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WOMEN 200 Introduction to Women Studies (5) I&S
Feminist analysis of the construction and enforcement of gender differences and gender inequalities in various contexts. Emphasis on the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and nationality in the lives of women. Topics include feminist theory, motherhood, popular culture, sexual autonomy, racism, and activism in the United States, Asia, Latin America. Offered: AWSpS.
WOMEN 206 Philosophy of Feminism (5) I&S
Philosophical analysis of the concepts and assumptions central to feminism. Theoretical positions within the feminist movement; view of the ideal society, goals and strategies of the movement, intersections of the sex-gender system with other systems of oppression. Offered: jointly with PHIL 206/POL S 212.
WOMEN 244 Indigenous Feminisms (5) I&S Ross
Reconceptualizes and examines the formation of feminisms within a transnational indigenous framework. Topics include indigenous knowledge production, sovereignty, analyses of genders and sexualities, violence, poverty, the politics of reproduction, cultural identities, media, and environmental and social justice.
WOMEN 255 Masculinities: Contestation, Circulation, and Transformation (5) I&S
Looks at different ways that masculinity is understood and represented historically and contemporarily. While primarily U.S. based, also attends to how different styles of masculinity travel via immigration and media. Explores the relationship between men, masculinity, and other social movements (e.g. anti-violence, gay rights).
Instructor Course Description:
David G. Allen
WOMEN 256 Feminist Exploration Series (2-6) I&S
Explores special topics developed and presented by an upper division Women Studies major under the supervision of a faculty member. Prerequisite: WOMEN 200.
WOMEN 257 Psychology of Gender (5) I&S
Major psychological theories of gender-role development; biological and environmental influences that determine and maintain gender differences in behavior; roles in children and adults; topics include aggression, cognitive abilities, achievement motivation, affiliation. Recommended: either PSYCH 101, PSYCH 102, or WOMEN 200. Offered: jointly with PSYCH 257.
WOMEN 283 Introduction to Women's History (5) I&S
Includes units on American, European, and Third World women that examine centers of women's activities, women's place in male-dominated spheres (politics), women's impact on culture (health, arts), and the effect of larger changes on women's lives (technology, colonization). Offered: jointly with HIST 283; A.
WOMEN 290 Special Topics in Women Studies (2-5, max. 15) I&S
Exploration of specific problems and issues relevant to the study of women. Offered by visiting or resident faculty members.
Instructor Course Description:
Calla E. Chancellor
Charu Gupta
WOMEN 299 Women Studies Colloquium (2) I&S
Introduces the discipline of Women Studies to new and potential majors and minors. Credit no credit only.
WOMEN 300 Gender, Race, and Class in Social Stratification (5) I&S
The intersection of race, class, and gender in the lives of women of color in the United States from historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics include racism, classism, sexism, activism, sexuality, and inter-racial dynamics between women of color groups. Prerequisite: WOMEN 200. Offered: jointly with AES 322.
WOMEN 302 Research Methods in Women Studies (5) I&S
Explores appropriate research methodologies for interdisciplinary work in women studies. Examines current debates and issues in feminist methodologies and critiques of methodology. Use of historical documents and theoretical texts. Computer applications in research in women studies. Prerequisite: either WOMEN 200 or WOMEN 206.
WOMEN 305 Feminism in an International Context (5) I&S
Women and feminism from global theoretical perspectives. Critical theoretical ways of thinking about feminism. How women are differently situated throughout the world. How they are represented affects women's agency. Focus on how race and gender affect one another. Representations of and by women throughout the world.
WOMEN 310 Women and the Law (5) I&S
Examines how law addresses women, how the courts have made attempts to address women of color, poor women, lesbians, and women with disabilities. Topics include constitutional construction of equality, employment discrimination, reproductive rights, regulation of sexuality, families and motherhood, sexual harassment, violence against women and international women and human rights.
WOMEN 313 Women in Politics (5) I&S DiStefano
Theoretical, historical, and empirical studies of women's participation in political and social movements. Women's diverse efforts to improve their political, social, and economic status. Policy issues of particular concern to women. Women's political experiences in household, local, regional, national, and international arenas Offered: jointly with POL S 313.
