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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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Sport Management |
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SPM 3500 Sports Economics and Finance
Basic theory in finance applied to managerial aspects of sport organizations. Included are forms of ownership, taxation, financial analysis, feasibility studies, and economic impact studies. Students will study entrepreneurship and develop an understanding of the financial aspects for owning their own businesses. Prerequisite(s): ACCT 2110 AND SPM 2000 AND MKT 2100
Credits: 3.0
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SPM 3990 Selected Topics
A topic not covered by an existing course is offered as recommended by the department and approved by the dean.
Credits: 1.00-3.00
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SPM 4000 Global Sport Management
An examination of worldwide phenomena that impact sport today. Issues discussed include the international economic systems, commercialization, internet and technology and their impact on management within the global sport industry. Prerequisite(s): ACCT 2110 AND SPM 2000 AND MKT 2100
Credits: 3.0
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SPM 4500 Contemporary Issues in Sport Management
This course is a capstone course for senior, graduating students in the sport management program. This course provides students with in-depth knowledge and the structure of the sport industry and contemporary issues facing sport organizations and how management techniques can be applied to solve problems. This course also delivers contemporary issues of staffing, social and ethical responsibility, communication, and leadership skills. Through these topics, students will become familiar with career opportunities in sport management. Students will be involved in the investigation and study of current research topics using directed library research and readings as they apply to sport management. As this is a writing intensive course, students will develop their research and writing process skills to complete a major research paper. Prerequisite(s): SPM 2000 Minimum Grade of D AND SPM 2500 Minimum Grade of D AND SPM 2800 Minimum Grade of D AND SPM 3000 Minimum Grade of D AND SPM 3400 Minimum Grade of D AND SPM 3500 Minimum Grade of D AND SPM 4000 Minimum Grade of D
Credits: 3.0
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SPM 4600 Internship in Sport Management
This course is a vital component of the sport management curriculum. It is structured to prepare students to become more effective leaders in their chosen profession in the sport industry. In addition to the student’s classroom experience, this course provides the students an opportunity to obtain relevant, practical, and professional experience. This course will not only help students prepare for a profession in Sport Management, but will also be able to prepare them for an active role in community and civic engagement. Students must have completed all required undergraduate hours in Sport Management except SPM 4500 and receive departmental approval to be eligible for this course.
Credits: 3.0
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SPM 4990 Independent Study
An independent project as approved and to be arranged through the department. 1 - 6 credits
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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Sports Medicine |
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SMED 2000 Medical Terminology
This course is intended to introduce, students to the language of medicine. Students will gain an understanding of basic elements and structure of medical terms, as well as medical term definitions, abbreviations, interpretation and pronunciation. Prerequisite(s): Sports Medicine majors only
Credits: 1.00
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SMED 2200 Introduction to Sports Medicine
This introductory course explores the history, evolution, and current practice of sports medicine. The course also introduces basic health care practices and knowledge, and awareness of related health care professions as they relate to the sports medicine team concept. Students must earn a C- or better in the course to continue taking courses in the Sports Medicine major. This class is writing intensive. Prerequisite(s): BIO 1120 , BIO 1130 , and SMED 2000
Credits: 3.00
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SMED 2400 Surface Anatomy
This course will enable sports medicine students to gain a greater understanding of anatomical landmarks and underlying structures. Specific areas of focus include bony landmarks, sensory and motor innervation, and muscle origin, insertion, and action. Prerequisite(s): BIO 1120 , BIO 1130 , SMED 2000 and SMED 2200
Credits: 3.0
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Social Science Honors |
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SSH 2010 Social Sciences Honors Seminar I
As social scientists attempt to decipher human social behavior, they make various moral, theoretical, political, and methodological choices. This seminar, recommended as the first in the honors sequence, makes a special effort to identify where the various social science disciplines differ and where possibilities exist for interdisciplinary cooperation. The course also offers a historical perspective on the development of the social sciences.
Credits: 3.0
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SSH 2020 Social Sciences Honors Seminar II
This seminar focuses on the various methodologies of the social sciences. As in SSH 2010, students read important social scientific studies in the original. Here, however, an effort is made to use such works, often drawn from scientific journals, as the basis for discussion of methodological questions. The seminar covers qualitative as well as quantitative approaches. Students will also attend to the problems associated with race, gender, class, culture, and political agendas as sources of bias in social scientific work.
Credits: 3.0
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SSH 3010 Social Sciences Honors Seminar III
Each semester, this seminar will examine a selected topic from a variety of social science perspectives. An effort will be made to show how psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists approach the topic. Our plan is to cover different themes on a rotating basis. Seminars will likely focus on: (1) Law and Justice, (2) International Conflict, (3) Family Matters, and (4) Race, Class, and Religion.
