100. Women's Issues. Open to all undergraduates. (2). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit.
In this introduction to contemporary women's issues, students
meet in a small discussion group. In each group, students develop
norms which enable collaborative learning about a range of topics
including: images of women, gender role socialization; violence
against women; race and ethnicity; sexuality; women's health;
and movements for social change. Attendance is mandatory at first
meeting of class. (Frasier)
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150. Humanities Seminars
on Women and Gender. (3). (HU).
Section 004 – Multicultural Women Writers and Narratives of Education.
This seminar will consider fiction and autobiographical writing
by women from around the globe-for instance, from Zimbabwe, Australia, the Caribbean Islands, and the United States. Each text will offer
a narrative of education, allowing us to examine the ways in which these texts explore the processes of identity formation and deformation
as well as the process of becoming educated within formal institutions
and through counter-memory and alternative knowledge. We will
be posing questions about gendering of education; the relationship
of bodies to educational regimes; and the ways in which narratives
of education represent the crossing of all kinds of borders. First
year students only. Cost:2
WL:1 (Smith)
Section 005 – History and Legacy of the Salem Witchcraft
Trials. For Fall Term, 1997, this section is offered jointly
with History 197.006. (DuPuis)
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211/Hist. of Art 211. Gender and Popular Culture. (4). (HU).
See History of Art 211.
(Simons)
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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 socio-cultural perspectives. We
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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240/Amer. Cult. 240. Introduction to Women's Studies. Open to all undergraduates. (4). (HU). (This course meets the Race and Ethnicity Requirement).
Designed as an introduction to the new feminist scholarship
on women, this is an interdisciplinary course which 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. The course will not only provide students with
an analysis of women's oppression, but will suggest strategies
for ending sexual inequality.
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250/Religion 250/Budd. Studies 252. Religion and Culture: Feminine and Masculine Images of Religious Experience. (3). (HU).
See Religion 250. (Gómez)
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253. Special Topics. (3).
(Excl). A maximum of seven credits of WS 252 and 253 may be counted
toward graduation.
Section 001 – Borderlands: The Textual Intersection of Nation, Race, and Gender. In this class, we will analyze the borderlands
as a physical, ideological, and geographical construct. We will
examine the intersection of nation, race, and gender in the construction
of the borderlands from early 20th century cosmopolitanism through
late 20th century borderlands theory. With an emphasis on the
visual representations and texts of Latina and African-American
women artists and writers, we will consider the relationship between the mapping of the U.S. and the presentation of white, immigrant, and minority women in U.S. art and literature. (Doherty)
Section 002 – Women in Talmudic Law and Lore. For
Fall Term, 1997, this section is offered jointly with Hebrew
and Jewish Cultural Studies 291.001. (Steinfeld)
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270. Women and the Law. (3). (SS).
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 have been 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.
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315/English 315. Women and Literature. (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
See English 315.
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342. Gender and Society:
Hierarchies in Social Organization. WS 240. (3).
(Excl).
Section 001 – Women & Technology: The Case for Aviation.
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to women and technology by considering the particular case of women and flying, specifically between the two world wars. It will focus on the
regendering of the male aviator as female aviatrix and the regendering
of aviation from a military activity to a commercial industry.
The class will include an extended unit on Amelia Earhart in order
to examine her status as icon, but we will also examine other
women flyers by relying on their memoirs and other materials.
The faith that a newly developed technology would restructure
society by relocating it into the "air" provides important
parallels to current conceptions of "cyberspace." Satisfies the interdisciplinary requirement for the Women's Studies Concentration.
(Herrmann)
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346. African-American Women in Context. WS 240. (3). (SS).
In this course we explore central themes in African American
women's lives. The course is divided into three major sections.
Section I "A View from Within" explores the narratives
of African-American women from the nineteenth century to present.
Section II "Women's Connections" explores central sites
of connections (family, community, church) for African-American
women. Section III "A Womanist View" explores the notion
of a "womanist" consciousness and the contours of black
feminist thought. Although we will explore common threads that
connect African-American women over time, these commonalties will
be viewed within the context of diversity among African-American
women. Satisfies the interdisciplinary requirement for the Women's
Studies Concentration. (Hunter)
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347. Feminist Perspective
on Lesbian Studies. WS 240. (3). (Excl).
Section 001 – Crossing Erotic Boundaries: Representations of Lesbianism
in Early Modern Western Europe. We will examine the varieties
of representations of women who desired other women in Western
Europe from the 15th-17th centuries. Focusing on England and Italy, with forays into France, Germany, Spain and Holland, we will read
early modern texts (poems, drama, opera, mythology, paintings, domestic artifacts, pornography, and medical writing), as well
as contemporary theorizing about lesbianism. Charting continuities
and discontinuities between early modern conceptions and twentieth
century ones, we will investigate the extent to which a coherent
history of lesbianism exists. (Meets the interdisciplinary requirement
for the Women's Studies concentration). Genders, Bodies, Borders
Theme Semester course. WL:1
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350. Women and the Community. WS 240; and permission of instructor. (4). (Excl). (EXPERIENTIAL).
Provides undergraduates with the opportunity to integrate fieldwork experience with classroom discussion of organizational structure and decision-making.
357/Class. Civ. 357. Greek Medical Writers in English Translation. (3). (Excl).
See Classical Civilization
357. (Hanson)
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361/Film-Video 361. Women and Film. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($45) required.
See Film/Video 361. (Studlar)
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362/Hist. 362. Women, Men and Nations: How Is Nationalism Gendered? (3). (Excl).
See History 362. (Eley)
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370/Hist. 370. Women in American History to 1870. (3). (Excl).
See History 370. (DuPuis)
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385. Directed Reading. WS 100 or 240, one 300-level Women's Studies course, and permission of instructor. (1-3). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT).
