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  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines the development of gender roles and sex differences. Incorporates developmental, clinical and social psychological perspectives. Includes examination of biological, social and cultural factors on gender development; conceptualizations of masculinity, femininity and androgyny; differences in play behavior in boys and girls; evaluation of psychological measurement and research regarding gender development and sex differences. Cross listed with PSYC 3300. Prerequisites: PSYC 2300 or 4300.
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    Look at ways in which popular music has intersected with sexual and gendered identities as a means and expression of both oppression and liberation. Cross listed with AMST 3400. Prerequisite: WA or COM1
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    Investigates causes and consequences of gender construction within social institutions such as family, government, education, religion, and economy. Analyzes social structural factors affecting support for gender differentiation, e.g. social values, position in hierarchies of control, access to paid employment, and gendered life experiences. Examines differences by race, social class and sexuality. Cross listed with ANTH 3500/ POLS 3500/ SOC 3500. Prerequisite: WMST 1080 or cross listed equivalent; or SOC 1000. (Offered once a year)
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    Examines literature written by women in non-western cultures. The geographical region, time period, and genres of literature may vary by semester. Analyzes representations of such topics as family, marriage, sexuality, community, and colonialism as expressed in fiction, drama, literary non-fiction, and/or poetry. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 or WMST 1080; junior standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of contemporary American literature (fiction, autobiography, and poetry) by Mexican, Caribbean (Haitian and Dominican), and Arab immigrant women and daughters of immigrant parents. Film, other visual arts, and a range of essays enrich students' analysis of the literary texts. Prerequisite: WMST 1080, or WA/COM1, or junior Standing.
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    Explores a primary distinction made between humans--that of gender--as it is presented and enacted in humanistic areas of religion, myth, theatre, music, art, literature, history and philosophy. Typically the course also analyzes intersections of race, ethnicity, and/or class within the humanities. Cross listed with ENGL/ ART/ HIST 3710. Prerequisite: WMST 1080 or ENGL 1010. (Offered once a year)
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    Focuses on three major movements within the Chicana/o community; labor, nationalism, and feminism. Students assess these three movements to determine what role they have played in transforming the social conditions and plitical identity of the Chicana/o and Latina/o population in the US. Cross listed with AMST/CHST 3800. Prerequisite: CHST 1100 or AMST 2010 or WMST 1080.
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    How youth of minority sexual and gender identities have been educated: the challenges they experience in U.S. K-16 schools, the risk factors related to academic success (health, safety, and emotional well being), and strategies to create safe, caring, and inclusive learning environments for all youth. Cross listed with EDCI 4050, dual listed with WMST 5050. Prerequisites: Completion of WA or COM1 and WMST 2000 with C or better
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    Designed to provide an overview of United States Latina/o Theater. Through a variety of delivery methods, students are instructed on the various categories that directly impact U.S. Latina/o Theater such as political theatre, gay/lesbian theatre, border issues, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Dual listed with WMST 5100. Cross listed with CHST 4100. Prerequisites: 6 hours of CHST or WMST coursework.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on the physical and psychological health of women and children as influenced by armed conflict. Examines the psychosocial, public health, and socioeconomic effects of living in contemporary war zones or conditions of threatened war. Key international documents that address effects upon women and children are discussed in order to evaluate feminist initiatives to prevent and mediate the consequences of war. Cross listed with INST 4155. Prerequisites: upper division standing, lower division social or psychological science course and permission of the instructor.