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3.00 Credits
This course is required for students seeking college honors through Urban Studies. Students discuss research methods and make regular research reports, both to the instructor and for other students. Prerequisites: satisfactory standing as a candidate for senior honors (3.5 cumulative GPA) and permission of thesis director.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary examination of major topics in women's lives, in gender, and in the development of feminist theories. For students without previous academic experience in WGSS. Five seats are reserved for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen in each section.
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1.00 Credits
Throughout the centuries, women were interested and involved in the sciences. Their scientific contributions, however, have often been overlooked and their abilities questioned. The 2005 proposition by Harvard's President Larry Summers that women's innate differences explain why fewer women succeed in math and science suggests that women continue to face assumptions about their scientific competence. In addition to examining the history of women's participation in science, this class explores the continuing cultural and economic barriers to women interested in science. Starting with a historical overview of women in science, we look at the contributions of women scientists. We review the numbers of women in various fields with good representation, such as biology, and those with few women, such as physics and computer science. Like the prestigious journal Science, we also explore whether women do science differently. This course is restricted to Women in Science Focus program participants.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the history of the study of sexuality in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. An examination of the ways that human groups attach meaning to emotions, desires, and relationships reveals that human sexuality is the product of cultural history. Taking a social constructionist perspective, this course investigates how the deployment of sexuality socializes, organizes, and provides identities to individuals and groups. We also consider why the topic of sexuality provokes such volatile reactions in contemporary American culture, how the discussion of sex is discouraged, and what is at stake in developing skills, knowledge and attitudes to engage in public discussion of sex.
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3.00 Credits
Same as ANELL 200
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the topics, questions, and approaches that characterize the rapidly growing field of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual/queer studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we explore such topics as the relation between gender and sexual identity, the history of same-sex relations, homophobia and heterosexism, queer cultures, and LGBTQ politics, particularly in the United States. Our focus is on asking whether and how "LGBTQ" functions as a coherent category of analysis or identity, and we pay particular attention to differences (of race, age, gender, sexual practice, class, national origin, temperament, etc.) that are contained within, and often disrupt, that category. This course is not open to students who have taken WGSS 203 or 3031.
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3.00 Credits
This course asks how contemporary relations between women and men are changing under the transformations of technology, science, and medicine. Sex is explored as an integral and complex element of gender. Does sex, as a biological construct, determine gender? Or is gender in fact fixed at all? Sexuality also is considered as a practice, in which intimate relations are being mediated by new technological developments on the internet. Society is addressed as a lens or framework for our discussion of gender. What is "social" about these dynamics? Cyborgs are the substantive focus of our discussion. We pay special attention to developments in technology, science, and medicine, and ask if it is improving or degrading gender relations.
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3.00 Credits
Who is a citizen, and what exactly does this term mean? This freshman seminar investigates how ideologies relating to gender have shaped the rights and duties attached to citizenship in the United States, and how women and men have drawn on those ideologies to make claims to citizenship. We focus on distinct movements in the past and present to identify models of citizenship that have been available to Americans. These movements include the creation of an ideology of "republican motherhood" in the early Republic; the Reconstruction-era debate over the enfranchisement of African-American men; the male culture of 19th-century political parties; the woman suffrage campaign; 20th-century debates over military service for women and for gay men and lesbians; welfare rights and welfare reform; and abortion conflicts since Roe vs. Wade. We take an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses scholarly writings and a wide variety of historical and contemporary documents.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion of canonical and nontraditional texts, most by women. Emphasis on how these texts represent gender, how literature contributes to identity formation, and how women have used the written word to change their social and imaginative conditions.
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3.00 Credits
Same as AFAS 2250
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