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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Psychological analysis of the meaning and implications of being a woman and cause and consequences of the female experience. Biological sex vs. psychological sex-role identity, stereotyping, discrimination, self-concept and the feminist perspective. PREREQ: PSYC100
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3.00 Credits
Explores the diversity of African American women's lives and development of women, work, and culture from 1865 through the late 20th century. Examines the social, political, religious and economic factors affecting change and transformation in the lives of African American women. Provides a broad introduction to the interdisciplinary field of African American and Women's Studies.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on sexual assault and abuse in many forms, with specific attention to campus sexual assault, drug-facilitated rape, and gang rape. We will examine the structures that normalize and perpetuate sexual assault such as media, party culture, hook-up culture, and the response of the criminal justice system. We will explore the impact of victimization and trauma on survivors, the overlay of intersectionality on victims' experiences, secondary victimization that often occurs as survivors engage with systems, and institutional betrayal. This course seeks to engage students in the topic by utilizing multiple modalities of learning including Lecture, film, readings, interactive exercises, circle conversations, discussion, and reflective writing.
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3.00 Credits
Situates cultural forms created by women in historical context. Novels, poems, television, plays, rituals, film, paintings, music, electronic media, technology, sculpture, food, clothing and/or architecture reveal perspectives of women's time, class, nation, race, and ethnicity. Relates feminism, gender and the production of culture. RESTRICTIONS: Repeat credit only when topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
Studies of significant British texts from the nineteenth century, the social forces they shaped, and those by which they were shaped. Content varies by expertise of instructor. PREREQ: ENGL110. RESTRICTIONS: May be taken up to three times when topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the experience of women in Christianity from its foundation to the present through the lenses of religious studies and feminism. Highlights the experiences and contributions of Christian women and investigates how Christian text, doctrine, and practice combine to construct ideas about the body, femininity, and masculinity. Topics include asceticism, virginity, sexuality, Gnosticism, mysticism, witch-hunts, colonization, social justice movements, ordination, reproduction, womanism, and feminist theology. Using a topical focus in historical contexts students will understand the Christian origins of commonly held assumptions about contemporary gender roles and see the pervasive influence of Christianity on many areas of contemporary American social life.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the representation of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. We shall consider the lives of both men and women and how concepts of masculinity and femininity shaped Greek and Roman mythology, literature, artwork, and daily life. We will investigate a wide range of texts, including tragedy, comedy, poetry, philosophy, legal documents, and medical treatises, as well as material culture (e.g. classical sculpture and architecture, images on pots, and wall paintings). Throughout this course, we will focus on how gender figures as a central motif in ancient Greece and Rome, and gain, it is hoped, a complete understanding of the roles that gender and sexuality play in our own society.
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3.00 Credits
Interrogates the myriad ways in which Black Bodies are formally and informally policed. Special focus is given to the ways in which Black women's bodies are policed not only by the criminal justice system, but also informally through sexual and intimate partner violence, forced sterilization and contraception. Course utilizes the theoretical lenses of intersectionality and of color blind racism.
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3.00 Credits
This course brings into focus the lived experiences of Black women throughout United States history through the end of the Civil War. Beginning with the first African women to encounter North American shores in the 17th century, Black women's knowledge, creativity, activism, and community leadership have been integral to both Black people's perseverance, and to the evolution of this country. Throughout this course, Black women's voices will be central. We will read Black women's writing, examine the ways Black women fashioned their own bodies, and we will survey Black women's art throughout this early period. We will examine a wide range of sources including periodicals, slave narratives, memoir/autobiography, oral history, poetry, visual art, film, and music, in addition to assigned secondary literature.
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3.00 Credits
Reproduction is more contested than ever, and is both shaped by and shaping the diverse cultural backgrounds and beliefs of people everywhere. Reproduction is a topic and experience that cuts across multiple political and personal issues: it is at once a deeply intimate and highly public process with implications for both individuals and societies. In this course we identify, examine, and explore dominant narratives about motherhood and reproduction from cross-cultural perspectives, and the personal stakes and political scales at which different experiences of motherhood impact. We focus specifically on motherhood since it is the relationship between mother and child that is predominantly politicized in various configurations of power both historically and contemporaneously, although we do examine topics related to parenthood more broadly. Through the study of ethnographic research, we look critically and cross-culturally at topics related to: contraception, family planning, fertility, pregnancy, birth, early childhood, motherhood, parenthood, child welfare interventions, media and popular cultural representations of motherhood, and labor and work, especially as these topics intersect with concerns related to nationhood, gender, sexuality, racism, class, socio-economic status, religion, politics, ethnicity, and cultural background.
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