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THE 418 - Special Projects in Improvisational Performance
Consent of instructor and a lower-level course appropriate to the area elected(1-3)f
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THE 419 - Seminar in Costume Design and Technology
Consent of instructor and a lower-level course appropriate to the area elected(1-3)f
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THE 420 - Directing II: Practice
THE 320, consent of instructor(4)f
Scene work culminating in a public performance of a final directing project.Lecture and laboratory.
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THE 425 - Senior Seminar
Senior standing; Theatre major or minor(1-3)f
Portfolio, resume, audition and interview preparation for students entering the job market.
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THE 430 - Opera Workshop
Junior/senior standing and consent of instructor; concurrent election of MUS 151, 152, 251, 252, 351, 352, or 451(1)f
Study of opera through live performance of acts, scenes, or segments of standard operatic repertoire.Also Listed as MUS 430
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THE 434 - American Drama
At least junior standing, a 300-level course in literature or theatre history; or consent of instructor(3)h
Development of American Drama with attention to literary and theatrical elements, including historical and cultural influences and theatrical conventions. Emphasis on major playwrights and movements, marginal voices, and the relationship of popular entertainment to serious dramaAlso Listed as ENG 434
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THE 449 - Folklore and Storytelling
At least junior standing(3)
A study of folklore and its relationship to the storytelling process. Emphasis on techniques of preparing and telling stories. Course involves attendance at the Michigan Storytellers’ Festival.Also Listed as EDR 435
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THE 495 - Honors Thesis I
THE 393 and consent of Theatre Department Open only to Honors Students in theatre(4)
Credit and grade for THE 495 is not given until successful completion of THE 496Also Listed as HON 495Graded ABCDE/Y
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THE 496 - Honors Thesis II
Prior or concurrent election of THE 495 and consent of Theatre Department Open only to Honors Students in theatre(4)
Also Listed as HON 496Graded ABCDE/Y
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THE 505 - American’s Contribution to Theatre
Graduate standing, THE 303 or consent of instructor(3)
Not open to students with credit for THE 405.
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THE 521 - Devising Theatre I
Admission to MLS program, Theatre and Community Track; or graduate standing and consent of instructor(3)
Students create dramatic works based on improvisation exercises, local narratives, biographical material and autobiographical references, and create a unified project or projects in which students write, perform, manage and/or design. Audience demographics a consideration in development of projects.Also Listed as AMC 521
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THE 522 - Devising Theatre II
THE 521(3)
Students individually or as a unit mount dramatic presentations based on work in THE/AMC 522, continuing to use improvisation exercises, local narratives, biographical material and autobiographical references to refine these works. Audience demographics a consideration in development of projectsAlso Listed as AMC 522
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THE 523 - Drama and Social Theory
Admission to the MLS program, other graduate students admitted with faculty approval only(3)
Exploration of the role of theatre in society within its cultural, aesthetic, economic, and political manifestations from the debate between Plato and Aristotle on the nature and function of theatrical representation to historical and contemporary issues in American and World cultures. The primary goal is to help students increase their understanding of intersection between theatrical representation and social issuesAlso Listed as AMC 523
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THE 534 - American Drama
Graduate standing(3)
See THE 434 for descriptionNot open to students with credit for ENG/THE 434.Also Listed as ENG 534
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THE 549 - Folklore and Storytelling
Graduate standing(3)
See THE 449 for descriptionNot open to students with credit for EDR 435 (EDU 449) or THE 449.Also Listed as EDR 535
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WGS 167 - Race, Gender and Sexuality
(3)h
Critical analysis of theories of race, gender, sexual identity. Gender and sex roles; racism, sexism and hetero-sexism; concepts of beauty; racial and sexual stereotypes; social issues such as affirmative action, violence, racial and sexual harassment, pornographyAlso Listed as PHL 167
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WGS 170 - Disabilities Studies
(3)h
Introduction to disability issues including the medicalization of intellectual disability. I.Q. Testing; eugenics; deaf education and deaf culture; the American Disabilities Act legislation and its impact on public institutionsAlso Listed as PHL 170
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WGS 200 - Intro to Women’s Studies
3
Introduction to the field of women’s studies and to scholarly and other writing about women’s lives and gender as a social structure and process. Examination of the feminist reconstruction of knowledge; differences among women based upon race/ethnicity, class, sexual orientation; cultural representation of women; divisions of labor based upon gender and race; politics of women’s personal lives; women’s activism. Focus upon women in the U.S.
