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 women, including women's social, political, and legal status in the United States and around the world; feminist perspectives on sexuality, gender, family, and reproduction; and the implications of these perspectives for social and critical theory.

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: Freshman Seminar: 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. The course is taught in English. Cross-list: FSEM 130, GERM 130.

Long Title: WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE IN MDERN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Through close readings of a wide variety of literary texts as well as film and visual media, this course examines images of femininity in German literature and culture since the Enlightenment, while reassessing the significance of women as performers, writers and spectators. This course will be taught in English.

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, and Transgender Studies. This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary examination of sexual desires, sexual orientations, and the concept of sexuality generally, with a particular focus on the construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities. The course will look specifically at how these identities interact with other human phenomena such as government, family, popular culture, scientific inquiry, and especially gender. In exploring sexual diversity, we will highlight the complexity and variability of sexualities both accross different historical periods, and in relation to identities of race, class, ethnicity, and nation.

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: COLONIAL BEGINNINGS TO THE CIVIL WAR

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

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 II

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' concer 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 WGST/SWGS 240 and WGST/SWGS 340. Cross-list: ASIA 240, Equivalency: 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: INTRODUCTION TO TRANSNATIONAL LITERARY IMAGINATION

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A comparative introduction to literatures from a variety of national traditions focused on a single theme. Past topics have included "Murder and Unbelonging." Cross-list: ENGL 269.

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 275.

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 II

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: This course will examine the most significant medieval European women authors from the tenth through the seventeenth 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: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE

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 origins and development of the Arthurian legend from the earliest chronicles in the sixth century and later medieval French, Welsh, Irish, and English Arthurian poems to modern adaptations of Arthurian material, including films.

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 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 contructions of gender in the Islamic world overtime; the challenges faced from such diverse quarters as colonial administrators, Western femenists, and states; as well as movements and individuals within the Muslim world. Cross-list: RELI 315.

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.

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 dating, marriage and cohabitation, divorce, family structure, gay marriage, domestic violence, and household labor. We will examine the role of society 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 Britian, 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: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the American literary West through the historical context of the U.S. in the 20th century, especially in light of postmodernity, the civil rights movement, Hollywood, and global politics. Cross-list: ENGL 369.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL COURTSHIP, LOVE, AND MARRIAGE IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture: The literature of the High Middle Ages is the first since antiquity to probe the hazards and potentials of romance between men and women, as well as single-sex friendship and love. This course will show how the literary ideal of love emerged in a society that was torn apart by war and rivalry. The poems and stories we will read belong to the treasures of medieval literature from German lands. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 330, HUMA 330, MDST 335.

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 intro 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: THE LIFE CYLCE: 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: HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH

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 - particulary 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 benn willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. Credit may not be received for both SWGS/WGST 240 and SWGS/WGST 340. Cross-list: ASIA 340, Equivalency: SWGS 240.

Long Title: GENDER, RACE AND TECHNOSCIENCE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This upper-level discussion-style seminar explores the influences of science, medicine, and technology to the conceptual formations and lived experiences of race, sex, and gender. Readings will be interdisciplinary with a heavy focus on historical and feminist science, medicine, and technology studies. Each participant will make one presentation and lead one discussion. Cross-list: PHIL 342.

Long Title: WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE IN MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Through close readings of a wide variety of literary texts as well as film and visual media, this couse examines images of femininity in German literature and culture since the Enlightenment, while reassessing the significance of women as performers, writers and spectators. This course will be taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 323.

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.

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.

Long Title: SUJECTIVITY IN MONDERN AND POSTMODERN ART AND THOUGHT

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: COMING OF AGE IN THE TRANSNATIONAL WORLD

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this class, we study coming-of-age narratives conveyed in novels, films, testimonies and ethnographies. We understand the transnational as including the west, the postcolonial and the postsocialist space, as the movements of people, culture, and capital between these spaces. Assignments include presentation, a written coming-of-age narrative, and a critical paper.

Long Title: SURVEY OF CHICANO/A LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

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.

Long Title: EUROPEAN WOMEN FILMAKERS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture: Filmaking has celebrated its first hundred years. Women's contributions were significant and deserve to widen the film canon for all filmgoers. The course will concentrate on films by European women directors, taking into account aesthetic particularities, gender commitment, and post-feminist attempts. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 321, HART 385, HUMA 321.

Long Title: NEW GERMAN CINEMA

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture: From the 1960's to 2000 Germany has developed a very distinct auteur cinema with independant 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: TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Cross-list: ENGL 366.

