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  • WOM STD 1096: Introduction to Women’s Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    An interdisciplinary course covering a variety of perspectives on women and gender. Emphasis on women in American society with consideration of special conditions of women in third world societies. Studies the central institutions of gender-including family, sexuality and love, the sexual division of labor, the ideology of femininity, and the structural basis of this ideology - women’s social roles, and symbolic representations of women in culture. Special emphasis on class and racial differences and similarities.

    Note: This course can be used to satisfy a university Core Individual and Society (IN) and Writing Intensive (WI) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.

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  • WOM STD 1101: American Women’s Lives

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course will look at American women’s autobiographical writings, diaries, journals, and book length accounts, to understand the role women’s narrative tradition has played in the development of American culture. The writings will be approached from social, literary, and historical perspectives. Subjects may include slave narratives, social reformers, social movements, pioneers, and literary figures. Issues of gender, race, and class will be highlighted.

    Note: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core American Culture (AC) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.

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  • WOM STD 1197: American Women’s Lives

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course will look at American women’s autobiographical writings, diaries, journals, and book length accounts, to understand the role women’s narrative tradition has played in the development of American culture. The writings will be approached from social, literary, and historical perspectives. Subjects may include slave narratives, social reformers, social movements, pioneers, and literary figures. Issues of gender, race, and class will be highlighted.

    Note: This course can be used to satisfy a university Core American Culture (AC) and Writing Intensive (WI) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.

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  • WOM STD 1201: International Women’s Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Reading and discussion of fiction, diaries, memoirs, and personal essays written by women in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Will examine the ways in which such “universal” themes as love, family, work, and personal identity are shaped by cultural contexts.

    Note: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core International Studies (IS) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information. In addition to meeting the university Core International Studies requirement, this course meets the Non-Western/Third World IS requirement for Communication Sciences majors. Please note the recent update to the Core IS requirement at www.temple.edu/vpus/resources/coreupdates.htm#coreisupdate.

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  • WOM STD 1301: Foundations in Women’s Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    The purpose of this overarching course is to have the student explore the essential texts that define the history of Women’s Studies. The course will address how gender difference is constituted, the diversity of women’s experiences in relation to class, race, and sexuality, providing the student with a common body of knowledge agreed upon by experts in the field of Women’s Studies. The course functions as the foundation for future courses in Women’s Studies. The students will study the works of historical contributors to feminist thought such as Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millet, bell hooks, Angela Davis, and others. Though this course is designed particularly with the needs of Women’s Studies majors in mind, it will introduce to both majors and non-majors the intellectual issues, topics, and figures that embody the history of feminist struggle from its first wave in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the present day.
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  • WOM STD 1676: Men and Women in American Society

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    The course examines gender roles in the United States. It includes how children learn to be boys and girls within their families, through play, from the media, and in schools. It includes the way men and women learn to interact together in personal relationships and work. It examines the benefits of being a man in our society and attempts to understand how and why this advantage works. The focus is on how society shapes the lives of children and adults in gendered ways, how we all participate in creating gendered differences, and how we can bring about change.

    Note: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core American Culture (AC) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.

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  • WOM STD 1696: Men and Women in American Society

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    The course examines gender roles in the United States. It includes how children learn to be boys and girls within their families, through play, from the media, and in schools. It includes the way men and women learn to interact together in personal relationships and work. It examines the benefits of being a man in our society and attempts to understand how and why this advantage works. The focus is on how society shapes the lives of children and adults in gendered ways, how we all participate in creating gendered differences, and how we can bring about change.

    Note: This course can be used to satisfy a university Core American Culture (AC) and Writing Intensive (WI) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.

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  • WOM STD 1700: Special Topics in Women’s Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Specific cultural or social studies in gender issues with an emphasis on interdisciplinary analyses.

    Note: A variable topics course.

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  • WOM STD 1708: Gender and History

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    A thematic introduction to the history of feminine and masculine roles from a comparative international perspective. The course will focus on topics such as The State, The Sacred, The Family, The Body, Work, and Modern Social Movements, using case studies from Ancient Greece or Rome, Medieval Europe, Africa, China, Japan, Modern Europe, and the Americas.

    Note: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core International Studies (IS) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.

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  • WOM STD 2000: Topics in Women’s Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Specific cultural or social studies in gender issues with an emphasis on interdisciplinary analyses.

    Note: A variable topics course.

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