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Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe — HIS4104.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern
Society Culture and Thought

Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe — HIS4104.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is a witch?  Who is a witch?  And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft?  In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion?   In
Society Culture and Thought

Witchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern
Society Culture and Thought

Witchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern
Society Culture and Thought

Witchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern
Society Culture and Thought

Women Human Mobility — APA2213.04

Spring 2025
Instructor: Andrea Galindo
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 1

Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 281 million

CAPA

Women and Enlightenment — HIS4123.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
The Enlightenment might be considered one of the most enduring revolutions in Europe. The invention of empirical science, new philosophies, and the secular discourse of the various Enlightenments (French, Scottish, English, and German) created the intellectual platform on which we are still standing today. It was also a movement in which women were visible and prominent –
Society Culture and Thought

Women and Enlightenment — HIS4123.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
The Enlightenment might be considered one of the most enduring revolutions in Europe. The invention of empirical science, new philosophies, and secular discourse of the various Enlightenments (French, Scottish, English, and German) created the intellectual platform on which we are still standing today. It was also a movement in which women were visible and prominent –
Society Culture and Thought

Women and Enlightenment — HIS4123.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Carol Pal
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

The Enlightenment might be considered one of the most enduring revolutions in Europe. The invention of empirical science, new philosophies, and the secular discourse of the various Enlightenments (French, Scottish, English, and German) created the intellectual platform on which we are still standing today. It was also a movement in which women were visible and

History

Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East and North Africa — HIS4114.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 4
Religious beliefs and norms have traditionally played a significant role in determining the status of women in the family and their participation in the life of society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). But, considering the diverse religious landscape of MENA, what do we know about similarities and differences in women’s status across religious communities? What other
Society Culture and Thought

Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244 million migrants
CAPA

Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Andrea Galindo
Credits: 1
The course will provide a comprehensive understanding of the effect of human mobility on women; how women’s human rights are affected by States’ policies and practices; and what is their protection under international human rights law. Mobility is different for men and women, both in terms of the reasons why they migrate as well as the impact wile in transit and upon arrival to
CAPA

Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244 million migrants
CAPA

Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244 million migrants
CAPA

Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244
Advancement of Public Action

Women and Men: The Biology of the Sexes — BIO2203.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Credits: 4
What are the biological differences between men and women and how do they come about? Beyond the obvious reproductive differences, do other biological differences influence the behavior of women and men? For example, not only do women and men differ in various sex hormone levels, but their brains are influenced in different ways by those hormones. To what extent are the
Science and Mathematics

Women and Men: The Biology of the Sexes — BIO2203.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 4
What are the biological differences between men and women and how do they come about? Beyond the obvious reproductive differences, do other biological differences influence the behavior of women and men? For example, not only do women and men differ in various sex hormone levels, but their brains are influenced in different ways by those hormones. To what extent are the
Science and Mathematics

Women and Men: The Biology of the Sexes — BIO2203.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: elizabeth sherman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What are the biological differences between men and women and how do they come about? Beyond the obvious reproductive differences, do other biological differences influence the behavior of women and men? For example, not only do women and men differ in various sex hormone levels, but their brains are influenced in different ways by those hormones. To what extent are the
Science Mathematics and Computing

Women and Moving Image Arts — FV2106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
A look at women’s roles in the history of the moving image—as subject, object, maker, viewer, consumer, and critic. What influence has feminism had on how we make and watch moving images today? We’ll study typically female roles within the film industry and notable women who occupied them, as well women who broke barriers to penetrate traditionally male realms. We’ll look at
Visual Arts

Women and Moving Image Arts — FV2106.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
A look at women’s roles in the history of the moving image—as subject, object, maker, viewer, consumer, and critic. What influence has feminism had on how we make and watch moving images today? We’ll study typically female roles within the film industry and notable women who occupied them, as well women who broke barriers to penetrate traditionally male realms. We’ll look at
Visual Arts

Women and Photography (past and present) — PHO4204.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 4
This course will have two components: a historic and contemporary examination of how women have shaped the discipline of photography. We will initially look at, and study, how women have played an integral role in the practice of photography from its inception, and we will research how women’s achievements within the medium have been historicized. We will read first hand
Visual Arts

Women Composers — MHI2110.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This class will explore music by women composers, with a special emphasis on composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. We will become acquainted with music by Hildegard von Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, Germaine Tailleferre, Amy Beach, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Rebecca Clarke, Ruth Crawford, Galina Ustvolskaya, Sofia Gubaidulina, Vivian Fine, Betsy Jolas,
Music

Women Composers — MHI2110.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
This class will explore music by women composers, with a special emphasis on composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. We will become acquainted with music by Hildegard von Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, Germaine Tailleferre, Amy Beach, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Rebecca Clarke, Ruth Crawford, Galina Ustvolskaya, Sofia Gubaidulina, Vivian Fine, Betsy Jolas,
Music

Women Improvisers in Music — MUS2153.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
This course explores  women musicians whose works utilize improvisation.  The class will listen, watch film and read historical books and scores of women improvisers in music whose work are also based in composition, performance, installation and multi-disciplinary collaborations. The class will learn about artists and observe their music works across genres of Jazz,
Music