Courses

CORE Courses
GEND 200 Genders and Sexualities in U.S. Society
GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
GEND 300 Gender & Aesthetic Expression
GEND 440  Feminist Theory

GENDER STUDIES COURSES – FALL 2012

CORE COURSES:
GEND 200  Gender/Sexualities US Society              T,Th 1:50-3:20pm                    Kimberly Brodkin
Interdisciplinary exploration of gender and sexuality in connection with race, class, and ethnicity in the United States. Investigation of social and cultural ideas about difference and equality in the past and present. Materials include literature, film, memoir, poetry, feminist philosophy, political tracts, and queer theory, as well as classic and recent scholarly work in history, sociology, economics, communication, psychology, and other fields. Topics may include mass media and consumer culture, work, law and social policy, family, political activism and social movements, sexuality and the body, public health, medical research, violence, and theories of privilege and oppression.

GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Persp            T, Th 6:00 - 7:30pm                
Tim Mechlinski
Gender as it has been socially, culturally, and historically constituted in different times and places. Theoretical developments in the anthropology of gender. Cross-cultural exploration using examples from a wide range of societies, past and present. The relationship between cultural definitions of gender and the social experience of women, men, and alternative gender roles, such as the Native American two-spirits, the hijra of India, and global perspectives on contemporary transgender experiences. Prerequisites:S OAN 100, SOAN 110, or sophomore standing.

GEND 440  Feminist Theory                                     T,Th 11:30am - 01:00pm
Kimberly Brodkin
Philosophical and political analysis of issues in feminist theory. Discussion of recent theoretical work (e.g., Butler, Mitchell) in relation to past feminist thinking (e.g., Wollstonecraft, Gilman, deBeauvoir). A problem-oriented approach that explores feminist theorizing about such topics as sex, gender, race, power, oppression, identity, class, difference.

ELECTIVES:
PSY 230  Infant & Child Development                     TTh 9:40-11:10 am                  
Janet Davidson
Psychological development in domains including perception, cognition, language, personality, social behavior. How psychological processes evolve and change. Emphasis on infancy and childhood.

PSY 360  Psychology of Gender                                T,Th 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Staff
Theory and data in the psychological development of females, their attitudes, values, behaviors, and self-image. Alternative models for increasing gender role flexibility and allowing all humans to explore their full potential. Research methodology, changing roles, androgyny, gender schema, extent and validity of gender differences. Influence of culture, socialization, and individual differences on women and men. Relationship between the psychology of gender and principles of feminism.

SOAN 285  Culture/ Power in the Middle East   M 3:00-4:30; Th 3:30-5:00 pm   Oren Kosansky
Introduction to the anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the relationship between global and local forms of social hierarchy and cultural power. Topics include tribalism, ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, gender, religious practices, migration, the politics of identity.

SOAN 390   Cyborg Anthropology                     T,Th 11:30am – 1:00pm                   Deborah Heath
Cultural practices surrounding the production and consumption of technoscientific and biomedical knowledge. Articulation between different constituencies, both inside and outside the scientific community, and the asymmetries that shape their relations. Heterogeneity of science, including contrasts between disciplinary subcultures and different national traditions of inquiry. Political economy of science, including the allocation of material and symbolic resources. Networks of associations that link human and nonhuman allies, such as medical prosthesis, robotics, information. Representation of science and technology in popular culture.

TH 106 Fundamentals of Movement                 MW 11:30 am - 1:00 pm                 Susan Davis
Use of guided movement explorations, partner work, readings, and discussions to explore structural and functional aspects of the body and anatomy with the goal of increasing ease of movement and physical coordination. Breath, mobility/stability, relaxation, spinal support, massage, pelvic placement, rotation, healthy sequencing of arms and legs. Basic elements of the bone, muscle, and organ systems; relationship between the body and psychological and emotional patterns. Extensive journal writing.

