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Spring 2010 Course
Descriptions
Undergraduate courses
*Graduate students may
take 100-level undergraduate courses for graduate credit but must
arrange this with the instructor.
WSTU 120.10 (3)
Introduction to Women's Studies Morris
CRN 33635
M/W 12:45-2 pm
We will examine the power
of women's voices through narrative writing, moving from the personal
to the political, looking critically at the technique of writing for an
audience. How is women's
truth-telling--about sexism, racism, abuse, success--received by
readers? How do we choose to write our own memoirs, at different stages
of remembering?
WSTU 120.11 (3)
Introduction to Women's Studies Lynch
CRN 35916
T/R 3:45-5 pm
We will examine the power
of women's voices through narrative writing, moving from the personal
to the political, looking critically at the technique of writing for an
audience. How is women's
truth-telling--about sexism, racism, abuse, success--received by
readers? How do we choose to write our own memoirs, at different stages
of remembering?
WSTU 121.80 (3)
Anthropology of Gender Santillan
CRN 31869 M/W 12:45-2 pm
(also ANTH
121.80 CRN 31863)
Anthropological
representations of gender relations in "Other" cultures have provided
important case material for feminist theorizing of sex differences and
gender roles and statuses. How a cross-cultural approach can inform our
understanding of gender.
WSTU 125.10 (3)
Varieties of Feminist Theory Deitch
CRN 31291
T/R 2:20-3:35 pm
As we sample a selection feminist social and political thinkers
from the 19th to the 21st century we will ask: How have Western
legacies of Enlightenment, Marxist, and Freudian thought influenced the
development of feminist theory? Is it useful to make distinctions
between first, second, and third wave feminisms? As feminist theory in
the academy becomes increasingly intellectually sophisticated and
abstract, how can it remain useful in developing strategies for social
change and providing insight into the daily life experience of diverse
groups of women around the globe? How can feminists of very different
intellectual persuasions, not to mention differing racial, ethnic,
class, sexual, national and religious identities find common ground for
working together for change while recognizing and respecting their
differences? Prerequisite WSTU 001, 120 or permission of
instructor.
WSTU 140.80 (3) Women in US History, 1877-Present
Harrison
CRN 35915
T/R 3:45-5 pm
(Also AMST
140 36073, HIST 140 36262)
This
course will examine the experience of women in their social, economic,
and political roles to understand how gender shapes experience. The
exploration will include the impact of class, region, race, and
ethnicity on women and on gender roles and the effect of the changes in
women's roles on men.
WSTU 150.80 (3) Women in Judaism Langner
CRN 35434
M/W 12:45-2 pm
(Also
REL 118.80 CRN 35275)
Jewish women's
spirituality as reflected in personal writings, ritual, liturgy, and midrash. Jewish women's history and legal
status.
WSTU 170.10 (3) Women
and War Morris
CRN 33063
T/R
2:20-3:35 pm
This special topics course
examines the effects of war and militarization on women's lives
throughout U.S.
history and in global events today. We will explore women's
experiences as soldiers, peace activists, nurses, wives and mothers,
revolutionaries, spies, heroines and traitors. Some questions we
will address are: Should women serve in combat roles? Are
women pacifists by nature? What about gays in the military?
WSTU 170.11 (3) Athletics
& Gender Morris
CRN 32689
T/R 11:10-12:25 pm
This course offers a
unique look at the legacy of women in American sports. How have
attitudes toward women athletes changed during the 20th century?
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, including health issues, Olympic scandals and
sports marketing.
WSTU 170.12 (3) Women
In & Beyond Global Prison Moshenberg
CRN 34226
T/R 2:20-3:35 pm
Women
make up the fastest growing prison population, globally and regionally.
The United States
houses one of every three women prisoners in the world. What is that
world, and what lies beyond it? This course will examine the
conjuncture of women, incarceration, and globalization. We will
consider incarcerated women, female prison staff, female community –
family – affiliation networks associated with prisoners and inmates as
part of neoliberal and alternative maps and schema.
