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  • WSTD 503: MLA:Love,Politics and Myth in Popular Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Mackey-Kallis. Master in Liberal Arts course. Looking at such popular English language films as Titanic, The Piano, Reds, Cold Mountain, Gone with the Wind, and others, this course explores images of romantic love set against the background of often turbulent political times. Using Homer's the Illiad and the Oddysey and Dante's The Divine Comedy as a classical and medieval frame, respectively, for romantic love in a "dangerous time," and the writings of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Carl Kerenyi, Luce Irigary, and others, the course explores the relationships amoung romantic love, spiritual transformation, individuation and cultural and political evolution.
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  • WSTD 507: Feminist Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. The course has four foci: I. The French intellectual background of the 1960's and how feminists theory in Europe and America has appropriated, criticized and reinterpreted the prevailing trends of the period. II. The contention that each gender possesses psychological characteristics traditionally considered as the prerogative of the opposite gender. III. The emphasis on a female specificity. IV. The emphasis on cultural determinism, an endeavor which usually involves a criticism of III, whose various manifestations are sometimes hastily lumped together under the term "neoessentialism".
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  • WSTD 511: Anthropology of Sex and Gender

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Sanday. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002. This course surveys psychoanalytic and social theories of sex and gender. We begin with the social organization and construction of sexual expression and engendered subjectivity. The social ordering of power through the mechanisms of sexual behavior and engendered subjectivity is considered next. In addition to reading anthropological analyses of sex and gender in specific ethnographic contexts, students will become familiar with relevant theorists such as Belsey, Strathern, de Lauretis, Foucault, Freud and Lacan. Short papers will be assigned in which students apply specific theories to interpret case material. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students are welcome.
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  • WSTD 513: Indian Cinema & Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Majithia. This course will meet for three hours to view and discuss a variety of films/videos in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Urdu (with English subtitles), and English, which bring up issues of social, political, and cultural significance. Readings for the course will include articles in various fields ranging from film studies and communication to sociolinguistics and women's studies. Discussions will focus on cinema as a means of expression and as an instrument for social change, examining the various ways in which films both reflect and influence contemporary culture.
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  • WSTD 516: Public Interest Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Sanday. This is an interdisciplinary workshop sponsored by Peggy Reeves Sanday (Dept of Anthropology), Michael Delli Carpini (Dean of Annenberg), and Ira Harkavy (Director, Center for Community Partnerships). Open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, the workshop is a response to Amy Gutmann's call for interdisciplinary cooperation across the University and to the Dept. of Anthropology's commitment to developing public interest research and practice as a disciplinary theme. The workshop will be run as an open interdisciplinary forum on framing a public interest social science that ties theory and action. Students are encouraged to apply the framing model to a public interest reasearch and action topic of their choice. Examples of public interest topics to be discussed in class and through outside speakers include how education and the media reify public interests, the conflation of race and racism in the public sphere, the role of diversity, community action and service learning in higher education, and the contradictory relationship between individual and ethnic identity.
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  • WSTD 518: Nursing, Health and Illness in the U

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. D'Antonio, Buhler-Wilkerson. Summer Session II. Reviews the main events and ideas influencing health care since the Civil War changing ideas of health, the developing professions of nursing and medicine, institutions, the influence of religion and science, voluntary and tax supported health initiatives.
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  • WSTD 528: Gender and Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lindee. With a special focus on methods, this course explores the rich literature on gender and technical knowledge.
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  • WSTD 532: Gender,the Labor Force and Labor Markets

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Madden. Drawing from sociology, economics and demography, this course examines the causes and effects of gender differences in labor force participation, earnings and occupation in the United States and in the rest of the developed developed and developing world. Differences by race and ethnicity areidered. also considered. Theories of labor supply, marriage, human captial andre discrimination are explored as explanations for the observed trends.se reviews Finally, the course reviews current labor market policies and uses thearriage, theories of labor supply, marriage, human capital and discrimination to men. evaluate their effects on women and men.
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  • WSTD 534: Woman in Poetry:From the Troubadours to the Petrarchans

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Kirkham. Conducted in English, undergraduates by permission only. The course explores female voices in medieval and early modern literature from Italy and France. We shall begin with the foundations of the "courtly" lyric tradition, reading the "trobairitz" (female troubadours). Next we shall turn to early Italian texts in which woman is the object of a male gaze. We shall consider both the classical "high" style that idolizes woman (Petrarch) and programmatic departures from it (Dante's "Stony Rhymes," satirical dialogues, and humorous misogyny). Our point of arrival will be the Petrarchan poetesses of 16th-century Europe, with an emphasis on the Italians (Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati). What were the literary and philosophical traditions that shaped notions of female identity How do women establish their own textual space when appropriating a genre that had been the vehicle for a masculine first-person voice How do the images of women as scripted by men, or staged through male cross-voicing, differ from those in poetry written by women What are problems and issues in constructing a national history of women poets Course conducted in English, with texts available both in English and in the original. Undergraduates by permission. Requirements: class participation; a final oral presentation on a woman poet of the student's choice, and a term paper of not more than 20 pp. or a take-home final.
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  • WSTD 537: Boccaccio

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Kirkham. Boccaccio's life and work in the context of Italian and European culture and society.
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