Gender & Women's Studies
Spring 2016 Courses
GWST 1112
CRN 2368
Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
10:00a-11:50a | TR | 4 credits | Lindsey Feitz
This course provides an introduction to the discipline of gender and women's studies. All
cultures engage in a complex process of assigning cultural values and social roles which vary
according to the cultural environment in which human interaction occurs. Among these, the
process of translating biological differences into a complex system of gender remains one of the
most important. Gender and women's studies aims to understand how this process of 'gendering'
occurs, and its larger effects in society. This course also explores how this system of meaning
relates to other systems of allocating power, including socioeconomic class, social status,
ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and nationality. Using this lens, this course explores contemporary
social developments and problems. Gender and women's studies is about studying, but it is also
about meaningful engagement with the world. This class presents students with a variety of types
of texts from sociological articles to literary fictions and documentary and fictional cinema to
explore gender from many different directions.
GWST 2215
CRN 2676
This course counts toward the Scientific Inquiry: Society and Culture requirement.
Selling Sex, Gender and the American Dream: 1950-Present
2:00p-3:50p | TR | 4 credits | Lindsey Feitz
This introductory course analyzes how commercial culture has evolved into the defining
cornerstone of American life over the last sixty years. The first half of the quarter well will
examine the key historical movements including the Cold War, the Civil Rights/Women's and
Gay Liberation movements and investigate how women, ethnic minorities, and members of the
LGBTQ community evolved into important "consumer citizens" in the United States. The
second half of the quarter will examine these same social groups from a contemporary
perspective, and the degree that globalization, "multiculturalism" and "going green" have
emerged as dominant tropes in contemporary culture. By moving from past to present, students
will gain an understanding of the complex connections between consumption and U.S. nationbuilding, as well as the consequences "shopping" and the accumulation of "stuff" has had in both
the shaping and reconfiguring understandings of what it means to live the "American Dream."
GWST 2700
CRN 5081
This course counts toward the Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture requirement.
Topics: Critical Social Theory
10:00a-11:50a| MW | 4 credits | Dian Squire
This class will confront and seek to better understand oppression and inequities in our world as
well as potential strategies for advancing social justice. The class will specifically focus on the
roles that institutions/systems have in maintaining and dismantling injustices. By studying texts
exploring critical social theories (including feminist and critical race perspectives) and the
relationship between education; a field based and influenced by a range of other disciplines and
social injustices, class participants will gain a better understanding of the mechanisms of
oppression and possibilities for justice.
GWST 2982
CRN 4272
Colloquium: It’s Reining Men?: Challenging Ideas of Men & Masculinities at Work
2:00p-3:50p |W | 2 credits | Katie Sullivan
This class will explore men and masculinities at work by delving into the constructions of
masculinity in specific occupations. We will also look at public/private intersections to explore
how masculinity in occupations intersects with family and fatherhood in the U.S. and abroad.
GWST 3203/
MFJS 3203
CRN 5022
Women & Film
12:00p-12:50p | MW | 4 credits | Diane Waldman
12:00p-1:50p | T | 4 Credits | Diane Waldman
This course explores the major intersections of the terms "women" and "film." It is concerned,
for example, with the representation of women in film, both in the dominant Hollywood cinema
and in alternative filmmaking practices (independent, experimental, documentary, and other
national cinemas), with films by women and with women as cinema viewers or spectators. This
course examines a variety of feminist approaches (historical, critical, and theoretical) relevant to
the subject matter. A lab fee is required for this course.
Prerequisites: MFJS 2000 or GWST 1112, or Permission from Instructor
Attributed Courses
ASEM 2493
CRN 2123
Caring in a Capitalist Economy
4:00p-5:50p | TR | 4 Credits | Paula Cole
ASEM 2419
CRN 3500
COMN 1015
CRN 2149
Girl Power: Gender in the Media
2:00p-2:50p | MW | 4 Credits | Taylor Nygaard
2:00p-3:50p | T |
Voice and Gender
8:00a-9:50a | WF | 4 Credits | Amanda Meise
COMN 2700
CRN 4737
Topics: Performance Studies
8:00a-9:50a | TR | 4 Credits | Dawnmarie McIntosh
COMN 3050
CRN 4408
Feminism and Intersectionality
2:00p-3:50p | MW | 4 Credits | Bernadette M. Calafell
MFJS 3652
CRN 2139
Culture, Gender, and Global Communication
4:00p-7:50p | T | 4 Credits | Margaret Thompson
ARTH 3871
CRN 4431
Women in Art
4:00p-5:50p | TR | 4 Credits | Molly Medakovich
HIST 2998
CRN 2518
Issues in Comparative History
10:00a-11:50a | TR | 4 Credits | Elizabeth Escobedo & Jonathan Sciarcon