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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Topic announced each semester prior to registration. Explores readings in feminist theory and scholarship. Includes a crosscultural or cross-national perspective. May be repeated for a total of six (6) units as topics change.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the social construction of categories of sexual orientation (like heterosexual, lesbian, or bisexual), the resulting social coercion of behavior, and the role that coercion plays in dividing and disempowering women cross-culturally. Subject matter includes the history of romantic relationships between women, contributions made to culture and social institutions, the development of sexual identity in a social context, related political movements, and the psychosocial impact of heterosexism in society.
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3.00 Credits
Examines a variety of issues related to sex work, such as prostitution, trafficking in women and children, pornography, sex tourism, and erotic shows. Material will include material from communications, economic, feminist, health, socio-political, and other perspectives with an emphasis on the global nature of the sex industry.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of women and health. Analysis of women's health maintenance and disease prevention; gender bias in medical treatment; medicalization of "natural"processes; women and the health system, medical-legal system, and bio-medical research. Subject matter may include, but is not limited to: eating disorders, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, fertility from pregnancy to birthing, stress and mental illness, menopause, breast cancer, alternative and traditional healing systems. Issues of social class, nationality, race, culture, and sexual preference are emphasized throughout. Recommended Preparation: previous coursework in the area of health and illness. Also offered as SOC 424. Students may not receive credit for both.
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3.00 Credits
Gender analysis remains in the peripheries of development theory and practice despite evidence which suggests that "modernization"results in disparate outcomes for similarly situated women and men. To bridge this analytical gap in development studies, the course explores the gender dimensions of the dramatic structural changes taking place in the world economy. Also offered as ECON 445 and PSCI 445. Students may only receive credit for one of the courses. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for ECON 481B or PSCI 449B.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates the power of film and the film industry in representing and shaping gendered positions in a variety of cultural settings. Explores dominant and alternative practices of gendering cinematic characters and viewers. May employ particular thematic frameworks (e.g., mothers and daughters, gender and European cinema, women in the silents, or gender and documentary film).
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3.00 Credits
Examines major schools of feminist theory and feminist approaches to research on women and gender across an array of academic disciplines. The application of feminist perspectives and reassessments of social theory in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences may be included. Student research projects may include bibliographies, archival research, ethnographic, survey, literary analysis or other formats.
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3.00 Credits
Combines readings with placement in an appropriate women's advocacy organization. May be repeated for a total of nine (9) units.
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3.00 Credits
In consultation with a faculty advisor, students develop an extended research project using primary and/or secondary sources. May be repeated for a total of six (6) units. Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of instructor.
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