Women’ Studies Courses Spring 2014
Core Courses (Courses meet 01/22/14-05/10/14 unless otherwise indicated) Course Descriptions Below
WOMST 105A
WOMST 105B
WOMST 105C
WOMST 105D
WOMST 105E
WOMST105F
WOMST105G
WOMST105H
WOMST 105I
WOMST 105J
WOMST 105ZA
WOMST 105ZC
WOMST 300A
WOMST 305A
WOMST 405A
WOMST 480A
WOMST 505ZA
WOMST 590A
WOMST 700A
WOMST 784ZA
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
(Honors Perm Required)
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
(First Year Seminar)
Intro to Women’s Studies
11:30-12:20
9:30-10:20
10:30-11:20
10:30-11:20
1:30-2:20
2:30-3:20
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
LSP 126
LS 001
LS 010
LS 001
LS 001
LS 001
Tushabe
Dickinson
Tushabe
Dickinson
Roshanravan
Roshanravan
8:05-9:20
9:30-10:45
TU
TU
LDSH 113
LS 001
Sabates
Sabates
11:30-12:45
TU
LS 001
Brooks
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
(meets 1/23/14 to 3/14/14)
Intro to Women’s Studies
1:05-2:20
5:30-8:30
TU
TU
LS 001
BH 107
Thacker
Posey
Distance
WA 25
Distance
Vaughan
Top/World Lit/Culture by Women
Advanced Fundmntls WM Studies
Resist & Mvmt for Social Change
Gender, Enviro & Justice
IS/Women’s Studies
WM Studies Practice /Theory
Top/Queer of Color Critique
Internship in Wm Studies
(Permission Required)
1:05-2:20
2:30-3:45
11:30-12:45
9:30-10:45
Appt
5:30-8:20
5:30-8:30
APPT
TU
TU
TU
TU
W 025
W 218
LS 001
LS 6A
Appt
LS 001
WA 041
APPT
Hubler
Sabates
Hubler
Padilla Carroll
Janette
Dickinson
Roshanravan
Janette
W
M
Cross-Referenced Courses (Courses meet 01/22/14-05/10/14 unless otherwise indicated)
AMETH 560A
COMM 420A
DAS 355ZA
DAS 590ZA
EDCEP 312A
ENGL 315A
ENGL 315B
ENGL 389A
ENGL 450A
FSHS 350A
FSHS 350B
FSHS 350C
FSHS 350D
HIST 540A
HIST 598A
PSYCH 540ZA
PSYCH 563ZA
SOCIO 633A
SOCIO 635ZA
SOCIO 635ZB
THTRE 782A
Top/Intersections of Crime
Gender Communication
Intro Non-Violence Study
Applied Non-Violence
SHAPE
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Latina/o Literature
Lit in Society: Women & TV
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Wm in Amer 1600 to Civil War
Top/Women, Gender & Sexuality in
Islam
Psychology of Women
Gender Issues in the Workplace
Gender Power & Development
Sociology of Human Trafficking
(meets13/24/14 to15/17/14)
Sociology of Human Trafficking
(meets 3/24/14 to 5/16/14)
Women in Theatre
9:30-10:45
11:30-12:45
Distance
Distance
2:30-3:45
12:30-1:20
1:30-2:20
2:30-3:20
5:30-8:20
1:30-2:20
11:30-12:45
5:30-8:20
2:30-3:45
11:30-12:45
5:30-6:45
5:30-7:55
5:30-7:55
2:30-5:00
Distance
TR
TU
TU
MWF
MWF
MWF
W
MWF
TU
M
TU
TU
WM
TR
WM
T
Distance
2:30-3:45
TU
S 252
N 311
Distance
Distance
LSH 270
EH 021
EH 021
EH 021
EH 021
JU 164
JU 164
JU 109
JU 163
EH 211
EH 015
Robertson
Epping
Allen
Nietfeld
Gibbs
Tatonetti
Tatonetti
Gonzalez
Reckling
Berryhill
Welch
Ricklefs
MacDonalds
Zschoche
Kazemi
BH 109
BH 114
KG
Distance
Adair & Strain
Van Ittersun
Shapkina
Shapkina
Distance
Shapkina
N 009
Vellenga
Graduate Student Only Classes (courses meet 1/22/14-5/10/14 unless otherwise indicated)
ENGL 825A
SOCIO 933A
WOMST 810A
Semr in Lit: Other 18th Century
Gender & Society
Feminist Analysis and Practice
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3:55-6:45
2:30-5:00
5:30-8:20
T
T
W
ECS 021
WA 201
LS 6A
Nelson
Baird
Tushabe
Women’s Studies Course Descriptions
Spring 2014
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section A: MWF 11:30; Section C: MWF 10:30--Tushabe
This course introduces students to a wide range of issues, which include social, political, and legal
issues pertaining to women’s lives and experiences in society and feminist movements worldwide. The course
is interdisciplinary in its approach. It encourages students to see and think about the world around them in a
matrix of connections and relationships, while examining and understanding the relevance of specific topics
such as abortion, contraception, and sexual violence within a comparative and international framework to
women, men and feminisms. Through assigned course texts and discussions students will learn and engage a
feminist methodology of self-reflection, a narrative of one’s journey, that takes a big picture and the complexity
of the connections and relationships that allow or impede a person to be in society for oneself, others and the
world. We will follow closely the significance and meaning of gender and other categories in American culture
and other societies. Additional resources such as films will be crucial to our discussion and critical thinking
skills, philosophical meanings and implications of social identities.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section B: MWF 9:30; Section D: MWF 10:30--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 E: MWF 1:30; Section F: WMF 2:30 --S. 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 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section G: MWF 8:05; Section H: MWF 9:30--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.
