Open to all undergraduates. This course uses small group discussion and development of supportive group norms to enable students to explore selected topics in women's studies as they apply to their own lives and to contemporary social issues. The course work includes large and small group activities, theoretical presentations, regularly assigned readings, and written assignments. There is strong emphasis on developing analytic tools - taking a critical stance with respect to one's experience, to social issues, and to the assigned readings. Small groups meet in different campus locations, to be determined within each group.
Attendance is mandatory at first meeting of class.
Humanities Seminars on Women and Gender. In this course we will read popular novels and plays by southern women writers, including Gone With the Wind, The Little Foxes, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Color Purple, and examine their translation into cinema. First year students only. Social Science Seminars on Women and Gender. This seminar will focus on a series of trials and other matters of law that illuminate the history of women and gender relations in the United States.