Women's and Gender Studies Program (WMNS)
Prerequisites: Membership in PRISM Learning Community
Description: Exploration of LGBTQA+ identities, communities, and histories with an emphasis on intersectionality.
Description: Personal, interpersonal and institutional dimensions of women's experiences from a variety of perspectives.
Description: Introductory survey of the intersections between race, gender, and the law in U.S. history. Includes a review of colonial legal regimes regarding empire, slavery, and liberty; key concepts in American law such as federal Indian law and tribal sovereignty; gendered and racialized restrictions on citizenship and civil rights; tensions between state and federal authority; and historic campaigns for the expansion and restriction of individual liberties.
Prerequisites: Freshman or sophomore status required. Juniors or seniors may only enroll with permission.
Description: Women who made history by manipulating or discarding the expected social norms of wife and mother in order to exert power and influence over their world. Topics may include: Penelope, Hatshepsut, Cleopatra, Lü Zhi, Irene of Byzantium, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabel of Castille, Njinga of Ngola, and Elizabeth I of England.
Counts towards European and towards pre-1800 subgroups in the History major.
Description: Comparative look at gender roles and household structure in ancient Greece from Homer to Athens. Topics include the warrior ideal, class differences, the respectable matron, working women, prostitution and sexual customs, and the lives of enslaved people.
Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation.
University Honors Seminar 189H is required of all students in the University Honors Program.
Description: Topic varies.
Description: Examination of how gender matters in the social world, with a focus on gender and diversity in the US. Introduction to sociological theories about gender and related research. Considers how lifelong gender socialization, social institutions, norms, laws, and cultural practices create gendered effects for individuals, communities, and groups in every aspect of life.
Description: Interdisciplinary issues related to sexuality and gender, both historical and contemporary.
Description: Historical experiences of women within health. Societal constructs of gender in the field of health. Feminist critiques of health and gender.
Description: Explore storytelling related to gender, race, and sexuality as a practice of resistance and change.
Description: Survey of women's experiences and gender relations in American history from 1500 to present.
Description: Intersection of service learning and activism with feminist theories.
Description: Introductory overview of theories of gender and sexuality in relation to film.
Description: Introduction to variety of works by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writers. Significant literary, cultural, social, and historical issues and themes.
Description: Introduction to English literature written by women, studies in the cultural, social, and/or historical contexts.
Description: Fundamental assumptions and philosophical foundations of varieties of feminist thought. Nature of gender, gender identity, sex differences, and the role of science in defining sex and gender.
Description: Overview of the sociological study of families. Family and marriage patterns over time. Socialization, economic exchange, and social support functions of family roles. The effect of the economy, public policy, and other social institutions on families. Emphasis on gender, sexuality, social class, and racial/ethnic diversity in U.S families.
Description: Issues of gender through global lenses. Investigate the roles gender plays in complex issues of migration, war, global economics, education, food, water, transport, family integrity, security, and several other global issues. How femininity, masculinity and sexuality shape these questions as well as how these issues affect local communities.
Taught in English. Letter grade only.
Description: Concepts of love, sexuality and femininity as studied in their historical, religious and sociological contexts.
Description: Topics vary.
This course may be repeated once with a different instructor and focus. Grade Only.
Description: Feminist and queer perspectives on the production and regulation of sexuality through various locations of power (e.g. the state, medicine, social movements, and others). Focus on sexuality as it intersects with other systems of inequality and difference, including race, class, and gender.
Taught in English. Letter grade only.
Description: A diachronic approach to Quran as a literature. Provides an analytic, linguistic as well as the critical study of both the Qur'anic text and its exegeses.
Prerequisites: 3 hours FILM or 3 hours WMNS
Description: Studies in contemporary film theory and criticism informed by feminist, queer, and transgender theories. Weekly film screenings.
Description: Analysis of a variety of works by lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender writers and filmmakers. Significant literary, cultural, social, and historical issues and themes.
May not be offered every year.
Description: Historical survey of women's writings in English.
Description: Relation between women's roles and popular images in the media, including romances, television shows, science fiction, and magazines, with attention to their historical development.
Description: Introduction to female figures from Classical Mythology with application of feminist theories to interpret the myths. Analysis of the portrayal of goddesses and heroines from Classical mythology in ancient and modern sources across genres, time periods, and media.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of SOCI, or Junior standing or Senior standing.
Description: In-depth examination of select contemporary issues confronting families and family research. Adolescent pregnancy, union formation, parenting, work-family, divorce and family instability, and family violence. Topics vary by instructor.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
Description: Survey of women in European history from the Middle Ages to the present. Themes include power relations, work, love and sexuality, marriage, legal issues for women, and growth of feminist consciousness.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
Pre-1800 content.
Description: Image of the madwoman throughout European and American history. Emphasis on how women on the margins have been labelled in different periods as saintly, as witches, or as insane.
Description: Survey of women as political actors: participation in political life, barriers to participation, political attitudes, issues of special concern to women, and issues of particular concern to women of color.
Description: Role and status of women as depicted in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the New Testament. The stories and laws concerning women found in the Bible and from extra-biblical evidence.
