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Undergraduate Record 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED RECORD]
Course Descriptions
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Urban and Environmental Planning |
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PLAN 3500 - Special Topics in Planning
Topical offerings in planning.
Credits: 1.00 to 3.00
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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
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PLAN 3810 - Toward the Resilient City
Examines sustainable communities and the environmental, social, economic, political, and design standards that underlie them. Focuses on reviewing case studies of cities, towns, and development projects that reflect principles of sustainability.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 3811 - Gender & Built Environment
This class explores the wide range of approaches that have been taken to the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Some see buildings as a direct expression of sexed bodies (phallic towers and breast-like domes), while others see buildings and settlements as expressions and reiterations of the gender structures of a culture.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 3860 - Cities and 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
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PLAN 3870 - Environment and the Economy
Focuses on a central question: Can local economies be sustainable and equitable without damaging the environment? Within this question are embedded topics-environmental racism, brownfield reclamation, environmental policy, and community organizing and engagement. This course addresses the challenge of balancing environmental impact, social equity, and economic growth.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 4030 - Introduction to GIS
Geographic Information System (GIS) is a data management tool, a mapping tool, a visualization tool & a spatial analysis engine. While this is an introductory GIS course, it will focus on how planners can use GIS to develop critical spatial thinking & address current problems in our natural & built environment.
Credits: 3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PLAN 4800 - Professional Practice
Structured internship experience and reporting as a reflective practitioner for ten weeks or 200 hours of experience.
Credits: 1.00 to 3.00
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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: 1.00 to 4.00
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PLAN 4999 - Planning Senior Project
Note: Third- and fourth-year undergraduate students may, with instructor permission, enroll in selected 5000-level courses.
Credits: 3
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Urdu |
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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
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URDU 2020 - Intermediate Urdu
Prerequisite: for URDU 2020: URDU 2010 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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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
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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
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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
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URDU 4993 - Independent Study in Urdu
Independent Study in Urdu
Credits: 1.00 to 3.00
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Women, Gender & Sexuality |
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WGS 1510 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality
Special Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality.
Credits: 1.00 to 4.00
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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
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WGS 2106 - Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to LGBTQ (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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WGS 2500 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality
Special Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.
Credits: 1.00 to 4.00
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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
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WGS 2891 - Issues Facing Adolescent Girls
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: 4
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WGS 2893 - Fostering Leadership in Women and Girls I
This seminar is designed to support the YWLP (Young Women Leaders Program) group facilitators as leaders of YWLP mentoring groups. The content of instruction and discussion will focus on facilitation skills, small group development, and other topics relating to group dynamics, with particular attention to issues related to promoting leadership among adolescent girls and college women. There is an emphasis placed on multicultural issues.
Credits: 3
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WGS 2894 - Gender, Body Image and Social Activism
What is the relationship between body image and identity? How does one affect, constrain, and inform the other? The development of body image is a complex process influenced by messages we receive from family, friends, peers, health care practitioners, teachers, and mass media to name a few. Messages are also constructed and interpreted differently depending on one’s gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ableism.
Credits: 3
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WGS 2897 - Gender Violence and Social Justice
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
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WGS 2898 - Sexual Violence Prevention on Campus: Theory and Practice
This course is open to undergraduate students who wish to reduce gender-based violence through peer education and engagement. This course will introduce students to various theories on the causes of gender-based violence as well as evidence-based intervention strategies, including public health approaches to violence prevention, and effective program planning.
Credits: 3
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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
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WGS 3105 - Issues in LGBTQ Studies
This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of 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
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WGS 3110 - Queer American History
Course focuses on 20th century history of LGBTQ activism, but will include formation of heterosexual and homosexual identities and historical constructions of sexual practices prior to the 1900s. From 20th c. the course will focus on the Homophile Movement, Gay Liberation, and ACT UP, among other activist movements. Although primary emphasis will be placed on historical activism, contemporary movements regarding LGBTQ-rights will be included.
Credits: 3
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WGS 3115 - Work, Women’s Work and Women Workers in South Asia
What is ‘work’? Are women seen as ‘workers’? Are there women who do not ‘work’? What is the history of paid, less paid, and unpaid work? This course focuses on new trends in the relationship between gender, class and work; and will reveal emerging possibilities in knowledge and practice through changes or reversal in the gender order and its impact on work and its relationship with capital.
Credits: 3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WGS 3230 - Gender and the Olympic Games
In ancient Greece, women risked death if they even attended the Olympic Games. As Pierre de Coubertin looked to revive the games in 1896, he thought women better suited to cheering on the male victors, than to competing themselves. This course will explore women’s early participation in the Olympic Games, the pressures upon Olympic sportswomen to be feminine, and the important intersections of race, class, and sexual orientation.
