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 and off-campus locations.
Meeting place is determined within each group. Issues for Women of Color. This course will discuss women of color, their historical background, the ways in which they differ from Caucasian women, and treatment accorded them in society. Another important theme of this class will be the change of status and the notion of women in the Third World which has been caused by modernization, industrialization, and Westernization. For example, in East and Southeast Asian countries, especially in agriculture-based societies, the important traditional role of women has been lost because of the Green Revolution, and a large number of young women have been sent to work in factories in which they are exploited and receive little salary.