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WGS 501 Advanced Topics in Human Rights +
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This seminar aims to provide students with a deeper knowledge of human rights as both an intellectual discourse and a realm of political action. The first part of the course deals with the emergence and institutionalization of human rights in the 20th century. Beginning with an overview of its roots in political theory, moving to the first and second generation of rights, to debates over universality and cultural relativism and ending with exploration of human rights frameworks' applicability and implications across nations and cultures, the course offers an in-depth interdisciplinary understanding of the field and its practices. Topics of study include torture, genocide, race gender and law, visual culture, humanitarian intervention and protection. More Info
Offered in:WGS 581 Seminar in Gender, Power, Politics/Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies +
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This course investigates theories, methodologies and practices of feminist inquiry in the social sciences. We look at the many ways in which feminist scholarship has sought to understand and theorize power and politics. It is designed as a seminar for students who are motivated to think critically about a range of issues related to gender and politics and relations of power. It introduces students to feminist theoretical frameworks for thinking about power, as well as to empirical explorations of a variety of key topics within the larger field of gender and politics. More Info
Offered in:WGS 583 Seminar in Gender, Culture, Society/Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies +
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This course investigates theories, methodologies and practices of feminist inquiry in the humanities. We look at the many ways in which feminist scholarship has sought to understand and theorize society and culture. It is designed as a seminar for students who are motivated to think critically about a range of issues related to gender and socio-cultural norms, institutions and relations of power. It introduces students to interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives to knowledge, agency, social and structural inequalities. More Info
Offered in:WGS 591 Feminist Inquiry: Strategies for Effective Scholarship/Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies +
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This course investigates theories and practices of feminist inquiry across a range of disciplines. Doing feminist research involves rethinking disciplinary assumptions and methodologies, developing new understandings of what counts as knowledge, seeking alternative ways of understanding the origins of problems/issues, formulating new ways of asking questions and redefining the relationship between subjects and objects of study. The course will focus on methodology, i.e., the theory and analysis of how research should proceed. We shall be especially attentive to epistemological issues--pre-suppositions about the nature of knowledge and in their connections to methodologies and research methods. Further, we shall explore how these connections are formed in the traditional disciplines and raise questions about why they are inadequate and / or problematic for feminist inquiry. More Info
Offered in:WGS 597 Special Topics in Women's Studies/Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies +
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This course offers intensive study of a selected topic in Women's Studies offered through the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies. Course content varies according to the topic, which will be announced prior to the registration period. More Info
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WGS 599 Dissertation Workshop/Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies +
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A writing workshop for dissertation writers at all levels, beginning with preparation of the proposal. Class will include rotating discussion in each meeting of pre-circulated material by on or two students. In addition to a constructive critiques of student writing, we will focus on; theoretical and methodological concepts in Women's and Gender Studies across disciplines; research, argumentation, and writing; practical matters such as; the Dissertation Committee, looking toward eventual publication, and writing with an eye to a professional position. More Info
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