WGST Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Wait List
4924	WGST 101 - 001 Introduction to Women's Studies	MoWe 2:30PM - 3:45PM	TANYA SHIELDS, Alexandra Goldych	Caldwell Hall-Rm 0105	27/48 (60 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in American society and internationally. Topics include work; sexuality; gender relations, and images of women in literature, art, and science; and the history of feminist movements. Course readings are drawn from the humanities and the social sciences. 3 units.
4927	WGST 101 - 601 Introduction to Women's Studies	Fr 2:30PM - 3:45PM	Alexandra Goldych	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	23/30 (30 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in American society and internationally. Topics include work; sexuality; gender relations, and images of women in literature, art, and science; and the history of feminist movements. Course readings are drawn from the humanities and the social sciences. 0 units.
4928	WGST 101 - 602 Introduction to Women's Studies	Fr 4:00PM - 5:15PM	Alexandra Goldych	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	16/30 (30 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in American society and internationally. Topics include work; sexuality; gender relations, and images of women in literature, art, and science; and the history of feminist movements. Course readings are drawn from the humanities and the social sciences. 0 units.
10229	WGST 124 - 001 Sex and Gender in Society	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Kate Weisshaar, Kaitlin Joshua	Peabody Hall-Rm 2024	3/5 (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examination of the social differentiation between men and women. Attention to the extent, causes, and consequences of sexual inequality and to changes in sex roles and their impact on interpersonal relations. 3 units.
13834	WGST 124 - 002 Sex and Gender in Society	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Kate Weisshaar, Anna Sinclair	Phillips Hall-Rm 0206	Seats filled (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examination of the social differentiation between men and women. Attention to the extent, causes, and consequences of sexual inequality and to changes in sex roles and their impact on interpersonal relations. 3 units.
13835	WGST 124 - 004 Sex and Gender in Society	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	Melissa Manzanares	Dey Hall-Rm 0304	4/5 (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examination of the social differentiation between men and women. Attention to the extent, causes, and consequences of sexual inequality and to changes in sex roles and their impact on interpersonal relations. 3 units.
4941	WGST 140 - 001 Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Culture and Literature	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	WENDY WEBER	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	Seats filled (9 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Introduces students to concepts in queer theory and recent sexuality studies. Topics include queer lit, AIDS, race and sexuality, representations of gays and lesbians in the media, political activism/literature. 3 units.
16060	WGST 140 - 002 Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Culture and Literature	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Sarah Lofstrom	Dey Hall-Rm 0205	Seats filled (15 total)	Seats filled
Description: Introduces students to concepts in queer theory and recent sexuality studies. Topics include queer lit, AIDS, race and sexuality, representations of gays and lesbians in the media, political activism/literature. 3 units.
5677	WGST 188 - 001 Introduction to Women and Music	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Heidi Radtke	Person Hall-Rm 0100	5/6 (6 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: The role of women in performance, composition, patronage, and the music business across a wide range of repertories. 3 units.
5642	WGST 217 - 001 Women and Politics	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Pamela Conover	TBA	9/10 (10 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: A comparison of men and women as political actors at the mass and elite level in America. Topics considered include the "gender gap," the women's movement, abortion, and the Equal Rights Amendment. 3 units.
10753	WGST 224 - 001 Introduction to Gender and Communication	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Kayla Corbin	Wilson Hall-Rm 0202	7/8 (8 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines multiple relationships among gender, communication and culture. Explores how communication creates gender and shapes relationships and how communication reflects, sustains, and alters cultural views of gender. 3 units.
9521	WGST 224 - 003 Introduction to Gender and Communication	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Elaina Eakle	Carolina Hall-Rm 0204	Seats filled (8 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines multiple relationships among gender, communication and culture. Explores how communication creates gender and shapes relationships and how communication reflects, sustains, and alters cultural views of gender. 3 units.
10241	WGST 231 - 001 Gender and Popular Culture	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Sarah Bloesch	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0319	24/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course examines the ways in which gender and sexual identities are represented and consumed in popular culture. 3 units.
13836	WGST 231 - 002 Gender and Popular Culture	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Sarah Bloesch	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0319	Seats filled (25 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course examines the ways in which gender and sexual identities are represented and consumed in popular culture. 3 units.
11455	WGST 233 - 001 Introduction to Latina Literature	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Meleena Gil	Woollen Gym-Rm 0302	23/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course will provide an introduction to Latina literature. We will read a variety of genres from a range of ethno-national perspectives and examine such topics as immigration, identity, mother-daughter relationships, and sexuality. 3 units.
14198	WGST 241 - 001 Women in Ancient Rome	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	George Baroud, Allison Davis, Morgan Eriksen, Emily Dixon	Davie Hall-Rm 0112	24/29 (29 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Course examines the life of women in ancient Rome, from the first beginnings of the organized community in Rome through the early Empire, a period of about 900 years. Also explores aspects of the lives of women in provinces governed by Rome. 3 units.
