Fall 2012 Approved Courses
women's and gender studies program
Below are course titles, numbers, and abbreviated descriptions. For full course descriptions please visit the Agora Portal.
| Department | Title | Course Code | Professor | Meeting Time |
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| Cross-Listed | Introduction to Feminisms | SC225 (EN125/HS148) | TBD | T TH 4:30 |
| Description: This course is taught by Women's Studies faculty and undergraduate student teams under faculty direction to acquaint students with a large range of academic and life experience topics that have been affected by Women's Studies scholarship. After a preliminary meeting, the class divides into 12-14 person seminars that meet once per week to discuss and study such issues as women's history, feminist theory, sex roles, socialization, gender and health, religion, work, and literature and essays by and about women. The course emphasizes participation and collective work on projects and usually includes a continuing personal and readings-oriented journal. | ||||
| Cross-Listed | Colloquium: Teaching Women's Studies | SC664 (EN603/HS665) | TBD | T 5:30-7 |
| Description: This course is for the "Introduction to Feminisms" Teaching Assistants. Students meet weekly with the faculty advisor to discuss assigned readings--interdisciplinary feminist pedagogy--and with their respective seminar groups from SC 255. |
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| African and African Diaspora Studies | Race, Class, and Gender |
BK138/SC038 |
Mcguffey | M W F 1 |
| Description: Viewing race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identities as inseparable from discussions of inequality and power, this course will begin by discussing the social construction of these categories and how they are connected. |
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| African and African Diaspora Studies |
Beyond Barack and Hillary: Black Feminist Culture, Literature, and Theory |
BK241 |
Jean-Charles |
T TH 9 |
| Description: The 2008 race for the Democratic presidential nomination has brought the idea of race vs gender in to the public discourse. However, Black feminists have long explored the question of race vs. gender in their politics, theories and writing. This class takes a closer look at the intersection of race and gender by using Black feminists thought as a lens to examine literature and popular culture. |
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| African and African Diaspora Studies |
Gender and Slavery |
BK243 |
Copeland |
TBA |
| Description: Discussions of slavery have focused upon the enslaved males' roles and responses. To gain a more complete picture of the complex social interactions and political and social consequences of slavery, we will examine it from the enslaved female's perspective as well. |
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| African and African Diaspora Studies |
Gender and Sexuality in African American History |
BK340/HS547 |
Summers | T TH 10:30 |
| Description: This course examines the intersections of gender and sexuality as both categories of identity and modes of power in the shaping of the historical experiences of African Americans. |
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| Communication | Gender and Media | CO251 | McIntosh | T TH 1:30 |
| Description: This course will explore the ways gender factors into media production, representation, and audiences. In particular, it will focus on gender across multiple media contexts, including sport, advertising, magazines, news coverage, fiction, film, documentary, television programming, online communities, social media, and popular music. It also will consider gender within both mainstream and independent media production. Further, it will explore how gender is used to study, construct, and address media audiences. Overall, this class will address how gender becomes a tool of social and cultural power and how its use both empowers and disempowers various cultural groups. | ||||
| Communication |
Gender Roles and Communication |
CO451 |
Cuklanz |
T TH 1:30 |
| Description: Focus is on the social construction of gender through communication. The early section of the course compares historical and theoretical approaches to representations of gender in communications text. Then, building on these comparisons, students read about, examine, and analyze texts, focusing particularly on television programming and advertising. |
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| English |
Gender Crossings |
EN334 |
Bicks |
T TH 12 |
| Description: In this course, we will be reading theorists from Freud to Fausto-Sterling, as well as recent transgender scholarship in order to explore how theories of gender inform modes of interpretation. We will consider figures and literary texts from a variety of time periods that represent instances of gender crossing, reading them through the lens of these various theoretical models. |
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| English |
Gothic Women Writers |
EN471 |
Fanous |
T TH 4:30 |
| Description: After reading Horace Walpole's foundational Gothic text, The Castle of Otranto, we will examine a range of Gothic novels by women writers during the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. |
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| English |
Literature and Social Change |
EN230 | Tanner |
T TH 1:30 |
| Description: This course will examine the possibility of using literature as a force of social change in twentieth century. We will explore the way in which literary worlds reflect, transform or revise contemporary attitudes towards topics such as racial violence in America, poverty and work, violence against women and domestic abuse. |
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| Psychology |
Psychology of Gender |
PS344 |
Dempewolff |
T TH 9 |
| Description: This course involves a multi-faceted and critical look at how gender shapes identities, beliefs, and behavior. Rather than concentrating on questions of sex differences, we will explore how females and males do gender in their everyday lives. We will review competing theoretical models and scrutinize empirical findings that support and fail to support common sense ideas about gender. Topics include a number of controversial issues such as violence in intimate relationships, sexual orientation, media constructions of femininity and masculinity, ethnic/racial/cultural critiques of feminist psychology, and gender harassment. | ||||
| Sociology |
Women and the Body |
SC089 |
Hesse-Biber |
T TH 1:30 |
| Description: This course covers Western cultural pressures on women to be super-slender. We analyze biological, sociological, and feminist perspectives on the body especially with regard to issues of beauty and body image and sexuality. We analyze how race, ethnicity and class intersect to create differences among women's relationship to their bodies. |
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| Sociology |
Legal and Illegal Violence Against Women |
SC144 |
Holmstrom |
M W F 11 |
| Description: This course will analyze the use of violence and the threat of violence to maintain the system of stratification by gender. The focus will be on rape, incest, spouse abuse, and related topics. Strategies for change will also be discussed. |
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| Sociology | Gender and Society | SC024 | TBA | TBA |
| Description: This course explores the formation, experiences, and change of women's and men's social lives in history. | ||||
| Romance Languages and Literatures | Contemporary Francophone Women Writers | RL454 | Jean-Charles | T TH 4:30 |
| Description: No description available. | ||||