Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN & GENDER

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality- An introductory survey of issues in the study of gender, such as women's social, political, and legal status in the US and globally; feminist perspectives on sexuality, race, the body, globalization, labor, culture; and the implications of these perspectives for social and critical theory. The course also introduces the concept of engaged research and the public service components of feminist activity.

Long Title: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the role that gender, biological sex, and sexuality play in the language varieties that people use. We will see that although all cultures have specified gender roles, and all cultures mark gender through language varieties, those differences are not, I promise, what you think they are. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Crosslisted with FSEM 105 and LING 105. Cross-list: FSEM 105, LING 105.

Long Title: WOMEN AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the Nazi idea of "womanhood" and the actual roles women played during National Socialism. Female perpetrators, Mitlaufer, a multiplicity of victims, and to resistance fighters. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 130, GERM 130.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER STUDIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies - An introduction to the interdisciplinary examination of sexual desires, sexual orientations, and the concept of sexuality, with a focus on the construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities. The course looks at how identities interact with other social phenomena such as government, family, popular culture, scientific inquiry, and especially gender, and highlights the complexity and variability of alities of both across historical periods and in relation to race, class, ethnicity and nation. The course also introduces the concept of engaged research and the public service component of LGBT activity.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course treats language as a social phenomenon to show how language, personal identity and institutions of social control inter-relate. The course focuses on linguistic interaction in daily life and how gender, ethnic, class, activity, and geographic variation affect language use. Cross-list: LING 205.

Long Title: WOMEN IN GREECE AND ROME

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the depiction of women in Greek and Roman mythology, literature, and art. Includes a study of the lives of Greek and Roman women as evidenced by archaeological as well as literary materials. Cross-list: CLAS 225.

Long Title: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY I: COLONIAL BEGINNINGS TO THE CIVIL WAR

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of American women's history examines the lives of elite, working, black, Indian and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political, and economic status from the mid-17th century through the Civil War. Topics include slavery, suffrage, sexuality, and feminism. Cross-list: HIST 241.

Long Title: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY II: CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of American women's history examines the lives of black, Asian American, Chicana, Native American, and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political, and economic status from the Civil War to the present. Topics include suffrage, anti-lynching, welfare, birth control, and the modern civil rights and feminist movements. Cross-list: HIST 242.

Long Title: GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian countries - particularly Hindu and Muslim - focusing on the women participants in these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society. We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have been willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. Credit may not be received for both SWGS 240 and SWGS 340. Cross-list: ASIA 240, RELI 285, Equivalency: SWGS 340. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SWGS 240 if student has credit for SWGS 340.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDER

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the relationship between women's lives, gender ideologies, and international and domestic politics and economics. We will examine women's experiences with and resistance to the sexual division of labor, imperialism, capitalism, consumerism, domestic service, war, slavery, and migration across different geographical and historical contexts. Cross-list: POLI 250.

Long Title: MEDICINE AND MEDIA

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of the role of imaging technologies in the practice of medicine, and the role of mass media in shaping our understandings of the body, health, and disease. This course examines how visual media structure "ways of seeing" for physicians and for the public. Emphasis will be placed on developing media literacy skills. Cross-list: ENGL 273.

Long Title: WOMEN IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lecture course introduces students to the history of women in the Islamic world. Topics include women and law, family relations, work, women as political actors in Islamic history, the harem as a social and political institution, women as property owners, veiling, and modern feminist movements throughout the Islamic world. Cross-list: HIST 283.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the most significant medieval European women authors from the 10th-17th centuries. We will combine close reading with a focus on intertextuality to recover a feminized literary tradition. Cross-list: ENGL 311, MDST 300.

Long Title: CHAUCER

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course on Chaucer and his literary culture and philosophical backgrounds. Readings include minor poems, a dream vision, "The Canterbury Tales", "Troilus and Criseyde." Cross-list: ENGL 316, MDST 316.

Long Title: HUMAN SEXUALITY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to explore the physiological, psychological, and sociological parameters of human sexuality, while providing accurate information and helping students develop healthy attitudes toward sexuality. Cross-list: HEAL 306.

Long Title: GENDER AND ISLAM

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores the lives of Muslim women in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America; analyzes constructions of gender in the Islamic world overtime; the challenges faced from such diverse quarters as colonial administrators, Western feminists, and states; as well as movements and individuals within the Muslim world. Cross-list: RELI 315.

