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AWS 300 Feminist Research Applications
This course will teach you how to apply your academic Women’s Studies interests to professional life. Women’s Studies is an academic field deeply rooted in the Women’s Rights Movement—an activist movement. With an activist base, the field of Women’s Studies challenges and reveals the shortcomings and assumptions underlying other more traditional disciplines. While the field of Women’s Studies is an established academic discipline with its own theories, the ultimate aim of doing Women’s Studies work goes beyond the realm of the academic to foster real world social change.
This course will make you look at activism in a very different light and help you to see the myriad of ways you can change society. You will learn that activist work is not merely limited to canvassing and protests. This course will make you question what “activist” really means. During this semester, you will become a leader and organizer of a feminist forum on activism. You will meet and have open exchanges and exercises with some of Los Angeles’s most interesting non-profit professionals. You will hear stories about how others became activists themselves. You will learn and discuss the most pressing issues for service and advocacy organizations. You will learn how to improve your public speaking and leadership abilities. You will also gain some powerful tools that will assist you in making the transition from academic to real world Women’s Studies work.
AWS 301/ PP 455 Feminist Theory
The course provides an overview of feminist theory. It is divided into four general topics: (1) The role of women in traditional political thought and the emergence of modern feminist theories. (2) Considerations and contestations of identity. (3) Reexamination and a “rethinking” of basic political concepts and relationships and (4) global challenges.
AWS 396 Internship
The internship is the focus of the applied aspect of the Applied Women’s Studies Program. Students’ intern at an organization that will best utilize the skills and knowledge gained in the classroom.
AWS 398 Independent Study
Independent study allows you the chance for intense research and study with a faculty in the Claremont Colleges. Topics students have studied include"Reconstruction and Curriculum Development", " "Rhetoric and Gender Issues", " Women in Developing Countries" and more.
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