| Course Number
| Course Title
| Day & Time
| Instructor
| Room
| Office Hour
| Office
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| WGST 2000-001 |
Introduces students to the field of Women & Gender Studies. Examines gender issues in the United States from interdisciplinary, multicultural, and feminist perspectives. Covers such topics as sexuality, beauty ideals, women’s health, violence against women, work, the economy, peace and war, and the environment. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: general. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. A&S Core: Human Diversity |
Tu/Th 11-12:15 |
J. Jacobs |
HLMS 199 |
Tu 12:30-2:30 |
Norlin, 4th Fl |
| WGST 2020-001 |
Examines contemporary experiences of people around the world as they negotiate dominant and subversive understandings of gendered identities. Focuses on the ways in which the material and discursive circumstances of people’s lives shape their opportunities for resistance and creative construction. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. A&S Core: Human Diversity |
MWF 11-11:50 |
K. Harper |
HLMS 141 |
W
9-11 |
COTT 206 |
| WGST 2050-001 |
Explores diverse cultural forms such as film, popular fiction and non-fiction, music videos, public art, websites, blogs and zines which are shaped by, and in turn shape popular understandings of gender at the intersections of race, class, ability, religion, nation, and imperialism. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. A&S Core: Human Diversity |
Tu/Th 3:30-4:45 |
S. Bowen |
EKLC E1B20 |
Tu
1:30-3:30 |
C4C N450 |
| WGST 2200-001 |
Introduces the contributions of women to literature and the performing arts from a historical and cross-cultural perspective. Emphasizes the cultural contexts in which artworks are created, as well as representations of gender and sexuality. Stresses issues of structure, content, and style, along with the acquisition of basic techniques of literary and arts criticism. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity or literature and the arts. |
MWF 12-12:50 |
K. Harper |
HLMS 229 |
W
9-11 |
COTT 206 |
| WGST 2600-001 |
Examines the positionality of women in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and power relations in a global context. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies. A&S Core: Contemporary Societies |
MWF 10-10:50 |
K. Fischer |
HLMS 241 |
W/F
11-12 |
COTT 206 |
| WGST 2700-001 |
Examines psychological research on gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class and other social categories. Points of emphasis include differences in cognition, attitudes, personality and social behavior. Conceptual themes include research methodologies, implicit and explicit attitudes, stigma and stereotypes. These elucidate such areas as close relationships, leadership, career success and mental health and happiness. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000 or PSYC 1001. Same as PSYC 2700. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. |
Tu/Th 3:30-4:45 |
G. Russell |
Muen E131 |
Tu
1-3pm |
COTT 206 |
| WGST 3100-001 |
Explores a variety of alternative systematic accounts of, and explanations for, gender inequities. Social norms of both masculinity and femininity are analyzed in relation to other axes of inequality such as class, sexuality, race/ethnicity, neocolonialism, and the domination of nonhuman nature. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of WGST 2000 or WGST 2020 or WGST 2050 or WGST 2600 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. |
Tu/Th 3:30-4:45 |
D. Misri |
HLMS 229 |
Tu/Th
5-6 |
Innisfree |
| WGST 3250-001 |
Examines the construction of gender, race, class, sexual orientation and disability in a selection of Disney's animated films. Cultivates skills of media literacy, exploring how mass media acts to enforce and maintain conventional gendered understandings of power, privilege and difference. Analyzes the political economy of the Disney phenomenon through a feminist lens. |
MWF 2-2:50 |
D. Walker |
HLMS 229 |
M/W 3:30-4:30 |
COTT 206 |
| WGST 3311-001 |
Provides an overview and critical examination of women as political actors within the United States. Students will examine the gendered components of citizenship, election, political office, and public policy. Furthermore, students will explore the ways in which gender intersects with class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other identities in U.S. politics. Same as PSCI 3311. |
Tu/Th 9:30-10:45 |
L. Bayard de Volo |
MUEN E113 |
Th 10:50-12:50 |
COTT 102 |
| WGST 3500-001 |
Introduces global gender issues, such as the gendered division of labor in the global economy, migration, women's human rights, environmental issues, gender violence in war, women in the military, nationalism and feminism, and the representation of the Third World in the United States. Offers students the opportunity to broaden their perspectives beyond the borders of the United States. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000 or WMST 2050 or WMST 2600. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. |
Tu/Th 11-12:15 |
R. Buffington |
HLMS 229 |
Tu/Th 9:30-10:30 |
COTT 201 |
| WGST 3510-001 |
Examines the intersections of gender, sexuality and health in global perspective. Explores how men's and women's health are shaped by gender and sexual relations in a wide range of social contexts, including South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. |
Tu/Th 2-3:15 |
R. Wyrod |
HLMS 229 |
W 9:30-11:30 |
COTT 211 |
| WGST 3767-001 |
Examines a series of literary texts to consider how writers across the world have used fiction to creatively stage and reimagine gender and sexuality. Attends to the formal and narrative techniques by which these texts call attention to the fictionality--and thereby the creative malleability--of gender itself. Some cinematic and performance texts will also be included. Same as ENGL 3767. |
Tu/Th 12:30-1:45 |
D. Misri |
HLMS 237 |
Tu/Th
5-6 |
Innisfree |
| WGST 3800-001 |
Offers expository writing and training in analytical and descriptive skills, structures or argument, critical thinking, the rhetoric of persuasion, and the development of a personal voice. Readings and papers focus on basic issues in gender studies. Recommended prereq., WGST 2000 or WGST 2600. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: written communication. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). |
MWF 2-2:50 |
J. Strathearn |
MKNA 204 |
M/W/F
1-2 |
COTT 206 |
| WGST 3930 |
Provides field experience in local and national government and non-governmental agencies focusing on women and gender-related issues. Supervision by approved field instructors. Students must relate their academic experience to their field work experience though a portfolio and a final paper. Recommended prereq., 6 hours of course work in Women and Gender Studies and 30 cumulative credit hours. Please contact the Women & Gender Studies office for enrollment information. |
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| WGST 3940 |
Enriches the academic experience of Women and Gender Studies majors and minors. This course usually will combine readings from books with lectures and discussions, community outreach and in-house publications spanning the interdisciplinary focus of the program. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Restricted to WGST majors or minors.
Contact WGST Office to enroll. |
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| WGST 4840 |
May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Please contact the Women & Gender Studies Program for enrollment information. |
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| WGST 4950 |
For qualified WGST majors working on the research phase of departmental honors. Prereq., junior/senior standing and 3.30 overall GPA.
Please contact the Women & Gender Studies Program for enrollment information. |
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| WGST 4999 |
Qualified Women and Gender Studies majors may write an honors thesis, an in-depth research paper, on a topic of choice. Thesis hours available to majors only after successfully completing the research phase.
Please contact the Women & Gender Studies Program for enrollment information. |
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| WGST 6190-001 |
Explores feminist methodology across a range of disciplines. Themes include experience and interpretation, the social position of the researcher, language and argument structure, knowledge and power, bias and objectivity, and the ethics and politics of research. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. Same as COML 6190. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only. |
Tu 1:30-4 |
A. Jaggar |
COTT 110 |
Tu 4-5
Th 11-12 |
HLMS 278 |
| WGST 6796-001 |
Explores key concepts and debates in the field of queer theory with an interdisciplinary focus on crosscutting issues (aesthetic, cultural, legal, medical, political and social) that shape queer subjectivities, practices and relations. |
M 11-1:30 |
E. David |
COTT 111 |
W
10-12pm |
COTT 210 |
