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In this women's studies class, students will explore how women's sexuality has been a site of abuse, reproduction, pleasure, political control, perversion, and subversive agency. Students will consider how theories and viewpoints on women's sexuality and violence against women are shaped by cultural assumptions about race, class, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. The course will engage the study of theoretical texts like Foucault's The History of Sexuality, literature like Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Kate Chopin's "The Storm," and current issues in women's sexuality such as human trafficking and sex work that has enslaved millions of young women worldwide. 3 credits
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This course focuses on the culture shock experienced by Asian immigrants and on the tension between foreign-born parents and their American-born children. Many of the readings reveal the conflicts generated by the parents' desire to hold onto their homeland culture as opposed to their American-born children who have to struggle with the desire to be American in the face of discrimination from outside and resistance from within the family. Students also learn a great deal about the history of Asian immigration. 3 credits
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Students spend equal time on each of these three significant American fiction authors who are not extensively taught in other courses. They read short stories by Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, one novel by Faulkner, and two novels by Toni Morrison, paying particular attention to the stylistic and thematic links among the three. 3 credits
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This course will focus on typical portrayals of women in literature and the media, such as woman as wife and mother, woman as sex object, woman as artist, and woman as professional. Readings will include classic and controversial portrayals of women such as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire and Nora Helmer in A Doll's House. Through works by well-known and little-known male and female writers, students will come to appreciate the evolving and multiple roles available to women over time. 3 credits
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This course will focus on archetypal African-American women writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and Gloria Naylor. Students will read novels, short stories, poems, and essays to gain an understanding of the importance of these significant women of color and their influence upon the fabric of American life. 3 credits
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Eugene O'Neill is the founder of American dramatic literature. Prior to his plays, Americans presented melodramas and minstrel shows. After he won the Nobel prize for literature, American art was as fine as any in the world. Though he dealt with contemporary issues such as technology and racism, O'Neill was a profoundly personal writer. He was a life-long Catholic who couldn't believe in God. He was an optimist who confronted mankind's darkest sercrets. He also wrote the most complete artistic discussion of dysfunctional families, one that is still studied by therapists today. This dramatic literature course will examine the great plays and the themes of each from literary and dramatic points of view and provide appropiate religious and philosophical background. 3 credits
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This theory course will examine several frameworks for thinking about sex, gender, and power that inform the scholarship of Women's Studies. Students will study the theoretical essays that reflect the multiple waves of feminism, along with key texts about gender and queer theories. Examining key feminist debates regarding race, class, essentialism, and the politics of sameness and difference, students will have the opportunity to apply theoretical texts to their reading of literature, art, and film. 3 credits
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In this course, students will read the work of the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Toni Morrison. Students will critically study her texts in light of Black feminist theory, new historicism, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and contextually in popular reception. By examining the recurring themes in her novels such as (re) memory, migration, good vs. evil, community responsibility, and loss of innocence, students will develop an appreciation for Morrison's contributions to modern literature. 3 credits
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