Women, War and Peace

Undergraduate

This course examines the various and distinct ways in which women experience war and peace, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Topics include home fronts during wartime in both combat and non-combat zones, women's peace activism, displacement, war crimes against women, women in combat, and media coverage of women and war/peace across the 20th and 21st centuries. (Also offered as History HIST-3400.) (Prerequisite: POLS-2600 or one 2000-level Women's and Gender Studies or History course, or consent of the instructor.)