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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Theatre Arts |
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THRART 365L Acting for the Camera
3 Credit(s)
An exploration and evaluation of techniques of television production, with particular emphasis on common industry practices. THRART 365L and CINE 365L are the same course.
3 Credit(s) |
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THRART 405 Theatre Practicum 4
1 Credit(s)
This course is final course in a series of four required courses in the practical study of production, performance, or theatre management. These elements will be studies through hands on work on UMass Boston Theatre productions by the student with theatre professionals (UMass Faculty and Guest Artists) and other students. The laboratory for study is the theatre and its support areas at UMass Boston. A student should think of this course as an applied laboratory in production theatre. This course should be used as a capstone or portfolio project by students as they will be given an assignment in their area of theatre. This assignment is to be the culmination of a student’s studies in a particular area of theatre over his/her college career.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: THRART 305
Instructor consent
1 Credit(s) |
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THRART 410 Topics in Dramatic Literature
3 Credit(s)
This is a seminar course that provides close study of topics varying from semester to semester. Subject matter can cover an individual or group of playwrights, dramatic forms or styles, historic periods, or theatrical movements. A research paper (minimum 10 pages) and a class presentation are required.
3 Credit(s) |
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THRART 435 Theatre Arts Internship
3 - 6 Credit(s)
Designed to enable theatre arts majors to earn 3-6 credits for a semester’s internship in communication arts or in commercial or other working theatres outside the university.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
3 - 6 Credit(s) |
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THRART 436 Advanced Acting
3 Credit(s)
Advanced work on selected projects with special attention to the individual actor’s needs. Scene work, script breakdown, and development of a character.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: THRART 236 and 336 or permission of instructor
3 Credit(s) |
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THRART 478 Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s)
Open only to a limited number of students in any one semester. Research, study and participation in theatre projects outside the classroom involving consultation with a faculty advisor. A written prospectus is required.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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THRART 479 Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s)
Open only to a limited number of students in any one semester. Research, study and participation in theatre projects outside the classroom involving consultation with a faculty advisor. A written prospectus is required.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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THRART 481 Selected Topics
3 Credit(s)
The study of different areas within the field of theatre arts preparation. Courses vary each semester and are announced during pre-registration periods.
3 Credit(s) |
University Sea-Based Skills |
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USEA 100 Boating Basics
1 Credit(s)
This class is designed to teach the basics in boating safety through learning how to kayak, sail and powerboat. By learning the basic skills you will be introduced to how to handle these boats safely by understanding their operation. The course will provide opportunities for learning the basics of boating to support both recreational activities as well as environmental studies of coastal marine systems.
1 Credit(s) |
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USEA 104 Open Water SCUBA
1 Credit(s)
This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of SCUBA diving to those looking to explore the underwater world. Following successful completion of all course objectives, students will receive a basic Open Water Diver certification.
1 Credit(s) |
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USEA 105 Advanced Open Water & Rescue Diver Certification
1 Credit(s)
This course is the next step in scuba diver development. It is designed to teach the skills and knowledge needed to achieve both the Advanced Open Water Diver scuba certifications. The Advanced Open Water certification includes six different open water dives based on a variety of different specialties taught for the certification. Our program will include: UW Navigation, Night & Limited Visibility Diving, Deep Diving, dive computer use, search & recovery, and Boat Diving. Other topics may include techniques conducive to local dive conditions and class interest such as advanced bouncy techniques, underwater photography, dry suit diving and NITROX use.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: USEA 104
1 Credit(s) |
University Sea-Based Skills (non-credit) |
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USEA-NC 114 Introduction to Sustainable Marine Aquaculture
0 Credit(s)
This course provides an introductory overview of marine aquaculture with a specific focus on the principles of sustainability in the production and distribution of marine-sourced foods. Students will explore the culturing and rearing of marine invertebrates and plants. Building on a general overview of marine aquaculture, the course will cover the physical and chemical properties of the aquatic environment; site selection; aquatic engineering; bivalve culture; crustacean culture; seaweed culture; health and pathology; growth and nutrition; genetics and reproduction; legal, economic, social and environmental considerations. These topics will be covered with both a local and global perspective. The course is designed to familiarize students with the multi-disciplinary nature of sustainable marine aquaculture as a field. We will conclude with a brief overview of the legal, economic, and social considerations and we will look at some of the controversies surrounding marine aquaculture and environmental sustainability.
