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Women's Studies
1020E -
Introduction to Women's Studies
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A survey of selected topics in the study of gender structures and the status of women in historical and cross-cultural perspective. These will include consideration of social and psychological processes by which gender identity is established in the individual, its institutional manifestations, and its articulation with class and race structures.
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Women's Studies
1021F/G -
Introduction to Sexuality Studies
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We introduce students to current social and political issues in sexuality studies, with a focus on contemporary issues around sexuality, including formation of sexual identities, sexual practices and politics, policing of sexuality, questions of sexual diversity, and the historical and global nature of ideas and controversies around sexuality.
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Women's Studies
1022F/G -
Gender, Justice, Change
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The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in matters of education, health, poverty, globalization, the environment, etc.
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Women's Studies
2139A/B -
Social History of Women in Canada
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A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience through biography.
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Women's Studies
2140 -
Women in Canadian History: Changing Roles and Diverse Social Realities
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A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience as recorded through
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Women's Studies
2152A/B -
Jewish Women Artists and Patrons of the Twentieth Century
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This course examines Jewish women artists and patrons of the twentieth century to understand their contributions to the visual arts in the decades preceding and following the Holocaust. Drawing on their artworks, we explore how they struggled with and reacted to anti-Semitism and sexism in the art world and society.
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Women's Studies
2155E -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2156A/B -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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Women's Studies
2157A/B -
The Status of Women in Artistic Couples
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A look at a variety of political, social, and economic factors relating to women’s status generally, and within the context of the visual arts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This slide-illustrated course will examine French sculptors Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and Canadian painters Mary Pratt and Christopher Pratt, among others.
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Women's Studies
2158A/B -
Women Artists and Their Unconventional Images of Women
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This course examines images of women created by women artists from the sixteenth to late twentieth centuries. General social conditions of various periods, artistic convention, and artist biography will be discussed in order to illuminate the nonconformity of biblical, historical, and fictional images of women which women artists rendered in a variety of media.
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The former Women’s Studies 156a if taken in 1997 or 1998; WS 158a if taken in 1999-2007.
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Women's Studies
2159A/B -
Special Topics in Women and the Creative Arts
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A course on selected topics on Women and the Creative Arts. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2160A/B -
Intimate Relations: Sex, Gender and Love
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Intimate Relations focuses on how expectations of intimacy and relationships rely on particular understandings of love, sex, sexuality and bodies to shape how we experience ourselves as gendered and sexual beings. The course considers how intimacy (sexual, maternal, familial, affectionate) is understood in relation to history, philosophy, health, society and popular culture.
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Women's Studies
2161A/B -
Women and Popular Culture: Garbo to Gaga
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How are women represented in popular culture? Women’s images in the media, from newspaper and magazines to television, film and music videos produce particular notions of what it means to be a woman, be feminine, etc. We will examine both the historical and contemporary roles of women in popular culture.
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Women's Studies
2162A/B -
The Body
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How we understand the body, whether through scientific investigation or through its representation in media, literature or art, has material effects on how people’s lives and experiences are shaped. We will examine social and scientific constructions of the body, including concepts of beauty, health, fitness, sexuality, and questions of representation.
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Women's Studies
2205F/G -
Making Men: Critical Studies in Masculinity
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This course examines how historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity have shaped our understanding of what it means to act and be male in our society. It draws on critical gender theory to interrogate how issues associated with maleness and masculinity interact with questions of race, class, gender and sexuality.
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Women's Studies
2220E -
Feminist Theory and Practice across the Disciplines
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An examination of the implications of feminist theories and practices at work in many different disciplines, including arts, media, social sciences, health sciences, science, law. We introduce students to theoretical concepts and ask questions about the ways sex, gender and sexuality are understood and researched from a range of perspectives.
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Women's Studies
2233F/G -
Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
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Women's Studies
2240F/G -
Foundations of Feminist Thought
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This course takes up foundational readings in the history of feminist thought from early feminists' calls for women's equality and rights to postmodern understandings of gender. The course will consider how feminist thought has emerged, developed and evolved in response to various historical, intellectual, social, political and cultural challenges.
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Women's Studies
2243F/G -
Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
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Women's Studies
2244 -
Women and Health
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This course provides an overview of historical, social, economic, political and biological influences on women's health. Using a feminist perspective, both experiential and theoretically based knowledge will be explored through the process of critical reflection.
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The former Women’s Studies 2154.
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Women's Studies
2250E -
Introduction to Feminist Theory
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An in-depth survey of feminist theory and current debates in the field.
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Women's Studies
2251F/G -
Special Topics in Women and Work
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Selected topics on issues connected to women's paid and unpaid labour in Canada and globally. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2252F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2253E -
Queer Subjects
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This interdisciplinary course will examine alternative expressions of female sexuality (queer, lesbian, bisexual, female masculinity, transgendered, intersexed, etc.) through a selection of historical, literary, visual and theoretical texts. Primarily, the aim will be to explore questions of subjectivity and representation through discussions of social regulation, class, ethnicity and historical context.
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The former Women’s Studies 253 if taken as a Special Topics course any time between 1998/99 and 2004/05.
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Women's Studies
2254E -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2256E -
Feminist Theory and Practice in the Arts and Humanities
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Drawing from a range of disciplinary approaches such as philosophy, film, literary and queer theories, psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies, we develop skills in analysing, understanding and applying theory to such areas as literature, film and the visual arts.