WOMEN 321 History of Afro-American Women and the Feminist Movement (5) I&S
"Feminist Movement" from early nineteenth century to present. Treats relationship between Black and White women in their struggle for independence, at times together and at times apart. Discusses the reasons, process, and results of collaboration as well as opposition. Examines recent and contemporary attempts at cooperation. Offered: joint with AFRAM 321.
WOMEN 323 History of Racial Formation in the United States: 1800-1990 (5) I&S Yee
Traces the development of the concept of race in the United States from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Specific topics include paid and unpaid labor, media, reproduction, migration, social activism, and the processes of identity and community formation.
Instructor Course Description:
Shirley J. Yee
WOMEN 333 Gender and Globalization: Theory and Process (5) I&S Ramamurthy
Theoretical, historical, and empirical analysis of how current processes of globalization are transforming the actual conditions of women's lives, labor, gender ideologies, and politics in complex and contradictory ways. Topics include feminist exploration of colonialism, capitalism, economic restructuring policies, resistance in consumer and environmental movements. Offered: jointly with SIS 333.
WOMEN 339 Social Movements in Contemporary India (5) Ramamurthy
Covers issues of social change, economic development, and identity politics in contemporary India studied through environmental and women's movements. Includes critiques of development and conflicts over forests, dams, women's rights, religious community, ethnicity, and citizenship. Offered: jointly with ANTH 339/ SISA 339.
WOMEN 341 Native Women in the Americas (5) I&S
Historiography, sociology, biography, autobiography, and fiction about native women in the United States and Canada. Offered: jointly with AIS 341; AWSpS.
WOMEN 345 Women and International Economic Development (5) I&S Ramamurthy
Questions how women are affected by economic development in Third World and celebrates redefinitions of what development means. Theoretical perspectives and methods to interrogate gender and development policies introduced. Current processes of globalization and potential for changing gender and economic inequalities assessed. Offered: jointly with ANTH 345/SIS 345.
WOMEN 350 Women in Law and Literature (5) I&S/VLPA
Representations of women in American law and literature. Considers how women's political status and social roles have influenced legal and literary accounts of their behavior. Examines how legal cases and issues involving women are represented in literary texts and also how law can influence literary expression. Offered: jointly with CHID 350.
WOMEN 351 Women of Color as Cross-Cultural Artists (5) I&S/VLPA Habell-Pallan
Provides a historical context for artistic forms produced by racialized women. Examines the cultural production of Chicanas and Latinas in relation to that Native American, African American, East and South Asian American , and Arab American women as well as those women of mixed heritage in the U.S.
Instructor Course Description:
Michelle Habell-Pallan
WOMEN 353 Anthropological Studies of Women (5) I&S
Critical examination of the intersections between anthropology, research on gender issues, and feminism. Readings and class discussions examine the ways women have been represented in the field of anthropology and the repercussions of these anthropological images of women on contemporary understandings of gender. Offered: jointly with ANTH 353; W.
WOMEN 355 Men and Masculinity (5) I&S
Critical study of systematic responses of men to feminist movements, including conservative, pro-feminist, men's rights, mythopoetic, and religious responses. How men of color and gay men view these various men's movements and their issues. Special attention given to philosophical problems such as nature of oppression, human nature, justice, and masculinity. Recommended: WOMEN 200.
WOMEN 357 Psychobiology of Women (5) NW Kenney
Physiological and psychological aspects of women's lives: determinants of biological sex; physiological and psychological events of puberty, menstruation, and menopause; sexuality; pregnancy, childbirth; the role of culture in determining the psychological response to the physiological events. Offered: jointly with PSYCH 357.
Instructor Course Description:
Nancy J Kenney
WOMEN 383 Social History of American Women to 1890 (5) I&S Yee
A multi-racial, multicultural study of women in the United States from the 17th century to 1890 emphasizing women's unpaid work, participation in the paid labor force, charitable and reform activities, and 19th century social movements. Uses primary materials such as diaries, letters, speeches, and artifacts. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 373; W.
