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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Women’s and Gender Studies
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 3820 Gender and Global Migration

    In the past fifty years global migration has emerged as one of the most significant social processes of our time. This course provides a general overview of contemporary global patterns of migration and examines the various social, cultural, and political contexts that shape the trends and characteristics of migratory flows. The main analytical focus of the course is the gendered patterns of migration, and its intersection with race, and other forms of social inequalities as they shape the experiences, treatment, and practices of inclusion and exclusion of immigrants in various countries around the world. Students will study how immigrant women and men experience work, the family, and communities, and how policies and political mobilization affect immigrants in various receiving contexts. This is a writing intensive course.

      Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites:SOC 1010  or SOC 1020  and WGS 1800  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 4990 Independent Study

    As approved and to be arranged.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

William Paterson Success
  

  • 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.
  

  • 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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