Women’s Studies Courses Spring 2016
Core Courses (Courses meet 01/19/16-05/06/16 unless otherwise indicated) Course Descriptions Below
WOMST 105A
WOMST 105B
WOMST 105C
WOMST 105D
WOMST 105E
WOMST 105F
WOMST 105G
WOMST 105H
WOMST 105I
WOMST 105ZA
WOMST 105ZB
WOMST 105ZC
WOMST 300A
WOMST 305A
WOMST 325A
WOMST 410A
WOMST 460A
WOMST 500A
WOMST 505ZA
WOMST 505ZB
WOMST 550ZA
WOMST 610A
WOMST 700A
WOMST 784ZA
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
(meets 3/10/16 to 5/5/16)
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Women and Disability
Advanced Fundmntls WM Studies
Queer Study/Concept/Hist/Pol
Feminist Thought
Coming Out
Top/Feminist Science Studies
IS/Women’s Studies
IS/Women’s Studies
Women and Popular Culture
Seminar in Women’s Studies
Top/Feminist Science Studies
Internship in Wm Studies
(Permission Required)
9:30-10:20
10:30-11:20
10:30-11:20
MWF
MWF
MWF
LS 001
LS 001
LS 06A
Weiser
Thacker
Padilla Carroll
1:30-2:20
2:30-3:20
8:05-9:20
9:30-10:45
1:05-2:20
2:30-3:45
5:30-7:55
MWF
MWF
TuTh
TuTh
TuTh
TuTh
TuTh
LS 013
LS 001
LS 001
LS 001
LS 001
W 122
W 25
Weaver
Weaver
Dickinson
Dickinson
Sarmiento
Mallory
Borhani
Distance
Distance
LS 001
W 218
LS 001
WA 333
LS 06A
LS 06A
Distance
TBA
Distance
LS 06A
LS 06A
APPT
Padilla Carroll
Sarmiento
Thacker
Sarmiento
Tushabe
Dickinson
Tushabe
Weaver
Hubler
Hubler
Thacker
Hubler
Weaver
Hubler
Distance
Distance
12:30-1:20
2:30-3:45
11:30-12:45
1:05-2:20
9:30-10:45
12:30-1:20
Distance
5:15-6:05
Distance
2:30-3:45
12:30-1:20
APPT
MWF
TuTh
TuTh
TuTh
TuTh
MWF
W
TuTh
MWF
Cross-Referenced Courses (Courses meet 01/20/16-05/08/16 unless otherwise indicated)
AMETH 345A
DAS 355ZA
ENGL 285A
ENGL 389A
ENGL 660A
ENGL 710A
FSHS 350A
FSHS 350B
FSHS 350D
FSHS 350ZA
HIST 538A
HIST 540A
PSYCH 540ZA
SOCIO 510
SOCIO 633A
SOCIO 635
Asian American Perspectives
Idnty Politic Asian Amer Dream
Intro to Nonviolence Studies
Intro to American Ethnic Lit:
Latino/a Perspectives
Read Maj Authors/Extr Shakesp
Jane Austen’s Predecessors: 18th
Century WM Novels & Other Write
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Women in Sport
Women in History: 1600 to Civil
War
Psychology of Women
Social welfare as a social institution
Gender, Power & Development
Human Trafficking
11:30-12:45
TuTh
Distance
9:30-10:20
11:30-12:20
12:30-1:20
2:30-3:20
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
1:30-2:20
11:30-12:45
2:30-3:45
Distance
9:30-10:45
1:05-2:20
MWF
TuTh
TuTh
5:30-7:55
Distance
2:30-5:00
Distance
TuTh
TuTh
TuTh
TuTh
W 105
Valenzuela
Distance
EH 224
EH 021
ECS 017
ECS 121
Allen
Sampson-Choma
Gonzalez
Hedrick
Nelson
J 164
J109
J163
Distance
ES 226
ES 224
Williams
Brown
Conner
Myers-Bowman
Parillo
Zschoche
BH 5102
Distance
KG 004
Distance
Martens
Kurtz
Shapkina
Shapkina
Graduate Student Only Classes (courses meet 1/20/16-5/08/16 unless otherwise indicated)
EDLEA 838A
ENGL 830A
DED 820 ZA
SOCIO 933A
WOMST 810A
Qualitative Research in Education
Seminar in Culture Studies:
Latino/a Studies
Foundations of Social Justice Edu
Research, Theory & Practice
Gender & Society
Gender: Interdisciplinary
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4:30-6:55
3:55-6:45
W
Th
Distance
2:30-5:00
5:30-8:20
TuTh
W
BL 121
ECS 017
Bhattacharya
Gonzalez
Distance
Grice
WA 201A
LS 6A
Baird
Padilla Carroll
Women’s Studies Course Descriptions
Spring 2016
ENGL 710 Jane Austen’s Predecessors: Eighteenth-Century Women’s Novels and Other Writings
Section A: MWF 2:30-B Nelson