Credits: 3.0
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SSH 4010 Honors Thesis I
The primary goal of this course is to enable students to launch a significant honors research project that they will complete in SSH 4020 . Prior to enrolling in the course, all students will have completed SSH 2020 - the honors methodology seminar - as well as relevant methodology courses in a particular discipline. In this small group course, students initiate their honors theses by conducting extensive reviews of the applicable social scientific literature. The ultimate goal for the semester is to develop realistic research proposals and, when possible, to begin implementing these proposals. As a group, the class explores various research strategies and, in particular, focuses on overcoming the roadblocks that frequently emerge during the course of any serious research project. Students are required to produce frequent written progress reports and a formal research proposal that should, in most cases, become (with adaptation) a portion of their thesis write-up. Students are encouraged to assist each other when possible and to offer constructive feedback on each other’s proposals. Prerequisite(s): SSH 2010 AND SSH 2020 AND SSH 3010
Credits: 3.0
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SSH 4020 Social Sciences Honors Thesis II
The primary goal of this course is to enable students to complete and successfully defend a significant honors research project (started in SSH 4010 ). Students are required to produce chapters or thesis segments on schedule and to submit a final honors thesis that should (in most cases) be suitable for publication or presentation at a social scientific conference. Class meetings involve group discussions of the research process and collective efforts to solve problems and facilitate successful completion of the projects. Prerequisite(s): SSH 4010
Credits: 3.0
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SSH 4990 Independent Study
Individual research projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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Bilingual Education |
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TBED 3420 Cross-Linguistic Approach to Bilingual Development/Bilingualism
This course will introduce bilingual teachers to the study of cross-linguistic influence in bilingual development. It deals with comparative and contrastive analysis of two languages as a method of investigation into language transfer and interference that occurs in the course of second language acquisition. The course covers the basic techniques for comparing and contrasting English and the native language of English Language Learners, and techniques for predicting and analyzing learners’ language. Pedagogical implications of the cross-linguistic approach and instructional practices are critically discussed.
Credits: 3.0
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Turkish |
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TRK 1100 Basic Turkish I
Course presents the fundamentals of the Turkish language and introduces orthography, present tense formations, the case systems, and past and future tenses. Offers practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking at a graded level of difficulty. Presents an introduction to Turkish culture. Students can only receive a grade higher than a C- in this course.
Credits: 3.0
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TRK 1110 Basic Turkish II
Course furthers the presentation of the fundamentals of the Turkish language, focusing on complex tenses, voice, and mood, and continuing the presentation of the system of declensions. It offers practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking at a level of difficulty appropriate to novice-high. It will explore aspects of Turkish culture. Prerequisite(s): TRK 1100
Credits: 3.0
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TRK 4990 Independent Study
As approved and to be arranged with instructor and by chairperson.
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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Urban Studies |
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URBN 2010 Introduction to Urban Studies
This course offers an interdisciplinary perspective on urban studies theories, principles, and practice. The course includes an analysis of the basic concepts and principles of urban studies, a review of urban policy in the United States, an introduction to the study of urban processes, an analysis of the relationship between public policy and planning, and of the structure of the urban environment. The course covers the theories of urbanism, the development of cities, methods of research and analysis of contemporary urban issues. The city of Paterson will be used as a recurring empirical example, though the course will also devote some attention to other U.S. cities and to cities in other countries.
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 2500 Research Methods in Urban Studies
This course provides an introduction to the research methods that are most often used in the field of urban studies. Specifically, the course will engage students in a critical exploration of the language of urban research, theoretical, operational, and ethical issues in doing urban research, elements of the urban research process, and different ways of doing urban research. Students will learn how to identify urban research topics, frame urban research questions, identify which methods can be employed to answer them, and why and when to use them. Students will also learn how to link substantive urban research questions to appropriate urban research methods including both quantitative and qualitative approaches such as ethnographic field studies, questionnaire design and interviews, content analyses, surveys, focus groups, case studies, and archival research. Prerequisite(s): URBN 2010
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 2720 Urban Sociology
Examines the growth and development of cities with primary focus on the modern American metropolis: ecological patterns, urban institutions; with a particular emphasis on the problems of the inner city; the rise of suburbia and future prospects. Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 2730 Global Cities
This class will consider the changing place of the city as a site of action and socialization under conditions of increasing globalization. We will look at current theories in urban sociology in relation to the global environment, “global cities,” transnational urban politics, and the interacting effects of transnational migration and urban development.
