Summer 2024 Course Offerings
Register for Summer 2024 GWS and SJ Course Offerings
For more information on Summer 2024 Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) and Social Justice (SJ) course offerings, please contact Associate Director Dr. Chez Rumpf, Director of Undergraduate Studies Dr. Nadine Naber, Director of Graduate Studies Dr. Gayatri Reddy, or Undergraduate Advisor for Majors and Minors Hideaki Noguchi.
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Introduction to Middle East and Muslim Feminisms
Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) 255 CRN 23178, Anthropology (ANTH) 255 CRN 23188, Global Asian Studies (GLAS) 255 CRN 23187
Course Description: The course examines key themes in Middle East Feminisms, including how struggles around gender and sexuality are shaped in the context of history and politics, including racism, classism, nationalism, imperialism, and colonization. We will explore this thematic historically with a focus on the Arab region and Arab diasporas in the U.S. (Arab American communities). We will focus on how dominant political structures (states, global powers, etc.) target and portray women from the Middle East and LGBTQ people, as well as how these women and LGBTQ people portray themselves and actively resist and challenge domination/oppression. We will focus on their visions for freedom, liberation, feminism, radical justice, decoloniality, and queer justice.
Fulfills General Education Requirement: Exploring World Cultures (EWC)
Course Details: Online Asynchronous, May 13 through June 7, 2024
Instructor: Dr. Nadine Naber
3 credits (undergraduate course)
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Introduction to Social Justice: Stories and Struggles
Social Justice (SJ) 101, CRN 24595
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the study of social justice and social justice movements. We will examine both theoretical and activist approaches to social justice; issues of power, privilege, and freedom; intersecting systems of oppression; methods of resistance; and transformative visions of possibility. While most examples are from the United States, there will also be examples from South Africa, Mexico, Bolivia and Palestine/Israel. The course is organized around case studies, stories, and activist lives, and will include the themes of: racial justice (including Reparations) and allyship, indigenous rights, environmental justice, economic justice, prison abolitionism, LGBTQ rights, disability rights, and Black Queer Feminism.
Fulfills General Education Requirement: Understanding the Individual and Society (UIS)
Course Details:
Online Synchronous
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 9-11:55 a.m CST
May 13 through June 7, 2024
Instructor: Dr. Lynette Jackson
3 credits (undergraduate course)
Contact gwsinfo@uic.edu with questions or concerns