First-Year Courses in Women's StudiesConsult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 1:01 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23)WOMENSTD 100. Gender and Women's Lives in U.S. Society.
Instructor(s): Jane Hassinger (jahass@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (2). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Offered mandatory credit/no credit. Credits: (2). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. An innovative introduction to contemporary women's issues. In this course, you will be an active member of an eleven-week small discussion group, led by one or two advanced student facilitators. Together, your group will explore and discuss a range of topics in an environment that we hope will be challenging, stimulating, open, supportive, and exciting. You will be learning about women's issues through reading, journal writing, discussion, and experimental exercises.
WOMENSTD 151. Social Science Seminars on Women and Gender.Section 001 — Gender and Literacy.Instructor(s): Deborah Keller-Cohen (dkc@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course explores the use of reading and writing to create and maintain social identities with an emphasis on gender, race, and class. Our investigation will extend across different cultures and through history, thinking about writing as technology as well as writing as art. To this end, we'll do research with a variety of materials including our historical collections at campus archives and museums as well as on-line book chats and real time book clubs. We will balance this with an exploration of illiteracy, who is illiterate here as well as abroad and how illiteracy has been addressed globally.
WOMENSTD 151. Social Science Seminars on Women and Gender.
Section 002 — Women's History/Women's Words. Meets with HISTORY 196.001 & AMCULT 102.001.Instructor(s): Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (csmithro@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 201. Gender and Careers.
Gendered LivesSection 001.Instructor(s): Sharon D Vaughters (sdvaught@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Gendered Lives). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The goal of this course is to explore the emerging and shifting role of women in the workplace from both historical and current perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on multicultural viewpoints and life experiences of women as they approach and influence the world of work. Discussing current issues including leadership, job search issues and strategies, career negotiation and decisions, networking, "the glass ceiling," sexism in the workplace, and images of women in work will enable students to increase their self-understanding and build skills necessary to effectively impact the world of work. The course will include discussion, guest speakers, films, readings (course pack), and Internet/library research.
WOMENSTD 220 / NURS 220. Perspectives in Women's Health.
Gender and HealthInstructor(s): Lisa Kane-low (kanelow@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender and Health). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course, we will examine women's health issues, across the lifespan, from feminist and sociocultural perspectives. It will explore the social construction of women's sexuality, reproductive options, health care alternatives, and risk for physical and mental illness. Attention will be paid to historical, economic and cultural factors, which influence the physical and psychological well being of women.
WOMENSTD 240 / AMCULT 240. Introduction to Women's Studies.
Instructor(s): Elizabeth R Wingrove (ewingrov@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Designed as an introduction to feminist scholarship about women, this interdisciplinary course acquaints students with key concepts and theoretical frameworks for analyzing women's experiences, and helps students hone both their ability to analyze arguments and to "read" gender in a variety of media. We will explore how women's lives differ and are interconnected over time and place, but will focus on the situations of women in the United States today. This exploration includes investigation of the effects of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and nationality on women's lives. Material is drawn from both the humanities and social sciences, and topics may include, for example: violence against women; women and work; body image; love and contract; women's health; and the family. The course does not merely provide analyses of women's oppression, however, but suggests strategies for ending that oppression. The course is structured around lectures, readings, and discussion sections. Students are expected to participate fully in discussion. The course grade is based upon written assignments, projects, exams, and participation in discussion.
WOMENSTD 253. Special Topics.
Section 001 — 20th Century Writings by Women of Color. [3 Credits].Instructor(s): Maria E Cotera (mcotera@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 7 credits. A maximum of seven credits of WOMENSTD 252 and 253 may be counted toward graduation. Laboratory fee may be required. Credits: (3-4). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee may be required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. For well over a century women of color have been writing themselves into U.S. history, continuously redefining their political, cultural, and social locations within the discourses of American identity. Their refusal to remain silent observers of "history" has resulted in a body of work — poems, essays, novels, and short stories — that helps us to understand the ways in which ethnic, racial, class, gender, and sexual differences shape our experiences. In this course, we will explore the narrative practices of Latinas, African American, Native American, and Asian-American women, paying special attention to the ways in which their writing has given voice to their differential locations within the discourses of American identity. We will also learn more about the cultural, linguistic, and familial traditions that have informed their approaches to feminism, antiracism, and oppositional thinking.
WOMENSTD 253. Special Topics.
Section 003 — Mass Media, Consumerism, & Health. [3 credits].Instructor(s): Alison Brzenchek (aokb@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3-4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 7 credits. A maximum of seven credits of WOMENSTD 252 and 253 may be counted toward graduation. Laboratory fee may be required. Credits: (3-4). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee may be required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Mass Media has a pervasive, omni-present influence in our lives. The images, sounds, and messages that we receive from the mass media are interwoven through our societal expectations; thus these messages on some level are always influencing what we believe or do not believe, what we value or do not value, inevitably they are a component of all the decisions we make. Additionally, it is not only what we see in the mass media that impacts societal expectations, what we do not see in the mass media sends strong messages about what is acceptable in our society. Network and cable news, radio, the Internet, newspapers, and magazines set the agendas for what we prioritize as a nation related to medical, social, political, and economic issues. That being said, if the news media does not deem an issue as news worthy or important, we are unlikely to hear about it in the mainstream media. The mass media has been called the fifth branch of government. The financial power and consolidated ownership in the current American Media Landscape lends itself to the potential for misuse of power. Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has state that, "The media's significance and clout comes from its near ubiquitous, pervasive power to completely alter the belief of every American." Mass Media, Consumerism & Health will provide students with a general understanding of the structure and history of the mass media. Additionally, students will learn about specific societal health problems that are influenced by how alcohol, drugs, sexuality, eating behaviors, body image, exercise, health, and violence are portrayed in the mass media. Finally, students will learn how they can use media literacy, activism, and advocacy to facilitate individual and societal change.
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