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Courses

 

Theater and Dance
  

  • THDA 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 310 - Theatre Methods: Shakespeare to Viewpoint

    This course is an experiential survey of major European and U.S. performance methods, 1600-present. Through readings in theatre and performance history and theory, students will investigate the social forces that have shaped acting-as-representation: from Shakespeare’s Globe through commedia dell’arte, from Stanislavski’s “magic if” to Brecht’s V-effekt, Barba’s “paper canoe” to the ongoing U.S. performance inquiry into “presence.” In a weekly intensive lab component, students will learn the specific techniques developed by and required of these practitioners and genres. Research projects will culminate in an open community workshop of exercises and techniques, incorporated by the students as part of their comprehensive inquiry into additional innovators or genres. Requirement for Theater and Dance majors. Enrollment limited to 12 students, with preference given to Theater and Dance major and/or minors. Every fall. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 341 - Intermediate Dance Composition

    A continuation of the study of choreography, utilizing tools from the beginning level course in an advanced format, such as a juxtaposition of the dance elements involving more than one dancer. This course will deepen the student’s ability to draw upon his or her self knowledge and create work that is rich in intuitive and intellectual knowledge. A look at the relationship of movement and music will be explored. Attendance at performances, followed by choreographic analysis will be an integral part of the process.  Every fall. Prerequisite(s):   or permission of instructor (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 350 - Directing and Devising: Making Meaning on the Stage

    Whether the stage is a narrow room, an open field or a proper theatre, making nonhaphazard meaning there requires knowledge of performance history - “what came here before?” - compositional skill - “how and in what combinations do these visual/aural languages signtify?” -  and collaborative expertise. Students in this course will research the international history of theatre directing and devising since the late nineteenth century, learning from a variety of documents about process, vocabulary, composition and production. They will collaborate on an original class devising project, establishing the new work’s aesthetic codes, communication practices, and production logistics. They will also conduct extensive research, script analyses and design prospectus of playwrights’ work for their final public directing assignments in the one-act play form. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Every spring. Prerequisite(s):  THDA 120 , THDA 125  and THDA 235  or permission of the instructor (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 360 - Acting Theory/Performance II

    Advanced work in characterization and additional acting techniques with continued focus on voice, movement, improvisation and textual analysis. A continuation of Acting Theory and Performance I, this course is designed to deepen the student’s understanding of his/her instrument as well as develop an individualized working method. Included in the course is a consideration of style through scene work in other genres. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Every year. Prerequisite(s):  THDA 120  sophomore standing and permission of instructor required. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 465 - Advanced Lighting Design

    Continuation of THDA 255 . Meets simultaneously with THDA 255 . Emphasis will be on furthering skills and techniques used in developing lighting design concepts. Projects are more complex and require more precision in their execution. Group discussion/critiques and field trips are included. Students’ final projects will be a mock United Scenic Artist Lighting Design Exam. Alternate years. Materials fee of $20 required. Prerequisite(s):  THDA 255  or permission of instructor (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 475 - Advanced Scene Design

    Continuation of THDA 235 . Meets simultaneously with THDA 235 . Emphasis will be on furthering skills and techniques used in developing a design concept and how those design concepts are presented in three dimensional models or color renderings (paintings). A design portfolio will be the outcome of this course. Materials fee of $40 required. Every spring. Prerequisite(s):  THDA 235  or permission of instructor (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 489 - Seminar in Performance Theory and Practice

    What are the hopes of performance and performance theory in the current era of globalization? How to aesthetic and social projects, including visual art, theatre, performance events, and dance, engage with the many registers of thinking, what Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak calls ‘a planetary’ arts and criticism? In this class we assess some of the ways that performance artists and theorists conceptualize and address formal artistic methodologies, culture, and the politics of performance in an era of globalization. Our premise is that all researchers are cultural producers, at once located within processes of globalization and mapping their terrains. Understanding theory as the attempt to practice and articulate methods of action (nothing more, nothing less) we examine some of the essential critical vocabularies for thinking performance and the social together. Readings in Performance research, in addition to Critical Theory, Feminist/Queer Theory, and critical race theory contribute to our study of contemporary Performance Theory. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 601 - Tutorial

    Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
  

  • THDA 602 - Tutorial

    Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
  

  • THDA 603 - Tutorial

    Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (3 Credits)
  

