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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is an in-depth introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women's studies. Introduces gender as a complex category of analysis and lived experience that is inextricably linked to other social and political categories including race, ethnicity, class, nation, sexuality, and disability. Explores and critiques representations of women in the arts and sciences, literary and philosophical traditions, as well as legal, economic, and political contexts. The course also focuses on the ways in which women have worked for social change and transformation, collectively and in coalition with other groups.
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3.00 Credits
This course looks at the diversity of the female experience over a life-span: infancy, girlhood, menarche, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, menopause, and old age. Attention is given to diversity issues including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, abilities and disabilities, class, religion, and political perspectives. Some of the topics addressed include mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships, gender and sexual identity awakenings and struggles, motherhood, marriage/partnership, friendships, and ageing. The course materials include contemporary, multicultural and interdisciplinary essays, literature, and films. Prerequisite: ENG 110 Women's Studies 245
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3.00 Credits
Explores the implications of feminist theorizing across disciplinary and cultural contexts for both methodology (theories about the research process) and epistemology (theories of knowledge). Examines how knowledge and power intersect, how genre or form impacts knowledge, how the knower is implicated in the knowledge produced, and how social location shapes inquiry. Considers implications of intersectional approaches to representing knowledge and identity. Prerequisite: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155
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3.00 Credits
Develops awareness of sex/gender biases in our culture with particular emphasis on the role of the school. Sex-role socialization patterns and sexual harassment are closely examined as they impact the lives of students. The course also addresses race, class, and sexuality inequities as education issues. Explores methods of eliminating such biases in classroom instruction.
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3.00 Credits
Using recent scholarship and pedagogy in gender studies, this course discusses new issues in feminism with an emphasis on diversity, including race, class, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, and degree of physical ability. It reexamines ways of knowing, and discusses the impact of gender studies on traditional disciplines. Prerequisites: WS 110 or WS 150 or AACS 150 or AACS 155 and ENG 110
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the multifaceted and complex issues related to reproductive rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. The controversies surrounding reproductive technologies, pregnancy and childbirth, birth control, foster care, abortion, and adoption are explored with particular focus on public policy and its impact on the private lives of individual women. (Also listed as CMHL 314) Prerequisites: WS 110 or WS 150 or AAACS 150 or AACS 155 and CMHL 120 or PEGE 150
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3.00 Credits
This introductory women's studies course places the experiences and concerns of U.S. women of color at the center. It is designed for students interested in exploring similarities and differences among women in major U.S. racial/ethnic groups. The focus is on women born in the United States who, because of their nonwhite or mixed racial heritage, identify as both American and as Native Indian, African, Chicana, Puerto Rican, Chinese, or Japanese. To develop students' skills to critically examine issues of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality, readings, lectures, and class discussions explore experiences and concerns of women of color in the workforce, in the family, and in their respective communities.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an overview of some of the issues and work done in feminist philosophy. It introduces students to philosophical perspectives on sex and gender and the historical and contemporary debates regarding their significance for ideas of selfhood, ethics, and political theory. Readings from liberal, socialist, radical, psychoanalytic, and postmodern feminist theory are discussed, as well as issues such as race, class, power, sex, and sexual identity. (Also listed as PHIL 324)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history of migration/annexation/ colonization and consequential social status informing the experience of Latinas in the United States. While the course title assumes a panethnic label, the course explores the complex diveristy of women who trace their ancestry to geographical areas including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Special attention is paid to subjectivity and representation by social signifiers such as gender, race, class, and sexuality. (Also listed as SPAN 325)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in twentieth-century Japanese literature. The course examines modern Japanese society and culture and the interplay between tradition and modernity through the prism of canonical and contemporary literature. Topics include notions of the self, national and gender identity, and the impact of Westernization, modernization, urbanization, industrialization, and globalization.
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