Courses
Please note that the registrar's website is the official listing of courses.
(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students
WMGS 5a Women and Gender in Culture and Society
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This interdisciplinary course introduces central concepts and topics in the field of women's and gender studies. Explores the position of women in diverse settings and the impact of gender as a social, cultural, and intellectual category in the United States and around the globe. Asks how gendered institutions, behaviors, and representations have been configured in the past and function in the present, and also examines the ways in which gender intersects with many other vectors of identity and circumstance in forming human affairs. Usually offered every fall and spring.
Ms. Lanser or Ms. Singh
WMGS 89a Internship in Women's and Gender Studies: Prevention of Violence against Women and Children
Combines fieldwork in violence prevention programs with a weekly seminar concerning violence against women and children. The seminar examines the tensions and commonalities between "family violence" and "feminist" approaches, with an emphasis on feminist scholarship. Usually offered every fall.
Ms. Hunter
WMGS 92b Internship and Analysis
Usually offered every semester.
Staff
WMGS 98a Independent Study
Independent readings, research, and writing on a subject of the student's interest under the direction of a faculty advisor. Usually offered every year.
Staff
WMGS 98b Independent Study
See WMGS 98a for special notes and course description. Usually offered every year.
Staff
WMGS 99a Senior Research Project
Independent research and writing under faculty direction, for the purpose of completion of the women's and gender studies senior honors thesis. Usually offered every year.
Staff
WMGS 99b Senior Research
See WMGS 99a for special notes and course description. Usually offered every year.
Staff
(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students
WMGS 105b Feminist Theories in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Prerequisite: Students are encouraged, though not required, to take WMGS 5a prior to enrolling in this course. May not be repeated for credit by students who have taken WMNS 105a in previous years.
Examines diverse theories of sex and gender within a multicultural framework, considering historical changes in feminist thought, the theoretical underpinnings of various feminist practices, and the implications of diverse and often conflicting theories for both academic inquiry and social change. Usually offered every spring.
Staff
WMGS 106b Women in the Health Care System
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May not be repeated for credit by students who have taken WMNS 106b in previous years.
Explores the position and roles of women in the U.S. health care system and how it defines and meets women's health needs. The implications for health care providers, health care management, and health policy are discussed. Usually offered every spring.
Staff
WMGS 136a Gender, Race, and Science
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Addresses scientific claims about race and gender from the 19th century onward. Investigates the biological sciences as a source of knowledge with profound effects on cultural practices, social struggles, and individual as well as collective identities. Usually offered every year.
WMGS 140a Diversity of Muslim Women’s Experiences
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Cultural Differences Elective
A broad introduction to the multidimensional nature of women's experiences in the Muslim world. As both a cultural and religious element in this vast region, understanding Islam in relation to lives of women has become increasingly imperative. Special one-time offering, spring 2008.
Ms. Shavarini
WMGS 146a Gender, Technology, and the Body
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Explores the ways in which specific technologies are involved in establishing gender as a natural fact or in reshaping it through bodily manipulation. Investigates technologies ranging from photography, film, and anthropometry to bodybuilding and cosmetic surgery.
WMGS 198a Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar
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May not be repeated for credit by students who have taken WMNS 198a in previous years.
Examines theories and practices of feminist scholarship and introduces interdisciplinary methodologies in order to guide students in designing and completing an independent research project. Usually offered every year in the fall.
Ms. Lanser and Ms. Schattschneider
(200 and above) Primarily for Graduate Students
WMGS 205a Graduate Foundational Course in Women's and Gender Studies
An advanced interdisciplinary inquiry into the history, theories, concepts and practices that have formed women's and gender studies as a scholarly field, with particular attention to current intellectual trends and critical controversies.
Ms. Smiley
WMGS 299a Directed Readings in Women's and Gender Studies
Usually offered every year.
Staff
WMGS 299b Directed Readings in Women's and Gender Studies
Usually offered every year.
Staff
Elective Courses
The following courses are approved for the program. Not all are given in any one year. Please consult the Schedule of Classes each semester.
