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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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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduction to basic statistical methods and their application to social science research focusing on gender issues. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to conduct basic statistical analyses and apply them to research topics such as gender and global health, maternal health, gender and global development, and contemporary democratization and women. In addition, students will acquire knowledge of how to extract data from existing databases as well as be guided in the collection of their own empirical data. Two types of statistical analyses will be used to assess samples of data: a broad range of descriptive statistics, and correlation and regressions models. This course is a hands-on experience and is held in a computer lab; therefore, students will have a good opportunity to become skilled and experienced in understanding and conducting basic statistical research. This course will also teach students how to interpret published empirical papers that use quantitative research methods. We will be learning applications through the use of the SPSS and ActivStats programs.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM How is globalization (including capitalistic economic development) interconnected with gender Surveys recent debates about global development and gender equality, examining current research in this important field. Assess the impact forces of global development have on gender relations; culture and cultural identity; women vs. men social, economic, and political opportunities; and maternal health. Using a broad scope of most current theoretical approaches from theoretical frameworks of diffusion, modernization, rational choice theory, the dependency and the world system theory, and cultural relativism perspective, this course examines current research in several pertinent areas of globalization through the lens of gender equality particularly the effects of global trends in culture, globalization of democracy and capitalist economy on national politics, economy and culture are analyzed in view of gender relations.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Looks at the history and development of gender imagery, from the age of oil painting to the current age of globalized mass mediated images. Examines the impact of mass media on gender representation, socialization, and identity construction in the United States as well as the rest of the world, and the way in which ethnic, geographic, cultural, racial, and religious differences affect the way gender images are received and used.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM How is democratization interconnected with gender Survey recent debates about diffusing democracy, examining current research in this important field. We assess the impact the forces of democratic trends have on gender relations; culture and cultural identity; women vs. men s social, economic, and political opportunities; and maternal health. In particular, using broad scope of most current theoretical approaches from theoretical frameworks of diffusion, modernization, democracy and development theory, the dependency and the world system theory, and cultural relativism perspective, this course examines current research in several pertinent areas of democratic processes though the lens of gender equality. In particular, the effects of global trends in culture, democracy and capitalist economy, cultural McDonalization are analyzed in view of gender relations. This is to compare the impact of national politics as it effects the social position and roles of women in comparison to men.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Provides an overview of women s movements from a global perspective, specially emphasizing organizational and empowerment strategies used by women in local struggles that aim at social change. We look at women s movements, in particular sites across the developing world, and assess women s share in demanding self-determination through various forms of activism against exploitation. The goal of the course is to help students sharpen their analytical skills in thinking about the oppressive economic and political forces at the national and international levels while at the same time learning more about those feminist struggles that confront forms of oppression.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Traces the changes in women s work in the home, in the family, and in the labor force in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on working class women s experiences in the labor force, we explore the impact of urbanization and industrialization on women in different ethnic and racial communities, their experiences and conflicts with unions, and their contributions to labor struggles.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Introduces students to the basic concepts and practices of feminist pedagogy. Reviews the intellectual roots of feminist pedagogy and examines the ways in which feminist pedagogy has changed over the past twenty-five years. In addition, we explore the connection between feminist pedagogy and social movements, paying special attention to the way feminist pedagogy addresses issues of class, race, and gender. Since the course intends to be useful in training future teachers, it has a practical component in which students design a small unit for a class and attempt to teach it.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Traces the rise of commercial television in the United States as a form, which has profoundly impacted upon the representation and social roles of women in the family and the workplace. We assume that television is a major cultural, social, and economic force in American society that has shaped and altered every aspect of our lives, and that as a social force it relies heavily on fixed notions of gender.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist and womanist movements; sources of feminism; suffrage; women s clubs; temperance; womanism.
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