Women’ Studies Courses Spring 2015
Core Courses (Courses meet 01/20/15-05/08/15 unless otherwise indicated) Course Descriptions Below
WOMST 105A
WOMST 105B
WOMST 105C
WOMST 105D
WOMST 105E
WOMST105F
WOMST105G
WOMST105H
WOMST105I
WOMST105J
WOMST105ZA
WOMST 300A
WOMST 305A
WOMST 325A
WOMST 410A
WOMST 500A
WOMST 500ZA
WOMST 560A
WOMST 610A
WOMST 700A
WOMST 784ZA
Intro to Women’s Studies
(First Year Seminar)
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
(First Year Seminar)
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
11:30-12:20
MWF
LS 001
Padilla Carroll
9:30-10:20
10:30-11:20
10:30-11:20
MWF
MWF
MWF
LS 001
W 120
LS 001
Singer
Brooks
Singer
1:30-2:20
2:30-3:20
8:05-9:20
9:30-10:45
1:05-2:20
5:30-8:20
Distance
MWF
MWF
TU
TU
TU
TU
LS 001
LS 001
LS 001
LS 001
K 004
LS 010
Distance
Sabates
Sabates
Dickinson
Dickinson
Sarmiento
Dickinson
Padilla Carroll
Women of Color Feminism
Advanced Fundmntls WM Studies
Queer Study/Concept/Hist/Pol
Feminist Thought
Top/African Feminisms
Top/LGBTIQ Sex & Motherhood
(Meets: 12/29/14 to 1/16/15)
Women and Violence
Seminar in Women’s Studies
Top/African Feminism
Internship in Wm Studies
(Permission Required)
9:30-10:45
2:30-3:45
11:30-12:20
1:05-2:20
11:30-12:45
9:00-11:30
TU
TU
MWF
TU
TU
MTWUF
BH 114
W 218
WA 231
LS 001
LS 001
LS 010
Sarmiento
Tushabe
Singer
Hubler
Tushabe
Tushabe
9:30-10:20
1:30-2:20
11:30-12:45
APPT
MWF
MWF
TU
LDS 126
LS 006A
LS 001
APPT
Sabates
Padilla Carroll
Tushabe
Janette
Cross-Referenced Courses (Courses meet 01/20/15-05/08/15 unless otherwise indicated)
ANTH 790A
AMETH 453A
AMETH 454A
AMETH 560ZC
AMETH 560ZF
DAS 355A
ENGL 285A
ENGL 388A
ENGL 389A
FSHS 350A
FSHS 350B
FSHS 350D
FSHS 350ZA
HIST 538A
HIST 542
PHILO 590A
POLSC 606
SOCIO 510
SOCIO 633A
SOCIO 635
Writing Cult: Ethnographic Meth
Latino/a Perspectives
Asian American Perspectives
Top/Politics of Women of Color
Top/Erotic Justice: Audre Lord
(Meets 12/29/14 to 1/16/15)
Intro to Nonviolence Studies
Intro to American Ethnic Lit:
African-American Women Authors
Asian American Literature
Latino/a Perspectives
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Women in Sport
Women in Amer Civil War to
Present
Top: Philosophy of Feminism
Gender and Politics
Social welfare as a social institution
Gender, Power & Development
Human Trafficking
11:30-12:45
9:30-10:45
11:30-12:45
2:30-3:45
1:00-4:30
TU
TU
TU
TU
MTWUR
W 201A
W 115
W 025
WA 333
LS 010
Falcone
Millan
Roshanravan
Roshanravan
Roshanravan
Distance
1:05-2:20
TU
Distance
EH 122
Allen
Sampson-Choma
EH 012
EH 021
J 164
J109
J163
Distance
ES 226
ES 226
Sarmiento
Gonzalez
Cafferky
MacDonald
Knapp
Welch
Parrillo
Zschoche
D 203
W 218
Distance
KG 004
Distance
Terlazzo
Heidbreder
Kurtz
Shapkina
Shapkina
2:30-3:45
9:30-10:20
1:30-2:20
11:30-12:45
2:30-3:45
Distance
9:30-10:45
3:55-5:10
TU
MWF
MWF
TU
TU
2:30-3:20
2:30-3:20
Distance
2:30-5:00
Distance
MWF
MWF
TU
TU
TU
Graduate Student Only Classes (courses meet 1/20/15-5/08/15 unless otherwise indicated)
EDLEA 838A
SOCIO 933A
WOMST 810A
Qualitative Research in Education
Gender & Society
Gender: Interdisciplinary
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4:30-6:55
2:30-5:00
2:30-3:45
W
TU
TU
BL 107
WA 201A
LS 6A
Bhatta Charya
Baird
Hubler
Women’s Studies Course Descriptions
Spring 2015
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section A: MWF 11:30; Section ZA: Distance--V. Padilla Carroll
This course is a broad overview of Women’s Studies as a discipline—an interdisciplinary area of study
drawing from a variety of other disciplines including history, sociology, psychology, art, literature, and
philosophy among others. Topics will include history and theory of women and women’s studies, issues
concerning women, and how race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality intersect with gender. Throughout this course,
we will emphasize critical thinking and communication skills.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section B: MWF 9:30; Section D: MWF 10:30--B. Singer
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to sex and gender through a feminist lens. We begin with
texts that deconstruct “common sense” approaches to sex and gender, providing a critical frame through which
to read the meanings and materializations of these terms. Readings engage varied constructions of sex and
gender, as well as the imbrication of these terms with sexuality, race, class, ability and other dimensions of
personhood. We will investigate these concepts through the history of sex and gender construction; histories of
science; the invention of the modern nation-state; citizenship and sexuality; transnational and cross-cultural
