Transfer Student 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 12:39 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 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.
WOMENSTD 295 / AMCULT 295. Sexuality in Western Culture.
LGBTQ and Sexuality StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Esther NewtonPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is an introduction to major concepts in the history and anthropology of sexuality, as well as an historical survey of important trends in the social organization of gender and sexuality in Western Culture beginning with ancient Greece. We continue through ancient Judaism and early Christianity, medieval courtly love, and 19th-century England and America. The last part of the course deals with 20th-century sexual modernism, ending with the Sexual Revolution and the backlash against it.
WOMENSTD 300. Men's Health.
Gender and HealthSection 001.Instructor(s): Timothy R B Johnson (trbj@umich.edu), Jonathan Michel MetzlPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (ID). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender and Health). 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, carcinogenic (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 301 / ASIAN 301. Writing Japanese Women.
Gender, Culture, and RepresentationSection 001.Instructor(s): Ramirez-ChristensenPrerequisites & Distribution: Taught in English; a knowledge of Japanese is not required. (4). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender, Culture, and Representation).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 310. Women Writing.
Gender, Culture, and RepresentationSection 001 — Meets the interdisciplinary requirement for Women's Studies concentrators.Instructor(s): Dena Goodman (goodmand@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: WOMENSTD 240. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender, Culture, and Representation).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is about why and how women write and what is at stake in writing as a social practice. It is about the purpose and the power of writing and why there have been and continue to be gendered struggles over it. The readings are meant to be more suggestive and illustrative than comprehensive: there is no attempt here to survey the range of women's writing, but rather to provide sites to explore the role of writing in women's lives and gendered contests over writing and power. The readings range from diaries, the most private and informal of writing, to novels and feminist scholarly prose, arguably the most formal and public writing in which women engage. While the aim is not to discover some "essence" of women's writing or a "feminine voice," the readings should help us to reflect on some of the writing practices of women across time and cultures and the issues of gender and power that they raise. I hope you will take from this course a heightened awareness and appreciation of the role of writing in women's lives and of what is at stake in struggles over writing and access to it. This course is specifically designed for Women's Studies concentrators. All students enrolled in this course will be expected to do the intensive writing assignments, whether or not they have fulfilled the ULWR already. These assignments are meant to help you develop your writing skills in analysis (including gender analysis), interpretation and synthesis-the kind of writing that you do as a Women's Studies student within the disciplines of the humanities. Students with a social emphasis should find this course useful as well, but we will not be engaging in the kind of writing specific to the social sciences.
WOMENSTD 340. Special Topics in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Studies.
LGBTQ and Sexuality StudiesSection 001 — Queer in the Middle East.Instructor(s): Elif Shafak (eshafak@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: WOMENSTD 240 or 245. (3). (Excl). May be elected twice for credit. (LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The question of sexuality and sexual identity has to a large extent been neglected in the literature on the Middle East. The development in gender and women studies, as well as GLBT studies, have been visibly slow in penetrating scholarly work on Islam in general and the Muslim Middle East in particular. This course will explore the ways in which sexuality is understood and regulated in Muslim societies by paying a special attention to the construction and legitimization of fundamental dualities such as "normal — abnormal", "sin-virtue", " modesty and fitna" …We hope to reread Middle Eastern cultural, literary, and intellectual history by bringing to the center those issues and subjects hitherto pushed to the margins. In this endeavor of central importance, we will be highlighting the changes in the definition and perception of the word "queer" in different cultural contexts and at distinct historical periods. In addition to selected academic articles, examples from Middle Eastern poetry, literature, miniature, folk tales, as well as films, will be used throughout the course. Regular attendance, participation in class discussions, short three-weekly assignments, a presentation on a topic selected by the students, and a final research paper will compose the requirements and eventually determine the student's success in this course.
WOMENSTD 342. Special Topics in Gender and Health.
Gender and HealthSection 001 — Adolescent Females Health: Challenges and Opportunities.Instructor(s): Barbara J Guthrie (bguthrie@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: WOMENSTD 220 or 240. (3). (Excl). May be elected twice for credit. (Gender and Health). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course promotes an understanding of health as a construct shaped by history and ideas grounded in varying interpretations of the body and disease. Courses emphasize the ongoing exchange between the health sciences and the humanities in order to teach students how gender and cultural differences manifest themselves in symptoms and meanings of illness. As part of WOMENSTD 342, you can elect to participate in this exciting service-learning opportunity during either the fall or winter semester for an additional 2 credits. (If you choose the option of the winter 05 for the service-learning component, then you will be required to register for an independent study with Dr. Guthrie for the additional 2 credits) Please note that Women's Studies 342 is required to be taken simultaneously or as a prerequisite to the 2 credit service-learning option. GO-GIRL is an informal math enrichment program for seventh grade girls, developed by researchers at UM and Wayne State University, and funded by the National Science Foundation. Over the course of ten Saturdays at WSU, seventh grade girls become social science researchers, and develop mathematics, statistics, and computer skills. Four seventh grade girls are teamed with a teacher-candidate mentor from Wayne State University and an undergraduate mentor from the University of Michigan (transportation from UM to WSU provided). Together these teams choose a research topic, write an on-line survey and analyze the collected data. Participants also have the opportunity to meet researchers from WSU and UM, and explore future mathematics and science related career options during field trips to the two campuses. Additional information can be found at the GO-GIRL program website: http://www.umich.edu/~gogirls. What: Mentoring with the GO-GIRL When: 11 Saturdays, 9:30am-2:00pm (Fall or Winter Semester) Where: College of Ed, Wayne State University, Detroit (transportation provided) If you are interested in service-learning with the GO-GIRL program, or if you have any questions, please contact Professor Barbara Guthrie (bguthrie@umich.edu) or Shauna Cooper (smcooper@umich.edu)
WOMENSTD 345. Special Topics in Gender in a Global Context.
