Diversity at Reed
Sample Course Offerings
A sample of past courses addressing gender and race:
The Arts
Race and Ethnicity: United States
- Music 362: History and Memory in African American Music
- Music 364: Blues: Forms, Styles, Meanings
- Theatre 270: Intercultural Experiments in Theatre
Race and Ethnicity: Beyond the United States
- Art 338: Jewish Art from Moses to Modernity
- Art 339: Images of the Jew in European History
- Music 263: Music of Caribbean
Gender
- Art 408: Spaces of Gender in Renaissance Italy
- Theatre 280: Gender and Theatre
History and Social Sciences
Race and Ethnicity: United States
- Anthropology 372: Indians and Northern Native Americans
- Anthropology 398: Race and Migration
- Economics 364: Economics of Population, Gender, and Race
- History 313: Race and Region in American History
- History 367: Early African American History
- Psychology 325: Stereotyping and Prejudice
- Sociology 242: Organizations, Stratification and Race
- Sociology 244: Race and Ethnicity
Race and Ethnicity: Beyond the United States
- Anthropology 339: Ethnicity and Nation in France and North Africa
- Anthropology 362: Gender and Ethnicity in China and Tibet
- History 326: Imperialism and Colonialism in East Asia
- History 381: Rebellion, Revolution and Independence in Latin America
Gender
- Anthropology 344: Sex and Gender
- History 372: US Women’s History, 1890-1990
- History 374: Gender and Sex
- Political Science 394: Sex, Gender and Political Theory
- Sociology 318: The Sociology of Gender
- Sociology 320: Feminisms: Comparative Perspectives on Women’s Activism
Related Courses
- Anthropology 361: The Middle East: Culture and Politics
- History 312: The Environmental History of the American West
- History 361: Mapping Colonial America
- History 386: Andean Civilization and Spanish Conquest
- Political Science 386: Politics of Minority Rights
- Political Science: American Dream as Ideology
- Psychology 385: Cultural Psychology
Literature and Humanities
Race and Ethnicity: United States
- English 301: Junior Seminar: Ralph Ellison
- English 341: Studies in Am Lit: The Borderlands in Imaginary Narrative Space
- English 341: Studies in Am Lit: Jewish American Literature
- English 356: Studies in African Am Lit: The Black Radical Tradition
- English 356: Studies in African Am Lit: The Art of the African Am Short Story
- Spanish 353: Chronicling America
Race and Ethnicity: Beyond the United States
- English 333: Studies in Fiction: The Raj and After: Fictions of English Literature
- French 363: Francophone Literature
- German 325: Modern German Jewish Writers: The Discontents Emancipation
- German 331: Discourse of Alterity
- Spanish 387: Essay, Race, and Nation in Latin America
- Religion 155: An Introduction to Islam
- Religion 321: Islamic Thought in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Gender
- English 242: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare’s Plays
- German 391: Studies in German Theory: Languages of Gender
Related Courses
- English 205: Introduction to Fiction: British Women Novelists since 1900
- English 330: Exploration and Travel Narratives: Self and Other
- German 358: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation
- German 340: Exile: Theoretical and Literary Configurations
- Russian 366: "The Literature of Destruction": Narratives of Apocalypse in Modern Jewish and Russian Literary Traditions
- Russian 389: Postcommunist Russian Literature, Film, and Society