Spring Courses 2012
AIS 315 Women's Issues in the Workplace & the Community ( Leida Javier-Ferrell)
This course will examine contemporary issues faced by women in the workplace and the community from an interdisciplinary perspective. Some of the topics to be covered are gender communication issues, developing
a leadership plan, playing the game, power talk, conflict management from a woman's point of view, international development, and women, sexuality and labor.
PHL 290 Women in the Classical World (Shari Hartmann)
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the Classical sources, methodologies, and the current debates focusing on women in antiquity. We will explore the representations of women in Classical literature and art as well as the place of women in ancient Greek and Roman culture. By analyzing textual, visual and archaeological evidence we will also investigate the legal and social status of women in the ancient world with particular attention to issues of class and ethnicity. Ancient Greece and Rome have often been considered as the origins of Western attitudes toward women. Thus, we will also explore the similarities and differences between ancient and contemporary notions of female identity and the position of women in society.
SY 200 Social Factors in Sexual Behavior (Marc Matre, Harvey Joanning)
An analysis of social patterns in sexual behavior including theories of sexuality and gender, gender similarities and differences in sexual behavior, sexual orientation, sexual violence, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
SY 220 Marriage & The Family (Gloria Palileo, Marie Sheneman, Susan Nelson)
The organization, function, and present status of the family, primarily in the United States. Problems of mate selection, marital adjustment, and parent-child relations treated on the basis of recent and current social change.
GS 490 Minority Women's Health & Health Disparities (Alethea Hill)
This blended course will focus upon the political, environmental, race/discrimination, and socioeconomic factors that contribute to racial/ ethnic health disparities in minority women. This course will also discuss the interdependent role that built environments, neighborhoods and communities have on access to quality healthcare,
health outcomes, and observed health disparities of minority women in pursuit of equitable health.
PSC 390 Race, Gender & U.S. Politics (Corina Schulze)
This course is designed to provide students with a critical examination of race and gender in the political system. From the founding to the present, politics and government reflect ideological judgments about who gets what, when, and how. As such, government has legitimized only certain individuals as political actors, certain identities as politically relevant, certain relationships as important, and certain practices as the means by which one might change political status. This course looks at the interlinked social processes that make gender and race in the United States. How have social relations like colonization,slavery, civil rights, and migration shaped social institutions like the courts, media, education, and health care? How have people fought back against gender and racial subordination? We examine particular historical contexts and contemporary issues to answer these questions. Thus, the entire course asks you to reflect on the ethics of building a society that is free of racial and gender discrimination. In doing, so we come to realize that concepts of race and gender change over time and that people do not experience their racial and gender identities apart from each other. Furthermore, one’s race and gender also send out messages about one’s sexuality and economic class.
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