GAWS 233 - Gender, Social Change and Social Movements

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 SS, CD, WR

This course explores theoretical and practical debates about social change, resistance and social reproduction, with particular focus on gender as an intersecting identity and location. Course material devotes substantial empirical attention to these issues in the Middle East and North Africa, including Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine. An important component of the course is an individually completed research paper based on analysis of the web-based documents of a contemporary social movement. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Instructor: F. Hasso
Prerequisites & Notes

Prerequisite: GAWS 100, introductory course in Sociology or Politics, or consent of instructor. Identical to SOCI 233.

Notes: Priority given to Gender and Women’s Studies majors.

Closed to first-year students.

This course fulfills the feminist theory requirement for GAWS majors