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Undergraduate Record 2014-2015 
    
Undergraduate Record 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

Course Descriptions


 

Urban and Environmental Planning

  
  • PLAN 2500 - Special Topics in Planning


    Topical offerings in planning.



    Credits: 1 to 3
  
  • PLAN 3030 - Neighborhoods, Community and Regions


    Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 3050 - Planning Methods


    Analyzes methods used in quantitative and qualitative investigations of urban and regional settings for planning purposes.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 3060 - Law, Land and the Environment


    This course introduces major legal issues surrounding land-use and environmental issues, focusing on the most notable U.S. Supreme Court decisions related to land use and environmental law, as well as the legal framework for land use law and environmental law.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 3140 - Design Themes of Great Cities


    This course discusses the design qualities of the world’s great cities. Each session focuses on the defining characteristics of different cities such as their natural settings, public spaces, transportation systems, types of buildings, and everyday details.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 3250 - Mediation Theory and Skills


    This highly engaging one-credit, pass-fail course will introduce students to the principles and practices of mediation, with an emphasis on inter-personal conflict.



    Credits: 1
  
  • PLAN 3310 - History of Cities and Planning


    An overview of the planning profession with emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century American urban history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 3500 - Special Topics in Planning


    Topical offerings in planning.



    Credits: 1 to 3
  
  • PLAN 3640 - Town Design


    This course will investigate the generic principles and strategies that shape the form and character of towns and discuss influential towns that over the past several generations have, at least to their advocates, represented ‘good’ planning and design. While recognizing the importance of social and economic factors, the course will emphasize the physical, visual, and experiential qualities of towns.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 3860 - Cities + Nature


    This class begins with the premise that contact with nature is essential to modern life.The class will examine the evidence for why nature in important,and the many creative ways in which cities can plan for,and design-in nature, and foster meaningful and everyday connections with the natural world.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 4040 - Planning in Government


    Examines the role of planning in government decision-making. Focuses on local government, but intergovernmental aspects of planning that influence local decisions are also stressed. Studies planning processes, such as transportation, community development, and social planning.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 4500 - Special Topics in Planning


    Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, and independent study.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 4510 - J-Term Courses


    January Term courses provide students with unique opportunities: new courses that address topics of current interest, study abroad programs, undergraduate research seminars, and interdisciplinary courses. The intensive format of “J-term” classes encourages extensive student-faculty contact and allows students and faculty to immerse he topics of “J-term” courses change each semester and offer focused study, often related travel or current events.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 4600 - Urban Research


    This is a component of the Design studio, focused on local, on site research. The Urban Research component may be taken independently by History and Planning students.



    Credits: 3
  
  • PLAN 4800 - Professional Practice


    Structured internship experience and reporting as a reflective practitioner for ten weeks or 200 hours of experience.



    Credits: 1 to 3
  
  • PLAN 4993 - Independent Study


    Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, and independent study.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • PLAN 4999 - Planning Senior Project


    Note: Third- and fourth-year undergraduate students may, with instructor permission, enroll in selected 5000-level courses.



    Credits: 3

Urdu

  
  • URDU 2010 - Intermediate Urdu


    Introduces various types of written and spoken Urdu; vocabulary building, idioms, and problems of syntax; and conversation. Prerequisite: for URDU 2010: HIND 1020 or equivalent.



    Credits: 4
  
  • URDU 2020 - Intermediate Urdu


    Prerequisite: for URDU 2020: URDU 2010 or equivalent.



    Credits: 4
  
  • URDU 3010 - Advanced Urdu I


    This course is designed to expand and to consolidate the structures the student has learned through URDU 2020 by reading original Urdu texts, ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts to poetry (both classical and modern). We will discuss these texts in Urdu in class, and the students will be responsible for a series of short essays throughout the semester in Urdu pertaining both to the texts and to other topics. Pre-requisites: URDU 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • URDU 3020 - Advanced Urdu II


    This course is designed to expand and to consolidate the structures the student has learned through URDU 2020 by reading original Urdu texts, ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts to poetry (both classical and modern). We will discuss these texts in Urdu in class, and the students will be responsible for a series of short essays throughout the semester in Urdu pertaining both to the texts and to other topics. Pre-requisites: URDU 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • URDU 3300 - Readings in Urdu Poetry: An Ongoing Mahfil


    This course will introduce advanced Urdu and Hindi students to some of the finest poetry in Urdu. Those who cannot read the Urdu script will have the option of reading the texts in Devanagari (the Hindi script). Some of the poets we will read are Mir, Ghalib, Dagh and Faiz. Course work will include brief analytical papers, as well as in-class presentations. Prerequisites: URDU 3010 or 3020; or HIND 3010 or 3020; or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • URDU 4993 - Independent Study in Urdu


    Independent Study in Urdu



    Credits: 1 to 3

Yiddish

  
  • YIDD 1050 - Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture


    For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • YIDD 1060 - Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture


    Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture



    Credits: 3

Yiddish in Translation

  
  • YITR 3452 - Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe


    Studies major trends in Yiddish, East European, and North American Jewish culture, with special focus on the interaction between cultural forms and historical developments in Eastern Europe and North American. Topics vary.