considerations; and methodologies of resistance and feminist activisms. Students will become critical readers of
literary, medical, activist, popular media and other texts that they encounter in everyday life.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section C: MWF 10:30--L. Brooks
Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores politics, society, media and history
through a women’s or feminist lens. Intersectionality is a feminist theory that examines how different forms of
identity like race, class, gender and sexuality intersect and interact on different levels of society. The field
researches and critiques societal norms and other inequalities based on these identities. Women’s studies
challenges these intersecting oppressions and addresses the systemic problems that create them. The focus is on
questioning the norms of society and the systems and structures that guide them.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section E: MWF 1:30; Section F: MWF 2:30 --G. Sabates
An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist scholarship, which seeks to understand the
creation and perpetuation of gender inequalities by examining historical, theoretical, and cross-cultural
frameworks for the comparative study of women and gender. This course aims to sharpen students' critical
awareness of how gender operates in institutional and cultural contexts and in their own lives. Particular
attention will be paid to the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, national origin,
disability, culture, and movements for social change.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section G: TU 8:05; Section H: TU 9:30--T. Dickinson
This course is a foundation for the Women's Studies major and minor. It is an interdisciplinary,
historically based course that provides broad, multicultural feminist understandings of diverse groups of
women, girls, families and communities in the U.S. and in other countries, and in a rapidly changing world.
We'll discuss diverse readings, films, and other sources about the creation of gender-sexuality, racial-ethnic,
class, and global hierarchies. Students will have a chance to think about how we have been shaped by
inequalities and movements for change, how they have responded and shaped their lives, and how feminists are
working to remake their worlds at many levels. We'll think about our social relationships with different groups
of women in the U.S. and around the world. We'll learn in a collaborative way. And we'll have a chance to
participate in campus activities that relate to Women's Studies.
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WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section I: TU 1:05--T. Sarmiento
Gender, sexuality, and race structure all of our worlds. In this introductory course to the
interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies, we shall explore gender as a category of social, cultural, and
political analysis as it intersects with other social formations, including sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality,
socioeconomic class, and ability. Primarily focusing on the US context, but in dialogue with the translocal and
the global, we shall survey the herstories of the women’s movement, the parameters and possibilities of
feminist inquiry, and feminism’s contributions to social change. We shall also analyze how power operates
through gender in our contemporary moment, particularly engaging the site of popular culture. Together, these
approaches to the study of gender as a social construct as well as an embodied positionality will not only allow
students to recognize how knowledge production intimately circumscribes peoples lives but will also empower
them to be a part of its undoing.
WOMST 300 Women of Color Feminism
Section A: TU 9:30--T. Sarmiento
Women of color feminism not only reflects the embodied experiences of Asian/American, Black,
Indigenous, and Latina women who come together under the socially constructed category “woman of color”; it
also names a critical mode of analysis that interrogates the ways in which race, class, gender, sexuality, and
geopolitics intersect with one another. In this course, we shall read texts by women of color based in the US
that historicize and theorize social, cultural, and political phenomena—including colonialism, globalization, the
feminization of poverty, media representations, and academic knowledge production—from an intersectional
perspective. Assignments will include class discussion facilitation, two 4-page reading response essays, and
two exams (midterm and final).
