Course Offerings - Summer Semester 2008
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SESSION I - May 12 – June 7, 2008
WGS 2150 Special Topics in Women’s & Gender
Koziol, C. (Clark 300)
Studies: Sex and Gender Across Cultures MTWTh 9:30-12:00pm
(Same as Anthro 1041)
Class # 11851
This course considers womanhood, manhood, third genders, and sexuality in a broad cross-cultural perspective. The focus of the course is on the diverse cultural logics that separate females, males and sometimes third genders into different groups in different societies, with the male group usually being the more prestigious one. Focusing on indigenous non-Western cultures, this course examines gender roles and sexuality within the broader cultural contexts of ritual and symbolism, family, marriage and kinship, economy, politics, and public life. This course will help students understand what it is like to be male or female in non-Western cultures. This course fulfills the cultural diversity requirement.
SESSION II
(No offerings)
SESSION III - July 7 – August 2, 2008
WGS 2253 Philosophy and Feminism
Schall, W. (CH 415)
(same as Phil 2253) MTWTh 6:00-8:30pm
Class #11853
A critical examination of what various philosophers have said about issues of concern to women. Sample topics include oppression, racism, women’s nature, femininity, marriage, motherhood, sexuality, pornography, the ethics of care.
SESSION IV - May 12 – July 5, 2008
WGS 5034 History of Sexuality
Cohen, D. (LH 201) (same as Hist 6102, 6112, 6143)
MW 6:00-8:40pm
Class #11932
Prerequisite:Graduate standing. This course locates sexuality at the center of history and examines its impact over time on politics, society, culture and economics. In particular, the course focuses on changing definitions of sexual deviance, the historical evolution of formal and informal regulations of sexual practices and on the manner in which sex has been deployed in broader historical struggles involving gender, race, class, migration and state building.
2150 Special Topics in Women’s & Gender Studies: The Body in Culture
Hinderliter, I. (Clark 415)
MW E5:30-8:00pm
(Same as Anthro 1021)
Class #11852
This interdisciplinary course should appeal to students from a variety of majors – including anthropology and history – interested in exploring topics such as comparing ideas about the body in the U.S. and other cultures; bodily desires and sexuality; the body and reproduction; health; cosmetic surgery and eating disorders; the decorated, adorned and fashioned body; the body in performance; working bodies; women’s bodies and the body politics, etc.
SESSION V - June 9 – August 2, 2008
WGS 2100 Women in Contemporary Society
Collas , S. (SSB 201)
(Same as Soc 2100)
TTh 3:00-5:30pm
Class #12012
An introduction to the sociological analysis of the status of women in society, including their work, family, and political roles. Socialization, education, and the women’s movement will also be considered, as these affect the position and participation of women in a variety of social arenas.
WGS 3352 Independent Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies
Gentile, K. (TBA)
(Special consent form required.)
Class #11854
WGS 4350 Special Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies - Masculinities: Masculine Practice and Social Power
Conway-Long, D.
(CH 300)
Class #11856 (Same as Soc 4378 & Anthro 3291)
TTh 6:00-8:30pm
This course examines men and masculinities through a critical lens, looking carefully at an institutionalized system of behaviors and beliefs that is assumed to be a natural phenomenon (as well as culturally universal, historically eternal). The goal of the course is to reach an understanding of various masculine behaviors, myths, ideologies, and experiences, to comprehend the relationship between masculine practice and social power, and to delineate choices for future directions in the behavior and belief systems of individual men and the society at large. The course is necessarily interdisciplinary, and will utilize the tools and methods of sociology, anthropology, psychology and history as needed. Course satisfies WGS certificate theory requirement.
WGS 4352 Independent Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies
Gentile, K. (TBA)
Prerequisite: WGS 2102 and consent of instructor.
Class #11857
WGS 4353 Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies
Gentile, K. (TBA)
Prerequisite: 90 hrs, 2.5 GPA, 12 WGS hours
Class #11858
WGS 6353 Graduate Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies
Gentile, K. (TBA)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of Director.
Class #11859
WGS 6452 Special Readings in Women’s and Gender Studies
Gentile, K. (TBA)
Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Certificate Program
Class #11860 and consent of instructor.
