| Course Number |
Course Title |
Day & Time |
Instructor |
Room |
Office Hour |
Office |
| WGST 2000-001 |
Introduces students to the field of Women & Gender Studies. Examines gender issues in the United States from interdisciplinary, multicultural, and feminist perspectives. Covers such topics as sexuality, beauty ideals, women’s health, violence against women, work, the economy, peace and war, and the environment. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: general. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. A&S Core: Human Diversity |
Tu/Th 11-12:15 |
Hatch |
HUMN 250 |
Tu/Th 9:30-10:30 |
COTT 206
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| WGST 2020-001 |
Examines contemporary experiences of people around the world as they negotiate dominant and subversive understandings of gendered identities. Focuses on the ways in which the material and discursive circumstances of people’s lives shape their opportunities for resistance and creative construction. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. A&S Core: Human Diversity |
MWF 12-12:50 |
Harper |
GUGG 205 |
W 10-2pm |
COTT 206
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| WGST 2050-001 |
Explores diverse cultural forms such as film, popular fiction and non-fiction, music videos, public art, websites, blogs and zines which are shaped by, and in turn shape popular understandings of gender at the intersections of race, class, ability, religion, nation, and imperialism. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. A&S Core: Human Diversity |
Tu/Th
5-6:15 |
Soares |
HLMS 241 |
Tu/Th 1:30-2:30 |
COTT 209 |
| WGST 2050-002 |
Explores diverse cultural forms such as film, popular fiction and non-fiction, music videos, public art, websites, blogs and zines which are shaped by, and in turn shape popular understandings of gender at the intersections of race, class, ability, religion, nation, and imperialism. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. A&S Core: Human Diversity |
Tu/Th
3:30-4:45 |
Soares |
HLMS 229 |
Tu/Th 1:30-2:30 |
COTT 209 |
| WGST 2600-001 |
Examines the positionality of women in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and power relations in a global context. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies. A&S Core: Contemporary Societies |
Tu/Th
3:30-4:45 |
David |
ECON 117 |
Tu/Th 2-3pm |
COTT 210 |
| WGST 2700-001 |
Examines psychological research on gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class and other social categories. Points of emphasis include differences in cognition, attitudes, personality and social behavior. Conceptual themes include research methodologies, implicit and explicit attitudes, stigma and stereotypes. These elucidate such areas as close relationships, leadership, career success and mental health and happiness. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000 or PSYC 1001. Same as PSYC 2700. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. |
Tu/Th 3:30-4:45 |
Halkovic |
MUEN E131 |
Tu/Th 2-3pm |
COTT 206 |
| WGST 3100-001 |
Explores a variety of alternative systematic accounts of, and explanations for, gender inequities. Social norms of both masculinity and femininity are analyzed in relation to other axes of inequality such as class, sexuality, race/ethnicity, neocolonialism, and the domination of nonhuman nature. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of WGST 2000 or WGST 2020 or WGST 2050 or WGST 2600 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. |
MW 3-4:15 |
Misri |
HLMS 229 |
T 3:30-4:30
W 4:30-5:30 |
COTT 208
Innisfree |
| WGST 3250-001 |
Examines the construction of gender, race, class, sexual orientation and disability in a selection of Disney's animated films. Cultivates skills of media literacy, exploring how mass media acts to enforce and maintain conventional gendered understandings of power, privilege and difference. Analyzes the political economy of the Disney phenomenon through a feminist lens. |
MWF 1-1:50 |
Walker |
MUEN E431 |
MW 2-3pm |
COTT 206
|
| WGST 3650-001 |
Examines Latin American politics with particular focus on women's participation in social movements, war, revolution and elections. Compares women's and men's politics and activism and examines changing gender and sexuality policies, gender relations and the differential impact of political, economic, and social changes on men and women. Same as PSCI 3052. |
Tu/Th 9:30-10:45 |
Bayard de Volo |
HLMS 229 |
Th 10:50-12:50 |
COTT 102 |
| WGST 3930 |
Provides field experience in local and national government and non-governmental agencies focusing on women and gender-related issues. Supervision by approved field instructors. Students must relate their academic experience to their field work experience though a portfolio and a final paper. Recommended prereq., 6 hours of course work in Women and Gender Studies and 30 cumulative credit hours. Please contact the Women & Gender Studies office for enrollment information. |
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| WGST 3940 |
Enriches the academic experience of Women and Gender Studies majors and minors. This course usually will combine readings from books with lectures and discussions, community outreach and in-house publications spanning the interdisciplinary focus of the program. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Restricted to WGST majors or minors.
