Women’s Studies Courses
SUMMER 2014
Courses (courses meet 6/9/14-8/1/14 unless otherwise indicated) * Course Description Below
WOMST 105
Intro to Women’s Studies
5:30-8:45
MTWU
WA 350
Roshanravan
WOMST 300ZA
Top/Wm & Politics of Fashion
5:30-7:55
TU
LS 001
Barnes
WOMST 551A
History of Family Violence
2:30-4:30
MTWUF EH 226
Zschoche
(meets 6/9/14 to 7/3/14)
WOMST 784 ZA
Internship Women’s Studies
APPT
APPT
Janette
(Instructor Perm Req)
Revised 4/18/2014
Women’s Studies Course Descriptions
Summer 2014
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section ZA: MTWU 5:30pm -- Roshanravan
In this course, we will explore what it means to be gendered and how gender must be understood in
relation to race, class, sexuality, culture, ability, nationality and other identity markers. One of the guiding
questions for the course is: How has your gender shaped your understanding of who you are, who you get to be,
where you can or cannot go, and what you get to have in this world? We will pay particular attention to the
way gender and gender oppression are produced through histories of power and how these histories position us
to live in ways that perpetuate the oppression of ourselves and/or others, including those who we may not
immediately think of as crucial to our daily living. In addition to histories of power, we will also pay attention
to histories of resistance and how “women” have created strategies, theories and liberation movements that
challenge oppression of all kinds
WOMST 300 Top/World & The Politics of Fashion
Section ZA: TU 5:30--W. Barnes
Women and the Politics of Fashion examines the impact of fashion has on women’s lives, both
personally and politically, from the past to the present. Throughout the course we will look at significant
moments in design history and how they have both helped and hindered women, the fashion media and its
influence on women and body image, the struggles female garment factory workers encounter, both here at
home and abroad, and how we might work to create change within the fashion industry.
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) Women’s Studies
Internship is the opportunity to gain valuable experience in community, volunteer, activist, or political
Revised 4/18/2014