WGS 3204 - Reading and Representing Women’s Lives

1 Course Unit(s)
Directed toward students with previous work in women’s studies scholarship and is open to students from any major discipline. Explores and critically assesses certain interdisciplinary aspects of women’s studies that relate to the “reading” and representing of women’s lives. Examines women’s lives in the United States and considers the possibilities and problems of locating similarities and differences among women in specific global contexts. Topics may include women’s historical movements, global feminism, equal rights, health and bioethics, violence against women, and feminist critiques of fine art and popular culture.

General Education Requirement(s): Upper-level Liberal Arts; Writing Intensive
Prerequisite(s): FYS 1104
Corequisite(s): None
Pre/Corequisite(s): None