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SPAN 4621 - Latin American Women Poets
In this course we will read extensively from the poetry of the three most famous women poets of Latin America in the twentieth century: Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini, Argentina’s Alfonsina Storni, and Chile’s Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Prerequisites: SPAN 3300.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4700 - Spanish Culture and Civilization
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4701 - The Inquisition in Spain and Latin America
The Inquisition in Spain and Latin America
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4702 - Islam in Europe: Muslim Iberia
An introduction to Islam and a cultural history of al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) from the year 711 until the expulsion of the Moriscos-Muslims converted, often forcibly, to Christianity-from early modern Spain in 1609. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or equivalent level of proficiency in Spanish.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4703 - Hispanic Intellectual History
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4704 - Islamic Iberia
An introduction to Islam and the cultural history of al- Andalus (Islamic Iberia) from 711 until the expulsion of the Morsicos from early modern Spain in 1609. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4705 - Spanish Mass Media
Introduction to Spanish mass means of communication. Study of the mechanisms used, and media’s sociological importance. Special emphasis on radio and television.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4706 - Spanish 20th Century History
The crisis of the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship, the Second Republic, the Civil War, the Franco Era, the transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4707 - Introduction to Spanish Art
Spanish art is among the richest and most important examples of world art. Its heritage is comprised of works dating from prehistoric times with the caves at Altamira up to the 21 st Century (Calatrava, Mariscal), including the rich architectural legacy of the Romans, the gothic castles and churches of the Middle Ages, Golden Age painting (Velázquez, El Greco, Murillo, Ribera), and the great names of the 20 th Century (Gaudí, Picasso, Dalí, Miró)
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4708 - Picasso
The Spanish tradition after Goya and the cultural atmosphere of the 19th century. The formation of Picasso and the different periods of his work. Iconographic problems. The creation of “Guernica”.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4709 - Modern Spanish Art
This course studies the main art works produced in the 19th and 20th centuries: Goya, Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Tapies, Chillida, Villanueva, Gaudí and Calatrava will be contemplated from an eminently cultural view. In addition to analyzing the different productions from a technical viewpoint, they will serve as models to understand social and cultural trends of the period.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4710 - Latin American Culture and Civilization
Latin American Culture and Civilization
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4711 - 1492 and the Aftermath
Examines Spanish attempts to understand and figure the Americas, as well as American indigenous reactions to them. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4712 - Travelers in Latin America
In this course we will study diaries and accounts of travelers in Latin America since the first European got in contact with the continent for the first time What did they see? What did they want to see? How did the describe it? How much influence their account had in the construction of continental imaginary. We will start with el Diario of Christopher Columbus, and finish with some diaries of today. Prerequisite: SPAN 3300.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4713 - Spanish Economy
A broad approach to the Spanish Economy (starting with its modernization) and its integration in the EEC. Focus on the role of Europe in the world economy and politics, and the future of the Euro as a new reserve currency.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4714 - Empire & Imperialism in Early Modern Spain
This course will examine the history and ideology of empire in the Spanish-speaking world from 1492 through 1700. Emphasis will be placed on the reading of period texts in the original language. Prerequisite: SPAN 3300.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4715 - Cuban Culture Through Cinema
The aim of this course is to study Cuban films in the context of Cuba’s history and culture. The course will include the viewing of films outside the classroom (roughly one a week), readings about the films, history, and culture. Please note that out-of-class preparation and the reading load will be significant. The format of the class will be lecture/discussion with a strong emphasis on class participation.
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4960 - Spanish Creative Writing Workshop
This course is taught by two of the most distinguished and exciting writers in the Spanish-speaking world today, with extensive experience giving writing workshops. It is dedicated to creative writing (short stories), emphasizing creative, and suggesting ways to initiate the creative process. Students need to have a good command of the Spanish Language, at 400 level or similar. Undergraduate as well as graduate students are welcome. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4980 - Distinguished majors colloquium
The Colloquium allows DMPs in Spanish to meet regularly with the DMP coordinator to discuss research strategies, documentation styles, and structure and style in extended expository writing as they are working independently on a thesis. It also provides a forum for presenting and discussing work-in-progress. Pre-requisite: Acceptance in DMP
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4989 - Distinguished Major in Spanish Thesis
Distinguished majors in Spanish will meet individually with their thesis advisors to discuss progress and revise drafts of their theses. At the end of the semester, they will present the results of their research in a public forum.
