Announcements
Looking for a new, enlightening class to take this summer?
Sign up now for Women’s Spiritual Voices!
K. Julyan, Mon–Thurs, 9:15 am–11:35 am WMST/PHIL 498-81 (4 credits)
This class is being offered at the Riverpoint campus second summer session.
Encounter the sacred through diverse women's voices. Discover your own spiritual voice by encountering women of different traditions in story (fiction and film), scholarship, meditation, and ritual. A focus is also given to understanding various womanist epistemological methods including art, storytelling, intuition, body knowing, meditation, and care.
Check out our other NEW Women's & Gender Studies classes we are offering this summer for the first session!
Care & Custody of Female Offenders
K. Islam-Zwart, Mon–Thurs, 9:15 am–11:35 am, CHENEY CAMPUS, WMST/PSYC 496-77 (4 credits)
This course examines the various life experiences and events that impact female offenders and our custody and are of them. There will be discussion of the characteristics of female offenders; their problems that warrant special care and attention; and the programs and practices in place in institutions. Specific topics will include female sexual perpetrators, women who kill, and parenting behind bars.
Feminism & Pop Culture
M. Marinucci, Mon–Thurs, 1:00 pm–3:45 pm, CHENEY CAMPUS, WMST/PHIL 498-78 (5 credits)
What are the connections between gender and pop culture? This course critically examines the depiction of girls and women in popular media such as film, television, fiction, and music. Topics to be explored include the implications of established and emerging cultural trends by using perspectives from feminist theory and gender theory. The class will also consider the potential role of alternative media in promoting social change.
Book Drive
The H.O.M.E. program is running a book drive on campus to benefit literacy efforts in the United States. Please join in to help this great cause. PLEASE DONATE YOUR COLLEGE BOOKS to one of these locations (look for the big green box!): Outside of the bookstore, Monroe Hall 207, or Tree of Knowledge on 1st St. in Cheney