AAAS 125b
Cultural Differences Elective
Caribbean Women and Globalization: Sexuality, Citizenship, Work
AAAS 133b
Cultural Differences Elective
The Literature of the Caribbean
AMST 102a
Women, the Environment, and Social Justice
AMST 118a
Historical Elective
Gender and the Professions
AMST 121a
Historical Elective
The American Jewish Woman: 1890-1990s
AMST 123b
Historical Elective
Women in American History: 1865 to the Present
AMST 124b
Historical Elective
American Love and Marriage
AMST 127b
Women and American Popular Culture
AMST 139b
Reporting on Gender, Race, and Culture
AMST 142b
Love, Law and Labor: Asian American Women and Literature
AMST 144b
Cultural Differences Elective
Signs of Imagination: Construction of Gender and Race in Popular Culture
ANTH 127a
Medicine, Body, and Culture
ANTH 141b
Historical Elective
Engendering Archaeology: Exploring Women's and Men's Lives in the Past
ANTH 144a
Cultural Differences Elective
The Anthropology of Gender
ANTH 145a
Cultural Differences Elective
Anthropology of the Body
ANTH 178b
Cultural Differences Elective
Culture, Gender, and Power in East Asia
BIOL 160b
Human Reproductive and Developmental Biology
BISC 2a
Human Reproduction, Population Explosion, Global Consequences
CLAS 145b *
Historical Elective
Topics in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
COML 108a
Creating New Histories and Identities beyond the Nation: Transnational Female Voices in the
COML 122b
Cultural Differences Elective
Writing Home and Abroad: Literature by Women of Color
ECON 69a
The Economics of Race and Gender
ENG 16a
Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Texts and Contexts
ENG 28b
Historical Elective
Queer Readings: Before Stonewall
ENG 46a
Historical Elective
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
ENG 87a
Cultural Differences Elective
Sex and Race in the American Novel
ENG 87b
Queer Readings: Beyond Stonewall
ENG 107a
Cultural Differences Elective
Caribbean Women Writers
ENG 114b
Historical Elective
Gender and the Rise of the Novel in England and France
ENG 121a
Sex and Culture
ENG 127b
Migrating Bodies, Migrating Texts
ENG 128a
Alternative Worlds: Modern Utopian Texts
ENG 131b
Feminist Theory
ENG 134a
Historical Elective
The Woman of Letters, 1600-1800
ENG 138a
Making Modern Subjects: Caribbean/Latin America/U.S.A. 1850-1950
ENG 144b
Historical Elective
The Body as Text
ENG 145b
Historical Elective
Jane Austen: Gender, Art, and History
ENG 151a
Queer Studies
ENG 157b
American Women Poets
ENG 181a
Making Sex, Performing Gender
ENG 197b
Cultural Differences Elective
Within the Veil: African American and Muslim Women's Writing
ENG 201a
Gender Studies
ENG 213b
Alternative Worlds: Utopia, Science, and Gender
ENG 230b
Feminist Theory
ENG 234a
Historical Elective
Writing British Women, 1660-1800: Critical Inquires
FA 19b
Lives of the Artists
FA 61b
Historical Elective
Inventing Tradition: Women as Artists, Women as Art
FA 131b
Center Stage: Women in Contemporary Art
FA 173a
Historical Elective
Georgia O'Keeffe and Stieglitz Circle
GECS 150a
Historical Elective
From Rapunzel to Riefenstahl: Real and Imaginary Women in German Culture
GECS 167a
German Cinema: Vamps and Angels
HIST 55b
Historical Elective
The History of the Family
HIST 153a
Historical Elective
Americans at Home: Families and Domestic Environments, 1600 to the Present
HIST 154b
Historical Elective
Women in American History, 1600-1865
HIST 157a
Historical Elective
Americans at Work: American Labor History
HIST 173b
Cultural Differences Elective
Historical Elective
Latin American Women: Heroines, Icons, and History
HIST 206a
Problems in American Women's History
HS 319a
Work and Individual and Social Development
HS 515a
Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Human Services Research
HS 527a
Law & Policy: Gender Equality in Theory and Practice
LGLS 120a
Sex Discrimination and the Law
LGLS 126b
Marriage, Divorce, and Parenthood
MUS 150a
Historical Elective
Women and Music, Past and Present: Style, Identity, Culture
NEJS 29a
Feminist Sexual Ethics in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
NEJS 115b
Historical Elective
Women and the Bible
NEJS 128b
Historical Elective
History of Jewish and Christian Women in the Roman Empire
NEJS 141a
Russian Jewish History, 1917 to the Present
NEJS 165b
Changing Roles of Women in American Jewish Societies
NEJS 166a
Carnal Israel: Exploring Jewish Sexuality from Talmudic Times to the Present
NEJS 172a
Women in American Jewish Literature
NEJS 175a
Historical Elective
Jewish Women in Eastern Europe: Tradition and Transformation
NEJS 196a
Cultural Differences Elective
Marriage, Divorce, and Sexual Ethics in Islamic Law
NEJS 233a
Gender and Jewish Studies
PHIL 18a
Cultural Differences Elective
Philosophy of Race and Gender
PHIL 28a
Historical Elective
Western Philosophical Tradition: Feminist Perspectives
PHIL 108a
Philosophy and Gender
POL 125a
Women in American Politics
POL 159a
Seminar: The Politics of the Modern Welfare State: Women, Workers, and Social Citizenship
PSYC 160b
Seminar on Sex Differences
RECS 137a
Historical Elective
Women in Russian Literature
SAS 101a
Cultural Differences Elective
South Asian Women Writers
SAS 110b
Cultural Differences Elective
South Asian Postcolonial Writers
SAS 170b
Historical Elective
South Asia in the Colonial Archive
SOC 105a
Feminist Critiques of Sexuality and Work in America
SOC 112a
Topics on Women and Development
SOC 115a
Masculinities
SOC 117a
Sociology of Work
SOC 121b
Gender, Ethnicity, and Migration
SOC 130a
Families
SOC 131b
Women's Biography and Society
SOC 132b
Social Perspectives on Motherhood and Mothering
SOC 134a
Great Women of Sociology
SOC 138a
Cultural Differences Elective
Sociology of Gender and Race
SOC 169b
Issues in Sexuality
SOC 189a
Sociology of Body and Health
SOC 206b
Advanced Topics in Family Studies
SOC 210b
Gender and Race Relationality
SPAN 125b
Historical Elective
Literary Women in Early Modern Spain
SPAN 168b
Cultural Differences Elective
Latin America Narrated by Women
SPAN 195a
Cultural Differences Elective
Latinos in the
THA 110a
Moving Women/Women Moving
* Please contact the WGS program office to confirm if this course will count as a WGS elective. This course will count as an elective only when the course topic is related to women, gender and/or sexuality.