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Course Criteria
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
An advanced-level course in women's studies that focuses on an issue, problem, or area not covered by regular curricular offerings. Possible topics include post-colonial theory, feminist film theory, science and gender, gender and film. Topics determined for each offering. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: WMST 12 or permission of instructor. Offering to be determined.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the construction of gender across cultures. The course considers how culture influences and shapes gender roles in varying human domains, such as religion, creative traditions, work, scholarship and research, and popular culture. Prerequisite: ANTH 4 or permission of instructor. Offering to be determined. Same as: ANTH 131.
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4.00 Credits
A tutorial course. Independent investigation of a topic, preferably interdisciplinary, chosen in consultation with the instructor and the director of women's studies. Regular meetings by arrangement with the instructor. Oral and written work. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WMST 12. Offered every semester.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the complex role gender plays in the Eritrean struggle for social and economic development. Using the theoretical frameworks that have developed on the topic in the past 30 years, this course will look at the role of women and gender in the Eritrean development project. Feminist critiques of development theory and institutions will be used to examine the social, political and economic aspects of development in Eritrea. This course will pay attention to women as clients of, and policy makers in, the development system. Same as: PANAF 161.
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4.00 Credits
The precise focus of this course will vary each year depending on the expertise of the Program Director. Possible topics could include: Healthcare and the Politics of Development; Development and the Environment; Women in African Politics; Creating Civil Society; Negotiating Transitions to Political Independence; Women, War and Armed Insurrection; Agriculture and Rural Development; Africa and the World: Ignorant, Ambivalent, Responsible? Course may be repeated. Same as: PANAF 162.
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4.00 Credits
Students will design an independent research proposal to explore a topic of interest related to the program theme. As part of this proposal some students may elect to work with an Eritrean non-governmental organization if doing so serves the needs of both the research topic proposed and the Eritrean organization. When appropriate and beneficial for all involved parties, a student's research project could be developed in conjunction with a local organization working on the topic. The Program Director will work with students to design this project, assist them in developing appropriate methods of field research and will help identify appropriate research partners and internship sites. Same as: PANAF 163.
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4.00 Credits
Graduate courses being taken for undergraduate credit will be cross-listed under this course number. Possible courses include CHSOC 444: Ethically Responding to Violence Against Women; BIBST 731: Gender and Sexuality in the Bible and the Fathers; ENGLG 826: Feminist Criticism. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WMST 12 and permission of the instructor. Offering to be determined.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
An intermediate-level course in women's studies that focuses on an issue, problem, or area not covered by regular curricular offerings. Possible topics include gender and film, theorizing race and gender, lesbian studies, masculinities. Topics determined for each offering. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Offering to be determined.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines women's movements internationally and globally. It explores the variations in constructions of sex, gender and gender difference as well as the range of feminisms and women's movements that have emerged from these differing cultural, economic and political situations. Such topics as women and development, the sexual division of labor, health, the environment, the international traffic in women and human rights may be among those explored in the course. Offered fall semester. Same as: PSCI 154 WGST 52.
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