WSTU
170.13 (3) Women & Law
Warbelow
CRN 34705 T
3:30-6 pm
This
course examines contemporary legal issues that affect women in the United States. Using legal texts and related articles, we
will study a range of theories and documents that are relevant to
issues such as violence against women, marriage and divorce,
employment, immigration, and reproductive rights.
WSTU 170.81 (3) Indian
Dance & Culture Devi
CRN 33062 M/W
9:35-10:50 am
(TRDA 195.80
CRN 32986)
Contact Theatre &
Dance department for details.
WSTU 170.80 (3) Women, Piety & Sainhood in Islam Pemberton
CRN 35919
T/R 2:20-3:35 pm
(Also
REL 190.80 CRN 35892)
This course will introduce
students to issues concerning gender in Islam, with an emphasis on
Islamic mystical and metaphysical traditions. We will examine
discussions about friendship with God (wilaya), piety (taqwa),
femininity and masculinity, and spiritual authority. Using
multiple sources, including theological, philosophical, historical, and
hagiographical texts, poetry and sacred narratives, anthropological
literature, contemporary popular literature, and women's studies
theory, we will look at discourses about gender, sainthood, and piety
as articulated by Muslims and non-Muslim observers. The first
part of the course provides introductory material on Islamic mystical,
historiographic, and philosophical traditions, and theoretical
developments in gender studies that bear upon this subject. In
the second part of the course we will closely examine articulations of
masculinity and femininity in mystical and metaphysical Islamic
traditions.
WSTU 181.80 (3) Women in Western Religion
Pemberton
CRN 35918 T/R
12:45-2 pm
(Also
REL 181.80 CRN 35889)
Using historical and
theological investigations of the image, experience, and role of women
in a variety of religious traditions (including Christianity, Judaism,
Islam, and goddess spirituality), this class will examine women’s lives
in relationship to the sacred as expressed in symbol, ritual, text,
myth, and the realm of public discourse. In seeking to derive a
critical assessment of the roles of women and meanings of femininity
through the lens of gender, we will investigate such topics as the
dialectic of restriction and empowerment, the dichotomy between
discourses about women and women's observed practices in the realm of
the religious, dialogues (or lack thereof) between feminist movements
and religious communities, texts about and by women, women’s bodies and
the sacred, and feminist notions of spirituality.
WSTU 183.80 (3) Practicum
in Women's Studies Deitch
CRN 30664
W
6:10-8 pm
Directed internship and
weekly seminar meetings focused on making public policy in women's
interests. Provides graduate and upper-level undergraduate
students with experience in professional-level, policy-oriented field
placements in public and private organizations engaged in policymaking,
education, political action, and research related to women's and gender
policy issues. Through weekly seminar meetings, reading and
writing, students analyze their placement experience in a larger
context, and relate theory to practice. Students must apply by
November 10, to participate in the Spring 2004 Practicum.
Applications are available in the WSTU office. Placement
arrangements, including a signed contract, must be approved before the
Spring semester begins. Permission of instructor required.
(Graduate students should register for WSTU 283).
WSTU 195.10 (1-3) Undergraduate
Research
CRN 31343
By written 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.
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 Spring which may count toward the major or minor. Please
consult an advisor.
ANTH 150.10 Human Rights & Ethics Nambiar
CRN 33950
T/R 11:10-12:25 am
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.W Human Rights & Ethics Feldman
CRN 36699
T/R 12:45-2 pm
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 157 Kinship,
Family & Community Nambiar
CRN 36649 M/W
8-9:15 am
Contact Anthropology for
Details.
ENGL 171W Virgina
Woolf Green-Lewis
CRN 34102 T/R 11:10-12:25
pm
Contact
English for details, focus is on featured writer.
ENGL 172 Disability
& Literature McRuer
CRN 34954 M/W 4:45-6 pm
This course surveys some
of the ways in which ability and disability have been represented in
twentieth-century U.S.
cultures. With the disability rights slogan “nothing about us without
us” echoing in the background, we will begin with the many ways that
people with disabilities have written their own lives, working against
and with available codes, forms, and institutions.
