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First-Year Courses in Women's StudiesThis page was created at 12:24 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in Women's Studies Wolverine Access Subject listing for WOMENSTD Fall Term '01Time Schedule for Women's Studies. WOMENSTD 100. Women's Issues.Section 001.Instructor(s): Jane Hassinger (jahass@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (2). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. Credits: (2). Course Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/wstudies100 This course uses small group discussion and development of supportive group norms to enable students to explore selected topics in women’s studies as they apply to their own lives and to contemporary social issues. The course work includes large and small group activities, theoretical presentations, regularly assigned readings, and written assignments. There is strong emphasis on developing analytic tools taking a critical stance with respect to one’s experience, to social issues, and to the assigned readings. Topics include: socialization, work, family, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and current movements for change. Small groups meet in different campus locations.
WOMENSTD 151. Social Science Seminars on Women and Gender.Section 001 – Gender & Global Capitalism.Instructor(s): Jayati LalPrerequisites & 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). First-Year Seminar, Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/womenstd/151/001.nsf This seminar will explore the trans/formations of genders in late twentieth-century capitalism around the globe. Feminists have questioned the theoretical and political usefulness of the term "patriarchy" for the project of transnational feminisms. One of our goals in this course will thus be to determine, based on the readings, the utility of this framework: does it obfuscate or clarify an apprehension of gender in different contexts? What forms of gendered spaces are being created and how are subjects being gendered by global capitalism in varied transnational locals? In examining case studies of "global" capitalism, we will look to the ways in which men and women are affected as producers and consumers as well as at how gender relations and constructions of femininity and masculinity are transfigured via new production and consumption processes. In other words, we will examine capitalism as an economic, political, ideological, and cultural phenomenon. Topics will include the commodification of work and leisure time, bodies, aesthetics, and sexuality; the internationalization of work processes; the globalization of circuits of production and consumption; the global relocation of multinational corporations; the collapse of the welfare state in post-socialist countries; and the rise of new market economies.
WOMENSTD 220 / NURS 220. Perspectives in Women's Health.Section 001.Instructor(s): Lisa Kane LowPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/womenstd/220/001.nsf 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 risks 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.Section 001.Instructor(s): Sidonie A Smith (sidsmith@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (R&E).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/womenstd/240/001.nsf Designed as an introduction to the new, feminist scholarship on women, this interdisciplinary course acquaints students with key concepts and theoretical frameworks to analyze women's condition. We will explore how women's status has changed over time, but we will concentrate on the situation of contemporary American women. Topics will include: violence against women, discrimination in the workplace, the feminization of poverty, and sexuality. Students will also examine how capitalism, racism, imperialism, and heterosexism affect women's lives. The course will not only provide students with an analysis of women's oppression, but will also suggest strategies for ending sexual inequality. The course is structured around weekly lectures, readings, films, and discussion sections. Students are encouraged to participate fully in discussion and to assume responsibility for sharing their knowledge and experience. The course grade is based upon written assignments, an examination, and participation in discussion.
WOMENSTD 243 / AMCULT 243. Introduction to Study of Latinas in the U.S.Section 001.Instructor(s): Maria E CoteraPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). (R&E).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/womenstd/243/001.nsf
WOMENSTD 253. Special Topics.
Section 001 – Men's Health.Instructor(s): Timothy R B Johnson (trbj@umich.edu) , Jonathan M MetzlPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). A maximum of seven credits of WS 252 and 253 may be counted toward graduation. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The course serves as an introduction to men’s health, taught through the perspective of gender studies. Theoretical approaches to the analysis of inequities and differences affected by gender, race, social class, and ethnicity will be central features of the course. The course will introduce and discuss the health/medical/cultural and cross cultural aspects of topics including cardiovascular disease (high blood pressure, ASCVD), arthrosclerosis, cancer (lung, colon, prostate), reproductive health (sexually transmitted disease, infertility, impotence), AIDS, popular culture and the representation of “masculinity”, mental health, addiction (alcohol, substance, tobacco), grief and emotion, rape and violence, carcinogenesis (tobacco-lung, human papilloma virus-lower genital track) and genetics of cancer and other diseases. These topics will be approached through case studies meant to illustrate how health/biomedical problems can also be understood as points of entry into broad cultural debates. The format will be lectures, with several guest speakers and small group discussions, supplemented by outside readings.
WOMENSTD 253. Special Topics.Section 004 – Asian Pacific American Women. Meets with American Culture 301.001Instructor(s): Emily P LawsinPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). A maximum of seven credits of WS 252 and 253 may be counted toward graduation. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 270. Women and the Law.Section 001.Instructor(s): Lisa Ann Kellmeyer , Tara Katherine McGrath , Bonnie Heather WalkerPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. "Women and the Law" covers selected topics in American constitutional and statutory law which have a special effect on women. The class focuses on ideals of sex equality and how they are incorporated into the American legal system. Topics usually covered include constitutional equality, employment discrimination, family law, rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, reproductive rights, pornography, and women in poverty. Required: midterm examination, 10-12 pages of writing, final examination, and class participation in discussion. Some understanding of the history of women of color in the United States is also strongly recommended.
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