Women’s Studies Courses Fall 2013
Core Courses (Courses meet 08/26/13-12/13/13 unless otherwise indicated) * Course Descriptions Below
WOMST 105A
WOMST 105B
WOMST 105C
WOMST 105D
WOMST 105E
WOMST105F
WOMST105G
WOMST105H
WOMST105ZB
WOMST 300A
WOMST 305A
WOMST 410A
WOMST 500A
WOMST 560A
WOMST 610A
WOMST 784A
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
(Cat Community)
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
(meets 10/21/13 to 12/13/13)
Top/Coming Out
Fundamentals Women’s Studies
Feminist Thought
Top/African Feminisms
Women and Violence
Seminar/Women’s Studies
Internship/Women’s Studies
10:30-11:20
11:30-12:20
11:30-12:20
MWF
MWF
MWF
LS 001
LS 001
BH 122
Padilla Carroll
Hubler
Padilla Carroll
12:00-1:20
MWF
LS 001
Hubler
8:05-9:20
9:30-10:45
1:05-2:20
TU
TU
TU
LS 001
LS 001
W 123
Sabates
Sabates
Janette
9:30-10:20
5:30-8:30
MWF
MW
TH1014
LS 001
Brooks
Vaughan
5:30-8:20
1:30-2:20
2:30-3:20
11:30-12:45
2:30-3:45
1:05-2:20
APPT
U
MWF
MWF
TU
TU
TU
LS 010
LS 006A
W 120
W 123
LS 001
LS 006A
APPT
Tushabe
Padilla Carroll
Hubler
Tushabe
Sabates
Roshanravan
Janette
(Instructor Consent Required)
Cross-Referenced Courses (Courses meet 8/26/13-12/13/13 unless otherwise indicated)
DAS 355A
DAS 355A
EDCEP 312A
ENGL 220A
ENGL 387A
ENGL 525A
ENGL 660A
ENGL 705A
FSHS 350A
FSHS 350B
FSHS 350C
LEAD 430A
MUSIC 220ZA
PHILO 150A
PSYCH 563A
SOCIO 510ZA
SOCIO 665A
Intro Non-Violence Stdy
Intro Non-Violence Stdy
SHAPE
Fiction into Film
American Indian Lit
Women in Literature
Readings/Louise Erdrich
Theory/Practice Cultr Study
Fam Rel& Gender Roles
Fam Rel& Gender Roles
Fam Rel& Gender Roles
Women in Leadership
Women in Music
Intro Philo Feminism
Gender & Issues in Work Place
Welfare as an Institution
Women & Crime
TBA
TBA
2:30-3:45
8:30-9:20
2:30-3:45
7:05-9:55
11:30-12:45
1:05-2:20
1:05-2:20
5:30-8:20
10:30-11:20
11:30-2:20
Distance
2:30-3:45
1:05-2:30
Distance
Distance
TBA
TBA
TU
MWF
TU
M
TU
TU
TU
M
MWF
M
TU
TU
ECS 017
ECS 017
LS 001
LS 010
EH 120
JU 109
JU 109
JU 163
LDSP 113
Distance
BH 108
BH 498
Distance
Distance
Allen
Nietfeld
Gibbs
Debes
Tatonetti
Nelson
Tatonetti
Gonzalez
Thompson
Ricklefs
Berryhill
Staff
Cooper
Roshanravan
Park
Kurtz
Williams
Graduate Student Only Classes (courses meet 1/22/13-8/10/13 unless otherwise indicated)
ENGL 705A
ENGL 840A
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Theory & Practice Cultural
Studies
Semnr Comp & Rehtoric:
Maverick Rhetoric
1:05-2:20
TU
EH 120
Gonzalez
7:05-9:55
TU
ECS 017
Knoblaugh
Women’s Studies Course Descriptions
Fall 2013
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section A: MWF10:30; Section C: MWF 11:30--V. Padilla Carroll
A broad overview of Women’s Studies as a discipline-an interdisciplinary area of study drawing from a
variety of other discipline 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.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section B: MWF 11:30; Section D MWF 12:30--A. Hubler
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 E: TU 8:05; Section F: 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. Work for this course involves five quizzes, an ad analysis,
an ethnographic study, and a final paper and presentation.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section G: TU 1:05--M. Janette
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 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section ZA: WM 5:30--M. Vaughan (meets 10/21-12/13/13)
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 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section ZB: WM 5:30--M. Vaughan (meets 10/21-12/13/13)
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
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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 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section H: MWF 9:30--L. Brooks
Description coming soon!
WOMST 300 Top/Coming Out
Section A: TU 5:30--Tushabe
Since the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, the discourse on “coming out” has complicated notions of
transparency through speech acts, secrecy and silence. Judith Butler 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. Our investigations will be guided by the following
questions: In relation to our sexual selves, how, when, where, and what does society permit us to speak or not
to speak, to whom and why? To answer these questions the course explores gay and lesbian movement,
feminist perspectives, queer of color critique and modes of communication that materialize and are materialized
by the discourse of coming out. We will consider how narratives of coming out and the organization of
National Coming Out Day impact freedom, policies and homophobic attitudes. Students will reflect on coming
out stories and biographies to examine heterosexism and the social formation of public space based on gender
and sexual orientation. Students will evaluate and critically analyze homosexuality from historical, cultural,
ethical, legal and philosophical perspectives.
WOMST 305 Women and Gender
Section A: MWF 1:30--V. Padilla Carroll
This course will examine the origins of the Women’s Studies field and introduce core concepts, research
methods and methodologies, and feminist theories. Student will engage in a variety of writings that reflect the
discipline.
WOMST 410 Feminist Thought
Section A: MWF 2:30 --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--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 560 Women and Violence
Section A: TU 2:30 – 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 610 Seminar/Women’s Studies
Revised 8/23/2013
Section A: TU 1:05--S. Roshanravan
This course explores different methodological interventions that take seriously feminist goals. Given
feminist interventions in knowledge production that excludes the non-white non-male, non-European, nonbourgeois subject, this course will consider the processes of knowledge production feminists have developed to
expose injustice and further positive social change, without reinforcing colonial, racial and gendered silences.
Questions that will be central to our explorations include: What is the difference between a research method
and a research methodology? What counts as evidence? What sources do feminist scholars look to for
information? What do we do to the subjects of our research? What questions (should) guide feminist research?
What is the relationship between the object of research and the researcher?
WOMST 784 Internship in Women’s Studies
Section A: By Appointment--M. Janette
(Obtain permission from Department Director 3 Leasure Hall) An opportunity to gain valuable
experience in community, volunteer, activist, or political organizations at the local, state, national, or
international levels.
WOMST 799 Advanced Topic in Women’s Studies
Section A: By Appointment-- M. Janette
(Obtain permission from Department Director 3 Leasure Hall) Provides an in-depth theoretical and
empirical analysis of scholarly works relating to an interdisciplinary topic in women’s studies.
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