  • THDA 604 - Tutorial

    Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 611 - Independent Project

    For the advanced student capable of independent study requiring library research and/or experimental work in the theatre. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
  

  • THDA 612 - Independent Project

    For the advanced student capable of independent study requiring library research and/or experimental work in the theatre. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
  

  • THDA 613 - Independent Project

    For the advanced student capable of independent study requiring library research and/or experimental work in the theatre. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (3 Credits)
  

  • THDA 614 - Independent Project

    For the advanced student capable of independent study requiring library research and/or experimental work in the theatre. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 621 - Internship

    The theatre and dance department allows up to eight credits for approved internship experiences, which may be applicable to a major in theatre arts (and non-majors, by approval from and in consultation with a department faculty member). Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior majors. Permission of instructor and department. Work with Internship Office. (1 Credits)
  

  • THDA 622 - Internship

    The theatre and dance department allows up to eight credits for approved internship experiences, which may be applicable to a major in theatre arts (and non-majors, by approval from and in consultation with a department faculty member). Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior majors. Permission of instructor and department. Work with Internship Office. (2 Credits)
  

  • THDA 623 - Internship

    The theatre and dance department allows up to eight credits for approved internship experiences, which may be applicable to a major in theatre arts (and non-majors, by approval from and in consultation with a department faculty member). Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior majors. Permission of instructor and department. Work with Internship Office. (3 Credits)
  

  • THDA 624 - Internship

    The theatre and dance department allows up to eight credits for approved internship experiences, which may be applicable to a major in theatre arts (and non-majors, by approval from and in consultation with a department faculty member). Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior majors. Permission of instructor and department. Work with Internship Office. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 631 - Preceptorship

    Through a preceptorship, an advanced student assists a faculty member in the planning and teaching of a course. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior majors. Permission of instructor and department. Work with Academic Programs. (1 Credits)
  

  • THDA 632 - Preceptorship

    Through a preceptorship, an advanced student assists a faculty member in the planning and teaching of a course. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior majors. Permission of instructor and department. Work with Academic Programs. (2 Credits)
  

  • THDA 633 - Preceptorship

    Through a preceptorship, an advanced student assists a faculty member in the planning and teaching of a course. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior majors. Permission of instructor and department. Work with Academic Programs. (3 Credits)
  

  • THDA 634 - Preceptorship

    Through a preceptorship, an advanced student assists a faculty member in the planning and teaching of a course. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior majors. Permission of instructor and department. Work with Academic Programs. (4 Credits)
  

  • THDA 641 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Offered every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
  

  • THDA 642 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Offered every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
  

  • THDA 643 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Offered every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (3 Credits)
  

  • THDA 644 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Offered every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (4 Credits)

Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  

  • WGSS 101 - Feminist Sex Wars

    This course examines the challenges that sexuality and sexual practice brings to feminism, by exploring feminisms’ involvement in so-called anti-sex/pro-sex debates. We explore the stance of second-wave feminism, lesbian feminism, radical feminism, and queer theory and activism on issues like prostitution and sex work, pornography, butch/femme aesthetics, gender performativity, non-monogamies, sadomasochism, bisexuality, and transgenderism and transsexuality. Throughout, we study the divide between sexual agency and sexual exploitation, which emerges when thinking about the complexities of sex and desire. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 102 - Gender and Sport

    This course views sport as a social institution and a microcosm of the longer social processes that stage, reinforce, and perpetuate myriad inequalities in society. In this course we analyze the gendered aspects of sport, and relationship among gender, sexuality, and sport. We consider the ways that sport reinforces, and potentially undermines, heteronormality, as well as hegemonic notions of masculinity and femininity. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 105 - Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality

    Introductory Course Through an interdisciplinary and comparative study of selected countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, this course creates the basis for an understanding of the ways in which gender roles are established, and how these affect the individual in the realms of education, media, politics, work, sexuality, and family. On the basis of texts drawn from political science, psychology, art, film, history, music, and literature, it analyzes theories of femininity and masculinity as constructed in specific national, racial, cultural, socio-economic, and political situations. The course discusses the impact of these theories on lifestyles (both traditional and alternative) and on re-constructions of identities on equity-based, anti-racist, anti-sexist terms. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 110 - Intro to LGBTQ Studies