From there, we will move through a range of cultural
locations, considering how disability has been central to the narrative
project of a selection of canonical writers (F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison) and examining the ways in which
disability has functioned (and continues to function) in popular
culture, including detective fiction, television, and comic books,
film, and live performance.
ENGL 173 Love/Longing:
GLobal Lit & Cinema Daiya
CRN 36170 M/W 12:45-2 pm
Contact
English for details.
ENGL 175 Gender
& US Western Texts Romines
CRN 34961 M/W 12:45-2 pm
Contact
English for details.
ENGL 179.10 Asian American Cultural Studies Chu
CRN 36171 T/R 11:10-12:25 pm
When is an American not an American? When she (or he!) has that
concubine-geisha-transvestite spy look you know from the movies.
Read the greats of Asian North American literature while learning about
Chinese exclusion, Japanese American internment, Korean adoption, rice
queens, masking, mourning, melancholy, and racial castration.
Featured authors and critics include: Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael
Ondaatje, Chang-rae Lee, David Henry Hwang, Lisa Lowe, David L. Eng,
and Homi Bhabha. This is a WID course and fulfills the theory
requirement for the English major.
PHIL 125.10 (3) Philosophy
of Race and Gender Davis
CRN 34709 T/R
9:35-10:50 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.
PSYC 150 Psychology
of Sex Differences Forssell
CRN 31372 T/R
4:45-6 pm
This course examines
gender similarities and differences in psychological characteristics
and dispositions, such as personality, social relations, emotional
expression, and sexuality. Social, environmental, cultural,
contextual, and biological influences on gender will be considered.
SPAN 140.10 Latin American Women Writers Vergara
CRN 32434
T/R 3:45-5 pm
This course reads
critically well-established women writers (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz)
and those of more recent writers (such as Gioconda Belli, Angeles Mastretta, Laura Restrepo
among others) are discussed in relationship to feminist principles of
criticism.
Graduate Courses
*Undergraduates
interested in taking graduate courses should be seniors and must have
permission of the instructor.
WSTU 225.10 (3) Contemporary
Feminist Theory Ramlow
CRN 32258 M
7:10-9:00 pm
This class will address
some of the more recent theoretical approaches to issues that are
central to women's lives today throughout the globe and at home.
Globalization is a key question for feminists and we will examine
debates surrounding work and capitalism, slavery and trafficking of
women, militarism, development, culture and religion. In tandem, the
course will also look at issues central to women in the U.S. today, and
develop analysis of concerns such as poverty, migration, domestic
labor, and constructions of public and private spheres that ultimately
challenge the division between the terms 'national' and
'international.'
WSTU 238.80 (3) Feminist
Ethics & Policy Implications Weiss
CRN 35920
T 5:10-7 pm
(Also
PHIL 238.80 CRN 35856)
This course focuses on
feminist critiques of traditional ethical theories as well as the
development of alternative ethical frameworks including the ethic of
care, lesbian ethics, maternal and relational ethics and feminist
psychoanalytic ethical perspectives. Specific topics discussed include
surrogacy, sex-selective abortion and sex-selection prior to
conception, reproductive technologies, AIDS, disability, and gentic
engineering. A central them we address throughout the course concerns
how one can develop a feminist ethics that is sensitive to racial,
class, and cultural differences without at the same time, endorsing a
sepcific contemporary feminist ethics.
WSTU 240.10 (3) Women
and Public Policy Harrison
CRN 31024
T 6:10-8 pm
Examination of public
policy with a gender perspective. Focus on both overarching
gender analyses and specific policy issues such as reproductive rights,
social welfare policies, child and dependent care, equal employment
opportunity and domestic violence.