Credits: 3
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SPAN 4993 - Independent Study
Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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SPTR 3850 - Fiction of the Americas
In this seminar, we will study the centuries long ‘conversations’ between North American and Spanish American writers. Principally through short stories and some novels, we will examine their mutual fascination. Our reading list will include works by Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Horacio Quiroga, John Reed, Mariano Azuela, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Atwood, Manuel Puig
Credits: 3
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SPTR 4728 - Span Am Cult & Inst
Span Am Cult & Inst
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Statistics |
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STAT 1100 - Chance: An Introduction to Statistics
Studies introductory statistics and probability, visual methods for summarizing quantitative information, basic experimental design and sampling methods, ethics and experimentation, causation, and interpretation of statistical analyzes. Applications use data drawn from current scientific and medical journals, newspaper articles, and the Internet. Students will not receive credit for both STAT 1100 and STAT 1120.
Credits: 3
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STAT 1120 - Introduction to Statistics
Includes graphical displays of data, relationships in data, design of experiments, causation, random sampling, probability distributions, inference, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses, and regression and correlation. Students will not receive credit for both STAT 1100 and STAT 1120.
Credits: 3
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STAT 2020 - Introduction to Biostatistics
This course includes a basic treatment of probability, and covers inference for one and two populations, including both hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. Analysis of variance and linear regression are also covered. Applications are drawn from biology and medicine.
Credits: 3
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STAT 2120 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis
Introduction to the probability and statistical theory underlying the estimation of parameters and testing of statistical hypotheses, including those arising in the context of simple and multiple regression models. Students will use computers and statistical programs to analyze data. Examples and applications are drawn from economics, business, and other fields. Students will not receive credit for both STAT 2120 and ECON 3710. Prerequisite: MATH 1210 or equivalent; co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in a discussion section of STAT 2120.
Credits: 4
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STAT 2559 - New Course in Statistics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in teh subject area of statistics.
Credits: 1 to 4
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STAT 3010 - Statistical Computing and Graphics
Introduces statistical computing using S-PLUS. Topics include descriptive statistics for continuous and categorical variables, methods for handling missing data, basics of graphical perception, graphical displays, exploratory data analysis, and the simultaneous display of multiple variables. Students should be experienced with basic text-editing and file manipulation on either a PC or a UNIX system, and with either a programming language (e.g. BASIC) or a spreadsheet program (e.g. MINITAB or EXCEL). Credit earned in this course cannot be applied toward a graduate degree in statistics. Prerequisite: STAT 1100 or 1120 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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STAT 3080 - Case Studies in Elementary Statistics
Most elementary statistics courses start with a technique & present various surface level examples. This course will use relatively complicated data sets and approach them from multiple angles with elementary statistical techniques. Simulation techniques such as the bootstrap will also be used. Prerequisites: STAT 1100 or STAT 2020 or STAT 2120 or APMA 3110 or APMA 3120 or AP credit in Statistics.
Credits: 3
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STAT 3120 - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
This course provides a calculus-based introduction to mathematical statistics with some applications. Topics include: sampling theory, point estimation, interval estimation, testing hypotheses, linear regression, correlation, analysis of variance, and categorical data. Recommended MATH 3100 or APMA 3100.
Credits: 3
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STAT 3130 - Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys
Discusses the main designs and estimation techniques used in sample surveys; including simple random sampling, stratification, cluster sampling, double sampling, post-stratification, and ratio estimation. Non-response problems and measurement errors are also discussed. Many properties of sample surveys are developed through simulation procedures. The SUDAAN software package for analyzing sample surveys is used. Prerequisite: STAT 1100 or 1120, MATH 3120, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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STAT 3150 - Theory of Interest
Topics include growth and time value of money, equations of value and yield rates, annuities (including contingent payments), loan amortization schedules, bonds. Additional topics are options and derivatives, as time permits.