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 2980 Community Based Learning
This course is intended primarily for students admitted into William Paterson University’s Urban Studies Program, or who are considering a minor in Urban Studies. Its aim is to enable students to apply the perspectives and concepts of the discipline while they are working with a community-based organization. The course will continue to develop the central theories of urban sociology, urban social psychology, and urban geography while engaging students in a hands-on urban learning experience. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary issues of housing, education, social services, immigration, segregation, suburbanization, and community building, within the context of urban political economy and development.
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 3290 Anthropology of City Schools
This course deals with a study of current theories, processes and concepts in the anthropology of education. Anthropological research and field techniques, as applied to the study of urban educational environments, are studied from a cross-cultural perspective. A major focus is on contemporary city schools.
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 3410 Geography of North American Cities
This course provides a broad introduction to the urbanization process, urban systems, and the growth, internal structure and living environments of North American cities and suburbs.
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 3550 US Urban History
This course examines the history of U.S. cities from the colonial era to the present, exploring the urban experience from the pre-transit walking city through urban decay and rebirth. It includes a chronological survey of the major cities, the newer cities of the Sunbelt and Northwest, and suburban Edge Cities. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 OR URBN 2010
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 3570 Becoming New York: Literature, History and Culture
A multi-disciplinary approach to the literature, history, and culture of New York that includes subjects such as immigration, the Civil War and the draft riots; the intrigue of New York as celebrated by Melville, Poe, Whitman, James, and Howell; the impact of building public transporation and public space such as Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge; tenement housing and reform movements; and the unification of the five boroughs. Also included are films such as The Gangs of New York and Washington Square. Prerequisite(s): URBN 2010
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 3790 Urban Cinema
Course examines the interrelationship between urban space and film narrative in world cinema from early Soviet montage, through neo-realism and the Third World underground, to recent transnational productions. It foregrounds the role of the city as both spatial trope and protagonist film, and historicizes the reception of urban cinema in diverse cinematic contexts.
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 3980 Women in the City
This course explores the impact of urban environments in the United States on women from 1890 to the present. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which cities facilitate and constrain opportunities and roles for women. Prerequisite(s): URBN 2010 OR WS 1100 OR WS 1500 OR AACS 1500
Credits: 3.0
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URBN 3990 Selected Topics
A topic not covered by an existing course is offered as recommended by the department and approved by the Dean. 1-6 credits. Permission of the department chairperson required.
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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URBN 4900 Race,Ethnicity and Changing City
This course follows the history of ethnic enclaves and racial ghettos in U.S. cities from the 1840s to the present, explores how these neighborhoods and their residents fared as cities grew and changed around them, and emphasizes the decades after World War II. The course covers the history of ethnic and racial conflict, segregated neighborhoods, the suburban exodus, federal urban policies, inner city decay and the urban crisis, and the current state of racial and ethnic neighborhoods. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 OR URBN 2010
Credits: 3.0
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGS 1100 Women’s Changing Roles
History and analysis of the origins, philosophies, issues and activities of the new women’s movement. Deals with sex roles in a changing society and role conflicts of both men and women resulting from this transition. Explores the impact of sexism, racism, heterosexism, classism, abelism, ageism, and other oppressions on women’s lives.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 1500 Racism/Sexism in The US
This course examines systems of oppression and liberation struggles. Racism, sexism, heterosexism, and classism are the major isses addressed. Laws, historical documents, academic articles, narratives, statistics, films, and personal experiences are used to interrogate oppressive systems.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 1800 Gendered Lives and Societies
This course is an introduction to understanding how societies, identities and social relations are shaped by sex, gender and sexuality. It wil explore how gender is a socially constructed concept that affects men and women in different ways and shapes social relations, how gender is related to ” race”, class, age and disability, and how social institutions reproduce gender inequality.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2020 Latinos and Latinas in the US
This course will analyze the historical and contemporary experiences of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Latina/os in the U.S. are the largest minority group and constitute 16% of the nation’s total population. The course will use a gendered perspective to examine the social, economic, political and cultural conditions that have shaped the lives of Latinas and Latinos in U.S. history and society. It will explore the diversity of Latina/os in the United States, by drawing on the comparative histories of Chicanos and Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, and Central and South Americans to understand how different groups negotiate their presence in this country. Emphasis will be placed on broader issues such as Latina/o identity and its relationship to intersecting categories of class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and language.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2070 Women, Sport and Culture
This course will explore the role of women in sport from historical, philosophical, and psycho-social perspectives. Trends, patterns, issues, and future perspectives will be woven into the fabric of this course in order to understand the sport experience as parallel to women’s role in society.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2080 Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture: Icons, Images and Representations
This course examines gendered icons, sexualized images, and queer representations in a variety of contexts, focusing on popular culture and the media. The relationship between media icons, images, representations, and ideas about gender/women/sexuality/queerness/ability in a racialized and classed society will be explored. Readings will focus on authorship, spectatorship, production, and media content from feminist film theory, queer theory, cultural studies, digital media studies, and game studies. Popular culture has also been a site of political and social struggles for cultural expression and assertion of identities. In a rapidly changing media landscape, the role of the critical consumer of popular culture will also be explored.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2100 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
