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CONTACT US:

 

Director
Dr. Ruth Crocker
crockrc@auburn.edu
3227 Haley Center
Thach 325
334-844-1974
334-844-6647

Graduate Assistant
Laura Obert
lco0001@auburn.edu
3227 Haley Center
334-844-1974

 

Fall 2009 Office Hours

Dr. Ruth Crocker
Haley 3227
Mondays: 9:00-12:00
Thursdays: 10:00-12:00

Laura Obert
Haley 3227

Mondays: 8:00-1:00
Tuesdays: 10:00-4:00

To contact the Women's Studies Program:
e-mail Dr. Crocker at crockrc@auburn.edu


 

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

November 12-15
National Women’s Studies Association Conference
Atlanta, GA

 

Call For Papers for The Women's Studies Program Graduate Research Symposium held on December 5th is going on now!

**Submission deadline extended to November 20th**

Click here for more information about the Symposium.


The directions for self-enrollment are here: http://www.auburn.edu/img/blackboard/help/student/s_self_enroll.htm

The pathway to the submission page via the course list is as follows: Administration --> Provost's Office --> Uncategorized --> Women's Studies --> Women's Studies Graduate Symposium On the right is a Register button, which will take you to a log-in screen.


SPRING 2010
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES

Click here for a full list of Spring 2010 cross listed courses

WMST 2100*01
Introduction to Women's Studies
TR 11:00-12:15
Haley 3318
Dr. Gaetano

WMST 2100*02
Introduction to Women's Studies
TR 3:30-4:45
Haley 1203
Dr. Ware

WMST 2100*03
Introduction to Women's Studies
TR 2:00-3:15
Lowder 127
Denise Guidry

WMST 4980 *01
Feminist Theory
TR 11:00-12:15
Haley 2346
Dr. Carroll

Please follow the links below to find more information on your area of interest.

Women's Studies Minor Form

Become a Women's Studies Affiliate

Donate to Women's Studies

WS Travel Funds Procedure

2007-2008 Strategic Plan

Quilts of Gee's Bend Project

Women's Studies library subject guide

What is Introduction to Women's Studies?

The WMST 2100: Introduction to Women's Studies course will introduce students to the academic field of Women’s Studies and will encourage students to think critically and develop an independent evaluation of the complex issues involved. Students in this course should gain an understanding of how Women’s Studies has evolved and affected viewpoints within the academic world and in wider communities; learn feminist approaches to academics, including the place of personal experience and activism in the study of women; appreciate the diversity of feminist thought and female experience; be able to analyze the intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and spirituality in the lives of women; to reflect critically on the various points of view presented; and to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

What is feminist theory and what role does it play in Women's Studies as a discipline?

The Women's Studies 4980 capstone course approaches feminism as a multiplicity of perspectives and approaches to the understanding of women's position in culture. Readings then will be as diverse as feminism itself and should give you a broad and deep understanding of the diversity of feminist thought and the historical and critical role feminist thought has played in a variety of disciplinary approaches to the study of women and culture. Readings will focus on intersections between race, class, sexual orientation, and gender in feminist thought and will include an investigation of paradigms such as the technology of gender, gender as performance, domestic ideology, gendered discourses in commodity culture (women and shopping), the environment as a feminist issue (ecofeminism), and the racing of feminism in English and American feminist theory. After a semester of reading a variety of feminist theories by authors such as Judith Butler (Gender Trouble) and Val Plumwood (Feminism and the Mastery of Nature), you should understand how such issues as essentialism, globalization, exclusivism, and classism have piqued feminist debates. In class you will become comfortable applying feminist paradigms to culture, allowing us to explore representations of current or historical events. Several short response papers to theoretical readings and one longer final project and presentation will be required, as well as a midterm and final exam.