Undergraduate Announcement

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Director

Jill S. Dolan

Executive Committee

Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Woodrow Wilson School, Sociology

Wallace D. Best, Religion, African American Studies

Amy Borovoy, East Asian Studies

Margot Canaday, History

Angela N. H. Creager, History

Maria A. DiBattista, English, Comparative Literature

Brigid Doherty, German, Art and Archaeology

Jill S. Dolan, English, Lewis Center for the Arts, Theater

Wendy Heller, Music

Tera W. Hunter, History, African American Studies

Claudia L. Johnson, English

Nannerl O. Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School, University Center for Human Values

Rena S. Lederman, Anthropology

Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, French and Italian

Deborah E. Nord, English

Jeff E. Nunokawa, English

Sara S. Poor, German

Deborah A. Prentice, Psychology

Rebecca A. Rix, History

Daniel I. Rubenstein, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Gayle M. Salamon, English

Valerie A. Smith, English, African American Studies

Judith L. Weisenfeld, Religion

Stacy E. Wolf, Lewis Center for the Arts, Theater

Associated Faculty

April Alliston, Comparative Literature

Michael W. Cadden, Lewis Center for the Arts, Theater

Ellen B. Chances, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Diana J. Fuss, English

Elizabeth Harman, Philosophy, University Center for Human Values

Hendrik A. Hartog, History

Janet M. Martin, Classics

Carolyn M. Rouse, Anthropology, African American Studies

Esther H. Schor, English

Lynn T. White III, Woodrow Wilson School, Politics

Froma I. Zeitlin, Classics, Comparative Literature

Sits with Committee

Beth Kiyoko Jamieson, Director, Pace Center

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The Program in the Study of Women and Gender is an interdisciplinary forum for the study of femininity, masculinity, sex roles, gender, sexuality, and the family in societies, both past and present. The program’s courses, which are open to all students, examine gender from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The program offers core courses, seminars, and cross-listed courses, and also directs students to courses of interest that are based in other programs and departments. A current list of course offerings is available on the program’s website.

Students who wish to complete the requirements for the undergraduate certificate in women and gender studies must take six courses: WOM 201, the introductory course; WOM 302, an advanced interdisciplinary seminar; and four additional chosen from among other women and gender courses and gender-related departmental offerings. Among these courses, at least one must be taken in each of three broad disciplinary areas: social science, humanities, and science. Students may take gender-related courses in their major departments for certificate credit. In addition, certificate students are required to incorporate issues related to women, gender, and/or sexuality into one junior paper and the senior thesis.

WOM 201 Introduction to the Study of Gender   Fall SA

The study of gender from a multidisciplinary perspective, examined in terms of social behavior and symbolic representation. Topics selected from historical, economic, political, and artistic realms. Open to all undergraduates. G. Salamon

WOM 225 Sex, Sexuality, and Gender (see SOC 225)

WOM 301 Evolution and the Behavior of the Sexes (see EEB 301)

WOM 302 Topics in the Study of Gender   Spring SA

Advanced seminar; focus changes from year to year. In general the seminar uses contemporary and classic works of feminist theory to examine ideas about gender that have shaped modern culture. Topics have included feminism and liberalism, literature and ideology, and psychoanalysis and feminism. J. Delgado

WOM 306 Women and Film (also VIS 341)   Not offered this year LA

An exploration of the relationships between the idea of “woman’’ and the art of film. Issues addressed will include the role of woman as performer and director, questions of film genre, the identification of the female image as constitutive of the cinematic image, the historical and social dimensions of the female image projected in films of different times and different cultures. Film screenings, one three-hour seminar. G. Marrone-Puglia

WOM 310 The Family in Jewish Tradition (see JDS 315)

WOM 313 An Introduction to Black Women’s Studies (see AAS 311)

WOM 315 Russian Women Writers (see SLA 315)

WOM 326 Women in Modern Art (also ART 326)   Not offered this year LA

The history of women artists in the modern age, especially female painters, sculptors, and photographers in relation to their male contemporaries, the art institutions that determined their place in the canon, the images of women that surrounded them, the gender ideologies of their times, and the politics of feminist critique. The course asks how the history of art looks different when the story of women artists is told. Two lectures, one preceptorial. Staff

WOM 328 Gender, Desire, and the Body: The Islamic Tradition (see REL 328)

WOM 329 Psychology of Gender (see PSY 329)

WOM 330 The Invention of Literature and Culture in France (see FRE 321)

WOM 337 Women, Gender, and Politics (see POL 335)

WOM 360 Women and American Religion (see REL 360)

WOM 389 Women Writers of the African Diaspora (see ENG 389)

WOM 393 Gender and Science   Fall SA

An exploration of two aspects of the gender and science literature: the historical participation of women (and men) in scientific work and the feminist critique of scientific knowledge. We will explore ways in which women have been systematically excluded from science and assess the problems with that thesis. One three-hour seminar. A. Creager

WOM 400 Contemporary Feminist Theory   Spring

Addresses the question: What is feminism? Going back to the beginnings of contemporary feminist thought, the course will proceed through the variety of feminist approaches that have marked the study of art, literature, cinema, and popular culture, history, politics, and society since the 1970s. One three-hour seminar. G. Salamon

WOM 401 Seminar. Types of Ideology and Literary Form (see COM 401)

Social Science

Anthropology

341 The Anthropology of Gender

441 Gender: Contested Categories, Shifting Frames

Politics

335 Women, Gender, and Politics (also WOM 337)

Sociology

221 Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender

225 Sex, Sexuality, and Gender (also WOM 225)

240 Family and Kinship

Humanities

African American Studies

311 An Introduction to Black Women’s Studies (also WOM 313)

389 Women Writers of the African Diaspora

Classics

329 Sex and Gender in the Ancient World

East Asian Studies

345 Sexuality and Desire in Modern Japan

English

369 American Women Writers

378, 379 Topics in Literature and Gender

399 The Female Literary Tradition

History

384 Gender in America: Colonial, Revolutionary, and Victorian Society

Slavic Languages and Literatures

315 Russian Women Writers (also WOM 315)

Science

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

301 Evolution and the Behavior of the Sexes (also WOM 301)

In addition, departmental seminars and student-initiated seminars in women and gender, offered from time to time, may be used to satisfy the program’s requirements with the director’s approval.

Certificates of proficiency in the study of women and gender are issued upon graduation to students who have completed the program and have met the requirements of their departments.