Looney toon liberal college courses

[renard_ruse]

"Women's studies" would definitely top the list of looney toon college classes...

WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES - TUFTS University Fall 2012

ANTH 149-19 Questioning Kinship: Sexuality & Gender in South Asia

ED 162 Class, Race & Gender in the History of U.S.

ED166 Masculinities in Urban Schooling

ENG 45 Non-Western Women Writers

ENG 81 Post Modernism & Film

ENG 123 Frankenstein's Sisters: Jane Austen & Mary Shelley

ENG 191-03 Black Feminist Theories

EXP 45-F Gender, Culture, and Human Rights

HST 93 Girlhood in the 1950's

HST 97 Men, Women and Patriarchy in the Middle East

HST 155 Women Gender, Family 1200-1800

HST 174 Women and Gender in Traditional China

PHIL 48 Feminist Philosophy

PS 188-03 Gender Issues in World Politics

SOC 030 Sex and Gender in Society

WS 73 Intro to Queer Studies

WS 99 Women's Studies Internship

WS 190 Doing Feminist Research

WS 193 Women’s Studies Senior Project

All that money parents and taxpayers put out for "higher education" and this is the non-sense its wasted on?

 

[rosco rathbone]

Women do exist, and make up roughly half the race.

If any history should be studied, why not theirs?

 

[RoryN]

Why are you concerned about courses you couldn't possibly pass, in schools you couldn't possibly attend?

 

[renard_ruse]

Taxpayer dollars at work:

Women’s Studies Fall 2012 Course Descriptions - University of New Hampshire

WS 401.1-5 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S STUDIES
Through discussion and writing we will introduce Women’s Studies and explore information in terms of your reactions and assessments within the theoretical and practical framework of feminism. Issues to be considered are gender socialization, violence against women, race and racism, attitudes toward feminism, sexuality, women’s work, trans issues, education, politics, health, economic and social discrimination & methods of empowerment, women’s relationships with other women, sexism in language, and other topics.
Fulfills Gen Ed. 7/Social Science (SS) Discovery Category and Inquiry and Writing Intensive Attributes

WS 405.1-2 GENDER, POWER, AND PRIVILEGE
This course is an introduction to diversity, oppression, and social justice in U.S. culture. We analyze the social construction of difference and the processes, institutions, and conditions that lead to power and privilege in modern U.S. society. Particular attention is given to identity, discrimination, oppression and efforts to combat bigotry and affect social change. We utilize a layered approach that takes multiple social groups into consideration, including race/ethnicity, class, religion, gender, sexual orientation, dis/ability, age, weight and appearance. Through directed readings, films, guest speakers, classroom exercises and discussion, this class examines the meaning of difference and the problem of systemic inequality. Students will become familiar with multiple categories of difference and will begin to develop critical analyses of these categories in their own lives and in the wider cultures which overlap in our contemporary world.
Fulfills Gen Ed. 8/Humanities (HUMA) Discovery Category

WS 444A (H) RACE MATTERS This course examines race categories in the United States and how these historically changing categories shape our diverse realities across racial, ethnic, gendered, classed, and national identities. Students examine race as a category of difference and explore the multiple ways that individuals claim racial identities. Specific attention focuses on how diverse women have made history in their own lives and in the lives of others by resisting the interlocking systems of oppression. Fulfills Gen Ed. 4/Historical Perspectives (HP) Discovery Category and Inquiry Attribute

WS 444B SCORE! GENDER & DIVERSITY IN SPORTS Utilizing guest lectures, films, readings, projects and discussion, this writing intensive course will provide first-year students with the opportunity to investigate the social, historic, economic, and political factors that shape sports opportunities for girls and women in the United States. Through hands on inquiry-based learning students will explore the extent to and manner in which sports are open and accessible to all. We will examine the ways that the dynamics of equity and opportunity at large play out in the sports world as well the way developments in sports affect larger socio-political spheres. In this light, students will examine the extent to which sports experiences are the same for all girls and women in their diversity, as well as comparable to males across their differences. As part of this exploration, we will explore gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity and ability as separate categories of difference, as well as central throughout the class as a whole. Fulfills Gen Ed. 7/Historical Perspectives (HP) Discovery Category and Inquiry and Writing Intensive Attributes

