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• WGS 272: WOMEN AND VIOLENCE WORLD TEXTS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will investigate the complex relationship women around the world have with violence. Though formerly only regarded as those in need of protection, women who perpetrate violence have forced a shift in gender roles ascribed to violence. Looking at written and visual texts that depict women as both victims/survivors and perpetrators of violence will allow students to discuss the ways women's shifting role in violent movements and in texts has changed both the gender ideology and the political climate in a rapidly globalizing world. This course work will look at the ways women's relationship to violence is constructed and question ideas that women are 'naturally' non-violent. While this course does not condone the use of violence, it does study ways women use violent tactics to resist oppression, enact revenge, and find a voice.
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• WGS 274: WOMEN, WRITING & RHETORIC

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  While the spoken and written word have long been studied for their rhetorical intent and success, this study has been conducted primarily through a male lens. As such, womens contributions to rhetoric throughout history, like so many other aspects of womens experience, have yet to be fully explored. Women, Writing, and Rhetoric seeks to expand the study of rhetoric with a multi-layered consideration of how rhetoric has been informed by, and informs, a female consciousness. This is an elective course for English majors, Womens Studies minors, and those seeking a concentration in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.
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• WGS 278: WOM WRITERS AROUND WORLD

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  The focus of this course is modern and contemporary literature by women around the world. Students will read selected fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and examine these works primarily, but not exclusively, from the perspectives of Feminist Critical Theory.
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• WGS 285: GENDER COMMUNICATION

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides a study of gender as it influences verbal and nonverbal communication, and shows how gender communication impacts the lives and experiences of women and men. The course will explore multiple ways communication in schools, family, media and society in general creates and perpetuates gender roles.
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• WGS 310: SEM IN WOMEN'S STUDIES

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will provide the requisite structure to assist advanced students to integrate the multi-disciplinary courses of a Women's Studies minor. Students will read, discuss, debate and write about current research and scholarship on women which will be selected to synthesize their under-standings of gender issues in a complex world. Topics will also be selected to support the students' major areas of study and career goals. The course may be team-taught or taught by a faculty member in cooperation with guest specialists.
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• WGS 316: POLITICS, SEX, AND GENDER

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  An extensive examination of the constitutional and legal bases of sex-based discrimination in the United States. The course will focus specifically on statutory law and judicial decisions relating to discrimination of both men and women.
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• WGS 318: PICTURING GENDER

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course investigates the role of art in shaping a culture's understanding of gender. Drawing upon themes from a variety of historical eras from the ancient world through the 19th century in Europe and the United States, it explores how art both reflects and moulds the understanding of gender roles as they are played out across the lifespan as well as range of sexual orientations. Topics pertaining to gender such as social class, power, spirituality, sexuality, work leisure, family life and age will be addressed.
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• WGS 321: POPULAR CULTURE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course explores how popular culture is created and reflected within a range of media and genres-including television, film, music, fiction, social networks, gaming, and digital technology. Students will learn how to explain and critique popular culture from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The course focuses on how popular culture challenges or reinforces stereotypes, creates communities, and reflects social and political realities.
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• WGS 323: NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides undergraduate students an introduction to selected Native American Women Writers across several genres. Students will experience a variety of writings which move across traditional boundaries (such as nonfiction, poetry, fiction, theory, activist, and so on). The course also provides students an opportunity to consider Indigenous Feminism in theory and practice. Students will consider issues of gender, identity, cross-cultural understanding, individuality and community by intellectually engaging with the texts and performances of Native American women. This class may also include the opportunity for digital storytelling, blogging, interviewing, and community engagement.
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• WGS 324: RACE & GENDER IN GERMAN WORLD

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course explores traditional, historical, and current concepts of race and gender in German speaking countries. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the course investigates evolving definitions of race and gender in a changing Europe. Employing historical, political and gender theoretical texts as well as examining artistic and popular cultural productions, the course examines ways that politics, economics, and cultural representations influence developing trends. Taught in English.
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