    Introductory Course This course introduces the fields of LGBT and queer studies by examining how sexuality, race, and nation relate in the lives of people in the United States, which we read in relation to histories of colonialism and globalization. Course materials foreground scholarship, testimony, activist art, and social movements by LGBT, two-spirited, queer people of color, and by white anti-racist LGBT and queer people. Their stories offer a template through which all students may examine how everyday life is shaped by sexuality, race, and nation-both as power relations, and as spaces for creating new identity and action. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 117 - Women, Health, Reproduction

    Cross-Listed as BIOL 117 
    This course will deal with those aspects of human anatomy and physiology which are of special interest to women, especially those relating to sexuality and reproduction. Biological topics covered will include menstruation and menopause, female sexuality, conception, contraception, infertility, abortion, pregnancy, cancer, and AIDS. Advances in assisted reproductive technologies, hormone therapies, and genetic engineering technologies will be discussed. Not open to biology majors. This course fulfills 4 credits in the science distribution requirement and counts toward the biology minor, but not toward the major.  Three lecture hours per week. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 127 - Women, Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

    Cross-Listed as CLAS 127 
    This course investigates contemporary approaches to studying women, gender and sexuality in history, and the particular challenges of studying these issues in antiquity. By reading ancient writings in translation and analyzing art and other material culture, we will address the following questions: How did ancient Greek and Roman societies understand and use the categories of male and female? Into what sexual categories did different cultures group people? How did these gender and sexual categories intersect with notions of slave and free status, citizenship and ethnicity? How should we interpret the actions and representations of women in surviving literature, myth, art, law, philosophy, politics and medicine in this light? Finally, how and why have gendered classical images been re-deployed in the modern U.S. - from scholarship to art and poetry? Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 141 - Latin America Through Women’s Eyes

    Cross-Listed as      unless it’s a first-year course.
    Latin American women have overcome patriarchal “machismo” to serve as presidents, mayors, guerilla leaders, union organizers, artists, intellectuals, and human rights activists. Through a mix of theoretical, empirical, and testimonial work, we will explore issues such as feminist challenges to military rule in Chile, anti-feminist politics in Nicaragua, the intersection of gender and democratization in Cuba, and women’s organizing and civil war in Colombia. Teaching methods include discussion, debates, simulations, analytic papers, partisan narratives, lecture, film, poetry, and a biographical essay. This class employs an innovative system of qualitative assessment. Students take the course “S/D/NC with Written Evaluation.” This provides a powerful opportunity for students to stretch their limits in a learning community with high expectations, but without a high-pressure atmosphere. This ungraded course has been approved for inclusion on major/minor plans in Political Science, Latin American Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 200 - Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies

    This course is a historical survey of theories and methodologies used in feminist and queer studies. Course material highlights the unique and intertwined knowledges feminist and queer scholars have produced; these include the re-makings of liberal, Marxian, antiracist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories, and their uses in humanities and social science methods. The course centrally examines how feminist and queer studies transform societies and are transformed through struggle over their gender/sexual identities, racial formations, and global/transnational locations. The course considers how feminist and queer studies have arisen in close relationships-of union, tension, and antagonism-and how feminist and queer work today may link.  Every year. Prerequisite(s): Intermediate level courses require sophomore standing or permission of the instructor, and at least one introductory-level women’s, gender, and sexuality studies core course. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 201 - History of U.S. Feminisms

    Cross-Listed as  
    This is an introductory course about the history of U.S. feminism as it was articulated and experienced in the United States from roughly 1800-1970. We will focus on only on the experience of those who worked for the cause of women’s rights but also the ideologies at home and abroad that influenced feminist thought. In so doing, we will interrogate the myths about feminism and the backlash against it that are central to the history, culture, and politics of the United States. This course is especially concerned with the multiple and contradictory strains within feminism. Topics that the class will consider include: the roots of feminism as it took shape in the anti-slavery movement, the overlap of women’s rights and the civil rights movement of the twentieth century, and the women’s health movement, among others. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 210 - 20th Century Anglophone Women Writers

    The term “Anglophone Literature” refers to writings in English from countries connected to Britain by imperial rule or by the presence of British immigrants, yet does not include England itself. This course variously studies India, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, and England as locations of Anglophone Literature produced by their natives, immigrants, and cosmopolitans. Writers include Virginia Woolf, Una Marson, Anita Desai, Doris Lessing, Suniti Namjoshi, Angela Carter, Ravinder Randhawa, Bharati Mukherjee, and Zadie Smith, among others. We will explore how concepts of nation, race, citizenship, gender, ownership of the language, and English/British literary canons are constructed, in written and visual media. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor, and at least one introductory-level WGSS core course. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 220 - Icons, Ideas, Instruments: Feminist Re-constructions