WOMEN 384 Social History of American Women in the 20th Century (5) I&S
Analyzes major themes in the history of women in North America from 1890 through the 1990s. Themes include family and community formation, social activism, education, paid and unpaid labor patterns, war, migration, and changing conceptions of womanhood and femininity in the 20th century. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 374.
WOMEN 385 Women and Activism in the U.S., 1820-1990s (5) I&S
Analyzes how U.S. social reform movements between the 1820s and the 1990s shaped discourses of gender, race, class, nation, and citizenship. Social movements include: Temperance, Anti=Prostitution, Prision reform, Dress reform, Reproductive Rights, Eugenics, Suffrage/Anti-Suffrage, Abolitionsim, Labor, the "Mothers' movement," Civil Rights, QBLTQ movement and Dis/Abilities, and Evangelicalism.
WOMEN 389 Race, Gender, Sexuality in the Ethnicity, Gender in the Media (5) I&S Baldasty
Introduction to media representations of gender, race, and sexuality. Offered: jointly with COM 389/AES 389.
WOMEN 392 Asian-American Women (5) I&S Root
History of and contemporary issues related to Asian-American women in the United States. Recommended: AAS 205 or AAS 206. Offered: jointly with AAS 392.
WOMEN 405 Comparative Women's Movements and Activism (5) I&S
Comparative cultural, national, and historical study of women's movements and activisms. Critically analyzes multiple arenas of women's movements and resistance. Topics include feminist anti-racism, pre-nationalism and nationalism, economics, electoral politics, women's and human rights, and international/transnational feminisms. Prerequisite: either WOMEN 305, or SOC 364.
WOMEN 417 The Politics of Talent Development (5) I&S
Investigation of the psychological, cultural, socioeconomic, and political factors that enhance or inhibit the development of exceptional ability, focusing principally, but not exclusively, on women and girls. Pays special attention to issues of race, class, gender, geography, and an individual's orientation to the mainstream of her culture.
Instructor Course Description:
Kathleen Noble
WOMEN 427 Women and Violence (5) I&S Ginorio
Multi-disciplinary explorations of the continuum of violence which affects women's lives, ranging from experience in personal settings (family violence) to cultural or state policies (prisons, wars). Violence against women explored in the context of societal, political, and state violence. Recommended: WOMEN 200.
WOMEN 428 Feminist Understanding of Victims (5) I&S Ginorio
Explores the meanings of the term "victim" within popular, religious, psycho-social, and feminist discourses and the implications these have for victims, people and institutions that serve victims, and scholars who are concerned with these questions. Examines the tensions between activist and academic understandings of the impact of "backlash". Prerequisite: WOMEN 200; recommended: WOMEN 427.
WOMEN 429 Scandinavian Women Writers in English Translation (5) VLPA Gavel-Adams
Selected works by major Scandinavian women writers from mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois realism to the present with focus on feminist issues in literary criticism. Offered: jointly with SCAND 427.
WOMEN 435 Gender and Spirituality (5) I&S
Exploration of ways in which gender informs spiritual teachings and practices of different groups in ancient and contemporary times, with particular attention to the relationship between spiritual beliefs and the construction of social, psychological, and political realities.
WOMEN 438 Jewish Women in Contemporary America (5) I&S
Examines how Jewish women's identities are socially constructed and transformed in contemporary America, using social histories, memoirs, and ethnographies to analyze scholars' approaches to Jewish women's lives. Topics include the role of social class, religion, migration, the Holocaust, and race relations in Jewish women's lives. Offered: jointly with SISJE 438.
WOMEN 440 Reading Native American Women's Lives (5) I&S
Seminar based on social science writings, autobiographies, biographies, and fiction written by, with, or about indigenous women of the United States and Canada. Offered: jointly with AIS 440.
WOMEN 442 Images of Natives in the Cinema and Popular Cultures (5) I&S/VLPA Ross
Cultural examination of images of native people in cinema and popular culture based on social science writings and films by or about natives in the United States and Canada. Offered: jointly with AIS 442.
