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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore some of the significant life experiences of women in sub-Saharan Africa (such as marriage, sex and sexuality, motherhood, being a wife, families, aging, widowhood, work, and urban vs. rural life), how the same type of experiences are lived by African American women, and how an understanding of culture and social organization helps us understand how African and African American women sometimes experience these similarly and sometimes differently. This is a writing enriched course.
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3.00 Credits
Literature and film represent two of the media in which society explores its most puzzling questions. This course examines the way particular issues are treated in literature and film, focusing on both the issues and the analytical skills necessary to critique the two media. Issues are different each time the course is offered. This course counts as a women's studies course when the selected topic and issues focus on women.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of sex/gender systems in historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary societies. Identity politics and the interconnections between gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation are core segments of this course. Feminist, socialist, liberal, and conservative thought on sex/gender issues are included. Readings include classic early writings from the contemporary women's movement and more recent gender analyses. This is a writing enriched course. Prerequisite: SOC 105.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the changing nature of male and female genders from the Renaissance to the present. The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with gender as an analytical category, distinguish it from sex, make students conscious of the variability of gender, and knowledgeable of the forces that have acted upon gender in the past. Students will explore the nature of men's and women's conditions, social status, and thought, as well as development of their political, social, and cultural powers from the 15th century to our day.
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3.00 Credits
This course looks at studies over the past 20 years that have resituated the significant contributions of women in making, commissioning, and inspiring artistic images. These re-evaluations have led to a richer, more nuanced history-one that posits gender as an integral factor and that reveals the key role women have played in the world of art. The course will focus on how artists have portrayed women and the ways representations of women function as a manifestation of culture. The work of women artists and feminist critical disclosure will be included.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the lives of women in American from the beginning of the colonial era to 1870, with special emphasis on how race, class, region, and gender have affected women's identities, relationships, and daily lives. Topics include religion, paid and unpaid labor, life cycles, friendships, family life, community, health and sexuality, the women's rights movements, and the impact of the American Revolution and the Civil War. This is primarily a lecture-base course, with writing and discussion as important elements.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the lives of women in America from 1870 to today, with special emphasis on how race, class, region, and gender have affected women's identities, relationships, and daily lives. Topics include religion, paid and unpaid labor, prostitution, friendships, family life, community, health and sexuality, birth control, the women's rights movement, and the impact of U.S. involvement in international wars. This is primarily a lecturebased course, with writing and discussion as important elements.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the interaction between social movements and social change. The focus is on intentional change; on social movements as expressions of people's interest in transforming social structures and cultural relations. Activism organized around issues of race, class, and gender-as found in the American labor movement, civil rights movement, and the women's movement-constitute the three primary movementsexamined in this course. Prerequisite: SOC 105.
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3.00 Credits
From the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 to the "second shift" in the 1980s, this course examines experiences of working women and the nature of women's work in the United States in the 20th century. How have societal expectations for women shaped their paid and unpaid labor? How have class, ethnicity, and race impacted definitions of and women's experiences with work? Researching from both primary and secondary sources that describe a variety of work settings and occupations, students study the labor process and sexual division of labor, consider changes in the labor market and modes of managerial control, and debate the historical resilience of job segregation and the ideology of sex-typing.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
The student undertakes independent study of significant issues concerning women's studies. A topic, approved by the instructor, as well as the director of women's studies, is chosen for research and a written report is required. Discussions as to the progress of the work are held periodically. Prerequisite: Open to qualified students with the permission of the faculty advisor and the director of women's studies. Student must have a junior or senior standing.
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