Upcoming Fall 2024
CRIJ/SOCI 3382 - Women and Criminal Justice
Instructor: Dawn Marie Jordan
Online course
Evolution and impact of women's participation in the justice system as victims, offenders, and professionals. An emphasis on critical thinking teaches students to look beyond media hype concerning female offenders to study the real stories behind women affected by and working in the justice system.
ENGL 3350 - Bible as Literature
Instructor: Eric Meljac
Online course
The course goal will not be that of spiritual formation or exploration, but rather to examine the cultural importance of biblical texts in a literary context. We will focus on the Bible as a collection of different genres—poetic, historical, mythological, biographical, prophetic—and as a major influence on other artistic works in the Western world and the way gendered depictions stem from, uphold, and challenge Biblical texts.
ENGL 6331 – Graduate Seminar on Virginia Woolf
Instructor: Eric Meljac
Online course
This seminar will explore the works of Woolf that depict the lives of female characters in the early twentieth-century within the historical context of “The Woman Question” in England and Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist writings in France.
HNRS 2373/3373 - Gaia Theory
Instructors: Alex Hunt (English) and Erik Crosman (Environmental Science)
This course will focus on considerations of Gaia, the feminine earth, as they play out in Greek mythology, Green Literature, and Ecological Theory.
SOCI 1301 - Intro to Sociology
Instructor: Nicole Kraus
Fundamental concepts of sociology and introduction to analysis of social problems in both collective and individual aspects, with one focal theme being gender and identity.
SOCI 4321-70 - Race & Ethnicity
Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Kunz
Online Course
This course explores race and ethnicity from a sociological perspective. It examines different racial and ethnic groups focusing on social class, religion and gender in historical and present context.
Spring 2024
ARTS 4370 - History of Photography
Instructor: Amy Von Lintel
MW 1:00-2:15
This course explores the history and theory of photography as a medium and practice. One focal theme will be how photography has shaped and responded to issues of gender and identity.
CRIJ/SOCI 3382 - Women and Criminal Justice
Instructor: Dawn Marie Jordan
Online course
Evolution and impact of women's participation in the justice system as victims, offenders, and professionals. An emphasis on critical thinking teaches students to look beyond media hype concerning female offenders to study the real stories behind women affected by and working in the justice system.
CRIJ/SOCI 4392-71 - Human Trafficking
Instructor: Dawn Marie Jordan
Online course
Understanding human trafficking of men, women, and children being used for labor, sex, and debt bondage. Includes investigation, awareness, and prevention.
ENGL 4366 - Post Colonial Literature
Instructor: Bonnie Roos
TTh 9:30-10:45
This course focuses on Central and South American stories and history, with particular attention to the interrelationships between gender and nation.
SOCI 1301-02/1301-71 - Intro to Sociology
Instructor: Nicole Kraus
TTh 11:00-12:15 OR Online
Fundamental concepts of sociology and introduction to analysis of social problems in both collective and individual aspects, with one focal theme being gender and identity.
SOCI 4321-70 - Race & Ethnicity
Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Kunz
Online Course
This course explores race and ethnicity from a sociological perspective. It examines different racial and ethnic groups focusing on social class, religion and gender in historical and present context.
SOCI 4351 - Sociology of Religion
Instructor: Nicole Kraus
T 2:30-5:10
Nature of religious movements and the role of religion in society, including an exploration of religion and gender.
