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2019-2020 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • WGS 390 - Special Topics in WGS - SOC


    (1-3).

    Topics to be announced. May be reelected to a total of three credits. Also listed as SOC 398 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 391 - Directed Reading in WGS


    Consent of instructor. (1-4).

    Designed for students wishing to explore particular interests, including community-based projects in women’s and gender studies, not available through other courses. May be reelected to a total of 6 credits. Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 399 - Seminar in Women’s & Gender Studies


      or consent of instructor. (3).

    Advanced seminar engaging students in reading of key texts and development of individual projects within a broadly defined thematic area central to women’s and gender studies. Capstone course for the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 403 - Theory, History and Criticism of Ways of Seeing


    ARH 111  or ARH 112  or consent of instructor; at least sophomore standing. (3).

    Examination of ideas, theories and institutions that have shaped how visual imagery has been interpreted across time. Considers fields that have impacted the creation and reception of visual culture, including critical theory, art criticism, aesthetic theory, visual theories of gender, and museum studies. Also listed as ARH 401 /COM 401 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 410 - Feminism and the Visual Arts


    At least sophomore standing or consent of instructor. (3) H, US

    Study of art-historical issues through feminist methodologies related to the depiction of women in art and artworks made by women. Topics include discussion of the male gaze, and the historical status of women in art institutions. Lecture, discussion, readings. Also listed as ARH 410 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 440 - Girls, Culture & Education


    At least junior standing. (3).

    Interdisciplinary introduction to empirical research and critical inquiry on the education of girls in the U.S. Study of contemporary educational thought on the gendered social and cultural context of schooling. Also listed as EDE 433 .Graded ABCDE. Offered infrequently.
  
  • WGS 474 - Gender and Society


    SOC 100  or WGS 100 , at least junior standing; or consent of instructor. (3).

    Critical examination of gender as a social and institutional construct.  Use of theory to interrogate the sex/gender binary, identity and bodies.  How the experience of gender and the structure of gendered institutions are shaped by cross-cutting lines of difference and inequality - social class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and age (among others).  Effects of gender inequality on women, men and society. Also listed as SOC 474 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 500 - Gender, Crime and Justice


    Graduate standing. (3).

    Exploration of the gendered structure of the legal and criminal justice systems.  Examination of the differential impact of flaws and policies on women offenders, women in prison, and women in law enforcement and the legal profession.  Examination of how gender impacts the definition and treatment of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, reproductive issues, child abuse, and gender-related hate crimes.  Not open to students with credit for WGS 300 . Also listed as CRJ 500 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 525 - Culture, Personality, and Beyond


    Graduate standing. (3).

    Introduction to anthropological approaches to the relationship between culture and psychology. Critique of approaches that emphasize cultural or psychological determinism. Examination of the ways in which culture and psychology mutually shape each other in different social groups and historical contexts. Special attention to race and racism, mental health, emotion, and ethics.  Not open to students with credit for ANT 325 /SOC 325 /WGS 325 . Also listed as ANT 525  and SOC 525 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 526 - Gender, Labor and Inequality


    Graduate standing. (3).

    See WGS 326  for description.  Not open to students with credit for WGS 326 /ECN 326  Also listed as ECN 526 .Graded ABCDE. Offered infrequently.
  
  
  • WGS 540 - Girls, Culture & Education


    Graduate standing. (3).

    See WGS 440  for description.  Not open to students with credit for EDE 433  or WGS 440 . Also listed as EDE 533 .Graded ABCDE. Offered infrequently.
  
  • WGS 569 - History of Women in America I


    Graduate standing. (3).

    Examination of the evolution of women’s experience in the United States from colonization to the Civil War era. Not open to students with credit for HIS 369 /WGS 369 . Also listed as HIS 569 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 574 - Gender and Society


    Graduate standing. (3).

    See WGS 474  for description.  Not open to students with credit for SOC 474 /WGS 474 . Also listed as SOC 574 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 576 - Sex, Work & International Capital


    Graduate standing. (3).

    Analysis of significance of women’s labor to international capital in a cross-cultural perspective. Examination of social construction of “third world” and “development,” and potential and limits of these categories in understanding ideological and material conditions of lives of women across race, class and national boundaries in the world of work.  Not open to students with credit for ANT 376 /INT 376 /SOC 376 /WGS 376 . Also listed as ANT 576 , INT 576  and SOC 576 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 578 - Sex & Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective


    Graduate standing. (3).

    See WGS 378  for description.  Not open to students with credit for ANT 378 /WGS 378 . Also listed as ANT 578 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 581 - History of Women in America II


    Graduate standing. (3).

    Examination of the evolution of women’s experience in the United States from the Civil War era to present.  Not open to students with credit for HIS 381 /WGS 381 . Also listed as HIS 581 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 584 - Gender and Sexuality in Modern European History


    Graduate standing. (3).

    Exploration of the construction and transformation of gender and sexual norms for women and men in Europe from 1789 to 1989. Special attention paid to the family, women’s rights movements, the intersection of gender, class and race, and the impact of wars and revolutions on the status of women and conceptions of gender and sexuality.  Not open to students with credit for HIS 384 . Also listed as HIS 584 .Graded ABCDE.
  
  • WGS 585 - Women, Gender, and the Law


    Graduate standing. (3).

    See WGS 385  for description.  Not open to students with credit for WGS 385 . Graded ABCDE.
 

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