Long Title: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE ADAPTATION OF TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE TO PERFORMANCE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the embodiment of gender and sexuality through the oral interpretation of transnational literature. Students will learn how to analyze and adapt to performance novels and short stories from various global and historical contexts that exemplify the genre of the "coming of age" narrative. Cross-list: THEA 320.

Long Title: EXHIBITING SEXUALITIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class investigates how sexuality has been constructed, avoided, celebrated, and suppressed in museums. In addition to studying a genealogy of sexual display and spectatorship in museums, students will also do the work of collectors, curators, and critics of artistic, historical, and scientific displays of sex and sexuality. Cross-list: HART 399.

Long Title: POVERTY, GENDER, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores poverty and gender in local and global communities. Readings consider human deprivations and well-being in the context of social norms, gender relations, and governmental structures. Also examined are policies meant to improve human capabilities, including both the overall effects of such policies and their differential consequences for children, women, and men. To be considered for the course, please email pjhc@rice.edu the week of pre-registration to complete a brief questionnaire. Preference is given to those that have declared the PJHC minor. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: THE KNOWING BODY: BUDDHISM, GENDER AND THE SOCIAL WORLD

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Western thought tends to regard mind and body dualistically, a view with significant impact on religious, cultural, gender and social processes. This course juxtaposes received Western assumptions with Buddhist perspectives (especially Tibetan Buddhist), mapping Western and Buddhist categories onto each other to better understand the implications of each. Cross-list: ASIA 323, RELI 323, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SWGS 577. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SWGS 323 if student has credit for SWGS 577.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Relationship between gender and social role. Development of the contemporary sexual division of labor and process of socialization with reference to family, education, media, and occupations. Cross-list: SOCI 306.

Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will teach students the important influences and consequences of American family life. We will consider issues such as sex and sexualities, marriage and cohabitation, divorce, family structure, same-sex marriage, domestic violence, and household labor. We will examine the role of social institutions and social inequality in shaping family norms and constraints on family behaviors. Cross-list: SOCI 334.

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS: AFRICAN WOMEN AND DIASPORA

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course that focuses on women from various traditions. Writers might come from Great Britain, the U.S. or elsewhere in translation. Topics have included "Sex, Gender, and Modernism," race and ethnicity, and African Writers of the Diaspora. Cross-list: ENGL 381. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE AMERICAN WEST AND ITS OTHERS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of a body of literature, film, and critical theory about the American West and the concept of regionalism. Explores region in relation to the nation and its borders, global media, coloniality, indigineity and race, gender, and an ethics of place. Cross-list: ENGL 369.

Long Title: PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of research and theory on gender in psychology. Cross-list: PSYC 331.

Long Title: SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introductory venture into conducting fieldwork in the past. The course treats a wide range of artifacts, from philosophical essays to vase paintings. It derives its focus from a rich corpus of recent research into the ancient problemization of desire and self-control. Cross-list: ANTH 325.

Long Title: MASCULINITIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course deals with masculinities in the West, concentrating on concepts of masculine protagonism and personhood. Readings explore identities constructed in realms such as law, politics, finances, art, the home, and war. Cross-list: ANTH 311.

Long Title: MADONNAS & DIVAS: IMAGES OF AND FROM ITALIAN WOMEN

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3 TO 4

Description: This course will examine the many facets of and from Italian women beginning in the Middle Ages until the present. The different mediums include literature, art, cinema and politics. Additional hour for students of Italian who complete reading papers and seminar discussions in Italian. Cross-list: ITAL 330. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The human life cycle from conception to death. Focus is on the interaction between biological processes and culture. Cross-list: ANTH 388.

Long Title: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores ideas of history and attitudes toward the past as culturally conditioned phenomena. Emphasizes history as a statement of cultural values as well as conceptualizations of cause, change, time, and reality. Cross-list: ANTH 308.

Long Title: GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION (ENRICHED VERSION)

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian countries - particularly Hindu and Muslim - focusing on the women participants in these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society. We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have been willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. Credit may not be received for both SWGS 240 and SWGS 340. Cross-list: ASIA 340, RELI 341, Equivalency: SWGS 240. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SWGS 340 if student has credit for SWGS 240.

Long Title: MOTHERS/DAUGHTERS IN FILM & LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In the literary and cinematographic representations of mother-daughter relations one can trace cultural constructions of gender and social dynamics. We will examine a variety of topically relevant 20th and 21st century texts and films from the German-speaking countries as we discuss images of family, relationships, and identity. Cross-list: GERM 343.

