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  • FG 216: Gender & Science

    1.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    The course will consider the scientific description of women at various historical periods and its impact on the social experiences of women. We will explore the lives and work on individual women scientists and assess their contribution to science. We will examine the current feminist critiques of science. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit - Lang.
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  • FG 220: Myth & Meaning

    1.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Religion and myth of ancient Greece and Rome in relation to that of the ancient Mediterranean (Akkadian, Hittite, Sumerian, Egyptian). Female presence in art, literature and religion compared to treatment of women in their respective cultures. Theoretical approaches to the understanding of myth (Comparative, Jungian, Structuralist) in relation to myths as they are encoded in their specific cultures. Students may trace a myth through Medieval, Renaissance and modern transformations in art, music, poetry and film, or study myth in other cultures (e.g. Norse and Celtic). (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Classics 220.) 1 unit - Dobson.
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  • FG 224: Chinese Women Writers and Their Works

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    This course will focus on a comparative study of the voice of Chinese women writers in the 1920s and 1980s, examine women writers' works in a social-historical context, and discuss the difference of women's places and problems in traditional Chinese culture and modern Chinese society. The course will also try to define the similar and different expressions of "feminism" as a term in the West and the East. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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  • FG 225: Empire and Power:Individual and Family in Ancient Rome

    1.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Focus on how conservative Roman republican ideals were reconciled in an increasingly Hellenized empire dominated by an imperial dynasty. Topics include the changing status of traditional gender types and established class systems, the role of rulers, women and freedmen in Tacitus, Juvenal Martial, Suetonius, Seneca, Apuleius, Lucian, Plutarch, Aristides, Dio Chysostom and Claudian. Attention will also be given to representations of women and imperial families in art and statuary. (Also listed as Classics 226 and History 227.) 1 unit - FitzGibbon.
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  • FG 226: Gender and Politics

    3.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Examines the following questions: Are there politically relevant differences between the sexes, and if so, are they the product of nature and/or convention What is/ought to be the relation between the political community and private attachments How has liberalism answered these questions How does consideration of gender challenge liberal theories such as contract, individual rights, and human nature Readings in both political theory and in feminist literature. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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  • FG 228: Human Sexual Behavior

    1.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    A seminar considering and analyzing human sexuality from physiological, sociological, and psychological viewpoints. Discussions will place considerable emphasis on exploring the attitudes, opinions, and values of society, as well as of course participants, in regard to human sexuality and examining the bases, social purposes and consequences of these attitudes, opinions, and values. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as General Studies 228.) 1 unit - Olive.
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  • FG 229: Performing Music,Performing

    1.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    (Also listed as Music 231.) 1 unit - Bhattacharjya.
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  • FG 230: Women in Music

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    This course examines the interaction of women's musical lives with politics, society, and spirituality, and will focus primarily on the twentieth century. We will look at artists like Aretha Franklin and South Africa's Miriam Makeba and their relationship to the Civil Rights struggles in their countries; Joni Mitchell, Holly Near, punk rocker Patti Smith, and performance artist Laurie Anderson and their relationship to the feminist movement; Mary Lou Williams, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and the integration of women into jazz; Joan Tower, Marin Alsop, Maria Callas, Marian Anderson and the traditions of Western Classical Music; and the role of the ingenue and character roles in the Broadway musical - from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. In addition to twentieth century women, we will also review the lives of women frame drummers of earliest history, as well as the seminal figures Amy Beach, Clara Schumann, and the mystic visionary Hildegard von Bingen. Women's diaries and oral histories will be a major source for the class, as well as video and extensive listening to recordings. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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  • FG 231: Women in America Before the Civil War

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Women in American society, from colonial times to 1860, including issues of race, class and servitude; transformations in pre-industrial work and family relationships; women and slavery; women and religion; women's efforts to reorder their lives and society. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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  • FG 232: American Women in Industrial Society

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Women in American society from 1860 to the present, including Victorian women on the pedestal and in the factory; social and domestic feminism in the progressive era; work in the home; urban women; immigrant and minority women; women in wartime; contemporary feminism. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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