This course is an in-depth introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies. Introduces gender as a complex category of analysis and lived experience that is inextricably linked to other social and political categories including race, ethnicity, class, nation, sexuality, and disability. Explores and critiques representations of women in the arts and sciences, literary and philosophical traditions, as well as legal, economic, and political contexts. The course also focuses on the eays in which eomen have worked for social change and transformation, collectively and in coaliton with other groups.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2180 Life Passages
This course looks at the diversity of the female experience over a lifespan: infancy, girlhood, menarche, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, meonopause, and old age. Attention is given to diversity issues including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, abilities and disabilities, class, religion, and political perspectives. Some of the topics addressed include mother-daugher and father-daughter relationships, gender and sexual identity awakenings and struggles, motherhood, marriage/partership, friendships, and ageing. The course materials include contemporary, multicultural and interdisiplinary literature and films. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2190 19th Century Women’s Voices
Studies various writers of the nineteenth century whose work challenges traditional assumptions about women’s roles. Attention is paid to the political and cultural contexts of the works. Writers may include Mary Shelley, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2250 Race, Gender and Social Justice
This course analyzes multiple forms of social oppression and inequality based on race (and color), sex (and gender), sexual orientation (and identity), and class in the United States. It will examine systemic aspects of social oppression in different periods and contexts and the ways that systems of social oppression manifest themselves on individual, cultural, institutional and/or global levels thus becoming self-perpetuating but not wholly unaltered structures. Individual and group agency, strategies of resistance, and visions for change will also be studied.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2330 Gendered Technologies
This course investigates the relevance of gender, race, class and sexuality to technology and the ways in which technology itself is implicated in the production of these same identity categories. Technologies will be examined as cultural forces and cultural artifacts. We will consider the contemporary and historical uses of technology, the development of new technologies, and the cultural representation of technology. We will consider a wide range of issues, including: the role women played in the development of technology, possible affects technological changes impose on gender roles, and new technologies that afford different social relations.
Prerequisites: PHIL1100 or PHIL1120 or PHIL1500 or PHIL2200 or PHIL2320. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 1100 or PHIL 1120 orPHIL 1500 or PHIL 2200 or PHIL 2320 Cross Listed Course(s): PHIL 2330
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2500 Racism and Sexism Global Perspectives
This course examines present and historical forms of racism and sexism and other systems of oppression around the globe. The course will investigate global manifestations of racial privilege and changing configurations of whiteness with particular emphasis on the legacy of colonialism. It will also examine the diverse forms of patriarchy as well as its endurance. The connections between other forms of oppression, especially classism and heterosexism, will be explored.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2550 The Black Woman Experience
Examines what it is to be a black woman in contemporary society. The achievements of black women, their relationship to the feminist movement, and their response to the triple oppression that can come from race, class, and gender are highlighted.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2570 Sex, Gender and Sexuality
Focusing on the complex interplay between biology and culture, this course uses evidence, concepts, theories and perspectives from the four fields of anthropology (biological, socio-cultural, linguistic, archaeological) to explore diverse patterns of sex, gender and sexuality amongst humans, human ancestors and non-human primates. This perspective will form the groundwork from which to critically evaluate discourses that reduce sex, gender and sexuality to a matter of nature alone; notions used to legitimize inequalities of sex and sexuality and pathologize non-normative sex, gender and sexualities. Adopting a social justice approach, we will explore contemporary struggles of self-determination in which sex, gender and sexuality are central. Some sections of this course are writing intensive. Course offered Fall and Spring Semesters.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2690 Philosophy of Sex and Love
The course investigates philosophical questions regarding the nature of sex and love, including questions such as: What is sex? What is sexuality? What is love? What kinds of love are possible? What is the proper morality of sexual behavior? Does gender, race, or class influence how we approach these questions? The course will consider these questions from an historical perspective, including philosophical, theological, and psychological approaches, and then follow the history of ideas from ancient times into contemporary debates. A focus on the diversity theories and prespectives will be emphasized. Topics to be covered may include marriage, reproduction, casual sex, prostitution, pornography, and homosexuality. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 1100 OR PHIL 1120 OR PHIL 1500 OR PHIL 2200
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2720 Politics and Sex
What is it like to be female in a male-dominated society? This course critically examines the socio-political construction of patriarchy and the conscious and nonconscious, intentional and unintentional ways in which male supremacy is reproduced in contemporary society. Particular emphasis will be on the mechanisms of social control designed to limit women’s participation in society and to ensure the perpetuation of male dominance.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 2800 Introduction to Transgender Studies
This course provides a general introduction to the emerging, multidisciplinary field of transgender studies. Adopting a holistic framework that views the development of gender identity and expression as a complex dialogue between biology and culture, it challenges the hegemonic artifice of a “natural” binary opposition between female/male & woman/man. Citing current, historical and cross-cultural examples of individuals and communities who destabilize prevailing sex/gender norms the course critiques how societies react to the presence of “other” gender identities, embodiments and expressions. The course also reviews the recent increase in trans-visibility and advocacy, and the ensuing challenges to legal, medical and social norms and attitudes predicated on the existence of only two kinds of gendered persons.