Prerequisites: MATH 1220 or MATH 1320
Credits: 3
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STAT 3220 - Introduction to Regression Analysis
This course provides a survey of regression analysis techniques, covering topics from simple regression, multiple regression, logistic regression, and analysis of variance. The primary focus is on model development and applications. Prerequisite: STAT 1100 or STAT 1120 or STAT 2120.
Credits: 3
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STAT 3430 - Statistical Computing with SAS
The course covers database management, programming, elementary statistical analysis, and report generation in SAS. Topics include: managing SAS Data Sets; DATA-step programming; data summarization and reporting using PROCs PRINT, MEANS, FREQ, UNIVARIATE, CORR, and REG; elementary graphics; introductions to the Output Delivery System, the SAS Macro language, PROC IML, and PROC SQL. Prerequisites: Introductory statistics course.
Credits: 3
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STAT 3559 - New Course in Statistics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Statistics.
Credits: 1 to 4
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STAT 3980 - Applied Statistics Laboratory
Enrollment in STAT LAB (3980) is required for all students in the department’s 3000-level appled statistics courses (STAT 3080, 3220, 3430, 3130). STAT 3980 may be repeated for credit provided that a student is enrolled in at least one of these 3000-level applied courses; however, no more than one unit of STAT 3980 may be taken in any semester.
Credits: 1
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STAT 4995 - Statistical Consulting
Introduces the practice of statistical consultation. A combination of formal lectures, meetings with clients of the statistical consulting service, and sessions in the statistical computing laboratory. Students will work together with a graduate student consultant. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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SWAG 1010 - Gender and the American University
An exploration of the roles of gender and women in the formation of the American university through readings, writings, and discussions. In order to focus on the role of gender and women as a central issue, we will learn how the American university was formed, how it developed over time, and how it functions today.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 1340 - Women’s Photography and Aesthetics
An introduction to feminist theory as refracted through film theory, engaging questions of the representation of women from the particular angle of the representation of women by women. How does the strategy of self representation effect our interpretation of the images? How does woman’s entry into the fine arts through photography in the 19th century echo in the practice and work of 20th century woman photographers?
Credits: 3
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SWAG 1440 - Gender & Race in Popular Music
This course explores the relationship between popular music, gender & race. To help us unravel these relationships, we consider different theoretical frameworks, including feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, & postcolonial theory, to determine how (well) they explain aspects of race and gender in popular music. We’ll read critical interpretations, historical & ethnographic narratives, & analyze related musical & social materials.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 1770 - Gender and Sexuality in Popular Media
Introduction to feminist analyses of popular media in American society. An overview of feminist perspectives on presentations of gender and sexuality in contemporary culture with a focus on the application of feminist theory to particular forms of media. Students will examine how gender and sexuality are portrayed in advertising, print, television and film. Exploration of the role of popular media in the construction, perpetuation and potential transformation of gender and sexual stereotypes in our society.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2000 - Gender Technology & Education
Defines gender and technology and gives reasons why they are important in modern western society. Describes and gives examples of how our system of education reflects and reinforces gender roles and how this process affects technology. Discusses the implications of technology used in education and of educational practice on the development of technology.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2100 - Introduction to Gender Studies
An introduction to gender studies, including the fields of women’s studies, feminist studies, LGBT studies, & masculinity studies. Students will examine historical movements, theoretical issues, & contemporary debates, especially as they pertain to issues of inequality & to the intersection of gender with race, class, sexuality, & nationalism. Topics will vary according to the interdisciplinary expertise & research focus of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2200 - Multiculturalism and Women’s Rights: A Global Perspective
What happens when cultural practices seem to deny women basic individual rights? Do women have to choose between their culture and their rights? What is the role of the state in such dilemmas? Is deliberative democracy a solution? This course examines the theoretical literature on these issues as well as specific cases in several countries, including polygamy, veiling, FGM, and tribal and religious laws in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2224 - Black Femininities and Masculinities in Media
Addresses the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of “Blackness” in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2300 - Women and Gender in the Deaf World
Examines the roles of deaf women inside and outside of the signing Deaf community. Using an interdisciplinary approach, considers such topics as language and cultural barriers, violence against women, sexuality, race, class, education, and work. Investigates disparities between deaf and hearing women and the choices available to d/Deaf women, individually and collectively, in contemporary culture.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2340 - Russian Women’s Literature
