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In this course, students will explore the relationships between environment, culture, and food. They will study our changing culture and how it has impacted eating habits and how in turn these choices have shaped the landscape and water supply. Students will study the problem of hunger throughout the world as well as the role that big food industry interests play in determining formal governmental food choice recommendations. Meets LAC outcomes: HCD4, NWB5. A Science Studies course. 3 crs.
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Concentrating primarily on the nineteenth century, students will explore the evolution of women's work and women'spolitics through such topics as feminism and abolitionism, the politics and practice of class, as well as criminality and madness. Looking at literature, art, and contemporary feminist theory, they will use these historical examples as stepping stones to consider and critique the present. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCA2. A Gender Studies course. 3 crs.
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This course presents a detailed study of works written by women examined within the context of current and/or historical schools of literary theory that depend primarily on gender analysis. Topics may vary from year to year. The following list is representative: Renaissance Women, Women's Autobiography, Modern Women Writers, Lesbian Literature and Theory, Women and Class, African-American Women Writers, Women and Film, Women's Literature and War, The Body and Literature, Modern and/or Contemporary Women Poets, Women's Drama. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCA1. A Gender Studies course. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of literature by and about Native Americans. It includes traditional oral works and more recent novels, short stories, poetry, and critical essays. Close attention will be placed on historical context, and how these contexts affected the social and cultural lives of Native Americans. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCA3. An American Ethnic Studies course. 3 crs.
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Meets LAC outcomes: AIB7, HCD5. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine representations of masculinity in film. In particular, students will examine historical representations (and interrogations) of masculinity in film and masculinity construction through film and media discourses. Masculinity studies explore such issues and representations as the changing roles (and the severe anxieties that accompany these changes) for men and women, sexual and homosexual anxieties, hyper-masculinity constructions, race and ethnic issues, class representations, and the part masculinity plays in shaping culture and ideology. Meets LAC outcome: HCA1. A Gender Studies course. 3 crs.
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Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
What is popular culture Is it consumer products manufactured by the dominant ideology to control and dupe the gullible masses, or is it a resistance site of marginalized groups who appropriate it and endow it with meaning in ways unanticipated by its producers Are popular films just mind candy to pacify ignorant multitudes or are they vehicles for society to contemplate the meaning of life, explore paths to the good life, and more fully understand what it means to be human Students will attempt to answer these questions by looking at contemporary films and what they mean to producers and consumers. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Media & Film Studies course. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the meaning of the postcolonial condition through a selection of literary texts and theoretical perspectives. While employing the term "postcolonial,"students will also challenge its appropriateness in light of continued international systems of inequality. Students will be reading widely from literatures of various continents and thus will be forced to reckon with the immensity of the colonialist legacy of global domination. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCA3. A Global Studies course. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will examine the relationship between music and subculture by asking how subcultures become sites where identities are (re)negotiated and social politics are played out. In particular, they will explore how subcultures are constructed in relation to the genres of folk, punk, and hip hop and how these genres resist (and at times affirm) socalled dominant or mainstream culture. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB6, HCD5. A Media & Film Studies course. 3 crs.
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