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  • WGST 278: Women Writers Around the 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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  • WGST 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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  • WGST 310: Seminar 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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  • WGST 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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  • WGST 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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  • WGST 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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  • WGST 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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  • WGST 324: Race and Gender in the German-speaking 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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  • WGST 325: Social Work and Human Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course explores the socio-cultural, physiological, and psychological variables associated with human sexual expression, identity, orientation, and behavior. Attention will also focus on clinical issues most often presented in social work practice and women and gender studies by individuals and couples, e.g., desire discrepancy in couples and affairs outside a committed relationship. Specific sexual dysfunctions identified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be explored in terms of their etiology and the current treatment models used to address them. The field of Sex Therapy, past and present, will be discussed as well as the evidence-based practices for treatment. This course is not designed to create sex therapists but to help social workers feel more comfortable dealing with the sexual concerns of their clients.
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  • WGST 329: Feminist and Gender Theories

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course provides an overview of the leading currents, issues, and debates in feminist literary theory, including gendered voice, difference vs. equality feminism, essentialism, and queer theory. Students will read theoretical and literary selections from nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century feminists.
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