 

GENDER STUDIES COURSES – SPRING 2012

CORE COURSES:
GEND 200  Gender/Sexualities US Society   T,Th 1:50-3:20pm                    Kimberly Brodkin
 The gender system in contemporary American society. Contemporary debates considering biological bases for sex differences in reproductive functions and in physical, sexual, and psychological development. Socialization into masculine and feminine identities, sexual and reproductive choices, the relationship between family and career, occupational segregation and wage differentials, housework and consumption, participation in public life. Interactions among gender, class, and race. Situations of middle-class and working-class people and members of dominant and minority racial groups. Feminist thought applied to current problems; alternative approaches to their solution. An introductory course intended for sophomores and second-semester.

GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Persp   M,W 11:30-1:00pm                     Deborah Heath
 Gender as it has been socially, culturally, and historically constituted in different times and places. Theoretical developments in the anthropology of gender. Cross-cultural exploration using examples from a wide range of societies, past and present. The relationship between cultural definitions of gender and the social experience of women, men, and alternative gender roles, such as the Native American two-spirits, the hijra of India, and global perspectives on contemporary transgender experiences. Prerequisites:S OAN 100, SOAN 110, or sophomore standing.

GEND 300 Gender & Aesthetic Exp.   M 3:00-4:30;Th3:30-5:00pm                     Rishona Zimring 
Forms of female and male expression in the arts and humanities. Questions such as the existence of feminine and masculine forms, voices, symbolic systems; the possibility of a feminist aesthetic; theories of representation. Ways women and men have used the same forms, such as poetry, fiction, film, painting. Materials drawn from literature, the arts, religion.

ELECTIVES:  Spring 2012

ENG 321 Pre-Civil War American Lit             T,Th 9:40-11:10am               
Rachel Cole
American literature in the decades preceding the Civil War. Texts include transcendentalist essays (Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau); adventure, romance, and protest novels (Hawthorne, Poe, Sedgwick, Stowe); short stories (Davis, Melville); poems (Dickinson, Whitman); and a slave narrative (Douglass). Topics include literary contributions to contemporary debates over religion, national expansion, national identity, slavery, and the rise of women and labor; the influence on those contributions of Puritanism and other early-American ideologies in combination with British Romanticism and 18th- and 19th-century philosophy; variant literary articulations of concepts that remain current in American discourse (the individual, freedom, law, the family, opportunity, happiness). Junior standing or consent required.

HIST 231 US Women’s History 1600-1980              T,Th 9:40-11:10am             Reiko Hillyer 
The diverse experiences of American women from the colonial era to the recent past. Changing ideologies from the colonial goodwife to the cult of true womanhood. Impact of Victorianism, sexuality and reproduction, the changing significance of women’s work. Origins of the women’s rights movement, battles and legacy of suffrage, history of 20th-century feminism, competing ideologies and experiences of difference.

HIST 311 History of Family/Gender in China    TTh 11:30am-1:00 pm 
Susan Glosser
Development of family structure, gender roles, and sexuality in Chinese history, explored through oracle bones, family instructions, tales of exemplary women, poetry, painting, drama, fiction, and calendar posters. Key movements in the transformation of family and gender from 1600 B.C.E. to the 20th century. Close readings of texts to explore how social, economic, religious, and political forces shaped family and gender roles.

PSY 230 Infant & Child Development         TTh 9:40-11:10 am                  
Janet Davidson
 Psychological development in domains including perception, cognition, language, personality, social behavior. How psychological processes evolve and change. Emphasis on infancy and childhood.

RELS 340 Women/American Religious Hist   MW 11:30am - 01:00pm     Susanna Morrill
Women’s experience of religion in America from the colonial era to the present. The relationship between gender and religious beliefs and practices. Religion as means of oppression and liberation of women. Relations of lay women and male clergy. Women religious leaders. Diverse movements and cultures including Native American, colonial society, immigrant communities, and radical religionists from Anne Hutchinson to Mary Daly.  Sophomore standing required.