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Women's Studies
2257E -
Feminist Theory and Practice in the Social Sciences
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An examination of the implications of gender analysis for theory and practice in the social sciences. Includes discussion of both empirical and theoretical treatment of questions about "sex-gender" systems in social-economic, cultural, political, and legal contexts. Also addresses methodological and epistemological questions raised by feminist research.
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2258A/B -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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2259F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2260 -
Women, Law and Social Change
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How does the law affect women? What important legal changes have women fought for and achieved? What is the relationship between law and social change? Topics in a national or global context may include citizenship and discrimination, reproduction, health care, violence, sexual assault and harassment, pornography, prostitution, divorce, and marriage.
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Women's Studies
2261F/G -
Special Topics in Women and Work
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Selected topics on issues connected to the field of gender and development. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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The former Women’s Studies 251G if taken prior to W2002
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Women's Studies
2262E -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2263F/G -
Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
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Women's Studies
2264F/G -
Special Topics in Women’s Studies
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Selected topics in Women’s Studies. Consult the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2265F/G -
Special Topics in Women’s Studies
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Selected topics in Women’s Studies. Consult the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
2270A/B -
Women, Law and Social Change
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How does the law affect women? What important legal changes have women fought for and achieved? What is the relationship between law and social change? Topics in a national or global context may include citizenship and discrimination, reproduction, health care, violence, sexual assault and harassment, pornography, prostitution, divorce, and marriage.
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Women's Studies
2273E -
Sexual Subjects
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This interdisciplinary course focuses on sexuality as a subject of study and considers how sexuality defines individual and social subjectivity. The course will explore sexual subjects within a theoretical context and might include sexology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, the history of sexual identity, and its representation in cultural production.
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Women's Studies
2283F/G -
Desiring Women
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This course uses feminist, queer and trans theory to interrogate how female sexuality and desire can be understood, both historically and within a variety of contemporary cultures. It will consider the impact that representation,socialization and medicalization have had on the way female sexual subjectivity is experienced and expressed.
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Women's Studies
3153F/G -
Bad Girls: Dissident Women and Popular Culture
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This course examines our fascination with the figure of the “bad girl” in popular culture. We will concentrate on theoretical work which informs the relationship between popular culture and dissident sexuality in order to look more closely at how adolescent and young adult female bodies are created, controlled and contested.
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The former Women’s Studies 356F/G if taken in 2004-05, 2005-06, 2007-08.
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Women's Studies
3305F/G -
Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Resistance
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While popular culture operates to naturalize and distribute dominant discourses about gender and sexuality, it is also a fertile space through which resistance can be enacted. This course examines “common sense” representations of gender and sexuality within Western popular culture and the ways these representations have been confronted and contested.
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The former Women’s Studies 359F/G if taken as a special topics course in 2005-2007.
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Women's Studies
3321F/G -
Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory and Practice: Arts and Humanities
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This course applies a wide range of feminist theories and critical practices, including queer theories, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies, to a diverse array of artistic practices, including literature, film, and the performing and visual arts.
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Women's Studies
3322F/G -
Advanced Topics in Feminist Theory and Practice: Social Sciences
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An advanced examination of the application of feminist theories and practices to topics in the social sciences. Focus will include epistemological and methodological questions raised in feminist engagement across the various social science disciplines. Topics addressed may include a range of social-economic, cultural, political, and policy issues.
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Women's Studies
3330F/G -
Special Topics in Women’s Studies
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Topics of current interest in Women’s Studies. Consult the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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3331F/G -
Special Topics in Women’s Studies
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Topics of current interest in Women’s Studies. Consult the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
3345F/G -
Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
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Women's Studies
3350F/G -
Feminism Across Borders
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Is an inclusive feminism possible? Is a feminism that transcends borders and embraces a broader, more global spectrum of feminist voices than ever before feasible? Reading feminist authors from a diversity of backgrounds, we examine the attractions and challenges of a global feminism.
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The former Women’s Studies 350F/G if taken as a Special Topics course in 2006-08.
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3355E -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
3356F/G -
Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
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Women's Studies
3357F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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An advanced seminar or reading course on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
3358F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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Women's Studies
3359F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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3362F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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3363F/G -
Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
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3373F/G -
Feminist Topics in Sexuality Studies
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
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Women's Studies
4455E -
Honors Thesis in Women's Studies
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Individual instruction in the selection of a topic, the preparation of materials, and the writing of a thesis in Women's Studies.
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4456F/G -
Advanced Seminar in Feminist Theory and Practice
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Selected topics on issues connected to feminist theory and practice. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current seminar topics.
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4457E -
Advanced Seminar and Practicum: Feminist Perspectives on Violence Against Women
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An advanced seminar combining in-class discussion of theoretical texts and presentation of research papers with a community-based practicum component on violence against women.
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4458F/G -
Advanced Seminar in Feminist Theory and Practice
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Selected topics on issues connected to feminist theory and practice. Consult the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research for current seminar topics.
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4459F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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4460F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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4461F/G -
Special Topics in Women's Studies
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4463F/G -
Advanced Seminar in Sexuality Studies
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Selected topics on issues connected to Sexuality Studies. Consult the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research for current seminar topics.
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4464F/G -
Special Topics in Women’s Studies
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4465E -
Advanced Topics in Women's Studies
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Advanced topics of current interest in Women’s Studies. Consult the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research for current offerings.
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