Approved Courses:

Psychology 262: Gender-Role Development (Fulcher)
This course will provide you with an overview of gender-role development. How do children learn to be boys and girls? What role do biological factors play in different behaviors of boys and girls? Does society push boys and girls in different directions? We will discuss children's evolving ideas about gender, and what can be done to change these ideas (or whether they need to be changed at all). This course will introduce students to the major theories of gender-role development, research methods used to measure children's gender-role behaviors and attitudes and the current research in the field. Prerequisite: Psychology 113 Principles of Development.

English 380: American Ethnic Literatures: Storytelling Made in the U.S.A. (Miranda)
This course focuses on ethnic 'minority' literature (material written by members of the non-dominant culture in the U.S.), moving it from the edges, (or margins) of your world into the center. There is no way to do this in a way that gives equal treatment to all the diverse voices in American ethnic literatures, so we will look instead at a handful of texts while learning techniques that will enable you to read many different authors. We'll focus on short stories and poetry by Native American, Chicana, African American and Asian American men and women, looking at expressions of gender, gender roles and family dynamics. We'll also study terms and themes present in ethnic literatures such as The 'F' Word (Feminism), The Melting Pot, Border Narratives/"The Borderlands," Multiple Identities, Syncretism, Hybridity, Mestize, Exoticization, Re-Inventing the Enemy's Language and the ever-popular Assimilation - just to name a few!

English 359: Literature by Women from 1800-Present (Lesley Wheeler)

French 343: La France à travers les siècles : Les femmes et la comédie (Radulescu)
This course will also be adapted to the needs of juniors and seniors who are eligible to take the seminar French 397 and, with individual departmental approval, it may be counted as such. In this course, we trace the creation of humor by female artists, comedians, writers, and comic female characters from the Renaissance to the 20th century focusing on theater in the tradition of the commedia dell’arte. We also trace the role of women in the creation of comic roles and of dramatic humor in both classical and modern comedy, exploring the contributions that women artists have brought to the development of Western theater and comedy in general. Students will become familiar with a variety of improvisational and dramatic techniques that produce laughter and that have been the creation of female artists. Ultimately, we try to understand the role of theater and comedy in the emancipation of women and the subversion of conventional gender roles throughout some of the most important periods in Western theater. During the week of February 26th to March 2nd, performance artist and theater activist Norma Bowles, Director of the LA based theater group Fringe Benefits, will visit and present a workshop on "Theater and Social Justice," using commedia dell’arte techniques as well as methods of the Lecoq French acting school. Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent or permission of the instructor. (GE3)

LATN 395: Ovid’s Heroides (Benefiel)
What would Dido have said to Aeneas after he abandoned her under cover of night, if she had the chance? What would Penelope have wanted to say to Odysseus, when all the other Greek husbands had returned from the Trojan War and she still waited for hers ten years later? The ancient poet, Ovid, who would later author the mythological epic Metamorphoses, pondered just these questions in his youth. In this course we examine the outcome of those ponderings: the Heroides, a collection of letters written in verse from mythological heroines to the men who abandoned them. We will explore these fascinating letters and discuss issues such as authorial voice, gender relations, and the reinterpretation of myth.