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WGS 216 - Afro/Latino/Carib Women Writer
Prior or concurrent election of ENG 1123
Overview of the major genres, publishing activities, goals and concerns of female writers from the Anglophone, Francophone and Dutch Caribbean. The Caribbean Women Writers’ Project; the ways in which anticolonial discourse, issues of exile and sanctuary, and revisions of the literary tradition of the Caribbean are manifested in their literatureAlso Listed as AFA 216
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WGS 228 - Women and Literature
Prior or concurrent election of ENG 1123
Study of writing by women in order to explore the concerns of women writers, recurrent themes in their work, and feminist approaches to literature. Readings include historically important works by women as well as contemporary literatureAlso Listed as ENG 228
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WGS 264 - Intro to Feminist Theory
At least sophomore standing.3
Introduction to some of the main perspectives in feminist thought, including liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism. Application of these theories to one or more social issues of particular interest to feminists, such as affirmative action, procreative freedom, motherhoodAlso Listed as PHL 264
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WGS 275 - Clothing in Western Culture
3
Historical examination of fashion and clothing of Western culture as a reflection of social mores, gender roles, and political and economic events from Egyptian times to the presentAlso Listed as THE 275
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WGS 284 - Gender and Communication
At least sophomore standing3
Analysis of gender/communication issues, including how women and men use language differently, how women and men are portrayed in language, and how language reflects and recreates social realityAlso Listed as COM 284 and LIN 284
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WGS 300 - Gender, Crime and Justice
CRJ 185 or WGS 200.3
Explores the gendered structure of the legal and criminal justice systems. Examines the differential impact of laws and policies on women offenders and the experiences of women in prison, law enforcement and the legal profession. Issues include domestic/intimate partner violence, sexual assault, reproductive rights, child abuse, pornography and gender-related hate crimesAlso Listed as CRJ 300
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WGS 318 - Women Writers of African World
Sophomore standing or consent of instructor3
Survey of literature by women from Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Focus on the works and experiences of writers and the genres that shaped their experiences. Selected works from genres such as the Buildungsroman, the mature novel, drama, and/or non-fictional proseAlso Listed as AFA 318 and CPL 318
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WGS 320 - Special Topics
A WGS course or consent of instructor3
Topics to be announced May be repeated when topics very.
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WGS 321 - Women and Music
ENG 1123
Examination of how values in society have influenced the roles of women in music. Study of women of various periods; how society encouraged, limited or enabled them to fulfill their careers; views of their contributions during their lifetime, in historical documentation, and from a twenty-first century viewpoint. Course designed for, but not limited to, the non-music major.Also Listed as MUS 321
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WGS 325 - Culture and Personality
ANT/INT 100 or PSY 100 or SOC 1003
Cross-cultural examination of the construction of personhood and relationships between individuals and culture. Critique of psychological interpretations in anthropological texts and of universalizing tendencies in the field of psychology; the basic Freudian model in contrast with models of self in African, Asian, and Native American cultures.Also Listed as ANT/SOC 325.
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WGS 331 - Women and Work
POL 120 or SOC 100 or WGS 200; or consent of instructor.3
Women’s paid employment and job segregation by sex: relation of women’s paid work to women’s family work, nature of women’s jobs and occupations, and a variety of state policies that influence women’s employment (e.g. anti-discrimination law, maternity and parental leave). White women and women of color in the advanced capitalist economy of the United StatesAlso Listed as POL 331 and SOC 362.
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WGS 337 - Topics in Women’s Literature
Sophomore course in literature or consent of instructor.3
Intensive study of the concerns and achievements of selected women writers as they explore a common theme, genre, or question. Topics may vary (e.g. Life Writings, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Marriage and the Novel)May be elected twiceAlso Listed as ENG 337
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WGS 350 - Scripted: Sex & Gender in Theatre
ENG 1123
Examination of the manner in which theatrical works reflect, re-enforce, challenge and re-vision sex and gender roles in a variety of periods and cultures. Topics include: the politics of re-presentation, the theatrical tradition of cross-dressing, performance art, and the relationship of theatre art to pornography and voyeurism.Also Listed as THE 350.