Long Title: HISTORY OF FEMINISM

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores feminism as political thought and social movement in various times and places. Readings will include classic as well as non-canonical texts, consider the historical contexts of feminist action, and examine controversies over and within feminism. Cross-list: HIST 340.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON LOVE: MAKING LOVE IN MODERN ART AND THOUGHT

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores various conceptions of love from the classical era to our postmodern age. Ranging from eros to philia to agape, we will examine literary, philosophical, and artistic expressions of love in painting, cinema, literature, psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, and culture. Cross-list: HART 346.

Long Title: SUBJECTIVITY IN MODERN/POSTMODERN ART

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the intellectual history of subjectivity and its various representations in modernist and postmodernist aesthetics. In particular, we will consider the intersection of subjectivity and desire by examining the ongoing project of human self-creation through aesthetics, ornament, framing devices, technological apparatuses, and other supplementary objects of desire. Cross-list: HART 368.

Long Title: WOMEN WRITERS: 1400-1900

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of major British early women writers. Poems, memoirs, plays, and novels by significant women, and their film adaptations. Cross-list: ENGL 329.

Long Title: GENDER AND SYMBOLISM

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examinations of beliefs concerning men, women, and gender in different cultures, including the West, relating to issues of symbolism, power, and the distribution of cultural models. Cross-list: ANTH 327.

Long Title: CHICANO/A LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A mixed-genre course focusing on the Chicano movement, the Chicano renaissance, and alternative literary and mythic traditions associated with them. Cross-list: ENGL 371, SPAN 396.

Long Title: EUROPEAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Filmmaking has celebrated its first hundred years. Women's contributions were significant and deserve to widen the film canon for all filmgoers. This course will concentrate on films by European women directors, taking into account aesthetic particularities, gender commitment, and post-feminist attempts. Importance will also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film production. All films subtitled in English. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 321, HART 385, HUMA 321.

Long Title: NEW GERMAN FILM: HITLER'S CINEMATIC CHILDREN

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From the 1960s to 2000 Germany has developed a very distinct auteur cinema with independent filmmakers such as Fassbinder, Herzog, Wender, Trotta Sander, Brueckner, Doerrie, Garnier, Tykwer and others. The first 20 years of German film were oriented on coming to terms with the fascist past, the second 20 years focused on more contemporary issues. Film, critical reading, and class discussions in English. All films are subtitled in English and will be assessed with podium technology. Cross-list: GERM 338, HUMA 373.

Long Title: GENDER, SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a range of subjects within the history, theory, and criticism of photography, including the relationship between commodification, eroticism, and the objectification of the body, and the intersecting issues of mechanical reproduction, authorship, and authenticity in modern and postmodern discourses. Cross-list: HART 365.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE US-MEXICO BORDERLANDS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course focuses on the cross-national cultures of the US-Mexico borderlands with attention to key issues in the history of the region: haunted modernities, organized resistance, migration, labor, and the traffic in bodies, drugs, and other goods. Readings include novels, short stories, critical essays, histories, film, and video. Cross-list: ENGL 367.

Long Title: MYTHOLOGIES: TRAGIC WOMEN, ENEMIES OF THE STATE, WITCHES, ROGUES AND REVOLUTIONARIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to a world of mythologies, mythmakers and their cultures from the beginnings to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, and modern (Glass, Borges, Whale Rider). Cross-list: ENGL 309, MDST 368.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON BEAUTY AND FRAGMENTATION IN MODERN ART

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine literal and symbolic representation of the human body in modern American and European art. Topics addressed will include conceptions on beauty vs. subjective fragmentation; the performative nature of social identity; and art history's long-standing preoccupation with the sensuous equivalency of flesh and paint. Cross-list: HART 369.

Long Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that traces, through various genres and themes, African American literary history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Attention is given to theories and critiques of African American literature and culture. Cross-list: ENGL 370.

Long Title: SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION: THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the many genres of the 19th-century novel, this course will try to come to terms with some of the insistent questions posed by and through the fiction of the period. Cross-list: ENGL 342.

