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4.00 Credits
In this course, we will explore how indigenous social movements in the Global South and Global North have used art as a medium to their political struggles. This class responds to the necessity to an interdisciplinary approach to indigeneity and political action. In this class, the student will be expose to indigenous performance, spoken word, painting, poetry, novels among other artistic expressions. The topics covered in this class range from environmental justice struggles, gender and sexuality studies, indigenous sovereignty as well as indigenous science and religions.
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4.00 Credits
This course is an instruction to neoliberalism and understanding neoliberal globalization - that is the global interconnectedness of economic, educational, political, and cultural institutions. It is important to highlight the role that women are playing in globalisation from bellow. Yet, while the neoliberal project moves forward (i.e. deregulation of trade, privatization of the commons, and circulation of markets, labor, finance capital, and consumer culture) this is rooted in 500-year history of colonialism and imperialism.
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2.00 Credits
This course is focused on digital ethnography as a means to study how culture shapes and is shaped by social media. We will focus on the symbolic and cultural elements of technology in the roles it plays in fashion, social protests, revolutions and building community amongst marginalized groups. While it is arguable that social media has had positive effects, such as the democratization of the Internet, this course will also study negative effects of social media, such as cyber bullying, sexual predators and isolation. The focus of this course is on the collection of information that social media produces and/or encourages and the impact it has on a particular group or movement regardless of geographic limits. We will pay special attention to how people are motivated or, as some would argue, manipulated to feel empathy for marginalized groups, get involved in politics and partake in events around the globe from the safety of their homes. You will be required to participate in social networks such as Tumblr, Twitter, Vine, YouTube and Snapchat. There are no traditional essays for this course. Instead your final will result in a Tumblr page that serves as an archive that draws on the "feelings" produced by social media.
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2.00 Credits
This course explores the world of cats from a cultural and social perspective, including an examination of the popularity of cats in social media and popular culture, the processes of gendering cats and cat discourse, recent work on cats in their environments, and the relationships between cats and their human companions. This course will help us better understand what the study of cats can "tell us" about the values and characteristics of our society today. And we will learn something about cats themselves along the way!
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2.00 Credits
The existing research on Black female students on predominately White college campuses often results in quantitative data that suggests that Black women are more successful at completing degrees than their male counterparts. This suggestion often leads to a dominant narrative of success that fails to recognize the challenges Black female students face as well as the sacrifices they make in order to graduate. This course examines the complex experience of being a Black female student at a predominantly White campus both academically and personally. It addresses such topics as identity, education, Black feminism, Black/White sisterhood, social mobility, activism from a socio-historical perspective, and what is recycling of institutional discourses of erasure? Black Feminist Epistemology (Collins, 2000) and Critical Race Feminism (Wing, 2003) with a specific focus on intersectionality will be utilized to guide debates and discussions about how race and gender dynamics shape Black female students' experiences pursuing a degree on a predominantly White college campus. This course will investigate a set of perplexed questions: What are the challenges that Black female students face in their pursuit of degrees at predominately White colleges and universities? What kinds of mentorship do Black female students seek and find helpful and/or unhelpful as they navigate challenges? How do race and gender dynamics shape these challenges? How do race and gender dynamics shape the mentorship Black female students seek, find and find helpful? Ultimately this course will examine in-depth how race and gender dynamics shape the challenges Black female students on predominately White college campuses face in their pursuit of degrees as well as how mentorship impacts their navigation through these challenges.
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2.00 Credits
How does the exploitation of the environment relate to the oppression of women? Why do traditional views of women tie them together with animals and land? What can indigenous knowledges offer to contemporary pushes for sustainability? How can advocating for women's rights around the globe promote environmentalism as well? In this class, we will explore these questions and many nothers as we read about historic and contemporary environmental movements led by women and examine theories about how developmental movements became gendered. This class will be interdisciplinary, considering historical, political, and sociological issues alongside philosophical theories. It will also be rooted in the concept of intersectionality, looking at how the concerns about gender and the environment can never be separated from concepts of race and class.
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4.00 Credits
This course entails an exploration of concepts, metaphors, and frameworks employed by feminist scholars to understand the way gender articulates with other categories of difference. Students will engage in critical "reading and analysis" of various forms of visual and narrative expression to explore the social, political, and cultural constructions of difference and how individuals and groups experience multiple categories of difference. A cross- cultural emphasis on gender and ethnicity will permeate the learning throughout the course.
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2.00 Credits
In this course students will explore historical and current issues related to gender and leadership. Today's leadership climate has improved to some degree for women; however, women are still underrepresented in higher leadership positions. This course will analyze the role gender plays and what factors or barriers are in place that account for this inequity. Topics include an examination of leadership in varied contexts, e.g. higher education, outdoor experiential education, politics, and the corporate world; how the gender binary/continuum influences our conception of leadership; leadership and feminist theory; intersectionality; and an introduction to current research on gender and leadership. Students will explore leadership from a personal and political perspective. They will critically think about their own definitions of and experiences with leadership and deconstruct how gender has influenced their views. Stemming from a critical and feminist perspective, students will explore how leadership can be more inclusive, participatory, and egalitarian in our society.
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4.00 Credits
This course engages various topics of comparative indigeneities and indigenous knowledges. Topics include, decolonial indigeneities, indigenous feminisms, indigenous cosmologies all under a global justice framework. This course explores the links between colonialism and gender violence, indigenous knowledges and autonomy as well as indigenous literatures both in the Global South and Global North.
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4.00 Credits
With programing that holds salacious titles such as Stalked, Last Seen Alive, Surviving Evil, Southern Fried Homicide, House of Horrors: Kidnapped, Beauty Queen Murders, Dates from Hell and Swamp Murders the Investigative Discovery (ID) channel is the go to place to marvel at the frequency of violent deaths white women suffer at the hands of deranged murderers. It would be erroneous to assume that the ID channel only sets out to tell the story of white women, but, with very few exceptions, most of the programming evolves around the horrifying deaths or near deaths experienced by white women. It also needs to be noted that in between true crime stories about the murder of beauty queens, southern belles and the young white woman last seen walking home from school, the ID channel also includes series of white women as murderers. But what the programming does not include, unless it is at the hands of hysterical or evil white women, are the deaths of men. As the 11th most watched prime time cable TV channel for people 18-49 and the most watched ad-supported TV channel for women ages 25-54 of 2015, we must ask, why? What is so attractive about watching dead white women? What is it about white women's deaths that peeks our voyeuristic instincts? Do we as a culture find pleasure at the horrifying deaths of white women at the hands of abusive lovers and husbands? What is so titillating about these TV series? In this course we will watch popular documentary-style crime drama, scripted TV series, films and documentary films that demonstrates our (unhealthy) obsession with the death of white women. We will study these works from an interdisciplinary approach that includes theorists from film studies, cultural anthropology, feminist studies and critical race studies. Students will be required to have a Netflix account and access to the Internet. Course requirements include attendance, class discussion participation, group presentations and a research paper.
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