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  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces students to the intellectual lens used to evaluate the messages regarding gender and sexuality of many institutions and the way in which some actual experiences fall out of line with those norms. Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor
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    This reading intensive class explores queer life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the United States of America. Through close reading and analysis of the texts and discussions, issues of sexuality, race, class, violence and place are explored. Dual listed with GWST 4440. Prerequisites: GWST 2000, 4430, or 5430, or graduate standing, or permission of instructor.
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    Focus is on issues of gender, women and ecology. Ecofeminist thinkers argue that there is no liberation for women and no solution to the ecological crisis without a fundamental shift in relationships of domination. Uniting the two movements results in a radical reshaping of modern socioeconomic relations. Dual listed with GWST 4450. Prerequisites: six credits from gender and women's studies, philosophy, and/or ENR.
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    Addresses issues pertaining to gender and the criminal justice system to include women's roles as offenders and victims and their unique experiences in the criminal justice system. Feminist perspectives, LGBTQ+ and special populations are also explored. Dual listed with GWST 4540; cross listed with CRMJ 4540/5540. Prerequisites: ENGL/GWST 1080, GWST 2500, CRMJ/SOC 2400, or SOC 3500.
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    Through a critical regional lens this course examines the production of the region via history, landscape, geographic location, social relations, cultural practices, and economic factors. As a multiply colonized region, this course utilizes decolonial, ethnographic, and intersectional approaches to engage with understandings of space, ethnic/race relations, and constructions of subjectivity. Prerequisites: Graduate Standing Dual-listed: GWST 4550 Cross-listed: AMST 4550, LTST 4550, NAIS 4550
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    This course examines how race, gender, class, and politics operate in specific and contextual ways in rural places. The course denaturalizes race and decouples ideas of rurality from Whiteness, emphasizing the perspectives and politics of groups often overlooked when discussing rural American life, including women, BIPOC people, and LGBTQ+ people.
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    From an international context and perspective, examines the gendered transformations immigrant women experience. Gender, theories of international migration, assimilation, race, ethnicity, and identity transformation serve as categories of analysis. From a cross-discipline comparative approach, we focus on women's lives to examine differences and similarities to complicate notions of immigration. Dual listed with GWST 4650. Cross listed with AMST/INST/LTST 5650. Prerequisites: Junior standing and 6 hours of AMST, INST, LTST and/or GWST coursework.
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    Intensive introduction to the epistemology and application of a wide range of trans-historical, trans-cultural, and trans-national feminist theories. Students will be asked to apply self-selected feminist theories to their own thesis work and graduate fields, as well as to current examples of sex, gender, gender performance, and gendered coding in American media. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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    A study of the documented influence of women artists from medieval to modern times. Dual listed with GWST 4780. Prerequisite: ART 2010 or ART 2020 or 3 hours of Gender and Women's Studies courses; and WB or COM2.
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    An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women's issues in art, using literary, cultural, and sociological texts to enlarge the art historical basis. Topics include "domestic goddess," class issues, racial questions, working women, prostitution, education, marriage, and divorce. Dual listed with GWST 4830; cross listed with ENGL 5830. Prerequisites: ART 2020, ENGL 1080, GWST 1080.