Examples are cross-cultural, contemporary, and historical. Analyzes the various forms that gender inequality assumes in a number of Third World countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Women's political roles, especially in social movements, conventional politics. Effects of public policy on women. Roles that women have played as subjects and objects in war and peace.
Topic varies from year to year.
Explores the historical and contemporary role of women as scientists and how scientific theories have treated women as the objects of scientific investigation. An historical and formal investigation of the ways that American women are represented by the mass media, how feminists have challenged and changed them. Independent research guided by faculty member on subject of student's choice in field of women's studies. The following list is not exhaustive, since new courses are continually being added to the curriculum. Consult with the program coordinator.