WOMEN 444 Criminality and "Deviance" in Native Communities (5)
Seminar based on social science writings and biographies written by and about incarcerated natives and "deviance" in Native communities in the United States and Canada. Offered: jointly with AIS 444.
WOMEN 446 Global Asia (5) I&S Welland
Explores how Asia has been constructed through transnational interactions such as imperialism, anti-colonialism, tourism, diaspora, and global capitalism. Topics include the cultural construction of similarity and difference, politics of representation, and political economy of global circulations of people and things. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course. Offered: jointly with ANTH 442/SISA 442; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Sasha Welland
WOMEN 447 Economics of Gender (5) I&S Rose
Microeconomic analysis of the sources of gender differences in earnings, labor force participation, occupational choice, education, and consumption. Economic theories of discrimination, human capital, fertility and intrahousehold resource allocation. Economics of the family in developed and developing countries. Prerequisite: 2.0 ECON 300. Offered: jointly with ECON 447.
WOMEN 450 Language and Gender (5) I&S, VLPA Bilaniuk
Survey of the theoretical trends, methods, and research findings on the relationship between language and gender. Focus on power relations in gendered language use. Extensive study of research based on conversational analysis. Prerequisite: LING 200; either LING 201, LING 203, or ANTH 203. Offered: jointly with ANTH 450/LING 458.
WOMEN 451 Latina Cultural Production (5) I&S/VLPA
Explores the expressive culture of Chicana/Mexican American/Latina women in the United States. Cultural and artistic practices in home and in literary, music, film, spoken word, performing and visual arts. Focuses on how Chicana/Latina writers and artists re-envision traditional Iconography.
Instructor Course Description:
Michelle Habell-Pallan
WOMEN 453 Lesbian Lives and Culture (5) I&S
An exploration and overview of lesbianism in historical, social, cultural, and interpersonal contexts. Prerequisite: either WOMEN 200 or WOMEN 206.
WOMEN 454 Women, Words, Music, and Change (5) I&S/VLPA
Comparative analysis of use of myths, tales, music, and other forms of expressive culture to account for, reinforce, and change women's status and roles. Recommended: WOMEN 353. Offered: jointly with ANTH 454.
WOMEN 455 Contemporary Feminist Theory (5) I&S
Raises the question of how political contexts condition the way some ideas become theory. Emphasizes the present crises in thinking about a transnational feminism.
WOMEN 456 Feminism, Racism, and Anti-Racism (5) I&S
Examines meaning of racism and feminism in women's lives in an international context. Building upon an analysis of racial hierarchies and institutionalized racism, explores strategies used by women engaged in feminist and anti-racist activism. Prerequisite: WOMEN 200.
WOMEN 457 Women in China to 1800 (5) I&S Ebrey
Gender in Chinese culture, women's situations in the patrilineal family system, and the ways women's situations changed as other dimensions of China's political system, economy, and culture changed from early times through the nineteenth century. Offered: jointly with HSTAS 457.
WOMEN 458 Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood (5) I&S
Examines how motherhood is culturally constituted, regulated, and managed within various ideological and technological milieus. Uses ethnographies from anthropology and case studies from feminist legal theory. Topics include slave mothers, surrogate mothers, lesbian mothers, transracial mothers, co-mothers, teen mothers. Prerequisite: WOMEN 200. Offered: jointly with ANTH 484.
WOMEN 459 Gender Histories of Modern China, 18th to 20th Centuries (5) I&S Barlow
Emergence of modernist social, political, intellectual gender formations in social activism, revolutionary writing, scientific ideologies, economic globalization. Stresses gender difference in colonial modernity, revolutionary movement, communism, post-socialist market society. Relates modern Chinese women to global flows, new division of labor, local and regional experience. Offered: jointly with HSTAS 459.
WOMEN 462 Isak Dinesen and Karen Blixen (5) VLPA Stecher-Hansen
The fiction of Isak Dinesen (pseudonym for Karen Blixen) reevaluated in light of current issues in literary criticism, particularly feminist criticism. Close readings of selected tales, essays, and criticism. Offered: jointly with SCAND 462.
