Course Catalog - Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 120 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Fall, spring
Introduces students to the discipline of Women’s and Gender Studies by analyzing women’s roles and women’s contributions to society and culture from the perspective of recent scholarship on women. Special attention focused on the complex interactions between gender and other social divisions such as race, class, and sexual orientation. The following issues are among those considered: the politics of women’s work, the representation of women’s bodies in the media, violence against women, healthcare and reproductive rights, global feminism, and the history of feminist movements in the U.S. Deliberately includes in its scope broader constructions of gender, such as concepts of masculinity. One unit.
WGST 220 - Global Feminism
Annually
Interdisciplinary course examines the intersecting regimes of gender, race, and class as they occur in different historical periods and varying cultures. Students learn to analyze international power relations at the level of everyday politics. Encourages students to find evidence for the ways in which varying local conditions interact with women’s agency in order to promote their own (personal and collective) well-being and broader social changes. One unit.
WGST 299 - Special Topics
Annually
Courses explore various topics. The subject and format varies with each offering. One unit.
ANTH 255 - Genders and Sexualities
ANTH 256 - The Imagined Body
ANTH 269 - Fashion and Consumption
ANTH 299 - Culture and Politics in Latin America
CLAS 221 - Women and Classical Mythology
ENGL 315 - Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages
ENGL 320 - The Age of Elizabeth
ENGL 345 - British Women Writers 1770-1860
ENGL 353 - 19th Century American Women Writers
ENGL 367 - American Women Writers of Color
ENGL 368 - African American Literature
ENGL 382 - Queer Theory
ENGL 383 - Feminist Literary Theory
ENGL 399 - Henry James and Edith Wharton
ENGL 401 - Seminar: Child, Stowe, Alcott
HIST 217 - Family in American History 1
HIST 218 - Family in American History 2
HIST 325 - Women/War/Holocaust/Resistance
HIST 401 - Seminar: Medieval Women and Family
ITAL 253 - Italian Women Writers
PHIL 277 - Philosophical Perspectives on Women
PHIL 399 - Feminist Environmentalism
POLS 300 - Law, Politics, & Society
POLS 315 - Contemporary Feminist Political Theory
PSYC 244 - Health Psychology
PSYC 228 - Psychology of Adolescence
PSYC 342 - Seminar: Gender-Role Development
PSYC 352 - Seminar: Modern Interpersonal Relationships
RELS 221 - Women in Early Christianity
RELS 232 - Women and the Bible
RELS 261 - Feminist Perspectives in Theology
RELS 294 - Sexual Justice: Social Ethics
RELS 355 - Contemporary Feminist Theology
RELS 399 - Theology of Homosexuality
SOCL 259 - Children and Violence
SOCL 265 - Sociology of Work & Labor
SOCL 271 - The Family
SOCL 275 - The Sociology of Men
SOCL 276 - Women & Society
SOCL 299 - Sociology of Poverty
SOCL 375 - Men and Violence
SPAN 466 - 19th & 20th C. Women Writers of Spain
STWL 221 - Writing Women in 20th C
WGST120 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
WGST 220 - Global Feminism
WGST 299 - Women and Global Health
For details on the above courses, please see the respective departmental listings.
* The courses listed above are taken directly from the official College Catalog.