Courses

Enriches the academic experience of majors and minors within the Women and Gender Studies program. 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 WMST majors or minors.

Provides an advanced interdisciplinary course organized around a specific topic, problem, or issue relating to gender and sexuality. Course work includes discussion, reading, and written projects. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior). Prereq., WMST 2000. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).

Studies the persistence of genocide and the effects of mass trauma on women and girls. Within the framework of political and social catastrophe, the course examines cataclysmic world events and the traumatic consequences for women of religious persecution, colonialism, slavery, and the genocides of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Prereq., SOCY 1016 or WMST 2000. SOCY 4000 and WMST 4010 are the same course.

Studies status and power differences between the sexes at individual, group, and societal levels. Examines empirically established sex differences, and reviews biological, psychological, and sociological explanations for gender differences. Prereqs., SOCY 1016 or WMST 2000. Restricted to sophomores/juniors/ seniors. Same as SOCY 4016.

Same as THTR 4041.

Same as HIST 4063.

Same as THTR 4073.

Restricted to junior/senior WMST majors. Same as SOCY 4086.

Same as ENGL 4277.

Examines selected British, American, and French literary representations of lesbian and gay identity from the early 16th century to the present. Discusses the changing status of homosexuality as a literary and cultural topos, including how same-sex desire is defined, and the rhetorical and ideological difficulties involved in its representation. Specific topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Restricted to juniors and seniors. Same as ENGL/LGBT 4287.

Studies the commercial trade of sexual labor in the global economy, examining theories and assumptions about sexual-economic exchanges and gendered and racialized relations of power in the sex trade. Emphasizes prostitution. Recommended prereq., WMST 2600 or 3100. Restricted to juniors and seniors. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).

Introduces students to debates surrounding migration and race in contemporary Germany. Emphasis on reading texts in context using tools of cultural studies, integrating analyses of gender, race, nation, and sexuality. Texts may include film, literature, television, magazine images, etc. Topics include questioning "multiculturalism," self-representation, integration, Islam, citizenship, violence, public space, youth culture, racism and nationalism. Same as GRMN 4301/5301. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Studies the construction, interconnections, and replications of gender, race, class, and sexuality in popular culture and how these constructs become cultural norms and mores. Uses critical methods with a focus on producing responsible viewers and readers. Same as JOUR 4331.

Same as RUSS 4471 and GSLL 5471. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Addresses the problems and challenges women face around the world and the ways in which women have mobilized to address them. Explores political activism at the local, national, regional, and global levels. Focuses on different forms of activism, including strategies aimed at working with and within governmental institutions, as well as outside and against them. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000 or WMST 2600.

Same as HIST 4614.

Same as HIST 4616.

Same as HIST 4619.

Same as HIST 4626.

Considers current theoretical approaches to the history of sexuality and traces the changing meaning of same-sex sexuality in the U.S. through investigation of lesbian and gay identity formation, community development, politics, and queer cultural resistance. Prereqs., WMST 2000 and 2600, and junior or senior standing. Same as HIST 4636/5636. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).

Same as HIST 4640.

Same as ARTH 4769. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Provides students with the opportunity to actively reflect on their education and to complete a research project that incorporates an interdisciplinary and feminist approach to the study of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. Offered each spring. Prereq., WMST 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) Womens Studies (WMST) majors only.

May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

For qualified WMST majors working on the research phase of departmental honors. Prereq., junior/senior standing and 3.30 overall GPA. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).