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WOST110 Women in Global PerspectivesDescription:
This interdisciplinary course explores multiple meanings of gender in a transnational world. Topics include: contradictory meanings of traditional femininity across cultures; global media representations of the female body, beauty, sexuality; impacts of colonialism, nationalism, patriarchy, and the global economy on women's work and family lives; women's rights as human rights; and local and transnational feminist activisms.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Distribution II Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Diversity Area: International. | S Sanlikol | May 27-Jul 8 | W-2-126
Wheatley Bldg, 2nd Floor, Room 126
| TuTh | 1:30 - 4:30p | 3 | 2394 | $825 | |
WOST200 Twentieth Century Women Writers: A Feminist PerspectiveDescription:
An intermediate-level course which examines the ways women writers in this century have dealt with some important themes of contemporary feminism. These include: the special difficulties facing the woman artist; the process of female socialization and its impact on mother-daughter relationships; female adolescence; lesbianism; the need for making the lives of ordinary women a subject for study and a source of artistic creation; and rediscovery of women’s collective past. Novels, short stories, some analytical essays and autobiographies are used.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: One WOST course or permission of instructor.
Distribution I Area: Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
Distribution II Area: Arts.
Diversity Area: United States. | C Maley | May 27-Jul 8 | W-1-037
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 037
| TuTh | 6-9p | 3 | 2395 | $825 | |
WOST220 Women and the MediaDescription:
This course explores how the historical evolution and commercial orientation of mass communications media have helped shape the depiction of women and minorities in advertising, entertainment fictions, and news. Students learn to analyze visual imagery for its conceptual and emotional messages; to distinguish stereotypes from more complex characterizations in TV fictions; and to monitor the representations of women and other culturally subordinate groups in the print and broadcast news. Some consideration is given to the status of women and racial minorities in communications industries.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None. | K Lindsey | Jul 14-Aug 20 | W-1-043
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 043
| MW | 1:30 - 4:30p | 3 | 1930 | $825 | |
WOST260 Women’s Health CareDescription:
This course focuses on women’s concerns in relation to health. Topics include health issues unique to women (such as birth control, pregnancy, childbearing); nutrition; occupational health; health and aging; women as health workers; and the history, activities, and influence of the women’s health movement. There is no prerequisite, but WOST C100 is recommended.
Academic Information:
Prerequisite: None.
Distribution I Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Distribution II Area: None.
Diversity Area: None.
Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. | M Cordill | May 27-Aug 21 | Online | - | - | 3 | 1931 | $985 | |