WS 505.01 FASHION THIS!
In this class we will be critically examining fashion and the fashion industry within historical and contemporary, local and global contexts. We will be investigating the effects of the dictates and business of fashion upon people's lives and delving into questions such as: how does fashion affect our understandings of gender, race and sexuality? What are the environments and working conditions from which garments are produced? What are the messages that we receive from the visual culture with which we interact constantly, such as advertising, film and television? How do these messages affect the ways in which we look at ourselves? How do we treat our bodies, how do we present ourselves to others and do how we perceive other people? This course is designed to give students the knowledge and skills to enable an engagement with the fashion industry
from an active, enquiring and critical position. To facilitate this, we will be working within an interdisciplinary framework, using a variety of written and visual texts. Fulfills Gen Ed. 4/Historical Perspectives (HP) Discovery Category and Inquiry Attribute

WS 505.02 SPIRITUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
“Many of us are happy in our luxuries, but few of us are truly at peace. Many of us have comfort but not consciousness…Everyone is asking the question: Are we going to make it? - From “Dear Great Grandchildren” by Marilyn Singer. Given our global crisis, can we work and hope for change? How can we become empowered eco-citizens? Learn alternative tools of transformation (including movement, drum, chanting, ritual). This course will include theory and praxis from indigenous earth-based peoples and cultures to explore community and action. This is a critical thinking, dialogue-based class using an eco-feminist (among others) analysis of power and gender. Prerequisite: Another Women’s Studies Designated Class
Fulfills Gen Ed. 4/Historical Perspectives (HP) Discovery Category and Inquiry Attribute

WS 798 RACE AND GENDER IN FILM
This course will explore representations of gender and race/ethnicity in (U.S.)American cinema and popular culture, using feminist film theory and theories of masculinity. Weekly readings will guide us in identifying the various stereotypes and subversive aspects depicted in cinema and popular culture. Topics include representations of the femme fatale and the hysteric male; the action hero and hyper-masculinity; the black female; race/ethnicity and hyper-sexuality; the crisis of masculinity; sexual orientation and gay sex; transsexual and transgender performance; the final girl in horror films. Writing Intensive. No weekly screening as in most film courses but examples from film clips will be screened and closely analyzed in class. Films discussed include Mahogany; Brokeback Mountain; Paris is Burning; White Heat; Friday the 13th; Alien; Sleepers; Deliverance; The Crying Game; Imitation of Life; Jackie Brown; Swingers; Jerry McGuire; Fight Club; American Psycho; Halloween; Shampoo; and various James Bond films. Required textbooks: 1) Feminist Film Theory, ed. Sue Thornham (NY: NYU Press, 1999).
2) Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture, ed. Peter Lehman (NY, London: Routledge, 2001).

 

[blobfish]

Colleges have all sorts of bullshit courses now. Some have classes that just watch and critique movies all day. How could that help your future? I do it anyway, and I don't have to pay $50,000 a year.

 

[RobDownSouth]

"Women's studies" would definitely top teh list of looney toon college classes...

...TUFTS University...

All that money parents and taxpayers put out for "higher education" and this is teh non-sense its wasted on?

Tufts is a public university now? Who knew?

Derp!

 

[renard_ruse]

OMG, this one is a gold mine of looney :

Latino Studies - University of Indiana Bloomington

LATS L396 S & H TOPICS IN LATINO STUDIES (3 CR)
VT: SEX AND THE BROWN BODY
22890 04:00P-05:15P TR BH 015 Rivera I
Above class meeets with GNDR-G 302
TOPIC : Sex and the Brown body: Latin@ Gender and Sexuality
COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
COLL (CASE) Diversity in U.S. credit

This course will focus around the complexities of gender, sex, and sexuality and their intersection with race in a U.S. context. We will utilize a wide variety of sources including histories, documentary films, popular media, fiction, and scientific research.
There are four objectives for the course:
1. Feminisms. We will be discussing feminisms in a historical context, highlighting a spectrum of feminisms in the U.S. including Western, Black, Latina (specifically Chicana) feminisms. For this we will survey a series of historical moments to explicate how and why these developed differently within the U.S.
2. Race and Gender. We will look at how the constructions of race and gender simultaneously develop under specific social, political and cultural conditions. For this we will analyze popular media sources to highlight not only the function of these tools, but also to understand their development under strenuous political conditions.
3. Sexuality. We will analyze the methods in which medical institutions, popular culture, and political institutions address sexual and reproductive bodies.
4. Queer theory will be integrated in just about every aspect of this course.

 

[RoryN]

Hey renard: did you know that Harvard was covertly co-funded by taxpayer money up through the 1950s?

Answer: no, you didn't. But I do - because I went to college.

 

[renard_ruse]

Tufts is a public university now? Who knew?

Nobody said it was, Einstein.

 

[renard_ruse]

This thread will be fun!

 

[1sickbastard]

"Women's studies" would definitely top the list of looney toon college classes...




