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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the experiences of women and the significance of gender from an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. It will explore the extent to which gender, as well as other social characteristics such as race, class, and sexual orientation, affect access to opportunity, power, and resources. It will also examine the contributions of women to society and to social change. Satisfies distribution requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine Western society's attitudes toward women and how these attitudes shaped women's participation in the social, political, economic, and cultural development of the Western world from ancient times to the present. Aspecial effort is made to use primary source material in the course readings.
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3.00 Credits
Students read works by major writers from Japan, China, India, African nations, and other cultures. This course includes works by writers such as Basho, Firdausi, Confucius, Li Po, Motokiyo, and Mushima. In addition, students will study selections from The Koran and The Bhagavad Gita and a number of Japanese Noh plays.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the contributions of women in both fiction (the novel and the short story) and poetry in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the authors to be studied include Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf. The class will emphasize both the singular perspectives each writer brings to her work as well as each author's perspectives on the role of women in her particular era.
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3.00 Credits
America is often called a great melting pot, yet many voices are often ignored or marginalized because they are not the voices of majority culture. In this class, students will examine significant works from African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/as, Native Americans, and others. Writers to be studied include Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordon, Maxine Hong Kingston, M. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, and Alberto Rios.
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3.00 Credits
This course concerns ideas of human sexuality and to a lesser extent, gender, in a cross-cultural context. Students study the human brain and hormonal system to discover what about sexuality and gender are biologically programmed. Once that is established, students look at sexuality as it is understood in a number of cultures, including our own. Topics include marriage systems of different types and how they regulate sex, what different cultures define as customary or "normal" sexual practice, and what are regarded as abnormal, sexual customs versus sexual practice, and sexual taboos and how taboos reflect masculinity, femininity, and other culturally defined sexual orientations.
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3.00 Credits
The social construction of gender and its impact on the lives of women are examined in this course. This survey course covers a wide array of psychological topics as they relate to the female experience in American culture. The influence of historical, developmental, and social contexts on psychological experiences are also examined. Prerequisite: PSY 105.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the family as a social institution with multicultural and cross-cultural differences. Areas of study include the organization of kinship systems, historical antecedents of family structure in the United States, gendered family roles, domestic violence, and the theoretical implications of societal change of intimacy patterns and family relations. This is a writing enriched course. Prerequisite: SOC 105.
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3.00 Credits
The main objective of the course is to introduce students to the subject of family violence, especially as it relates to the legal system in the United States. This will be accomplished by exploring (1) the historical roots of domestic violence, (2) social science theoretical perspectives, (3) the roles and the players, (4) the typical criminal prohibitions, (5) the experiences of victims who seek help from the court, religious, and medical authorities, and (6) efforts at developing prevention and intervention strategies. In addition, the course will seek to develop skills in students to find and evaluate information on family violence, especially as it is found in sociological sources and court records.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on how gender inequality is structured globally and how economic and political changes in the last half of the 20th century have impacted these inequalities. To understand the impact of economic and political changes, we will specifically examine regions such as Latin America, Asia (Southeast, South Asia, China), Africa, and the Middle East and make comparisons with the United States. We will look at the social, economic, and political structure in different countries of these areas and see how gender inequality is socially constructed and impacted by changes. We will end the course by looking at some of the ways women have made changes in the structure of their countries and ultimately their own lives.
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