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WGS 2980 Caribbean Women: Culture and Society
An anthropological exploration of women in Caribbean society, using mainly ethnographic source materials. The source focuses on the similarities and differences in the social, economic and political experiences of various Caribbean women, from slavery through the 20th century. Particular attention is given to the experiences of Haitian, Cuban, Jamaican, Dominican, and Puerto Rican women.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3000 Women’s Changing Roles
This course will investigate the current conditions of education of women in America and the assumptions that lie behind them, in an effort to gain perspective on the educational experience of the participants, and possibly to formulate some new directions for the society’s agencies of education: federal and state policy, politics, and law; the behavioral sciences; language (semantics and literature): media; medicine; schools and child care organizations; the professions; and the church.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3010 Feminist Methodologies
Explores the implications of the feminist theorizing across disciplinary and cultural contexts for both methodology (theories about the research process) and epistemology (theories of knowledge). Examines how knowledge and power intersect, how genre or form impacts knowledge, how the knower is implicated in the knowledge produced, and how social location shapes inquiry. Considers implications of intersectional approaches to representing knowledge and identity. Prerequisite(s): WGS 1500 OR WGS 1100
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3070 Sex Equity in Education
Develops awareness of sex/gender biases in our culture with particular emphasis on the role of the school. Sex-role socialization patterns and sexual harassment are closely examined as they impact the lives of students. The course also addresses race, class, and sexuality inequities as education issues. Explores methods of eliminiation such biases in classroom instruction.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3080 Human Trafficking
This course will examine the disparate socio-cultural, economic and political factors that affect international migration and human trafficking throughout the world. It will use a feminist/gendered perspective to analyze changes in the global economy that impact transnational migration, domestic labor, global sex work, sexual violence and militarism, and sex tourism. particular attention will be paid to the debates and policies that have shaped the above topics.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3100 Contemporary Feminist Issues
Using recent scholarship and pedagogy in gender studies, this course discusses new issues in feminism with an emphasis on diversity, including race, class, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, degree of physical ability. It reexamines ways of knowing, and discusses the impact of gender studies on traditional disciplines. Prerequisite(s): WGS 1500 OR WGS 1100 OR ENG 1100
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3140 Reproductive Rights
This course explores the multifaceted and complex issues related to reproductive rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. The controversies surrounding reproductive technologies, pregnancy and childbirth, birth control, foster care, abortion, and adoption will be explored with particular focus on public policy and its impact on the private lives of individual women.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3160 American Womens History
The experience of American women from colonial times to the present. Explores conditions that shaped women’s destiny, analyzes the differences between the historical experience of women from different social classes and ethnic groups, and considers the ways American women have perceived their condition and worked to alter it.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3200 Women of Color
This introductory women’s studies course places the experiences and conerns of U.S. women of color at the center. It is designed for students interested in exploring similarities and differences among women in major U.S. racial/ethnic groups. The focus is on women born in the United States who, because of their nonwhite or mixed racial heritage, identify as both American and as Native Indian, African, Chicana, Puerto Rican, Chinese, or Japanese. To develop students’ skills to critically examine issues of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality, readings, lectures, and class discussions explore experiences and concerns of women of color in the workforce, in the family , and in their respective communities.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3240 Philosophy and Feminism
This course is an overview of some of the issues and work done in feminist philosophy. It introduces students to philosophical perspectives on sex and gender and the historical and contemporary debates regarding their significance for ideas of selfhood, ethics, and political theory. Readings from liberal, socialist, radical, psychoanalystic, and postmodern feminist theory are discussed as well as issues such as race, class, power, sex, and sexual identity.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3250 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Women Writers
This course explores the history of migrations / annexation / colonization and consequential social status informing the experience of Latinas in the United States. While the course title assumes a panethnic label, the course explores the complex diversity of women who trace their ancestry to geographical areas including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Special attention is paid to subjectivity and representation by social signifiers such as gender, race, class, and sexuality.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3260 Women in Modern Japanese Literature
This course examines the portrayal of women, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Japanese culture and society. Drawing on literary genres from the traditional to manga art and animé creations, the course explores such universal topics as notions of the self, national and gender identity, colonialism, war and its atomic aftermath, sexual liberation, globalism, and aging in Japan’s modern period (1868 - present). What Japanese writers have learned from and transmitted to Japan’s regional neighbors and world literature and how the concerns of the global women’s movement have manifested themselves in Japanese literature are major focii of discussion. All readings will be in English. Cross Listed Course(s): ASN 3250 , JPAN 3250 , ENG 3580