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WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section I: TU 11:30; --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 J: TU 1:05--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 ZA: TU 5:30--M. Posey
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 ZB: Distance--M. Vaughn
Introduction to Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary examination of the experiences of women, the
ways in which gender inequality operates in society, and the strategies by which we can develop a more
inclusive society. This course will also examine the history of feminism in the United States and the ways in
which feminists have analyzed women’s position in society and have sought to change it. We will study
institutions and issues that currently affect women. Since this course is an “introduction,” we will not be able
to explore any of these topics in great depth, but will broadly cover a variety of issues.
WOMST 300 Top/World Literature, Culture by Women
Section A: TU 1:05--A. Hubler
This course is designed to develop students’ skill in analyzing literature and film formally and
thematically, with particular attention to the representation of gender as it intersects with race, sexuality, and
class; and as it is shaped by imperialism. Writers and texts included in the course include essay and poetry by
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico); poetry by Ann Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley, Dorothy Allison‘s Bastard
Out of Carolina, Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms, the film Frozen River (United States); short stories by Nadine
Gordimer (South Africa); and Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (Nigeria) The grade for the class will be
based on a midterm, final, a paper (5-7 pages), attendance and participation.
WOMST 305 Advanced Fundamentals of Women’s Studies
Section A: TU 2:30--G. Sabates
This course examines the origins and development of Women’s Studies as a discipline, and introduces
core feminist theories, concepts, and major paradigms underlying feminist scholarship. Multicultural
approaches and perspectives are emphasized in order to better understand important concepts, research methods
and methodologies to feminist work. This course is writing intensive.
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WOMST 405 Resistance and Movement for Social Change
Section A: MWF 12:30--A. Hubler
Women have been critically involved in demanding civil rights, achieving justice for indigenous people,
challenging military dictatorships, working for economic justice, and demanding for women's liberation and
freedom from violence. This course examines women’s resistance and movements against gender violence and
discrimination in the context of colonialism, globalization, war, militarism, and occupation.
In addition to viewing films including Made in Dagenham (on union women) and Las Madres (on the Mothers
of the Plaza de Mayo in Argenina), texts for the course include:
I, Rigoberta Menchu, by Rigoberta Menchu
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights
Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
A Woman Among the Warlords by Malalai Joya
The grade for the class will be based on a midterm, final, a paper (5-7 pages), attendance and participation.
WOMST 480 Gender, Environment and Justice
Section A: TU 9:30--V. Padilla Carroll
This course examines the philosophical, historical, and material aspects of the human/nature
relationship and how different socially created categories like gender, race/ethnicity, class and global location
intersect in our understanding of environment and environmental justice.
WOMST 505 Is/Women’s Studies
Section A: By Appointment --M. Janette
(Obtain permission from Women’s Studies Program Director 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 590 Women’s Studies Practice/Theory
Section A: W 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 700 Queer of Color Critique
Section A: M 5:30--S. Roshanravan
This course examines a line of inquiry within queer studies called "queer of color critique." Queer of
Color Critique centers the concerns, desires, insights, struggles and knowledge generation of queer-identified
people of color. As a mode of queer theorizing, queer of color critique asks what sexual freedom can mean for
peoples who have been "queered" by histories of colonization that racialize them as sexual freaks and demonize
their social structures for their lack of heteropatriarchal nuclear units. As the history of queer theory and
activism struggles to account for its failure to account for the sexual violence of neoliberalism, colonialism and
racism, queer of color theorists offer frameworks to not only identify and address these injustices but also
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imagine and enact a world without them. Key readings will include Ernesto Martinez's On Making Sense:
Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility, Roderick Ferguson's Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color
Critique, and Chandan Reddy's Freedom With Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State.
WOMST 784 Internship in Women’s Studies
Section A: 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: W 5:30--Tushabe
This course examines the development of feminist theories, contemporary debates, and multicultural
feminist perspectives and practices within community-based, national, transnational, and global frameworks.
We will explore resistance and movements and the historical-social construction of gender and sexuality in
relationship to race/ethnicity, class, and colonialism. This course is required for the Graduate Certificate in
Women's Studies.
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