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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is not open to freshmen. In the past this course has addressed itself to topics as diverse as "Afro-American Autobiography" and "Backgrounds of Afro-American Literature", including examination of oral narratives, Black Christianity, and Afro-American music: and "Black Narratives", beginning with eighteenth-century slave narratives and working toward contemporary literature.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This interdisciplinary seminar will explore theories and practices of globalization. The process of globalization raises many questions that scholars are attempting to answer. What are its historical roots Why has it seen such rapid growth Is globalization predominantly an economic, cultural or ideological issue Has it affected women and men equally The seminar will consider present discussions on globalization, provide tools to analyze this concept critically, and introduce examples taken from the Third World, Europe, and the United States. Students will be expected to write several short papers and take an active part in class discussions. The final exam will consist of an extended essay on topics dealt with in class.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Focusing on some well-defined aspect of nineteeth-century American literature, this course has included sections on Melville, nineteeth-century American shortfiction and literature and the visual arts.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is not open to freshman. The advanced women's studies course in the department, focusing on a particular aspect of literature by and about women. Topics might include: "Victorian Literary Women"; "Women, Politics, and Literature"; "Feminist Literary Theory"; and similar foci.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kirkham. All Readings and Lecture in English. Through a range of authors including Augustine, Dante, Petrarch, Galileo, and Umberto Eco, this course will explore the world of the book in the manuscript era. We will consider 1)readers in fiction-male and female, good and bad; 2)books as material objects produced in monasteries and their subsequent role in the rise of the universities; 3)medieval women readers and writers; 4)medieval ideas of the book as a symbol (e.g., the notion of the world as God's book; 5)changes in book culture brought about by printing and electroni media. Lectures with discussion in English, to be supplemented by slide presentations and a field trip to the Rare Book Room in Van Pelt Library. No prerequisites. Readings available either in Italian or English. Satisfies General Requirement in Arts and Letters.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fairman. This multidisciplinary course surveys the history of American health care through the multiple perspectives of race, gender, and class, and grounds the discussions in contemporary health issues. It emphasizes the links between the past and present, using not only primary documents but materials from disciplines such as literature, art, sociology, and feminist studies that relate both closely and tangentially to the health professions and health care issues. Discussions will surround gender, class-based, ethnic, and racial ideas about the construction of disease, health and illness; the development of health care institutions; the interplay between religion and science; the experiences of patients and providers; and the response to disasters and epidemics.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kurz. Prerequisite(s): One prior women's studies course. This course covers a broad range of feminist writers, from the pioneer thinkers of the 18th century to current feminists who focus on globalization. After examining how and why feminist thought developed, we will explore how different feminists perspectives explain gender inequality both in the US and in contemporary global contexts. Readings will also focus on how gender issues interact with race, ethnity, sexuality, and social class. We will also focus on how feminist theory informs current social movements for gender equality.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Health, illness and healing systems are deeply connected to the organization of gender relations. This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on the intersection between gender and health in the nineteenth and twentieth century United States. We will examine sex differences in disease distribution and health service use, the effect of women's poverty on health status, women's roles as health care providers, and the historical development of health issues and medical fields directly relevant to women's health (e.g. menstruation, menopause, birth control, obstetrics, pediatrics, and psychiatry).
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Lindee. This course explores the gendered nature of science as social endeavor, intellectual construct and political resource. We consider the rise of gentlemanly science, masculinity and the arms race, the notion of a "Successor science" grounded in feminist theory, and the historical role of gender in defining who can do science and what counts as scientific data. We also explore how science has interpreted male-femal differences. Our goal is to understand the profound impact of social place in the history of science, and thereby to understand the social nature of scientific knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
Kagan. This course is an intensive and focused introduction to social gerontology as a trans-disciplinary lens through which to examine aspects of social structure, actions, and consequences in an aging society. A variety of sources are employed to introduce students from any field focused on human behavior and interaction to classical notions of social gerontology and current scholarly inquiry in gerontology. Field work in the tradition of thick description creates a mechanism to engage students in newly gerontological understandings of their life worlds and daily interactions. Weekly field work, observing aspects of age and representations of aging and being old in every day experiences forms, is juxtaposed against close critical readings of classical works in social gerontology and current research literature as well as viewings of film and readings of popular literature as the basis for student analysis. Student participation in the seminar demands careful scrutiny and critical synthesis of disparate intellectual, cultural, and social perspectives using readings and field work and creation of oral and written arguments that extend understandings of the issues at hand in new and substantive ways. Emphasis is placed on analysis of field work and literature through a series of media reports and a final term paper.
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