Course Offerings by term

Surveys major issues concerning gender and the science of psychology in an attempt to answer the question: why is there such a gender gap when women and men share more psychological similarities than differences? Topics include: developmental processes and gender; gender roles and stereotypes, biology and gender; cross-cultural perspectives of gender; social-cultural theories of gender; language and gender, emotions and gender, health and gender.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
15:20
18:15
C-104

Interrogates the concepts of ‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ from a comparative, global perspective, drawing from multiple disciplines such as anthropology, ethnography, philosophy, sociology and history. Engages with questions of inequality, social justice and diversity as they are mapped onto gender and played out in institutional, political and socio-cultural power relations.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
C-103
Friday
13:45
15:05
C-103

Introduces the study of the moral conscience, repression, and the search for happiness. Examines Freud and Marcuse's theses concerning human sexuality and human rights in terms of antagonisms between, on the one hand, erotic preference, gender identity and aggression, and on the other, socialization, morality, and so-called civilized refinement.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
G-002
Friday
15:20
16:40
G-002

Topics vary each semester.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
16:55
19:50
C-101

Topics vary each semester.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
12:10
13:30
SD-1
Friday
12:10
13:30
SD-1

Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.


This course provides an introduction to world history from the early modern period to the late twentieth century. Students will attain a sound grasp of the world history approach through study of the political, economic, and social connections and networks generated within and among these societies.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
10:35
11:55
G-L22
Friday
10:35
11:55
G-L22

This course examines the major civilizational development of civilization in East Asia from prehistory to the end of the sixteenth century. We will examine the histories of China, Korea, Japan, with a focus primarily on China. You will also be asked to think comparatively, examining not only how the different countries and regions developed in East Asia, but also how East Asian developments compare with the “West.”


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
G-L22
Friday
13:45
15:05
G-L22

This course surveys major themes in the ancient (pre-Islamic) and medieval history of the Middle East. It is organized around two parts. The first surveys successive civilizations and empires that rose in the region or invaded and dominated it, from the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Hittites, the Phoenicians, the Persians, to the Greeks and the Romans/Byzantines. The birth of Judaism and Christianity is presented in this part. The Second covers the rise of Islam, its expansion and the Caliphate it established from the 7th to the late 13th century, when the Mongol seized Bagdad.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
16:55
18:15
G-009
Thursday
16:55
18:15
G-009