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3.00 Credits
This class will take a historical, sociological, and cultural approach to review how society at large views American Indians. The course will trace the origin and continued use of American Indian stereotyped views, and assess the socialogical and psychological complications that result when judging indians solely on stereotyped imagery. The course will review the historical content of American Indian life as portrayed in early plays, films, and newspaper accounts and compare these stereotyped images with the reality of American Indian life by providing a depiction of a series of historical events that will offer a more balanced and accurate consideration for American Indian life past and present. Also cross listed as SOCIOL 324. 1 hr
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The course is an introduction to the study of the culture and societies of U.S. citizens and immigrants of Latin American heritage living in the U.S. The course emphasizes recent anthropological as well as historical and cultural studies. Topics covered: ethnohistory, kinship, labor, intergenerational relations, gender transnationalism and immigration and cultural diffusion over successive generations. 3 hrs
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This course offers an introduction to the histories of women in the U.S. from the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century. We will study colonial and US women of Native, Latino, European, African, and Asian descent, their contact with women (and men) of other ethnic groups, the political, economic, and legal changes affecting their lives, and the images they created of themselves and each other. Offered: Every Fall Semester 1 hr
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on contemporary women's lives and issues such as welfare and immigration, stereotypical imagery, and the pressure to put ethnic and/or class interests before gender concerns. We will study women of Native, African, European, Latin, Asian, and heterogeneous descent and the ethnic, economic, and legal forces shaping their lives. Offered: Every Fall 1 hr
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the realities of women's lives and the work that women contribute to all societies. Using an anthropological approach, we will explore women's productive work in gathering, horticulture, agriculture, and industrialization, women's reproductive work, as well as their work of status enhancement and caring. Highlighting the changes wrought by colonialism, we will also explore women's work, both voluntary and involuntary, in the global economy. Offered: Every Winter 1 hr
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3.00 Credits
This class studies the United Nations' Women's Conferences in Mexico City (1975), Copenhagen (1980), Nairobi (1985), Bejiing (1995), and Beijing +5 (2000), their themes, participants, documents, solutions, and consequences. Special attention will be paid to women's human rights. Offered: Every Winter 1 hr
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3.00 Credits
This class surveys the varieties of gender definitions and roles in historical and contemporary human cultures in their association to stratifield or equitable access to economic, political, and ideological resources. Topics include the definitions and varieties of human sexes and of human genders, and the multiple ways in which people create sexual and gender intersections and variations. Offered: Every Winter 1 hr
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how children's lives are shaped by cultural, economic, and political forces and relations. Drawing upon a range of case studies and disciplinary perspectives it will consider how and why children emerge as sites of contestation and debate, and it will examine the various ways in which the category and experience of childhood unfold in different socio-historical contexts. The main objective of the course is to better understand the social construction of childhood and use the study of childhood as a privileged window for exploring the articulation of cultural, economic and political relations within the context of contemporary global society. 3 hrs
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This class introduces the major feminist theories and their primary authors over the last 200 years. The class takes both a historical view (beginning with two millenia of male-centered theories about women) and a conceptual approach (theories are grouped by common ground) and familiarizes the student with both the historical processes that necessitate feminist theories as well as with the breadth and depth of the historically and currently available scholarship. Prerequisite: Introduction to Women's Studies Offered: Winter Semester 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on issues of economic development, social stratification, political institutions, and political mobilization in societies where colonialism provided the context for their long-term disadvantages in the international economic order. Specific attention is paid to the intersection of the international components that define the options and limits for societal development (e.g., market shifts, international institutions and contracts, foreign policies, and migration) and the distinct social, political and cultural implications of these factors for developing societies. Crosslisted with ANTHRO or SOCIOL 441. 3 hrs
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