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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An examination of contemporary American poverty with attention to race and gender as fundamental dimensions of inequality. Social policy, employment and family composition are key topics. PREREQ: SOCI201.
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3.00 Credits
Study of clothing and appearance as contributors to human interactions; consideration of the importance of clothing in individual and collecEtive behavior. Analysis of how dress reflects self-feelings, establishes social identities and affects interpersonal encounters. PREREQ: PSYC100 RESTRICTIONS: Must have junior status.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Senior thesis for women's studies majors or minors. COREQ: Students enrolled in WOMS420 must also take WOMS410 the same semester or the following semester. RESTRICTIONS: Women's studies majors or minors and permission of the WOMS program.
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3.00 - 9.00 Credits
Current directions in mass communication theory and practice including new technologies, politics, broadcast programming and research, advertising and audience responses to media content. RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated three times for credit when topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
The study of women and gender includes various data sources. Focuses on quantitative data and statistical analysis as it pertains to the study of women and gender. Within the framework of the scientific method,focuses on sampling, data collection, data input, statistical data analysis, interpretation of results, and how to write-up findings. Covers the following topics: frequency distribution, central tendency, variability, confidence intervals, correlation, z-test, t-test, analysis of variance, chi-square, and regression. Focus on how to use each method as it applies to the study of women and gender, such as in identification of gender inequalities, understanding of social indicators, and critical analysis of claims of gender differences.
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3.00 Credits
Examine diverse Italian authors and literary movements. Hone critical thinking skills while developing the tools necessary for perceptive literary and cultural analysis. RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated three times with different topics for credit.
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3.00 Credits
This INSIDE/OUT class focuses on deep reading of several form of literature. The class investigates the role of women in literature as authors, readers and central characters, and uses literature as a window into social views of gender. Assigned material explores the particular themes of voice, agency, cultural difference and social structure. RESTRICTIONS: Permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the body, not through the lens of the biological sciences, but as the product of complex social arrangements and processes. Considers: What is 'natural' about bodies? How are bodies commodified? How are bodies categorized and constituted by discourses of race, class, gender, sexuality, and biomedicine? RESTRICTIONS: Not open to freshmen.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the critical role that women are playing in politics across Africa today - from grassroots activists to leaders in national office. It examines African feminisms before investigating women's political roles during pre-colonial and colonial periods, struggles for independence and national liberation, and after independence, including women in conflict and peace building, women's movements and women in transitions, and women as legislators, ministers, judges and traditional leaders.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the historical and contemporary factors shaping the global food system. Studying processes and practices, such as production and consumption, policymaking, activism, commodity exchange; as well as, actors including states, producers and consumers, farmworkers, farmers and policymakers. Consider how production and consumption are framed and discuss the spatial organization of access to food and agricultural resources through digging into issues related to food justice and food sovereignty on local and global scales.
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