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Introduces the vigorous, interdisciplinary, complex, and diverse intellectual history of feminist theories, methodologies, and politics.

Introduces more than 100 years of unique, diverse, and dynamic literary tradition of the 20th and 21st Asian American and Asian diasporic women's literature in a wide range of Asian cultural, historical, and national, global, and American multiethnic contexts.

Girls/Girlhood Studies is an interdisciplinary course that examines the social experience of girls mainly in American society but also makes historical and cross cultural comparisons.

An interdisciplinary survey of the ways in which gender interacts with race, age, class, ethnicity, nationality, and other dimensions of identities to shape human consciousness and determine social, political, and cultural organizations of human institutions and societies. 

Considers the range of theoretical explanations from a social perspective for the pervasive violence between intimate partners.

This is a course description for SOC 410 Men and Masculinities

Explores current perspectives on the situations faced by women and men, primarily in the United States.

A study of family dynamics and patterns using sociological research methods
and theories.

Girls/Girlhood Studies is an interdisciplinary course that examines the social experience of girls mainly in American society, but also makes historical and cross-cultural comparisons.

In-depth analysis of a formerly taboo topic, human sexuality.

To better understand early twentieth-century Japanese society and culture, especially the interrelationship between the "flower and willow world," the performing and visual arts, and Shingon Buddhism

Surveys and examines the stories and issues concerning women in the bible.

A multidisciplinary approach to understanding interpersonal violence (across the life span) as impacted by gender.

A critical examination of the assumptions about women which are held by the discipline of psychology, considering both current research and individual experience.

Focuses on the role of women in political life and policies that especially affect women in both developing and developed countries.

Provides an overview of the psychological issues and research relevant to sexuality with an emphasis on gender roles.

Examines women's roles and experiences within some of the world's major religious traditions, both past and present.

Explores the role of women in American journalism. Includes study of lives/careers of women journalists and their specific contributions to the profession with emphasis on evolution of equal opportunity for women and other minorities.

The role of women in World War II has traditionally been celebrated with the familiar image of Rosie the Riveter, the romanticized icon of the female industrial worker.

A study of the activities of women from the colonial era to the modern era.

Introduces literature, film, and theory that focus primarily on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender perspectives.

Investigates the various ways that language and gender interact and intersect in society. Examines such questions as: Does society use language to favor one sex over the other? Why is language a crucial component in formulating constructs of masculinity and femininity? What stereotypes of gender-based language are promoted in our society? How can we analyze language to reveal disparate views and treatment of the sexes?

Major trends and motifs across genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, autobiography) which reflect themes and subjects of continuing interest to women writers.

History, structure, and operation of trade unions and employer organizations;
major federal labor legislation; collective bargaining theory; wage
determination; current labor problems.

An interdisciplinary, multiperspective exploration into the roles of women and dance from a historical, cultural, and spiritual vantage point.

A study of the nature and extent of women's crime, theories of female criminality, processing of women offenders through the criminal justice system, the response of police and court officials to women as victims of crime, and opportunities for women as employees in criminal justice agencies.

Course provides an overview of women in media (including television, film, radio, the Internet, etc.) and the historical development, along with social context that influence women’s involvement in the media.

Explores the primary category of social difference into which humans are universally socialized, which is the gendered nature of women’s and men’s experiences in the world from an anthropological perspective.