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Cat. No./Title	Instructor	Dates	Location	Days	Time	Cr	Class No.	Fee	Register
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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
WOST110 Women in Global Perspectives SB	Staff	Feb 8 - May 3	W-1-020 Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 020	F	6:00 - 9:00pm	3	2923		Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST110: This interdisciplinary course explores multiple meanings of gender in a transnational world. Topics include: contradictory meanings of traditional femininity across cultures; global media representations of the female body, beauty, sexuality; impacts of colonialism, nationalism, patriarchy, and the global economy on women’s work and family lives; women’s rights as human rights; and local and transnational feminist activisms. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity: International focus
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
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
WOST260 Women’s Health Care	M Cordill	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	1099	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST260: This course focuses on women’s concerns in relation to health. Topics include health issues unique to women (such as birth control, pregnancy, childbearing); nutrition; occupational health; health and aging; women as health workers; and the history, activities, and influence of the women’s health movement. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3
WOST359L Women in Modern China WC	J Babbitts	Feb 4 - May 10	Online	-	-	3	2908	$1020	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST359L: This course examines the social and cultural roles of Chinese women, and their changes over time. Emphasis is given to twentieth-century China, especially the People’s Republic period. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution: World Cultures Diversity: International focus Cross listed: ASIAN 359L & HIST 359L.