WOMEN 464 Queer Desires (5) I&S Swarr
Explores desire and the politics of sexuality as gendered, raced, classed, and transnational processes. Intimacies and globalization, normality and abnormality, and power and relationships are sites of inquiry into the constitution of "queerness." Students interrogate Queer and Sexuality Studies used varied media - films, activist writings, and scholarly articles.
WOMEN 468 Latin American Women (5) I&S/VLPA Steele
The elaboration of discourses of identity in relation to gender, ethnicity, social class, and nationality, by women writers from South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Testimonial literature, literature and resistance, women's experimental fiction. Prerequisite: either SPAN 303, SPAN 316, or SPAN 330; SPAN 321; SPAN 322; either SPAN 304, SPAN 305, SPAN 306, SPAN 307, SPAN 308, SPAN 319, SPAN 339, SPAN 340, SPAN 350, SPAN 351, SPAN 352, or SPAN 376. Offered: jointly with SPAN 468.
WOMEN 474 Trans/Gender Queries (5) I&S Swarr
Writings by and about people who fall outside common conceptions of "women" and "men." Looks beyond this dualism in contemporary and historical global concepts, locating the emerging field of transgender studies in feminist studies and asking what the category "transgender" enables and obscures.
WOMEN 476 Women and the City (5) I&S England
Explores the reciprocal relations between gender relations, the layout of cities, and the activities of urban residents. Topics include feminist theory and geography (women, gender, and the organization of space); women and urban poverty, housing and homelessness; gender roles and labor patterns; geographies of childcare; and women and urban politics. Offered: jointly with GEOG 476.
WOMEN 483 Topics in U.S. Women's History (5, max. 10) I&S Yee
Selected topics in United States women's history from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prerequisite: either WOMEN 200, WOMEN 283, or WOMEN 383.
WOMEN 485 Issues for Ethnic Minorities and Women In Science and Engineering (3/5) I&S
Addresses issues faced by women and ethnic minorities in physical sciences and engineering. Focuses on participation, barriers to participation, and solutions to those issues for women and ethnic minorities in physical sciences and engineering. Offered: jointly with PHYS 451.
WOMEN 486 Representing Beyond the Binaries: Mixing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Media (5) I&S Joeseph
Cultural studies approach to examining the mixed formations that race, sexuality, and gender take in the contemporary United States media. Draws upon multi-disciplinary scholarship in examination of the media. Offered: jointly with COM 490/AES 490.
WOMEN 487 Advanced Psychobiology of Women (5) Kenney
Intensive reading on current issues relevant to women's psychology and physiology. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in either PSYCH 357 or WOMEN 357. Offered: jointly: PSYCH 487; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Nancy J Kenney
WOMEN 488 Women and/in Science (5) I&S Ginorio
Explores science as a method of inquiry and as a profession while also expanding knowledge about women through the use of biographies of women scientists, discipline-based and feminist critiques, and the psycho-social concept of socially defined identities. Recommended: one Women Studies course and one college-level science course.
WOMEN 489 Black Cultural Studies (5) I&S
Examines how images of Blackness have been (re)constructed. Topics include black women's bodies, black men's bodies, Blackface minstrelsy, black queer studies, black power, and black hybridities. Offered: jointly with AES 489/COM 489.
WOMEN 490 Special Topics in Women Studies (2-5, max. 15) I&S
Exploration of specific problems and issues relevant to the study of women. Offered by visiting or resident faculty members. Primarily for upper-division and graduate students.
Instructor Course Description:
Michelle Habell-Pallan
Nancy J Kenney
WOMEN 493 Senior Thesis (2-5, max. 15)
Students conceptualize a topic, conduct primary and secondary research, and write a major paper or project that engages methodologies and theories in interdisciplinary women's studies. Students work independently with a faculty member.
WOMEN 494 Women Studies Capstone (5) I&S
Provides graduating seniors with the opportunity to demonstrate facility with writing, critical thinking, documentation of scholarly work, research/gathering of information, and the ability to disseminate ideas to intended audiences via the creation of a capstone project. Prerequisite: WOMEN 299; WOMEN 300; minimum grade of 2.0 in one additional graded 300-level WOMEN course; minimum grade of 2.0 in one additional graded 400-level WOMEN course. Offered: AWSpS.
