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21W.745 / SP.576J / WGS.576J Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
For students with experience in writing nonfictional prose. Advanced study of rhetorical strategies and techniques of prose style. Considerable writing and revision required. In addition to analyzing the work of class ...
11.237 / SP.660 Gender and Race, Work, and Public Policy, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This course provides an analytic framework for understanding the roles that gender and race play in defining the work worlds of women and men in our society, including ways in which gender intersects with race and class. ...
21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), the great cultural critic W. E. B. Du Bois wrote that "...the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." A century after Du Bois penned those words, most Americans ...
21A.226 Ethnic and National Identity, Spring 2003
(2003-06)
An introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. Students explore the history of nationalism, focusing on ideologies about the nation-state, and look at the ways gender, religious and racial ...
21H.102 The Emergence of Modern America 1865-Present, Spring 2003
(2003-06)
This subject studies the changing structure of American politics, economics, and society from the end of the Civil War to the present. We will consider secondary historical accounts and primary documents to examine some ...
SP.235 Chemistry of Sports, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
In this new seminar, we will be focusing on three sports, swimming, cycling and running. There will be two components to the seminar, a classroom and a laboratory. The classroom component will introduce the students to the ...
21F.043J / 21H.150J Introduction to Asian American Studies: Literature, Culture, and Historical Experience, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
An interdisciplinary subject that draws on literature, history, anthropology, film, and cultural studies to examine the experiences of Asian Americans in U.S. society. Covers the first wave of Asian immigration in the 19th ...
WGS.111 Gender and Media Studies: Women and the Media, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, ...
21W.730-1 Imagining the Future, Spring 2004
(2004-06)
Turn-of-the-century eras have historically been times when people are more than usually inclined to scrutinize the present and speculate about the future. Now, the turn not just of a century but of a millennium having ...
17.118J / SP.412J / WGS.412J Feminist Political Thought, Fall 2000
(2000-12)
This course focuses on a range of theories of gender in modern life. In recent years feminist scholars in a range of disciplines have challenged previously accepted notions of political theory such as the distinctions ...