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URDU 171 - Hindi/Urdu I Credits: (4)
Introduction to the structure of Hindi and URDU, two languages which are nearly identical in the grammatical structure of their everyday spoken style. Hindi is the dominant language of Northern India. URDU is the National language of Pakistan, also understood throughout the Hindi area.
When Offered
Fall
UGE course
No
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URDU 172 - Hindi/Urdu II Credits: (4)
Continuation of Hindi/Urdu I with introduction of the Devanagari (Hindi and Sanskrit) script.
Requisites
Prerequisite: URDU 171.
When Offered
Spring
UGE course
No
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URDU 273 - Hindi/Urdu III Credits: (4)
Continuation of Hindi/Urdu II with gradual transition to more formal styles of language.
Requisites
Prerequisite: URDU 172.
When Offered
Fall
UGE course
No
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URDU 274 - Hindi/Urdu IV Credits: (4)
Continuation of Hindi/Urdu III with readings in Hindi or Urdu literature according to needs of students.
Requisites
Prerequisite: URDU 273.
When Offered
Spring
UGE course
No
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URDU 575 - Hindi/Urdu V Credits: (4)
Individual study in Hindi or Urdu. Readings, composition, or conversational practice relevant to the student’s interests and disciplinary needs.
Note
May be repeated for credit.
Requisites
Prerequisite: URDU 274.
When Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course
No
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URDU 799 - Problems in Modern Languages Credits: (Variable)
UGE course
No
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WOMST 105 - Introduction to Women’s Studies Credits: (3)
An interdisciplinary introduction to academic and community-based thinking about women’s lives: (1) how gender inequality in society restricts women’s development, limits their contributions to the dominant culture, and subjects women to systematic violence and (2) strategies with which women can gain power within existing institutions and develop new models of social relations. Particular attention will be paid to issues of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
When Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course
UGE
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WOMST 205 - Gender, Ethnicity, and Class Credits: (3)
The diversity of women’s experiences within the United States and in other countries. Using a framework that examines how gender is shaped within the contexts of ethnicity and class, students will be introduced to multicultural feminisms through an active examination of history, literature, and social science.
Requisites
Prerequisite: WOMST 105 or AMETH 160.
When Offered
Fall
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WOMST 300 - Selected Studies of Women and Gender Credits: (3)
Specific course content will vary by semester and instructor.
Note
Repeatable with change of topic.
When Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer
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WOMST 321 - Latina’s Life Stories Credits: (3)
An interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of women’s life experiences, examining the complex process of constructing cultural identities. Students will gain an understanding of how knowing about, listening to, and telling of life stories intersects with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and class, using the specific examples of Latina’s life stories.
Requisites
Prerequisite: WOMST 105.
When Offered
Fall, Spring
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WOMST 345 - Women & Aging: Looking at Multicultural Female Aging Through a Gendered Lens Credits: (3)
This course will explore, from a feminist perspective, multidisciplinary aspects of the aging process including, but not limited to physical, psychological, sociological, cultural and existential, experiences by women mainly in the United States, with some global comparisons. Experiential components include film, interviews, visit to a retirement community, research on a topic of interest to the individual student related to women’s experiences with the aging process from a women’s studies perspective.
When Offered
Fall, Spring
UGE course
No
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WOMST 380 - Women and Global Social Change Credits: (3)
This course explores contemporary approaches that help meet the needs of women and their families in different parts of the world, including the Plains region. Students will learn how approaches to social change in the Third World influence women in North America, and how First World women relate to women’s movements and organizations in the Third World.
Requisites
Prerequisite: ENGL 100 or 110.
When Offered
Fall
UGE course
UGE
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WOMST 410 - Feminist Thought Credits: (3)
Survey of a variety of feminist analyses of society, culture, and work, as well as visions for social change. The historical development of key feminist theories, contemporary debates, and multicultural and global feminism will be analyzed.
Requisites
Prerequisite: One Women’s Studies course.
When Offered
Spring
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WOMST 450 - The Stories of a Young Girl Credits: (3)
An interdisciplinary examination of female adolescence, focusing in particular on the way it is depicted in literature.
Requisites
Prerequisite: ENGL 100 or 110.
