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they can explore gender issues. The student will
work in conjunction with a faculty member;
the Gender Studies Director must approve the
project. Prerequisite: GS100, GS300 or 301,
junior or senior standing and completion of six
hours of electives. (U)(3) Annually.
GWS401, 02, 03, Independent Study: Offers
the qualified student of gender studies the
opportunity to pursue a topic of individual
interest. Open only to seniors, by permission of
the instructor. (U)(1, 2, 3) Annually.
Electives
A separate list of GWSS-approved electives
will be published each semester, but examples
of courses students have taken for GWSS credit
in the past include the following:
GWS300/PL348 Philosophy of Feminism
GWS303 Special Topics: Love for Sale:
Intimate Labor and the Commodification
of Love
GWS303 Special Topics: Ransom Notes
and Radical Chic
GWS303 Special Topics: sexandthecity.org
GWS303 Special Topics: Written Out of
Wedlock: Living in Sin, Dancing on the
Altar
GWS303 Special Topics: Health Disparities
AN320 Gender and Sexuality in
Globalization
AN322 Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Japan
AN380 Special Topics: Gender and
Colonial: Past and Present
ART315 Postmodernism in the Arts
ART382 Special Topics: Gender in Art
EN343 The American Renaissance and
Its Others
EN393 Special Topics: Fin-de-Siecle
Literature
EN393 Special Topics: Gender, Language
and Globalization
EN493 Special Topics: Sex, Suffrage and
Empire: Modernism and the New Woman
HS314 Hidden History of Sex, Gender and
Sexuality in Latin America
HST338 The Era of Jim and Jane Crow
HST341 US Women’s History
HS342 US Workingwomen and the City
JR418 Gender and Media: Global Views
MRC354 Gender and Communication
MRC420 Queering Film
MRC465 Communication and Cultural
Criticism
MRC468 Women and Rock
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MRC470 Sports, Media and Culture
MRC482 Voices of Dissent and Social
Change
PO372 Role of Protest in US Politics
PO380 Special Topics: Gender and
Generation in War and Peace
PO380 Special Topics: Politics of Gender
and Sexuality in Africa
PO386 Black Political Thought
PS305 Psychology of Gender
PS333 Human Sexuality
RL377 Religion, Gender and the Goddess
in Asia
SO317 Gender and Society
SO380 Gender, Race and Crime
International Studies Program
Administration
Antonio V. Menéndez Alarcón, Ph.D., Director
The major cuts across traditional barriers
between intellectual disciplines and draws on
the resources of the Department of English,
History, Geography and Anthropology, Modern
Foreign Languages, Philosophy and Religion,
Political Science and Sociology in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Departments
of Economics, Finances and Management in
the College of Business, and the College of
Communications. Faculties most directly
affiliated with the program are:
Professors
Kwado Anowka, Ph.D., Journalism, International
Communication, Africa; Robert B.
Bennett, Jr., J.D., Business in the European
Union; Bruce Bigelow, Ph.D., Geography,
Globalization; Terri Carney, Ph.D., Spain;
Roberto Curci, Ph.D. International Finance,
Latin America; Peter Grossman, Ph.D., International
Economics, Comparative Economic
Systems; Paul Hanson, Ph.D., History, France
and China; Bill Neher, Ph.D., Communication,
Africa; Gregory Osland, Ph.D. International
Marketing, Latin America; Katherine B. Novak,
Sociology, Research Methods; William Rieber,
Ph.D., International Economics; Paul Valliere,
Ph.D. Religion, Eastern Europe; Harry Van der
Linden, Ph.D., Philosophy, International Ethics
and Justice; Linda Willem, Ph.D., Spanish,
Spain
Associate Professors
Craig Auchter, Ph.D., Political Science, Latin
America; John Cornell, History, Contemporary
Europe; Bauman Chad, Religion. India and
Interdisciplinary Programs