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3280 Goddess Mythology
This course is an examination of goddess mythology. The course takes a look at goddess traditions around the globe, Greek and Roman mythology, and African, Asian, and American cultures. The evolution and fragmentation of the goddess is examined with its spiritual traditions, myths, and legends. Contemporary goddess religions are also explored. The course explores the symbolic significance of female divinity and the impact of its loss on all aspects of culture. By critically reflecting on how spiritual symbols have been used historically to empower and disempower women, the course draws connections between the sacred legacy of the goddess and women’s relationship to nature religions. The course also addresses current debates about conflicting ideologies (patriarchy, matriarchy, and egalitarianism) and the actual existence of goddess cultures.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3290 Women and the Law in US
This course will examine the legal and social status of women historically and in modern American society and the law and policy relating to that status. The course discusses legal tools developed to address sexual inequality, and the possibility that law both challenges and suppots women’s subordination. The course and materials are organized around concrete legal problems of particular and current concern to women. Issues are approached intersectionally, addressing sex, race, sexual orientation and other differences simultaneously. The issue areas will include, but not be limited to: employment, education, family, reproduction, health, sexuality, violence, Equal Rights Amendment, criminal law, and equality theory; and the laws, cases, current statutes and legislative proposals that apply to and affect women. Prerequisite(s): WGS 1500 OR WGS 1100 OR WGS 2100 OR AACS 1500 OR AACS 1550
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3330 Activism and Social Change
This course critically examines the notion and practices of “activism” that are framed around contemporary issues that call for “social change” such as inequality, violence, loss of livelihoods, educational access, forced migration, lack of health and healthcare, environmental justice, discrimination and law, and globalization. Using a social justice framework to explore dynamics of race, gender and class, the course will examine case studies of community activism and advocacy to understand the interconnected systems of inequality and ways to challenge them. Key questions that inform this course are: What are the social, political, economic, ecological and cultural conditions that give rise to social activism and movements? How have marginalized groups historically organized for political and social justice? How do these movements affect political processes and institutions? The course will explore possibilities to engage with local community-based work and advocacy.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3350 Latina Testimonios: Ethnographies, Memoirs and Poetry
This course is an introduction to the similarities and differences in migration/annexation/colonization and consequential social status informing the experience of Latinas in the United States. Special attention will be paid to subjectivity and representation by social signifiers such as gender, race, class and sexualities. While the course title assumes a panethnic label, the course will explore the complex diversity of women who trace their ancestry to geographical areas including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, etc. Since Latina women have many histories, cultures, and experiences, we will explore similarities and differences across geography, culture, ethnicity, class, sexuality and generation.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3380 Queering Italian American Gender Identities & Experiences
This interdisciplinary course provides multiple perspectives on what it means and has meant to be an Italian American. “Queering” refers to complicating the intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, and race. How we experience life depends on our identities. The course will include the voices of Italian American women, men, and trans people as expressed in memoir, history, case studies, and interviews. Themes and topics of the course include sex-role socialization, stereotypes, the family, religion, social networks, gender and gender identity, sexuality issues, racial issues, feminism, film and popular culture, Italian Diaspora, and immigrant experiences. This is a writing intensive course.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3400 Media Representation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender
Investigates the ideological functions of moving images (film/television/video), still images (photography/magazines), and aural images (music), of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender created by mass media institutions to legitimatize discrimination and oppression in the United States. Explores images by independent producers/directors/artists to challenge and resist negative images and create transgressive images of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender. Employs critical and theoretical methods from feminist-gender, psychoanalytic, and semiotic–theorists to interpret meaning in these representations.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3440 Men and Masculinity
This course examines the construction of masculinity as a product of certain socio-historical movements. Building on feminist theory, this course seeks to understand how gender is not a natural condition of any individual or group of individuals but rather an ideaology imposed on men for social, political, religious, and scientific reasons. The course will look at how different cultures in different historical moments defined masculinity and how this term is related to specific historical events. It will also attempt to link the historical construction of masculinity with contemporary views of what it means to be a man. Prerequisite(s): WGS 1100
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3470 Sociology of Women
