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Fall 2009 Course Descriptions Undergraduate| Graduate*Graduate students may take 100-level undergraduate courses for graduate credit but must arrange this with the instructor. WSTU 001.80 (3) Women
in Western Civilization MORRIS This course is about the
private and public lives of women in Europe from the classical world to
the late-twentieth century. It investigates the roles women played in
religion, the economy, the family and politics. It looks at attitudes
toward women, women's self-regard, and women's legal status. It also
examines theories about the female, the emergence of feminist
self-consciousness, and female immigration to North America. WSTU 120.10 (3) Introduction
to Women's Studies Moshenberg A multidisciplinary
examination of historical conditions, cultural norms, and social
institutions that define women's status in Western culture. Experiences
of girls and women in various racial---ethnic, class, and age groups.
Alternative visions for women's (and, by implication, men's) roles and
status. Sophomore standing required. Syllabus. WSTU 120.11 (3) Introduction
to Women's Studies Moshenberg A multidisciplinary
examination of historical conditions, cultural norms, and social
institutions that define women's status in Western culture. Experiences
of girls and women in various racial---ethnic, class, and age groups.
Alternative visions for women's (and, by implication, men's) roles and
status. Sophomore standing required. Syllabus
WSTU 130.80 (3) Sexuality
in US Cultural History This course examines the
changing social organization and cultural meaning of sexual practices
and desires in the US. Topics include the establishment of sexual norms
in colonial America; the relationship between sex and slavery; the
contested boundaries drawn between same-sex sociability and eroticism
during the nineteenth century; early twentieth-century cultural
conflicts centered around prostitution, cross-racial sex, and racial
and sexual violence; the relatively recent emergence of heterosexuality
and homosexuality as predominant categories of sexual experience and
identity; and the development of women’s liberation and lesbian, gay,
queer and transgender politics. Class time will consist of two weekly
lectures and one smaller section meeting where students will discuss
the week’s assigned readings and films. Students must also register for
a discussion section to satisfy the course requirements. WSTU 162.80 (3) Women
in Islam
WSTU 170.10 (3) Athletics
& Gender MORRIS This course offers a unique
look at the legacy of women in American sports. How have
attitudes toward women athletes changed during the 20th centruy? What impact has Title IX had on
broadening opportunities? How does the media portray male vs.
female athletes? We will explore a full range of topics,
from health issues to Olympic scandals to sports marketing.
SOPHOMORE STANDING Syllabus WSTU 170.11 (3) Gendered
Bodies Ramlow
Through theoretical and empirical readings we will analyze the ways in which women’s bodies have been socially constructed to support a gendered power structure. We will explore questions such as: What counts as a “feminine” body (e.g., in terms of weight, figure, muscles, etc.)? How do race and other social identities intersect with gender in making this judgment? What are the costs of internalizing a dominant perspective (e.g., eating disorders, prioritizing beauty over intelligence, promoting competition instead of solidarity)? What forms of resistance are an effective means of social change? Syllabus WSTU 170.12 (3)
Sexuality & Law Warbelow This course will explore the
ways in which the law has affected individuals ability express their
sexuality. The primary focus will be on sexual orientation
and issues such as marriage, adoption, voting rights, sexual
harassment, and military service. Syllabus WSTU 170.80 Global
Domestic Labor Studies Moshenberg WSTU 185.80 Black
Women in US History Alexander
WSTU 195.10 (1-3) Undergraduate
Research By permission only. Students
interested should first submit a written proposal to the member of the
faculty who will supervise the research. Please see the WSTU Director,
Associate Director or relevant faculty member. Students must fill
out the independent study form prior to registration. WSTU 199.10 (3) Senior
Capstone Seminar Lynch The Senior Seminar in
Women's Studies provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-media forum in
which students compare and contrast the writings of a number of
contemporary scholars and writers whose work provides critical
frameworks for feminist scholarship and research and pursue individual or collaborative
original research projects which will be presented and critiqued in
class before final submission as written papers, in the hopes of being
published. Syllabus. WSTU 801.10
Policy, Gender, & Inequality Deitch FRESHMAN ONLY. Abortion and same-sex
marriage are but two examples of hot-button political issues that bring
debates about gender and sexuality into the public policy arena.