Long Title: MYTHOLOGIES

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 introduces students to a world of mythologies, mythmakers and thier 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 MOERN 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 Amercian 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

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: CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Recent topics have included film, mass culture, "Marx", contemporary ethnic studies, and "the culture of love". Not limited in period, scope, or geography. Cultural Studies is a broad category. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GENERATION X IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An interdisciplinary survey of Generation X in literature, music, film, and politics. 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

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: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN LEGAL HISTORY: ABORTION, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, EUTHANASIA, AND GAY RIGHTS

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will explore contemporary issues in constitutional history of the United States: abortion, affirmative action, euthanasia, and gay rights. 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 bodliy experiences and the cultural experiences inscribed on the famale 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: WOMEN'S STORIES AND LEGAL CHANGE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will consider how narratives move us toward individual responsibility and social action. We will examine this question with reference to feminist legal theory as well as some philosophical works on the powers of story- telling. Narratives we will read include published literary fiction by women authors, but also selected legas cases.

Long Title: AUSTEN ONLY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will try to come to terms with 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 AND WOMEN'S VOICES IN FRENCH LITERATURE

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 womaen as objects of representation in fictiion 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

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 AND GENDER IN 19TH CENTURY 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 right in republicanism and the early feminist movement, gender equality in the context of 19th-century socialist movements, and the 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: 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: ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics will include emergence of Indian Muslim society; Muslim responses to colonialism and the movement for Pakistan; and the role of Islam in politics in contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Requires no prior knowledge of Islam or South Asia. Cross-list: ASIA 432, HIST 432.

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. Cross-list: MUSI 526.

Long Title: WOMEN IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The portrayal of women in major works of Russian literature, with particular attention paid to the women writers' presentation of women. No knowledge of Russian required.

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: 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: WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOCIETIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the legal position and social realities of men and women in the Islamic world, with emphasis on how boundaries of gender have traditionally been drawn. Includes the family and sexual ethics, the harem, polygamy, divorce, and eunuchs (who played an important role in both the military and in certain religious institutions). Cross-list: HIST 438, MDST 438.

Long Title: 20TH-21ST CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

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 comptemporary fiction. Cross-list: ENGL 462.

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.

Long Title: WOMEN AND THE U.S. WELFARE STATE: SEXUAL POLITICS AND AMERICAN POVERTY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar in the history of women and welfare focuses on women's contributions to the growth of the welfare system and investigates how welfare has been shaped by understandings of gender, race, and class. Compares American programs to similar programs developed in other countries. Cross-list: HIST 468.

Long Title: SEX, SANCTITY, PYSCHOANALYSIS

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 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. Cross-list: ENGL 382.

Long Title: SOUTHWEST NARRATIVES: WRITING FROM BELOW

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): WGST 101 AND WGST 102 or permission of instructor

Description: This course examines the "engendering" of official stories and counter-narratives that have shaped the cultural history of the Mexico-US border region. We will track ghosts and symptoms, encrypted and marginal voices as we consider what it means to read from the standpoints of migrants, indigenous, urban poor, and working-class people. Repeatable for Credit.

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: MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Topics vary from year to year.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDIES

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: APPLIED WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Hours variable, 1-3 hours. Internship will be arranged individually at the request of students; details must be approved by the director. Students will also be required to submit a paper of between 8 - 15 pages (depending on the amount of credit) that demonstrates their ability to apply critically their knowledge of women's and gender studies. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDER

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Opne to SWG majors only.

Long Title: RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDER

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

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

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 couse 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

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 SWG 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. 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: Topics vary from year to year as needed. 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: 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 GENDER EUROPE BEYOND

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar examining recent work in key areas of research on women and gender; nationalism; the modern welfare state; and the challenges which histories of working-class women have posed to definitions of politics, feminism, class, and family. Setting will include colonial Britain, India, Africa, Netherlands, Indonesia, France, and Germany. 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. Cross-list: ENGL 546. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate reading seminar. Cross-list: HIST 551.

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 quatitative and qualitative stand points. Cross-list: LING 556. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RESEARCH TOPICS IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar in U.S. women's history designed to introduce students to a growing body of literature on women and gender that is changing the way historians understand American history more broadly. By considering a variety of new scholarship, participants are introduced to the major questions that have engaged feminist historians for decades, as well as new questions that are just now beginning to shape the field. Cross-list: HIST 576.

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.

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: POSTCOLONIALISM AND AFTER

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 end vis-a-vis recent debates around globalizaton and cosmopolitanism. Cross-list: ENGL 585.