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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course numbers followed by an ‘L’ are cross-listed with another department or program.
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGS 150 - Women, Culture and Identity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
000017:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 179GL - Sexuality in Nature and Culture
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
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).
039490:2
4 Credit(s) |
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WGS 200 - Twentieth Century Women Writers: A Feminist Perspective
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
029643:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 201 - Introduction to Sexuality Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
040372:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 207L - Queer Visual Culture: Sexuality, Gender, and Visual Representation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
039204:2
3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 215L - Gender & Communication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores a variety of topics and concepts related to gender, sex, and communication using an intersectional, feminist approach. Specifically, this course examines the ways that individuals and society create, reinforce, and challenge the meaning of gender. This course will discuss and examine how we develop gender identities (and how these identities differ from biological sex), how this identity is shaped through the messages we receive from a number of communication systems (family, education, media, etc.), and how our gender identities in turn influence our communication patterns. As we go through the course, we’ll examine various masculine and feminine roles and stereotypes, and the impact of gender stereotypes on communication. We will also consider the limitations of gender binaries, and explore a diverse array of gender identification and expression.
040915:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 220 - Women and the Media
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
029612:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 225 - Latinas in the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
000565:1
3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 240 - Educating Women
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
029654:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 260 - Women’s Health Care
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
029553:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 268 - Global Bodies: Sex, Families, and Reproductive Rights in Transnational Perspective
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
040275:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 270 - Native American Women in North America
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 WGS 100 or 150 is recommended.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: United States
029617:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 280 - Special Topics in Women’s Studies (Intermediate)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Selected special topics in women’s studies at the intermediate level, taught by program faculty and visiting instructors.
029747:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 290 - The Legal Rights of Women
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
029666:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 291 - Family Law
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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).
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
000016:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 292 - Family Law Practice
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
029667:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 295L - Introduction to Human Rights
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
032283:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 300L - Women in African Cultures
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
029677:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 302L - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
039499:2
3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 311L - American Oral History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
000012:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 317L - Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
039493:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 325L - Sexual Identities in American Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor
036818:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 333L - Sociology of Migration
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
039723:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 341L - Gender and Film: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
000010:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 345 - Gender, Religion and Politics in South Asia
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
034679:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 350 - Beyond Heterosexuality: Approaches to Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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
029679:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 355L - Gender, Development and Globalization
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101
028358:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 356L - Faiths & Feminisms: Women, Gender, Sexuality & Religion in the U.S.
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One WGS or RELSTY course
000006:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 357L - Women in South Asian Religions: Gender Ideology and Practice in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
038176:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 359L - Women in Modern China
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
000004:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 360 - Gender, Culture, and Power
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
009832:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 370 - Research Seminar in Women’s Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
000015:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 376L - Women of Color
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
000003:2
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 392 - Feminist Activism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
029686:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 394L - Women in US Social Movements
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor
000002:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 400 - Feminist Thought
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
029687:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 401 - Advanced Topics in Human Rights
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
039357:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 411 - Transnational Feminisms: Contexts, Conflicts, and Solidarity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
039212:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 478 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Open to a limited number of students each semester. A written prospectus must be formulated with the instructor.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
029693:1
1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 479 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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
029697:1
1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 490 - Internship in Women’s Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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
029721:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 491 - Internship Placement
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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
029722:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 498 - Honors Research Tutorial
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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
029724:1
3 Credit(s) |
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WGS 499 - Honors Paper Tutorial
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A continuation of WGS 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). WGS 499 is open to students who have successfully completed WGS 498 .
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
029725:1
3 Credit(s) |
Youth Work Center |
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YTHCTR 320 - Models of Practice in Youth Work: Models of Practice with Urban Youth
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
029784:1
3 Credit(s) |
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YTHCTR 340 - Analyzing a Youth Issue
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
029785:1
3 Credit(s) |
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