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COM 2406 Gender and Health Communication

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Humanities, US Experience in its Diversity

COM 2406 Gender and Health Communication

Pathways: US Experience in Its Diversity

Gender-related health issues have always been the subject of sensitive social, cultural, and political debate. This course explores current healthcare practices, experiences, and systems that are both affecting and affected by gender norms, performances, and representations. A critical review and analysis of the ways sexual minorities have been treated by health institutions in the major stages of human history are conducted in the class. Students learn the complex interplay among health, communication, and gender, with specific focus on how gender-based communication practices affect people’s everyday decisions and choices in medical care, and on what we can do to improve the current healthcare system and environment.

HUS 3630 Diversity and Intersectionality

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February 26, 2023

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Electives, Health and Human Services

HUS 3630 Diversity and Intersectionality

Pathways: Electives

Develops active respect towards differences in perspectives, experiences, values, and history within a critical framework for understanding mechanisms of oppression and structural forms of power and privilege. Examines the interconnections with groups who have a shared history of oppression. Emphasis is on marginalized groups, race, and gender equity, and change strategies to promote social justice.

ENG 2190 Expressions of Identity

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July 8, 2016

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English, Uncategorized, US Experience in its Diversity, Writing Intensive

ENG 2190 Expressions of Identity: Representations of Gender and Space in Literature (WI)

Pathways: US Experience in its Diversity

Focuses on space and place: personal, home/household, communal, virtual, digital, or global representations as they relate to self-perception and gender identity. Here, students will read works that explore the unique relationship between gender identity roles/expectations and the form and function of different types of place and space as being gender specific. Students will study environment, race, physical space, (C)lass, culture, gender roles, and sex and sexuality.

ENG 2180 Studies in Identity and Orientation

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July 8, 2016

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English, Uncategorized, US Experience in its Diversity, Writing Intensive

ENG 2180 Studies in Identity and Orientation (WI)

Pathways: US Experience in its Diversity

Provides students with an introductory understanding of identity, focusing specifically on the concepts of gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, and other aspects of social location and identification. Students will analyze the appearance of gender and sexuality as integrated social concepts by reading and discussing contemporary American texts across multiple genres and media.

ENG 2170ID Introduction to Studies in Maleness and Manhood

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July 8, 2016

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Creative Expression, English, Interdisciplinary, Uncategorized, Writing Intensive

ENG 2170ID Introduction to Studies in Maleness and Manhood (WI)

Pathways: Creative Expression

Identifies expected and redefined understandings and representations of Maleness and Manhood through physical, psychological, sociological, and philosophical approaches through literature, scholarly writing, and film. Subject matter includes sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, perception, identity, power, politics of manhood, violence, and the use or expectation of male dominance.

ANTH 1103: Gender, Culture and Society

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July 8, 2016

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Social Science, Uncategorized, World Cultures and Global Issues

ANTH 1103: Gender, Culture and Society

Pathways: World Cultures and Global Issues

Female development from a historical, economic, sociological, psychological and anthropological perspective. Focuses on readings and research concerning women with and analytical emphasis on biological versus cultural orientations in the literature.

ENG 2160 Introduction to Women’s Studies

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July 8, 2016

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English, Uncategorized, World Cultures and Global Issues, Writing Intensive

ENG 2160 Introduction to Women’s Studies (WI)

Pathways: World Cultures and Global Issues

Focuses on literature, scholarly writing, and films that focus specifically on girls and women, both nationally and internationally, in the hopes of determining whether women themselves or others (external forces, individuals, or social systems) construct definitions of womanhood. Course texts, by both men and women, will address such themes as womanism, stereotypes, feminism, violence, politics, intimate/familial relationships, sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, and prescribed and evolving gender roles as they relate to girls and women.