COURSES (Fall 2008)
CORE COURSES
WOM 201
Introduction to the Study of Gender
Professor Gayle Salamon
11:00 - 12:20 Tuesday and Thursday
What exactly is gender? Is it just the contemporary name we give to sex? Or does it mean something different? How are ideas about sexuality and race implicated in our understanding of gender? This course will consider gender both as an object of study and an analytical category through which we read other cultural practices. We will explore some of the important themes and debates centrally concerned with the question of gender over the past hundred years, including feminist history, pornography and sexual freedom, gender and technology, and the politics of the veil.
WOM 302
Topics in the Study of Gender: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
Professor Marie Griffith
1:30 - 4:20 Tuesday
Religious beliefs about gender and sexuality play a vital role in American culture, seen recently in debates over gay marriage, pornography, STD's, abortion, transsexualism, stay-at-home motherhood, the Kinsey film, and abstinence-only sex education. This course explores the centrality of sexual matters to religious communities in the U.S., emphasizing Christianity (both Protestant and Catholic forms) and its role in regulating the sexual practices of women, men, and teens.
WOM 311/SOC 311
Gender, Crime, Media and Culture
Professor Lynn Chancer
1:30 - 4:20 Wednesday
The study of culture involves myriad approaches and methods, and attracts researchers in and outside sociology. This course aims to explore scholarship that draws, in different ways, on combined contributions from gender studies, criminology and deviance, media studies and the growing field of cultural studies. Its goals are to increase your knowledge of issues in each of these sociological subfields; to explore theories and methods used by scholars in these areas; and to assist students in developing their own research projects.
Cross-listed
Courses
ENG 396/WOM 396
Queer Theory
Professor Gayle Salamon
7:30 - 10:20 Wednesday
ENG 400/WOM 403/AMS 400
Latina/o Sexualities
Professor Ricardo Montez
3:00 - 4:20 Monday and Wednesday
GER 319/WOM 318
Girl Power Weimar Style in Germany’s Roaring Twenties
Professor Sara Poor
3:00 - 4:20 Tuesday and Thursday
GER 326/SPA 328/WOM 327
No Pain, No Gain: Passion and Oppression in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Professors Sara Poor and Ron Surtz
1:30 - 4:20 Wednesday
HIS 451/WOM 452
Women and Gender Relations in North America: Historical Issues and Interpretations
Professor Joan Sangster
1:30 - 4:20 Tuesday
Courses of
Interest
AAS 322/POL 300
Black Women’s Political Activism
Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell
COM 547
The Renaissance: Same-Sex Desire
Leonard Barkan
ENG 387/AAS 387
Topics in Black Literature: Toni Morrison
Valerie Smith
SPA 534
Seminar in Medieval Spanish Literature: Women in Early Spanish Literature
Ronald Surtz
