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.
Women in Popular Culture. This mini-course examines the ways in which rape has been presented in various media outlets over the past 25 years and explores how the feminist movement has responded to, critiqued and altered our images of sexual assault. Issues for Women of Color. The purpose of this mini-course is to examine the conflict between women who sought to further strategic gender interest such as women's equality and the inclusion of women in the governing process and those who sought to resolve more practical gender interests. Practical gender interests are the issues that arise from concrete circumstances and women's perceived needs.