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  • WGSS 2010: Intro to WGSS
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Introduces this interdisciplinary academic field that has a triple focus: integrating information about women?s contributions to culture and history into the curriculum; uncovering and understanding structures of oppression (gender, sexuality, race, and class), and exploring possibilities for change. Topics for reading and discussion are drawn from material on social structures, law, language, history, religion, philosophy, the healing professions, and the arts. Articulating questions and points of view regarding issues related to gender and sexuality is emphasized.
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  • WGSS 2020: Women Global Perspective
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Emphasizes diversity of women?s experience in non-western, nonindustrialized societies. Concentrates on women?s participation in, interaction with, and resistance to patriarchal structures that inhibit economic, political, and human rights for women.
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  • WGSS 2110: Sex, Gender, and the Body
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Examines the diverse and historically varying relationships forged between biological sex, culturally formulated discourses of masculinity and femininity, and the sexed body. Combining theoretical and historical texts from the fields of gender, sexuality, and disability studies with memoir, documentary, and visual art, this course investigates how the diverse experiences of embodiment are historically and politically shaped.
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  • WGSS 3110: Men and Masculinities
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Provides an introduction to the field of masculinity studies; an interdisciplinary field of cultural, social, historical, political, psychological, economic, and artistic analysis that interrogates the constructions of masculinity in communities across the world and at various times in history.
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  • WGSS 3330: Feminist Thought and Practice
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 or WGSS 2020 or WGSS 2110.Explores a variety of theoretical frameworks for studying women, gender, and sexuality and links feminist theory to social action and civic responsibility.
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  • WGSS 3410: Gender and Violence
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Explores the intersections of gender and violence with an examination of forms and types of violence, including sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual harassment as well as socio-cultural, sexual, economic, political, and epistemic violence.
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  • WGSS 4018: Honors Thesis
    3.00 - 6.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Offers a capstone experience for Honors students that serves as the culmination of an honors curriculum.
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  • WGSS 4080: WGSS Internship
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Prerequisites: WGSS 2010, senior standing, and director approval. Provides supervised experience with a professional, non-profit, civic, or other social justice group work experience that synthesizes the student?s program of study. A mandatory orientation meeting is required, and a completed internship permission form must be completed before working any hours on site.
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  • WGSS 4200: Feminist Research Methods
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Prerequisite for WGSS is WGSS 3330 or equivalent course.Explores how interdisciplinary feminist perspectives inform research methods and processes to study feminist issues within and across a range of disciplines.
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  • WGSS 4500: Senior Capstone
    3.00 Credits
    East Tennessee State University

    Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 and WGSS 3330.Provides synthesis of Women?s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies courses to develop and pursue social justice, professional, and/or advanced educational objectives.
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