Description: Representative works by Black women, composed in various genres, studied in their social and historical contexts. May not be offered every year.
Description: Representative writings by Native American women in their social and historical contexts.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
Description: Surveys Black and/or African-American women's history from the 15th to the late 20th century. The transatlantic slave trade, "New World" experiences, slavery and resistance, sexuality, cultural persistence and evolution, racial strife, the struggle for civil rights, and black womanist and feminist theories.
Description: History of the indigenous women of North America. Gender roles and kinship organization, women's work and economic activities, political and diplomatic roles, and everyday lives and relationships. Analysis of change over time and the effects of colonization and dominant society's imposition of patriarchy. Famous indigenous women such as: Pocahontas, Sacagewea, Nancy Ward, and Winona LaDuke. Contemporary issues.
Description: The intersection of gender, identity, power, and representation throughout time and space in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada.
Description: Introduction to theory and research in gender and communication. Emphasis on examining the relationships among gender, language, social reality, and cultural values.
Taught in English
Description: A survey of normative and subversive gender identities in France 1600-2000.
Taught in English.
Description: Examination of complexities of women's experience under Nazism and Communism of Central and Eastern Europe.
Taught in English.
Description: French texts from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries (drama, prose, poetry, autobiography), all of which use the body as a reference point to explore developments in gender, religion, science, and society in French literature and civilization.
Description: Topics vary.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Experiential learning designed to deepen understanding of classroom concepts related to study of women and gender in society.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Independent reading or research under direction by a faculty member.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Overview of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer drama and popular culture.
Description: Sexual practices and ideologies in American history from the 1800's to the present.
Prerequisites: 6 hrs ANTH
Description: Theoretical approaches to gender. Emphasis is placed on cross-cultural differences in gender socialization of as it pertains to sexual behavior, power within domestic and public spheres, and the impact of gender on individual aspirations.
Description: Theories and research findings about the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of clothing and appearance in relation to the self and others. Special emphasis will be placed on relationship(s) between the body, dress, and personal and social identites.
This course is a prerequisite for: TMFD 910
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing
Description: Examination of how religion is used to shape, maintain, and transform gender and sexuality in the U.S. and beyond. Focus on the intersection of religion, gender, and sexuality from a feminist/queer theoretical perspective.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: A particular historical or other groups of literature by and about women, seen in their aesthetic and intellectual context.
Prerequisites: 9 hrs PSYC.
Description: Differences between sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Social construction of gender, and the intersections between gender and other social identities (e.g., sexuality, race/ethnicity). Interrogate gender within the field of psychology (e.g., developmental, neuroscience, cognitive, personality, social); Role if gender in important aspects of the human experience (e.g., bodies, violence, media, work, parenthood, mental health). Application of gender outside the classroom (e.g., how gender shapes our every-day lives and experiences).
Description: Ancient Greek and Roman evidence pertaining to the fields of women's studies, gender studies, and the study of sexuality.
Description: Introduction to economic theory and empirical research on race and gender differences in economic outcomes and social circumstances. Topics include discrimination, history of exclusionary public policy, evolution of gender roles, human capital, the criminal justice system.
Description: Explores how the contemporary women's movement has emerged within Africa and its relationship to social change.
Description: Explores how messages conveyed by television, film, stand-up comedy, and social media shape viewers' ideas and attitudes about feminism and contribute to both normative and emerging cultural beliefs about gender and sexuality.
Description: Examination of consent from multiple perspectives: interpersonal relationships, healthcare, social media posting, informed consent, etc. to gain a deeper understanding of how consent uniquely works within these contexts, and how to practice clear verbal requests and allocations of consent.
Description: Examination of a variety of feminist Latin American texts including poetry, fiction, history, philosophy and political manifestos from a cultural and literary studies perspective. Consideration of pop culture and visual artists.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Rhetoric and rhetorical theory of women writers and speakers and its implications for literature, composition, literacy, feminist theory, and women's and gender studies.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Experience of femininity and masculinity compared according to time and place, revealing the intimate connections with nation, modernity, race, and ethnicity.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing; 3 hours in any of the following areas: ANTH, SOCI, HIST, AHIS, TMFD or WMNS.
Description: In depth analysis of the relationship between material culture and gender roles, categories, and performances. Engages with theoretical frameworks for material culture and gender, as well as topics such as the body, clothing, the built environment, technology and media.
Prerequisites: WMNS major or minor.
Description: Introduction to feminist and gender theory. Important theoretical frameworks upon which Women's Studies is based and the implications of these theories in practice.
This course is a prerequisite for: WMNS 489
Prerequisites: 9 hours of SOCI, or Senior standing.
SOCI 200 is strongly recommended.
Description: Evaluation and application of scholarly theory and research on gender in societal context. The nature and effects of sex stratification, gendered culture, institutionalized sexism, feminist theory and sociology of knowledge.
Prerequisites: WMNS 485
Description: Topic varies. Focus is to integrate a variety of perspectives on Women's and Gender Studies; to tie together diverse materials that the student will have been presented with in the discipline oriented courses.
Description: Topics vary.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.