    Credits: 3
  
  • YITR 3560 - Topics in Yiddish Literature


    Surveys important developments in Yiddish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Special attention is paid to the innovations Yiddish writers produced in response to historical and cultural change.



    Credits: 3

Women, Gender & Sexuality

  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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, & post colonial 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 2100 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality 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

  
  • WGS 2105 - Introduction to LGBTQ Studies


    This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) Studies. We will study historical events and political, literary, and artistic figures and works; contemporary social and political issues; the meaning and development of sexual and gender identities; and different disciplinary definitions of meaning and knowledge.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 2450 - Gender and Environmental Justice


    Examines different ways of integrating gender into environmental analysis and organizing around the world, with a focus on power and links to race/class/nation. Topics include women’s leadership in environmental movements; ecofeminism vs. feminist environmentalism; gendering of ecological knowledge and restoration; the impact of gendered divisions of labor on ecology; environmental violence; unequal health impacts; intimacy and sustainability.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 2500 - Topics in History and Gender


    The course incorporates writings, movies, advertisements, television, and music into active class discussions and lectures. We will learn about the Cold War itself and chart a timeline of major historical events alongside cultural reactions. Of special interest to this course is understanding how gay rights and women’s movements responded to or incorporated the rhetoric of Cold War domestic anxieties, from 1949 until 1989.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 2848 - Reproductive Technology


    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. Prerequisite: Course in WGS, ANTH, Bioethics preferred



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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: WGS/EDHS 2891



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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 humanities or social science course required.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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. Prerequisite: Previous 2000 level course in the humanities or social sciences.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 3210 - Gender, Sport and Film


    This course will examine how film has portrayed women’s sports and female athletes. We will explore how well the film industry has documented the history of women’s sports, issues important to female athletes such as race, sexuality, equality and issues of femininity, and we will look to see how well these productions stack up against films portraying male athletes and men’s sports.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3220 - Global Perspectives on Gender & Sport


    This course will examine female athletes from a global perspective, comparing and contrasting their experiences, and placing them in historical perspective. Among the topics considered will be the Olympic Games, Chinese sports schools, the post-apartheid athletic landscape of South Africa, and Iranian women athlete’s struggle against clothing restrictions.



    Credits: 3

  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 3306 - Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film


    The focus of this class will be on viewings and analyses of films featuring images of teens produced between 1930 and the present, focusing on the following questions: what is adolescence (and how has it been defined in American film)? What is the range of experience that characterizes American adolescence across gender, race, and class lines? How does it make sense to think about the social influence of films on individuals and society?



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3310 - Sexuality, Gender and Media


    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: WGS or Media Studies major, 2nd major or minor.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3320 - Gender Violence & Community Responses


    Introduction to dynamics of gender-based violence, the political and cultural structures that perpetuate it, and avenues for achieving social justice. Students will think critically about the (largely) domestic impact of this violence, and develop a practical understanding of how it intersects with other forms of oppression, by applying theory to real-world problems through experiential learning projects in the community and at the University.



    Credits: 3

  
  • WGS 3340 - Transnational Feminism


    This course places women, feminism, and activism in a transnational perspective, and offers students the opportunity to examine how issues considered critical to the field of gender studies are impacting women’s lives globally in contemporary national contexts. We will look closely at how violence, economic marginality, intersections of race and gender, and varied strategies for development are affecting women in specific geographical locations.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3350 - Gender 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 3405 - Gender and Sexuality


    Focuses on the construction of gender and sexuality, and of the many ways human groups regulate and attach meanings to these categories. Some general themes addressed will be: contemporary and historical definitions of gender, sex, and sexuality; gender socialization; the varieties of sexual identities and relationships; embodiment, childbearing, and families in the contemporary United States. Prerequisite: SOC or WGS course



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3409 - LGBTQ Issues in the Media


    This course will explore the complex cultural dynamics of LGBTQ media visibility, along with its social, political, and psychological implications for LGBTQ audiences. It explores four domains: (1) the question of LGBT media visibility (2) the complex processes of inclusion, normalization, and assimilation in popular culture (3) media industries and the LGBT market (4) the relationship between digital media, LGBT audiences, and everyday life.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3440 - Gender and Multiculturalism


    Introduces current multiculturalism and feminist scholarship, prompting students to make connections between ideas from a wide variety of disciplines, such as history, sociology, anthropology, literature, art history, area studies, and more. Students will be required to complete an in-depth research final project for the course.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3450 - Gender and Architecture


    As a visual art, architecture as an object projects a specific image; as a spatial art it affects individual and group interaction/engagement with the built environment. Through the lenses of gender and race we will examine human relationships to architecture - as designers, patrons, and users in the public and the private realm and across a broad range of temporal and geographic boundaries.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3492 - 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 3501 - YWLP Women’s 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
  
  • WGS 3611 - Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1600-1865


    This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the first European settlements to the Civil War.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3612 - Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1865-Present


