| # 05769 |
# 05770 |
# 05771 |
# 05772 |
# 05773 |
# 05774 |
| MW |
MW |
MW |
TTh |
TTh |
TTh |
| 9am - 11am |
11am - 1 pm |
3pm - 5 pm |
9am - 11 am |
11 am - 1 pm |
1 pm - 3 pm |
| (Launius) |
(Gray) |
(Gray) |
(Sen) |
(Grow) |
(Freeman) |
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This is the Women's Studies fundamentals course in which students examine women's diverse experiences, perspectives and contributions and look at cultural beliefs and stereotyped images of women and their roles. This interdisciplinary course also explores efforts to define new identities through work and creative activity and feminism, both historically and at present. This course covers socialization, ideology, the history of the women's liberation movement and different perspectives in feminism. |
"Issues in Feminism" (4).
| WS 200 |
TTh |
PSAC 002 |
| #05775 |
3 pm- 5 pm |
(Hall) |
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Prereq.: WS 100 and an ENG 151, 152, or 153. This course moves beyond the introductory level of Women's Studies 100. It is designed to provide students with an opportunity to examine in considerable depth several issues that are central to feminist discourse. Through readings and discussion of assigned materials, as well as independent work, students will be encouraged to look carefully and critically at all sides of an issue and draw conclusions about it. This course will explore the following topics: violence against women, work, health and reproduction, and spirituality. |
"The New Scholarship on Women: The Question of Difference" (4).
| WS 400 |
MW |
PSAC 002 |
| #05776 |
1 pm- 3 pm |
(Launius) |
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Prereq.: WS 100, WS certificate student, and sr. The question of sexual differences has both plagued and motivated past and contemporary feminist analyses. This interdisciplinary theory course explores what new scholarship on women going on in diverse disciplines contributes to the question of differences among women and between women and men. |
"New Feminist Scholarship: Graduate Capstone Seminar in Women's Studies" (4).
| WS 589 |
Tu |
PSAC 002 |
| #05777 |
5 pm-9pm |
(Burgess) |
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Prereq.: WS graduate certificate student. This course explores new scholarship on women and gender through critical analysis of recent literature on these topics and through reflection on students current academic work and research. This is the graduate-level capstone course for the women's studies certificate (Previously listed as WS500). |
ELECTIVE COURSES
"Women and Writing" (4).
ENG 306J
| # 02434 |
# 02435 |
# 02436 |
| MW |
TTh |
MW |
| Ellis 103 |
Ellis 120 |
Ellis 103 |
| 1 pm - 3 pm |
1 pm - 3 pm |
4 pm - 6 pm |
| (Holt) |
(Atlas) |
(Marciniak) |
| Prereq.: jr. and completion of first-year composition. This course focuses on women and writing and concentrates on issues of gender. It satisfies the upper-level undergraduate writing requirement. |
"Women and Literature" (4).
| ENG 325 |
MW |
Ellis 214 |
| #02453 |
1 pm - 3 pm |
(Marciniak) |
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Prereq.: one Eng. course above 199 and jr. or permission. This course will survey the significant work of women writers, the forms they have used and the ideas that have interested them. As students move through the centuries of women writers, they will discuss how these women write to one another through the centuries and how they fit into the classical canon of literature. |
"Women in the Ancient Mediterranean" (4).
| CLAS 343 |
MW |
Ellis 212 |
| #01474 |
2 pm - 4 pm |
(Palmer) |
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Prereq: One Women's Studies or Classics course. This course is a survey of the aspects of women's lives in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, based upon textural and archaeological material, with an emphasis upon the cultural biases inherent in the sources. Class will explore poetry by and about women, law cases, drama, paintings, and statues and will focus on how to analyze all these areas. |
"American Literature: Civil War to WW1: Race, Class and Gender from the American Renaissance to the First World War" (5).
| ENG 570P/775B |
TTh |
Ellis 203 |
| #02346 |
10 am-12 pm |
(Atlas) |
According to David Reynolds, the year Leaves of Grass was published, 1855, there was a gathering of the Association of New York Publishers on September 27 at the Crystal Palace. There were 650 publishers and authors invited, but not Walt Whitman. Students will be exploring the politics and aesthetics of literature from the American Renaissance to World War 1.
In this class students will follow David Reynold's lead by first reading Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. Students will examine some wonderful and diverse literature that will give them a taste of the popular and not-so-popular literature bringing them through the beginning of modernity to Modernism. |
"Health of Women" (4).
| HLTH 210 |
WF |
Grover E304 |
| #03143 |
10 am - 12 pm |
(Rathbun) |
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Prereq.: jr. In this course the health needs and concerns of women within the physical, mental-emotional, and social dimensions of functioning are examined. The course includes an emphasis on women as healthcare and product consumers. |
"Women in History Since 1877" (4/5).
| HIST 320B/520B |
MTWTh |
Bentley 129 |
| #03011/03066 |
1 pm-2 pm |
(Jellison) |
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Prereq.: soph. This course focuses on U.S. Women's history since Reconstruction. Topics include the experiences of immigrant women in the United States, prostitution in the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era birth control movement, achievement of the right to vote, women in the two world wars, women in the civil rights and new feminist movements, the backlash against feminism, and Roe v. Wade and the abortion debate. |
"Gender and Communication" (3).
| INCO 420 |
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Course is not being offered this quarter! |
"Communication in the Family" (4).