This course's main goal is to introduce significant women novelists whose rediscovery over the past two
decades has enabled us to see the important contributions of early women writers to the development of the
novel. We will first examine the epistolary novel Evelina by Fanny Burney and analyze its influence on Jane
Austen, especially Austen's Lady Susan. We will read the feminist Utopian fiction Millenium Hall by Sarah
Scott; the first children's novel in England, The Governess, by Maria Edgeworth; and the political novels of
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays. We will also look at the phenomenon of the playwright/novelist of this
period such as the incomparable Elizabeth Inchbald. As scholar Catherine Ingrassia reminds us, "although we
are used to studying genres discretely, eighteenth-century readers and authors moved rather seamlessly among
the then contiguous genres in a commercial world not yet preoccupied with niche marketing." A number of
female novelists were also playwrights, literary critics, and authors of feminist manifestoes.
We will investigate, too, some experimental subgenres for the stage at the time, specifically she-tragedy;
common-man tragedy; and the comedy of manners by both male and female writers. We will see a film of the
stage production She Stoops to Conquer, a hilarious comedy written by Oliver Goldsmith in 1773, and
compare the play to Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem by analyzing gender differences. Students will be
responsible for lively discussions; short response papers; a longer essay project on a topic of particular interest;
an oral presentation; and a final exam. This course also counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Women's
Studies.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section A: MWF 9:30:--A Weiser
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WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section B: MWF 10:30:--L Thacker
This class is a broad, interdisciplinary introduction to feminist history, thought, and politics. The course
will place responses to gender inequality in a historical framework that pays close attention to race, ethnicity,
sexuality, and class. We will also read about and discuss contemporary feminist issues, and students will have
the opportunity to do research about gender inequality in relationship to their own majors
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section C: MWF 10:30(first year seminar); Section ZB 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 D: MWF 1:30; Section E: MWF 2:30 --H. Weaver
Gender fundamentally shapes all of our lives, from the bathrooms we enter to the politics of our health
care, voting, employment, kinship, and more. Feminisms have been intrinsic to both exploring and challenging
not only oppressions related to gender, but also the political possibilities that emerge from challenges to our
understandings of gender. Sexuality studies augments these possibilities in outlining the ways that not just our
intimacies, but also our sexed embodiments, figure into how sex and gender shape our lives, social worlds, and
the kinds of justices we seek. This course serves as an introduction to critical scholarships that examine how
these sexed and gendered ways of knowing, being, and experiencing embodiment are shaped by and shape both
the worlds in which we participate and those we imagine.