SOAN 266 Social Change in Latin Amer   M 3:00-4:30; Th3:30-5:00pm     
Sarah Warren
Examines dynamics of social change in Latin America, with a particular focus on revolutionary transformations. The course engages in a comparative analysis of social change in Cuba, Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, and other countries. Students are introduced to key concepts from development theory, social movements research, cultural studies, and political economy analysis.

SOAN 280  Gender in Asia                  TTh 1:50-3:10pm                         
Tami Blumenfield Kedar
 Meanings of masculinities and femininities in Asia. Texts incorporating personal memoir, classic ethnography, film, and contemporary media. Topics may include issues of gender and nationalism, body modification, widow sacrifice, foot-binding, sexual violence, hijras, and the politics of pleasure. Various regions of Asia are discussed individually, comparatively, and within a broader global context.

SOAN 498  Politics Gender Latin America   TTh 1:50 - 03:10                               Sarah Warren
 Analysis of the role of gender in politics and culture in multiple Latin American countries. The interconnections between the state and gender in both policies and ideologies. The ways in which gender plays a role in cultural practices—in the dominant societies and within racial and ethnic groups, especially indigenous people. How groups use expectations about gender in making political claims on the state.

TH 106 Fundamentals of Movement            MW 11:30 am- 1:00 pm                    Susan Davis
 Use of guided movement explorations, partner work, readings, and discussions to explore structural and functional aspects of the body and anatomy with the goal of increasing ease of movement and physical coordination. Breath, mobility/stability, relaxation, spinal support, massage, pelvic placement, rotation, healthy sequencing of arms and legs. Basic elements of the bone, muscle, and organ systems; relationship between the body and psychological and emotional patterns. Extensive journal writing.

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Approved Electives
RHMS 332 Rhetoric of Gender in Relationships
RHMS 352 Gender in Public Rhetoric and Mass Media

ENG 234 Strange Bedfellows in Poetry
ENG 243 Women Writers
ENG 298 Women Writers of the Middle Ages & Renaissance
ENG 321 Pre Civil War American Literature

GEND 244 Practicum
GEND 299 Independent Study
GEND 444 Practicum
GEND 499 Independent Study
GEND 298 Gender in the City Internship
GEND 298 Special Topics

HIST 231A US Women’s History 1600 1980
HIST 311 History of Family/Gender China
HIST 330 Race and Ethnicity in American History
HIST 331 American Culture/Society:1880 1980

POLS 275 Gender and Politics

PSY 230 Infant and Child Development
PSY 360 Psychology of Gender

RELS 340 Women/American Religious History

SOAN 225 Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
SOAN 228 Class Power and Society
SOAN 240 The Family in Cross Cultural Perspective
SOAN 255 Medicine Healing and Culture
SOAN 261 Gender/Sexuality Latin America
SOAN 266 Latin America Cultural Perspective
SOAN 273 Japanese Culture: Gender and Identity
SOAN 280 Gender in Asia
SOAN 285 Culture and Power in the Middle East
SOAN 324 Anthropology of Violence
SOAN 352 Women in Developing Countries
SOAN 395 Anthropology of the Body

TH 106 Fundamentals of Movement

These courses may work as electives depending on topic/instructor/focus:

ENG 333 Major Figures
ENG 450 Senior Seminar
FREN 230 French Literature in Translation
GERM 230 German Literature in Translation
HIST 400 Reading Colloquium
HIST 450 History Seminar

*The following courses fulfill the Gender Diversity requirement
GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
HIST 231 A US Women’s History 1600-1980
RELS 340 Women in American Religious History
SOAN 240 The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective
SOAN 266  Latin America Cultural Perspectives
SOAN 273 Japanese Culture: Gender and Identity
SOAN 285 Culture/Power in the Middle East
SOAN 352 Women in Developing Countries