Course Description: This is an introductory survey course that exposes students to the current scholarship within Women's and Gender Studies. WGS 110 specifically focuses on the diversity among women and pays particular attention to the ways race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and nationality affect women's lives. Our topics of study include: a history of feminist movements and study of current feminist movements; violence against women; women and work; gender socialization; public policy; immigration; and global issues affecting women. This course fulfills the following: Diversity Course and Group III (Humanities Literature) requirements.
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Course Description: This is an introductory survey course that exposes students to the current scholarship within Women's and Gender Studies. WGS 110 specifically focuses on the diversity among women and pays particular attention to the ways race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and nationality affect women's lives. Our topics of study include: a history of feminist movements and study of current feminist movements; violence against women; women and work; gender socialization; public policy; immigration; and global issues affecting women. This course fulfills the following: Diversity Course and Group III (Humanities Literature) requirements.
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Course Description: In this course students develop a critical framework from which to view and analyze media representations of women. This course explores various forms of media including written narratives, documentary and animated film print media, TV and advertising. It analyzes how media representations reinforce or challenge current gender constructions and explores the intersections of sexuality, race, national identity, and socio-economic class in the media. Meets Group III - Humanities. Diversity Course.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: This class will meet in person with certain elements online—including some lectures and PowerPoints. At the same time, some class meetings will be on Zoom, so that remote and face-to-face learners can interact with each other and create a single learning community.
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to sexuality studies through an interdisciplinary approach, examining a range of sexual diversity, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, intersexual, heterosexual, and queer identities and desires. We will investigate how this diversity of sexuality is represented in social, legal, religious, medical, biological, and literary contexts. Through discussion and critical engagement with assorted texts and images, the course will provide a chance to explore the way various discourses affect how individuals interpret and represent their own sexuality. Meets Group III Humanities (Diversity)
Course Delivery- Hybrid: This class will meet in person with certain elements online—including some lectures and PowerPoints. At the same time, some class meetings will be on Zoom, so that remote and face-to-face learners can interact with each other and create a single learning community.