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If you are struggling with negative body image or troubling relationships to food or exercise, please remember that you are not alone. There are groups and services on campus and beyond that are there to help.
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Across Bradley’s campus, courses are offered that can help you build a critical knowledge base about the issues raised on our website. Here are just a few to consider:
ENG 190: Women and Literature
A focus on literature that represents a wide spectrum of cultural concerns for women in American and global societies.
PSY 300: Psychology of Women
Women and their behavior: influence of psychological, social, and biological factors. Prerequisite: PSY 104.
SOC 300: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Gender
Examines the construction of gender around the world, concentrating on the way gender shapes and is shaped by power relations in these societies.
SOC 315: Gender and Society
An examination of gender as a system of stratification, as a social construction, and as a system of meaning which changes trans-historically and differs cross-culturally. Focus on structural and interactional aspects of gender inequality, as well as the relationship between gender and other social hierarchies, including class, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or instructor consent.
WGS 200: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Provides students with an overview of the perspectives, debates, and scholarship within the interdisciplinary field of Women’s and Gender Studies. We will study the social construction of gender and feminist critiques of essentialism, the women’s movement since the nineteenth century, women and labor, manhood, body image and the media, women and sports, reproductive justice, violence against women, global activism for gender equality. WGS 200 emphasizes that gendered experiences are diverse due to differences in race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, age, etc., and helps students develop the ability to analyze gendered systems and read gender in texts and visual media. Approved for BCC credit.
WGS 300: Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies
Provides students with an opportunity to gain supervised work experience in campus, local, state, national, or international businesses, agencies, institutions, or organizations focusing on gender, sexuality, or women’s issues. Prerequisite: WGS 200; sophomore standing; and 2.5 GPA in WGS
WGS 400: Directed Research in Women’s and Gender Studies
Directed readings or research for a paper which analyzes, synthesizes, and interprets an area of women’s studies chosen by the student. Prerequisites: WGS 200; 9 hrs. of women’s studies elective courses; or consent of instructor.
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