    Karl Marx is an icon. Socialism is an idea. A labor union is an instrument. How have feminisms interpreted such figures, concepts, and tools to propose new ways of thinking and acting? This course studies how various feminisms have been informed by and have responded to both prominent and marginalized 20th century thinkers and movements. It focuses on icons such as Antonio Gramsci, Emma Goldman, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Arundhati Roy, and Paolo Freire, among others. It analyses the implications of ideas such as hegemony, anarchism, racialism, gender-transgression, colonialism, and pedagogy, to name a few. It evaluates the past, current, and future force of political instruments such as the nation-state, civil society, armed repression and revolt, and cultural instruments such as memoirs, pamphlets, novels, films, and art. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor, and at least one introductory-level WGSS core course. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 227 - Colonial Encounters: The Creation of Early American Society

    Cross-Listed as   
    Through an examination of primary documents from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries and historical articles and monographs, students will examine and discuss the forces at work on the conflict and exchange between the diverse peoples that populated North America. In this course we will use critical analysis to arrive at our own conclusions about the following questions: Who populated early America? What types of religious and spiritual practices came into contact through these populations? What political function did religion and spirituality have (if any) in this time period? What competing ideas about gender and sex existed in the colonies and the early republic? In what ways did ideas about gender and race intersect? Gender and religion? What are the ways in which the emergence of a United States of America was contingent on conflict and exchange about religion, race and sex? Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 228 - Gender & Sexuality in Early America

    Cross-Listed as  
    Since the 1960s historians have revisited early American history to identify populations on the margins and historical actors whose stories and experiences were neglected in the traditional canon of history. Historians of women made some of the first forays into this important work of recovery. Building up the foundations produced by women’s historians, the field of gender and sexuality studies have flourished and enriched the narratives of American history. This course examines American peoples and cultures from the 16th through early 19th centuries to uncover the ways in which gender and sexuality shaped the formation of an early American society. Particular attention will be given to the way that ideologies of gender and sexuality shaped early concepts of race and the development of North American political institutions. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 242 - Economics of Gender

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course uses economic theory to explore how gender differences lead to different economic outcomes for men and women, both within families and in the marketplace. Topics include applications of economic theory to 1) aspects of family life including marriage, cohabitation, fertility, and divorce, and 2) the interactions of men and women in firms and in markets. The course will combine theory, empirical work, and analysis of economic policies that affect men and women differently. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 252 - Gender, Sexualities and Feminist Visual Culture

    Cross-Listed as ART 252 
    (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 261 - Feminist Political Theory

    Cross-Listed as POLI 261 
    Analysis of contemporary feminist theories regarding gender identity, biological and socio-cultural influences on subjectivity and knowledge, and relations between the personal and the political. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 262 - Performing Feminisms

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course seeks to define and examine Feminist Theater by exploring the critical techniques, political positions, issues, explorations, and theater practices of the many feminisms. The class studies not only the written word (in plays and criticism) but also the variety of production styles, methods, and practitioners that have been labeled Feminist.  Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 264 - Psychology of Gender

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course provides an examination and a critique of psychological theories, methods, and research about gender. We will explore structural, social, individual, and biological explanations of how gender is experienced and represented, as well as of gender similarities and differences. Examples of research and theory will come from a wide variety of areas in psychology and related disciplines, and will address such issues as social and personality development, bodies and body image, social relationships, cognition, identity, language, violence, moral reasoning, sexuality, sexual orientation, etc. We will explore the intersection of gender with other social identities and will also learn about the historical, cultural, and epistemological underpinnings of psychological research on gender. Counts as a UP3 course.  Offered occasionally. Prerequisite(s):  PSYC 100  or permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 270 - Literature and Sexuality

