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Engaged Scholarship in Women and Gender
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Course Description
This class provides students the opportunity to do supervised community service with an organization that relates to women and gender. Students will be placed in an organization and complete an internship throughout the course of the semester. In addition to community service hours, students spend time reflecting on their internship experiences, connecting their service with concepts learned in Gender and Women's Studies classes, and meeting as a group to evaluate and assess issues such as volunteer/unpaid labor, activism and the academy, and the political economy of gender and women's services.
Syllabus for Engaged Scholarship in Women and Gender Fall 2009 (Coming Soon)
Women, Poverty and Globalization
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Course Description
This course examines new patterns of inequality as they relate to the feminization of poverty in a global and transnational context. It will give students the opportunity to enhance their critical knowledge of new forms of globalization and their impact on the least-privileged group of women locally and globally. It also provides an opportunity for students to work with a local or global non-governmental or community organization with a focus on gender and poverty, and to engage in a systematic analysis of the strategies and practices of these organizations. Class readings are organized around themes such as: globalization and postcolonialism; economic restructuring and flexible sexism; neoliberalism and feminization of poverty; transnational institutions (GATT, World Bank, IMF); the welfare state; rights and needs; cyber space and community activism, militarism and consumerism.
Students are asked to work with an NGO or a community organization for an average of three hours per week. They are asked to establish a dialogue with the organization and try to forge a theoretical connection between class readings and the activist concerns of a particular community organization. A list of relevant NGOs and community organizations is provided at the beginning of the semester.
Queer Theories / Activist Practices
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Course Description
This class will examine various forms of activist practices and create possibilities for students to engage in community projects that allow them to explore their own definitions of activism, community engagement, and social transformation. As a class we will engage different types of interventions--art, law, advocacy, and direct action--and examine the limits and possibilities of these different forms of social engagement. In the process we will pay particular attention to how narratives of queer identity, community and social and sexual practices are mutually constituted through understandings of race, ethnicity, age, class, gender presentation and identity, language, ability, citizenship, and history. Course materials will include a variety of texts including films, short stories, personal essays, law review articles, academic articles and guest lectures by local artists and activists. As a class we will pay particular attention to how issues of representation, various sorts of privilege and access, and the ethics of engaging human subjects inform our activist and scholarly practices.
Syllabus for Queer Theories/Activist Practices Fall 2010 (Coming Soon)
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