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USEA-NC 124 Aquaculture Production
0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to provide an overview of animal production and associated environmental and regulatory aspects of the industry. The course also introduces aspects of business and market development for cultured products with special focus on marine aquaculture and shellfish.
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USEA-NC 134 The Business of Marine Aquaculture
0 Credit(s)
This course will examine the elements of working in and managing a successful aquaculture operation. Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing segment of the food industry, with about half of what we eat from the ocean coming from aquaculture. This is an increasingly competitive space that suffers from a tradition of malpractice and misunderstanding as well as a regulatory culture that lags far behind an innovative rate. Site selection, gear, seed and feed procurement, marketing, and supply chain dynamics are all important elements of a successful aquaculture operation that demand an understanding of regulatory, financial, and marketing and entrepreneurial principles. This course is designed to introduce students to these challenges and equip them with the tools needed to engage within the industry on a sophisticated, successful level.
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Vietnamese |
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VIET 101 Elementary Vietnamese I
4 Credit(s)
An introduction to Vietnamese language and culture. The course is designed for students with no or very little knowledge of Vietnamese. The course develops the foundation of students’ four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing through the interactive and communicative approach. It also provides a comprehensive and systematic survey of the fundamentals of Vietnamese phonetics, spelling rules, grammar and usage of vocabulary. In addition to the main textbook, supplementary materials taken from newspapers and magazines, films and TV programs in Vietnamese are used to enhance students’ language competency.
Distribution Area: World Languages
4 Credit(s) |
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VIET 102 Elementary Vietnamese II
4 Credit(s)
This course is a continuation of Viet 101. The course further develops the foundation of students’ four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing through the interactive and communicative approach. It also provides a comprehensive and systematic survey of the fundamentals of Vietnamese phonetics, spelling rules, grammar and usage of vocabulary. In addition to the main textbook, supplementary materials taken from newspapers and magazines, films and TV programs in Vietnamese are used to enhance students’ language competency.
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: VIET 101 or equivalent
4 Credit(s) |
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VIET 201 Intermediate Vietnamese I
3 Credit(s)
Intermediate Vietnamese I a continuation of VIET 102. It is designed for students who have taken Elementary Vietnamese or have language competency equivalent to the outcomes from Viet 101 and Viet 102. It provides students with further instruction in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and the opportunity to practice the four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. It is also designed to help students build up their confidence about their communicative ability through an interactive communication-orientated approach.
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: VIET 102 or equivalent
3 Credit(s) |
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VIET 202 Intermediate Vietnamese II
3 Credit(s)
Intermediate Vietnamese II, is a continuation of VIET 201. It is designed for students who have taken Intermediate Vietnamese I or have language competency equivalent to the outcomes of VIET 201. It provides students with further instruction in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and the opportunity to practice the four skills; speaking, listening, reading and writing. It is also designed to help students build up their confidence about their communicative ability through an interactive communication-orientation approach.
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: VIET 201 or equivalent
3 Credit(s) |
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VIET 290 Special Topics
3 Credit(s)
Special topics in Vietnamese.
3 Credit(s) |
Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGS 100 Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexualities in the United States
3 Credit(s)
This interdisciplinary course examines how social constructions of gender and sexuality shape our day-to-day interactions with a variety of social institutions, such as the family and workplace, and contribute to systems of power and privilege. Through a careful examination of texts, films and other materials, students will explore contemporary feminist challenges to long-standing assumptions about what constitutes diverse gendered identities and will relate these insights to their own lived experiences in productive ways.
