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Feminism and the Fate of the Planet
Course Number SWG 230-01-LEC
Course Title Feminism and the Fate of the Planet
Department Study of Women and Gender
Campus Smith College
Course Description We begin this course by sifting the earth between our fingers as part of a community learning partnership with area farms in Holyoke, Hadley, and other neighboring towns. Using women's movements and feminisms across the globe as our lens, this course develops an understanding of current trends in globalization. This lens also allows us to map the history of transnational connections between people, ideas and movements from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Through films, memoirs, fiction, ethnography, witty diatribes and graphic novels, this course explores women's activism on the land of laborers, and in their lives. Students will develop research projects in consultation with area farms, link their local research with global agricultural movements, write papers and give one oral presentation.. Prerequisite: SWG 150. (E)

Reg # Section Credits Instructors Meeting Times Location Notes
17173-F09 01 4 Elisabeth Armstrong MWF 11:00-12:10 ENGIN 102

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