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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: 3 credits in a 200-level literature course (or equivalent). A study of queer literature and theory, focusing on writing about female same-sex desire. Explores the idea of a "lesbian subject" and a "lesbian text" through directed study of literature, film, history and theory. Considers issues of aesthetics, politics, authorship and interpretive communities and examines the intersection of social identities with particular attention to race/ethnicity, sex/gender, class and nationality.
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. An examination of various aspects of slavery in Africa primarily, and selected parts of the African Diaspora including the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, with emphasis on African conditions of servility, the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. The role gender and race played in slavery will be given particular attention.
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. This course is intended for upper-level undergraduate students. Introduces students to the health issues that affect women throughout the life span. The impact of physiological, psychological, cultural and political factors upon women's well-being will be addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Completion of STAT 210 (or equivalent) is strongly recommended. Explores the implications of feminist theorizing across disciplinary and cultural contexts for both methodology and epistemology. Examines how knowledge and power intersect, how gender theory and feminist politics influence research, how the knower influences knowledge production, and how social location shapes inquiry.
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: 21 credits in women's studies or permission of the instructor. Students are required to produce a senior research project on a topic related to the theme of the seminar.
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Overviews the psychological research on women's health. Topics include health behavior change, personality and individual differences, cognitive factors, diseasespecific behaviors and interventions.
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. A study of relationships between the ways women and men use language, relationships between language and power and ways women and men use language reflects and reinforces cultural attitudes toward gender. May not be used to satisfy the literature requirement of the College of Humanities and Sciences.
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites: at least three credits in religious studies and six credits in women's studies and/or international studies, or permission of instructor. This course explores the experience and portrayal of women in the three Abrahamic traditions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Study focuses on how these religions and their texts bear upon the social, economic, political and spiritual lives of women. Special attention is given to the impact of globalization and religious fundamentalism on women.
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. A reexamination of a variety of issues concerning women, art and society: the position assigned women within the history of art as it relates to historical place and the aesthetic values of the canon, the gendering of style, patronage, audience and gaze. Through a survey of images of and by women, as well as through an analysis of art historical and critical texts, this course addresses the question: "How are the processes of sexual differentiation played out across the representations of art and art history?"
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3.00 Credits
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. May be repeated with different topics for a total of 12 credits. An in-depth examination of specialized areas of interest in women's studies. See the Schedule of Classes for specific topics to be offered each semester.
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