S-Crbean Womn Writ Idnty Pltcs

The intent of this course is to use literature, fiction, the novel, poetry, performance, music, and art as vehicles to reading and analyzing how Caribbean women write and speak culture, resistance, identity, and politics. Selected readings will demonstrate how these wide ranges of writings can be a powerful means of communication for education, influence, resistance, and protest. Selected works will be drawn from women in the Caribbean Diaspora, Anglophone, Francophone, and Latin America. Fulfills Women of Color inside or outside the U.S. requirement for Women's Studies majors and minors.

S-Gender and Technology

Technology today is deeply integrated into most aspects of our lives. The course explores the multiple ways in which technology and gender shape each other. Topics will include: feminist technology studies, digital divide, internet, web, and digital technologies, social media, home technologies, biotechnology, reproductive technologies, surveillance, technology and the security "state," and digital entertainment technologies.

S-Writing:Wmn,Gndr,Sxlty Mjrs

Fulfills Junior Year Writing requirement for majors. Modes of writing and argumentation useful for research, creative, and professional work in a variety of fields. Analysis of texts, organization of knowledge, and uses of evidence to articulate ideas to diverse audiences. Includes materials appropriate for popular and scholarly journal writing. Popular culture reviews, responses to public arguments, monographs, first-person narratives and grant proposals, and a section on archival and bibliographic resources in Women's Studies. May include writing for the Internet.

Theorizng Gender, Race & Power

Ways of analyzing and reflecting on current issues and controversies in feminist thought within an international context sensitive to class, race, and sexual power concerns. Topics may include work and international economic development, violence against women, racism, class and poverty, heterosexism, the social construction of gender, race and sexuality, global feminism, women, nationalism and the state, reproductive issues, pornography and media representations of women.
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