Great Course Options for Students!

[Laura Collier]

Hello Faculty – As you continue to advise your students for spring, please
keep in mind these two great topics classes offered by the Gender & Women’s
Studies Department!



Activism in the 21st Century, Dr. Samantha White

GWS 200WB1, CRN# 4236 – ZOOM MWF, 11 – 11:50 a.m.



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.



A Man’s Journey, Dr. Marco Turco

GWS 200WB2, CRN# 4237



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.



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.



ALSO –



We still have seats in three very popular, regularly offered GWS classes:



GWS 101, Intro Gender & Women’s Studies - 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.  Liberal Arts.



GWS 301, Global Gender Issues - 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.  Liberal Arts.
Prerequisite(s): upper level standing and one of the following: PSY101,
SOC101, HIS101, HIS102, ANT102, GWS101, or POI.



GWS 315, Women & the Law - 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. Liberal Arts
Prerequisite(s): GWS 101 and/or upper-division standing.





If your students are interested in any of these classes, and have any
trouble registering or would like further info, please have them contact
the GWS Chair, Dr. Connie Oxford (oxfordcg at plattsburgh.edu).



Thank you!
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