Course Notes: What makes a person creative? What do artists think about their art? How do critics evaluate a work? If art is created for a cultural ritual or healing, is it to be understood differently? How do the circumstances of a work¿s creation and reception influence its evaluation? How do a person¿s class, ethnicity, or gender influence the artwork and its reception? Philosophers in the field of Aesthetics attempt to answer questions which artists, art historians, anthropologists, and critics ask about art. The works of art and philosophy considered will be drawn from a wide variety of cultural contexts.

Course Notes: This course outlines dominant and alternative theoretical approaches to conceptualizing justice in response to individual and group harms. Using intersectional feminism and critical race theory as guiding frameworks, the course explores multiple historical and contemporary issues related to criminal justice. Intervention strategies grounded in feminist, restorative, and transformative approaches are considered as possible responses to current issues at the intersections of race, gender, and criminal justice.

Course Notes: Gender, Race, and Health: This course uses an interdisciplinary but primarily sociological approach to examine the ways in which gender and race intersect with health. We will investigate gender and racial differences in stress, how gender roles influence health seeking behavior and access for different racial groups, and how experiences of health and illness can differ based on gender, culture, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Students will examine both gender and race as social determinants of health and mental health outcomes as well as compare and contrast the ways in which different cultural constructions of gender and race can affect the health and illness of a community and society.

Course Notes: This course will investigate sex/gender and sexuality as analytic categories for understanding culture. Through a consideration of both history and theory, the course will explore different models for understanding sex/gender and sexuality, including their interaction with other categories of difference such as race and class. It will also explore the effect of these models on our understanding of the literature, mass culture, theories of identity, and contemporary social life. Prerequisite: ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent.

Course Notes: What does sex and gender have to do with education and schooling? What are the beliefs, facts, and myths that have influenced the schooling of boys and girls over time and today, both in the U.S. and comparatively across the world? Interdisciplinary topics include the structure and function of the institution of pre K-16 education, the socialization of gender in schooling, and the gendered nature of school climate, curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices, and the laws, interventions, and strategies attempted to remedy inequalities. Prerequisite: SBS 210 (or other comparable critical thinking class).