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WGS 354 - Sociology of Families
SOC 100.3
The family as a social institution: its place in the social structure; its internal dynamics. Comparative analysis of evolution of modern family patterns in the United States and other societies.Also Listed as SOC 354.
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WGS 359 - The Black Family
SOC 100.3
Sociological and social-psychological analysis of the Black family in America. Impact of changes in race relations and of urbanization on the Black family. Assessment of various stereotypes existing in mass media and in sociological and psychological literatures.Also Listed as AFA 359 and SOC 359.
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WGS 363 - Psychology of Gender
One of: PSY 227, 237, 326, 336, 345.3
Psychological, sociological, and cultural factors influencing the development of gender roles and gender differences in cognition, social behavior, personality and motivation. Family and work conflicts and changing gender roles in contemporary American society; similarities of both sexes in these areas.Also Listed as PSY 363.
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WGS 365 - Feminist Ethics
A course in ethics or consent of instructor.3
Study of theoretical issues such as differences between “feminine” and “feminist” ethics, and practical issues such as affirmative action, procreative technologies, and the environment.Also Listed as PHL 365.
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WGS 369 - History of American Women
At least sophomore standing.3
Examination of the evolution of women’s experience in the United States from 1600 to the present, paying particular attention to the economic, reproductive and sexual, familial, and communal roles; participation in public life; and the means by which women have expressed their culture.Also Listed as HIS 369.
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WGS 370 - Women in Western Societies
HIS 111, 113; or consent of instructor.3
Women in Europe since the seventeenth century; ways in which historical process is illuminated by questions of gender. Women’s role in high and low culture, in elite and laboring society, since early modern times, and how the great events and large-scale changes of history affected women?s lives and gender relations. Women in a variety of societies from Russia to Spain.Also Listed as HIS 370.
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WGS 376 - Sex, Work, and Interntional Capital
SOC 100 or consent of instructor.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.Also Listed as ANT 376, INT 376 and SOC 376.
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WGS 378 - Sex & Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANT 1003
Comparison of gender divisions in various societies; social roles of men, women and other categories. African, Asian, and Native American conceptualizations of gender, in comparison with data from Western cultures. Cultural construction of femaleness, maleness, and sexual behaviors and their relationships (or lack of relationship) to gender stereotypes.Also Listed as ANT 378.
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WGS 380 - Women The African Experience
Sophomore standing or consent or instuctor.3
Survey of the history of African women with a focus on gender and the roles African women play in thier societies and families. Emphasis on the roles women play in the economy, polities, professions, education, health, environment, socio-cultural and religious life, wars and conflicts.Also Listed as AFA 380.
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WGS 385 - Women and the Law
POL 100 or WGS 200 or consent of instructor.3
Examination and analysis of the role of law in the social, economic, political and private lives of women in the U.S. Historical overview as well as intensive study of legal problems of current concern to women. Areas of focus: women and work, women and the family, women and their bodies, women and the criminal justice system, role of women in the legal system (including theory as well as case law).Also Listed as POL 385.
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WGS 390 - Special Topics in WGS - SOC
1 to 3
Topics to be announcedAlso Listed as SOC 398.
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WGS 391 - Directed Reading in WGS
Consent of instructor.1 to 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.
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WGS 399 - Seminar in Women’s & Gender St
WGS 200 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
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WGS 410 - Women as Artists
At least junior standing3
History of the art produced by women artists, from 1550 to the present. Topics include the historical slighting of women artists, feminist imagery, politics and contemporary feminist criticism. Figures include Gentileschi, Vigee-Lebrun, Kauffman, O’Keefe, Cassatt, Chicago, and Nevelson.Also Listed as ARH 410.
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WGS 438 - Critical Race Theory
Six (6) credits in WGS or consent of instructor.3
An examination of the historical centrality and complicity of law in upholding white supremacy (and concomitant hierarchies of gender, class and sexual orientation). Topics will include: segregation and integration legislation, affirmative action, hate speech, hate crimes, antiracism and whiteness.Also Listed as PHL 438.
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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
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WGS 457 - Family in Historical Perspective
At least sophomore standing.3
Evolution of the family between 1600 and the present in Europe and America, including the peasant family, pre-industrial urban family, wage-earning nuclear family, and contemporary household. Social, economic and demographic factors that influence the forms families have taken, the quality of family life, and ideas about the family.Also Listed as HIS 457 and SOC 457.