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 110 Gender in Global Context
3 Credit(s)
This course is an introduction to studying women’s lives and the gender systems that shape them across cultures and countries, as it examines a variety of global processes and approaches, including patriarchy, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Students will consider issues of gender and sexuality by looking at the ways in which people are connected in a network of global flows of capital, ideas, and activism. Topics include: work, poverty, images of the body, violence, faith, and feminism.
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 150 Women, Culture and Identity
3 Credit(s)
This course explores cultural beliefs about women’s “nature” and role at different times and places, drawing on materials from literature, including fiction and autobiography, and from history and feminist analysis. Using a thematic rather than a chronological approach, the course will focus on the ways in which intersection of race, class and gender affects the lives and self-concepts of women, in the U.S. and in other societies in the world.
Distribution Area: Humanities
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 179GL Sexuality in Nature and Culture
4 Credit(s)
This course explores texts and film in order to expand, complicate, and challenge the way students think about diverse sexualities and genders. The course will ask where ideas about sexuality and gender come from, and question whether those ideas are rooted in nature or culture. Students will examine theories and concepts addressing cultural norms, systems of power, and the performance of the self. Students will become familiar with methods of analysis from a range of disciplines, including literature, women’s studies,, cultural studies, biology, psychology, philosophy and law. As the class investigates sexuality and gender, students will engage in self-evaluation, examine methods of reasoning, and ask questions about cultural values and inheritances. ENGL 179GL and WGS 179GL are the same course.
First Year Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:
Degree students only with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston.
Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar).
4 Credit(s) |
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WGS 200 Twentieth Century Women Writers: A Feminist Perspective
3 Credit(s)
An intermediate-level course which examines the ways women writers in this century have dealt with some important themes of contemporary feminism. Novels, short stories, some analytical essays and autobiographies are used.
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 201 Introduction to Sexuality Studies
3 Credit(s)
This introductory course approaches the study of sexuality from a social perspective. Rather than studying sexuality as something that human beings are born with, for example, the course focuses on the ways that issues of desire, pleasure, identity, norms of sexual behavior, and intimate arrangements are deeply shaped by a range of historically specific social forces. Focusing on the U.S., a “social constructionist” framework guides the course. Family, religion, and social media will be studied as important social sites where struggles around sexualities and their meanings are played out.
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 207L Queer Visual Culture: Sexuality, Gender, and Visual Representation
3 Credit(s)
This course explores visual representations of gender and sexuality and the socio-historical contexts of their production. Non-heteronormative viewpoints area a specific focus, as are the scholarly frameworks of feminism, LGBT, (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Studies, and Queer Theory.
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 220 Women and the Media
3 Credit(s)
This course explores how the historical evolution and commercial orientation of mass communications media have helped shape the depiction of women and gender in advertising, entertainment, and news. Students learn to analyze visual imagery for its conceptual and emotional messages; to distinguish stereotypes from more complex characterizations in TV fictions; and to monitor the representations of women and gender in the print and broadcast news.
Distribution Area: Humanities
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 225 Latinas in the United States
3 Credit(s)
This course provides an overview of the experiences of Latina women in the United States, focusing on the three themes of migration, the settlement process, and the question of identity. The course explores the contexts of family, employment, community organizing, and gender roles.
Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 240 Educating Women
3 Credit(s)
This course studies the lives and ideas of women in the U.S. who have been educators and activists in struggles for equality in, and transformation of, education. Central themes include how women learn; education as a means of self-realization and empowerment for women in different ethnic, race, and class contexts; how gender affects experience in educational institutions.
Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 260 Women’s Health Care
3 Credit(s)
This course focuses on women’s concerns in relation to health. Topics include health issues unique to women (such as birth control, pregnancy, childbearing); nutrition; occupational health; health and aging; women as health workers; and the history, activities, and influence of the women’s health movement.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 268 Global Bodies: Sex, Families, and Reproductive Rights in Transnational Perspective
3 Credit(s)
Globalization is drawing increasing numbers of women (and men) into cross-border transactions in which the reproductive and sexual body is the desired object of exchange. These global markets raise important questions about what it means for human dignity when body parts and services are treated as commercially available. Do these transactions commodify women (particularly those from the Global South) by treating them as disposable, fragmentary bodies for the benefit of wealthy customers? Or do they offer new pathways out of poverty, by enabling women to assert control over this productive resource? Using a transnational feminist and human rights lens, this course examines these issues, with a particular focus on sex tourism/trafficking and gestational surrogacy. The course also looks at a very different type of cross-border travel - namely, the flight of persons in conflict zones for the purpose of escaping political violence rather than to seek or sell an intimate service. Specifically, we consider the unique challenges that refugees and internally displaced persons confront when seeking to access reproductive health services, including abortion.
Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 270 Native American Women in North America
3 Credit(s)
This course focuses on the lives of native North American women, in traditional societies and in contemporary life, as revealed through their life histories, the recounting of tribal history, legends and myths, art, and contemporary poetry and fiction. There is no prerequisite, but WOST 100 or 150 is recommended.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 280 Special Topics in Women’s Studies (Intermediate)
3 Credit(s)
Selected special topics in women’s studies at the intermediate level, taught by program faculty and visiting instructors.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 290 The Legal Rights of Women
3 Credit(s)
Beginning with a historical overview, this course examines women’s evolving legal status in the US. Discussions focus on women and work, including sexual harassment; reproductive rights; and women in the family, with an emphasis on domestic violence. Participants also consider whether equality is best achieved by treating men and women identically or by taking into account such differences as women’s reproductive capacity.
Distribution Area: Humanities
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 291 Family Law
3 Credit(s)
This course examines how the traditional legal concept of family is rapidly changing in response to new social developments. It considers contemporary debates about no-fault divorce and joint custody, as well as legal developments that challenge settled notions of family (such as the recognition of two-mother families).
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 292 Family Law Practice
3 Credit(s)
Hands-on learning about court procedure and legal drafting techniques in this course focusing on two areas of Massachusetts family law: divorce law and domestic violence law. In addition to representing a client in a mock divorce and preparing the necessary court papers, students learn about the protections available under the state’s abuse prevention act, as well as the required procedures for seeking relief.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 295L Introduction to Human Rights
3 Credit(s)
This is a collaboratively taught interdisciplinary course on a variety of issues related to Human Rights as discourse and practice. It covers the emergence and institutionalization of human rights discourse in the 20th century, and examines its transformations and extensions into various social, economic, political and cultural realms globally. Topics include critique of Western and normative human rights, policies of indigenous people and women’s rights, and cognitive and practical implementations of human rights. ANTH 295L and WGS 295L are the same course.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 300L Women in African Cultures
3 Credit(s)
This course challenges stereotypical constructions of Africa and African woman in mainstream media by considering internal and external historical relationships that have shaped and redefined the cultures, ideas, institutions, politics, and social relations of several specific groups of African women. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, the course addresses issues and challenges of contemporary Africa, and explores many of the themes and concerns that have run throughout Africa’s gendered, complex, and changing history. Popular culture sources, as well as scholarly studies and activist writing, will be employed to help illuminate the lived experiences and perspectives of contemporary women living in various African societies. AFRSTY 300L and WGS 300L are the same course.
Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 302L Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
3 Credit(s)
This course will address current issues related to psychology of sexual orientation and gender identities. These concerns include research and theory on queer theory, affirmative counseling/therapy, identity development models, heterosexism, family and relationship issues, intersectionality in GLBTQI communities, developmental issues, minority stress, as well as positive psychology, well-being and resiliency found in GLBTQI communities.
Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 311L American Oral History
3 Credit(s)
This course explores oral history interviewing, texts, and films, within the context of efforts to create a fully representative social and cultural history of the US. Students design individual or group oral history projects, to capture the experiences and perspectives of people formerly regarded as “unhistorical”-in particular, women, working class people, immigrants, people of color, and gays and lesbians. (Satisfies the research requirement for women’s studies majors.) AMST 311L and WGS 311L are the same course.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 317L Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
3 Credit(s)
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of European women in the medieval and early modern eras and, more generally, to the challenges and rewards of women’s and gender history. Through in-class discussions and writing assignments, the course hones students’ ability to analyze, critique, and compare primary and secondary sources. Topics include women’s work, writing, religious lives, and relationships. HIST 317L and WGS 317L are the same course.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 325L Sexual Identities in American Culture
3 Credit(s)
This course studies the history of sexual identities in the twentieth-century United States, with a particular emphasis upon the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities, through the study of cultural texts such as novels, songs, films, and poems. Topics covered in the course include homosexuality in the turn-of-the-century United States, sex in the Harlem Renaissance, sexual politics in the Depression years, purges of gay women and men in federal employment during the cold war and sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. AMST 325L and WGS 325L are the same course.
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor
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WGS 333L Sociology of Migration
3 Credit(s)
The number of migrants worldwide has increased dramatically in the past forty years. This course will begin by asking why people migrate and locate the US migration regime in global context with a focus on the United States, Europe, and Asia. We will use migration theory to explore “hot topics” in migration, paying close attention to the intersections of gender, race, class, and nation. Some of these hot topics include the debate about undocumented migrants, children and migration, and student activism in the immigrant rights movement. We will also look at the transnational social and economic fields that connect migrant sending and receiving states as we interrogate the categories of “First” and “Third” worlds. This course will draw on documentary films as well as readings that raise difficult and interesting moral, political, and academic questions.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 341L Gender and Film: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
3 Credit(s)
This course is designed to encourage multidisciplinary analysis of gender, cultural representations, and film in the 20th and early 21st century. Among the topics that students will explore are: ethnographic film and gendered practices in ethnographic filmmaking; how ideologies of gender, “race,” and class are constructed, disseminated, and normalized through film (documentary as well as “popular” film); Indigenous women and filmmaking in North America; femininities, masculinities, and power in the “horror film” genre; human rights film and filmmaking as activism. Students will view films made in diverse locations and reflecting multiple historical, political, and cultural perspectives and will explore the intellectual, political and social significance of film in their own lives. ENGL 341L and WGS 341L and CINE 341L are the same course.
Distribution Area: World Cultures
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 345 Gender, Religion and Politics in South Asia
3 Credit(s)
This course explores the relationship of gender to religious politics in South Asia particularly in the context of liberation movements of the past and current modernization, development and globalization schemes. It examines how ideal images of masculinity, femininity and religious practice are reworked by various actors in the service of anti-colonialist, nationalist, and community struggles. The course highlights the complex ways religious and nationalist politics have created opportunities for women’s activism while simultaneously undermining their autonomy.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 350 Beyond Heterosexuality: Approaches to Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
3 Credit(s)
An interdisciplinary approach to lesbian, bisexual and selected aspects of transgender studies. Through readings, visual materials, speakers, and student projects, the course explores problems of theorizing differences and identities; lesbian/bisexual/transgender histories; contemporary issues (homophobia, coming out, relationships, families and communities, law, employment); political and cultural representations, and resistance. Students have an opportunity to propose topics and projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One WGS course or permission of instructor
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 355L Gender, Development and Globalization
3 Credit(s)
This course examines the gender dynamics of social change and industrial development in contemporary developing countries. Topics include the changing division of labor in rural areas, the employment of women in multinational corporations, women in the informal sector, changing family structures, poverty and female-headed families, anti-colonial and transnational struggles. The course also considers the complexities of women’s organizing for economic development and for social and political change. SOCIOL 355L and WGS 355L are the same course.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 356L Faiths & Feminisms: Women, Gender, Sexuality & Religion in the U.S.