Credits: 3
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WGS 3240 - Gender, Race and Sport: A History of African American Sportswomen
Explore the intersection of gender and race in sport, specifically examining the African-American female experience in sport. This course will ask students to consider whether sport was (and continues to be) the great equalizer for both African-American sportsmen and sportswomen, and to evaluate their portrayals (or lack thereof) in both the white and black media.
Credits: 3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WGS 3370 - 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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WGS 3495 - Incarcerated Women
This course centers on the increasing number of women and juvenile girls who are incarcerated in the United States, and the now more than one million women under some form of correctional supervision in America. We will also explore such areas as feminist approaches to women and crime, racialized representations of criminality, and the impact of gender, race, and class on the criminal justice system.
Credits: 3
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WGS 3500 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality
Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.
Credits: 1.00 to 4.00
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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
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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
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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
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WGS 3625 - Cultures, Spaces, and Worldviews of International Aid
The main focus of this class is the culture and values of development practitioners, and how these shape ideas of development itself. It explores the interconnected processes, relationships, and spaces through which development practitioners and planners learn, live , work, and encounter (or not) people who are the targets of development plans and interventions.
Credits: 3
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WGS 3680 - Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women’s Writing Culture and Society
This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women’s socio-cultural history, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.
Credits: 3
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WGS 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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WGS 3770 - Women Writers: Women on Women
This course focuses on women writers from any era who address the topic of femininity: what it means or implies to be a woman.
Credits: 3
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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, & litterateurs.
Credits: 3
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WGS 3810 - Feminist Theory
This course provides an overview of the historical bases and contemporary developments in feminist theorizing and analyzes a range of theories on gender, including liberal, Marxist, radical, difference, and postmodernist ideas. We explore how feminist theories apply to contemporary debates on the body, sexuality, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism incorporating analyses of race, class, national difference and cross-cultural perspectives.
Credits: 3
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WGS 3814 - Gender, Sexuality, Identity in Premodern France
This course will explore religious, social, scientific and legal views on gender, sexuality and identity that may extend from medieval through early modern Europe with an emphasis on the French tradition. Readings will include literary texts and cultural documents as well as current scholarship on questions of sexuality, gender, and identity politics
Credits: 3
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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
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WGS 3993 - Independent Study
Independent Study
Credits: 1.00 to 4.00
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WGS 4425 - Gender & Nationalism in Islamic Cultures
Course will provide an overview of the politics of gender and nationalism in the Middle East. Among the topics we will examine are gendered discourses and practices of nation-states; gendered constructions of national identity; gendered violence; women’s engagement in politics, state power, social movements and civil society; women’s activism, state feminism, and Islamic feminism; and the state regulations of sexuality, family, and citizenship.
Credits: 3
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WGS 4430 - Gender & Nationalism in the Middle East
An overview of the politics of gender and nationalism in the Middle East. We will examine the ways in which nationalism articulates with gender and sexuality. What are the implications of gendered constructions of national identity? How are the discourses of nation-states gendered? How does the state regulate sexuality, family, and citizenship? What are the effects of nationalist discourses on the emergence of new masculinities and femininities?
Credits: 3
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WGS 4500 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality
Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.
Credits: 1.00 to 4.00
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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
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WGS 4620 - Black Feminist Theory
This course critically examines key ideas, issues, and debates in contemporary Black feminist thought. With a particular focus on Black feminist understandings of intersectionality and womanism, the course examines how Black feminist thinkers interrogate specific concepts including Black womanhood, sexual mythologies and vulnerabilities, class distinctions, colorism, leadership, crime and punishment, and popular culture.
Credits: 3
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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
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WGS 4655 - Early Modern Theater: The Drama of Marriage
Course will investigate marriage as represented on the early modern European stage. Italian, Spanish, French and English plays comprise our subject matter. We’ll consider the legal, social, and cultural history of matrimony to background our study of the stageworks; we will analyze scripts and performances to learn how dramatic and theatrical convention intersected w/ marital institution and negotiations, onstage and off. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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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
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WGS 4750 - Global History of Black Girlhood
This course will allow students to explore the new scholarship on black girlhood. Scholars working on the history of black girls in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa have created a vibrant new field of black girl studies. Combining insights from black feminism and the history of childhood, these scholars have centered black girls’ experience as a means of reframing our understanding of citizenship, labor, and creativity.
Credits: 3
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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YIDD 1060 - Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture
Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture
Credits: 3
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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
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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
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