Long Title: LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS: LOVE IN THE TROPICS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A mixed-genre variable topics course that examines literatures in English from North and South America, including the Caribbean. The focus of the course may vary from a survey of a specific geographical region or a group of writers, to a theme that incorporates more than one geographical region or national literature. Cross-list: ENGL 378. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FEMINIST THEORY NORTH AND SOUTH

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course focusing on concepts that drive and divide social movements centered on gender equality, women's issues, and sexual identity in the two-thirds and one-third world, among them feminism; the body; race; labor; rights, needs, and desires. Cross-list: ENGL 382.

Long Title: FEMINIST SOCIAL THOUGHT

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of feminist theory as critique and reconstruction. Includes Wollstonecraft and de Beauvoir, as well as contemporary debates about equity, difference, knowledge, sexuality, and power. Cross-list: SOCI 383.

Long Title: YOUTH STUDIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course exploring the cultural productions of youth, their social geographies, and youth as a critical field important to Theorizations of law and incarceration, medicine, consumerism, citizenship, immigration, and labor. Previous topics: Generation X, Third Wave Feminism, Obama and the Youth Vote. Cross-list: ENGL 389.

Long Title: HISPANIC CINEMA

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examine the ways in which films in both Spain and Latin America have represented the cultural contexts of their countries. Focus is on the theme of power, and the consequences on social and individual lives. Cross-list: SPAN 390. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: PRODUCING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE: METHODOLOGY AND VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will examine various methodologies used by feminist scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Particular attention will be devoted to the practical application of feminist methodologies in visual culture and the history of art, as well as to interdisciplinary feminist inquiries in science, ethnography, and epistemology. Cross-list: HART 391.

Long Title: FEMINIST KNOWLEDGES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will examine various methodologies used by feminist scholars in the social sciences and the humanities. Particular attention will be devoted to interdisciplinary feminist inquiries in science, ethnography, and epistemology.

Long Title: TOPICS IN LEGAL HISTORY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course on selected topics in legal history. Contents vary. Cross-list: HIST 398.

Long Title: WOMEN IN CHINESE LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines women's roles in Chinese literature as writers, readers, and characters, focusing particularly on the tension between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural experiences inscribed on the female body and how, in the process, women have contrarily gendered patriarchal culture into their own. It will also touch on Chinese women's incorporation of the Western Tradition. Cross-list: ASIA 399, MDST 379.

Long Title: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN MODERN FICTION

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore the construction of racial, sexual, gendered, and ethnic identities in modern fiction, with a particular concern for the connections among identity, literary form, and social categories of meaning. Readings include Woolf, Colette, Duras, Djebar, Morisson, Winterson, Baraoui, and others.

Long Title: AUSTEN ONLY: NOVELS & FILM

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth exploration of Jane Austen as author and icon. Material will include all her fiction as well as portions of her letters and biography. Recent film and television adaptations of her novels will also be critically examined. Cross-list: ENGL 443.

Long Title: STUDIES IN FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of feminist theory gained earlier in the curriculum. Past topics have included sexualities, Marraige and Its Others, and Third Wave Feminism. Cross-list: ENGL 481.

Long Title: WOMEN, SEXUALITY & LITERARY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 301 OR FREN 311 OR FREN 312 OR FREN 336 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Introduction to women writers and to women as objects of representation in fiction and in poetry since the Revolution. Special attention to the body and to sexuality as these impinge both on writer and represented. Cross-list: FREN 360.

Long Title: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 301 OR ANTH 301 OR LING 311 OR ANTH 323 OR LING 501 OR ANTH 501 OR LING 511 OR ANTH 523

Description: Topic: Issues of language and gender, race and class. The course will being with an overview of contemporary sociolinguistic theory and methodologies. We will then examine the linguistic consequences to speakers of the membership in groups, defined in terms of gender, race, and class. Cross-list: LING 415.

Long Title: WOMEN, SEX & RIGHTS IN EUROPE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the political and cultural discussions of the "woman question" in 19th century Europe. Includes the role of public and private legal rights in republicanism and the early feminist movement, gender equality in the context of socialist movements, and challenges to gender identity posed by cultural modernism. Cross-list: HIST 349.

Long Title: GENDER AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores theoretical approaches to gender equality, human well-being and justice in local and global societies. Topics include: material, cultural and social influences on human well-being; the organization of productive and reproductive work, paid and unpaid work; children, family, and gender relations; globalization and economic justice; and the capabilities approach to human well-being.

Long Title: WOMEN IN FRANCE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course studies women in education, the workplace, politics, and in social and cultural institutions in French society. The class explores the history of the French women's movement and analyzes French concepts of gender and feminism in comparison to American models. Taught in English. Cross-list: FREN 424.

