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  • WGST 3955: Diversity and the Workplace

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course will: 1) discuss gender, race, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, and appearance as aspects of diversity; 2) examine social values and practices, and organizational policies and procedures that affect or have affected the employment opportunities of underrepresented groups; 3) examine individual (e.g., prejudice, stereotypes), group (e.g., in-groups and out-groups), and organizational (e.g., climate and culture) processes that affect work place diversity and; 4) discuss "best practices" for promoting an organizational culture that values diversity, along wuth a diverse work force. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 404: Dissed:Differ,Power,Discrim

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    Have you ever been dissed? Why are some people targets of disrespect? This class examines the unequal distribution of power - social, economic and political in the United States and other countries that results in favor for privileged groups. We will examine a variety of institutional practices and individual beliefs that contribute to disrespect. We'll look at ways that beliefs and practices, like viewing inequality as consequence of a "natural order," obscure the processes that create and sustain social discrimination. We will engage in the intellectual examination of systems, behaviors and ideologies that maintain discrimination and the unequal distribution of power and resources. Student will not receive credit for both WGST 404 and WGST 504. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 405: Gender Roles

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course will investigate the development of sex roles in childhood and adolescence due to either innate physiological differences or sociological patterning, the effect of sex roles upon male-female relationships within our society and the possibility of transcending sociological sex roles in alternate modes of living. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 405 and WGST 505. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Internet/E-mail CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 406: Culture and Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    The study of women, men, children, socialization practices and the genesis of sex roles cross-culturally. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 405 and WGST 406. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 407: Sexual Praxis and Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course will offer an overview of sexual differences including: the socio-cultural construction of gender, sexual behavior and orientation; sex and sexualities in language and literature; and diversity by race, class and cultural heritage. These topics will enable students to understand human sexuality within and across a continuum removing notions of duality or polarity, in sexual behaviors and orientations. Examples both from within Western society and from non-Western societies may be used to further this position. Theoretical perspectives may encompass sociological and anthropological work, literary theory and criticism, queer theory, and multi-disciplinary discussions/discourse. Texts may include: Sex and the Machine; Readings in Culture; Gender and Technology; The Anatomy of Love; The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transexuality, and Lesbian and Gay Marriage. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 408: Gender,Pwr & Intl Development

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course provides an overview of gender issues in development in the global South, including the differential effects of development policies on women and men, and the role of social movements in transforming development policy frameworks. Students may not receive credit for both WGST 408 and 508. For graduate credit, students should elect WGST 508. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 409: Feminist Theories

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course examines the different perspectives that feminist theorists have offered to analyze the unequal conditions of women's and men's lives. Students taking this course will develop an understanding of how theory functions as a way to know, understand and change the world. They will also be provided with a lens for comparing the assumptions and implications of alternative theoretical perspectives. A particular emphasis of this course is on theorizing the interrelationships among gender, race, class, sexuality and nationality. Course material includes applications of feminist theory to issues such as gender identity formation; sexuality; gender, law and citizenship; women and work; and the history and politics of social movements. Students will not receive credit for both WGST 409 and WGST 509. (AY ) 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Discussion, Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 412: Men and Masculinity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course addresses the question, "What is a man?" in various historical, cross-cultural and contemporary contexts. A major focus is on the social and cultural factors that underlie and shape conceptions of manhood and masculinity in America as well as in a variety of societies around the globe. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 416: Earl Mod Jpn Paint&Wood Prnts

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    Painting and woodblock prints of the Edo/Tokugawa (1600-1868) and Mei II (1868-1912) periods are considered in light of competing developments that on the one hand looked to Japan's classical tradition and on the other to the influence of art and artists from China and from the West. Special attention is given to female artists and images of women. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 416 and WGST 516. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 420: Kinship and Marriage

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    A study of the diversity of kinship and marriage systems, and of the history of kinship theory which has played a seminal role in the development of general anthropological history. Students cannot receive credit for both WGST 420 and WGST 520. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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