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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 3 hours; individual study, 1 hour; outside research, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Topics include the roles of women in cultural creation and production; the relation of women artists to the societies of their time; and the images of women in the art and literature of the modern world. Themes and periods covered may vary. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Examines how mass media portray class as a gendered category. The approach is comparative and historical, integrating social sciences and humanities to analyze images of women portrayed as poor, working class, middle class, or wealthy. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to social, political, and legal issues surrounding women's issues and feminist movements worldwide. Examines topics such as abortion, contraception, and sexual violence within a comparative and international framework. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to world literature by women across many centuries. Covers the creative work of women from ancient to early modern periods, examining both texts and the historical circumstances of the earliest women writers. Emphasis is on texts originally written in languages other than English, from around the globe. Cross-listed with CPLT 022A. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to the increasingly powerful voices of women writers in modernity and postmodernity. Emphasis is on texts originally written in languages other than English, from around the globe. Topics include the question of feminine writing and feminist theories about literature by women. Cross-listed with CPLT 022B. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Addresses structural and interpersonal forms of violence against women and girls. Topics include sexual and physical abuse, rape and sexual assault, battering, body mutilation, forced sterilization or reproduction, sex selection, medical "silences," political torture, and gender-specificsocialization for victimization and aggression. Also discusses state and economic policies. Credit is awarded for only one of WMST 030 or WMST 030H. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): admission to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. Honors course corresponding to WMST 030. Addresses structural and interpersonal forms of violence against women and girls. Topics include sexual and physical abuse, rape and sexual assault, battering, body mutilation, forced sterilization or reproduction, sex selection, medical "silences,"political torture, and gender-specific socialization for victimization and aggression. Also discusses state and economic policies. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is awarded for only one of WMST 030 or WMST 030H. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; outside research, 1 hour; term paper, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): admission to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. Analyzes the literatures and cultures of Latin American women and U.S. Latinas. Examines the "roles" prescribed for womenand the relationship of those roles to issues of power and authority through texts that acknowledge a tradition of feminine or feminist expression. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 2 hours; individual study, 1 hour. Examines the relationship between poverty, inequality, gender, and HIV/AIDS. Analyzes gender and other forms of social inequality that place women at higher risk for the virus. Explores how global structural inequalities impact the lives of women in the global south, as well as considers the conditions of marginal groups in the global north. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A cross-cultural, multidisciplinary course investigating the development of feminist theory and exploring the construction of gender and sexuality, with emphasis on the "female"and the "feminine" in a variety of cultural contexts. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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