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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

Turkish
  

  • 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
  

  • TRK 4990 Independent Study

    As approved and to be arranged with instructor and by chairperson.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

Urban Studies
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • URBN 4800 Urban Studies Senior Seminar

    A multidisciplinary approach to the urban issues and problems. The course will provide the opportunity for in-depth analysis of selected issues. The seminar focuses on one aspect of urban studies (e.g., gentrification, segregation, community studies). Prerequisite(s): URBN 2010  AND URBN 2980 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • 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

Women’s and Gender Studies
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 2080 Female Icons

    This course examines female icons in a variety of contexts, focusing on popular culture and media representations. Analyzing the relationship between female icons and ideologies about women in United States, the course considers how differnt images of women-from heroes to sex objects=challenge and/or reinforce dominant gender norms. American representations are contextualized within global flows of cultre and media.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 2170 Women in Literature

    This course will examine representations of women in literature across diverse cultural contexts to study how literary texts enlarge our understanding of how gender roles are both constructed and contested, beyond a conventional gendered binary. The thematic focus of this course will be on women’s struggles for identity and their efforts to negotiate between the conflicting demands of family, tradition, and security versus the desire for independence, autonomy, and agency. The course will examine the ways in which discrimination and injustice against women, variously defined/self-identified in diverse ways, is complicated by issues of race, ethnicity, class, caste, and sexuality. An analysis of various literary texts will reflect the narrative strategies that writers deploy to negotiate complex and overlapping issues of gender injustices, and gender as it is inhabited across a range of sexualities and gender identifications from trans, cis, and queer categories.

    This course fulfills UCC area 4:Diveristy and Justice and is Writing Intensive Prerequisite(s): ENG 1100  and ENG 1500   Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 1500  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 2510 Modern Women and Gender

    A survey of women’s and gender history in the modern era, the course draws comparisons between major world regions. Instructor may focus on one or more area of geographic expertise, exploring how societies have constructed gender and sexual identity; how race, ethnicity, class, and other social differences have informed women’s experiences over time; and how societies have developed systemic inequalities and forms of gender-based oppression. Special attention is given to the role of the state, the evolution of feminism, civil and human rights movements, and how individuals and collectives envision and work toward global feminism, sexual and reproductive liberation, and social justice.

    HIST 1010 OR HIST 1020 OR HIST 1030 OR HIST 1040 OR HIST 1050 Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010   OR HIST 1020   OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040   OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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.

      3.0

  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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  OR AACS 1500 OR AACS 1550
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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 AACS 1500 OR AACS 1550 OR ENG 1100 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 3350 Latina Testimonios: Ethnographies, Memoirs and Poetry

    This course is an introduction to the similarities and differences in migration / annexation / /coloniation and consequential social status informing the experience of Latinas in the United States. Special attention will be paid to sujectivity and representation by social signifers such as gender, race, class, and sexualities. While the course title assumes a pan-ethnic label, the course will explore the complex diversity of women who trace their ancestry to geographical areas including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Dominican Republic. Prerequisite(s): WGS 1500  OR WGS 1100  OR AACS 1500 OR AACS 1550 OR ENG 1100  OR LAS 2010 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 3445 Gender, Art and Feminism

    This seminar course engages students in an exploration of the methods necessary to analyze visual images of/by women in their historical, racial, and class contexts, and to understand the status of women as producers, patrons, and audiences of art. We explore topics ranging from the analysis of the nude Venus type in Classical and Renaissance periods to the work of accomplished women artists across history such as Artemesia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, Yayoi Kusama, and Kara Walker. Outcomes include: familiarity with feminist theory and deploying its frameworks in the analysis of a work of art; experience in academic research; and awareness of the development of feminist thought since the nineteen seventies. 

      Prerequisite(s): ARTH 1010  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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  OR AACS 1500 OR AACS 1550
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 3590 Women and Islam

    This course examines women and gender in Islamic socieities in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Beginning with an overview of pre-modern history, the course focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include: women’s roles in production and reproduction, gender ideologies and representations of Muslim women, and the development of feminist, nationalist, and Islamist movements.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • WGS 3600 Gender and Globalization

    Over the last half century, the economic, political and the cultural dimensions of globalization has fundamentally transformed the lived experience of work and labor, families, governance and welfare, community and nation. This course will use an interdisciplinary approach to interrogate the contemporary process of globalization as it impacts communities, gender relations, and sexualities across cultural ad geographical regions of the world. Emphasizing a transnational feminist perspective that explores the linkages and connections between the global South and North, the course will focus on key issues of migration, global conflict, environment, helath and violence and the collective responses and social movements resisting globalization.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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.

    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
 

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