When Offered
Spring
UGE course
UGE
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WOMST 480 - Women and Environmentalism Credits: (3)
Because women have and continue to be an integral part of environmentalism in the U.S. and globally, this course examines the philosophical and historical intersections between women, nature and environmental activism.
Requisites
Prerequisite: None.
When Offered
Spring
UGE course
UGE
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WOMST 499 - Honors Project Credits: (3)
Open only to Arts & Sciences students who are active members of the University Honors Program.
When Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer
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WOMST 500 - Topics in Women’s Studies Credits: (1-3)
Topics vary.
When Offered
Fall, Spring
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WOMST 505 - Independent Study in Women’s Studies Credits: (1-3)
Independent, interdisciplinary, supervised study in an area which does not fall within the boundaries of a traditional department.
Note
May be repeated once for credit with change of topic.
When Offered
Fall, Spring
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WOMST 550 - Women and Popular Culture Credits: (3)
Images of women in a variety of popular media forms: fiction, film, television, music (including MTV), magazines, advertising, and material culture. Women are explored as objects, consumers, and producers of popular culture. Material is drawn from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, history, literary criticism, and cultural studies.
Requisites
Prerequisite: WOMST 105 or at least 3 hours of Women’s Studies credit.
When Offered
Spring
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WOMST 551 - The History and Politics of Family Violence Credits: (3)
Explores the history of family or domestic violence in America as a social, cultural, legal, and public policy issue from the colonial period to the present. Stress is placed upon the cultural roots and evolution of domestic law. The development of state-controlled social welfare agencies as well as the emergence of the “battered women’s movement” is particularly emphasized.
Requisites
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above.
When Offered
Intersession
Cross-listed
HIST 551
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WOMST 560 - Women and Violence Credits: (3)
The roots of male violence against women, cultural forms of sexual coercion and violence, and strategies for envisioning and enacting social change. Topics addressed include rape/sexual harassment.
Requisites
Prerequisite: WOMST 105 or at least 3 hours of Women’s Studies credit.
When Offered
Fall
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WOMST 580 - Women and Religion Credits: (3)
How gender relations and women have been shaped by the development of religious ideologies and practices throughout the contemporary world, as well as in early class and pre-class societies. Construction of gender by religious institutions and feminist religious activities studied in relation to Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, traditional Native American faiths, and adverse forms of paganism.
When Offered
Fall
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WOMST 585 - Women and Islam Credits: (3)
A study of the history and sources of Islam with particular reference to women in a variety of cultures, ranging from Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East to the Western World.
When Offered
Intersession
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WOMST 590 - Women’s Studies Practice and Theory Credits: (3)
An active exploration of local-to-global change in relation to feminist and nonviolence theories, concepts, and methods. Includes a social change project consisting of 52 hours of skill and research-based field experience with a campus or community organization. Students will read and discuss academic writings on inclusive approaches to social change, participatory action research, community building, social movements and theory. This course provides students with professional and academic skills that relate to employment and graduate work in diverse fields.
Requisites
Prerequisite: 3 hrs of women’s studies credit or by instructor permission.
When Offered
Spring, even years
Cross-listed
DAS 590
UGE course
No
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WOMST 610 - Seminar in Women’s Studies Credits: (3)
This course surveys interdisciplinary, feminist methods of research and contemporary applications of this scholarship.
Requisites
Prerequisite: Senior standing, WOMST 105 and at least 6 credit hours of women’s studies courses; or graduate standing and 3 credit hours in women’s studies, or consent of instructor.
When Offered
Fall
UGE course
No
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WOMST 700 - Advanced Topics in Women’s Studies Credits: (1-3)
Provides an in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis of scholarly works relating to an interdisciplinary topic in women’s studies.
Requisites
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above and instructor permission.
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WOMST 784 - Internship in Women’s Studies Credits: (1-12)
Supervised field work at the local, state, national, or international level in a community, volunteer, activist, or political organization.
Note
A maximum of 3 credit hours can be counted toward the Women’s Studies minor, and a maximum of 6 credit hours towards the major.
Requisites
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and two courses in Women’s Studies.
When Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer
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WOMST 799 - Independent Study for Graduate Students or Advanced Undergraduate Students Credits: (1-3)
Independent study in problems, issues, topics in Women’s Studies. Topics vary.
Note
Effective Spring 2011
When Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer
UGE course
No
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