Russia’s literary tradition includes a rich vein of poetry, prose, and memoir written by women. In this course, we will read and analyze a broad sampling of Russian women’s literature. We will examine works composed from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries; the emphasis of the course will be on literature of the twentieth century and the contemporary period. Cross-listed with RUTR 2340.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2370 - Feminism in America, 1910-Present
This course will explore the history of feminism in America from the 1910s to the present day. We will examine the various philosophies and strategies of people who have allied themselves with the feminist movement as well as those who have opposed it. We will ask how activists imagined sexual equality and what reforms-political, legal, economic, cultural, or psychological-they proposed.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2400 - Gender Death & Dying
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring ways that gender and sexuality impact death and dying. Aries’ The Hour of Our Death and Seremetakis’ The Last Word will be brought into conversation with Malson and Ussher’s work on anorexia and Crimp’s and Owen’s theorizing representations of AIDS. We will explore photography’s role in “capturing” the image of death, from 19th c. spirit photographs to 20th c. documentaries.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2500 - Topics in History and Gender
In what ways did buying and selling affect the private and public lives of men and women in the 20th-century U.S.? How did assumption of gender and consumption change throughout the century? From Coney Island to Madonna, this course examines entertainment, advertising, consumer activism, and fashion through readings, films, magazines, music, and more. Please visit http://www.virginia.edu/womenstudies/courses.html for more information.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2559 - New Course in Studies in Women and Gender
The course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of studies in women and gender
Credits: 1 to 4
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SWAG 2848 - Technology and Reproduction: Global Perspectives
This course will focus on issues in technology and reproduction from historical and cross-cultural perspectives. We will examine critical perspectives on science, power, gender, and inequality as they influence cultural constructions of reproductive processes such as pregnancy, childbirth, infertility, and debates about the enhancement and limitation of human fertility. Emphasis will be ethnographic examples from North America and South Asia. Prerequisites: Previous course in SWAG, ANTH, or Bioethics preferred.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2858 - Anthropology of Reproduction: Fertility and the Future
In this course, we will study human reproduction as a cultural process. Questions include how gender, class, race, and religion shape reproductive ideals and practices around the world. Ethnographic examples will come from around the world, but will emphasize South Asia and the United States. This course examines the perspectives of both men and women and situates local examples within national and global struggles to (re)produce the future.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2891 - Issues Facing Adolescent Girls I
Students will explore the psychological, social, and cultural issues affecting adolescent girls and apply this understanding through service with the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP). As we delve into theory and research on adolescent development, effective mentoring practices, and leadership development, students will test their theoretical knowledge and its application by serving as a Big Sister to an area middle school girl. Prerequiste: Permission of Instructor
Credits: 3
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SWAG 2892 - Issues Facing Adolescent Girls II
This one-credit course is a continuation of the fall class and provides an opportunity for students to continue to develop their leadership skills through involvement in YWLP and academic service learning. In addition to the weekly one-hour class time (Big Sister meeting) students are required to continue as active participants in their two-hour-a-week mentoring group and four-hour-a-month one-on-one time with their mentee. Prerequisites: SWAG/EDHS 2891
Credits: 1
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SWAG 3020 - Gender in Muslim Lives
This course will focus on expressions of gender by Muslims in a variety of cultural contexts, primarily in the Middle East and South Asia. How do men and women joined by a common religious tradition, Islam, experience life and gender in diverse ways through interpretations of religious law and practice, cultural and historical particularities, and access to wealth and social status?
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3100 - Women and Freedom of Movement: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The course focuses on the complex interconnectedness between the allocation of space and power. It studies how in the last few decades women in motion desegregated predominantly masculine spaces, reconfigured the boundaries and hierarchies between the sexes, modified definitions of beauty, and altered gender relations. It examines the rhetoric and poetics of sex segregation, voice, visibility, and mobility in a spectrum of genres. Prerequisites: 2000 level course in the humanities.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3120 - Women and Islam
This course is an introduction to Islam through issues related to women and gender. Beginning with the portrayal of women in the Qur’an and the active role they played in the early years of Islam, it examines the growing body of literature on women and Islam. Through a variety of sources religious texts and commentaries, literary pieces and movies it explores a variety of questions. How does Islam treat women? What is ‘Islamic’ with respect to ideas about women? How are Muslim women represented in the Western media, literature and the arts? In what ways do they participate in cultural production of themselves? Why for centuries have they been the object of such intense curiosity and misunderstanding?