WOMEN 495 Tutoring Women Studies (5)
Students train to serve as tutors in designated courses. Facilitate weekly group discussions, assist with writing assignments, explain course materials. Credit/no credit only.
WOMEN 496 Global Feminisms: International and Indigenous Communities (5-12, max. 24)
Participation in academic study abroad programs related to Women Studies emphasizing globalization and study in international contexts or indigenous communities within the United States. Prerequisite: WOMEN 200.
WOMEN 497 Fieldwork in Women Studies (1-15, max. 15)
Internship in local feminist-oriented agencies or projects. Includes a seminar component linking internship to scholarly literature and small group discussion. Supports in-depth exploration of social issues and skill development. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSpS.
WOMEN 499 Undergraduate Research (1-5, max. 10)
Independent study and research supervised by a faculty member with appropriate academic interest. Offered: AWSpS.
WOMEN 501 History of Feminism (5)
Study of feminism from the 18th through the 20th centuries in the national, international, and intranational world system, with a focus on imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, and modernity. Surveys the literature in a global context, supplemented by critical essays and historiographic reviews.
WOMEN 502 Cross Disciplinary Feminist Theory (5)
Raises questions about how feminism becomes theory and what the relation of feminist theory is to conventional disciplines. Readings exemplify current crises in feminism (e.g., the emergence of neo-materialism; critical race theory; citizenship; identity; transnational and migrancy and questions of post-colonialism) to consider disciplinization.
WOMEN 503 Feminist Research and Methods of Inquiry (5)
Explores appropriate research methodologies for interdisciplinary work. Asks how scholarship is related to feminism as a social movement and to the institutions in which we work. Focuses on how similar objects of study are constituted in different disciplines for feminist scholars. Offered: Sp.
WOMEN 504 Philosophies and Techniques of Teaching (5)
Acquaints students with professional and educational issues of college teaching. Students design a course, including a daily outline, reading materials, evaluation instruments, course activities, assessment plans. Includes weekly teaching exercises as well as videotaping an actual class. Prerequisite: experience as a TA or equivalent. Priority given to Women Studies graduate students.
WOMEN 505 Feminist Publishing (5)
Seminar on feminist academic publishing. Students revise a scholarly paper in preparation for submission to an academic journal and provide critical commentary on other students' scholarly work. Also addresses general and specific issues related to the profession of academic publishing.
WOMEN 510 Documentary Research Methods for the Social Sciences (5) Hart, Ross
Explores research methods for documentary production. Topics include collaboration and reciprocity, oral tradition, historiography, intellectual property rights, ethics of representation, archives and fair use, documentary technique, and aesthetics. Projects organized around doing research and planning for productions. Offered: jointly with AIS 501; AWSp.
WOMEN 512 Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women's Health (3) Ensign, Schroeder
Critical examination of the historical, socio-political, and scientific influences on women's health. Issues of sexism, racism, and heterosexism discussed from the perspective of different disciplines. Offered: jointly with NURS 512; W.
WOMEN 526 The Study of Lives in Feminist Research: Narrative and Visual Approaches (5)
Examines the study of others' lives by feminist researchers using ethnography, oral history, biography, photography, and documentary film. Explores the craft, goals, and ethics involved in these forms of representation. Includes workshop critique of research project in development.
WOMEN 539 Social Movements in Contemporary India (5) Ramamurthy
Covers issues of social change, economic development, and identity politics in contemporary India studied through environmental and women's movements. Includes critiques of development and conflicts over forests, dams, women's rights, religious community, ethnicity, and citizenship. Offered: jointly with SISSA 539/ANTH 539.
WOMEN 542 Gender, Music, Nation (5) Habell-Pallan
Music criticism and music studies as a site of feminist intellectual practice. Explores the ways gender and race/ethnicity shape musical discourse as well as narrative constructions of nation in regional and transnational contexts. Considers the influence of feminist theory, queer studies, performance studies, and cultural studies on music scholarship.
