11 courses with the subject WGSS, 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.
WGSS 200Independent Study Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies1-4
Hour(s) Independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to students with a 2.0 cumulative average and permission of the coordinator of the program. Independent study may take the form of readings, research, conference or project. Independent study may be taken for a maximum total of twelve semester hours, no more than eight in any term.
Hour(s) An interdisciplinary course focusing on the extensive role of gender in human life that examines the ways in which gender structures power relations among individuals and within economic, political, educational and other social structures. Special attention is paid to women’s issues, histories, and movements in the United States and globally. Through readings drawn from the fields of women’s studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies, this course examines and explores alternatives to traditional and/or normative constructions of gender and sexuality, and also considers other markers of difference, such as disability, race, class, and religion, which intersect with gender identity and sexual identity.
Hour(s) A study of the varieties of modern feminist theory, including Women’s Liberation; Marxist feminism; gynocentrism; the politics of difference; essentialism; theories of feminism related to lesbians, women of color, working class women; and global perspectives on women. Exploration of different models for using gender along with race, class, ethnicity and sexuality, as lenses of analysis will facilitate the development of critical and analytical methodologies.
Hour(s) Introduces the multidisciplinary field of disability studies with particular attention to gender. Students will explore how understandings and experiences of disability have been positioned in various frameworks, including political, legal, literary, rhetorical, artistic, educational, medical, and religious. They will examine how culture, community and self-advocacy create alternatives to longstanding discriminatory systems and to medical or charity-oriented models of disability.
WGSS 220Special Topics Women’s Sexuality and Gender Studies1-4
Hour(s) An issue or problem in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will be studied intensively. The specific content and methods for study will be announced prior to the beginning of the course.
Hour(s) Shared feminist and intersectional perspectives bind American women playwrights since early twentieth century. Their plays redefine gender roles, challenge racial and social injustice, and argue for a more equitable world for all. Students will examine in their critical and socio-cultural contexts a selection of plays by playwrights who come from diverse racial, cultural, geographic, and theatrical backgrounds. Socio-political and therapeutic function of theater will be explored as unique to community building and fostering resilience.
Hour(s) Building on an exploration of the involvement of women in historical and contemporary social movements for human equality and social justice, this course emphasizes ways in which women conceptualize, strategize, implement and assess social movements and organizations, particularly those whose goal is the betterment of women’s lives and opportunities.
Hour(s) This course will offer a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and transnational study of gender-based violence from various perspectives: historical, cultural, linguistic, literary, legal, and artistic. The students will have the opportunity to learn about cases of gender-based violence both through a diachronic analysis (through the reading of texts throughout history) and through a synchronic one (studying cases in different cultural models and societies).
WGSS 270Internship in Women’s Gender and Sexuali1-4
Hour(s) An opportunity to use the knowledge and skills the student has learned in course work to solve problems in a real work setting; the apprenticeship aspect of the internship implies that the student has some base of knowledge and will increase her knowledge and skills by direct contact with an experienced, knowledgeable mentor. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors with a 2.0 cumulative average; maximum credit per term is four semester hours; admission by application only.
WGSS 290Honors Independent Study Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies3-4
Hour(s) Advanced independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to juniors and seniors with a 3.5 cumulative G.P.A. and permission of the coordinator of the program. Honors Independent Study may be taken for a maximum of eight semester hours.
Hour(s) Advanced level investigation under the guidance of a faculty advisor, culminating in the completion of a major research paper using the lens of feminist theory. The topic must be related to the student’s concentration (Feminist Studies: Intersectionalities or Women’s Advocacy).
