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Summer 2009

ARHS 3358: Underexposed: Women in the Visual Arts

Summer II M-F 11:00 - 12:50, M. Swindell
This class examines the various phases of feminist art practice and feminist art history, from work that seeks to redress the historical neglect of women artists to more modern theoretical studies of artistic institutions, career patterning, and the ideology of modernism. We will begin with a brief historical overview of women in the visual arts but will devote most of the semester to art and art criticism produced between 1850 and 1999.

ECO 4351: Labor Economics

Summer II M-F 4:00 - 5:50, E. Wheaton
Within the framework of various market theories, this course will explore wages, discrimination, effects of unions, unemployment rates, international labor migration and the changes wrought in recent years by the influx of women in the labor force, including subsequent effects on economic theory and policy.

ECO 5357: Economics of Human Resources

Summer II MW 6:00 - 8:50, E. Wheaton
The course examines the labor supply decisions of women and the affects of gender discrimination on the labor market. Gender pay differentials have been one outcome and the course will examine that problem and how to rectify it as well.

ENGL 3367/CF 3364: Ethical Implications of Children's Literature

Summer I M-F 10:00 - 11:50, M. Satz
This course will examine children’s literature from an ethical perspective, particularly notions of morality and evil with emphasis upon issues of colonialism, race, ethnicity, gender, and class.

ENGL 3379/CFA 3379: Literary And Cultural Contexts Of Disability: Gender, Care, And Justice

Summer I M-F 12:00 - 1:50, M. Satz
This course examines issues of disability from literary, cultural, and philosophical perspectives. It grapples with current debates in disability studies providing the student with a variety of contexts to examine them.

ENGL 3371/CF 3363: Joan of Arc: Her Story in History, Literature, and Film

Summer I MTuTh 6:00-9:00, B. Wheeler
This course considers the life and later reception of the extraordinary peasant girl, Joan of Arc (ca. 1412-30 May 1431), who in two years changed the course of European history before she was burned at the stake.

HIST 3301/CF 3317: Human Rights: America's Dilemma

Summer I MTW 6:30 - 9:30, R. Halperin
The study of human rights requires intellectual history and moral courage, for no society has been totally innocent of human rights abuses. This course will examine certain violations of human rights within their context, and will highlight crimes based upon race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and religion of both perpetrators and the victims.

NEW COURSE OFFERED IN TAOS SUMMER PROGRAM
HIST 4304: At the Crossroads: Gender and Sexuality in the Southwest

TAOS Summer I, D. Doyle
This course will examine New Mexico’s past and present through the lens of gender and sexual systems, conceived as separate but overlapping categories. Focusing on the lives of everyday people, it will explore New Mexico as a place where many different cultural and social traditions have come together over the last century. This is an honors course but is open to other students with the permission of the instructor.

RELI 3375/ CF 3343: The Feminine Divine: Wives, Mothers, Lovers, Queens

Summer I M-F 12:00 – 1:50, S. Frolov
A historical and cross-cultural overview of the relationship between feminine and religious cultural expressions through comparative examinations and analyses of various goddess figures in world religions.

SOCI 3351: Marriage and Family

Summer I M-F 12:00 - 1:50, A. Tan
The purpose of this course is to enhance understanding of the relationship between social structure and the family. We will use sociological theories and concepts to describe/explain the historical development of the family, variations in the American family, and current issues and changes affecting the family.

WS 2380/CFA 3303: Human Sexuality

Summer I M-F 10:00 - 11:50 & M-F 2:00 - 3:50, J. Caldwell-Ryan
This course explores the biosocial aspects of human sexuality and sex behaviors. A multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective will be used to address a wide range or theoretical and pragmatic social issues.