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3.00 Credits
Women Writers from French-speaking Countries Prerequisite: None The objective of this course is to introduce students to the works of major writers from Francophone areas, namely North and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Canada, and to the cultures of these regions. A careful reading of the works at home will lead to an in-class discussion and analysis of themes, characters, setting, and style that will shed light on topics and issues particular to these areas including: religions and beliefs, polygamy, women's condition, feminism, exile, colonialism, traditions, corruption, and violence. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College Modern and Classical Language Department Course Attributes: GER IC2-Cultural Traditions 2, LAC tilt-Literature & Thought
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Sociology Of Gender Pre-req: LAC student with T1SS or GER student Contrasting social experiences of human males and females in this society from infancy throughout the life cycle, as these result in differentiation of social roles and self-conceptions for adult men and women. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College Sociology, Anthro & Social Wk Department Course Attributes: GER IVA-Social Sciences, LAC T2IS-Individual&Societies
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Immigrant Women Prerequiste: None This course will focus on the complex history of millions of European, Asian, Spanish-speaking, and Caribbean women who immigrated to the United States from the 19th century to the present. Like all immigrants, women faced great difficulties. Yet their encounter with America, for better or for worse, was not the same as immigrant men. We will study the way their identity as women shaped their roles, opportunities, and experiences available to them in the family, the workplace, the community, and the nation. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College History Department
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Introduction To Women's Studies Prerequisite: None wishing to take advanced women-related courses. Provides necessary contextual background for the study This course, taught from various interdisciplinary perspectives, will address the critical, theoretical and historical construction of women and gender. The course will acquaint students with the key frameworks, approaches, and issues inthe field of Women's Studies. Many questions will be considered, such as: How does the concept of gender shape our social experiences and understandings of ourselves? What is "women"? How are "women" produced? What kind of power relations are deployed to construct and maintain gender roles? How do gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality intersect? How do gender and sexuality operate in the United States? In a global context? 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department Course Attributes: GER IC1-Cultural Traditions 1, LAC tilt-Literature & Thought
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Mini-Lit Prerequisite: None Courses on various women writers listed from semester to semester. Courses run five weeks each and may be repeated from one to three times each, with topic changes. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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Medieval Women Mystics Prerequisite: None This course is an introduction to the study of the mystical tradition through the examination of the lives and writings of selected women mystics. The writings of these women will provide us with a bold and vivacious answer to the classical and medieval antifeminist traditions which depict women as the bane of Adam, the root of all evil, the source of temptation, or, at the opposite pole, as idealized and virginal objects of worship. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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Women And Crime Prerequisite: None Examines the involvement of women and girls in the criminal justice system from a sociological perspective. Explores a variety of issues relevant to women and girls as victims, offenders, and working professionals within the criminal justice system. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College Sociology, Anthro & Social Wk Department
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3.00 Credits
Women In The Economy 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Educ & Prof Studies College Economics Department
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3.00 Credits
Psychology Of Gender Pre-req: LAC student with T1SS course or GER student This course examines the biological and psychological aspects of sex differences. It explores the research and controversies in the areas of intelligence, ability and personality and includes historical and current feminist perspectives. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College Psychology Department Course Attributes: GER IVA-Social Sciences, LAC T2IS-Individual&Societies
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3.00 Credits
Women And Family In Western Society Prerequisite: None This course examines the evolution of the family and women's roles in Europe from the Reformation to the twentieth-century. Important themes include education, childrearing, demographic changes, the household economy, changing gender roles, feminism, the effects of new ideologies on ideas of the family, and the development of the welfare state. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College History Department
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