| WGSS 100-01 |
Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Mireille Rebeiz
Course Description:
This course offers an introduction to central concepts, questions and debates in gender and sexuality studies from US, Women of Color, queer and transnational perspectives. Throughout the semester we will explore the construction and maintenance of norms governing sex, gender, and sexuality, with an emphasis on how opportunity and inequality operate through categories of race, ethnicity, class, ability and nationality. After an introduction to some of the main concepts guiding scholarship in the field of feminist studies (the centrality of difference; social and political constructions of gender and sex; representation; privilege and power; intersectionality; globalization; transnationalism), we will consider how power inequalities attached to interlocking categories of difference shape key feminist areas of inquiry, including questions of: work, resource allocation, sexuality, queerness, reproduction, marriage, gendered violence, militarization, consumerism, resistance and community sustainability.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
BOSLER 208 |
| WGSS 101-01 |
Disorderly Women
Instructor: John Rufo
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-03.Disorderly Women is a term used by labor historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall to describe the collectivity of working-class women in southern Appalachia. We will begin our course by reading Halls 1986 article before rapidly expanding our scope to emphasize the enormous energy created by the feminist movement in the United States. We will think about race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, and more to provide various angles on the opportunities and problems posed through the questions of feminism(s). We will
look at activist work, academic scholarship, art, music, fiction-writing, editing, and the
many avenues by and through which women fought for civil rights, freedom, and
autonomy at all scales and sites (domestic, local, state, national, regional, international,
global). Especially with the recent political repression around the overturning of Roe V.
Wade, we will treat this course as an intervention in the present by way of the past. Our
central guiding texts will be from Black Feminist activist-intellectuals such as Angela
Davis, Assata Shakur, and Toni Cade Bambara, first published in the 1980s.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 203 |
| WGSS 200-01 |
Feminist Practices, Writing and Research
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Building upon the key concepts and modes of inquire introduced in the WGSS Introductory course, WGSS 200 deepens students understanding of how feminist perspectives on power, experience, and inequality uniquely shape how scholars approach research questions, writing practices, methods and knowledge production. Approaches may include feminist approaches to memoir, oral histories, grassroots and online activism, blogging, visual culture, ethnography, archival research, space, art, literary analysis, and policy studies.Prerequisite: 100 or 208, which can be taken concurrently.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 212 |
| WGSS 201-01 |
Feminist Genres
Instructor: Claire Seiler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 222-01.This course explores the centrality of literature to feminist thought, consciousness, and activism. Since women began gaining access to literacy itself, women writers have used inherited literary genresand created new onesto make and expand feminist thought, the category of woman, and the scope of feminist action. We will study how and why (mostly) twentieth-century US feminist literary artists approached and reimagined six literary genres and modes, among them essay, authotheory, novel, lyric poetry, and noir. Students can expect to develop a solid grounding in the history and contestation of feminist literary studies, to experiment with writing in several genres, and to read exemplary works across genres by Gloria Anzalda, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kate Chopin, bell hooks, Dorothy B. Hughes, Audre Lorde, and Maggie Nelson, among others.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| WGSS 201-02 |
Love, Sex and Hebrew Texts (in Translation)
Instructor: Nitsa Kann
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 234-01, MEST 200-01 and RELG 234-01.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 314 |
| WGSS 201-03 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern European Art
Instructor: Ty Vanover
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 205-01. This course offers an introduction to modern European art from roughly 1800 to 1945 with a marked focus on the ways that art pictured, responded to, and subverted gender roles and conceptions of sexuality. In particular, we will examine how widespread social changes (urbanization, class formation), political developments (nationalism, socialism, fascism), and scientific developments (sexual science, psychoanalysis) incited shifts in how European artists conceived of their identities and positionalities. We will supplement canonical texts in feminist and gender theory with recent interventions in queer, trans, and post-colonial theory to arrive at a historically grounded understanding of gender and sex in modern art. Together, we will consider depictions of sex work in post-Impressionist art, sexual primitivism and the Black model, masculinity in Expressionist art, and trans approaches to modern art, among other topics, in order to rethink traditional art historical approaches to the modern canon. No prior experience in Art History or Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies is required.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