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WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section F: TU 8:05; Section G: 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.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section H: TU 1:05; Section ZC Distance--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 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section I: TuTh 2:30--A. Mallory
An interdisciplinary introduction to academic and community-based thinking about women’s lives: (1)
how gender inequality in society restricts women’s development, limits their contributions to the dominant
culture, and subjects women to systematic violence and (2) strategies with which women can gain power within
existing institutions and develop new models of social relations. Particular attention will be paid to issues of
race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section ZA: TuTh 5:30:--C Borhani
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WOMST 300 Women and Disability
Section A: MWF 12:30:--L. Thacker
In Women and Disability, we will explore the assumptions we hold as a society about what
disability means. While our focus is on women and gendered bodies, we will also consider the
ways that disability intersects with race, class, sexuality, and other aspects of our lives. We will
engage with theoretical readings, personal essays, fiction, and television and the media.
Coursework will involve journals, short papers, and a final project.
WOMST 305 Advanced Fundamentals of Women’s Studies
Section A: TU 2:30—T. Sarmiento
What is Women’s Studies? Who are its subjects and what are its so-called proper objects of study? How
does onedo Women’s Studies? And for whom is Women’s Studies of value? These are some of the questions
we shall address in this advanced introductory course to the discipline of Women’s Studies and the
interdisciplinary fields of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Surveying the history of Women’s Studies
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and engaging key debates—both present and past—in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, students will
learn about the structural and intimate workings of power through such social formations as gender, sexuality,
race, nationality, class, and ability and how feminist, queer, trans*, critical race, post/colonial, and crip theories
can operate as intersectional bodies of knowledge that engender positive social transformation. Students will
also develop multidisciplinary research approaches—including oral history, (auto)ethnography, cultural
criticism, and statistics—in the study of gender and sexuality as they intersect with other social formations so
as to also participate in the production of knowledge within these fields.
WOMST 325 Queer Study/Concept/History/Politics
Section A: TuTh 11:30—Tushabe
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: TuTh 1:05--T. Dickinson
We will study a variety of feminist analyses of society, culture and work, as well as visions and
practices for social change. The historical development of key feminist theories (especially those developed
after 1970), contemporary debates, and multicultural and global feminism will be analyzed. “Feminist
Thought” is a place where students discuss writings and ideas developed by feminists, women, and advocates
for gender equality who have challenged inequalities and social injustice. As well as working to identify causes
of gender, race, class and global inequalities, feminist thinkers have considered how to make the world a better
place. An important part of feminist thought has been doing social change activities that "speak ideas by
carrying out actions." Not all feminist thought has been written. In fact, some feminist thought has been
accessed by hearing the ancestors' stories and by seeing how women and men have resisted and tried to end
oppression. Feminist thought has demonstrated ways for feminists, women, and social-change makers to
establish egalitarian, democratic, sustainable, and peaceful relations in the U.S. and around the world. Together
we'll discuss the meanings of both historical and contemporary writings. Feminist thought is placed with the
social-historical context of our society. We'll talk about key turning points in feminist thought, the long history
of multicultural feminism, ways to understand global feminism, and gender and sexuality as they have emerged
with our historical-global society. This is a student-centered class where you'll get to design some of our
activities. Prereqs: WOMST 105 or WOMST 305, or permission can be obtained from the instructor if you've
taken: another WOMST class, a theory course in the social sciences, humanities or sciences, or a related course,
such as a course in American Ethnic Studies.
Readings will be drawn from Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (3rd edition, eds.
Carole R. McCann and Seung-kyung Kim); The Essential Feminist Reader (ed. Estelle B. Freedman); and The
Feminist Papers (ed. Alice S. Rossi).
WOMST 460 Coming Out and Sexual Identity
Section A: TuTh 9:30 --Tushabe
Since the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, the discourse on “coming out” has complicated notions of
transparence through speech acts, secrecy and silence. Judith Bulter suggests that through speech acts, one is
always coming out into another “closet.” This course investigates ways in which language silences some
aspects of our lives and makes free and visible others. We will examine the meanings, implications, and
possibilities of coming out at the intersection of colonialism, race, and class. Students will consider how
narratives of coming out and their impact on freedom, policies and homophobic attitudes as they critically
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analyze homosexuality from historical, cultural, ethical, legal and philosophical perspectives, and the universal
queer/homosexual identity.
