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3.00 Credits
Staff. Intellectual, emotional and behavioral development in the college years. Illustrative topics: developing intellectual and social competence; developing personal and career goals; managing interpersonal relationships; values and behavior. Recommended for submatriculation in Psychological Services Master's Degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Peiss. This course introduces students to a relatively new field of inquiry, the history of sexuality in the U.S. It explores the past to consider why sexuality has been so central to American identities, culture, and politics. Primary documents and other readings focus on the history of sexual ideology and regulation; popular culture and changing sexual practices; the emergence of distinct sexual identity and communities; the politics of sexuality; and the relationship between sexual and other forms of social difference, such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, and class. Topics include many themes with continuing relevance to contemporary public debate: among them, sexual representation and censorship, sexual violence, adolescent sexuality, the politics of reproduction, gay and lesbian sexualities and sexually transmitted diseases.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course includes both a general survey of classic writings in Western aesthetics as well as readings on the major trends in literary criticism in the twentieth century. A recurring theme will be the literary canon and how it reflects or influences values and interpretative strategies. Among the topics covered are feminist literary criticism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxist criticism, and psychological criticism. Authors include Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Hegel, T.S. Eliot, Bakhtin, Sontag, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, Virginia Woolf, de Beauvoir, Showalter, Cixous, Gilbert and Guber, Kolodny, Marx, Benjamin, and Freud.
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3.00 Credits
DeJean. We will compare the three powerful traditions of women's writing that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries: in Italy, in England, and in France. We will read works by Franco, Moderata Fonte, Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish, Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette, and Madeleine de Scudery. We will concentrate on works in prose and, in particular, on the two genres whose development was shaped by women writers: novels and treatises defending women's rights. We will think about what it meant to be a woman writer in these countries and at this period. We will also try to understand the conditions that made it possible for these traditions to develop. French and Italian works will be read in translation.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Throughout the 18th Century, the novel was consistently chosen by the PHILOSOPHES as a forum in which to present political ideas to a broad audience. French novels of the Enlightenment are therefore often hybrid works in which fictional plots, even love stories, co-exist with philosophical dialogue and with more or less fictionalized discussions of recent political events or debates. We will read novels by all the major intellectual figures of the 18th century -- for example, Montesquieu's LETTRES PERSANES, CONTES by Voltaire, Diderot's LE NEVEU DE RAMEAU -- in order to examine the controversial subject matter they chose to explore in a fictional format and to analyze the effects on novelistic structure of this invasion of the political. We will also read works, most notably Laclos' LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, that today are generally thought to reflect the socio-political climate of the decades that prepared the French Revolution of 1789. In all our discussion, we will be asking ourselves why and how, for the only time in the history of the genre, the novel could have been, in large part and for most of the century, partially diverted from fictional concerns and chosen as a political vehicle.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. When crosslisted with ENGL 356, this is a Benjamin Franklin Seminar. What is feminist theatre This course will explore that deceptively simple but hotly debated question by focusing on the creative and political efforts of female playwrights and performers. Our readings will provide background on feminist theatre history and theory, from which we will examine diverse-and divergent-approaches to feminist playwriting, acting, and directing. We will consider a wide range of artists from the Pulitzer prize-winning Wendy Wasserstein to the NEA grant-losing Holly Hughes, we will also examine the recent phenomenon of Eve Ensler's THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. The course will be conducted in seminar format with heavy emphasis on discussion; readings will be supplemented by shared viewing of live and video performances.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Benjamin Franklin Seminar. Attitudes toward and visions of womanhood and manhood in fiction of the last hundred years. Is a person's gender the most important fact shaping her or his lifetime Does it have to be
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Benjamin Franklin Seminar. This course is cross-listed with ENGL 393 (Topics in Postcolonial Literature and Society) when the course content is related to women and gender issues. Topics vary. Consult the Program for a detailed course description.
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3.00 Credits
Kurz. This course is for senior undergraduate Women's Studies majors who will be completing their thesis. The seminar helps students decide on the most appropriate methodologies to use and topics to include in their thesis. Other topics include thesis organization and drawing conclusions from primary and secondary sources of data.
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3.00 Credits
Shawcross. This course will consider issues relating to the documentation and interpretation of women's lives. Through research in the personal papers of various women who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the class will focus on the following questions: what documents survive and why (and what don't survive and why); how do published texts on the subject compare to unpublished ones and why; and to what extent, if any, did gender inhibit or facilitate the fulfillment of aspirations or vocations of these women and why. Course requirements comprise participation in weekly class sessions on the progress of one's research and difficulties and discoveries therein and a paper of journal-length size relating to a subject in which primary source materials have been extensively consulted. The paper should include a bibliography of published accounts and a critical evaluation of surviving papers. A list of possible subjects compiled by the professor will draw on resources available in several Penn repositories, including the Department of Special Collections, the University Archives and Records Center, and the Center for the Study of History or in other special libraries in the Phildelphia area.
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