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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The capstone course is designed to assist students in integrating the concepts, theories, and methods of inquiry or urban studies into research for or in the surrounding metropolitan area. Open to students in urban and regional studies who have completed their community-based learning requirement for the concentration.
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3.00 Credits
Readings, community-based research and analytical assignments in accordance with the needs and interests of the student and approval of the instructor. Students must submit a written proposal of study for approval. In addition, students electing to take this course in partial fulfillment of their community-based research must get approval from the Director of the Urban and Regional Studies program. (F,W,S)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an interdisciplinary overview of the key theories and topics in Women's and Gender Studies. Special attention is given to how gender intersects with class, race, nationality, religion and sexuality to structure women's and men's lives. Students are also introduced to methods of gender analysis and will begin to apply these methods to topics such as women and health, gender roles in the family, violence against women, and gendered images in the mass media.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the biological and sociocultural construction of body image in both men and women. We explore such cultural and social practices as nudity, tattooing, piercing, scarification, dietary habits, physical activity and sports performance and their associated myths and realities. We explore how the human body is a terrain of contested meaning within society. The course provides an examination of the causes and consequences of women's poor body image, contemporary and historically. Course materials include case studies from North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
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3.00 Credits
Explores some of the history of women in science, the current status of women in science and feminism and science. Topics will include contributions made by women before science moved into the public sphere, cultural influences on decisions to make science a career and a feminist approach to scientific research. Discussion, lecture.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the economic aspects of poverty and discrimination. Emphasis on the theoretical economic causes of poverty and the economic bases for discriminatory behavior, the impact of poverty and discrimination on individuals and society and the effect of reform policies on the two problems.
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3.00 Credits
Women have often been regarded as the second sex of the middle ages due to the misogynistic attitudes of that era. Recent scholarship, however, has unearthed a significantly more complex picture. Through a study of visual representations of women in medieval art, this course will examine women's roles in the creation and patronage of art and literature, economic and family issues, and women's participation in new and innovative forms of religious piety.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to Islam's normative stance toward women, to complication in that normative stance, to theories about gender and history and finally to a consideration of the changing and varied attitudes about women and gender in the modern Middle East.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the political behavior of women in American politics. Included is an analysis of the legal and legislative demands of American women.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this seminar is to examine women's leadership in movements for social change. We will approach this topic through the study of historical examples, drawn primarily from the twentieth-century United States, and including movements for economic justice, race relations, sexual identity, peace, gender equality, public health and social welfare.
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