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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ETST 001 or WMST 010 or upper-division standing. Examines literary, theatrical, and visual sites where the "in-between" space of border cultures is mapped.Materials include autobiographies, testimonial literature, films, novels, performance scripts, and art. The interplay of gender and ethnicity is the special focus. Cross-listed with ETST 175. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores dynamics of gender and power in human rights activism. Examines the history and evolution of human rights discourse, discourses of liberation, and critical responses to the strategy of framing women's rights as human rights in a comparative, transnational framework. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or ANTH 005 or WMST 001 or consent instructor. Considers gender roles in ancient and historically recent human societies, as well as how gender has shaped archaeological investigation. Cross-listed with ANTH 178. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): MCS 020 or upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Explores the way Latin Americans have thought of and represented gender across a variety of media, including essays, film, novel or short story, and performance. Compares the possibilities and limitations of these media for representing gender in the Latin American context. Cross-listed with LNST 109, MCS 179, and SPN 179. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores the relationship between Western medicine and women, racial minorities, and non-Western citizens. Investigates how gender ideology, racial inequity, and colonialism shape the medical representation of bodies, sexuality, and pathology. Examines how patients have renegotiated their relationships with medicine through health movements and alternative healing practices. Cross-listed with ANTH 143. 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; extra reading, 1 hour; term paper, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores constructions of various identities (racialized, gendered, sexual, diasporic) in cross-cultural contexts. Examines contemporary issues and theorizations concerning the intersection and politics of race, gender, and identity. 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, 2 hours; term paper, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): WMST 001. Introduces historical and sociological studies of gender and technology. Examines how women have been affected by technological developments and how gender ideologies informed the design and implementation of various technologies. Explores the relations among technology, material culture, sustainability, and power. Technologies covered include those in the household, the workplace, and cyberspace. 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; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Focuses on theoretical debates that construct and inform relations between the concepts of gender and performance. Considers the ways gendered bodies have been represented in performance. A broad definition of performance is applicable, and texts cover photographs, films, dance, performance art, drama, and current events. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): LGBS 001 or WMST 001. Examines various technologies that alter our bodies and investigates how technological interventions in the body reproduce and reshape gender ideologies in contemporary Western culture. Explores theoretical approaches to feminism, body, and technology. Topics include cosmetic, sex-reassignment, and weight loss surgeries; reproductive, contraceptive, and medical technologies; anti-depressants; sex toys; and body piercing. Cross-listed with LGBS 189. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Individual study, 3- 12 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Independent study and research by qualified undergraduate students.
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