Poverty, social security, and tax policies also have an impact on
gender inequality. We will explore differing political and
philosophical ideas about equality and the appropriate role of
government in reducing inequality. The course
examines how policies and policy debates shape, and are shaped
by ideas about gender difference; how gender intersects with race and
class among other inequalities; and how social movements affect public
policy. The focus is primarily on the WSTU 801.11
Gender, Bodies & Health Zucker FRESHMAN ONLY. Undergraduate courses in other departments Please
note: We list here only the courses submitted to us by other
departments. Other departments may be offering other courses in
the Fall which may count toward the major or minor. Please
consult an advisor. ANTH 150.10(3) Human
Rights & Ethics Shepherd Issues of basic human rights and their violation by different cultures, states, and organizations. Genocide, ecocide, abuses on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or similar factors, and the treatment of those seeking asylum. Rights of informants and groups studied in anthropological research. ANTH 150.11(3) Human
Rights & Ethics Nambiar Issues of basic human rights and their violation by different cultures, states, and organizations. Genocide, ecocide, abuses on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or similar factors, and the treatment of those seeking asylum. Rights of informants and groups studied in anthropological research. Eng 162 (3) American
Realism Romines This
course looks at texts produced in the Eng 173. 10 (3) Representing History: Nation and Romance in Contemporary Indian Lit & Cinema Daiya CRN 85035 T/R 11:10-12:25 pm This course explores the representation of nation and nationalism, and their relation to love and family in Indian literature and film from South Asia and its diaspora. We will also put these in conversation with writings from Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Topics we will explore include gender, feminism and nationalism; patriotism and cosmopolitanism; ethnic identity and inter-ethnic romance; citizenship and belonging; minority and migration. Writers we will read include Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bapsi Sidhwa, Shyam Selvadurai and Amitav Ghosh. Films we will view include mainstream Bollywood blockbusters like Yash Chopra’s “Veer Zaara” and Farah Khan’s “Main Hoon Na” as well as South Asian parallel cinema, like Deepa Mehta’s “Earth.” ENGL
175.10 CRN
86162
M 6:10PM - 08:40PM;
T6:10PM - 07:15PM
Eng
801.13 (3) Love
and Longing in
Global Lit & Cinema CRN
86170 T 12:45-3:15 pm OPEN TO CCAS FRESHMAN ONLY This
course explores the representation of love, longing, and desire in
twentieth century British and postcolonial
CRN 85148 T/R 11:10-12:25 pm
PHIL 125.100 (3) Philosophy
of Race and Gender Weiss M 2:20-3:35 pm; W 3:45-5 pm In this
course we will examine differing perspectives on how race, gender,
class, and ethnicity inform individual as well as group identities. Despite their diverse views, all of the
authors we will be reading are united in the belief that race, gender,
class, and ethnicity are formative influences on both people and
cultures, and many of them focus on the consequences of being
marginalized because one is deemed to be a member of the "wrong" race
or the "wrong" gender. We will explore
these consequences in the course, and we will discuss some of the
strategies that have been proposed to rectify social and political
inequities that are due to one’s inhabiting a marginalized identity. SOC 175.10 (3) Sociology
of Sex & Gender Torres In this course we will look at
how gender
shapes social life, studying how gender is socially constructed and
exploring how it intersects with other relationships of inequality to
pattern social life and create gendered institutions.
