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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the nature and frequency of different types of sexual violence, such as child sexual abuse, spousal rape, gang rape, date rape, drug-facilitated rape, prison rape, and serial list murder. Additional topics include: rape myths, risk factors, offender profiles, sex offender registration, consequences of rape, criminal justice and societal responses, and prevention and treatment considerations. Course Information: Same as CRJ 425.
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4.00 Credits
Addresses questions concerning what poverty is and why it exists. Will consider historical and current welfare policies in the U. S. and their implications with respect to societal well-being, individual rights, and justice. Discussion of the intersection of race, gender, and poverty, and possible solutions to the problem. Course Information: Same as LES 441, PSC 441, and SWK 441.
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4.00 Credits
The role of law and the legal system in creating, maintaining, and reducing inequality, with emphasis on race, class, and gender inequality in the United States. The relationship between law and the legal system and political/economic institutions and ideologies. Course Information: Same as LES 404, PSC 421, and SOA 425.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Law that affects the family. Topics include divorce, domestic violence, illegitimacy, adoption, child support and custody, parental control, abuse and neglect laws, issues affecting the elderly, domestic law reform, and the impact of the women's rights movement. Course Information: Same as HDC 446, LES 446, SOA 454, and SWK 446.
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4.00 Credits
Identification of sexism in American law, including constitutional standards, the ERA, employment, education, family and procreative concerns, and crime. Course Information: Same as LES 447.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Development and implementation of nondiscrimination laws in employment, including hiring, firing, promotion, terms and conditions, benefits and pay. Focus on protective labor laws, veteran preference, harassment, and due process requirements in employment. Course Information: Same as LES 449, and PAD 452.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes creation, maintenance, and enforcement of female and male roles. Socialization processes, cultural definitions, major social institutions, and structured social inequality. Course Information: Same as SOA 452.
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4.00 Credits
The modern family in comparative and historical perspective. Selected themes -- changing patterns of household, intimacy, gender -- explored historically to understand their present importance. Course Information: Same as HIS 454, and SWK 454.
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4.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary survey of expressions of masculinity in global and transnational perspective, with emphasis on non-Western cultures. Themes and topics include motives for, and ethnographic and systematic approaches to study of men and masculinities interspersed with case studies of specific forms of masculinity in various geographic regions. Course Information: Same as GBL 455 and SOA 456. Prerequisite: Prior mastery of fundamental concepts, theories and terminology in WGS.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates gender dynamics of political movements in several countries around the world, including the United States, Brazil, Russia, Egypt, Iran, and India. The course examines gender as a dynamic social institution, interacting with class, race, nationality, sexual orientation, and culture. Course Information: Same as SOA 455.
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