Focusing on the range of women's lives and experiences brings women into academic study in areas where they have often been trivialized or simply ignored. Having a better understanding of how these dynamics function then can help us to rectify inequality and create a more equitable society. Explores issues of artistic style and content and examines the institution of patronage and its effect on women artists. A critical study of women as offenders, victims and workers within the criminal justice system. UH-042 Rosalynn Bresnahan Critical and historical examination of images and representations of gender and race in the mass media.
Course focuses primarily on film, television, advertising, and the press.
UH-247 Staff Literary analysis of selected works by women writers, with special emphasis on historical and contemporary issues in women s lives. The interdisciplinary course uses scientific, humanistic and social science perspectives to foster an understanding of how gender roles in Western culture are established, maintained and changed. UH 248 Tom Moody Study of theories of human nature and the factors motivating human behavior, with focus on such questions as whether human nature is changeable, the analysis of aggression, and the roles of reason, emotion and instinct. California State University San Bernardino offers a minor in Women's Studies. The program is designed to provide the core material basic to Women's Studies, a range of electives from which students can explore a variety of topics, and culminating seminar.