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Winter Academic Term 2002 Course Guide

 


Women Who Ruled: Gender, Power, and Representation
Winter Academic Term 2002


Theme Semester Website


Sponsored by the Program in Women's Studies in collaboration with the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

This campus-wide effort will focus on gender, sexuality, race, political power, the media, or representations of these categories.

Public Presentations: Symposia. As part of the Theme Semester a number of public symposia will be held, involving UM faculty and visiting scholars. These will serve as resources for various courses connected with the Theme Semester.

Exhibitions and Displays. There will be exhibitions and displays around campus during the Theme Semester.

Artistic and Theatrical Performances on Campus. During the Theme Semester, various cultural activities, performances, and artistic exhibits will occur. There will also be a series of films.


Theme Semester Courses for Winter Academic Term 2002 - Gender, Power, and Representation

The following cluster of courses, offered in various departments and units, have been identified by the Women's Study Program as relating to the Theme Semester. They study broadly topics in gender, sexuality, race, political power, the media, or representations of these categories.

For more information, contact the Women's Studies Program


AAPTIS 592. Seminar in Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies.
Instructor(s): Marcia Inhorn

Section 001 — Gender and Health: Ethnographic Approaches. Meets with HBEHED 655.001, Women's Studies 698.005, and Anthropology 558.001.

AMCULT 103. First Year Seminar in American Studies.
Instructor(s): Sandra R Gunning

Section 001 — Race: American Culture Dialoge Behind & Idea.

AMCULT 103. First Year Seminar in American Studies.
Instructor(s): Hannah Rosen

Section 002 — Gender, Slavery, and Freedom. Meets with Women's Studies 150.001.

AMCULT 240 / WOMENSTD 240. Introduction to Women's Studies.
Instructor(s): Sidonie A Smith

Section 001

AMCULT 301. Topics in American Culture.
Instructor(s): Emily Lawsin

Section 001 — Feminist Practice of Oral History. Meets with Women's Studies 342.001. (3 credits).

AMCULT 309. Learning through Community Practice.
Instructor(s): Emily P Lawsin

Section 001 — Asian/Pacific American Leadership Development. (3 Credits).

AMCULT 310. Topics in Ethnic Studies.
Instructor(s): Christina Jose-Kampfner

Section 001 — Women in Prison. Meets with Women's Studies 483.003.

AMCULT 401. Race and Racialization in the Americas.
Instructor(s): Maria E Cotera

Section 001 — Ethnic Modernisms: Early 20th Century.

AMCULT 420 / SPANISH 420. Latin American & Latino/a Film Studies.
Instructor(s): Catherine L Benamou

Section 001 — Cultural Encounters in the New World.

AMCULT 490 / FILMVID 451. American Film Genres.
Instructor(s): Catherine L Benamou

Section 001

AMCULT 496. Social Science Approaches to American Culture.
Instructor(s): Phillip Akutsu

Section 001 — Asian American Psychology. (4 credits). Meets with Psychology 401.003

AMCULT 496. Social Science Approaches to American Culture.
Instructor(s): Matthew J Countryman

Section 004 — AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY. (4 Credits). Meets with History 397.001.

AMCULT 498. Humanities Approaches to American Culture.
Instructor(s): Carol Jacobsen

Section 001 — Feminist, Queer, and Oppositional Art. (3 credits). Meets with Art 454.006 and Women's Studies 483.009.

AMCULT 510. Topics in Ethnic Studies.
Instructor(s): Maria E Cotera

Section 001 — Refugees From A World on Fire: U.S.-Third World Feminist Methodologies. Meets with Women's Studies 698.001.

AMCULT 533 / CAAS 533 / HISTORY 572. Black Civil Rights from 1900.
Instructor(s): Kevin Gaines

Section 001 — The Origins of Black Studies

AMCULT 699. Periods in American Culture: Literary.
Instructor(s): Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Section 001 — Comparative Slavery in a Circum-Atlantic Perspective. Meets with Women's Studies 698.003, History 604.001, CAAS 558.001.

AMCULT 699. Periods in American Culture: Literary.
Instructor(s): Alan M Wald

Section 002 — Black Marxism: African American Radical Culture in the mid-20th Century. Meets with English 626.001.

AMCULT 699. Periods in American Culture: Literary.
Instructor(s): Hannah Rosen

Section 003 — Theories of Feminism. Meets with Women's Studies 530.001.

ANTHRBIO 362. Problems of Race.
Instructor(s): Charles L Brace

Section 001

ANTHRCUL 101. Introduction to Anthropology.
Instructor(s): Stuart A Kirsch

Section 001

ANTHRCUL 158. First Year Seminar in Cultural Anthropology.
Instructor(s): Lawrence A Hirschfeld

Section 001 — The Conceptual Politics of Race: Why People Think About Difference the Way They Do.

ANTHRCUL 222. The Comparative Study of Cultures.
Instructor(s): Julie A Skurski

Section 001

ANTHRCUL 298. Topics in Cultural Anthropology.
Instructor(s): Sharad Chari

Section 001 — Gender, Environment, and Poverty. Meets with RC Social Sciences 360.002.

ANTHRCUL 325. The Anthropology of Childbirth.
Instructor(s): Elisha P Renne

Section 001 — Meets with Women's Studies 253.003

ANTHRCUL 373. Articulating Gender: Women, Men, Speech.
Instructor(s): Alaina M Lemon

Section 001

ANTHRCUL 427 / CAAS 427 / WOMENSTD 427. African Women.
Instructor(s): Elisha P Renne

Section 001

ANTHRCUL 447. Culture, Racism, and Human Nature.
Instructor(s): Melvin D Williams

Section 001

ANTHRCUL 530. Oral History and Narrative Identity.
Instructor(s): Janet Carol Hart

Section 001

ANTHRCUL 553. Blurred Genres: Autobiography, Fiction & Ethnography.
Instructor(s): Ruth Behar

Section 001

ANTHRCUL 558. Current Issues in Ethnology.
Instructor(s): Marcia Inhorn

Section 001 — Gender and Health: Ethnographic Approaches. Meets with HBEHED 655.001, AAPTIS 592.001, and Women's Studies 698.005

ANTHRCUL 619 / LACS 619 / HISTORY 617. Proseminar on Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Instructor(s): Julie A Skurski, Javier C Sanjinés

Section 001 — MESTIZAJE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN LATIN AMERICA. Meets with Spanish 855.001.

BIOLOGY 118. AIDS and Other Health Crises.
Instructor(s): Robert A Bender

Section 001

CAAS 200(105). Introduction to African Studies.
Instructor(s): Yaw Twumasi

Section 001

CAAS 394. Junior Seminar.
Instructor(s): Yaw Twumasi

Section 001 — Social and Political Changes in African Literature.

CAAS 418 / POLSCI 419. Black Americans and the Political System.
Instructor(s): Hanes Walton Jr

Section 001 — Black Am & Political System.

CAAS 427 / ANTHRCUL 427 / WOMENSTD 427. African Women.
Instructor(s): Elisha P Renne

Section 001

CAAS 458. Issues in Black World Studies.
Instructor(s): Arlene Rosemary Keizer

Section 001 — Toni Morrison as Novelist and Critic. Meets with English 482.004.