WEISS 221 |
| WGSS 202-01 |
Gender, Sport, and American Society
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 101-02.From children tossing a ball in the backyard, to middle-aged weekend warriors on tennis and basketball courts, to athletes in their prime on quests for Olympic gold, sports affect our understandings of our bodies, relationships, and larger social groups. Gender, Sport, and American Society involves the applications of the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - to the field of sport cultures. Class readings and discussions will consider how sports institutions and cultures operate as interlocking systems of power shaping the shifting significance of bodies, differences, opportunity, and marginalization in the US, particularly along the lines of gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality. No WGSS or AMST experience necessary.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 211 |
| WGSS 202-02 |
European Women's History
Instructor: Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 278-01.This course will explore the lives of European women in the modern period (1789 to the post WWII period). It looks at both rural and urban women, issues of class, family and motherhood as well as demands for social and political rights for women. The readings include primary sources such as housekeeping guides, novels and war propaganda as well as secondary sources such as biographies and anthropological studies.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 311 |
| WGSS 202-03 |
Political Economy of Gender
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ECON 230-01 and SOCI 227-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Political Economy of Gender adopts a gender-aware perspective to examine how people secure their livelihoods through labor market and nonmarket work. The course examines the nature of labor market inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity and other social categories, how they are integrated with non-market activities, their wellbeing effects, their role in the macroeconomy, and the impact of macroeconomic policies on these work inequalities. These questions are examined from the perspective of feminist economics that has emerged since the early 1990s as a heterodox economics discourse, critical of both mainstream and gender-blind heterodox economics. While we will pay special attention to the US economy, our starting point is that there is one world economy with connections between the global South and the North, in spite of the structural differences between (and within) these regions.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
ALTHSE 206 |
| WGSS 202-05 |
Gender, Sport, and American Society
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 101-03.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 211 |
| WGSS 236-01 |
Psychology of Women and Gender
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PSYC 135-01.Permission of Instructor Required. See course description with PSYC 135 listing.
|
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| WGSS 300-01 |
Feminist Perspectives and Theories
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
This course deepens students understandings of how feminist perspectives situate power and privilege in relationship to interlocking categories of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability and nation. Through foundational theoretical texts, it expands students understandings of significant theoretical frameworks that inform womens, gender, critical race and sexuality studies, as well as debates and tensions within them. Frameworks may include political activisms, materialist feminism, standpoint epistemologies, critiques of scientific objectivity, intersectionality, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, transnational critique and feminist legal theory. Helps students develop more nuanced understandings of the relationship between everyday experiences, political institutions, forms of resistance and theoretical meaning-making. Prerequisite: WGSS 100 or 208.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 211 |
| WGSS 301-01 |
Jane Austen in Her Time
Instructor: Wendy Moffat
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 341-01.This course may count as either a pre-1800 or post-1800 300-level literature class, depending on the student's research. Those students who wish to earn pre-1800 credit must inform me before add/drop is over, and I will inform the registrar and supplement and guide research accordingly. Students must satisfactorily complete the final research paper as a pre-1800 course to receive pre-1800 credit.>Here is a rare opportunity to study the whole of a great writer's oeuvre in a single term. We will read all six of Austen's major novels, biographical material, and selected social history with the aim of understanding the cultural conditions described by the novels, and the novels in their cultural context. Students will lead one class discussion, write one research paper, and present an "accomplishment" befitting Austen's milieu: e. g. performing a musical composition, completing a piece of needlework, learning a card game and teaching it to the class, composing a verbal "charade," and the like. In addition, each week, each student will be expected to write and mail one letter (not e mail) to a correspondent of his/her choosing. (The letters may remain private.)