Gender in a Global ContextSection 002 — Critiques of Western Feminism. Meets with CAAS 358.002.Instructor(s): Nesha Haniff (nzh@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: WOMENSTD 240. (3). (Excl). May be elected twice for credit. (Gender in a Global Context). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 360 / HISTORY 368 / AMCULT 342. History of the Family in the U.S.
Gendered LivesSection 001.Instructor(s): Regina Morantz-Sanchez (reginann@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. (Gendered Lives).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 363 / AMCULT 363. Asian/Pacific American Women.
Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.Section 001.Instructor(s): Emily P Lawsin (elawsin@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 365 / CAAS 365. Global Perspectives on Gender, Health, and Reproduction.
Section 001 — Meets with CAAS 358.001.Instructor(s): Amal Hassan Fadlalla (afadlall@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: One course in either women's studies or CAAS. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Feminists and anthropologists have produced voluminous work on the body as a site of gendered and sexualized practices. Building on this rich corpus of literature, the course uses the body as a point of entry to examine the constructions and meanings of gender, health, and reproduction and their constitution of social differentiation. By using various cross-cultural examples, we will discuss how gender, racial, and class differences are enacted and manifested in the divisions of social spaces and in bodily conduct, function, hygiene, and sickness. In its entirety, the course attempts to introduce students to the complexity of the local and global processes underlying the cultural production of gender identities and social differentiation.
WOMENSTD 422 / POLSCI 401. Feminist Political Theory.
Gender in the DisciplineSection 001.Instructor(s): Anne Manuel (amanuel@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender in the Discipline). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 427 / ANTHRCUL 427 / WOMENSTD 427. African Women.
Gender in a Global ContextSection 001.Instructor(s): Elisha Renne (erenne@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: One course in African Studies, anthropology, or women's studies. CAAS 200 recommended. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender in a Global Context).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 443 / CAAS 443. Pedagogy of Empowerment: Activism in Race, Gender, and Health.
Gender and HealthSection 001.Instructor(s): Nesha Haniff (nzh@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: WOMENSTD 240 or CAAS 201. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender and Health). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Explores the intersections of health, gender, and race by focusing on the epidemic of HIV and the epidemic of violence in the African American community. Students explore the theory and practice surrounding an intervention module on HIV presentation and violence.
WOMENSTD 444. Race, Identity, and Western Art Music.
Gender, Culture, and RepresentationSection 001 — Meets the interdisciplinary requirement for Women's Studies Concentration. Meets with HONORS 493.002 and MUSICOL 406.001 and 506.001.Instructor(s): Naomi Andre (nandre@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Gender, Culture, and Representation).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course explores the parameters of racial and ethnic identities in classical Western art music. From the discourse surrounding exoticism and Orientalism, to the effects of evocative instrumentation, the use of dialect, and foreign subjects, the focus of this course is to understand how racial and ethnic difference can be portrayed musically. Musical case studies will be drawn from the late eighteenth century through the present with a strong emphasis on the nineteenth century and opera. Central questions to be raised are:
This course encourages interdisciplinary dialogue. Readings will be drawn from post-colonial and cultural studies as well as musicology. Assignments will include two brief essays, short classroom presentations, and a final project. Prerequisite: WOMENSTD 240 or permission of the instructor. No previous music classes are prerequisite and harmonic analysis will be presented in a form accessible to students without a specialized musical background.
WOMENSTD 451 / SOC 451. Women and Work.
Gendered LivesSection 001 — Meets with ORGSTUDY 495.002.Instructor(s): Laurie A Morgan (morganla@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: WOMENSTD 240 or SOC 100, and one other course in SOC or WOMENSTD. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Gendered Lives). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 483. Special Topics.
Section 002 — Gender, Poverty, and Medicine.Instructor(s): Amal Hassan Fadlalla (afadlall@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: WOMENSTD 240. (3). (Excl). May be elected for a maximum of 7 credits. May be elected more than once in the same term. Degree credit is granted for a combined total of seven credits elected through WOMENSTD 481, 482, 483, and 484. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course focuses on how people in different cultures explain and manage suffering and misfortune related to health and sickness. We will examine how both "biomedicine" and "ethnomedicine" are related and how they are informed by people's social experiences and their constructions of physical and social well being. We will address issues such as poverty, underdevelopment and global inequalities, and the construction of gender, sexuality and health narratives (especially in the case of AIDS) in order to understand the myriad strategies people employ to cope with their situations. Although the reading material will focus on Africa, we will use examples from other countries for comparative analysis. The course is intended for senior and junior undergraduates and aims at introducing students to medical systems globally.
WOMENSTD 484. Special Topics.
Section 002 — Women and Higher Education. Meets with RCSSCI 460.002.Instructor(s): Margaret L Steneck (msten@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: WOMENSTD 240. (4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 7 credits. Degree credit is granted for a combined total of seven credits elected through WOMENSTD 481, 482, 483, and 484.
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
WOMENSTD 485 / PSYCH 485. Gender, Mentoring, and Technology.
Practice CourseSection 001.Instructor(s): Abigail J Stewart (abbystew@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). (EXPERIENTIAL). May not be repeated for credit. (Practice Course). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course provides students with supervised opportunities to integrate theory and practice by combining readings on mentoring, gender and technology and adolescent girl's development with online observations and interactions with adolescent girls who are users of the Smartgirl web site. Students must be willing to serve as participant observers on the Smartgirl.org.project. This course will meet once a week to discuss observations and course readings.
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