3 Credit(s)
This course explores feminisms and theologies - or varieties of “God-talk” - as resources for each other. The course engages key questions raised by students and non-students alike: what does it mean to have feminist politics and belong to a faith community? Can this be done? Is it desirable? What are the consequences? Starting from these personal-political questions, the course attends to the history of women and religion in colonial America and the United States. Selected feminist and womanist engagements with and challenges to aspects of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the contemporary United States are examined. The course explores women’s - and transpeople’s - experiences of religion and spirituality, both their leadership and their struggles within various faith communities. The professor and students analyze the ways that ideas about gender, racial/ethnic, economic, and sexual hierarchies are deeply entwined in theologies that oppress as well as those that seek to liberate. The course also investigates contemporary queer theologies and current thinking about feminism, secularism, and humanism. Student experiences and questions help guide the study of feminist scholarly research and writing in the fields of history, theology, criticism of sacred texts, politics, and literature. RELSTY 356L and WGS 356L.
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One WGS or RELSTY course
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WGS 357L Women in South Asian Religions: Gender Ideology and Practice in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
3 Credit(s)
This course examines women in South Asian history through the intersections of women’s lives with three major faith traditions of the subcontinent - Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Using historical, literary, and anthropological lenses the course will consider how various institutions of authority - patriarchy, religion, and the state - have shaped and reshaped gender ideology in South Asia, and how women, throughout South Asia’s history, have, in turn, interpreted and negotiated their position in society.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 359L Women in Modern China
3 Credit(s)
This course examines the social and cultural roles of Chinese women, and their changes over time. Emphasis is given to twentieth-century China, especially the People’s Republic period. ASIAN 359L and HIST 359L are the same course.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 360 Gender, Culture, and Power
3 Credit(s)
Feminist and other critical approaches in anthropology have challenged prevailing Western assumptions about the categories for woman and man. Such studies reveal that power infuses gender identities and gender relations in profound ways. This course provides an overview of anthropological studies of gender, cultural, and power, with special attention to the construction and contestation of gender in varied cultural contexts.
Distribution Area: World Cultures
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 370 Research Seminar in Women’s Studies
3 Credit(s)
Through readings, guest lectures, discussions, and small-scale projects, students learn to use and to evaluate critically some basic research tools in the humanities and social sciences, as they can be applied to the interdisciplinary study of women and gender. Consideration is given to new research approaches being developed by feminist researchers, as well as to the relationship between research and the political movement for women’s rights.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 376L Women of Color
3 Credit(s)
This course offers interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives on a variety of theories, themes, and issues related to the experiences of women of color in both U.S. and global contexts. It examines the genealogies, practices, and agendas of women of color “feminisms,” and promotes a dialogue about the interactive impact of race, class, and gender on women’s lives. AMST 376L and WGS 376L are the same course.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 392 Feminist Activism
3 Credit(s)
This course explores the conceptual foundations, analytical lenses and practical tools from the vast and growing body of interdisciplinary social movements literature to describe, theorize and prescribe feminist activism in diverse sites across the globe. Informed by this literature, students will critique contemporary activist work brought to their attention in the readings, selected films, and several in-class presentation by local activists while construction a team-designed strategic activist plan around a selected issue.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 394L Women in US Social Movements
3 Credit(s)
A selective survey of the motivations, strategies, experiences, and accomplishments of US women who have been activists in a variety of social movements during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students have the opportunity to do a research project on an activist in any of several movements, including, among others, anti-slavery, birth control, civil rights, gay and lesbian liberation, labor, peace, socialism, suffrage, temperance, and women’s liberation. AMST 394L and WGS 394L are the same course.