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 301 |
| WGSS 336-01 |
Qualitative Research Methods in Gender and Sexuality
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PSYC 335-01. The psychology of gender and sexuality is the study of psychological issues relating to gender identity, gender expression, sexual identity, and sexual practices. In this course, students will learn about one of the primary research methods used in the psychology of gender and sexuality qualitative research methods. Although gender and sexuality psychologists use many methods (including experimental and quasi-experimental methods in lab and field, surveys, and observation), we will focus on interview methodology because it is particularly well-suited to studying peoples lived experience of gender and sex. Because the study of these topics has been strongly guided by feminist theory, this course will draw heavily on feminist critical perspectives on social science research. We will consider methodological topics of sampling, analysis, transferability of findings, researcher reflexivity, and research ethics. This intensive lab course will include the design and implementation of an original, community-based (on campus) research project. This course is cross-listed as PSYC 335. Three hours classroom plus three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisites: PSYC 210 & 211, and PSYC 135, 140, 145, 150, 155 or 175; OR, WGSS 200 and one additional WGSS course.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 311
01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 112 |
| WGSS 351-01 |
Writing, Identity, & Queer Studies: In & Out, Either/Or, and Everything in Between
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 221-01.Kate Bornstein writes: "I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." In this reading and writing intensive course, students will investigate how we approach the space outside of "one or the other" through literature, film, and narrative more generally. Throughout the semester we will explore and engage critically with established and emerging arguments in queer theory, as well as read and watch texts dealing with issues of identity and identification. Although "queer" is a contested term, it describes-at least potentially-sexualities and genders that fall outside of normative constellations. Students will learn how to summarize and engage with arguments, and to craft and insert their own voice into the ongoing debates about the efficacy of queer theory and queer studies. Moreover, we'll take on questions that relate "word" to "world" in order to ask: How might our theory productively intervene in LGBTQ civil rights discourse outside our classroom? How do we define queer and is it necessarily attached to sexual orientation? How do our own histories and narratives intersect with the works we analyze? Our course texts will pull from a range of genres including graphic novels, film, poetry, memoir, and fiction. Some texts may include Alison Bechdel's _Fun Home_, Audre Lorde's _Zami_, Jackie Kay's _Trumpet_, David Sedaris' _Me Talk Pretty One Day_, and films such as _Paris is Burning_ and _Boys Don't Cry_.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 410 |
| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 101-02 |
Gender, Sport, and American Society
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-01.From children tossing a ball in the backyard, to middle-aged weekend warriors on tennis and basketball courts, to athletes in their prime on quests for Olympic gold, sports affect our understandings of our bodies, relationships, and larger social groups. Gender, Sport, and American Society involves the applications of the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - to the field of sport cultures. Class readings and discussions will consider how sports institutions and cultures operate as interlocking systems of power shaping the shifting significance of bodies, differences, opportunity, and marginalization in the US, particularly along the lines of gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality. No WGSS or AMST experience necessary.
|
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 211 |
| AMST 101-03 |
Gender, Sport, and American Society
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-05.
|
09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 211 |
| AMST 200-03 |
Disorderly Women
Instructor: John Rufo
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-01.Disorderly Women is a term used by labor historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall to describe the collectivity of working-class women in southern Appalachia. We will begin our course by reading Halls 1986 article before rapidly expanding our scope to emphasize the enormous energy created by the feminist movement in the United States. We will think about race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, and more to provide various angles on the opportunities and problems posed through the questions of feminism(s). We will
look at activist work, academic scholarship, art, music, fiction-writing, editing, and the
many avenues by and through which women fought for civil rights, freedom, and
autonomy at all scales and sites (domestic, local, state, national, regional, international,
global). Especially with the recent political repression around the overturning of Roe V.