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3130 - Geographies of Desire: Race, Gender, Place, Identity
This course asks that we consider the role of place refracted through the lenses of gender and race in the construction of identity. Using the work of feminist geographers, we will explore both imaginary and physical landscapes from those of novels and visual art to those of work, home, and the physical body as we map contemporary geographies of desire.
Prerequisite: Previous 2000 level humanties or social science course required.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3140 - Border Crossings: Women, Islam and Literature in the Middle East and North Africa
A focus on a bloodless, non-violent revolution that is shaking the foundation of the Islamic Middle East and North Africa, a revolution with women writers at the forefront. An examination of the rhetoric and poetics of sex segregation, voice, visibility, and mobility in a spectrum of genres that includes folklore, novel, short story, poetry, biography, autobiography, and essay.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3200 - Women, Gender and Sports
This course traces the history of American female athletes from the late 1800s through the early 21st century. We will use gender as a means of understanding the evolution of the female athlete, and will also trace the manner by which issues of class and race inform sportswomen’s journeys over time, particularly with regard to issues of femininity and homophobia.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3250 - MotherLands: Landscapes of Hunger, Futures of Plenty
This course explores the legacy of the “hidden wounds” left upon the landscape by plantation slavery along with the visionary work of ecofeminist scholars and activists daring to imagine an alternative future. Readings, guest lectures, and field trips illumine the ways in which gender, race, and power are encoded in historical, cultural, and physical landscapes associated with planting/extraction regimes such as tobacco, mining, sugar, and corn.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3300 - Gendering Partition Cultures
The course explores how partitions impose anti-pluralist forms of abstract citizenship through cultural analysis of gender dynamics of the everyday and its mimetic representations. Territoriality and spatial arrangements will be examined through the problematics of familial and communal subject formation, traumatic memories, ethnic resistance and assimilation, and border-crossing, while also considering gender, sex, race, and religion. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3310 - Women and Television
This course examines how television addresses women, how it represents women, and how women respond to the medium. It also examines the relationship between the female audience and television by focusing on both contemporary and historical issues. Areas for examination include: how women have responded to television as technology; how specific genres have targeted women; how female-focused specialty channels have addressed women; and how specific television series and genres have mediated and negotiated the changing social, cultural, political, and economic status of women from the 1950s to the present. The course is particularly interested in charting how television has dealt with the challenges posed by the women’s movement and feminism. Prerequisite: SWAG or Media Studies major.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3340 - Transnational Feminisms
What does feminism look like when it crosses national borders? What is the difference between feminism as conceived in “the West” and gender justice movements in various parts of the world? How do colonial histories, inequalities, complex identities and culturally diverse ways of “doing” gender shape gender politics? This course also examines the gendered character of diasporas, contact zones, and institutions such as NGOs that traverse borders.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3350 - Gender Politics in Comparative Perspective
This course examines how different countries “do” gender, exploring the political, social and economic construction of sexual difference. Our focus will be on how power is gendered and its effects on women and men in the developing world. We begin with a theoretical discussion of patriarchy, gender and feminist methods. Continuing to draw upon these theoretical debates, the course then investigates a series of issues, including gender and state formation in the Middle East, women’s political participation in India and South Africa, feminist and women’s movements in Latin America and Uganda, and globalization in South East Asia.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3400 - American Ghost: Gender and Race in Literature and Photography
This course considers the figure of the ghost in twentieth-century and contemporary American women’s literature and visual art by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Francesca Woodman, Carol Maso, Louise Erdrich, and others. Through woman writers’ and artists’ figurations of ghosts, we will explore unresolved sites of mourning structured into ideologies of race, ethnicity, and gender in the U.S. Prerequisites: Enrolling students must have completed at least a 2000 level course in the humanities or the social sciences.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3500 - YWLP Leadership and Technology I
Provides students an opportunity to integrate youth mentoring and leadership development with digital storytelling exploration and creation. While serving as a mentor to a middle school girl in the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP), a mentoring program that pairs area girls with college women for a year, students will participate in a weekly group that focuses on developing leadership projects using engaging dynamic media programs.
