Womens And Gender Studies Courses

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  • WMST 22 / Topics in Women's Studies (2-4) - view
    An intermediate-level course in women's studies that focuses on an issue, problem, or area not covered by regular curricular offerings. Possible topics include gender and film, theorizing race and gender, lesbian studies, masculinities. Topics determined for each offering. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Offering to be determined.
  • WMST 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: PSCI 154 WGST 52 PSCI 54.
  • WMST 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: WMSTG 711S WMSTG 711 WGST 111.
  • WMST 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. Offered fall semester in alternate years. Same as: HISTG 112 WMSTG 710 WGST 112.
  • WMST 131 / Gender and Culture (4) - view
    A study of the construction of gender across cultures. The course considers how culture influences and shapes gender roles in varying human domains, such as religion, creative traditions, work, scholarship and research, and popular culture. Prerequisite: ANTH 4 or permission of instructor. Offering to be determined. Same as: ANTH 131.

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  • WMST 162 / Selected Topics in Nation-Building (4) - view
    The precise focus of this course will vary each year depending on the expertise of the Program Director. Possible topics could include: Healthcare and the Politics of Development; Development and the Environment; Women in African Politics; Creating Civil Society; Negotiating Transitions to Political Independence; Women, War and Armed Insurrection; Agriculture and Rural Development; Africa and the World: Ignorant, Ambivalent, Responsible? Course may be repeated. Same as: PANAF 162.
  • WMST 163 / Independent Research/ Internship (4) - view
    Students will design an independent research proposal to explore a topic of interest related to the program theme. As part of this proposal some students may elect to work with an Eritrean non-governmental organization if doing so serves the needs of both the research topic proposed and the Eritrean organization. When appropriate and beneficial for all involved parties, a student's research project could be developed in conjunction with a local organization working on the topic. The Program Director will work with students to design this project, assist them in developing appropriate methods of field research and will help identify appropriate research partners and internship sites. Same as: PANAF 163.

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  • WMST 161 / Gender and Development (4) - view
    This course focuses on the complex role gender plays in the Eritrean struggle for social and economic development. Using the theoretical frameworks that have developed on the topic in the past 30 years, this course will look at the role of women and gender in the Eritrean development project. Feminist critiques of development theory and institutions will be used to examine the social, political and economic aspects of development in Eritrea. This course will pay attention to women as clients of, and policy makers in, the development system. Same as: PANAF 161.