44 courses with the subject WMST, 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.
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:3Interdisciplinary introduction to the major theories, themes, and issues of women's and gender studies.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3In this course we explore the writings of Chinese women from the 1st to the early 20th centuries, and discuss the changing social and historical contexts within which these women wrote, and the obstacles these women writers had to overcome in order to ensure that their voices were heard. Crosslisted as EAST 208.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course examines the various experiences, perspectives and expressions of Latinas in the United States, which vary according to gender, sexuality, race, citizenship, region and language. Crosslisted as GEOG 208 and LAMS 218.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explore the broad range of work that lays the intellectual and theoretical groundwork for contemporary feminist theory and politics, while providing student opportunities to experience such work critically through service learning experiences in the community. Prerequisite: WMST 150 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:3A discussion class in which numerous modern Japanese films are used to explore the representation of desire, both passionate and perverse. WARNING: explicit sexual content. Crosslisted as EAST 222.
Offered Alternating Fall Semester; Lecture hours:3This course examines social construction frameworks for analyzing contemporary sexualities, gendered identities, and the discourses and practices that maintain them. It introduces students to queer theory and its application to a variety of political and cultural fields.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The class uses feminist theory to examine emotions, survival, and activism in times of crisis. Key topics will include anger, self-care and community-care, mutual aid, disability justice, the politics of pleasure and joy and feminists approaches to working for change.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Analysis of topics in films and novels by Ousmane Sembene: pre-colonial history, colonialism, post-colonial independence, racial and gender oppression, worker exploitation, religious conflict, and modernization. Prerequisites: ECON 101 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ECON 224.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Exploiting the exclusionary nature of "High Modernism," this course highlights literature on the margins of modernism, revealing literature's political investment in race, class, and sexuality. Crosslisted as ENLS 239.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores the constructions of and intersections between race and sexuality. It also investigates the ways that these identities/locations have informed understanding of inequality in the U.S. Crosslisted as CBST 227.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An examination of feminist philosophy primarily as it occurs in the U.S. from the late 18th century to the present. Crosslisted as PHIL 230.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores issues of gender and sexuality in South Asia, primarily India and Sri Lanka. Topics include marriage, family, life cycle, religion and nationalism. Crosslisted as ANTH 232.
Lecture hours:3Current debates about gender and American film, from WW II to the present. Diverse critical approaches for interpreting film within the broad context of gender studies. Crosslisted as ENFS 235.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Early Christians were attracted to dramatic narratives of suffering--whether about spectacular deaths in the arena or extreme self-denial in the desert. This course explores the world of martyrs and monks and considers how ancient ideals about pain, gender, and sexuality continue to influence Christian thinking about holiness and sainthood. Crosslisted as CLAS 235 and RELI 253.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the complicated relationship between citizenship and race within the United States, examining citizenship and belonging through the lens of feminist scholarship, critical race theory, human geography, postcolonial theory, queer theory and critical ethnic studies. Crosslisted as GEOG 246.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the relationship between women and development, as an ideological, economic, political, and social enterprise. Crosslisted as ANTH 251.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines sex, intimacy and reproductive freedom in the United States after Roe v. Wade. Using feminist and reproductive justice frameworks, students analyze how changing legal, political and health landscapes shape relationships, sexuality and family formation.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An exploration of how Muslims have conceived of and performed gender, both historically and today. Counter to the trope that “Islam oppresses women,” we will consider an array of gendered dynamics that characterize Muslim societies. We will also examine the geopolitical contexts that contribute to this trope to begin with. Crosslisted as RELI 260.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will introduce students to gender and race as theoretical concepts and categories of analysis in public health. Using an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, it will explore the ways that gender and race have contributed to differentially structuring people’s experiences and expectations of health.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An introduction to feminist thought with a special emphasis on the way in which women theorize their gender through writing and the way gender intersects with other identity categories such as race, class and sexuality in literature. Crosslisted as ENLS 266.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An examination of how various feminist ideas, commitments and critiques alter how we understand fundamental concepts and problems in political theory, such as the nature of justice, the function of political community, the foundation of rights, the definition of freedom and who is deserving of political rule. Crosslisted as POLS 269.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableA course on special topics of interest to faculty members, offered occasionally. Subject varies.