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 400 Feminist Thought
3 Credit(s)
The ideas and writings of prominent and influential contemporary feminist thinkers are analyzed. Specific topics areas vary from semester to semester. The course is taught as an upper level seminar for majors and minors.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 401 Advanced Topics in Human Rights
3 Credit(s)
This seminar aims to provide students with a deeper knowledge of human rights as both an intellectual discourse and a realm of political action. The first part of the course deals with the emergence and institutionalization of human rights in the 20th century. Beginning with an overview of its roots in political theory, moving to the first and second generation of rights, to debates over universality and cultural relativism and ending with exploration of human rights frameworks’ applicability and implications across nations and cultures, the course offers an in-depth interdisciplinary understanding of the field and its practices. Topics of study include torture, genocide, race gender and law, visual culture, humanitarian intervention, and protection.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 411 Transnational Feminisms: Contexts, Conflicts, and Solidarity
3 Credit(s)
Feminism as an analytic lens, identity and movement for social transformation continues to be a hotly contested subject. This course introduces perspectives in feminist theory and practice from domestic U.S. and global contexts in order to ask: how do the contributions of women of color in the U.S. and of feminist movements in the “Third World” radically reshape the form and content of feminist politics? The objective of this class is to locate transnational feminism in relation to histories of colonialism and postcolonialism, and theories of nationalism and globalization. Students will examine topics such as gender and development; race, gender, and cultural politics; gendered violence; war, sexuality and orientalism; solidarity and alliance across cultures to examine how feminist struggles are shaped and transformed in diverse circumstances.
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 478 Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s)
Open to a limited number of students each semester. A written prospectus must be formulated with the instructor.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 479 Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s)
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 480 Special Topics
3 Credit(s)
(Advanced) Selected topics in women’s studies, taught by staff or visiting lecturers.
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 490 Internship in Women’s Studies
3 Credit(s)
A seminar which must be taken concurrently with WGS 491. Internship students apply their theoretical understandings in women’s studies to practical experiences in supervised volunteer work. Topics include theoretical issues relevant to placements in a human service agency or social change organization; evaluation of basic skills learned in field work; and career development exercises. An oral presentation and two papers are required. Topics are integrated with discussions of students’ on-site work.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: WGS 491
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 491 Internship Placement
3 Credit(s)
For eight to fifteen hours each week, students participate, usually on a volunteer basis, in a supervised field placement with a women”s organization, alternative institution, or an agency offering services to women and the family. Students must secure their placement one month prior to the beginning of the semester in which they plan to enroll in the course. Graded on a pass/fail basis. Open to a maximum of 12 students each semester.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: WGS 490
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 498 Honors Research Tutorial
3 Credit(s)
An intensive exploration of a selected research topic under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The tutorial includes a literature review and a survey of appropriate theory and research methods relevant for exploring the topic. Applicants for the honors tutorial should consult the program director.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 499 Honors Paper Tutorial
3 Credit(s)
A continuation of WOST 498. The honors student works on writing the honors paper under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The student receives a grade for each semester of work, but honors in women’s studies will be awarded only to those who have written and presented an extended honors paper of high distinction (as evaluated by the honors committee). WOST 499 is open to students who have successfully completed WOST 498.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
3 Credit(s) |
Youth Work Center |
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YTHCTR 220 Understanding Youth: Youth Identity, Growth, Development
3 Credit(s)
In this service-learning class, we will explore the identity, strengths, challenges, and behavior of youth by examining theories and stages of youth growth and development. We will proceed from a variety of perspectives: historical biological, psychological, sociological, political, and personal. The course will utilize bio-psycho-social and sociological frameworks to explore the social construction and marginalization of youth. The course will further explore youth identity by examining youth cultures and subcultures. This class is intended to foster your knowledge of yourself, perspectives for understanding youth, and your own civic engagement.
Diversity Area: United States
3 Credit(s) |
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YTHCTR 320 Models of Practice in Youth Work: Models of Practice with Urban Youth
3 Credit(s)
This service-learning class is intended to foster your knowledge of yourself, participatory models of practice with youth, positive youth development, community, diversity, and your own civic engagement. Students will acquire the knowledge and skills to work with individuals and groups in youth work settings. Participation in the class will encourage you to think about communities and the issues youth and communities face. Students will analyze the concepts of social difference and structural inequality and their application to youth work practice.
3 Credit(s) |
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YTHCTR 340 Analyzing a Youth Issue
3 Credit(s)
In this class students will learn how to analyze problems/issues affecting urban youth, and identify and assess the impact of different programs to address those issues. The focus will be on issues of urban youth particularly those dealing with education and the achievement gap. Students will participate in engaged research or service-learning.
3 Credit(s) |
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