Wade, we will treat this course as an intervention in the present by way of the past. Our
central guiding texts will be from Black Feminist activist-intellectuals such as Angela
Davis, Assata Shakur, and Toni Cade Bambara, first published in the 1980s.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 203 |
| AMST 303-01 |
Indigenous and Chicana Feminisms
Instructor: Jed Kuhn
Course Description:
This course examines Indigenous and Chicana feminisms as distinct-yet-overlapping schools of feminist thought. Indigenous feminisms refer to the range of feminist theories and practices that have emerged from Native American and Hawaiian communities in the U.S. as well as Indigenous communities globally. Chicana feminism refers to feminist theories and practices that have emerged from Mexican American communities of Indigenous descent in the United States in conversation with Mexican, Central American, Puerto Rican, and other Latina feminisms. Indigenous and Chicana feminisms have much in common. Both, for instance, examine the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, and both turn to their respective indigenous cultures to imagine new ways of surviving, thriving, and decolonizing the present. However, there are also sources of tension as the fundamental goals of some Native American and Chicanx scholars and activists contradict one another. Good relations between these groups are further hindered by a colonial history of violence. This course interrogates the tensions and alliances between these groups to ask how Native American and Chicanx communities can support one another in solidarity as well as why feminism has continually been the common ground from which scholars have attempted to bridge the divide between these groups. We will ground our interrogation in the historical and legal context of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and practice applying these theories through the analysis of cultural texts. Additionally, we will bring in the insights of select Black and transnational feminist theorists to complicate these discussions. In addition to Indigenous and Chicana feminisms, major perspectives we will consider include borderlands theory, settler colonial theory, postcolonial theory, and queer of color critique. Major authors may include Gloria Anzalda, Joanne Barker, Lourdes Alberto, Eve Tuck, Tiffany Lethabo King, and Mara Josefina Saldaa-Portillo.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 315 |
| Courses Offered in ARTH |
| ARTH 205-01 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern European Art
Instructor: Ty Vanover
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-03. This course offers an introduction to modern European art from roughly 1800 to 1945 with a marked focus on the ways that art pictured, responded to, and subverted gender roles and conceptions of sexuality. In particular, we will examine how widespread social changes (urbanization, class formation), political developments (nationalism, socialism, fascism), and scientific developments (sexual science, psychoanalysis) incited shifts in how European artists conceived of their identities and positionalities. We will supplement canonical texts in feminist and gender theory with recent interventions in queer, trans, and post-colonial theory to arrive at a historically grounded understanding of gender and sex in modern art. Together, we will consider depictions of sex work in post-Impressionist art, sexual primitivism and the Black model, masculinity in Expressionist art, and trans approaches to modern art, among other topics, in order to rethink traditional art historical approaches to the modern canon. No prior experience in Art History or Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies is required.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
WEISS 221 |
| Courses Offered in ECON |
| ECON 230-01 |
Political Economy of Gender
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SOCI 227-01 and WGSS 202-03.Permission of Instructor Required Political Economy of Gender adopts a gender-aware perspective to examine how people secure their livelihoods through labor market and nonmarket work. The course examines the nature of labor market inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity and other social categories, how they are integrated with non-market activities, their wellbeing effects, their role in the macroeconomy, and the impact of macroeconomic policies on these work inequalities. These questions are examined from the perspective of feminist economics that has emerged since the early 1990s as a heterodox economics discourse, critical of both mainstream and gender-blind heterodox economics. While we will pay special attention to the US economy, our starting point is that there is one world economy with connections between the global South and the North, in spite of the structural differences between (and within) these regions.For ECON 230: ECON 111 (ECON 112 recommended); For SOCI 227: SOCI 110 or ECON 111; For WGSS 202: none (ECON 111 recommended) This course is cross-listed as SOCI 227 & WGSS 202.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
ALTHSE 206 |
| Courses Offered in ENGL |
| ENGL 221-01 |
Writing, Identity, & Queer Studies: In & Out, Either/Or, and Everything in Between
