<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">STUDENTS – AS YOU COMPLETE YOUR SPRING
SCHEDULES, DON’T FORGET THESE INTERESTING & DIFFERENT TOPICS CLASSES OFFERED BY THE GWS
DEPARTMENT!!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">Activism in the 21st Century, Dr.
Samantha White</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">GWS 200WB1, CRN# 4236 – ZOOM MWF, 11 – 11:50
a.m.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This course will examine contemporary activism and its social, political,
and cultural impacts. Through centering the lives of girls and women, this
course recognizes their contributions to social movements. Students will
analyze systems of power and resistance within local, national, and global
activist contexts. With a focus on the twenty-first century, this course will
interrogate social movements ranging from #BlackLivesMatter to #SayHerName. We
will explore activist movements that address demands for racial and gender
equality, LGBTQ rights, environmental justice, health equity as well as other
calls for social change. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:24pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:24pt">AND, IT’S BACK!</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:24pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">A Man’s Journey, Dr. Marco Turco</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">GWS 200WB2, CRN# 4237</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">It has become clear now that the models
of manhood used in the past are fading, worn-out, and often no longer useful.
Most of us know that the definition of a man we learned in high-school, or the
military, or on the sports fields of the macho man, the dominant man, and the
conquest-driven man do not work in our rapidly-changing world. The negative
side is obvious: exploitation of the earth, devaluation and humiliation of
women, and obsession with money and war. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The gender mythologies of our culture
are defective – they ignore masculine depth of feeling, assign men a place in
the sky instead of on earth, teach obedience to the wrong powers, work to keep
some groups of men boys, and entangle both men and women in systems of capitalist
domination. This course will explore
new visions of what a man is, or may become, and help students build skills to
enact those visions.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:24pt">ALSO – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">If you have not already taken them, we still have seats in three
very popular, regularly offered GWS classes:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">GWS 101, Intro Gender & Women’s Studies - </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of gender and women's
studies. Topics include gender socialization, feminism, intersections of gender
with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, body image, reproductive
rights, globalization, militarization, war and peace, men and masculinities,
violence against women and struggles for gender equality and social justice.</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">  <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Liberal Arts.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">GWS 301, Global Gender Issues</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> - A cross-cultural study of gender issues affecting the lives of women
and men around the globe. Critical examination of the specific historical,
political, and socioeconomic conditions that shape people's identities and
experiences and struggles for gender equality and social justice. Analysis of
patterns of continuity and change and similarities and differences among women
and men. Topics include women's human rights, human trafficking, gendered
aspects of globalization, gender and religion, gender and development, gendered
dimensions of environmental issues and sustainability and gender, war and peace.</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">  <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Liberal Arts</span>.
Prerequisite(s): upper level standing and one of the following: PSY101, SOC101,
HIS101, HIS102, ANT102, GWS101, or POI.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">GWS 315, Women & the Law</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> - Law as it relates to women in the U.S. The ways women and the
feminist movement have affected the law, in addition to the influences the law
has in each of our lives. Examines such issues as employment opportunity,
educational access, domestic violence, reproductive rights, child custody and
support, divorce, sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography. This
course examines how laws are made and changed, how legal arguments are
constructed, and how social movements and individuals can influence our laws.</span>
Liberal Arts<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Prerequisite(s): GWS 101 and/or upper-division standing.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">If you are interested in any of these classes,
and have any trouble registering, please contact the GWS Chair, Dr. Connie
Oxford (<a href="mailto:oxfordcg@plattsburgh.edu" style="color:blue">oxfordcg@plattsburgh.edu</a>).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">

























































</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i>Laura S. Collier, Office Admin.<br></i></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i>AAS/ANT/GWS/LAS Depts.<br></i></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>