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Elisabeth Arruda

faculty

Elisabeth Arruda

she/her

Part Time Lecturer

Women's & Gender Studies

Contact

508-999-8310

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Balsam Hall 9175

Teaching

  • Gender and Social Justice
  • U.S. Women's History

Courses

Introduction to study in the disciplines of the College of Arts & Sciences. This course facilitates a successful transition to college life by engaging students in a structured curriculum of academic and life skills enhancement and encouraging the development of enduring relationships between students, faculty and advisors, and classmates.

Basic concepts and perspectives in Women's Studies, placing women's experience at the center of interpretation. With focus on women's history and contemporary issues, the course examines women's lives with emphasis on how gender interacts with race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. The central aim is to foster critical reading and thinking about women's lives: how the interlocking systems of oppression, colonialism, racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism shape women's lives; and how women have worked to resist these oppressions. This course satisfies a social science distribution requirement and the general education diversity requirement.

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Basic concepts and perspectives in Women's Studies, placing women's experience at the center of interpretation. With focus on women's history and contemporary issues, the course examines women's lives with emphasis on how gender interacts with race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. The central aim is to foster critical reading and thinking about women's lives: how the interlocking systems of oppression, colonialism, racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism shape women's lives; and how women have worked to resist these oppressions. This course satisfies a social science distribution requirement and the general education diversity requirement.

An introduction to questions about the status of race in diverse spheres of biomedical research today.  We will examine how contemporary biomedical research is impacted by racism and sexism and other systems of oppression.  We will approach race, gender, and sexuality as biosocial constructs, explore key debates about the relationship between biology and society and how  social inequalities become embodied.