WGSS 405
Sr.Sem:Sexual Rights,Gender Equality, and Religious Liberty: Conflicts in Law, Culture, and Politics Spring 2016
Division II Writing Skills
Cross-listed HIST 458
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Legal systems, political leaders, religious groups, and social movements, have generated and responded to conflicts and perceived conflicts between religious freedom, gender equality, and sexual rights in a variety of ways over the past twenty-five years. This course will consider these conflicts in a comparative context, and will examine when, why, and how appeals to religion, tradition and/or culture have been used to carve out exceptions to otherwise generally applicable laws.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3828
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: 20-page research paper, which students will write after developing research proposal, composing annotated bibliography, and writing several drafts in close consultation with professor and in in-class workshops
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies majors and History majors
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
WGSS 405 Division II HIST 458 Division II
Attributes: HIST Group C Electives - Europe and Russia
HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada
JLST Interdepartmental Electives

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