2004-05 Undergraduate Catalog
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
WST 3000 Women and Diversity in US History
Credits: 3.
This course explores the history of women in the United States from 1500 to the present by focusing on such social differences as ethnicity, class, race, age and sexual orientation.
WST 3015 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women
Credits: 3.
Thee life experiences of women through the study of materials in the humanities, social and natural sciences and in the health professions. This is a required course for the Women’s Studies major and minor and it fulfills the general education requirement in international studies and diversity. It can also be taken as an elective. (H, S, I)
WST 3XXX Transnational Feminism (this course is in development)
WST 3349 Ecofeminism
Credits: 3.
This course provides a holistic framework for understanding the connections between environmental, feminist, and social justice issues. This course will critically analyze positions within ecofeminist theory. ‡† (4)
WST 3930 Special Interdisciplinary Topics in Women’s Studies
Credits: 1 to 4.
This course explores specific topics in gender/ women’s studies based on a feminist approach. A variety of topics from different fields of study will be offered on a rotating basis. Examples of such topics include: gender issues in education, women’s autobiography and women’s health issues.
WST 4905 Independent Study in Women’s Studies
Credits: 1 to 3; can be repeated for up to 6 credits.
For advanced undergraduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research.
WST 4930 Special Topics
Credits: 1 to 6; can be repeated up to 9 credits. Prereq: permission of instructor with varying courses.
Lectures and seminars covering selected topics of current interest in Women’s Studies and/or Gender Studies.
WST 4931 Women’s/Gender Studies Thesis Seminar
Credits: 3.
Introduction to research methodology in Women’s Studies. Includes reading, analysis, research, and the production of a research project. Open only to WS majors and required of them.
WST 4935 Seminar in Feminist Studies
Credits: 3; Prereq: WST 3015, Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Women.
The objective of this course is to better understand what feminist research is and how to do it. Emphasis is on exploring the past, present and future relationships among feminist theorizing, research and social change. Focus is on the interdisciplinary nature of women’s studies.
WST 4940 Internship
Credits: 1 to 3††; can be repeated up to 6 credits. Prereq: permission of instructor and program chair.
This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues.
The following courses, offered in other departments, are approved for Women’s Studies. (Courses vary from year to year.)
AFH 3930 Women and Resistance in Africa/Islamic Women
Credits: 3.
AFS 4935 African Women
Credits: 3.
AMH 3560 Women and Diversity in US History
Credits: 3.
AMH 3562 Women in Modern U.S.
Credits: 3. (H)
AMH 4563 Women, Work and the Family in American History
Credits: 3.
AML 3284 Surveys in American Women’s Literature
Credits: 3.
AML 3285 Gay & Lesbian Literature
Credits: 3.
AML 4225 Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (Women’s Era: 19th Century Black Women’s Literature)
Credits: 3.
AML 4282 Genders and Sexualities in American Literature and Culture
Credits: 3.
AML 4311 Major Figures of American Literature and Culture (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Emily Dickinson)
Credits: 3.
AML 4685 Race and Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture (Multi-Ethnic Women Writers)
Credits: 3.
ANT 2301 Human Sexuality and Culture
Credits: 3. (I, S) ‡†
ANT 3302 Sex-Roles: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Credits: 3. (I, S)
ANT 3620 Language and Culture
Credits: 3. (I, S) ‡†
ANT 4930 Sexism and Language
ANT 4930 Women’s Health: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Credits: 3 to 5.
ARA 3510 The Arab Woman
Credits: 3. (H, I,S) ‡†
ARH 4930 Women in Art: 1600-1850
Credits: 3.
CCJ 4934 Contemporary Issues in C.J. Intimate Violence: Children, Family and the Law
Credits: 3.
CLA 3501 Women in Classical Antiquity
Credits: 3. (H, I) ‡†
COM 4014 Communication/Gender
Credits: 3. ‡†
DEP 4930 Revolving Topics in Developmental Psychology (Psychology and Gender)
Credits: 3.
ENG 2935 Southern Women’s Culture
Credits: 3.
ENG 4134 Women and Film
Credits: 4.
ENG 4936 Emily Dickinson
Credits: 3.
ENL 4333 Shakespeare: Feminist/Gender Approaches
Credits: 3.
EUH 3930 Gender and Inquiry in Early Modern Europe
Credits: 3.
