Women's And Gender Studies Courses

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  • WGST 12 / Introduction to Women's Studies (4) - view
    An interdisciplinary course designed to lay the groundwork for the women's and gender studies major and minor. Also appropriate as a first course for any student interested in pursuing the study of gender within their major field. This U.S. focused course considers questions fundamental to the field: What is a woman? What is gender? What is sex? How does culture construct gender and gender difference? How do gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect and interact?; the course, also, lays the groundwork for further work in the field by introducing students to analytical and critical concepts and approaches for understanding the lives of women and the construction of gender within larger social, political, and cultural structures; and it considers how we think about individual lives using these questions. Required for women's and gender studies minors. Offered spring semester annually.
  • WGST 52 / Global Feminisms (4) - view
    This course examines women's movements internationally and globally. It explores the variations in constructions of sex, gender and gender difference as well as the range of feminisms and women's movements that have emerged from these differing cultural, economic and political situations. Such topics as women and development, the sexual division of labor, health, the environment, the international traffic in women and human rights may be among those explored in the course. Offered fall semester. Same as: WMST 52.
  • WGST 111 / History of Feminist Thought (4) - view
    An interdisciplinary course that explores the development of feminist theories principally in the United States and Europe from Mary Wollstonecraft through "the Second Wave. The course examines the work of such theorists as Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Julia Cooper, Emma Goldman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Church Terrell, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, as well as feminism's evolving conversations with liberalism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis and its dialogues with the anti-slavery/civil rights movements and the gay/lesbian rights movements. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WMST 12. Offered fall semester in alternate years. Same as: WMST 111.
  • WGST 112 / Contemporary Feminist Theory and Methodology (4) - view
    An interdisciplinary course focused on contemporary feminist theory. The objectives of the course are first, to explore the broad range of theories that make up the body of contemporary scholarship referred to as "feminist theory"; second, to examine feminist critiques and innovations in methodologies in many fields; and third, to consider some of the fundamental questions these theories raise about the origins of gender difference, the nature and origins of patriarchy, the intersections between gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality as categories of analysis and bases of oppression or empowerment. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: (WMST 12 or WGST 12). Offered fall semester in alternate years. Same as: WMST 112.
  • WGST 122 / Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies (2-4) - view
    An interdisciplinary course designed to lay the groundwork for the women's and gender studies major and minor. Also appropriate as a first course for any student interested in pursuing the study of gender within their major field. This U.S. focused course considers questions fundamental to the field: What is a woman? What is gender? What is sex? How does culture construct gender and gender difference? How do gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect and interact?; the course, also, lays the groundwork for further work in the field by introducing students to analytical and critical concepts and approaches for understanding the lives of women and the construction of gender within larger social, political, and cultural structures; and it considers how we think about individual lives using these questions. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: WGST 12 or permission of instructor. Offering to be determined.
  • WGST 150 / Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies (4) - view
    A tutorial course. Independent investigation of a topic, preferably interdisciplinary, chosen in consultation with the instructor and the director of women's studies. Regular meetings by arrangement with the instructor. Oral and written work. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WGST 12. offered every semester.
  • WGST 172 / Advanced Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies (4) - view
    Graduate courses being taken for undergraduate credit will be cross-listed under this course number. Possible courses include CHSOC 444: Ethically Responding to Violence Against Women; BIBST 731: Gender and Sexuality in the Bible and the Fathers; ENGLG 826: Feminist Criticism. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: WGST 12 and permission of the instructor. Offering to be determined.