Specifically, we will consider the role popular culture plays in
shaping dominant conceptualizations of masculinity and femininity and
will study how gender patterns the organization of work, weddings, the
division of labor in families, sports, politics, and social movements. SOC 181.80 (3) Gender,
Race & Film Torres Graduate Courses *Undergraduates interested in taking graduate courses should be seniors and must have permission of the instructor. WSTU 220.80 (3) Fundamentals
of Feminist Theory Lynch WSTU 221.10 (3) Research
Issues in Women’s Studies: Applied
Feminist Theory Deitch
This seminar analyzes the contribution of feminist/gender perspectives from social science and humanities disciplines to the issues and methods of social research. Critical questions include: How and by whom is knowledge produced and validated? Do distinctively feminist methods exist? What is the relationship of the researcher to the researched? How does the location (race, class, sexual identity, etc.) of the researcher affect research? Students explore a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods for making visible and giving voice to the diversity of women's experience. Recommended background: graduate course work in feminist theory or second year graduate status, or permission of the instructor. Syllabus WSTU 230.10 Global
Feminisms Ramlow In this course we will explore women’s organizing and feminist advocacy as it has occurred in various regions of the world, and as feminist interests and organizations have become globalized into a larger international force. Key questions will include: How do feminisms emerge? What specific issues have galvanized women across national and regional borders? What are the politics of generalizing cross-culturally about women’s interests and/or feminist demands? What is the relationship between feminism and nationalism? globalized feminism and imperialism? How and when do the interests of first world women and third world women come together? And when do they conflict? What is the history of the globalized women’s movement and how does it impact local women’s movements, international development, and the politics of globalization? What role might feminist agendas play in addressing current global concerns? The course will combine multimedia, multidisciplinary scholarship, applied research and advocacy and an intensive individual research project to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of these issues. Syllabus WSTU
241.10 Women & Law Harrison This course will examine the
construction of women in WSTU
270.10 Global Domestic Labor Studies Moshenberg What circumstances
constitute women's domestic labor? Global domestic labor? Global
women’s domestic labor? How are the household, the local, the national,
the transnational, the global articulated
and entwined? Who cares? How is caring, for and by care
providers, manifested? In this course, we study women domestic workers’
historical and current organizations and movements in order to answer
these questions and perhaps produce more interesting ones. In study
groups, students will focus on a nation, other than the
WSTU 270.81 Psychology
of Gender Zucker
WSTU 270.82 Global
Islamic Feminisms Pemberton
WSTU 280.10 (3) Independent
Study This course may be repeated for credit. Arrangements must be made with sponsoring faculty member prior to registration. Students must fill out the independent study form prior to registration. WSTU 295.10 Independent
Research in Women's Studies Women's Studies M.A. students doing independent research rather than a thesis should register for WSTU 295 not WSTU 280. Students must fill out the independent study form prior to registration. WSTU 299.10 (3) Thesis
Research Graduate Courses in other departments Please note: We list here only the courses submitted to us by other departments. Other departments may be offering other courses in the Fall which may count toward the major or minor. Please consult an advisor. AMST 244.80 Gender, Sexuality &
American Culture Murphy This is a graduate seminar
that is focused on how power was deployed in early America, from
colonial settlement through the end of Reconstruction. It is a central
premise of this course that shifting ideologies of gender and sexuality
were deeply tied to political change, the formation of racial
ideologies, and imperial conquest. Through our readings, we will
examine how ideas of gender and sexuality were central to the
organization of colonial contact and how those ideas varied in the
English, French, and Spanish empires. We will explore debates about the
relationship of gender and sexuality to the creation of race in the
colonial world. We will analyze how challenges to patriarchy were
related to the political revolutions that swept the western world in
the eighteenth century. We will explore how alternatives to dominant
ideals of sexual identity were expressed and how those alternatives
challenged or were accepted by mainstream society. We will discuss how
gender and sexuality were symbolically figured in the urban,
industrial, and market transformations of the nineteenth century. And
finally, we will explore how ideas of citizenship were intertwined with
ideas of gender and sexuality. English 236.10 20th Century:
Introduction to Asian American Literature Chu |
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