| Dr. Carroll |
WMST 4980 Feminist Theory
What is feminist theory and what role does it
play in Women's Studies as a discipline? This Women's Studies
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.
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T/TH 11-12:15
Haley Center 3319
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| Dr. Morris |
WMST 2100 *01 Introduction to Women's Studies |
T/TH 11-12:15
Haley Center 2116
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| Dr. Wyss |
WMST 2100 *02 Introduction to Women's Studies
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T/TH 2-3:15
Haley Center
2124
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| Dr. Summerfield |
FLIT 3510
MAFIA-Machismo, Membership, Money
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M 5:00-8:00 HALEY 3195
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| Dr. Riehl |
ENGL 4330
Early Shakespeare: Women and Power in Shakespeare's Plays
We will examine the plays written in the last decade
of sixteenth century, learning to recognize and interpret
Shakespeare’s treatment of the dominant cultural
concerns of the early modern England. We will pay particular
attention to the female characters, examining how Shakespeare
portrayal of women works along and against the conventions
of the period. In Shakespeare’s world, are women
empowered or devoid of power? How do they act in relation
to the power of the state, monarchy, patriarchy? What
societal and cultural forces allow or disallow women
to assert themselves? Along with these questions, we
will consider many additional issues, using students’ individual
interests as an important factor in class discussion
and research projects.
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MWF 12:00-12:50 HALEY 3206 |
| Dr. Riehl |
ENGL 7740
British Literature and Culture
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T 3:30-6:10 HALEY 3198 |
| Dr. Zugazaga |
SOWO 2000
Introduction to Social Work
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MWF 10:00-10:50 HALEY 3203 |
| Dr. Davis-Maye |
SOWO 3800
Human Behavior in the Social Environment I
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TR 12:30-1:45 HALEY 2218 |
| Dr. Davis-Maye |
SOWO 3850
Human Behavior in the Social Environment II
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TR 2:00-3:15 HALEY 2218
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| Dr. Brown |
POLI 5970
Race and Politics
*Research topics may focus on gender as well as race and politics
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MWF 9:00-9:50 HALEY 2454 |
| Dr. Brown |
POLI 6970
Race and Politics
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MWF
9:00-9:50 HALEY 2454
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| Dr. Crocker |
HIST 3600
Issues in Women's and Gender History
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TR 9:30-10:45 LOWDR 126 |
| Dr. Thomas-Woodard |
HIST 7630
Graduate seminar on Modern Latin America
|
M 1:00-3:50 THACH 312A |