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  • GRA 422: Printmaking Studio II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    This course is a continuation of Printmaking Studio I and emphasizes the completion of a unified body of prints for professional presentation. This is a variable-credit course and may be taken for additional credit with the instructor's permission. Prerequisite: GRA 420.
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  • GS 100: Introduction to Gender Studies[

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    3] This course explores a range of theoretical approaches to the study of gender, laying the foundation for the major and minor in gender studies. Students examine and critically analyze gender theory and its sources. The course approaches gender as a fundamental category of analysis, with careful attention paid to the intersection of race and class. Its emphasis on theory that is anchored in both the humanities and the social sciences prepares students for subsequent gender studies courses, including those exploring the most recent scholarship coming out of queer theory, masculinity, and sexualities.
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  • GS 202: Men and Masculinity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    After decades of feminist analysis focused on women's lives and coming from a variety of perspectives, scholars have turned their gaze toward men. This scholarship scrutinizes not only how men define their identities but also how cultural ideas of masculinity shape everyone's lives. This course examines men and masculinity through lenses informed by race, class, sexuality studies, and a variety of other angles, all in an effort better to understand things we often take for granted: the lives of men and the role of masculinity in our culture. Prerequisite: GS 100 or permission of instructor.
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  • GS 215: Women in the Economy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    A survey course covering the economic factors that play a significant role in the economic life of women. Topics include the economics of households, marriage, and families; changes in labor force participation; causes and consequences of gender differences in occupations and earnings; government policies that have an impact on the economic well-being of women; and an international comparison of the economic conditions of women.
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  • GS 222: History of Women in America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    A survey of the changes in women's work in the family and economy; the impact of immigration, urbanization, and industrialization; the significance of race, class, and ethnic differences among women; the changing cultural status of women; the development of organized women's movements. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 130 or HIS 131, or permission of instructor.
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  • GS 225: Women's and Gay Rights Social Movements

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    This course provides a detailed examination of the social struggles for women's and gay rights in the United States and in various countries across the globe. The main focus of the course is on the specific social conditions and events that precipitated battles for change in various social arenas. The outcomes of specific struggles and the impact they had on the social position of women and gay and lesbian people are analyzed. Prerequisite: GS 100 or SOC 110, or permission of instructor.
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  • GS 232: European and American Witchcraft

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    A history of the European and American attitudes toward witchcraft between the Middle Ages and the present. Special attention is paid to the "witchcraft mania"that emerged in the 15th century, to its regional variations, and to its slow subsidence in the late 17th century. The course also discusses the revival of witchcraft in the 20th century. Main currents of interpretation, both early modern and contemporary, are explored. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 130, or permission of instructor.
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  • GS 248: Psychology of Gender

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    Analysis of the roles of physiological, psychological, and social factors in the definition of gender- and sex role-related behaviors. Representative theories and research into sex differences and similarities are reviewed. The concepts of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny in today's rapidly changing society are discussed.
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  • GS 250: Philosophy of Love and Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    This course offers a critical analysis of the concept of sex and love, particularly as it has developed in the Western philosophic tradition. It explores sex and love as a defining element of human life, even in that "all too human" desire to step beyond ourselves. The role of sex and love is explored through various themes, like the acquisition of knowledge (as an ideal of truth), its place within religious life, and its stakes in ethical and political community. Students gain an understanding of determinate theoretical methods, like phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and critical social theory. Prerequisite: PHI 110 or GS 100.
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  • GS 251W: Rhetorics of Gender Activism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Hartford

    If, as Aristotle claims, rhetoric is the study of the available means of persuasion, then it seems imperative that rhetoric turn its attention to the ways in which activists concerned with issues of gender and sexuality have sought to enact social and political change in a range of contexts throughout history. This course applies rhetorical analysis to essays, speeches, documentary films, visual media, and artifacts from activist organizations, all in an effort to understand better the techniques that gender activists use to mobilize, to challenge, and to create change. Prerequisites: RPW 110 and GS 100, or permission of instructor. (Writing-intensive course) Laboratory fee.
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