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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. ...
14.74 Foundations of Development Policy, Spring 2004
(2004-06)
Explores the foundations of policy making in developing countries. Goal is to spell out various policy options and to quantify the trade-offs between them. Special emphasis on education, health, gender, fertility, adoption ...
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 ...
21M.621 Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S., Spring 2004
(2004-06)
A study of contemporary North American theater movements and selected individual works that are organized around issues of ethnic and socio-cultural identity. Class lectures and discussions analyze samples of African-American, ...
SP.401 / WGS.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
An interdisciplinary subject that draws on literature, history, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and feminist theory to examine our cultural assumptions about gender, trace the effects of new scholarship on traditional ...
21A.218J / SP.454J / WGS.454J Identity and Difference, Fall 2002
(2002-12)
How can the individual be at once cause and consequence of society, a unique agent of social action and also a social product? Why are some people accepted and celebrated for their particular features while other people ...
SP.406 / WMN.406 Sexual and Gender Identities, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
This course introduces scholarly debates about sexual identities, gender identities and expressions, and sexual orientation and its representation in various media. We begin with an investigation of the theoretical ...
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, ...
STS.330 History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Fall 2006
(2006-12)
This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of medicine and biology. Topics include histories of bodies and embodiment in medicine; institutional and social genealogies and futures ...