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Cat. No./Title	Instructor	Dates	Location	Days	Time	Cr	Class No.	Fee	Register
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WOST200 Twentieth Century Women Writers: A Feminist Perspective AR	P Stuelke	Feb 8 - May 3	W-1-047 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 047	F	2:30 - 5:30pm	3	4657		Course has been cancelled. For more information, contact 617 287 6200 or read more about our Cancellation Policy.
Description for WOST200: An intermediate-level course which examines the ways women writers in this century have dealt with some important themes of contemporary feminism. Novels, short stories, some analytical essays and autobiographies are used. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Arts Diversity: United States focus
[PR] AMST206 The Sixties HU	R Goff	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	4576	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for AMST206: The course focuses on protest and the role of youth. Who protested and why? Was the phenomenon of the sixties an aberration or part of a larger radical tradition in America? What was the impact on the seventies? Readings are drawn from the works of participants in the student, black, feminist and peace protest movements, from the intellectuals who defended and attacked them, and from the growing body of retrospective, analytic, and historical literature which attempts to explain what really happened in that tumultuous decade. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities Diversity: United States focus
[PR] AMST210 American Society and Culture, 1600-1860 HU	P Raub	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	3458	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for AMST210: Documents, diaries, letters, essays, fiction, and art, along with secondary historical and anthropological sources, are used to compare the dreams and realities of men’s and women’s lives in America from the first contact between European explorers and Native Americans up through the Age of Reform (1830-60). Topics include visions of landscape and nature; contrasting cultures of Indians and Anglo-Americans; family and "women’s place"; slavery; working class organization; and women’s rights. Prerequisite: ENGL 102. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities Diversity: United States focus
[PR] ENGL202 Six American Authors HU	Staff	Feb 7 - May 9	Copley	Th	6:00 - 9:00pm	3	4722	$1020	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for ENGL202: The achievements of American literature in articulating the American mind is illustrated by works from some well-known American writers-Thoreau, Dickinson, Faulkner, for example-as well as from those who deserve to be better known, such as William Wells Brown, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston. Prerequisite: English 101. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities Diversity: United States focus
PHIL108 Moral and Social Problems HU	J Cooper-Wiele	Feb 6 - May 8	Copley	W	6:00 - 9:00pm	3	1086	$1020	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for PHIL108: Important moral and social issues of current concern are examined and debated. The course covers several problems each semester from a list including criminal punishment, war, abortion, racism, violence, the death penalty, private property, sexism, animal rights, the environment, and hunger. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities Diversity: United States focus
PHIL108 Moral and Social Problems HU	M Gunning	Feb 9 - May 4	W-1-020 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 020	Sa	8:15 - 11:15am	3	1087		Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for PHIL108: Important moral and social issues of current concern are examined and debated. The course covers several problems each semester from a list including criminal punishment, war, abortion, racism, violence, the death penalty, private property, sexism, animal rights, the environment, and hunger. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Humanities Diversity: United States focus
[PR] CRMJUS321L Racial and Ethnic Relations SB	K Lischinsky	Feb 9 - May 4	W-1-005 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 005	Sa	8:15 - 11:15am	3	1014		Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for CRMJUS321L: An examination of racial and ethnic relations in contemporary society, including the history and sociology of the immigration experience, bilingual education, the nature and character of discrimination, neighborhood change, and racial and ethnic conflict. Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101. SOCIOL or PSYSOC or CRMJUS or ALCSUB students only. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity: United States focus Cross listed: SOCIOL 321L.
[PR] SOCIOL321L Racial and Ethnic Relations SB	K Lischinsky	Feb 6 - May 8	W-1-005 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 005	Sa	8:15 - 11:15am	3	1092		The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for SOCIOL321L: An examination of racial and ethnic relations in contemporary society, including the history and sociology of the immigration experience, bilingual education, the nature and character of discrimination, neighborhood change, and racial and ethnic conflict. Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity: United States focus Cross listed: CRMJUS 321L.
[PR] SOCIOL382 The Sociology of Gender SB	J Struzziery	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	2924	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for SOCIOL382: This course analyzes the sociological determinants and consequences of gender-that is, how societies assign specific expectations, advantages, and disadvantages to people on the basis of the biological fact of their sex. It examines the inequality between men and women that is a feature of the structure of many societies, as well as the social-psychological dimensions influencing individual behavior. Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity: United States focus
WOST100 Women and Society SB	K Allred	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	4048	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST100: This interdisciplinary course examines how gender interacts with social institutions such as the family, education, the media, organized religion, law and government, and how that interaction shapes human behavior. Students will learn to address controversial issues raised by the feminist movement, and to relate these to their own lived experiences in meaningful and productive ways. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity: United States focus
[PR] AMST301L Childhood in America	R Sieber	Feb 8 - May 3	W-1-010 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 010	F	2:30 - 5:30pm	3	3608		Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for AMST301L: An interdisciplinary treatment of conceptions and practices of child nature and nurture in the United States, viewed in the context of American culture and history. The course begins with an historical overview of child life in America, with special attention to Puritan New England, nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization, and twentieth century trends. In treating contemporary childhood, the course examines mainstream patterns of the middle and working classes, both rural and urban; African-American child and family life; Hispano-American child and family life; enculturation among selected American Indian groups; the importance of gender as a variable in childhood experience; and the growing importance of formal institutions-such as schools, youth organizations, and medical institutions-as environments for young people. Children’s own cultural constructions, in the form of games and folklore, are also considered. The course concludes with an examination of selected policy issues affecting children, such as child abuse, medical intervention, day care, and the Children’s Rights Movement. Prerequisite: a minimum of 30 credits or Permission of Instructor. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Diversity: United States focus Cross listed: ANTH 301L.
ANTH301L Childhood in America	R Sieber	Feb 8 - May 3	W-1-010 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 010	F	2:30 - 5:30pm	3	3609		Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for ANTH301L: An interdisciplinary treatment of conceptions and practices of child nature and nurture in the United States, viewed in the context of American culture and history. The course begins with an historical overview of child life in America, with special attention to Puritan New England, nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization, and twentieth century trends. In treating contemporary childhood, the course examines mainstream patterns of the middle and working classes, both rural and urban; African-American child and family life; Hispano-American child and family life; enculturation among selected American Indian groups; the importance of gender as a variable in childhood experience; and the growing importance of formal institutions-such as schools, youth organizations, and medical institutions-as environments for young people. Children’s own cultural constructions, in the form of games and folklore, are also considered. The course concludes with an examination of selected policy issues affecting children, such as child abuse, medical intervention, day care, and the Children’s Rights Movement. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Diversity: United States focus Cross listed: AMST 301L.
[PR] PSYCH234 Psychology of Cross-cultural Relations	S Dale	Feb 8 - May 3	W-1-010 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 010	F	6:00 - 9:00pm	3	3869		Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for PSYCH234: This course examines the nature and dynamics of inter-group relations within a multicultural context, studying relations among diverse cultures and racial groups in the United States and globally. The course looks at cross-cultural relations from an interdisciplinary perspective, discussing psychological and sociopolitical perspectives. Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or 101. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Diversity: United States focus
WOST240 Educating Women	L Benson	Feb 6 - May 8	Copley	W	6:00 - 9:00pm	3	5765	$1020	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST240: This course studies the lives and ideas of women in the U.S. who have been educators and activists in struggles for equality in, and transformation of, education. Central themes include how women learn; education as a means of self-realization and empowerment for women in different ethnic, race, and class contexts; how gender affects experience in educational institutions. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Diversity: United States focus