WGST Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
14966	WGST 66 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Growing Up Girl, Globally	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Amalia Ashley	Phillips Hall-Rm 0224	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24
Description: Course introduces students to literature by women from around the world, particularly stories of a girl's transition to womanhood. Close reading strategies are used to examine films, novels, and poetry. 3 units.
4622	WGST 101 - 001 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Sarah Bloesch	Chapman Hall-Rm 0201	45/48	Seats filled	57/60	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.
14499	WGST 101 - 603 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies	Th 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Jaclyn Olson	Dey Hall-Rm 0313	29/30	Seats filled	29/30	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.
14501	WGST 101 - 605 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies	Fr 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Jaclyn Olson	Murphey Hall-Rm 0115	28/30	Seats filled	28/30	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.
14503	WGST 111 - 001 Introduction to Sexuality Studies	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Karen Booth	Dey Hall-Rm 0205	15/25	Seats filled	15/25	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to the broad range of disciplinary perspectives used by the field of sexuality studies to study, teach, and create knowledge about human sexuality in various functions and forms. 3 units.
14965	WGST 111 - 002 Introduction to Sexuality Studies	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Amalia Ashley	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	24/25	Seats filled	24/25	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to the broad range of disciplinary perspectives used by the field of sexuality studies to study, teach, and create knowledge about human sexuality in various functions and forms. 3 units.
9392	WGST 124 - 001 Sex and Gender in Society	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	Maria Ines Martinez Echague	Caldwell Hall-Rm 0105	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	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.
11783	WGST 124 - 002 Sex and Gender in Society	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Margaret Palmer	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	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.
14802	WGST 127 - 001 Iranian Women Writers	Tu 5:00PM - 7:30PM	Claudia Yaghoobi	Peabody Hall-Rm 2024	5/10	Seats filled	5/10	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to Iranian women's issues through their literary works. To contextualize, we will read articles and essays on the historical, cultural, social, political, and economic backgrounds. In order to approach these literary works in a more effective manner, we will also be reading various secondary materials. 3 units.
4636	WGST 140 - 001 Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Culture and Literature	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	WENDY WEBER	Alumni Bldg-Rm 0207	8/9	Seats filled	8/9	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.
5315	WGST 188 - 001 Introduction to Women and Music	MoWe 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Anne MacNeil	Hill Hall-Rm 0103	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	0/999
Description: The role of women in performance, composition, patronage, and the music business across a wide range of repertories. 3 units.
9806	WGST 224 - 001 Introduction to Gender and Communication	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	David Dooling	Smith Bldg-Rm 0107	14/15	Seats filled	14/15	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.
15037	WGST 224 - 002 Introduction to Gender and Communication	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Cristiana Mcfarland	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0302	Seats filled	Seats filled	12/12	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.
14934	WGST 224 - 004 Introduction to Gender and Communication	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Elaina Eakle	Mitchell Hall-Rm 0009	Seats filled	Seats filled	12/12	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.
9396	WGST 231 - 001 Gender and Popular Culture	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Tate Johanek	Alumni Bldg-Rm 0207	Seats filled	Seats filled	25/25	0/999
Description: This course examines the ways in which gender and sexual identities are represented and consumed in popular culture. 3 units.
16528	WGST 242 - 001 Sex and Gender in Antiquity	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Suzanne Lye	New West-Rm 0219	3/10	Seats filled	3/10
Description: Exploration of gender constructs, what it meant to be a woman or a man, in antiquity, as revealed in literary, historical, and archaeological sources. Readings from Homer, Euripides, Plato, Ovid, Virgil, Juvenal, Petronius, and other ancient authors. 3 units.
15405	WGST 249 - 001 Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Zachary Faircloth	Wilson Hall-Rm 0202	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	0/999
Description: The first goal of this super course is to give students real tools for how to address multiple modes of difference and identity formations like race, gender, class, and sexuality. 3 units.
4737	WGST 259 - 001 Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	KAREN HAGEMANN	TBA	Seats filled	Seats filled	3/3	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.
14988	WGST 270 - 001 Introduction to Transgender Studies	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Tate Johanek	Woollen Gym-Rm 0302	15/25	Seats filled	15/25	0/999
Description: This course surveys the breadth of the field of transgender studies through an interdisciplinary lens. This course will outline trans history from 16th century to the present as well as current topics addressed by scholars in the field. 3 units.
8786	WGST 275 - 001 Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Shanna Slank	Caldwell Hall-Rm 0105	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	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.
14505	WGST 290 - 001 Special Topics in Women's Studies	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Candice Merritt	Phillips Hall-Rm 0220	15/25	Seats filled	15/25	0/999
Description: Topics are announced in advance and reflect the interest of the particular instructor. Each course will concern itself with a study in depth of some problem or issue in women's studies. 3 units.
12322	WGST 340 - 001 Leadership in Violence Prevention	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Amalia Ashley	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0318	17/25	Seats filled	17/25	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.
14967	WGST 345 - 001 Gender and Film	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Sarah Bloesch	Wilson Hall-Rm 0128	47/60	Seats filled	47/60	0/999
Description: This course examines the representations of women in contemporary American film and also considers women as producers of film. 3 units.
14210	WGST 360 - 001 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Histories in the United States	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Hooper Schultz	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0304	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	0/999
Description: This course investigates the history of people who might today be defined as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) in the United States. Key themes will include identity formation, culture, politics, medical knowledge, discrimination, and community. 3 units.
12748	WGST 368 - 001 Women of Color in Contemporary United States Social Movements	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Kayla Corbin	Caldwell Hall-Rm 0103	19/25	Seats filled	19/25	0/999
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.
14814	WGST 418 - 001 Family and Gender in Early Modern China and Korea	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Kyoungjin Bae	New West-Rm 0219	2/10	Seats filled	2/10	0/999
Description: This course explores family and kinship in early modern China and Korea through the lens of gender and sexuality. In particular, it invites students to think beyond the bias that women in premodern East Asia were victims of patriarchy to understand their active participation in their world-making as well as their dynamic imagination and expression through writing, working, learning, loving. 3 units.
8828	WGST 442 - 001 Gender, Class, Race, and Mass Media	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	BARBARA FRIEDMAN	Carroll Hall-Rm 0011	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	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.
16564	WGST 553 - 001 Theorizing Black Feminisms	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	Candice Merritt	Dey Hall-Rm 0405	5/15	Seats filled	5/15	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, WGST 101 and 202; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. Introduction to the theoretical and practical contributions of African American feminists who maintain that issues of race, gender, sexuality, and social class are central, rather than peripheral, to any history or strategy for bringing about social justice in the United States. 3 units.
4623	WGST 695 - 001 Senior Seminar: Principles of Feminist Inquiry	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	ARIANA VIGIL	Phillips Hall-Rm 0222	8/25	Seats filled	8/25	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.
11789	WGST 790 - 001 Graduate Seminar in Women's Studies	Tu 2:00PM - 5:00PM	TANYA SHIELDS	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1378	9/18	Seats filled	9/18	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.
17511	WGST 790 - 002 Graduate Seminar in Women's Studies	Tu 2:00PM - 5:00PM	TANYA SHIELDS	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1378	8/10	Seats filled	8/10	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.