    Cross-Listed as ENGL 308 
    This course examines ways in which literary works have represented desire and sexuality. It looks at how constructions of sexuality have defined and classified persons; at how those definitions and classes change; and at how they affect and create literary forms and traditions. Contemporary gay and lesbian writing, and the developing field of queer theory, will always form part, but rarely all, of the course. Poets, novelists, playwrights, memoirists and filmmakers may include Shakespeare, Donne, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, or Henry James; Wilde, Hall, Stein, Lawrence, or Woolf; Nabokov, Tennessee Williams, Frank O’Hara, Baldwin, or Philip Roth; Cukor, Hitchcock, Julien, Frears, or Kureishi; White, Rich, Kushner, Monette, Lorde, Allison, Cruse, Morris, Winterson, Hemphill, or Bidart. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 300 - Advanced Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course is an in-depth study of some specific theories and methodologies on which contemporary feminist and queer thinkers have based their analysis, critique, and reconstruction of men’s and women’s roles. Some guiding questions are: What is a Nation? Who are its citizens? How do language and gender roles shape the ways we imagine our roles as men and women? Do sexuality or economy affect how we subscribe to or resist political ideologies? In previous offerings, the course has explored the intersection of Postcolonialism (gendered critiques of colonizing sociopolitical and economic structures) with Postmodernism (gendered critiques of language, sexuality, culture, and nation). The course will include film, photography, music, and the writings of Butler, Foucault, Chodorow, Kristeva, hooks, Spivak, and Trinh, among others. It offers ways to create links with local community and social-work organizations. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor, and at least one intermediate-level WGSS core course. WGSS 200  highly recommended. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 305 - Race, Sex and Work in the Global Economy

    Cross-Listed as AMST 305 
    This seminar presents feminist and queer studies of global capitalism, which examine power relations under contemporary globalization in terms of the racial and sexual dynamics of labor, citizenship, and migration. Course material considers the local and transnational dynamics of free trade, labor fragmentation, and structural adjustment, as these shape industrial and informal labor, and community organizing around gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS. The material foregrounds ethnographic analyses of the everyday conditions of people situated in struggles with the effects of global capitalism.  Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor, and at least one intermediate-level WGSS core course. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 306 - Women’s Voices in Politics

    Cross-Listed as  
    The course examines significant women persuaders as a force in Western history and culture. Concentrates on women’s efforts to participate fully in public affairs and the social, political, religious, scientific, and rhetorical obstacles that have restricted women’s access to the polis. Fundamental to the course is an analysis of how women have used speaking, writing, and protesting in attempts to overcome such obstacles, influence public policy and/or win elective office.  Alternate years.  Prerequisite(s):
    POLI 170  or POLI 272  recommended. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 308 - Literature and Sexuality

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course examines ways in which literary works have represented desire and sexuality. It looks at how constructions of sexuality have defined and classified persons; at how those definitions and classes change; and at how they affect and create literary forms and traditions. Contemporary gay and lesbian writing, and the developing field of queer theory, will always form part, but rarely all, of the course. Poets, novelists, playwrights, memoirists and filmmakers may include Shakespeare, Donne, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, or Henry James; Wilde, Hall, Stein, Lawrence, or Woolf; Nabokov, Tennessee Williams, Frank O’Hara, Baldwin, or Philip Roth; Cukor, Hitchcock, Julien, Frears, or Kureishi; White, Rich, Kushner, Monette, Lorde, Allison, Cruse, Morris, Winterson, Hemphill, or Bidart. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 310 - Gendered, Feminist, and Womanist Writings

    Cross-Listed as ENGL 362 
    Implicit in much of this century’s feminist critical analyses of the state of societies and their politics is a desire for a better state yet-to-be (utopia) as well as a fear of catastrophe or nightmare (dystopia). This interdisciplinary course investigates how women’s writing from different parts of the world (Bangladeshi, English, African-American, to name a few) convey visions of the present and future, of the real and the imagined, beliefs about masculinity and femininity, race and nation, socialist and capitalist philosophies, (post) modernity, the environment (ecotopia), and various technologies including cybernetics. The collection of texts provides us with a genealogy to analyze our own place in the world and to construct visions of sociopolitical change. The course offers an opportunity to link with local minority/women’s organizations. Alternate years.  Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor, and at least one intermediate-level WGSS core course. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 315 - Comparative (Neo/Post) Modernities