WOMST 500 Topics Course/Feminist Science Studies
Section A: MWF 12:30 --H. Weaver
Science and technology are central to many of our lives today. We connect with people through
cell phones, email and facebook; we use medicines that both shape and save our lives; and we do things like go
to the gym and the grocery store, where machines read our interactions and even our bodies. Further, many of
us have experienced and deployed science as a powerful basis for an argument, which is to say, we know that
when “science says,” people listen. However, science and technology are also cultural practices, neither of
them neutral with regards to race, sexuality, ability, or gender, as we can witness in histories like that of
eugenics. This class examines those histories as well as their present, thinking through the ways that science
and technology are involved with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and empire. Our topics include feminist,
queer, and indigenous epistemologies; race and the environment; queer and transgender natures; race and
biopolitics; feminist disability studies; Native American DNA; science and colonization; African sciences and
science multiple; feminist and queer anthropologies; cyborgs; disability studies; gender and laboratory animals;
feminist physics; and more.
WOMST 505 IS/Women’s Studies
Section #: By Appointment--A. Hubler
(Obtain permission from Women’s Studies Department Head in 3 Leasure Hall) This course is a
broad overview of Women’s Studies as a disciplinary area of study drawing from a variety of other disciplines
including history, sociology, psychology, art, literature and philosophy among others.
WOMST 550 Women and Popular Culture
Section A: Distance:--L. Thacker
Images of women in a variety of popular media forms: fiction, film, television, music (including MTV),
magazines, advertising, and material culture. Women are explored as objects, consumers, and producers of
popular culture. Material is drawn from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, history,
literary criticism, and cultural studies.
WOMST 610 Seminar in Women’s Studies
Section A: TuTh 2:30--A. Hubler
This capstone seminar familiarizes students with research methods—the tools by which information is
gathered-- and the feminist methodology that informs them. Central to this methodology are ethical concerns:
what is the relationship of between the object of research and the researcher? How can the processes of
knowledge production expose injustice and further positive social change, without reinforcing colonial, racial
and gendered relations of power? The course will culminate in each student's presentation of a semester long
research paper, creative work, or action project. Grades are based upon weekly, short written responses to
readings; attendance and participation; peer evaluation of student papers; final presentation; and the seminar
project or paper.
WOMST 700 Topics Course/Feminist Science Studies
Section A: MWF 12:30 --H. Weaver
Science and technology are central to many of our lives today. We connect with people through cell
phones, email and facebook; we use medicines that both shape and save our lives; and we do things like go to
the gym and the grocery store, where machines read our interactions and even our bodies. Further, many of us
have experienced and deployed science as a powerful basis for an argument, which is to say, we know that
when “science says,” people listen. However, science and technology are also cultural practices, neither of
them neutral with regards to race, sexuality, ability, or gender, as we can witness in histories like that of
eugenics. This class examines those histories as well as their present, thinking through the ways that science
and technology are involved with issues of race, gender, sexuality, and empire. Our topics include feminist,
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queer, and indigenous epistemologies; race and the environment; queer and transgender natures; race and
biopolitics; feminist disability studies; Native American DNA; science and colonization; African sciences and
science multiple; feminist and queer anthropologies; cyborgs; disability studies; gender and laboratory animals;
feminist physics; and more.
WOMST 784 Internship in Women’s Studies
Section ZA: By Appointment--A. Hubler
(Obtain permission from Women’s Studies Department Head 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: MWF 11:30--V. Padilla Carrol
This graduate seminar in Women’s Studies will explore feminist theory through the lens of the body—
from embodied ideals to colonized constructions and human/nature divides. We begin with feminist critiques of
gendered essentialisms and culminate in an exploration of ecocritical feminisms. Students will draw from these
feminist theories to produce a graduate level paper on a gender topic appropriate to their home discipline.
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