2022-2023 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Courses
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Course Numbering:
100-299 - Lower division Undergraduate
300-499 - Upper division Undergraduate
500-699 - Graduate
700-799 - Doctoral |
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Example: Select “Prefix” NURS and enter 6* in the “Code or Number” field to return all Nursing courses at the 600 level.
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Cross-listed courses have the same educational outcome and the course can be used interchangeably for degree requirements. (Ex. HUM-118 and ENGL-118) Related courses have shared attributes, but because they have different expectations and educational outcomes, may not be utilized interchangeably for degree requirements. (Ex. DSCI-303 and DSCI-503) Both types of courses can be offered at the same times, dates, share a classroom and instructors, etc.
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WGS 119 - Survey of Women’s Literature
Credits: 3
A study of the English and American traditions of literature by women. The course focuses on literary analysis and appreciation of fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays, and drama by classical and contemporary authors. The roles of women as authors and as characters will be considered within their historical and literary contexts.
General Education Area: Literature, Humanities, Social Science
Cross-listed: ENGL-119
Related Courses: ENGL-319 and WGS-319
Prerequisite: ENGL-101
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WGS 203H - Sexual Violence and Aggression
Credits: 4
Even though there have been considerable monetary and time resources spent on violent crimes by local, state and federal agencies, law enforcement have had a difficult time prosecuting the sexually violent criminal because of societal views on personal freedoms. This course is a systematic introduction to the causation of violent offending and extreme aggressive behavior and the treatment and incarceration of this type of criminal. The readings and course framework will stress a criminological approach to sexual violence and aggression.
General Education Area: Social Science
Cross-listed: CRIM-203H
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
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WGS 220 - Rebel Girls: Women and Gender in the West and the World
Credits: 3
This course prompts students to explore an intersectional range of women who profoundly transformed American and Western societies, from indigenous women’s lives to the Suffragettes to the Riot Grrls of Third Wave Feminism. The class takes a comparative approach, pairing American women and gender histories with the lives, achievements and struggles of women more globally. By the end of the course, students will have a firm grasp on the evolution of women’s history as a historical field and will have explored complex and dynamic notions of sex, gender, and race within that field.
Cross-listed: HIST-220
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WGS 229H - Wonder Women: Feminist Science Fiction
Credits: 4
This class will combine an introduction to feminist theory and practice with an exploration of the various ways science fiction literature represents and reimagines gender roles. Science fiction’s boundless speculative range makes this genre a perfect vehicle for a critique and change of systemic patriarchy. Readings will include classic texts by writers such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula K. LeGuin, James Tiptree, Jr., Joanna Russ, and Octavia Butler. We will also investigate the emergence of “strong” female protagonists in Young Adult science fiction, and make our own attempts at writing feminist sci fi.
General Education Area: Social Science, Humanities
Cross-listed: ENGL-229H
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
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WGS 251 - Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
Credits: 3
This course uses theoretical frameworks from sociology and social psychology to examine women’s issues and roles in contemporary society as well as their contributions to various disciplines. Topics include socialization, communication, health, media, leadership, sexual harassment, and violence. Women’s contributions to history, politics, education, and science are highlighted.
Cross-listed: SOC-251
Prerequisite: SOC-101 or SOC-202H
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WGS 297 - Special Studies
Credits: 1-4
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty.
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WGS 297H - Special Studies
Credits: 4
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty.
Fall 2022: Power, Women, Gender, and Jane Austen
Jane Austen, one of the most influential English novelists, is well known for Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Women and their relationships with men are among Austen’s central concerns, especially regarding the social act of courtship. Austen represents issues of manners, class, money, education, and love in the context of gender and the influence of social forces like family and the imagination of the individual. We will explore these issues as represented in the above novels. We will also discuss what it meant to be a woman and a writer in the early nineteenth century in the context of political and social movements.
General Education Area: Humanities & Social Science
Cross-listed: ENGL-297H
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
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WGS 319 - Survey of Women’s Literature
Credits: 3
A study of the English and American traditions of literature by women. The course focuses on literary analysis and appreciation of fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays, and drama by classical and contemporary authors. The roles of women as authors and as characters will be considered within their historical and literary contexts.
General Education Area: Literature, Humanities, Social Science
Cross-listed: ENGL-319
Related Courses: WGS-119 and ENGL-119
Prerequisite: ENGL-101, ENGL-104, or ENGL-204H
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WGS 324 - Gender and Communication
Credits: 3
This course surveys the changing ways women and the women’s movement have been depicted by the media over the years. Special focus is placed on the media’s treatment of women as consumers, employees, and advertising targets. The course also examines the vital roles that women have played in the development and popularization of newspapers, magazines, film, radio, and television. Lectures, discussions, readings, research, videotapes, movies, and guest appearances by women currently working in media are part of the course content.
Cross-listed: COMM-324
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WGS 330 - Human Sexuality
Credits: 3
This course surveys the social, biological, and psychological aspects of human sexual behavior. Scientific research related to sexual anatomy, arousal, gender, and life span sexual behavior will be explored. Topics may also include but are not limited to sexual orientation, cultural variations in attraction and love, and sexual morality.
Cross-listed: PSYC-330, SOC-330
Prerequisite: PSYC-101. PSYC-202H, SOC-101, or SOC-202H
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WGS 354 - The Social Construction of Gender
Credits: 3
This course examines major explanations of gender roles in society, with special focus on social institutions and the media.
Cross-listed: SOC-354
Prerequisite: SOC-101 or SOC-202H
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WGS 370 - LGBTQ+ Histories in America
Credits: 3
What does it mean, and has it meant, to be queer in America? This course examines the histories of gay, lesbian, bi, transgender, and non-binary identifying people in the United States. Students will examine how our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality has changed over the last century, and the impact that capitalism and nationalism have had on these definitions, and on the lives of queer-identifying people. This course takes an intersectional approach, asking how age, class, (dis)ability, gender, ethnicity and race all effect our understandings of queer identity. It places particular emphasis on the struggles of queer people to obtain equal rights, from the Stonewall riots to the landmark 2016 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling, which declared that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.[M; W; S]
General Education Area: Social Science
Cross-listed: HIST-370
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WGS 397 - Special Studies
Credits: 3
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty.
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WGS 496 - Independent Study
Credits: 1-4
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WGS 497 - Special Studies
Credits: 2-4
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty.
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WGS 498 - Seminar
Credits: 1-4
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