This course builds on GER 553, Methods of Teaching German. The course will address a range of educational issues beyond the teaching of foreign language skills as well as acquaint students with research methods in both a theoretical and practical manner.
This course is designed to provide students with an historical overview of the cultural diversity, creative and theoretical expression, and defining moments in the development of feminist thought up to 1975. Texts will include works, such as that of Hypatia, Christine De Pizan, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Mary Astell, that pre-date the term "feminist" but that are pioneering statements in the struggle for gender equality. "Thought" will include political manifestos, poetry, and short stories, as well as classic works of feminist theory and cultural criticism.
Intensive work in particular topics in gender and Women's studies. May be repeated four times with different subtitles.
European politics, society, and culture from the Age of Absolutism to the present. It is a continuation of HIS 104.
Presents the interactions of science and technology with the social and cultural development of Western civilization; the values in scientific inquiry as compared with other kinds of inquiry; the importance of science and technology in modifying social organization and human expectations. Emphasizes the period to the Industrial Revolution.
From the Roman period to the Stuart period. A general survey of the various epochs and phases of the English people at home and abroad.
A general survey of the chief periods of Kentucky's growth and development from 1750 to the present.
This course is a survey of the history of Africa from the onset of colonial rule in the 1880s to the present. Its main objective is to introduce students to some of the major socio-political and economic developments that made Africa what it is today. The course will explore themes such as the European conquest of Africa and Africans' responses, African nationalism and struggles for independence, as well as post- colonial African politics and economic (under)development.
African American history has many beginnings all over the Atlantic World in Europe, North and South America, and Africa. This course begins with by blending and connecting the histories of many continents then moves on to focus on the lives of Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and African Americans in what became the Untied States of America.
In this course, we will consider the ways sex and gender have shaped U. S. history from the colonial period until now. Because gender roles and sexuality are socially constructed, they change over time. We will track these shifts. We will spend much of our time investigating the creative ways women have negotiated political, social, and economic constraints imposed by rigid gender roles, but we will also scrutinize the ways men are similarly empowered and limited by expectations to be masculine.