Contact WGST Office to enroll. |
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| WGST 4000-001 |
This course highlights the gendered aspects of some contemporary transnational moral wrongs, which are often overlooked in mainstream discussions of global justice. Topics may include:
• Human rights, moral relativism, and adaptive preferences
• Assessing wellbeing, poverty, and quality of life
• Responsibility, aid, and development
• Gendered divisions of global labor
• Labor migration, including global care chains and sex trafficking
• Health including reproductive and mental health
• Gender and militarism
• Moral repair and transnational responses to gendered wrongs
Provides an advanced interdisciplinary course organized around a specific topic, problem, or issue relating to gender and sexuality. Course work includes discussion, reading, and written projects. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000 or WMST 2600. Same as WMST 5000. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). |
MW 4:30-5:45 |
Jaggar |
HLMS 177 |
MW 3-4:15 |
HLMS 278 |
| WGST 4400-001 |
Examines theories, methods and debates in the emerging field of transgender studies. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, examines transgender identities, communities and political movements in different historical and cultural contexts. Focuses on crosscutting issues that shape transgender subjectivities, with special attention given to how transgender movements negotiate race, class, sexuality, labor, culture and nation. Same as LGBT 4400. |
Tu/Th 11-12:15 |
David |
HLMS 237 |
Tu/Th 2-3pm |
COTT 210 |
| WGST 4620-001 |
Provides an introduction to the history of sexuality in the modern era through engagement with recent interdisciplinary research into what sexuality has meant in the everyday lives of individuals; in the imagined communities formed by the bonds of shared religion, ethnicity, language and national citizenship; on the global stage of cultural encounter, imperialist expansion, transnational migration and international commerce. Same as HIST 4620. |
Tu/Th 12:30-1:45 |
Buffington |
HLMS 229
|
Tu/Th 2-3pm |
COTT 201 |
| WGST 4800-001 |
Provides students with the opportunity to actively reflect on their education and to complete a research project that incorporates an interdisciplinary and feminist approach to the study of gender, class, race, ethnicity and sexuality. Offered each spring. |
Tu 3:30-6 |
Buffington |
COTT 110 |
Tu/Th 2-3pm |
COTT 201 |
| WGST 4840 |
May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Please contact the Women & Gender Studies Program for enrollment information. |
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| WGST 4950 |
For qualified WGST majors working on the research phase of departmental honors. Prereq., junior/senior standing and 3.30 overall GPA.
Please contact the Women & Gender Studies Program for enrollment information. |
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| WGST 4999 |
Qualified Women and Gender Studies majors may write an honors thesis, an in-depth research paper, on a topic of choice. Thesis hours available to majors only after successfully completing the research phase.
Please contact the Women & Gender Studies Program for enrollment information. |
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| WGST 5000-001 |
This course highlights the gendered aspects of some contemporary transnational moral wrongs, which are often overlooked in mainstream discussions of global justice. Topics may include:
• Human rights, moral relativism, and adaptive preferences
• Assessing wellbeing, poverty, and quality of life
• Responsibility, aid, and development
• Gendered divisions of global labor
• Labor migration, including global care chains and sex trafficking
• Health including reproductive and mental health
• Gender and militarism
• Moral repair and transnational responses to gendered wrongs
Provides an advanced interdisciplinary course organized around a specific topic, problem, or issue relating to gender and sexuality. Course work includes discussion, reading, and written projects. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Recommended prereq., WMST 2000 or WMST 2600. Same as WMST 5000. |
MW 4:30-5:45 |
Jaggar |
HLMS 177 |
MW 3-4:15 |
HLMS 278 |
| WGST 6090-001 |
Explores how feminist theorists have understood gender and how it interrelates to our understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiment and knowledge. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. |
TuÌý 12:30-3 |
Misri |
COTT 111 |
T 3:30-4:30
W 4:30-5:30 |
COTT 208
Innisfree |
| WGST 6290-001 |
Global Masculinities explores how a focus on masculinity contributes to our understanding of gender, sexuality, and feminism. It examines the diverse ways masculinity is lived in widely varying contexts and how notions of masculinity are constructed and represented around the globe.. |
Th 2:30-5 |
Wyrod |
COTT 111 |
M 9:30-11:30 |
COTT 211 |