Credits: 1
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SWAG 3501 - WLP Leadership and Technology II
While serving as a mentor to a middle school girl in the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP), a mentoring program that pairs area girls with college women for a year, students will participate in a weekly group that focuses on developing leadership projects using engaging dynamic media programs, such as digital storytelling. In addition, students will reflect upon and evaluate their own leadership styles throughout the course.
Credits: 1
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SWAG 3559 - New Course in Studies in Women and Gender
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Studies in Women and Gender
Credits: 1 to 4
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SWAG 3611 - History of Women in America, 1600 to 1865
A study of the evolution of women’s roles in American society with particular attention to the experiences of women of different races, classes, and ethnic groups.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3612 - History of Women in America, 1865 to Present
A study of the evolution of women’s roles in American society with particular attention to the experiences of women of different races, classes, and ethnic groups.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3650 - East Asian Women: Self Portrayals
This seminar is a sociological examination of representations of East Asian women in both written (biography, autobiography, and novel) and visual (documentary and film) media. Explored are the changing cultural and social assumptions about women and men in China, Japan and Korea over the course of the 20th century, with emphasis on the post-World War II environment. Recurring themes include the impact of the West on historical developments in each country and the various relationships among the three East Asian countries.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3750 - Women, Childhood, Autobiography
Cross-cultural readings in women’s childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3800 - Queer Theory
Introduces students to some key & controversial theoretical texts that make up the emerging field of queer theory. The approach will be interdisciplinary, w/ an emphasis on literary, social, & aesthetic criticisms that may shift according the instructor’s areas of expertise. Active reading & informed discussion will be emphasized for the often unseen, or submerged, aspects of sexuality embedded in cultural texts, contexts, & literatures. Prerequisite: Must have completed at least a 200 level course in the humanities or the social sciences.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3810 - Feminist Theory
Introduces current feminist scholarship in a variety of areas literature, history, film, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, among others pairing feminist texts with more traditional ones. Features guest speakers and culminates in an interdisciplinary project. Prerequisites: Completion of SWAG 2100.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3820 - Feminist Methodologies
Interdisciplinary introduction to qualitative research design from a feminist perspective. Topics include memory, objectivity, confidentiality, ethics, power differentials, feminist epistemology, the status of evidence, and the limits of statistics. Appropriate for students interested in learning interview techniques, narrative analysis, fieldwork, archival work, and how to frame research questions.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 3993 - Independent Study
Independent Study
Credits: 1 to 4
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SWAG 4050 - Senior Seminar SWAG: Human Rights and Gender
Prerequisites: SWAG Undergraduate and SWAG 3810
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4100 - Readings in Sexuality Studies
Explores key topics that have shaped the field of sexuality studies, with a focus on queer studies. Such topics include the history of sexuality, scientific racism and critical race theory, cyborgs, biopower, nationalism, colonialism, sexuality and law, the relationship of sexuality to race and class, and bodily aesthetics. Interdisciplinary readings may include fiction, theory, ethnography, law, philosophy, film, music, science, and economics. Prerequisites: 2000 level course in humanities or social sciences.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4150 - Feminism and the Public Sphere
The idea of the public sphere is central to contemporary Western democracies. It is the “space” where citizens exchange ideas and form opinions, and from which these citizens can shap government. What would a more inclusive vision of political participation and communicatoin look like? In attempting to build an answer, we will examine a number of works on communication ethics, politics, media, with an emphasis on feminist and queer scholarship.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4200 - Sex and Gender Go To The Movies
This course will examine the ways in which different mass media help to define our cultural ideas about gender differences and the ways in which feminist scholars have responded to these definitions by criticizing existing media images and by creating some alternatives of their own. The course will examine the notion that the mass media might influence our development as gendered individuals and consider different forms of feminist theory.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4240 - Rights, Identity and Gender
Investigates the conflict over culture and women’s rights and examines a number of proposed solutions. Issues addressed include the claims of minority communities in liberal states, marriage practices in Africa and the U.S., domestic violence in India, and female genital mutilation. Cross-listed with PLCP 412. Prerequisite: One course in PLCP or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4300 - Risky Business
