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2.00 Credits
A continuation of THTR 021. Does not satisfy the humanities distribution requirement. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and three semesters of THTR 021. 2 semester hours
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5.00 Credits
A continuation of THTR 121. Does not satisfy the humanities distribution requirement. Prerequisite: THTR 121 and permission of instructor. Students may enroll in the course up to four times. 0.5 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the experiences of women and the significance of gender from an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. It explores the extent to which gender, as well as other social characteristics such as race, class, and sexual orientation, affect access to opportunity, power, and resources. It also examines the contributions of women to society and to social change. Satisfies distribution requirement. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Western society's attitudes toward women and how these attitudes shaped women's participation in the social, political, economic, and cultural development of the Western world from ancient times to the present. Aspecial effort is made to use primary source material in the course readings. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Students read works by major writers from Japan, China, India, African nations, and other cultures. This course includes works by writers such as Basho, Firdausi, Confucius, Li Po, Motokiyo, and Mushima. In addition, students study selections from The Koran and The Bhagavad Gita and a number of Japanese Noh plays. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the contributions of women in both fiction (the novel and the short story) and poetry in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the authors studied include Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf. The class emphasizes both the singular perspectives each writer brings to her work, as well as each author's perspectives on the role of women in her particular era. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
America is often called a great melting pot, yet many voices are often ignored or marginalized because they are not the voices of majority culture. In this class, students examine significant works from African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/as, Native Americans, and others. Writers to be studied include Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordon, Maxine Hong Kingston, M. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, and Alberto Rios. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Youth, adolescence, young adulthood-different terms, but all imply a period in life when individuals face various new issues, physically and emotionally. In this course, students explore such issues in the context of social and cultural frameworks. Students consider how sociologists view a category termed "youth" andexplore how social systems determine who is a part of this category. Students also look at the personal and social implications of "youth" and the intersections and impact of race, class, andgender on the experiences of youth. Students are introduced to the social constructionist approach to study the issues of youth in the United States, as well as comparative perspectives. Prerequisite: SOC 105. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
The study of social problems in the United States and other parts of the world. This course looks at political policy and the unrest that follows from inequality based on race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and subcultural group practices. Through film, readings, and discussion, the class focuses on the application of critical thinking to understand and address the effects of social differentiation on individuals and groups. Prerequisite: SOC 105 or permission of instructor. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course concerns ideas of human sexuality and to a lesser extent, gender, in a cross-cultural context. Students study the human brain and hormonal system to discover what about sexuality and gender are biologically programmed. Once that is established, students look at sexuality as it is understood in a number of cultures, including our own. Topics include marriage systems of different types and how they regulate sex, what different cultures define as customary or "normal" sexual practice,and what are regarded as abnormal, sexual custom versus sexual practice, and sexual taboos and how taboos reflect masculinity, femininity, and other culturally defined sexual orientations. 3 semester hours
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