RATIONALE:
Minor changes were made to the list of courses students can choose from in order to fulfill the final course requirement in our minor. These changes reflect the ongoing transition to the new Integrative Studies Program. One of these changes to our minor program is the addition of the new ISP course IIWS 300 Women of Color. All other changes to our minor program merely reflect changes that have already been made to courses that have been revised for inclusion in the Integrative Studies Program (see the list of those changes below).
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Women’s Studies Minor
II WS 300 Women of Color
RATIONALE:
Versions of this course have been offered by this program on an experimental basis a number of times. Students have shown significant interest in the topic. Last semester graduating students in the WS Capstone course and current students enrolled in the WS minor collectively requested that we add this course to our offerings on a permanent basis. There is a critical need for our students as citizens to have a better knowledge of women’s lives and experiences across ethnicities and cross-culturally. This course will help the Women’s Studies program to make progress towards a more responsive and inclusive curriculum. This course also meets the Integrative Studies Program’s needs for upper level ISP courses.
IIHGS 254/IIWS 254 Women in the Holocaust
RATIONALE:
The course and prefix are being changed for the proposed major in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and to conform to ISP Interdisciplinary Outcomes. It will then be cross-listed as IIWS 254, applicable to the Women’s Studies Minor. The title is being changed (Women in, not and, the Holocaust) to underscore women’s involvement in the Holocaust.
II 310 Love and Existentialism
To model for students interdisciplinary inquiry by taking advantage of the faculty’s complementary interests in the writings of Beauvoir and Sartre, with the expectation that students will be able to pursue their own interdisciplinary interests in this area. The materials in this course will be drawn from a number of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields of study (including history, literature, philosophy, and women’s studies) and will explore the ethical issues implicit in the existential analysis of romantic love as found in the writings of Beauvoir and Sartre.