Long Title: QUEER THEORY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of key issues in queer theory that links those issues to other major literary and cultural theory of the past quarter century. As such the course will also serve as an introduction to psychoanalytic theory, postculturalism, deconstruction, postcolonial theory, film studies and recent work on the relationship between science and literature. Cross-list: ENGL 498. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEEING SEX IN EUROPEAN ART, 1400-1700

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the visual history of sexuality from 1400-1700. It will explore how imagery structured sexual desire; the role of erotic sacred art; the rise of pornography; the intersection of spatial topography and sexuality; the linkage of licit and illicit sexualities; and the sexuality of artist and patrons. Cross-list: HART 434, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SWGS 534. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SWGS 434 if student has credit for SWGS 534.

Long Title: WOMEN IN MUSIC

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of gender in music, including aesthetics and representation, and of the major roles women have assumed in music, especially as composers, performers, and patrons. While the course emphasizes the Western art tradition, other types of music are explored as well.

Long Title: FAMILY INEQUALITY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is an intensive, upper-level seminar focused on aspects of inequality concerning American families. We will discuss how well-know modes of inequality such as race/ethnicity, gender, and social class affect individual families, as well as how families serve as agents of inequality along these lines. Cross-list: SOCI 440.

Long Title: CULTURES OF SEXUALITY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is "sexuality" across cultural milieux? This course analyzes understandings and practices of sexuality from a global, comparative perspective, including different social configurations of gender and intimacy, reproduction, sensuality and the erotic. Case studies explore the complex relationships between sexuality and gender, ethnicity, nationalism, globalization, commodification, politics, media, health and medicine. Cross-list: ANTH 449.

Long Title: STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of African American literature gained earlier in the curriculum. Recent topics include Black Women Writers. Cross-list: ENGL 470. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 20TH-21ST CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. literature and/or culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Recent topics have included social justice and contemporary fiction. Cross-list: ENGL 462. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GENDER AND HEALTH

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the relationship between gender and health, both physical and mental. We will begin the semester by examing issues related to gender and health in the U.S. and spend the second half of the semester examining gender and health in an international context. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: SOCI 465.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S CULTURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Studies the cultural production (literary, artistic, cinematic) of intellectual women in Latin America. Examines the struggles for interpretive power in works by women from the colonial period to the present. Cross-list: SPAN 456.

Long Title: SEXUALITY, SANCTITY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An advanced mapping of the psychoanalytic study of religion through a close reading of psychoanalytically informed studies of saints, founding figures, and charismatic teachers, with a particular focus on sexuality and gender and their relationships to the expression and representation of holiness in the history of religions. Cross-list: RELI 480, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SWGS 580.

Long Title: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the core concepts and writing of the field.

Long Title: GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950'S

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines representations of gendered subjectivity in Hollywood cinema during the 1950s. Some of the topics to be addressed include the uneasy relationships between normative domesticity and heterosexual masculinity, and issues of voyeurism and eroticism, and the ongoing conflict between liberated individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society. Cross-list: HART 485.

Long Title: GENDER HISTORIES OF MODERN CHINA

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar course, with some lectures, considers conceptual tools (gynotechnics, globalization, representation, etc.) in Late Imperial/20th Century China thru femininity-masculinity. Late Qing gender order through revolutionary eras Party state formation, Great Transformations of late 20th and early 21st centuries. Visual culture, film, primary texts, secondary histories readings. Cross-list: ASIA 492, HIST 492.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Open to SWGS majors only. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: ENGAGED RESEARCH PRACTICUM

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An applied research complement to the Seminar consisting of six hours/week participating in a research-based project at a local public service agency that addresses the needs of women or is focused on gender and/or sexuality related work. Planning for the practicum takes place during the previous fall semester in consultation with the SWGS Director. Practicum projects are presented to a public audience. Permission of the instructor and some background in the study of women, gender or sexuality required.

Long Title: ENGAGED RESEARCH SEMINAR

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taken in conjunction with SWGS 496, the Seminar develops students' research skills and situates the practicum project within a range of perspectives on feminist theory and practice, grassroots organizing, and policy-making around the issues of women, gender, and sexuality, for example, domestic violence, gender and the prison industry, reproductive freedom, the feminization of AIDS. Permission of the instructor and some background in gender or sexuality studies are required.

