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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces students to basic concepts in women s studies. Covers the history of the women s movement and its relation to the rise of women s studies as a discipline. Examines and discusses a multiplicity of recurring themes affecting differing women s lives; including the social construction of gender, the impact of race, sexuality, reproduction, work, education, media, material condition (class), and women s agency. Discusses current controversies among feminists, and the broader political arena. Discovers how studying women s history challenges traditional notions of women and traditional notions of history.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Topics vary according to faculty/instructors.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Topics vary according to faculty/instructors.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Topics vary according to faculty/instructors.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores how the current expansion of the world market is overturning the seclusion of women in traditional societies and looks at the consequences of globalization on the lives of women throughout the world. Women in developing countries share common patterns of location and differentiation within the international division of labor. Examines how women are struggling to represent their identities in the midst of rapid changes in their societies. Examines why more and more women are becoming active in the international human rights movement. Looks at how women are attempting to shape the discourse of development in different regions of the world economy. Intended to develop a multidisciplinary approach to gender and more specifically, to understand how gender is constructed by political, economic, and cultural discourses in industrialized and industrializing societies, and to understand the differences between the lived experiences of women in these societies, the heterogeneous nature of women based on class, race, religion, and nationality, and how women s lives are changing in the context of the global economy.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: none Corequisites: none Type: SEM Explores the roles, functions, practices, and consciousness of women cross-culturally based in various U.S. communities. Focuses on the socio-cultural history of women s movements, issues and multiple oppressions. By understanding and examining race, class, gender, sexuality and nationality, students will learn how to think, read, and write in a critical and creative framework. Students will discover the importance of re-claiming and education.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Topics vary according to faculty/instructors.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Surveys components in the spectrum of gender-based violence, in the U.S. and in some other countries. Historical, legal, sociological, psychological, literary and first person accounts comprise the course readings. Students will gain an understanding of the dynamics of violence against women and children, social movements that attempt to ameliorate it, and how gender, race, class and theoretical grounding influence local, national and global efforts to end violence and empower women.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Examination of what constitutes a feminist essay and how the essay can be used as a tool for social and political change. Although course readings and discussions will focus on works by contemporary women writers, emphasis will be placed on the students own writings. Each student will be expected to present current writing, pertinent to present study, to the group for discussion and feedback. A writing sample is required prior to admission to the seminar.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Introduces to the complexity of feminist thought and theorizing through a discussion of many of the major schools of feminist thought and past and present debates within feminist theorizing as it has developed both within the United States, and abroad. A solid grasp of the core theories, their fundamental approaches, their insights into social phenomenon and the key criticisms of each, will allow the student to enter into and participate in the ongoing conversations that characterizes feminist thought. Feminist theory has always developed in tandem with feminist movements and activism. Thus, throughout the course, students will not only learn about feminist theories, but also apply the tenets of different theories to current issues and modern problems. Theories are not meant to be passive ideas unrelated to our everyday reality, but are meant to be used as tools to analyze the world around us. As a critical theory, feminist theory aims not only to produce knowledge, but also to provide a base for action. Feminist theories ask us to rethink what we mean by sex and gender, how we understand our sexuality, the roles, status, and ideals assigned to men and women in our societies and how we reward and punish individuals that question, challenge or deviate from these roles. Feminist theory engages with issues of social inequality, oppression, and sexism, and invites us to imagine strategies for creating a world where there is more equality and liberation.
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