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. Requisites: Restricted to Womens Studies (WMST) majors or minors only.
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. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000 or WMST 2600. Same as WMST 5000. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
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. Recommended prereq., SOCY 1016 or WMST 1016 or WMST 2000 or SOCY 3314 or WMST 3314. 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. Same as SOCY 4016. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of SOCY 1016 or WMST 1016 or WMST 2000 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Examines a special topic in LGBT, Multicultural, and Postcolonial literature from the early 16th century to the present. Discusses the changing status of sexuality, race, ethnicity, and/or nationality as a literary and cultural topos, including how desire and identity 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. Same as LGBT/ENGL 4287. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
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 WMST 3100. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
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.
Examines issues facing women in 20th-21st century Russia, based on study of current events, history, literature, posters and film. Studies images of women as amazons and rebels, salon hostesses and poets, New Soviet Women and women in combat, prostitutes and mothers. Taught in English. Recommended prereq., lower level literature or culture course. 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 PSCI 4391.
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. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015 or HIST 1025 or LGBT 2000 or WMST 2000 or WMST 2600. Same as HIST 4636/5636. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
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. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of WMST 2000 and WMST 2060 and WMST 3100 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) Womens Studies (WMST) majors or minors only.
For qualified WMST majors working on the research phase of departmental honors. Department enforced requisite, overall GPA of 3.3. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
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. Requisites: Restricted to Womens Studies (WMST) majors only.
