course will help students come to complex understandings of how not only economies, polities, and cultures are being restructured, but also how identities, relations, and daily lives are being altered by processes of globalization. It will also focus on resistances to globalization and the impact of globalization on those resistances. This class is the advanced-level equivalent to WGS 4042, with additional readings, assignments, and leadership roles for graduate students.
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