Next Semester's Courses

Anthropology 260: Conflicts in Eurasia: Globalization, New States, and Soviet Legacies (Goluboff) /* A major paper must be written on women's/gender issues.

This course addresses the following questions: How do people in Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus relate to new realities through common past socialist experiences and interactions with globalization, transnational movements, and the world market? We will apply perspectives from anthropology, literature, history, political science, sociology, geography, and economics to understand and attempt to solve current problems in Eurasia. Topics will include crime, nation-building, the emerging marketplace, poverty, health, gender, environment, and war. OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO WOMEN'S STUDIES CONCENTRATORS will be units on bride kidnapping in Central Asia, mail order/internet brides from Russia, women's NGOs, women's health issues, and the "crisis" of masculinity in Russia.

English 105G: Wicked Women (Brodie)

French 397/341: La femme et l'écriture au 18ème siècle (Kamara)

Philosophy 195: Philosophy of the Family (Bell, EF [TR])

This course considers philosophical issues raised by family as a social institution and as a legal institution. Topics addressed may include the social and personal purposes served by the institution of family, the nature of relationships between family members, the various forms that family can take, the scope of family privacy or autonomy, and how family obligations, mutual support and interdependency affect individual members of families.

Philosophy 395: African-American Philosophy (Jackson)

After an introduction to the subject (consisting of both classic and contemporary selections by authors such as Sojourner Truth, DuBois, King, Cornell West, bell hooks, and James Baldwin), we will move to an in-depth discussion of two central topics in African-American philosophy, namely, political thought and feminism. This investigation will be conducted through a close engagement with three contemporary texts: Inclusive Feminism: A Third Theory of Womens Commonality, by Naomi Zack; We Who are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity, by Tommie Shelby; and White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. While the course is open to all students, it is designed for those with some training in philosophy. In addition, the course should appeal to students in women's studies, politics, and history. (HU, GE 4)

Religion 132: God and Goddess in Hinduism (Lubin, CD [TR])