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3.00 Credits
This class investigates how sexuality has been constructed, avoided, celebrated, and suppressed in museums. In addition to studying a genealogy of sexual display and spectatorship in museums, students will also do the work of collectors, curators, and critics of artistic, historical, and scientific displays of sex and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores poverty and gender in local and global communities. Readings consider human deprivations and well-being in the context of social norms, gender relations, and governmental structures. Also examined are polities meant to improve human capabilities, including both the overall effects of such policies and their differential consequences for children, women, and men. To be considered for the course, please email pjhc@rice.edu the week of pre-registration to complete a brief questionnaire. Preference is given to those that have declared the PJHC minor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will teach students the important influences and consequences of American family life. We will consider issues such as sex and sexualities, marriage and cohabitation, divorce, family structure, same-sex marriage, domestic violence, and household labor. We will examine the role of social institutions and social inequality in shaping family norms and constraints on family behaviors.
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3.00 Credits
Explores ideas of history and attitudes toward the past as culturally conditioned phenomena. Emphasizes history as a statement of cultural values as well as conceptualizations of cause, change, time, and reality.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores various conceptions of love from the classical era to our postmodern age. Ranging from eros to philia to agape, we will examine literary, philosophical, and artistic expressions of love in painting, cinema, literature, psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, and culture.
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3.00 Credits
From the 1960s to 2000 Germany has developed a very distinct auteur cinema with independent filmmakers such as Fassbinder, Herzog, Wender, Trotta Sander, Brueckner, Doerrie, Garnier, Tykwer and others. The first 20 years of German film were oriented on coming to terms with the fascist past, the second 20 years focused on more contemporary issues. Film, critical reading, and class discussions in English. All films are subtitled in English and will be assessed with podium technology.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the many genres of the 19th-century novel, this course will try to come to terms with some of the insistent questions posed by and through the fiction of the period.
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3.00 Credits
A mixed-genre variable topics course that examines literatures in English from North and South America, including the Caribbean. The focus of the course may vary from a survey of a specific geographical region or a group of writers, to a theme that incorporates more than one geographical region or national literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course examine the ways in which films in both Spain and Latin America have represented the cultural contexts of their countries. Focus is on the theme of power, and the consequences on social and individual lives.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines women's roles in Chinese literature as writers, readers, and characters, focusing particularly on the tension between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural experiences inscribed on the female body and how, in the process, women have contrarily gendered patriarchal culture into their own. It will also touch on Chinese women's incorporation of the Western Tradition.
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