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 351-01.Kate Bornstein writes: "I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." In this reading and writing intensive course, students will investigate how we approach the space outside of "one or the other" through literature, film, and narrative more generally. Throughout the semester we will explore and engage critically with established and emerging arguments in queer theory, as well as read and watch texts dealing with issues of identity and identification. Although "queer" is a contested term, it describes-at least potentially-sexualities and genders that fall outside of normative constellations. Students will learn how to summarize and engage with arguments, and to craft and insert their own voice into the ongoing debates about the efficacy of queer theory and queer studies. Moreover, we'll take on questions that relate "word" to "world" in order to ask: How might our theory productively intervene in LGBTQ civil rights discourse outside our classroom? How do we define queer and is it necessarily attached to sexual orientation? How do our own histories and narratives intersect with the works we analyze? Our course texts will pull from a range of genres including graphic novels, film, poetry, memoir, and fiction. Some texts may include Alison Bechdel's _Fun Home_, Audre Lorde's _Zami_, Jackie Kay's _Trumpet_, David Sedaris' _Me Talk Pretty One Day_, and films such as _Paris is Burning_ and _Boys Don't Cry_.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 410 |
| ENGL 222-01 |
Feminist Genres
Instructor: Claire Seiler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-01.This course explores the centrality of literature to feminist thought, consciousness, and activism. Since women began gaining access to literacy itself, women writers have used inherited literary genresand created new onesto make and expand feminist thought, the category of woman, and the scope of feminist action. We will study how and why (mostly) twentieth-century US feminist literary artists approached and reimagined six literary genres and modes, among them essay, authotheory, novel, lyric poetry, and noir. Students can expect to develop a solid grounding in the history and contestation of feminist literary studies, to experiment with writing in several genres, and to read exemplary works across genres by Gloria Anzalda, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kate Chopin, bell hooks, Dorothy B. Hughes, Audre Lorde, and Maggie Nelson, among others.
|
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| ENGL 341-01 |
Jane Austen in Her Time
Instructor: Wendy Moffat
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-01.This course may count as either a pre-1800 or post-1800 300-level literature class, depending on the student's research. Those students who wish to earn pre-1800 credit must inform me before add/drop is over, and I will inform the registrar and supplement and guide research accordingly. Students must satisfactorily complete the final research paper as a pre-1800 course to receive pre-1800 credit.Here is a rare opportunity to study the whole of a great writer's oeuvre in a single term. We will read all six of Austen's major novels, biographical material, and selected social history with the aim of understanding the cultural conditions described by the novels, and the novels in their cultural context. Students will lead one class discussion, write one research paper, and present an "accomplishment" befitting Austen's milieu: e. g. performing a musical composition, completing a piece of needlework, learning a card game and teaching it to the class, composing a verbal "charade," and the like. In addition, each week, each student will be expected to write and mail one letter (not e mail) to a correspondent of his/her choosing. (The letters may remain private.)
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 301 |
| Courses Offered in HIST |
| HIST 278-01 |
European Women's History
Instructor: Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-02. This course will explore the lives of European women in the modern period (1789 to the post WWII period). It looks at both rural and urban women, issues of class, family and motherhood as well as demands for social and political rights for women. The readings include primary sources such as housekeeping guides, novels and war propaganda as well as secondary sources such as biographies and anthropological studies.
Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 311 |
| Courses Offered in JDST |
| JDST 234-01 |
Love, Sex and Hebrew Texts (in Translation)
Instructor: Nitsa Kann
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEST 200-01, RELG 234-01 and WGSS 201-02. This course is a comprehensive study of masterpieces of Hebrew literature in translation, especially about love from different periods, origins, and genres. The literary survey includes Biblical love stories and love poetry, love and sexuality in Jewish mysticism, love and desire poems of the Middle Ages, and various fiction and poetry of modern Hebrew literature from the early 20th century to the present. The students will read translated short novels, short stories, poetry, academic books and articles, and other research materials about Hebrew literature. Students will watch some Israeli films about primary Hebrew authors and their cultural world. Sessions will be divided into discussions of assigned readings, and presentations on the historical background of each period, and literary and biographical background of the various authors. This course is cross-listed as RELG 234.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 314 |
| Courses Offered in MEST |
| MEST 200-01 |
Love, Sex and Hebrew Texts (in Translation)
Instructor: Nitsa Kann
