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  • THR 498: Directed Study

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Prerequisites: Will vary, but always will include permission of instructor Offered: Typically on a limited basis as student interest and faculty availability allow A course organized and directed by faculty and approved by the Department Chairperson to meet the particular interests and/or needs of specific students. 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 124: Intro to Women's Studies

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Offered: Typically Fall and Spring terms What is Women's Studies? What is feminism? What have been the historic roles of women in the United States? In the world? How are women's experiences similar? How do they differ? How do class, race, and ethnicity shape women's development? Any student who has ever asked her/himself any of these questions can begin to explore answers in this introductory course in Women's Studies. The interdisciplinary field of Women's Studies draws from the often neglected experience of women in order to describe, analyze, and more fully understand the gendered world order. Students will read several primary-source selections from each of the different eras of the international feminist movement, as well as complementary texts in women's history and literature. This introduction to Women's Studies will engage students in a deeply personal and academic journey that involves classroom discussion of individuals' perceptions and critiques, journal responses to both discussion and reading, and a media project analyzing cultural images of women. African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 135: Afr-Amer Women Writer

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) How have African-American women writers coped with invisibility? How have they emerged from silence and created visions of identity and culture? This course will examine the writings of African-American women as a separate and distinct cultural group and the ways in which their writing is an expression of the culture and a historical record of its development. African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 186: Special Topics

    1.00 - 2.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Prerequisites: Determined by instructor Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow A course designed to meet the particular interests of student and faculty. Topics vary from year to year. See course description in the "Schedule of Classes." 1/2 to 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 202: Women & Afr Amer-Pol

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate Fall Terms (next offered Fall 2010) A study of the participation of women and African Americans in the American political process. Theories of representative democracy and an introduction to the historical struggles for equal rights provide a context for the investigation of contemporary electoral politics, governance, grassroots politics, and public policy. Students examine the progress of women and African American candidates, and of related public-policy issues, throughout the current election and its immediate aftermath. African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective. NOTE: In order to receive African and African American Studies or Women's Studies major or minor credit, the student's major project must focus on African Americans or women, respectively. 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 207: Family Relations

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically Fall and Spring terms An introductory survey of the psycho-social aspects of family science, including an examination of functions and variations over the life cycle, diverse family forms, gender roles and power, family resources, healthy intimate relations and personal communication, and issues of parenthood. This course balances theory and personal application. African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective and Social Science Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 211: Women in Religion

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) A study of the teachings on and participation of women in religion, as well as a study of the status and roles of women in several religious traditions, such as Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, or indigenous religious traditions. Religion Perspective and African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 212: Lit-Caribbean Women

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2011-2012) This course is an exploration of voices of women in the Caribbean. We will read works by writers from the Anglo-Caribbean, French Caribbean, and Hispanic Caribbean. These writers represent the islands of Jamaica, Cuba, Guadalupe, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Barbados. Their works investigate issues of racial configuration, relationships between women, politics, colonialism and post-colonialism, and the creation of the island space. We will look at the long, turbulent history of the island of Hispaniola from the perspective of both the Haitian and Dominican, the complex history of each of these island nations, and other important topics. African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective and World Culture (Non-Western) component of the International Perspective. NOTE: Noncredit for students who took this course as GSTR 209. 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 220: Gender in Appalachia

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow (next expected to be offered Short Term 2010) An interdisciplinary exploration of gender and its impact on the Appalachian region. Proceeding from the assumption that cultural constructions of sex, sexuality, and gender are basic to our understandings of the world, we will investigate such topics as family and community; intimacy, violence, and power; health and reproduction; home and work; religion and spirituality; masculinity and femininity; activism and resistance in Appalachia. The diversity of Appalachian experiences will be explored through fiction and non-fiction readings, films, and discussion. 1 Course Credit
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  • WST 223: Theologies of Liberation

    1.00 Credits
    Berea College

    Prerequisite: GSTR 110 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered Spring 2010) An exploration of the rise of political liberation theology movements and their critiques of and novel contributions to traditional expressions of Christian theology. Focus on understandings of theory and praxis, race, gender, class dimensions of social analysis, and re-constructions of the concepts of Christ and God. Religion Perspective. 1 Course Credit
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