11458	WGST 253 - 001 A Social History of Jewish Women in America	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Jillian Hinderliter	Dey Hall-Rm 0203	8/15 (15 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course examines the history and culture of Jewish women in America from their arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654 to the present and explores how gender shaped this journey. 3 units.
5052	WGST 259 - 001 Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	KAREN HAGEMANN	TBA	2/3 (3 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course examines and compares the situation of women in politics, the work force, society and family from the French Revolution to the new women's movement in the 1970s with a focus on Britain, France and Germany. One major theme is the history of the struggle for women's emancipation. 3 units.
9507	WGST 275 - 001 Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Ripley Stroud	Stone Center-Rm 0210	4/5 (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: A survey of feminist perspectives on topics such as the meaning of oppression, sexism and racism, sex roles and stereotypes, ideals of female beauty, women in the workplace, pornography, rape. 3 units.
14327	WGST 280 - 001 Women and Gender in Latin American History	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Ana Silva Campo	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	Seats filled (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines the experiences of women and gender relations in Latin American societies from pre-Columbian times to the present, providing a new perspective on the region's historical development. 3 units.
13838	WGST 330 - 001 Women's Health Activism in Twentieth Century America	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Jillian Hinderliter	Dey Hall-Rm 0203	22/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Course examines the history of women's health activism and advocacy in the 20th century United States. Course materials and discussions will trace the development of several women's health movements and causes, health activists' tactics and rhetoric, and the complex dynamic between lay activists and medical professionals. 3 units.
14692	WGST 340 - 001 Leadership in Violence Prevention	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Shelley Kennedy	Peabody Hall-Rm 2024	17/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines interpersonal violence, the factors that enable it, and prevention strategies. The course examines violence on both individual and structural levels, considering perpetrators, victims/survivors, and bystanders and drawing upon the expertise of local organizers and service providers in the system of care. 3 units.
13839	WGST 352 - 001 Rahtid Rebel Women: An Introduction to Caribbean Women	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	TANYA SHIELDS	Dey Hall-Rm 0205	10/25 (25 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course uses films, novels, and essays to move beyond sun, sand, and sex representations of Caribbean women to examine how they negotiate imperial and national definitions of their place. 3 units.
16037	WGST 368 - 001 Women of Color in Contemporary United States Social Movements	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Kayla Corbin	Carolina Hall-Rm 0204	22/24 (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, WGST 101. This course will examine the role of women of color as grassroots activists, leaders, and thinkers in the new social and community movements of the postwar period. 3 units.
14705	WGST 438 - 001 Gender and Performance: Constituting Identity	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Antonia Randolph	Graham Memorial-Rm 0213	3/5 (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines the culturally and historically variable ways in which individuals constitute themselves as cis- or transgendered subjects, drawing upon extant expressive resources, modifying them, and expanding options available to others. Performance of self as the product of esthetically marked or unmarked, everyday actions. 3 units.
9589	WGST 442 - 001 Gender, Class, Race, and Mass Media	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	BARBARA FRIEDMAN	Carroll Hall-Rm 0011	4/5 (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: The media play a critical role in the construction and contestation of ideas about gender, class, and race. Using a range of methods, students will analyze media messages past and present to understand how gender, race, and class influence media production and consumption. 3 units.
13227	WGST 447 - 001 Gender, Space, and Place in the Middle East	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Pervin Gokariksel	Carolina Hall-Rm 0204	Seats filled (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines gender, space, and place relationships in the modern Middle East. Investigates shifting gender geographies of colonialism, nationalism, modernization, and globalization in this region. (GHA) 3 units.
10567	WGST 450 - 001 Sexuality in Jewish Tradition and History	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Evyatar Marienberg	Murphey Hall-Rm 0105	1/3 (3 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course deals with various topics related to sexuality and marriage in Jewish tradition and history: sex outside of marriage, wedding ceremonies, regulations of marital sex, menstruation, homosexuality, and more. 3 units.
4926	WGST 695 - 001 Senior Seminar: Principles of Feminist Inquiry	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	Karen Booth	Dey Hall-Rm 0302	11/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, WGST 101 and 202. Required preparation, at least one additional WGST course and senior standing or permission of the instructor. Required for majors; strongly recommended for minors. An advanced writing-intensive course drawing on a student's interests and background. Major research of specific topics utilizing feminist perspectives. 3 units.
13841	WGST 790 - 001 Graduate Seminar in Women's Studies	Tu 2:00PM - 5:00PM	ARIANA VIGIL	Murphey Hall-Rm 0117	Seats filled (10 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Explores the complex interaction between women's studies, feminist studies and gender studies as these fields have evolved within and across academic disciplines, intersecting with issues of race, class, ethnicity, masculinity, sexuality, and with practices of queer theory and cultural studies. 3 units.