All that money parents and taxpayers put out for "higher education" and this is the non-sense its wasted on?

And modern collage grads can't figure out why they can't find jobs....

I don't have any figures, but I'd be willing to bet those with engineering degrees are far more likely to find gainful employment and pay back there student loans than those with art appreciation degrees or degrees in gender studies.

 

[artemesia_g]

 

[RoryN]

And modern collage grads can't figure out why they can't find jobs....

There usually isn't much money in making collages.

 

[rosco rathbone]

This thread will be fun!

Oh, you're just winding "the libs" up. Carry on.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

that's how shit works

 

[LongPenStroke]

And modern collage grads can't figure out why they can't find jobs....

I don't have any figures, but I'd be willing to bet those with engineering degrees are far more likely to find gainful employment and pay back there student loans than those with art appreciation degrees or degrees in gender studies.

The girl across the street from me just graduated with a degree in women studies, and she had a job her first day of graduation. I have an MBA and a Masters in Economics from University of Chicago, and she probably makes more money than I do.

 

[Shagly]

Just think of the freebie grants students and colleges get from the democrats.

 

[LongPenStroke]

Just think of the freebie grants students and colleges get from the democrats.

The same amount they get from Republicans. People seem to forget that both parties are responsible for any failure or achievement. Democrats have never had a super majority, so Republicans had to help with passing any law regarding education.

 

[Shagly]

The same amount they get from Republicans. People seem to forget that both parties are responsible for any failure or achievement. Democrats have never had a super majority, so Republicans had to help with passing any law regarding education.

America needs more freebies, yet someone needs to pay for it.

 

[RjThoughts]

Just think of the freebie grants students and colleges get from the democrats.

And what's wrong with having TAP, Pell grant, regents scholarships? Oh, that's right, we're suppose to ask our dads for the money! Yeah, well, when I attended college out of high school, my father, a man who didn't attend college, was working 2 jobs so he could payoff his medical bills. My mother, who barely graduated high school, could barely pay her rent. So you live in that "alternate universe" the RNC and Mittens have created where EVERYONE'S dad has money to send them to small colleges, like BYU and Harvard.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Nobody said it was, Einstein.

Please explain to us then how teh taxpayers are footin' the bill?

And what's wrong with having TAP, Pell grant, regents scholarships? Oh, that's right, we're suppose to ask our dads for teh money! Yeah, well, when I attended college out of high school, my father, a man who didn't attend college, was working 2 jobs so he could payoff his medical bills. My mother, who barely graduated high school, could barely pay her rent. So you live in that "alternate universe" teh RNC and Mittens have created where EVERYONE'S dad has money to send them to small colleges, like BYU and Harvard.

Couldn't you just have sold some stock? That's what teh Romneys did, as painful as it was.

 

[RjThoughts]

Please explain to us then how teh taxpayers are footin' the bill?



Couldn't you just have sold some stock? That's what teh Romneys did, as painful as it was.

I should have thought of that. Wait, I didn't receive ANY stock until my great-uncles passed away, and by that time I was married and had a child.

 

[RjThoughts]

I wonder if the Repubs would be pissed if they knew I didn't do an unpaid intership for either my business or computer degrees. Well, it helped that I had returned to school after years of doing jobs in the hospitality and restaurant businesses, and the college used LIFE EXPERIENCE for the requirement.

We had an American History class which targeted ONLY the Capital Saratoga Region of upstate NY. I wonder if that's what considered too looney, or a Computer programming course which delved into the inner workings of baseball statistics using the C++ and Pascal languages.

 

[Shagly]

And what's wrong with having TAP, Pell grant, regents scholarships? Oh, that's right, we're suppose to ask our dads for the money! Yeah, well, when I attended college out of high school, my father, a man who didn't attend college, was working 2 jobs so he could payoff his medical bills. My mother, who barely graduated high school, could barely pay her rent. So you live in that "alternate universe" the RNC and Mittens have created where EVERYONE'S dad has money to send them to small colleges, like BYU and Harvard.

On that notion there is always bankruptcy court.

 

[RjThoughts]

On that notion there is always bankruptcy court.

Seriously, you have NO idea what parents these days have to do to get their children basic education, you and your kind in that alternate universe. If you and your ilk had their way, the only people at colleges would be up their asses in debt!! I never took out a student loan, thank GOD. I received TAP and Pell, I received some money from NY state through my high SAT scores, and I received some from my grandmother's tribe. I started in the Reagan years, when he CUT money to education so the military budget could grow. Yeah, we needed engineers and scientists to build the damn weapons he was paying for, but they couldn't go to school!!!