WOMST 305 Advanced Fundamentals of Women’s Studies
Section A: TU 2:30-- Tushabe
This course examines the development of Women’s Studies as a discipline, and introduces theories,
issues, and major paradigms underlying feminist scholarship. We will emphasize multicultural approaches and
perspectives in order to understand important concepts, research methods and methodologies to feminist work.
This course is writing intensive.
WOMST 325 Queer Study/Concept/History/Politics
Section A: MWF 11:30--B. Singer
This course surveys the history and recent developments in sexuality studies and queer thought. We first
establish a foundation in sexuality studies by reading inaugural texts in the field. Then we turn to engagements
between queer studies and four intimately related subject areas: Feminist Studies, Critical Race Studies,
Transgender Studies and Disability Studies. This dialogic focus allows us to analyze the relationship between
sexuality studies, queer theory and intersectional inquiries that critique forms of power, privilege, marginality
and social norms. The course concludes with queer theory considered through a social justice lens that includes
citizenship and nationalism, transnational studies, the criminalization of queerness, as well as the question of
queer times, places and futures.
WOMST 410 Feminist Thought
Section A: TU 1:05--A. Hubler
Survey of a variety of feminist analyses of society, culture, and work, as well as visions for social
change. The historical development of key feminist theories, contemporary debates, and multicultural and
global feminism will be analyzed. Assignments in the class include a midterm, final, and final research paper of
5-7 pages.
WOMST 500 Top/African Feminisms
Section A: TU 11:30 --M. Tushabe
This course offers in-depth critical case studies and surveys of how gender theory, developed in EuroAmerican contexts, is applied in research, feminist epistemologies, policy, and development programs in
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Africa. The course explores challenges of gender theory in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research. We’ll
also examine the interface of gender theory and various other theoretical theories including postcolonialism,
structuralism, modernity and postmodernism.
WOMST 560 Women and Violence
Section A: MWF 9:30--G. Sabates
"Women and Violence' explores violence against women in its multiple forms from cross-cultural
perspectives (national and global), as well as its intersection with class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and
national origin. Strategies for prevention, intervention and social change will be discussed."
WOMST 605 Women’s Studies Practice
Section A: TU 5:30--T. Dickinson
Read about men as feminists, bell hooks & Paulo Freire on pedagogy, feminist action and
theory, world-systems analysis of how the world works & how you can make change happen, the power of
democratic work & applied nonviolence, and personal development & transformation. Anything is possible:
Get supervised workplace experience and action-research experience as you volunteer to work with the place of
your choice, which might be, for example: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, Crisis Center, Campaign for Nonviolence
or SAFEZONE, Teen pregnancy health program, a nonviolence project in your sorority or fraternity, or any
approved and supervised project of your choice that can help you get employment or research experience for
professional or graduate school. This is a classroom and field experience course, so you’ll be spending the last
10 Friday class sessions working on your individual projects and volunteering at the non-profit or campus
organization of your choice. A pre-requisite of comparable college or social services work is recommended
for this course.
WOMST 610 Seminar in Women’s Studies
Section A: MWF 1:30--V. Padilla Carroll
In WOMST 610 Seminar in Women’s Studies: Capstone students explore topics in women’s studies
through structured independent research tied to their scholarly or career interests. This course is taken in the
student’s final year.
WOMST 700 Top/African Feminism
Section A: TU 11:30--Tushabe
This course offers in-depth critical case studies and surveys of how gender theory, developed in EuroAmerican contexts, is applied in research, feminist epistemologies, policy, and development programs in
Africa. The course explores challenges of gender theory in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research. We’ll
also examine the interface of gender theory and various other theoretical theories including postcolonialism,
structuralism, modernity and postmodernism.
WOMST 784 Internship in Women’s Studies
Section ZA: By Appointment--M. Janette
(Obtain permission from Women’s Studies Program Director in 3 Leasure Hall) Gain valuable
experience in community, volunteer, activist, or political organizations at the local, state, national, or
international levels.
WOMST 810 Gender: Inter. Overview
Section A: TU 2:30--A. Hubler
We will study a variety of feminist analyses of society, culture, and work as well as visions for social
change. The historical development of key feminist theories, contemporary debates, and multicultural and
global feminism will be analyzed
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