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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Roles of women in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey; women s emancipation movements in these countries; and the impact of Islamic tradition.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the experience of women of different race, class, and ethnic groups regarding changes in women s responsibilities in the family, participation in the labor force, and the development of new family forms. Illuminates contemporary issues regarding work, marriage, and family from a historical perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Surveys contemporary issues for women in East Asia and South East Asia namely, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia Malaysia. One of the main objectives is to analyze the impact of development on various aspects of social life of women in Asia. Examines women s roles and opportunities in the process of development, including women of poor and working class households as well as women from middle class and professional backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: none Corequisites: none Type: SEM Survey of women s socio-economic and political status in developing counties. Examination of policies and practices that shape their lives, as well as discourses that construct their experiences. Analyzes women s organizing, advocacy and social mobilization to engender change and equity. Introduction to a broad, interdisciplinary and international literature focusing on current and emerging issues related to women s work and globalization; poverty and inequality; displacement and environmental degradation; social practices such as female genital mutilation; and HIV/AIDS, within national, regional, and global contexts. Course will dwell on a variety of teaching material such as videos, life histories, case studies and policy documents combined with authoritative scholarly sources. The course will combine lectures and discussions, as well as creative projects to promote an interactive learning environment, and to encourage critical thinking among students in analyzing salient issues and theories pertinent to women s conditions in developing countries, and strategies to effect social change.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC History of women in the United States, emphasizing the common woman ; family life; industrialization; sex roles and sexuality; history of feminism. Reading involves autobiographies, popular fiction, and other firsthand historical accounts.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Art is a part of the human civilization and it is influenced by the demands of society. Women always were the important art objects, but in different epochs artists treated them differently. By this difference we can see woman s role and place in the society. Discusses woman as art objects and artists.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Reviews the health care system in the U.S. and its treatment of women. Content includes a history of health care and the changing definition of health , the current roles of women in this system, and the intersection of the legal system on women s bodies and women s health. Women in the 1970 s and beyond started examining the politics of health care, which exploded into the millennium such as cost containment and restruction of services through managed care; newer and more expensive technologies; growing consumer dissatisfaction with the current system; and trends towards holistic and alternative care outside of the mainstream health care system. Develops an analysis of the current system with a rational plan for improving health care for all women. Addresses the roles that women have played in relation to health and health care, the history of women as healers, the shift to women as patients and consumers, and women as workers, both paid and unpaid, in the system of care.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Examines the various constructions of women s sexualities: heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian. Readings from literature, feminist theory, queer theory, psychology and sociology in order to develop an understanding of how sexuality is constructed. Examines the impact of violence, gender, health, media reproduction, class, and race on women s sexualities.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces students to some basic feminist critical theories, including French, Anglo-American, and Third World feminist assumptions and positions. Explores how women writers and poets creativity and technical strategies are related to the intersected issues of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class, through closely examining works by Asian American women.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Focuses on Native American women, beginning with the creation story and ending with the modern-day role of Haudenosaunee women.
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