    This course explores a variety of critical approaches to the representation of gender and sexuality in film and video, including psychoanalytic feminist film theory and criticism, queer theory, narrative analysis, genre, visual culture, and cultural studies of gender and sexuality in relation to race, nation, and class. How have social constructs about gender and sexuality been promulgated and/or contested in film and video within mainstream and avant-garde contexts of cultural production? How have these constructs functioned to uphold and/or challenge other forms of social stratification or privilege? And, how might the woman’s body in particular—both as a sight to behold and a site of looking—offer different ways of thinking representational possibility? In asking these questions, the course considers a wide range of issues, including the gaze, the body, media technologies, spectatorship, identity and identification, realism, mythology, and pornography. Written work emphasizes the close analysis of film texts. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): junior standing or permission of instructor, and at least one intermediate-level WGSS core course. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 320 - Gender, Sexuality and Film

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course explores a variety of critical approaches to the representation of gender and sexuality in film and video, including psychoanalytic feminist film theory and criticism, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, narrative analysis, ideological critique and cultural studies of gender and sexuality in relation to race, nation, and class. How have social constructs about gender and sexuality been promulgated and/or contested in film and video within both mainstream and avant-garde contexts of cultural production? How have these constructs functioned to uphold and/or challenge other forms of social stratification or privilege? In asking these questions, the course considers a wide range of issues, including drag, camp, spectatorship, identity and identification, the gaze, assimilation, social change, body politics, realism, and pornography. Written work emphasizes the close analysis of film texts. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and previous experience with one of the following fields: Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, cultural studies and/or media studies, or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 400 - Senior Seminar: Linking Theory and Practice

    The relationship between academic theorizing and community organizing for positive social and political change is a vital, complex, and an ever-changing source of feminist inquiry. This course builds on that relationship by juxtaposing activist social work with theoretical writings on globalization, gender, race, class-relations, sexuality, community, democracy, and civil society, and exploring how these arenas inform and transform each other. The issues in this seminar are related ultimately to the student’s “location,” personally and professionally, at the threshold of the future, in search of a space of her/his own. One substantial research paper and a formal oral presentation on its ideas are the primary assignments.  Every year. Prerequisite(s): At least three WGSS core courses and senior standing, or permission of instructor.  Preferred: a working relationship with a local women’s or minority organization, established the spring or summer prior to enrollment in the course. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 405 - Senior Seminar: Topics

    Capstone or integrative experience centering on a topic that will vary from year to year. The focus will be to develop a deeper understanding of theory and action in relation to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.  Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): At least three WGSS core courses and senior standing, or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 446 - Constructions of a Female Killer

    Cross-Listed as LATI 446  and HISP 446 
    The rise in femicide across Latin America, most shockingly exhibited in the city of Juarez, Mexico, has resulted in broad discussions of women’s relationship with violence. However, what happens when the traditional paradigm is inverted and we explore women as perpetrators, rather than victims, of violence? This class will dialogue with selected Latin American and Latino narratives (including novels, short stories, films, and newspapers) constituting different representations of women who kill. This course satisfies the Area 4 requirement for the Hispanic & Latin American Studies major. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): HISP 307  or   or permission of instructor (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 611 - Independent Project

    Individual projects are supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 611 - Independent Project

    Individual projects are supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 612 - Independent Project

    Individual projects are supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 613 - Independent Project

    Individual projects are supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (3 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 614 - Independent Project

    Individual projects are supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 621 - Internship

    Internships, supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty, bring together theoretical and practical concerns that are primarily connected with women or have feminist/queer studies as their central perspective. An internship outline plan will be developed individually between the student and the faculty sponsor. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 622 - Internship

    Internships, supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty, bring together theoretical and practical concerns that are primarily connected with women or have feminist/queer studies as their central perspective. An internship outline plan will be developed individually between the student and the faculty sponsor. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 623 - Internship

    Internships, supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty, bring together theoretical and practical concerns that are primarily connected with women or have feminist/queer studies as their central perspective. An internship outline plan will be developed individually between the student and the faculty sponsor. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (3 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 624 - Internship

    Internships, supervised by women’s, gender, and sexuality studies faculty, bring together theoretical and practical concerns that are primarily connected with women or have feminist/queer studies as their central perspective. An internship outline plan will be developed individually between the student and the faculty sponsor. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Two courses approved for credit in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 631 - Preceptorship

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. (1 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 632 - Preceptorship

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. (2 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 633 - Preceptorship

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. (3 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 634 - Preceptorship

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Work with Academic Programs. (4 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 641 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (1 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 642 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 643 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (3 Credits)
  

  • WGSS 644 - Honors Independent

    Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
 

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