WOMEN’S
STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
SPRING 2000
Please note: Students may register for cross-listed Women's Studies courses under the home department number or the Women's Studies number. If the course is closed under one option, students should try the other. Students may use cross-listed courses toward a major or minor in Women's Studies whichever way they register. Under College of Arts and Sciences regulations, only Women's Studies courses and cross-listed courses count toward the Women's Studies major and minor, unless otherwise specified.
WMST 50 |
INTRODUCTION
TO WOMEN’S STUDIES |
TR 2:00-3:15 |
An interdisciplinary exploration of intersections between
gender, race, class and sexuality in American culture. Topics include: family and work; sexuality and sexual identity; gender roles and
images in language, literature, religion, art and science, and the impact of
the contemporary feminist movement.
Course readings are drawn from the humanities and the social sciences. This course includes lecture and small
discussion groups led by teaching assistants.
Fulfills Cultural Diversity Requirement, General College Social Sciences Perspective, and B.A. level Social Sciences Perspective.
Instructor: Sylvia Hoffert, Professor of Women's Studies
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WMST 98B |
WOMEN’S STUDIES HONORS THESIS |
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Designed to encourage independent thought and research among outstanding undergraduate majors in Women's Studies. Students must take both WMST 98A (in the Fall) and WMST 98B (in the Spring). Arrangements must be made during the Spring semester of the Junior year. Students plan their project with a faculty advisor and secure permission from the Chair of the Curriculum in Women's Studies. Guidelines and forms for initial contract are available in the Women's Studies office.
Permission of the Chair of the Curriculum
in Women's Studies and a faculty member is required.
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WMST 190 |
PRACTICUM IN WOMEN’S STUDIES |
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Supervised internships designed to provide experience working in local, state and national organizations concerned with women's issues. Readings and paper required. 2-4 credit hours. Interested students should contact the administrative assistant in the Curriculum in Women's Studies, 962-3908, prior to the beginning of the semester.
Prerequisite: WMST 50 (may be taken concurrently with WMST 190)
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WMST 199 |
INDEPENDENT READING AND RESEARCH |
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arrangement |
Intensive reading and research in a student's chosen area of interest under faculty supervision. Results in a written report. Open to Women's Studies majors and other qualified undergraduate and graduate students.
Permission of the Chair of the Curriculum
in Women's Studies and a faculty member is required.
AFAM 66/WMST
65 BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA TR 2:00-3:15
An examination of the individual and collective experiences of Black women in America from slavery to the present and the evolution of feminist consciousness.
Fulfills Cultural Diversity Requirement.
Instructor: Valerie Kaalund, Assistant Professor of African and Afro-American
Studies
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AFRI
130/AFAM 130/WMST 130 |
CULTURE,
GENDER, AND PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT |
W 2:00-4:50 |
Participatory development theory and practice in Africa and the U.S. are examined in the context of other intervention strategies and with special attention to culture and gender. Seminar plus practicum. For African Studies majors and other qualified students.
Fulfills Cultural Diversity Requirement and
B.A. level Non-Western/Comparative Perspective.
Instructor: Roberta Ann Dunbar, Associate Professor of African and
Afro-American Studies
CMPL 96/WMST
96
MODERN WOMEN WRITERS TR 3:30-4:45
An
analysis of literary techniques in the works of such writers as Jane Austen,
George Sand, George Eliot, Kate Chopin, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Virginia Woolf,
Gertrude Stein, Anais Nin, Marguerite Duras and Nathalie Sarraute.
Fulfills B.A. level Aesthetic Perspective.
Instructor: Diane Leonard, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
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COMM
24/WMST 56 |
GENDER AND COMMUNICATION |
TR 8:00-9:15 (sec 1) MWF 9:00-9:50 (sec 2) TR 9:30-10:45 (sec 3) MWF 12:00-12:50 (sec 4) MWF 11:00-11:50 (sec 5) |
Examines multiple relationships between communication and gender. Emphasizes how communication creates gender and power roles and how communicative patterns reflect, sustain and alter social conceptions of gender.
Fulfills Cultural Diversity Requirement.
Instructors: staff
ENGL 90B/WMST 90B |
FEMINIST THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM |
TR 12:30-1:45 |
Examines the importance of feminist theory across the curriculum. Topics include language and linguistics; psychoanalysis; anthropology and myth; women’s labor, production, and reproduction; history, political science, and religious studies; and literature, predominantly French and English.
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity requirement and a perspective requirement.
Instructor:
Laurie Langbauer, Professor of English
HIST 61/WMST 60 |
WOMEN IN RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY, 1860-PRESENT |
TR 9:30-10:45 |
This course traces the development of the woman question in tsarist Russia, how the Soviet regime affected women’s lives, and how women’s experiences compared to the Party’s claim of equality.
Fulfills a
perspective requirement.
