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WS 401 - Introduction to Women's Studies
Credits:
4.00
Interdisciplinary survey of the major areas of women's
studies: women's history, cross-cultural perspectives,
women in literature, psychology of women, etc. Basic
principles and concepts fundamental to more advanced
women's studies research. Topics vary. Required for major
and minor. Writing intensive.
WS 401H - Honors/Introduction to Women's Studies
Credits:
4.00
Interdisciplinary survey of the major areas of women's
studies: women's history, cross-cultural perspectives,
women in literature, psychology of women, etc. Basic
principles and concepts fundamental to more advanced
women's studies research. Topics vary. Required for major
and minor. Writing intensive.
WS 405 - Gender, Power and Privilege
Credits:
4.00
This course explores the diversity of women's lives through
the dynamics of status, power, privilege, and inequality
in contemporary United States. Students will examine
women's diverse experiences by using the theoretical
framework of the social construction of race, gender,
economic class, and sexual orientation in historical
context. We will examine categories of difference and the
processes, philosophical developments, institutions, and
conditions that lead to and rely on power and privilege in
modern American society.
WS 444 - Trans/Forming Gender
Credits:
4.00
Using a social construction approach, students explore the
multiple ways in which gender is constructed within the
lives of children, women, men, and transgender people.
Specific attention focuses on the social institutions and
systems that encourage both the construction and
reproduction of gender identity and expression across the
lifespan. Students actively participate in identifying
historical and current day factors and institutions that
shape gender. Students explore the roles of families,
schools, educational settings, media, the workplace,
recreation activities, the medical system, religion, laws,
and the laws and the legal system in the construction of
gender.
WS 444A - Race Matters
Credits:
4.00
Class examines race categories in the United States and how
these historically changing categories shape our diverse
realities across racial, ethnic, gendered, classed, and
national identities. Students examine race as a category of
difference and explore the multiple ways that individuals
claim racial identities. Specific attention focuses on how
diverse women have made history in their own lives and in
the lives of others by resisting the interlocking systems
of oppression.
WS 444B - Score!: Gender and Diversity in Sports
Credits:
4.00
Utilizing guest lectures, films, readings, projects and
discussion, this writing intensive course provides
first-year students wiith the opportunity to investigate
the social, historic, economic and political factors that
shape sports opportunities for girls and women in the
United States. Students examine the extent to which sports
experiences are the same for all girls and women in their
diversity, as well as comparable to males across their
differences. Writing intensive.
WS 444C - On the Roads to Equality
Credits:
4.00
Looking beyond what is traditionally thought of as the
women's rights movement in the United States, this course
remaps women's history and activism to include a diversity
of women's experiences. A multicultural examination of
history focuses on women's leadership and participation in
immigrant rights, labor, the Black Women's Club, economic
justice, reproductive rights, self determination and
feminist movements during the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Writing intensive.
WS 444D - Cyborgs, Avatars, and Feminists: Gender in the Virtual World
Credits:
4.00
Utilizing feminist theoretical and critical investigations
of gender and techno culture, students explore women's
popular and theoretical conceptions of cyberspace. Students
explore numerous digital communication systems within
cyberspace and examine how and why a diversity of women
utilize these systems. This course provides students with
the opportunity to investigate the impact that advancements
in virtual technology have in the lives of women.
WS 505 - Survey in Women's Studies
Credits:
4.00
The course explores the breadth and depth of Women's
Studies from an historical perspective. In order to
understand Women's Studies currently, students look at the
historical foundations that contribute social, political,
and economic infleuences on the topics.
WS 595 - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
In-depth study of topics not covered in regular course
offerings. Prereq: permission; WS 401.
WS 595W - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
In-depth study of topics not covered in regular course
offerings. Prereq: permission; WS 401. Writing intensive.
WS 632 - Feminist Thought
Credits:
4.00
Theories of women's oppression and emancipation explored
from various historical, political, cultural, and social
perspectives. A major goal of the course is to increase
awareness of historical and contemporary feminist
approaches to understanding women's experiences,
representations, and relative positions in societies. The
course also considers the interrelation of theory and
practice and the impact of past feminist theories on
feminist movements. Prereq: WS 401. Writing intensive.
WS 795 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
For advanced students who have the preparation to carry
out an individual project of supervised research on a
specific women's studies topic. Preparation should include
WS 401 or equivalent, and/or other women's studies courses.
Barring duplication of topic, may be repeated for a maximum
of 8 credits. Prereq: permission of instructor and women's
studies coordinator.
WS 796 - Advanced Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Advanced or specialized topics not normally covered in
regular course offerings. May be repeated, but not in
duplicate areas. Prereq: permission.
WS 796W - Advanced Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Advanced or specialized topics not normally covered in
regular course offerings. May be repeated, but not in
duplicate areas. Prereq: permission. Writing intensive.
WS 797 - Internship
Credits:
4.00
Students gain practical experience in a woman-focused
agency or organization. Plan of study and requirements are
developed together with a faculty adviser and the student's
workplace adviser. Bi-monthly seminar with all internship
students and instructor. Prereq: permission. WS majors or
minors. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
WS 798 - Colloquium
Credits:
4.00
Intensive study of specialized topic for advanced
students. Topics vary with instructor. Prereq: permission.
Required for WS minors. Barring duplication of topic, may
be repeated for credit. Writing intensive.
WS 799 - Honors Thesis
Credits:
4.00 to 8.00
With a faculty sponsor, students enrolled in the
honors-in-major program develop an independent,
investigative project in women's studies. Written thesis.
Prereq: majors only; one other WS 700-level course prior to
or concurrently with WS 799; permission.