| Course Number |
Course Title |
Day & Time |
Instructor |
Room |
| 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.Arts Sci Core Curr: Human Diversity
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective |
TuTh 11:10-12:25 |
Hatch |
In Person
Room TBA
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| 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. Arts Sci Core Curr: Human Diversity
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective |
MWF 12:40-1:30 |
S. Leone |
HR-Hybrid remote/online
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| 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.Arts Sci Core Curr: Human Diversity
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities |
MWF 3-3:50 |
S. Bowen |
HR-Hybrid remote/online |
| 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. Arts Sci Core Curr: Contemporary Societies
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences |
Tu/Th 9:35-10:50 |
L. Bayard de Volo |
In Person
Room TBA |
| 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.Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences |
MWF 10:20-11:10 |
S. Leone |
HR-Hybrid remote/online |
| WGST 3520-001 |
Examines the dramatic changes occurring across the continent of Africa that are currently reworking gender and sexuality. Foregrounds African conceptions of feminism, and explores a range contemporary issues, including gender & health, modern womanhood, new African masculinities, LGBTQ rights, and the gendered implications of environmental change. |
Tu/Th 2:20-3:35 |
R. Wyrod |
In Person
Room TBA |
| WGST 3650-001 |
Examines Latin American politics with particular focus on women's participation in social movements, war, revolution and elections. Compares women's and men's politics and activism and examines changing gender and sexuality policies, gender relations and the differential impact of political, economic, and social changes on men and women. |
Tu/Th 5:30-6:45 |
L. Bayard de Volo |
Remote |
| WGST 3711-001 |
Through analysis of literature and films by indigenous and non-indigenous writers and filmmakers, we will explore issues of gender in indigenous communities in the Americas, gender roles and power distribution within their communities, and related national and global politics, legal systems, and economies. We will examine the role of women's leadership in indigenous movements for land rights, political sovereignty, and environmental justice; how feminist endeavors relate to these struggles; how indigenous women confront marginalization and invisibility in society as a whole; as well as other topics relevant to the indigenous struggle for land recovery in contemporary history, with special focus on women. |
MWF 9:10-10:00 |
Gómez |
In Person
Room TBA |
| 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 4200-001
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Focuses primarily on how Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish conversations about sexuality and reproduction have shaped access and attitudes towards reproductive health in the US over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. |
MW 4:10-5:25 |
S. Mehta |
In Person
Room TBA |
| 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 6090-001 |
Explores how feminist theorists have understood gender and how it interrelates to our understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiment and knowledge. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. |
Tu 12:30-3:00 |
Misri |
HR - Hybrid Remote/Online |
| WGST 6290-001 |
In this seminar, we will trace the intersections and tensions between religion, sexuality, and politics in the United States, from colonization to the present, but particularly focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries. We will think about the methodological tools that scholars employ to get the material out in order to build their arguments—what counts, what does not count, how do you tell stories that are not clearly evident in the historical record and we will think about the theoretical tools that feminist and queer scholars have used critically about “religion” and “sexuality” as particular kinds of categories, that shape a broad range of human experience and to understand that these experiences can be at once personal and public, intimate and political, and that together they provide contexts through which historically located individuals and communities have understood their sexual and religious desires, bodies, and identities. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate |
M 12:30-3 |
S. Mehta |
In Person
Room TBA |
