Fall Courses 2011
AFR 101 Intro African-American Studies (Kern Jackson)
An interdisciplinary investigation of the origins, experiences, conditions, accomplishments and contributions of people of African ancestry in the United States.
AIS 320 Cultural Diversity (Elliott Lauderdale)
An interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to interactions between diverse groups in teams, communities, and organizations. Reviews research from a variety of disciplines, introduces the history and law of equal opportunity in the U.S., and examines the costs and benefits of diversity. Topics include prejudice, stereotyping, affirmative action, barriers to mobility, discrimination, marginalization, mentoring, cooperative teamwork, and international issues.
CJ 372 Gender & Criminal Justice (Corina Schulze)
This course utilizes gender as a conceptual construct in studying actors and the institutional processes in the criminal justice system. Women's roles as criminals, crime victims, and law enforcement officials will be examined.
EH 476: Studies in 20th C. Literature: Women's Narratives (Cris Hollingsworth)
This course will focus upon a variety of twentieth and twenty-first century narratives written by women about women’s lives. The course will explore the relationship between narrative and experience, whether there is a gendered narrative and how experience is gendered, and the roles of race and class play in women’s experience and storytelling.
EH 480 Gender & Literature: Psychoanalysis and Representations of Sex, Love, and Insanity (Becky McLaughlin)
Using psychoanalysis as our theoretical lens, we will examine the story of gender as told through representations of sex, love, and insanity. Reading assignments will be equally divided between theoretical texts such as Freud and Breuer’s Studies in Hysteria and Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality; novels such as Marguerite Duras’s The Lover and Yukio Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask; and short story collections such as Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Alison Lurie’s Women and Ghosts.
EH 490 Special Topics: Conrad, Gender & Nation (Ellen Harrington)
The fiction of Joseph Conrad is rich and wide-ranging, featuring urban as well as colonial and shipboard settings and developed portrayals of women as well as moody, introspective sailors. His works draw on adventure stories and sensational fiction as well as literary fiction to consider the instability of narrative, imperialism and its legacies, corruption and hypocrisy, race and difference, evolution and phrenology, sexuality and intimacy, and women’s liberation and the New Woman, offering a fascinating perspective on the passing of the Victorian period while engaging the themes of modernism.
GRN 290 Special Topics: Gender & Aging (Susan Nelson)
Course introduces the issues related to gender and aging in contemporary society.
PHL 290 Special Topics: Women in 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)
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 (Denise McAdory; Harvey Joanning; Marie Sheneman)
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.
SY 418 Advanced Family Studies (Roma Hanks)
This course examines interaction patterns in different types of family structure, with emphasis on marital adjustment, parent-child interaction, and sibling interactions.
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