3 credit hours. This course explores the social construction of differences and the processes, institutions, and conditions that lead to power and privilege in modern American society. Issues of race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, age and ability, among others, are considered. 3 credit hours. This web-based course examines social movements in the United States to explain why and how social change occurs.
Students then connect theory to practice through individual or group action projects.
1 credit hour. This course provides an overview of historical and contemporary feminist thought. Students define and evaluate different theoretical positions, including liberal, cultural, Freudian, materialist, existentialist, radical, French, and multicultural feminisms. Interdisciplinary readings investigate how feminist theory and process have affected our lives and our understanding of literature, philosophy, political science, law, science, film, history, sociology and medicine. 3 credit hours.