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100. Women's Issues. Open to
all undergraduates. (2). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit.
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, to be determined within each group. Attendance is mandatory at
first meeting of class. (Hassinger)
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150. Humanities Seminars on Women and
Gender. (3). (HU).
Section 001 - Tomorrow Is a Another Day: Southern Women Writers and Cinema.
In this course we will read popular novels and plays by southern women writers,
including Gone With the Wind, The Little Foxes, To Kill a Mockingbird,
and The Color Purple, and examine their translation into cinema.
In addition to thinking about the ways these writers (and director) play
with dominant images of the South, we will read a series of slave narratives,
short stories, and southern histories that will complicate the historical
and aesthetic textures of the texts. We will excavate a series of powerful
themes (slavery, the South's depression economy, its New Deal conservatism
and optimism, the power of the Civil Rights Movement, and the mythologies
of the Mammy and southern belle) that drive these novels and movies and
create a newly gendered southern ethos. First-year students only. (Yaeger)
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151. Social Science Seminars on Women
and Gender. (3). (SS).
Section 001 - Court Narratives: Gender and Justice in the U.S. This
seminar will focus on a series of trials and other matters of law that illuminate
the history of women and gender relations in the United States. Beginning
with prosecutions involving slander, rape, infanticides, illicit sex, heresy,
and witchcraft in 17th-century British and Spanish colonies and ending with
20th-century legal battles over employment discrimination, reproductive
rights, sexual harassment, and surrogate mothering, our approach will be
to examine judicial proceedings as sites of competing "stores in the
law" told about gender, race, class, and ethnicity. A primary concern
will be how these stories have been narrated in and beyond the courtroom.
We will also ask what they tell us about continuities and changes in constructions
of womanhood and manhood, in the rights and responsibilities of citizenship,
and in the relations of power within families and among different groups
of men and women. First-year students only. (Karlsen)
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220/Nursing 220. Perspectives in Women's
Health. (3). (SS).
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. (Boyd)
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