NEW COURSE PROPOSAL

Originator

Nandini Bhattacharya x2233 mailto:nbhatta@utnet.utoledo.edu

College

Arts and Sciences

Department

WOMEN and GENDER STUDIES

Level

Undergraduate

Program Change

No

Type of Course

University Core: Non-Western Culture

Alpha Code

WGST 3470

Title

Women of South Asia: Culture, Politics, and Migration

Starting

Spring 2005

Enrollment

35

Cross-Lists/Levels

None

Hours

3

Delivery Mode

Seminar

Frequency

Spring, Summer, every year

Reg. >1/semester

No

Repeat for Credit

No

Grading

Normal Grading (A-F, PS/NC. PR, I)

Pre-/Co-requisites

None

Catalog Description

This course will look at South Asian women’s lives, cultures and histories. Journalistic, academic, legal and cinematic sources will help explore South Asian women and their diasporas. Non-western multicultural course.

Syllabus

See attached

Curriculum Fit

This course satisfies the University General Education Core curriculum for non-western multicultural and humanities requirement. It may be used as an elective to satisfy the U.S. diversity Multi-cultural Core requirement.

University Core

A) It looks at a significant non-western culture from multiple social and political perspectives, with special attention to questions of cultural difference with particular focus on women’s and gender issues.

B) This course is intended to fulfill intellectual competencies of inquiry, communication, historical consciousness, and social awareness.

C) The course looks at women in South Asia and their history, culture, political status and migration in a longitudinal perspective as well as with attention to contemporary social and political issues.  It also encourages outreach, fieldwork and communication with the Diaspora community.