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Latina girls make up more than one in five girls aged 5–17 and increasing. Despite this increasing demographic, the level of inclusion of Latina girls in academic scholarship and traditional media remains low. This course focuses on representations of Latina in the U.S. through the lens of girlhood/coming of age.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines gender and sexuality in Africa historically and contemporarily, using an examination of Africanist gender theory along with a critical examination of Western conventional categories and a critical approach to issues of family, generational tensions, sexuality, and power as useful ways for thinking through change in African history. Crosslisted as HIST 277 and IREL 273.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Feminist Literary Theory provides an introduction to feminist methodologies in literary studies particularly and in the humanities generally. The course centers a historical and intersectional approach to the theorization of gendered authorship.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An examination of how gender affects the teaching-learning process with an emphasis on theory, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. Crosslisted as EDUC 290.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores how gender (intersecting with other identities) shapes interactions with the environment and related health outcomes. We will attend to multiple forms of power structures that enable and constrain possibilities of well-being. Crosslisted as ENST 305 and GEOG 305.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course explores nationalism and its increasing popularity by considering it geographically; for example, its dynamic scalar dimensions, its forging of race and gender spatially, and its naturalization in landscape and built form. In so doing, we will critically consider those interests that nationalism serves. Crosslisted as GEOG 316.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will examine how power systems of control and confinement reverberate to reshape society and space. This course will investigate the cultural landscape produced by drives to punish and confine populations, especially drives based on race, gender presentation, and citizenship status. Crosslisted as GEOG 317.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Examination of the history of women in the U.S. economy, with particular attention to racial-ethnic and class differences among women. Prerequisites: ECON 202 or ECON 203. Crosslisted as ECON 319.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableIndependent study supervised by Women's and Gender Studies faculty member. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Who are "we"? Seminar considers role of space in constituting society around the world. Explores nationalism, globalization, multiculturalism, citizenship, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, disability. Crosslisted as GEOG 324.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A cross-cultural and interdisciplinary examination of the signification of sexuality in literature, philosophy, scientific discourse, and the visual arts. Prerequisite: WMST 150 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as HUMN 320.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This is a course on changing patterns in American courtship (dating), marriage, and family life from the 20th to the 21st century. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as SOCI 328.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course explores the interface between inequality, crime, punishment and justice, with an emphasis on women in the United States; the course is populated by both Bucknell students and incarcerated students at a nearby women's prison. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ANTH 332.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course explores the context, development, and outcomes of black feminists in the United States during the second half of the 20th century. Crosslisted as CBST 333 and WMST 633.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Seminar-style examination of the lives of women in antiquity both real and imagined, as attested in a variety of ancient media. Crosslisted as CLAS 334. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This class will focus on the lived experience of women in ancient Rome, including women from Roman provinces, from the founding of the city through the early Empire—a period of about 900 years. Using literary, visual and archaeological evidence, we will examine issues of agency, participation and exclusion. Crosslisted as CLAS 338.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This seminar explores reproductive politics and health through the intersectional, feminist lens of reproductive justice. We will cover historical, domestic, and global struggles for reproductive autonomy, rights and care. Students will draw from interdisciplinary work in feminist studies to understand reproductive experiences across the lifecourse.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course focuses on the role of gender in internal and international migrations. It covers gendered motivations for and patterns of migration; the global economy and migration, migration and families, forced migration, migration and economic restructuring, and transnational marriage and identity. Prerequisites: ECON 203 or ECON 204 or WMST 150. Crosslisted as ECON 353.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAdvanced course on special topics of interest to faculty members, offered occasionally. Subject varies.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An exploration of dance as cultural and political practice. Topics include: colonialism; the politics of tradition; gender, ethnicity, and nationalism; dance and violence. Not open to first-year students. Crosslisted as ANTH 371 and UNIV 371.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Individual, special projects supervised by instructor, culminating in honors thesis. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3The seminar will focus on the production of an independent research project by each student, with common readings on the practice of feminist scholarship. Students will develop and give formal presentations of their projects. Prerequisites: open to seniors, juniors by permission, WMST 150 and WMST 220 or WMST 230/PHIL 230.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