Long Title: RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN GENDER SEXUALITY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar for SWGS seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWGS majors only.

Long Title: RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN GENDER SEXUALITY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar for SWGS seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWGS majors only. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: FEMINIST DEBATES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course identifies and traces three streams of thought by debates about major issues in women's studies. While the content of these streams will vary-the course will always be attentive to the historical and theoretical context of the debates in question and to the intersection of these debates with others. Topics might include: public and private spheres; the relation between the local and the global links between gender and sexuality; the problem of identity; the relation between activist and academic feminism.

Long Title: GENDER, THE DISCIPLINES, AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SWGS 501 OR WGST 501

Description: Structured as an advanced graduate seminar; this course offers students the opportunity to address a topic in depth from the vantage point of inter- or cross-disciplinary feminist scholarship and to consider in this context the disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and extra-disciplinary interventions that have shaped the study of women, gender and sexuality. Seminar topics will vary each year.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Directed reading under the supervision of a SWGS faculty member with permission of the instructor. May count only once toward major requirements. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the most significant medieval European women authors from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries, from the Byzantine Empire to France, Germany, Italy, England, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, and Spain. See course web page for additional information. Cross-list: ENGL 517.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE AND DIFFERENCE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Please consult the English department website for additional information. Cross-list: ENGL 520.

Long Title: FEMINIST ECONOMICS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is an introductory course covering a range of theoretical and policy issues in contemporary feminist economics. Topics include: the social construction of economic knowledge; disciplinary debates; global economic issues relating to gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation; economic justice; children and family policy; unpaid work; inequities in pay, wealth, and resources; and gender budgets. No prior training in economics is required.

Long Title: SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: SEEING SEX IN EUROPEAN ART, 1400-1700

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: HART 534, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SWGS 434. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SWGS 534 if student has credit for SWGS 434.

Long Title: VICTORIAN FICTION

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Recent topics have included The Victorian Marriage Plot and the History of the Novel, Part II; and Victorian and Modern Sexualities. Cross-list: ENGL 542. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: WOMEN AND GENDER: EUROPE AND BEYOND

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar exploring recent work in key areas of research on women and gender; nationalisms; the modern welfare state; and the challenges which histories of working-class women have posed to definitions of politics, feminism, class, and family. Settings include colonial Britain, India, Africa, Netherlands, Indonesia, France, and Germany. Students can choose to take this course as either a reading or a research seminar. Cross-list: HIST 545.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE VARIATION

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from semester to semester. For this semester, we will take a more in depth look at language variation as it relates to gender and ethnicity. We will examine such variation from both quantitative and qualitative stand points. Cross-list: LING 556. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE KNOWING BODY: BUDDHISM, GENDER, AND THE SOCIAL WORLD

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Western thought tends to regard mind and body dualistically, a view with significant impact on religious, cultural, gendered, and social processes. This course juxtaposes received Western assumptions with Buddhist perspectives (especially Tibetan Buddhist), mapping Western and Buddhist categories onto each other to better understand the implications of each. Cross-list: RELI 577, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SWGS 323. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SWGS 577 if student has credit for SWGS 323.

Long Title: SEXUALITY, SANCTITY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An advanced mapping of the psychoanalytic study of religion through a close reading of psychoanalytically informed studies of saint, founding figures, and charismatic teachers, with a particular focus on sexuality and gender and their relationships to the expression and representation of holiness in the history of religions. Cross-list: RELI 580, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SWGS 470.

Long Title: CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Recent topics have included Contemporary Issues in U.S. Culture, and Studies in Sexuality: Thinking Sex under Neo-Liberalism. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: READING MATERIAL

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers the contesting claims made on the term "material" and their implications for how we read critically, with particular attention to the question of class; the material status of nature and the body; gender, race, and sexual identities. Cross-list: ENGL 583.

Long Title: THINKING SEX UNDER NEO-LIBERALISM

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taking as its historical period in the social crises defining the emergence of neo-liberal capitalism in the late twentieth century, this course focuses on new formations of gender and sexuality in US and transnational culture and inquires into critical concepts being forwarded to address it.

Long Title: POSTCOLONIALISM AND BEYOND

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that serves both as an introduction to postcolonial theory and as a reevaluation of its political and ethical ends vis-a-vis recent debates around globalization and cosmopolitanism. For additional course information please consult the English department website. Cross-list: ENGL 585.