Instructor:
Donald Raleigh, Pardue Professor of History
HIST 169/AFAM 169/WMST 169 |
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY |
TR 12:30-1:45 |
The course covers the history of black women in U.S. history from the eighteenth century to the present. It deals with such themes as work, family, community, sexuality, politics, religion, and culture.
GERM 44/WMST 44 |
WOMEN IN GERMAN CINEMA |
TR 2:00-4:50 |
Introduction to feminist aesthetics and film by examining the representation of women in German cinema from Expressionism to the present. Subtitled films. English is the language of instruction.
JOMC
115/WMST 115 WOMEN AND
MASS COMMUNICATION TR 12:30-1:45
An examination of women as media producers, subjects, and audiences with a focus on current practices and possibilities for change.
Fulfills B.A. level Social Sciences
Perspective.
Instructor: Lucila Vargas, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass
Communication
LSRA
101/WMST 101
WOMEN, WORK AND LEISURE TR 9:30-10:45
This course examines the implications of the relationship between women and leisure from a lifestyle perspective and analyzes the changing role of women and changing leisure concepts from a feminist perspective.
Fulfills B.A. level Social Sciences
Perspective.
Instructor: Karla Henderson, Professor of Leisure Studies and Recreation
Administration
PHIL 46/WMST
46
PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN FEMINISM
MWF 8:00-8:50
An analysis of sexism and oppression, to clarify what it means to say women are oppressed. Focuses on systemic nature of oppression, and relation of oppressive acts to broader social and political framework. Explores appropriate relation between individual responsibility and social norms by looking with critical eye at different aspects of society and self that create and reinforce participation in women's oppression. Topics include femininity, sexuality, violence against women, and reproductive rights.
Fulfills Cultural Diversity Requirement and
B.A. level Philosophical Perspective.
Instructor: S. T. Weitzel, Department of Philosophy.
POLI 67/WMST
67 FEMINISM
AND POLITICAL THEORY
TR 12:30-1:45
An introduction to feminist theory and its implications for the study and practice of political theory. Topics: Classics of feminist political theory, feminist critiques of the western political tradition, schools of feminist political thought, and current theoretical controversies.
Fulfills General College Philosophical
Perspective and B.A. level Philosophical Perspective.
Instructor: Carisa Showden, Department of Political Science
POLI 73/WMST 74 |
POLITICS OF SEXUALITY |
MW 4:30-5:45 |
Examines the role of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals as political actors in the United States, both as individuals and collectively as a social
movement.
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity Requirement.
Instructor:
Pamela Conover
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SOCI
24/WMST 24 |
SEX AND GENDER IN SOCIETY |
TR 11:00AM-12:15 PM (sec1) TR 2:00PM-3:15PM (sec 2) |
This course examines social differentiation between men and women, with attention given to the extent, causes, and consequences of sexual inequality, and the changes in sex roles and their impact on interpersonal relations.
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity Requirement.
Instructors: (sec 1) Sherryl Kleinman, Professor of
Sociology
(sec 2) Jessica Fields,
Department of Sociology
EDSP
267/WMST 267
GENDER, POLICY, AND LEADERSHIP M 7:00-9:50
This seminar will be useful for doctoral and masters students as well as practitioners and parents wanting to study how gender and schooling interact. By focusing on educational policy and leadership, the course will encompass, for example, how policies shape curricula (formal and informal) to inculcate gender roles. It will show the power of dominant knowledges which can lead to narrowed leadership theory favoring white elite males or unquestioned assumptions about good teaching and learning. It will point to the way education policies help to maintain gender, race, and class divisions while offering examples of ways to change those policies.
Instructor: Catherine Marshall, Professor of Education
HIST 387/WMST 387 |
RESEARCH SEMINAR ON WOMEN’S HISTORY |
W 1:00-3:50 |
A research and writing seminar on the history of women in Western Europe and the United States.
This course has
classification (school year) requirements.
Instructor:
Jacquelyn Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History.
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ASIA 199 |
WOMEN AND WORK IN JAPAN |
TR 3:30-4:45 |
This course explores how concepts of “women’s work” shape contemporary Japanese society. Our sources include the popular culture of fashion magazines, film and TV; the laws regarding equal opportunity; and studies of the work worlds of corporations, factories, schools and department stores. We will concentrate on the working lives of Japanese women but also consider the position of the numerous Southeast Asian women who are working in Japan. The class includes guest speakers, all of whom are experts on various aspects of work in Japan. Students will write a research paper on a topic of their own choosing. No knowledge of Japan required.
Instructor: Jan
Bardsley, Assistant professor in the Curriculum in Asian Studies.
CLAS 91 |
WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME |
TR 2:00-3:15 |
The class will consider the theories, laws, and social practices applying to women in ancient Greece and Rome, looking particularly at: differing gender ideologies for women of different social classes; occupations for women; the involvement of women in public life; the influence of women in private life; women’s religious practices; medical theories and treatments of women; how ideologies of women evolve over time; and how women are depicted in both art and literature.
Instructor:
Sharon James, Assistant Professor of Classics