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3.00 Credits
Mass media, politics and academia are full of references to globalization, and a future "world without borders." This interdisciplinary course considers the implication of globalization for women's lives, gender relations and feminism. Topics covered include the global factory, cross-cultural consumption, human rights, global communications, economic restructuring, nationalism and environmental challenges. Rather than survey international women's movements, this course explores how globalization reformulates identities and locations and the political possibilities they create.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes issues of sexuality using the lens of queer theory to understand the ways writers have imagined printed text to reflect and govern desire. This course also explores how queer theory has moved beyond a hetero-homosexual binary by offering alternative solutions to issues in literature that seem to be at political, economic and national impasses. Writers may include contemporary theorists (Sedgwick, Foucault, Butler) as well as novelists (Gaskell and Stoker), playwrights (Kushner and Wycherley) and poets (Behn and Rossetti).
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3.00 Credits
This course questions our inheritance of the ?the gothic? as a district literary style that continues to discipline readers? notions of gender and sexual identity. The course argues that by tracing the gothic?s literary history, we may simultaneously witness a history of gender formation. Readings may include English novelists who originated a gothic style in English (Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis) as well as English and American poets and novelists who have debated as well as resisted the effects of the gothic on readers? (particularly women?s) psychology (Christina Rossetti, Austen, King, Stoker).
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3.00 Credits
Examination of problems and issues related to Women's Studies. Title as listed in Schedule of Classes will change according to specific content. Course may be repeated for credit when specific topics differ.
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3.00 Credits
TOPIC: Traditional Constraints and Routine Controls: Violence against Women. Course examines social violence against women outside family and other intimate relationships. Emphasis will be on violations against women's human rights through the life cycle, which are often sanctioned under the guise of cultural practices and misinterpretations of religious tenets. Topics willl include, but not limited to: Sex-selective abortion and female infanticide; female genital mutilation and cosmetic surgeries; prostitution and pornography; trafficking in women; sexual harassment; and women as "verbs" between men in war. We will examine both institutionalized sexism and racism, as part of political, economic, and social systems, and sexism and racism realities affecting individual women's lives.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
A thesis project that is the culmination of the minor in Women's Studies. Students meet with the instructor to reflect on past studies and plan current projects, to conduct research that addresses a gender issue in the larger community, and to write a thesis under the direction of the faculty member. Research involving participant-observer in social agencies is encouraged where appropriate.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Provides opportunity for qualified Women's Studies students to pursue independent research under the direction of a qualified faculty member. Project must be defined in advance, in writing and must be in a subject not currently offered in the regular curriculum.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the position of women in Germany after WWII and up to and after the unification of East and West Germany. Particular attention will be given to the gendered history of working through the National Socialist past, the division and reconstruction of the two nation-states, and the terrorism in West Germany in the 1970's. Students will examine images of women in films and tie them to the ideologies of gender and status of women in these larger issues of German history. Course readings will be in English. This course will be distinguished from its undergraduate counterpart, WGST 401, by the inclusion of additional readings and assignments.
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3.00 Credits
Have you ever been dissed? Why are some people targets of disrespect? This class examines the unequal distribution of power-social, economic and political in the United States and other countries that results in favor for privileged groups. We will examine a variety of institutional practices and individual beliefs that contribute to disrespect. We'll look at ways that beliefs and practices, like viewing inequality as consequence of a "natural order," obscure the processes that create and sustain social discrimination. We will engage in the intellectual examination of systems, behaviors and ideologies that maintain discrimination and the unequal distribution of power and resources. Student will not receive credit for both WGST 404 and WGST 504. This course is distinguished from its 400-level counterpart by the requirement of additional assignments, including a required additional paper.
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3.00 Credits
This course will investigate the development of sex roles in childhood and adolescence due to either innate physiological differences of sociological patterning, the effect of sex roles upon male-female relationships within our society and the possibility of transcending sociological sex roles in alternate modes of living. Additional reading assignments or projects will distinguish this course from its undergraduate version WGST 405. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 405 and WGST 505.
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