This course offers students an opportunity to pursue independent, interdisciplinary reading projects on subjects related to women.
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386. Directed Reading. WS 385. (1-3). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT).
This course offers students an opportunity to pursue independent, interdisciplinary reading projects on subjects related to women.
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387. Directed Reading. WS 386. (1-3). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT).
This course offers students an opportunity to pursue independent, interdisciplinary reading projects on subjects related to women.
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419/Psych. 411. Gender and Group Process in a Multicultural Context. One course in women's studies or psychology. (3). (SS).
Provides an introduction to theories of group dynamics that
illuminate stages of group development and productivity. It will
include teaching and practice of group facilitation skills. The
course will combine theoretical presentation with an experiential
learning model. Special attention will be given throughout the
course to the influence and manifestation of gender, ethnic, and race dynamics as they shape events, conflict, and communication
in various group formats. Note: This is the prerequisite course
to Group Facilitation in Women's Studies (WS 420). (Tirado)
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420. Group Facilitation in Women's Studies. WS 419 and permission of instructor. (3). (Excl).
A seminar for facilitators of small group discussion on women's
issues. Provides training in group process skills and an opportunity
to explore women's issues. Students participate actively in planning
and facilitating this seminar, as well as gaining additional group
experience in support and task-oriented committees. (Hassinger)
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422/Poli. Sci. 422. Feminist Political Theory. Junior standing. (3). (Excl).
See Political Science 422.
(Wingrove)
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441. Honors Research Tutorial. WS 240, and junior Women's Studies concentrators. (1). (Excl). (TUTORIAL).
Students work closely with a faculty member to develop a short thesis prospectus and the skills necessary to carry out thesis
research.
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447/Soc. 447. Gender Roles and Status. (3). (SS).
See Sociology 447. (Martin)
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455/Anthro. 455. Feminist Theory and Gender Studies in Anthropology. Junior standing. (3). (Excl).
See Anthropology 455.
(Skurski)
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483. Special Topics. WS
240. (3). (Excl). Degree credit is granted for a combined total
of 7 credits elected through WS 480, 481, 482, 483, and 484.
Section 001 – Women in Prison: Gender and Crime Among Blacks
and Latinas. For Fall Term, 1997, this section is offered
jointly with American Culture
410.002. (Jose-Kampfner)
Section 003 – Self-Narrations through Words and Photographs: Looking at Constructions of the Self from a Feminist Perspective. In this course students will use artistic photography, as well as creative and scholarly writing, to investigate self narration and self construction. In visual and verbal self-narratives students will explore the roles of gender, the body, and the individual's relationship to collectivities (the family, the nation, and ancestry from other nations). We will draw on autobiography, fiction, psychology, anthropology, art history, sociology, history and feminist theory to advance the creative and scholarly work of the course, and to facilitate critical discussion. (Leonard and Stewart)
S ection 004 – Sappho and the Lyric Tradition. For Fall Term, 1997, this section is offered jointly with Comparative Literature 434.001. (Prins)
Section 005 – The Fashioning of Women. For Fall Term, 1997, this section is offered jointly with REES 405.001. (Vainshtein)
Section 006 – Gender, Travel, and Transgression in 18th-Century Literature. For Fall Term, 1997, this section is offered jointly with English
417.005. (Porter)
Section 007 – Literature, History, and Culture of Early Modern
France. Taught in French. French 232, and 8 credits in courses
numbered between French 250 and 299. For Fall Term, 1997, this section is offered jointly with French
367.001. (Stanton)
Section 008 – Gender in Caribbean Society. For Fall
Term, 1997, this section is offered jointly with CAAS
358.002. (Green)
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486/Phil. 486. Topics in Feminist Philosophy. Two courses in either Philosophy or Women's Studies. (3). (Excl).
See Philosophy 486. (Haslanger)
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490. Honors Thesis. Senior Honors Women's Studies concentrators. (2-4). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). Credit is granted for a combined total of 6 credits of WS 490 and 491.
Women's Studies 490 and 491 should be elected during the senior
year by students writing Honors theses. Students may elect between
2 and 6 credit hours over the course of the academic year.
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491. Honors Thesis. Senior Honors Women's Studies concentrators. (2-4). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). Credit is granted for a combined total of 6 credits of WS 490 and 491.
Women's Studies 490 and 491 should be elected during the senior
year by students writing Honors theses. Students may elect between
2 and 6 credit hours over the course of the academic year.
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492/Soc. 490/REES 490. Women and Islam: A Sociological Perspective. (3). (Excl).
See Sociology 490. (Goçek)
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The Program in Women's Studies offers several options for independent study/directed reading.
Directed Reading. Women's Studies 385, 386, 387 (1-3). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT).
Offer advanced Women's Studies students an opportunity to purpose independent, interdisciplinary projects.
385 has prerequisites of Women's Studies 100 or 240, one 300-level Women's Studies course, and permission of instructor. 386 has prerequisite of Women's Studies 385. 387 has prerequisite of Women's Studies 386.
441. Honors Research Tutorial. (1). (Excl). (TUTORIAL).
Prerequisite: Women's Studies 240. Prepares second term junior Women's Studies concentrators to write an Honors thesis. Students choose a thesis topic before beginning this tutorial. They then work independently with an appropriate faculty member to develop the research skills specific to their topics (e.g., analytic, library, or computer skills). By the end of the term students should have a well-defined research design and the skills to carry it out. Requirement: a short written thesis prospectus.
490 and 491. Honors Thesis. (2-4). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT).
Prerequisite: Senior Honors Women's Studies concentrators. Provides Women's Studies Honors concentrators an opportunity for independent study under close supervision from their faculty advisor while preparing an Honors thesis.
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