    This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the Civil War to the present.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 3621 - Coming of Age in America: A History of Youth


    This course will explore the historical experience of young people and the meaning of youth from the colonial period to the late twentieth century. We will analyze how shifting social relations and cultural understandings changed what it meant to grow up. Topics to be explored include work, family, gender, sexuality, education, political involvement, and popular culture.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 3750 - Women, Childhood, Autobiography


    Cross-cultural readings in women’s childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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, & literateurs.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 3993 - Independent Study


    Independent Study



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • WGS 4050 - Senior Seminar in Women, Gender and Sexuality: Embodiment


    This senior seminar explores ways that people inhabit “gender” and “sexuality” (as compounded with race and class relations), using the lens of philosophically distinct forms of embodiment: sensory, energetic, laboring, colonized, commodified, liberated, aestheticism, trans, agnostic, desiring, bio-intimate, and posthuman. Readings integrate theory with ethnography and include material on how the body has figured in social struggle. Prerequisite: WGS 2100; WGS major , WGS 2nd major, or WGS minor



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 4101 - Issues in Women’s Autobiographies


    This course focuses on women’s autobiographical texts and the diverse ways authors explore issues surrounding identity, power, and resistance in their narratives. We will read compelling accounts of imprisonment, reservation life, political detention, and more, while closely examining women’s participation in ongoing struggles for social justice.



    Credits: 3

  
  • WGS 4107 - Feminism and the Public Sphere


    The idea of the public sphere is central to contemporary politics. It is the “space” where citizens exchange ideas and form opinions, and from which these citizens can shape government. It is also a space largely dominated by media in contemporary industrialized societies. Concerns about the impact of the media on politics are often concerns about the health of the public sphere.     



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 4110 - Gender Non-Conformity in Media Culture


    As one of the primary cultural drivers of common sense, shared values, and political ideology, media are certainly influential storytellers. This course creates space for considering media’s role in articulating and fashioning the limits and possibilities of gender identity. We will pay particular attention to representations of gender non-conformity in popular culture such as female masculinity, male femininity, and transgender subjectivity.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 4140 - Beyond the Gap: Gender and Political Behavior


    This course will consider the theoretical place of gender in American politics. We will also take up a number of topics, including the unavoidable gender gap, the role of masculinity and femininity in conditioning our perceptions of issues and political candidates, the ways gender, politics, and society have interacted historically, and the ways race and gender (and class) interact in conditioning political behavior. Prerequisite: At least one course either on gender or on political behavior.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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 4120.  Prerequisite: One course in PLCP or permission of the instructor.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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: WGS or SOC course



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 4360 - Body Politics and the Body Politic


    This seminar places feminist and non-feminist debates about body politics beauty standards, racialization and color politics, transgender movements, body modification, work discipline, commodification, torture, cyborgs, and new corporeal technologies–in the context of a wider universe of political and philosophical writing on embodiment.  Students will be introduced to culturally and historically diverse bodies.
    Prerequisite: 4th year WGS majors, WGS 2nd majors and WGS minors or instructor permission



    Credits: 3

  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 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
  
  • WGS 4610 - LGBTQ Communities: Race, Class, Gender


    This course examines the historical and continuing role of LGBTQ communities in U.S. society.  Topics covered will include changes that have taken place over time, LGBTQ-rights as a social movement, and homelessness as an LGBTQ-rights issue.  Particular emphasis will be placed on power relations in LGBTQ communities, including the role of racism, classism, and sexism.    



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 4650 - Gender, Poetry & Mindfulness


    The course integrates mindfulness training with interpretation of art, literature, and writing.  Course material is global in scope, incorporating diverse works from Urdu poetry to Japanese haikus, including texts and mindfulness exercises from Tibet. Students will practice mindfulness to enhance their understanding of writers’ and artists’ personal, historical, cultural, and gender perspectives.



    Credits: 3

  
  • WGS 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 WGS course.



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 4800 - Gender-Based Violence


    This course begins by investigating how scholars from a wide array of disciplines define gender-based violence (GBV), its prevalence, causes, and consequences. Next, we focus on several areas where gender -based violence is pervasive, such as universities, poor neighborhoods, during war, and in the global economy. The final section of the course examines responses to GBV by health care providers, feminists, and governments.
    Prerequisite: 3rd or 4th year student



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 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. Prerequisites: One social science course in WGS or comparative politics course; Instructor’s Permission



    Credits: 3
  
  • WGS 4998 - Women, Gender & Sexuality Senior Thesis I


    Majors in Women, Gender and Sexuality (WGS) 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 WGS 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.  Please see your WGS advisor for more information.    
    Prerequisites: WGS Major,  WGS 2nd Major



    Credits: 3

  
  • WGS 4999 - Women, Gender & Sexuality Senior Thesis II


    Majors in Women, Gender and Sexuality (WGS) 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 WGS 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.  Please see your WGS advisor for more information. 
    Prerequisite: WGS Major, 2nd Major



    Credits: 3

 

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