Undergraduate Course Catalog 2006-2007
College of Liberal Arts
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Women's Studies (WS)
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Coordinator: Linda M. Blum
Associate Professor: Linda M. Blum, Marla A. Brettschneider
Research Associate Professor: Mary M. Moynihan, Jane Stapelton
Assistant Professor: Carol B. Conaway, Julia E. Rodriguez
Core Faculty: Kristine M. Baber, Victoria L. Banyard, Linda M. Blum, Marla A. Brettschneider, Diane P. Freedman, Marc W. Herold, Nancy Lukens, Kathy Miriam, Mary M. Moynihan, Janet L. Polasky, Mary E. Rhiel, Julia E. Rodriguez, Juliette M. Rogers, Susan Schibanoff, Jennifer D. Selwyn, Raelene Shippee-Rice, Jane Stapelton, Mara R. Witzling
Women’s studies provides students with an understanding of the status
of women in various cultures and historical eras. Students learn the
use of gender as a category of analysis and increase their knowledge of
women’s contributions to many fields. Women’s studies courses offer
students critical perspectives on such basic questions of the social
order as assumptions about gender roles and gender identity.
A major or minor in women’s studies prepares students for careers where
the changing roles of women are having a perceptible impact. Women’s
studies graduates go on to law school and graduate school in a variety
of disciplines. Some have taken positions with social change or family
service agencies, while others have found work in such fields as
communications, education, affirmative action, and personnel.
Women’s Studies Major
For the women’s studies major, students must complete 40 credits of
women’s studies courses (or 32 in the case of a second major) with
grades of C- (1.67) or better and an overall grade-point average of
2.00 or better. These courses must include the following three: 1) WS
401, Introduction to Women’s Studies, normally taken at the beginning
of the course sequence; 2) WS 632, Feminist Thought; and 3) a 700-level
WS-designated course (for instance, WS 795, 796, 797, 798, or 799).
Electives are chosen in consultation with a faculty adviser principally
from other women’s studies courses including WS 595 (Special Topics in
Women’s Studies) and cross-listed departmental offerings.
Departmental offerings include the following regularly repeated cross-listed courses:
ARTS 487, Themes and Images in Art: Major Mythic Images of Women
ARTS 690, Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
CMN 567, Images of Gender in the Media
CMN 583, Gender and Expression
ECON 698, Topics in Economics: Women in Economic Development
EDUC 507, Mentoring Adolescents
ENGL 585, Introduction to Women in Literature
ENGL 685, Women’s Literary Traditions
ENGL 785, Major Women Writers
FS 545, Family Relations
FS 757, Race, Class, Gender, and Families
GERM 520, Women in German Literature and Society
GERM 524, Topics in German Film
HIST 565, Women in Modern Europe
HIST 566, Women in American History
NURS 595, Women’s Health
PHIL 510, Philosophy and Women
PSYC 711, Psychology in 20th Century Thought and Society
SOC/ANTH 625, Female, Male, and Society
SOC 630, Sociology of Gender
Students may also select from other courses that are offered as special
topics by the departments. In the past, such offerings have included
the following: ANTH 697, Women in the Middle East; CMN 616, Women and
Film; FREN 525, French Women: Subject and Object.
Electives must show a balance between arts and humanities/social
sciences and be distributed between upper (600 and 700) and lower (400
and 500) level courses; no more than four electives may be from the
same department. No fewer than five courses should be taken at the
upper level. Strongly recommended are a practicum or internship course
and a course that focuses on women of color or cross-cultural
perspectives.
Women’s Studies Minor
The minor consists of 20 credits of women’s studies courses. These must
include WS 401, Introduction to Women’s Studies, and WS 798, Colloquium
in Women’s Studies, normally taken at the beginning and end of the
course sequence, respectively. In between, students should select other
women’s studies courses or cross-listed courses from departmental
offerings. (For a more complete description of the women’s studies
minor, see COLA/Interdisciplinary Programs.)
Students who wish to major or minor in women’s studies should consult with the coordinator, 203 Huddleston Hall, (603) 862-2194.
Queer Studies Emphasis
www.unh.edu/queerstudies/index.html
The queer studies emphasis provides students with opportunities to
research and understand the history, status, challenges, contributions,
and changes in the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered
individuals and movements. This emphasis enables students to explore
the relationship between gender and sexual orientation, and to
understand queer discourse across the intellectual landscape, in the
humanities, the arts, and the social sciences. The increasingly public
face of queer life has generated new fields of study in the academy. As
this new area evolves it provides a framework to address the phenomena
of queer life and intellectual developments through the exploration of
the ideas, social pressures, historical circumstances, constraints, and
powers that guide queer communities.
The emphasis consists of interdisciplinary coursework in queer studies
and is open to all students. Students who wish to pursue the queer
studies emphasis should consult with the queer studies adviser in the
women’s studies office, (603) 862-2194.