This course examines the position of women in U.S. society from a sociological perspective. Following the ideas of C. Wright Mills, this class connects the “personal troubles” of individual women with the “social issues” pertaining to women as a minority/subordinate group in the United States. In doing so, it provides a sociological analysis of women in the major institutions in U.S. society. Throughout the semester, the course highlights the intersection of race, class, and gender and the unique manner in which sociologists research these interconnections and women in general. Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3480 Ecofeminism
In this course students explore the connections between women and nature from an ecofeminist perspective. The course emcompasses the history, theory and praxis of ecofeminism, considers the variety of positions within ecofeminism, investigates political, social and developmental impacts of ecofeminism, and provides students with the opportunity for activism in their own lives.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3500 Lesbian Issues
This course assumes that sexuality is embedded in social structures and interconnected with various forms of structural injustice. Keeping in focus that lesbian women are a very diverse people, we review historical trends, consider issues of definition, and study relationships, family, and community, including a unit on lesbianism and religion. Prerequisite(s): WGS 1500 OR WGS 1100
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3530 NJ’s Immigrant Communities
This course will use an interdisciplinary approach to examine the history of immigration in the United States. We will do this through the lens of our home state, New Jersey, because it is one of the top immigrant destinations in the United States. Although the United States is often described as a nation of immigrants, this description has been contested throughout its history. Nativist and xenophobic beliefs against immigrant communities have influenced and sometimes determined U.S. immigration policy and law. This course will examine the experience of New Jersey immigrant communities, intersectionality (such as gender, race, sexuality etc.) within these communities, and the impact of US policies of inclusion and exclusion. Community and Civic Engagement. This course fulfills UCC area 5.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3560 Women and Gender in Modern South Asia
This course examines the history of women and gender in modern South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will both analyze the historical processes that transformed women’s lives, and consider how women themselves negotiated or subverted these processes in their own interest. Major themes and topics include: the transformation of gender through colonialism and nationalism, the emergence of women’s movements, women’s labor and globalization, and gender in the South Asian diaspora.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3580 Asian American Women: Gender Transformations
This course focuses on the contemporary Asian immigration to the United States and examines its impact on immigrant women’s roles in the workplace, family, and the community. It addresses the importance of gender in immigrant adaptation and identity formation not only among the immigrants but also among their U.S. - born children. Discussion includes the ways in which ethnicity, class, age, citizenship, and sexuality intersect to shape various experiences of Asian American women in the context of work and life. The complexity of ethnicity, including multiracial / multiethnic identities and the phenomenon of intermarriages, is explored in connection with gender relations in the contemporary Asian American communities.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3590 Gender and Islam
This course examines the gendered histories and cultural politics of Islamic societies particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Beginning with an overview of the historical debates/events that shaped the lives of the people in Islamic societies, the course will interrogate our categories of analysis (gender, race, sexuality, poverty, religion, nation) and discuss the complexity of gender relations in production and reproduction, representations of femininities, masculinities and queerness, ideologies of secular and Islamic feminisms, the development of social and Islamist movements, and the impact of culture and politics on everyday life of people in these societies. This course is writing intensive.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3606 Women and Political Leadership
This course focuses on three major questions: Do women have an identifiably different way of leading? How does this leadership manifest itself? Why does women’s political leadership matter? This course analyzes debates about gender differences in political discourse, gendered construction of “politics,” historical struggles for women’s representation, different kinds of women’s political participation, and the barriers to political leadership faced by women. Case studies of women political leaders in different socio-political contexts, impacts of new social movements on policy development to ensure women’s representation across different societies will be the basis for developing a comparative perspective.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3680 Women and War
This course will look at how war and the preparation for war have affected the lives, hopes, and images of women around the world. It will examine roles of women in war, military service, and militarism in societal development in world history primarily since the eighteenth centruy with these questions central: What roles have women played in war? Are women victims of conflict alone or are they active participants as well? And how has war helped shape females roles, gender stereotypes, and national mythologies? A broad comparative framework, exploring “Western” and “non-Western” societal experience and analytical approaches, will be adoped throughout.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3700 Feminist Theory
This course provides an overview of feminist theory from World War II to the present with particular attention to three questions: What are the fundamental assumptions of contemporary feminist theory? How does a feminist analysis influence our understanding of sociopolitical processes? What are the political issues and strategies that emerge from feminist theory?
