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Current
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- Title IX: Seminar
- Description: Title IX of the Civil Rights Act
promises 'equal access to educational opportunities.' This seminar
considers how to translate this promise into meaningful actions by
educational institutions. How can universities change a culture in
which sexual assault is a foreseeable risk? Starting with a brief look
at the history of Title IX and its provisions on athletics, we consider
its less well-known, but equally important requirements for how schools
must address campus sexual assault. How might colleges fashion policies
to effectively prevent sexual assault? How should universities respond
to an allegation of sexual assault? How can educational institutions
best provide fairness to both sides in its adjudicatory procedures?
Readings include cases, articles, and decisions by the Office for Civil
Rights of the Department of Education
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- Theories of
Sexual Coercion
- Description: Where does interpersonal violence
come from? Is it learned? is it innate? Is it malleable? What are we to
make of the gendered difference in the use of violence? What does the
study of sexual violence in primates offer to our understanding of its
prevalence among humans? In this course, we will examine evolutionary
perspectives on male sexual coercion in primates and in humans to
search for insights into sexual violence among humans. The review of
this body of literature offers different analytical methods for
questioning the use of sexual violence in our society, helping us
identify new ways of preventing its occurrence.
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