EUH 4610 Society and the Sexes in Modern Europe, 18th Century to the Present
Credits: 3. (H, I)
FRT 3561 French Women Thinkers and Writers
Credits: 3 to 4. (H, I, S)
FRW 4932 Contemporary Women Writers in France
Credits: 3.
GET 4291 Women and German Cinema
Credits: 4.
GEW 4750 Women in German Literature (in German)
Credits: 3. (H)
HIS 3930 History of Sexuality
HIS 3930 Science, Sex, Race
HIS 3930 Women, Race and Imperialism
Credits: 3. ‡†
HIS 3931 Special Topics (Gender and Colonial Latin American History) (Latin American Women) (Women in Modern Asia)
Credits: 3. (H) ‡†
HSC 3133 Human Sexuality Education
Credits: 3.
IDH 2931 Men and Women in Middle Ages
IDH 2931 Women in Civil Rights
Credits: 3.
IDH 3931 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Credits: 1 to 3.
JPT 3100 Japanese Literary Heritage
Credits: 3.
JPT 3130 Japanese Women Writers – Classical Period
Credits: 3. (H, I)
JPT 3140 Japanese Women Writers – Modern Period
Credits: 3. (H, I)
JPT 3150 WAKA: Traditional Japanese Poetry
Credits: 3.
JPT 3300 Samurai War Tales
Credits: 3. Coreq: JPT 3500.
This course uses both text and film to explore and compare the development of the samurai code in war tales of the premodern Japanese literary canon from the Heian and Kamakura periods to films created in the 20th century by male directors.
JST 3930 Judaism/Gender
Credits: 3. ‡†
LAS 4935 Women in Latin America
Credits: 3.
LIN 4656 Gender and Language
Credits: 3. (I, S)
LIN 4930 Women Writers in Exile/Language and Violence/Language and Culture
Credits: 3. (H, I)
LIT 3031 Studies in Poetry
Credits: 3.
LIT 3383 Women in Literature
Credits: 3. (H, I)
LIT 4535 Women and Popular Culture
Credits: 3; can be repeated for up to 9 credits.
(H, I)
LIT 4554 Feminist Theories
Credits: 3.
LIT 4930 Racism, Classism, Sexism. (Revolving Topics)
Credits: 3.
MHS 3930 Special Topics (Sexuality and Mental Health)
Credits: 3.
MUN 3323 Women’s Chorale
Credits: 1. (H)
MUS 2931 Interdisciplinary Honors in Music (Hidden Treasures: Women & Music)
Credits: 3. ‡†
PCB 2050 Genes and Gender
Credits: 3.
PEM 2405 Self Defense for Women
Credits: 2.
PET 3254 Women in Sports
Credits: 2. ‡†
PHM 3123 Feminism
Credits: 3. (H, I)
POS 4931 Gay and Lesbian Politics
Credits: 3.
PSY 4930 Psychology of Women
Credits: 3.
PUP 3323 Women and Politics
Credits: 3.
PUP 4313 Minorities and Change
Credits: 3. ‡†
REL 3938 Judaism/Gender
Credits: 3. (H) ‡†
REL 4936 Women in Hindu Tradition
Credits: 3. (H, I)
REL 4936 Gender and Catholicism
Credits: 3. ‡†
REL 4936 Gender in American Religion
Credits: 3. ‡†
REL 4936 Women in American Religion/Women in Islam
Credits: 3. ‡†
RTV 4930 (Rotating Topics) Women in Media
Credits: 1 to 3.
SOP 3743 Psychology and Women
SPW 4190 Seminar in Spanish-American Literature & Culture: Gender Issues in Contemporary Spanish-American Literature
Credits: 3.
SYA 4931 Race, Class, Gender
Credits: 3.
SYD 4800 Sociology of Gender
Credits: 3. (I, S)
SYD 4810 Sociology of Women
Credits: 3.
SYD 4820 Men and Masculinities
Credits: 3. (I, S)
SYG 2430 Marriage and Family
Credits: 3. (I, S) ‡†
SYO 4102 American Families
Credits: 3.
SYO 4180 Work and Family
Credits: 3.
SYO 4530 Social Inequality
Credits: 3.
SYP 4060 The Sociology of Human Sexuality
Credits: 3.