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3730 Politics Sexual Violence
What is it like to be female in a mail-dominated society? This course critically examines the sociopolitical construction of patriarchy and the conscious and non-conscious, intentional and unintentional ways in which male supremacy is reproduced in contemproary society. Particular emphasis is placed on the mechanisms of social control designed to limit women’s participation in society and to ensure the perpetuation of male dominance.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3760 Life/Writing Indigenous Women
This course studies the richness of the culture and literatures of women from indigenous communities, and the systemic oppression that they have been/are subject to due to race, caste, gender, and class. The communities include Native American, Australian Aborigine, and Dalit women from India. The traditional and historical status of these women in relation to their social, economic, and political status today is studied in individual stores, memoirs, songs, poetry, and fiction. Significant texts in translated literary forms and works are used as primary resources.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3800 Childhood and Social Justice
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of childhood studies from a social justice perspective. The course provides students with foundational knowledge to critically assess current policies, practices, and discourses that shape the meanings, conceptions, and lived experiences of children and childhood; as well as how they shape adulthood. Our primary concern will be exploring children’s experiences of intersecting systems of inequality (class, race, gender, sexuality, and ability) in order to participate in current debates concerning children and childhood. The course will allow students to explore how children’s perspectives, heretofore marginalized, can challenge fundamental assumptions of the social world and nourish the imagining of alternative arrangements. This course is fulfills UCC area 4 and is Writing Intensive. Prerequisite(s): Students must complete 15 credits of area 1-3 before registering for UCC area 4. Cross Listed Course(s): WGS 3800, CDSJ 3800, ANTH 3800
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3980 Women in the City
This course explores the impact of urban environments in the United States on women from 1890 to the present. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which cities facilitate and constrain opportunities and roles for women
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 3990 Selected Topics
Courses that are newly developed are often presented as “selected topics” before becoming “permanent courses.” Some selected topics are offered by visiting professors. Prerequisite(s): WGS 1100 Minimum Grade of D OR WS 110 Minimum Grade of D OR WGS 1500 Minimum Grade of D OR WS 150 Minimum Grade of D
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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WGS 4100 Capstone Course in Women’s Studies
This senior level course focuses on theories of gender and issues relating to women’s diversity. As a writing intensive course, students will use and develop their research and writing process skills to complete a major research paper in order to engage in feminist research. This is a writing intensive course, Prerequisite(s): WGS 2100 AND WGS 2720 /POL 2720 AND WGS 3100
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 4200 Global Perspectives of Women’s Lives
This course addresses the social, sexual reproductive, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of women’s lives from a global perspective. The course scrutinizes the status of women and girls, identifying the consequences of globalization for life in socieites, in communities, and of individuals. Particular attention is given to finding ways to connect activism at the local level to activism at the national and global levels. Prerequisite(s): WGS 1100 OR WGS 1500 OR AWS 1500 OR AWS 1550
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 4650 Internship in Women’s Studies
Students work in an off-campus field placement for eight - ten hours each week. This course gives students the opportunity to get involved with programs which affect women’s lives directly, applying the theories, principles, and empirical findings in the area of women’s students.
Credits: 3.0
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WGS 4990 Independent Study
As approved and to be arranged.
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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WPS 1010 Will. Power. 101
The WPS 1010 is an academic orientation provided to first year college students to help them develop the fundamental skills essential for academic success. This workshop anchors a cluster of common classes offered to incoming freshmen cohorts. In addition to academic orientation topics, there will be discussions and lab components related to themes and task completion of university-wide programs.
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WPS 1060 Foundations of Math
The objective of this workshop is to review basic algebra with the aim that students reach proficiency in quantitative skills to pursue other college level courses. Topics to be included will contain: arithmetic of whole numbers, signed numbers, fractions, decimals and percent, polynomial arithmetic, algebraic expressions, factoring, solving equations (linear and quadratic) with applications and graphing.
Credits: 3.0
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