WSTU 245.80 (3) Gender,
Sexuality & American Culture II Heap
CRN 35921 W
12:45-3:15 pm
(Also
AMST 245 36114, HIST 245 36292)
This graduate seminar is
designed to introduce students to the usefulness of gender and
sexuality as categories of analysis in American Studies. Focusing
on the post-Reconstruction era, we will read broadly across the field
of sexuality and gender studies in U.S. history, ethnography, cultural
and visual studies, and critical theory. We will examine the
roles of gender and sexuality in shaping American culture; the extent
to which modernity and postmodernity gave rise to new categories of
sexual and gender identity and experience; and the historically
shifting meanings and cultural representations that have marked sexual
difference. We will pay particular attention to the intersection
of gender and sexuality with race, class, citizenship, age, and the
body; to the spatial organization of gender and sexuality in relation
to the city, the border, the state, empire, and globalization; and to
the role that cultural discourses and products—including film,
photography, news media, literature, medicine, science, and the
law—play in shaping the popular understanding of sexuality and gender
and vice versa.
WSTU 270.10 (3) Sexuality
& Law Warbelow
CRN 33844
T 7:10-9 pm
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.
WSTU 270.11 (3) Feminist
Media Theory Ramlow
CRN 33064
R 7:10-9:00 pm
This course will consider
the strategies for and politics of filmic representations of physical
differences. We will be working with a variety of critical resources
from disability studies, feminist visual theory, and queer theory, to
name a few of the approaches we will take. We will engage with
mainstream Hollywood films (from "Dark Victory" (Goulding, 1939) to
"Million Dollar Baby" (Eastwood, 2004)), independent films like
"Murderball" (Rubin and Shapiro, 2005) and "Crash" (Cronenberg, 1996),
and features and shorts made by people with disabilities (such as,
"F**ck the Disabled: The Surprising Adventures of Greg Walloch"
(Kabulio, 2001). We will consider a wide range of film genres and
periods in order to interrogate how film functions in maintaining
heteronormative and able-bodied cultural hierarchies, as well as how
film might function in opposition to, and resistant of, these models of
disability and gender management.
WSTU 270.12 (3) Gender
& Violence Lynch
CRN 35917
T 6:10-8 pm
Violence against women,
transgendered persons, and men is accomplished through a wide range of
socially institutionalized and individually perpetuated political,
social, economic, and physical events and circumstances. This violence
takes place within recognizable socially constructed race-ethnicity,
gender, sexual preference, and class specificities, as well as
socio-historical contexts. This course examines the way in which
gender motivates perpetrators to commit violence and also can determine
who the violence is targeted against. Through a variety of
disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, psychology and more we
will explore the way socially consructed confines of gender have real
world consequences from personal defamation and assault to hate crime
to war.
WSTU 275.80 (3) Women
& Health Zucker
CRN 34706
R 3:10-5 pm
(ALSO
PSYC 275.80 CRN 34821)
By
reading theoretical and empirical analyses of women’s health, we will
address: how women’s health is constructed
by medical, psychological, and critical theorists; how sexism, racism,
and classism contribute to women’s health problems; and what conditions
lead to optimal health and well-being.
WSTU 280.10 (6) Independent
Study Staff
CRN 30665
This course may be
repeated for credit. Written permission of sponsoring faculty member
must be obtained prior to registration.
WSTU 283.10 (6) Practicum
in Women's Studies Deitch
CRN 30666
Same as WSTU 183.80, but
WSTU 283.80 is for 3 or 6 credits.
WSTU 295.10 Independent
Research in Women's Studies
CRN 30667
Women's Studies M.A.
students doing independent research rather than a thesis should
register for WSTU 295 not WSTU 280. Arrangements must be made with the
sponsoring faculty member prior to registration. By written
permission only.
WSTU 299.10 (3) Thesis
Research
CRN 30668
WSTU 300.10 (3) Thesis
Research
CRN 30669
Graduate courses in
other departments
SOC
239.10 Contemporary
Sociological Theory Kennelly
CRN 30595
W 4:10-6 p.m.
This
course covers sociological theory since 1920 including Michel Foucalut, Pierre Bourdieu,
Donna Haraway, Antonio Gramsci, Patricia Hill Collins, Steven Seidman and more.
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