| INCO 422 |
MW |
CTCL 310 |
| #03381 |
2 pm-4 pm |
(Arrington) |
|
Prereq.: INCO 101 or 206, jr. This course is an examination of the communication concepts basic to understanding interaction in the family. It provides a framework for analysis of family communication; explores communication issues which relate to family interaction, including conflict, power, intimacy, and the development of relationships; and presents a model of effective communication in the family. It includes a consideration of verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors. |
"POLS of Law and Sexuality" (4/5).
| POLS 421/521 |
MW |
Bentley 310 |
| #04960/04978 |
3 pm-5 pm |
(Burgess) |
|
This class is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the topic of the regulation of sexuality, exploring this issue from a legal, historical, and theoretical perspective, focusing on the development of the right to privacy. In the second part, students will examine equal protection challenges to the traditional regulation of sexuality, including the issues of blacks, women and gays in the military; anti-civil rights and anti-gay initiatives; and the right to marry, including the issue of same sex marriage. In the third part students will explore First Amendment challenges to the regulation of sexuality, as well as the ways that equal protection and associational challenges may sometimes conflict. Issues examined will include associational liberties, outing issues, and the regulation of pornography. In the last part students will explore newer frontiers in the area of law and sexuality, including issues pertaining to AIDS, transsexualism and cross-dressing. |
"Feminist Political Theory" (4/5).
| POLS 478/578 |
TTh |
Bentley 307 |
| #04965/04985 |
10 am-12 pm |
(White) |
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Preq.: POLS 270 and WS 100. This course focuses on forms of political thought, beginning with an examination of the dominant political tradition as it is embodied in texts of classic liberalism. These texts will be read in conjunction with feminist commentary on this tradition, considering the questions: "To what extent can the concerns of feminists be addressed within the conceptual and political framework of liberalism?" The second part of the course will deal with several feminisms which reject the liberal framework as a starting point. In the end, this course will offer an opportunity to apply these conceptual frameworks in the course of dealing with issues critical to contemporary women. |
"Psychology of Gender" (4).
| PSY 378 |
MW |
Porter 108 |
| #05055 |
10 am-12 pm |
(Hoyt) |
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Prereq.: 9 hrs. psychology, including PSY 101. This course looks at sex differences in physical characteristics, abilities, personality, and social behavior; development of sex roles; sex roles across the life span; relationships of sex, gender, and sex roles to interpersonal functioning, work, and psychological disorders. |
"Violence to Women" (4).
| SOC 467 |
MW |
Lindley 321 |
| #05272 |
9 am - 11 am |
(Staff) |
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Prereq.: 16 hrs. of sociology. This course examines related forms of violence in which women are the predominant victims: forcible rape, marital rape, incest, spousal assault, date rape and assault, and sexual harassment. The role of pornography will be assessed, and emphasis will be placed on current theoretical and empirical findings and developments. |
"Sociology of Gender" (4/5).
| SOC 470/570 |
TTh |
Lindley 338 |
| #05273/05278 |
5 pm-7 pm |
(Mattley) |
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Prereq.: 12 hours of sociology, including SOC 101, or permission. This is an examination of social and historical factors that have kept women subordinated to men in the family and prevented them from acheiving equality in the labor force. This course also explores prospects for change. |
"Gender and Justice" (4).
| SOC 471/571 |
TTh |
Lindley 334 |
| #05828/05829 |
1 pm-3 pm |
(DeKeresedy) |
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Prereq.:12 hours of sociology. This course explains how the interpretation and application of criminal law refelcts assumptions about female and male natures, appropriate roles, and positions in society. Historical and contemporary readings examine the prosecution of violence against women; the prosecution, sentencing and correction of women offenders; and differential access to the profession of law (particularly women's access to the judiciary). Readings will also highlight how structure (at the social and organizational level) and interaction contribute to legal gender effects and the intersection of race and class with gender. |
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Tier III
(Not for Women's Studies credit but highly recommended) |
"Sin and Sex in Western Legal History" (4).
T3 407P
| # 05651 |
# 05652 |
| MW |
MW |
| Ellis 110 |
Ellis 110 |
| 10 am - 12 pm |
1 pm - 3 pm |
| (Shadis) |
(Shadis) |
| Prereq.: Sr., 8 hrs Teir II humanities. Using religious and philosophical texts from Plato to Thomas Aquinas, letters, legal documents, poetry, prose, rule books, art and music, this course examines Western attitudes toward sex and sexuality and considers such questions as these: "What do we mean by 'masculine' and 'feminine' and what do masculinity and femininity have to do with sex and sin?" and "What are the connections between sin, sex and politics?" |
"Women in the Information Age" (4).
| T3 438A |
MW |
RTVC 027 |
| #05676 |
6 pm-8 pm |
(Bernt) |
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Prereq: sr., WS 100 or COMT 214 or 8 hours social science. This course investigates the effects of the "information age" on women's lives. Although information technologies have revolutionized the way we live and work, men and women have not been affected in the same manner. This course explores the reasons women have interacted much differently than men with the two primary emerging technologies—computers and telephones. |
"Women and Leisure" (4).
| T3 475A |
TTh |
GROV W119 |
| #05676 |
1 pm-3 pm |
(Mittelstaedt) |
|
Prereq:Sr., one Tier II social science. This course is designed to assist students in developing an awareness of the changing social roles of women in society, particularly within the leisure components of women's lives. The course uses a social-psychological perspective, and encourages students to think critically about key issues surrounding women and leisure withn a broad social context. This course is taught from a feminist perspective, focusing on how social change is necessary to allow women the opportunities that they deserve related to leisure and recreational pursuits. |
