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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will continue to master the skills of the performer developed in Acting I & II: physical action, full expressivity of body/voice/imagination, listening/responding, creation of ensemble, memorization, and rehearsal discipline. Students will memorize and perform scenes and monologues, and they will document in writing both the craft and creativity of the rehearsalprocess. Each time the course is offered a different era, genre, or style of acting will be studied in-depth (for example, 20th century Absurdists, Shakespeare,Brecht's Theater of Alienation). This course can be repeated for full credit three times with a different focus each time. Prerequisite: Theatre 275 or permission of instructor. (Black, Spring, offered alternate years)
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This course is designed to further the understanding of the craft of playwriting as it is first discovered in the playwriting process workshop. Students are encouraged to nurture the development of their skills through daily writing exercises, to develop a personal and consistent process for writing, to shake up any preconceived notions about playwriting, to explore a personal point of view or voice for their writing, to develop and sharpen their skills in analysis and critique, to test the flexibility of creative thought necessary for the crafting of dramatic literature, and to complete a short one-act play by the end of the semester. Prerequisite: Theatre 178 or 278. (Gross, Spring, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
Looking at a variety of theatrical performances-live and recorded, spoken and sung, on campus and in regional theatres-we will try to capture the theatrical experience in writing. The challenges of description, interpretation, and evaluation will be engaged, and we will look at a variety of reviews and critical writings to sharpen our awareness of the problems involved. Prerequisite: Theatre 178 or 278. (Gross , Spring, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the vast, complex, changing field of women's studies. Students will be asked to become conversant with the history of feminism and women's movements (nationally and transnationally), to understand and theorize women and gender as categories of analysis, to think through differences that divide and unite, to reflect and move beyond individual experience and to connect feminism to everyday life. Students will be encouraged to raise their own questions about women, gender, feminism (s), modes of women's organizing, and the production of knowledge. While it is impossible to cover all pertinent topics in one semester, this course introduces various specific issues and histories, that, taken together, highlight the complexity of Women's Studies as both scholarly endeavor and activist field. (Offered each semester)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the historical context of critical studies of health, especially health and the politics of race, gender, and sexuality. Beginning with conceptions of sex and sexuality from the Greeks and Freud, students consider the invention of new systems of classification for race and gender within the medical sciences. The course examines hormone research in the 20th century and its relationship to the American Eugenics Movement, the history of childbirth, and the changing context of reproductive rights in the early 20th century. Students explore how gender affects health treatment, the history of the reproductive rights movement, the origins of birth control and the politics of sterilization and safer sex education, the Women's Health Movement, and AIDS activism since 1980. Prerequisite: WMST 100 or permission of instructor. (Redick)
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3.00 Credits
Sigmund Freud has been reviled by many feminists for his notions of penis envy and his puzzled query "What do women want " And yet, Freud and such subsequent psychoanalytic theorists as Horney, Klein, Winnicott, and Lacan also have been sources of significant analyses of female subordination, sexuality, and desire. This course examines relations between psychoanalysis and feminism by focusing on ways in which psychoanalytic theory has understood gender, as well as the ways in which feminists have critiqued and/or appropriated such depictions of female experience. (Henking , offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
With the emergence of the discipline of social psychology in late 19th century came new ways of thinking about the gender, race, and class of individuals, groups, and nations. These new conceptualizations brought with them new ways of seeing the social psychological nature of "Man" and by extension "Woman," and the psychological terms of modernity and postmodernity. Drawing on influential European and North American social psychologists, students in this course ask: Was social psychological nature to be understood in more symbolic interactionist, behaviorist, psychodynamic, cognitive or cybernetic terms Students learn how ideas on social psychological life carried commitments to uncovering the "social laws of life" (Dewey); or social psychology's efforts to engage with women and men as historicized subjects within social, political, and cultural contexts (Wilkinson, Sampson). This course also can count toward the major in psychology. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor or PSY 100. (B
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the historical and scientific context for feminist interventions into scientific practice and study. Students are asked to consider a series of questions, including the following: How did feminist science studies develop Is feminism relevant to the study of science How does scientific inquiry become gendered through a variety of cultural and historical contexts What are some specific intersections of race, gender and sexuality in the study of feminism and science Do students think that feminism has transformed science studies within a specifically feminist context Using the work of feminist scholars and scientists, students examine the history of genetics, sociobiology, prenatal testing, and the 1990s cultural science wars from a feminist standpoint. Prerequisite: WMST 100 or permission of the instructor. (Redick)
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3.00 Credits
To Freud's question of "What do women want " psychology has brought description, analysis, categorization and diagnosis in its effort to plumb the depths of woman's purported enigmatic nature. Parallel to psychology's mainstream versions on the psychology of women are feminist writings exploring alternative views of psychological issues and life events of concern to women. This course examines these distinct paths from early case studies of hysteria through to mid-century depictions of the "problem with no name" (Friedan) and to late 20th-century renderings of PMS, bodily dissatisfactions and eating disorders. The course uses history, theory and research in psychology to examine these issues and events as well as to appreciate psychology's changing views, treatment and study of women's lives in all of their diversity. This course also can count toward the major in psychology. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor or PSY 100.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar surveys several strands of feminist theorizing and their histories. By critically engaging the underlying assumptions and stakes of a range of theories, students become more aware of their own assumptions and stakes, and sharpen their abilities to productively apply feminist analyses in their own work. Prerequisite: WMST 100 or permission of instructor. ( Fall)
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