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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course provides students an opportunity to participate in a wide array of women's studies-related cultural, community, and educational activities. The course meets eight times per semester, and is graded pass/fail. These learning experiences foster community, permit students to earn 1 credit while exploring women's studies, and support students seeking to develop their writing skills. Course meets September 13, 27, October 11, 25, November 1, 15, 19. Cr 1.
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3.00 Credits
Topic areas not already covered by regular course offerings in women and gender studies will be offered. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Courses in this category will include a critique of traditional science, technology, and medicine; representation of feminist possibilities and communities at work on issues of knowledge, health, and power; reconstructions of science, technology, and health care based on new theories and practices. Each of these courses will ask similar questions: How have scientific thinking and gendered technologies affected women's bodily experience? Is science fiction coming to pass in new reproductive technologies and genetic projects? How has science's view of the female and feminine been problematized by reading works of fiction? Can feminists escape the difficulties of writing about or prescribing for others? Does science create racial as well as sexual subjects? How can it be used (to quote bell hooks) to "talk race and fight racism?" Prerequisite: WST 435requires permission of the instructor. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Courses in this category will examine some aspect of women's relationships to specific vehicles of "culture,?ncluding the plastic, literary, and performing arts. They may focus on women as producers of culture; on how women and femininity have been represented in written, visual, or oral texts; or on feminism and cultural or aesthetic theory. Possible subjects may include feminist philosophy, feminism and film theory, women and the history of music, women and popular culture. Prerequisite: WST 445 requires permission of the instructor. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Courses in this category will explore the political worlds of women in general, and laboring women in particular, which have often been obscured by traditional histories that narrowly define politics as a set of formal institutions and practices. These courses explore forms of female activism located not only in governments, political parties, and unions but also in female collaborative activities and grassroots organization. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship between female activism and social, economic, and cultural change. Topics include women in third world struggles for national liberation; working class women in contemporary and historical movements; struggles for equal rights; the nineteenth century women's movement; women in peasant revolts; everyday forms of female resistance; union organizing; women and the politics of identity. Prerequisite: WST 455 requires permission of the instructor. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Courses in this category will focus on gender relations and the construction of the category "women"in the context of social structures and institutions. Both social structures and institutions are based on and reinforce assumptions about sex and gender, women and men, and masculinity and femininity. And both ultimately shape the experiences of women and men in society. These courses will examine the experiences of women and men as gendered beings and the way those experiences follow from, perpetuate, and/or alter institutions. The emphasis may be on industrial or non-industrial societies, and institutions for analysis will vary. Possibilities include law and legal institutions, economic institutions, subsistence strategies in nonindustrial societies, systems of stratification, conceptual systems, and education. Prerequisite: WST 465 requires permission of the instructor. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which the politics of knowledge production shape our culture and its gender relations. It explores both the role of educational institutions as they function to promote antifeminist culture, and the ways women have historically resisted, subverted, appropriated, and reformed traditional bodies of thought. Throughout, attention will be given to how competition, intimidation, and other factors can inhibit the formation of feminist communities of scholars/learners. Students will practice and be encouraged to appreciate the benefits of different modes of interpretation and writing, including personal narrative, socio-historical work, and contemporary cultural analysis. Prerequisites: WST 135I/130I or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced topic areas not already covered by regular course offerings in women's studies will be offered. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to some of the complex relationships among the histories and goals of Western feminism and those of specific nondominant cultures, inside or outside the United States. Central to the course are the ways that "differences"are embedded and enacted in the context of power relations in the larger society. While the specific content of this course is flexible, it will treat the advantages and disadvantages of using race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality as categories of analysis. Assignments should reinforce those skills learned in WST 280. Prerequisites: WST 280 or permission of instructor. Offered fall semester. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the efforts of many academic feminists to organize, appropriate, and/or subvert what is sometimes termed "poststructuralist"thought, an enormous body of knowledge that, although generated largely in France, Italy, Great Britain, and North America, has often affected non-Western feminisms as well. The focus of this course will vary depending on the instructor, but it should be based on the intimate relationships between feminist theories and feminist practice. At least one section of this course will be devoted to focused political analysis of a single subject: pornography, free speech and censorship, reproductive technologies, sexual harassment, pay equity, domestic violence, etc. Students will be asked to write a theoretically informed research paper on a topic of their own choosing. Prerequisites: WST 280W or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester. Cr 3.
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