29 courses with the subject GSIJ, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Other liberal arts courses or an independent study course (with appropriat electives with permission of the child advocacy minor advisor. HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 139
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ments, from the debated origins of LGBTQ+ identity in psychological and medical context, through to homophile so- cial and art movements and contemporary activism around personhood, employment discrimination, AIDS, housing, marriage and kinship, to name a few. (Formerly CSQS 205) GSIJ 206 Seminar: Reading Feminisms. This course invites students to engage a signature feminist theory/history thinker’s major work and to delve into it in some depth; signature works are those regarded as prompting a sea- change in ideas, thinking or ways of living. Students will be asked to situate the work in time, place and intellec- tual debate. They will be asked: What does a thinker’s work look like across the span of their life’s work and in the context of its field(s) of influence? With whom is this thinker’s work in dialogue? How does one follow the journeys of a thinker’s ideas? How does this author speak to us? Students will be asked to use one or more digital tools to engage questions and prompt wider discussion of the course topic. (Formerly WMST 206) GSIJ 209 Queer of Color Critique Queer of color critique explores the relationships between embodiment, social location and knowledge production by examining how the confluence of race, sexuality, and gender operate to cre- ate unique forms of social inequality in the context of nation and capitalism. Focusing on how queer people of color have used theory as a survival tool, discursive intervention and platform for social justice, students will examine how and why specific social inequalities exist in contemporary U.S. culture. Dis-identifying with the unity of terms such as “people of color,” this course interrogates the specific circumstances affecting the production of theory by a diverse set of racial groups within the U.S. context while centering an understanding of cultural difference as inherently inflected by sexuality and gender. (Formerly CSQS 209) GSIJ 211 Place and Health This class focuses on exploring the role of place in the production of health and well- being, beginning with the questions: what is place? And, how can the study of place help us to better understand human health? We will take an interdisciplinary approach to these questions, drawing from the fields of geography, women’s studies, disability studies, architecture, and landscape studies, among others, and exploring questions of place and health through various texts and forms of media. Specific topics include the role of nature in wellness rhetoric and practices, landscapes of recreation and sport, the concept of therapeutic landscapes, spaces of illness and healing, and more. In exploring these topics, we will foreground how intersectional structures of power and inequity shape the way that people move through and experience and stake claim to these places. (Formerly WMST 211) (Spring semester, alternating years) GSIJ 212 Gender and Geography As a point of entry to discussions of gender, place and culture, this course will explore the diverse ways in which geographers have conceived of, analyzed and redefined gender as a contested spatial practice. In particular, using contemporary geographic texts, we will explore the gendered dynamics of geo- graphic research methods, nature discourse, resource management, embodiment and health, agriculture and food, and globalization, among other topics. Emphasis will be placed on recognizing and researching cultural difference across these various topical areas. Readings and class discussion will build through individual and group assign- ments toward a final research paper/presentation. (Formerly WMST 212)
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WRRH Digital Rhetorical Writing with New Technologies
GSIJ/RUSE 251 Sexuality, Power, and Creativity in Russian Literature
Bodies, Disability, and Justice Core Courses Racial and Transnational Perspectives:
GSIJ 301/ARTS 272 Visualizing Oral History
asked once of science more generally? This question opens onto psychology’s expressways where histories of feminism, gender, sexuality, race and what are sometimes called the ‘psy’ disciplines crosscut in the greater search for knowledge of who we are or might become. Running parallel throughout this history are the ways feminist and critical gender scholars tackled the very ways the science of psychology upheld cultural conventions of gender, race and sexuality. This course examines these tangled stories from early case studies of hysteria and spiritualism through to mid-century depictions of the “mommy pill,” “how the clinic made gender” and to late twentieth and early twenty-first century concerns around gender, race and bodies. The course uses history, theory and research in psychology to appreciate psychology’s changing views, treatment and study of diverse lives, and how feminism shaped psychology as much as psychology shaped feminism. This course also counts toward the major in psycholo- gy. (Formerly WMST 247) GSIJ 251 Sexuality, Power and Creativity in Russian Literature (In translation) In the 20th century, Russia’s “other voices” continued to express the souls and spirit of individual men and women, but now under the profound impact of historical events from revolution and world wars through glasnost, perestroika, and the post-Soviet transition. Witnessing and experiencing great suffering, these heroic writers could neither remain silent under censorship nor write the socialist realist propaganda dictated by the Soviet government. Topics include Russian perceptions of male/female, masculinity/femininity; the female voice; the tension between poet and muse; gender bending; un- derstandings of sexuality in the early Soviet period; the breaking of sexual mores during Glasnost; and how current Russian debates on gender and sexuality cite and relate to this cultural heritage. Open to students of all levels. (Formerly CSQS 251) (Lemelin, Offered every three years) GSIJ 300 Gender and Intersectional Feminist Theories This seminar surveys several strands of feminist theorizing and their histories. The course examines how activist movements ground feminist theories, including changing technologies (from print to digital and social media). By critically engaging the underlying assumptions and stakes of a range of theories, students become more aware of their own assumptions and stakes, sharpen their abilities to productively apply feminist analyses in their own work and lives, and create ways to take feminist theory beyond the classroom. Prerequisite: GSIJ 100 or permission of instructor. (Formerly WMST 300) (Staff, offered annually) GSIJ 301 Visualizing Oral History Feminist oral history is a course concerned with how we narrate life stories and how we represent their narration in text, sound and image. This course operates as a methods workshop, investi- gating the theory underlying feminist oral history while putting the methodology to work through a class interview- ing project using audio recording and image capture technologies. Students will learn how to develop interview questions, gather material and then put these into context to narrate and represent life stories. The workshop will develop interviewing skills as well as visual and audio artistic abilities. Students will learn the critical and analytical skills necessary to prepare life history for presentation to general audiences (such as museum exhibitions) and to prepare materials for deposit in an archive. (Formerly WMST 301)
Global History and Social Consciousness: (majors choose one; none of these courses can be counted for
Queer of Color Lives and Experiences:
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Disability, Diagnosis, and Mental Health:
Humanities Division:
GSIJ 495/496 Honors HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 246 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE
Source: Hobart William Smith Colleges's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
