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Usual instructors: Dr. Andy Cling, Dr. Craig Hanks, Dr. Deborah Heikes, Dr. Brian Martine, Dr. Bill Wilkerson
The component of this course relevant to women's studies depends on the instructor. In Dr. Hanks' course, described here, the course is in three parts, all of which raise feminist issues. The first portion of the course focuses on three central texts from the history of ethical theory; feminist issues are raised during in-class discussion by both professor and student comments. The second portion of the course focuses on critical responses to the mainstream tradition in ethics (i.e., Marx, Nietsche, and Freud, as well as feminist rewritings of these critiques). The third portion of the course allows students to deal with issues of contemporary interest.
This may count as the elective in the Women's Studies minor.