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WGS 467 - Race and Gender
Six (6) credits in WGS or consent of instructor.3
Examination of central issues in gender and race theory including: gender, sex and race identity theories, social construction and essentialism, self and other identity formation.Also Listed as PHL 467.
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WGS 474 - Gender and Society
SOC 100, at least junior standing; or consent of instructor.3
Nature and causes of sex stratification in society. Cross-cultural regularities in sex role development. Freudian and neo-Freudian perspectives, Marxist perspectives, structural functionalism, and radical feminism. Interpersonal and institutional processes which operate to keep women and men in their place in American society. Alternatives to structured sexual inequality in societies.Also Listed as SOC 474.
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WGS 480 - Gender Theory
Six (6) credits in WGS or consent of instructor.3
Exploration of the major theories about gender. Focus on intersections of race/ethnicity, class and gender in the formation of identities and reproduction of inequality. Theories explored include Marxist Feminism, Psychoanalytic Feminism, Queer Theory, Post Modern Feminism.Also Listed as PHL 486.
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WGS 525 - Culture and Personality
Graduate standing; ANT 100 or PSY 100 or SOC 100.3
See description for ANT/SOC/WGS 325.Not open to students with credit for ANT/SOC/WGS 325.Also Listed as ANT 525 and SOC 525.
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WGS 531 - Women and Work
Graduate standing3
See WGS 331 for description.Not open to students with credit for POL 331/SOC 362/WGS 331.Also Listed as POL 531 and SOC 563.
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WGS 538 - Critical Race Theory
Graduate standing3
See WGS 438 for description..Not open to students with credit for PHL/WGS 438Also Listed as PHL 538.
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WGS 540 - Girls, Culture & Education
Graduate 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.Not open to students with credit for EDE 433 (EDU 440) or WGS 440.Also Listed as EDE 533.
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WGS 554 - Sociology of Families
Graduate standing, SOC 100; or consent of instructor.3
The family as a social institution: its place in the social structure; its internal dynamics. Comparative analysis of evolution of modern family patterns in the United States and other societies.Not open to students with credit for SOC/WGS 354.Also Listed as SOC 554.
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WGS 567 - Race and Gender
Graduate standing3
See WGS 467 for description.Not open to students with credit for PHL/WGS 467.Also Listed as PHL 567.
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WGS 569 - History of American Women
Graduate Standing.3
Examination of the evolution of women’s experience in the United States from 1600 to the present, paying particular attention to the economic, reproductive and sexual, familial, and communal roles; participation in public life; and the means by which women have expressed their cultureNot open to students with credit for HIS/WGS 369Also Listed as HIS 369.
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WGS 574 - Gender and Society
Graduate standing, SOC 100 or WGS 200; or consent of instructor.3
Nature and causes of sex stratification in society. Cross-cultural regularities in sex role development. Freudian and neo-Freudian perspectives, Marxist perspectives, structural functionalism, and radical feminism. Interpersonal and institutional processes which operate to keep women and men in their place in American society. Alternatives to structured sexual inequality in societies.Not open to students with credit for SOC/WGS 474.Also Listed as SOC 574
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WGS 576 - Sex, Work, & International Capital
Graduate standing, SOC 100 or ANT/INT 100; or consent of instructor.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/INT/SOC/WGS 376Also Listed as ANT 576, INT 576 and SOC 576
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WGS 578 - Sex & Gender in Cross-Cultural
Graduate standing; ANT/INT 100.3
Comparison of gender divisions in various societies; social roles of men, women and other categories. African, Asian, and Native American conceptualizations of gender, in comparison with data from Western cultures. Cultural construction of femaleness, maleness, and sexual behaviors and their relationships (or lack of relationship) to gender stereotypes.Not open to students with credit for ANT/WGS 378Also Listed as ANT 578
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WGS 580 - Gender Theory
Graduate standing3
See WGS 480 for descriptionNot open to students with credit for PHL 486/WGS 480Also Listed as PHL 586.
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WGS 585 - Women and the Law
Graduate standing3
See WGS 385 for descriptionNot open to students with credit for POL/WGS 385.Also Listed as POL 585
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