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WST 101S - Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies |
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of women and gender. Students will learn about the diverse histories that make women's studies a complex, but dynamic site for understanding how our ideas about healthcare, history, politics, media, and labor are shaped by gender, race, class, and nation. Students will also gain the conceptual tools, vocabulary, and methods that will help them analyze these ideas and contribute their own informed understandings to the study of women and gender. Every year.
Credit: 4 |
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WST 249 - Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies |
This course provides students with an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) studies. Students study the emergence and transformation of LGBTQ identities, cultural practices, and political movements within the broader context of changes in social constructions of sexuality, as well as cultural, social, political, and economic transformations. The course centers questions of normativity, explores how power is implicated in queer politics and sexuality, and how race, class, and nationality impact constructions of sexuality and gender. Offered every three years.
Credit: 4 |
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WST 266H - The Female Body in Western Culture |
In this course we will examine historical and contemporary understandings of the female body in Western culture. We will study constructions of the female body in medicine and science, in the law, in the media, in literature, and in sport culture. Our goals are to become more astute cultural critics, to better understand the political, personal, intellectual, and social ramifications of dominant representations of the female body, and to analyze challenges to these representations—in theory, research, literature, the arts, and in everyday embodied practices. (Students taking this course may not receive credit for ENG 295H.) Prerequisites: ENG 100 or permission of instructor. Every three years.
Credit: 4 |
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WST 267 - Gender and the Cultures of Globalization |
In this interdisciplinary course, students study globalization as a diverse historical process that both shapes and is shaped by gender. We will explore how gender is implicated in the relations of people and cultures in and between nations through colonialism, war, immigration and migration, tourism and travel, transnational modes of production and exchange, and transnational coalitions. While the course will focus on fiction, film, and memoir, we will also have readings from geography, history, anthropology, and economics. Rerequisite(s): ENG 100 or Instructor Permission. Every three years.
Credit: 4 |
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WST 277 - Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies |
An intermediate level study of topics not already covered by regular course offerings in women's and gender studies. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Prerequisite(s): Varies.
Credit: 2-4 |
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WST 297 - Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies |
An intermediate study of topics not already covered by regular course offerings in women's and gender studies. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Prerequisite(s): WST 101S or permission from instructor. Completion of Independent Study Form. Varies.
Credit: 2-4 |
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WST 330 - Topics in Contemporary Feminist Thought |
Each semester this course will focus on a topic central to contemporary feminist thought. In addition to studying contemporary approaches to the topic, students may study its historical evolution through a reading of key texts in the field. Race, class, gender, and cross-cultural perspectives are emphasized. Prerequisite(s): ENG100 or permission of instructor. Every two years.
Credit: 4 |
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WST 377 - Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies |
An advanced level study of topics not already covered by regular course offerings in women's studies. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Prerequisite(s): WST 101S or permission of instructor. Varies.
Credit: 2-4 |
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WST 396 - Internship in Women's and Gender Studies |
The internship in women's and gender studies offers students the opportunity to apply their understanding of the dynamics of gender and social change to the world at large while exploring possibilities for their own careers. Interns will design and carry out a project in ongoing consultation with a faculty advisor and a supervisor from a community organization. Interns will write a final paper and make a public presentation reflecting on the internship in light of their academic work in women's and gender studies. Prerequisite(s): WST 101S, WST 330. Every semester.
Credit: 4-12 |
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WST 397 - Advanced Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies |
An advanced study of topics not already covered by regular course offerings in women's and gender studies. The course may be repeated for credit when different topics are considered. Prerequisite(s): WST 101S or permission from instructor. Completion of Independent Study Form. Varies.
Credit: 2-4 |
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