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 234-01, RELG 234-01 and WGSS 201-02.This course is a comprehensive study of masterpieces of Hebrew literature in translation, especially about love from different periods, origins, and genres. The literary survey includes Biblical love stories and love poetry, love and sexuality in Jewish mysticism, love and desire poems of the Middle Ages, and various fiction and poetry of modern Hebrew literature from the early 20th century to the present. The students will read translated short novels, short stories, poetry, academic books and articles, and other research materials about Hebrew literature. Students will watch some Israeli films about primary Hebrew authors and their cultural world. Sessions will be divided into discussions of assigned readings, and presentations on the historical background of each period, and literary and biographical background of the various authors.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 314 |
| Courses Offered in PSYC |
| PSYC 135-01 |
Psychology of Women and Gender
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 236-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Using a feminist social psychological framework, we will examine theory and research related to the psychology of women and the psychology of gender. We will analyze gender as a system that influences men's and women's lives, and consider the ongoing significance of gender role socialization across the lifespan. Throughout the semester, we will consider the social and political implications of putting women at the center of psychological analysis. In addition, we will develop tools to critically analyze traditional psychological theory and research to expose sexist bias, and we will examine alternative research methodologies that provide ways to study the richness of women's lives in context. This course is cross-listed as WGSS 236.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| PSYC 335-01 |
Qualitative Research Methods in Gender and Sexuality
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 336-01. The psychology of gender and sexuality is the study of psychological issues relating to gender identity, gender expression, sexual identity, and sexual practices. In this course, students will learn about one of the primary research methods used in the psychology of gender and sexuality qualitative research methods. Although gender and sexuality psychologists use many methods (including experimental and quasi-experimental methods in lab and field, surveys, and observation), we will focus on interview methodology because it is particularly well-suited to studying peoples lived experience of gender and sex. Because the study of these topics has been strongly guided by feminist theory, this course will draw heavily on feminist critical perspectives on social science research. We will consider methodological topics of sampling, analysis, transferability of findings, researcher reflexivity, and research ethics. This intensive lab course will include the design and implementation of an original, community-based (on campus) research project. This course is cross-listed as WGSS 336. Three hours classroom plus three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisites: PSYC 210 & 211, and PSYC 135, 140, 145, 150, 155 or 175; OR, WGSS 200 and one additional WGSS course.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 311
01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 112 |
| PSYC 560-02 |
Research on the Gendered Experience of Smoking Stigma
Instructor: Marie Helweg-Larsen
Course Description:
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| Courses Offered in RELG |
| RELG 234-01 |
Love, Sex and Hebrew Texts (in Translation)
Instructor: Nitsa Kann
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 234-01, MEST 200-01 and WGSS 201-02. This course is a comprehensive study of masterpieces of Hebrew literature in translation, especially about love from different periods, origins, and genres. The literary survey includes Biblical love stories and love poetry, love and sexuality in Jewish mysticism, love and desire poems of the Middle Ages, and various fiction and poetry of modern Hebrew literature from the early 20th century to the present. The students will read translated short novels, short stories, poetry, academic books and articles, and other research materials about Hebrew literature. Students will watch some Israeli films about primary Hebrew authors and their cultural world. Sessions will be divided into discussions of assigned readings, and presentations on the historical background of each period, and literary and biographical background of the various authors. This course is cross-listed as JDST 234.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
EASTC 314 |
| Courses Offered in SOCI |
| SOCI 227-01 |
Political Economy of Gender
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ECON 230-01 and WGSS 202-03.Permission of Instructor Required. Political Economy of Gender adopts a gender-aware perspective to examine how people secure their livelihoods through labor market and nonmarket work. The course examines the nature of labor market inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity and other social categories, how they are integrated with non-market activities, their wellbeing effects, their role in the macroeconomy, and the impact of macroeconomic policies on these work inequalities. These questions are examined from the perspective of feminist economics that has emerged since the early 1990s as a heterodox economics discourse, critical of both mainstream and gender-blind heterodox economics. While we will pay special attention to the US economy, our starting point is that there is one world economy with connections between the global South and the North, in spite of the structural differences between (and within) these regions.For ECON 230: ECON 111 (ECON 112 recommended); For SOCI 227: SOCI 110 or ECON 111; For WGSS 202: none (ECON 111 recommended). This course is cross-listed as ECON 230 & WGSS 202.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
ALTHSE 206 |