WOMEN 545 Transnational Sexualities (5) Swarr
Focuses on transnational processes such as colonialism and globalization, imperialism, and consumerism. Analyzes attempts to both codify and undermine universal queer subjects. Participants theorize sexual practices, discourses, and histories through explorations of tourism, HIV/AIDS, immigration, and other interstices of transnational intimacies.
WOMEN 550 White Privilege and Racism in Health and Human Services (3)
Explores relationships among the psychosocial health of people of color, American cultural patterns of intersecting forms of oppression (e.g., gender, race, and class) and the role of health professionals in defining, ameliorating, and aggravating psychosocial distress. Credit/No credit only. Offered: jointly with NURS 550; AWSp.
WOMEN 555 Feminist International Political Economy (5) Ramamurthy
Provides overview of feminist engagements with international political economy. Topics include: feminist critiques of classical political economists; inter-war internationalisms, anti-colonial nationalisms and feminisms; feminist development studies; post colonial; 'third world' and transnational feminisms; feminist critiques of globalization, governmentality, and neoliberalism.
WOMEN 564 Queer Desires (5) Swarr
Explores desire and the politics of sexuality as gendered, raced, classed, and transnational processes. Intimacies and globalization, normality and abnormality, and power and relationships as sites of inquiry into the constitution of "queerness." Students interrogate queer and sexuality studies using varied media - films, activist writing, scholarly articles.
WOMEN 566 Discourse and Sex/uality (5)
Seminar-based analysis of discourse and social construction of eroticism/desire in face-to-face/mediatized talk and texts; examination of the reproduction of power, control and ideology through the linguistic and semiotic realization of sex/uality. Offered: jointly with COM 566.
WOMEN 572 Transnational Chicana Feminist Theory (5)
Examination of the body of knowledge and scholarship produced under the rubric "Transnational Chicana feminist theory." Analyzes the ways Chicana feminist theory dynamically engages intellectual, poetic, and aesthetic traditions. Considers how Chicana eminist theory functions within and between disciplinary frameworks. Explores transnational roots and routes of Chicana feminist theory.
WOMEN 577 Women of Color in Academia (5) Ginorio
Through scholarship and identifications "women of color" in academia are often positioned to question and redefine academia, education, and the established boundaries between academia and other communities. Discussion focuses on understanding institutional sites and forms of knowledge production and validation in academia in the United States.
WOMEN 589 Gender, Race, and Communication (5)
Analysis of the role of media in the construction of reality, production processes, and their influence on media representation of women and people of color. Offered: jointly with COM 567.
WOMEN 590 Special Topics (1-5, max. 15)
Offered by visitors or resident faculty as a one-time in-depth study of special interest.
Instructor Course Description:
Michelle Habell-Pallan
WOMEN 593 Feminist Doctoral Research Workshop (5) Swarr
Designed to meet the needs of graduate students writing dissertation prospectuses on feminist subjects within any discipline. Students start with a drafted prospectus and revise their work together. Topics addressed include IRB applications, CV preparation, and dissertation funding. Credit/no credit only.
WOMEN 595 Graduate Student Colloquium (2, max. 12)
Forum for graduated students to share their research ideas and progress, general examination preparation issues, and teaching concerns. Prerequisite: Women Studies graduate students only. Offered: AWSp.
WOMEN 596 Preceptorial for Women Studies Graduate Students (5, max. 15)
Graduate student and faculty member work collaboratively in developing or revising course content and pedagogical approach on a specialized area.
WOMEN 597 Fieldwork in Women Studies (2-5, max. 15)
Supervised ethnographic and other on-site research by women studies graduate students. Women Studies graduate students only.
WOMEN 598 Directed Readings in Women Studies (*, max. 35)
Selected topics for individualized or small group study.
WOMEN 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
Offered: AWSpS.
WOMEN 700 Master's Thesis (*)
Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSpS.
WOMEN 701 Master's Practicum (*)
Offered: AWSpS.
WOMEN 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*)