This course will bring economic notions of risk to thinking about risk in relation to gender, race, class, nation and globalization. Students will be introduced to notions of risk that have traveled with finance and insurance globally. They will also interrogate concepts associated with risk or mediated through risk and insurance. Material in class will range from financial analyses and ethnographic materials to fiction and film.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4340 - Feminist Theory in International Relations
Examines leading feminist contributions to, and gendered critiques of, theories of international relations including (but not limited to) war, peace and security; international political economy; and international institutions and organizations.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4350 - Comparative Gender Stratification
Examines gender stratification - the relative level of equality of men and women in a given group - in comparative and cross-historical perspective. Several theories are presented to explain the variations, from gender-egalitarian to highly patriarchal groups. (IR) Prerequisites: SWAG or SOC course
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4360 - Body Politics and the Body Politic
This course examines feminist and non-feminist discussions of body politics’beauty standards, color politics, work discipline, transgender movements, cyborgs, racialization, “know your body” materials produced by the women’s health movement, etc.’in the context of political theory and philosophical writings on embodiment. Prerequisites: 2000 level course in humanties or social sciences.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4420 - Women and Education
Course will examine the roles women have played and continue to play as students, scholars, and leaders in American educational institutions.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4559 - New Course in Studies in Women and Gender
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of studies of women and gender.
Credits: 1 to 4
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SWAG 4600 - Gender and Identity Politics: Beyond the Third Wave
Are identity politics inherently divisive? Or can unity be built on the basis of difference? Is unity even a feasible or desirable goal? This course explores the debate over identity politics by examining how gender intersects with several forms of collective identity, including racial, national, cultural, and religious identities. Students read and then apply theoretical literature to a set of international cases, both western and non-western.
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4700 - Men and Masculinities
Typically, men are dealt with in a way that casually presents them as representative of humanity. This course addresses the various ways that men are also ‘gendered,’ and can be the subject of inquiries of gender, sexuality, inequality, and privilege in their own right. Prerequisite: Students need to have completed a SWAG course
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4840 - Gender Politics in Africa
Comprehensive introduction to gender politics in Africa, including gender transformations under imperial rule, gender and national struggles, gender and culture claims, women’s movements and the gendering of the post-colonial state. Prerequisties: One social science course in SWAG or comparative politics course; Instructor’s Permission
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4998 - SWAG Senior Thesis
Majors in Studies in Women and Gender (SWAG) are encouraged to become Distinguished Majors. Students complete a two-semester written thesis (approximately 40-60 pages in length) in their fourth year under the supervision of a SWAG faculty member. The thesis allows students to pursue their own interests in depth and have the intellectual satisfaction of defining and completing a sustained project. www.virginia.edu/womenstudies/distmajor.html
Prerequisites: SWAG Major; SWAG 2nd Major; SWAG Minor
Credits: 3
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SWAG 4999 - SWAG Senior Thesis
SWAG senior thesis. Prerequisites: SWAG Major
Credits: 3
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ARTS 1559 - New Course in Studio Art
New course in the subject of studio art.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ARTS 1610 - Introduction to Drawing I
Drawing provides students with a foundation of skills, judgment and observational abilities that are essential to artistic expression. ARTS 1610 is required for every Studio Art major. This course leads to work in more advanced drawing, as well as work in other media. ARTS 1610 and ARCH 1020 count as equivalent courses.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 2110 - Introduction to Photography I
Beginning photography focuses on gaining a working understanding of black and white photo processes and, most importantly, opening up a dialogue about photography. In addition to assignments designed to help students understand the visual language of photography, the course looks at examples from the historical and contemporary worlds of fine art. Readings range from art and philosophy to science. Students create a final portfolio from all the assignments given. Prerequisite: ARTS 1610, 2620.
Credits: 4
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ARTS 2112 - Introduction to Photography II
Prerequisite: ARTS 1610, 2620, 2110.
Credits: 4
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ARTS 2220 - Introduction to New Media I
This class introduces digital techniques in the context of fine art. Topics covered include digital imaging and basic interactive art. Prerequisite: ARTS 1610.
Credits: 4
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