Women’s Studies Courses Fall 2015

Core Courses (Courses meet 08/24/15-12/11/15 unless otherwise indicated) * Course Descriptions Below WOMST 105A Intro to Women’s Studies 10:30-11:20 MWF LS 001 Thacker WOMST 105B Intro to Women’s Studies 11:30-12:20 MWF LS 001 Sarmiento (First Year Seminar & Honors) WOMST 105C Intro to Women’s Studies 1:30-2:20 MWF WA 041 Tushabe WOMST 105D Intro to Women’s Studies 12:30-1:20 MWF LS 001 Thacker WOMST 105E Intro to Women’s Studies 8:05-9:20 TU LS 001 Sabates (Cat Community) WOMST105F Intro to Women’s Studies 9:30-10:45 TU LS 001 Sabates WOMST105I Intro to Women’s Studies 2:30-3:20 MWF WA 348 Tushabe (First year seminar) WOMST 105ZA Intro to Women’s Studies Distance Distance Sarmiento WOMST 105ZB Intro to Women’s Studies 5:30-8:30 TU BH 112 Borhani (meets 10/15/15 to 12/10/15) WOMST 305A Fundamentals Women’s Studies 1:05-2:20 TU LS 6A Padilla Carroll WOMST 405A Resistance & Mvmts for Social 1:30-2:20 MWF LS 001 Hubler Change WOMST 480A Top/Gender, Environment, 11:30-12:45 TU LS 006A Padilla Carroll Justice WOMST 500A Latin American 11:30-12:45 TU T 213 Sabates WOMST 510A Research Methods in WM Study 9:30-10:45 MW LS 006A Tushabe WOMST 784ZA Internship/Women’s Studies APPT APPT Hubler (Instructor Consent Required)

Cross-Referenced Courses (Courses meet 8/25/15-12/11/15 unless otherwise indicated) COMM 420A Gender Communication 2:30-3:20 MWF N 311 Epping DAS 355ZA Intro to Non-Violence Studies Distance Distance Allen DAS 590ZA Applied Non-Violence Distance Distance Lopamudra De ENGL 386A African American Lit 9:30-10:45 TU F 212 Sampson-Choma ENGL 387A American Indian Lit 9:30-10:45 TU EH 223 Tatonetti ENGL 605A Readings Medieval Lit 1:30-2:20 MWF ECS 017 Matlock ENGL 695A Top/African-Amer Child Lit 3:55-5:10 TU ECS 017 Nel FSHS 350A Family Relation & Gender Roles 1:05-2:50 TU JU 109 Thompson FSHS 350B Family Relation & Gender Roles 5:30-8:20 M JU 109 Brown FSHS 350C Family Relation & Gender Roles 10:30-11:20 MWF JU 163 Conner MC 612A Gender Issues and Media 5:30-8:20 TU K 210 Wassmuth MUSIC 311A Women and Music Distance Distance Cooper SOCIO 510A Social Welfare as a Social 11:30-12:45 TU KG 004 Kurtz Institution SOCIO 510ZA Social Welfare as a Social Distance Distance Kurtz Institution SOCWK 510A Social Welfare as a Social 11:30-12:45 TU KG 004 Kurtz Institution SOCWK 510ZA Social Welfare as a Social Distance Distance Kurtz Institution

Graduate Student Only Classes (Courses meet 8/25/15-12/11/15 unless otherwise indicated) EDLEA 838A QVAL Research in EDU 4:30-6:55 W BH 121 Holloway-Libell EDLEA 838OB QVAL Research in EDU 5:30-8:30 M Olathe, Bhattacharya (meets 9/14/15 to 12/7/15) KS

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Women’s Studies Course Descriptions Fall 2015

WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies Section A: MWF 10:30; Section D MWF 11:30--L. Thacker This class is a broad, interdisciplinary introduction to , thought, and politics. The course will place responses to gender inequality in a historical framework that pays close attention to race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. We will also read about and discuss contemporary feminist issues, and students will have the opportunity to do research about gender inequality in relationship to their own majors

WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies Section B: MWF 11:30--T. Sarmiento Gender, sexuality, and race structure all of our worlds. In this introductory course to the interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies, we shall explore gender as a category of social, cultural, and political analysis as it intersects with other social formations, including sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic class, and ability. Primarily focusing on the US context, but in dialogue with the translocal and the global, we shall survey the herstories of the women’s movement, the parameters and possibilities of feminist inquiry, and ’s contributions to social change. We shall also analyze how power operates through gender in our contemporary moment, particularly engaging the site of popular culture. Together, these approaches to the study of gender as a social construct as well as an embodied positionality will not only allow students to recognize how knowledge production intimately circumscribes peoples lives but will also empower them to be a part of its undoing.

WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies Section C: MWF 1:30; Section I MWF 2:30--Tushabe This course introduces students to a wide range of issues, which include social, political, and legal issues pertaining to women’s lives and experiences in society and feminist movements worldwide. The course is interdisciplinary in its approach. It encourages students to see and think about the world around them in a matrix of connections and relationships, while examining and understanding the relevance of specific topics such as abortion, contraception, and sexual violence within a comparative and international framework to women, men and feminisms. Through assigned course texts and discussions students will learn and engage a feminist methodology of self-reflection, a narrative of one’s journey, that takes a big picture and the complexity of the connections and relationships that allow or impede a person to be in society for oneself, others and the world. We will follow closely the significance and meaning of gender and other categories in American culture and other societies. Additional resources such as films will be crucial to our discussion and critical thinking skills, philosophical meanings and implications of social identities.

WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies Section E: TuTh 8:05; Section F: TU 9:30--G. Sabates An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist scholarship, which seeks to understand the creation and perpetuation of gender inequalities by examining historical, theoretical, and cross-cultural frameworks for the comparative study of women and gender. This course aims to sharpen students' critical awareness of how gender operates in institutional and cultural contexts and in their own lives. Particular attention will be paid to the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, disability, culture, and movements for social change.

WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies Section ZB: TuTh 5:30; --C. Borhani In Introduction to Women's Studies we will explore what it means to be gendered and how gender must be understood in relation to race, class, sexuality, culture, ability, nationality and other identity markers. A majority of the material of this class will focus on women and gender issues within the United States of Revised 12/2/2015

America, the ways in which feminists have analyzed and changed women’s positions in society, and the institutions and issues that currently affect women. This course aims to sharpen students’ critical awareness of how gender operates in institutional and cultural contexts as well as in their own lives.

WOMST 305 Fundamental of Women’s Studies Section A: TuTh 1:05 –V. Padilla Carroll This course will examine the origins of the Women’s Studies field and introduce core concepts, research methods and methodologies, and feminist theories. Student will engage in a variety of writings that reflect the discipline.

WOMST 405 Top/Resistance Movement & Social Change Section A: MWF 1:30--A. Hubler Women have been critically involved in demanding civil rights, achieving justice for indigenous people, challenging military dictatorships, working for economic justice, and demanding for women's liberation and freedom from violence. This course examines women’s resistance and movements against gender violence and discrimination in the context of colonialism, globalization, war, militarism, and occupation.

In addition to viewing films including Made in Dagenham (on union women) and Las Madres (on the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argenina), texts for the course include: I, Rigoberta Menchu, by Rigoberta Menchu At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power A Woman Among the Warlords by Malalai Joya

The grade for the class will be based on a midterm, final, a paper (5-7 pages), attendance and participation.

WOMST 480 Women and Environmentalisms Section A: TuTH 11:30 --V. Padilla Carroll Because women have and continue to be an integral part of environmentalism in the US and globally, this course examines the philosophical and historical intersections among women, nature and environmentalist activism. By examining a variety of subjects including , deep ecology, voluntary simplicity, environmental justice, and sustainable living, this course examines how all forms of oppression and domination – gender, race/ethnicity, economic, and environmental-are interconnected.

WOMST 500 Latin American Feminisms Section A: TuTh 11:30;--G. Sabates The many feminist movements in Latin America speak of a plurality of experiences lived by women in the continent. These movements have been nourished by social, economical, and political conditions that, interconnected, configured and channeled women’s activisms all over the continent. These movements were created and informed by diverse initiatives, and were characterized by complex and challenging social practices.

In this course, we will inquire about the connections among hierarchical systems based on class, race, ethnicity, national origin, and gender identity, as well as learn about these complex and fascinating social movements.

WOMST 510 Research Methods in Women’s Studies Section A: MWF 9:30;--Tushabe This course is designed to introduce students to feminist research methodologies, including resistant, indigenous, and decolonizing methodologies. The course will prepare students to critically analyze studies, develop research skills, and initiate future projects. We will examine the relationship between knowledge as a product of research, the researcher producing the knowledge, the subject of research, and the methods used. Revised 12/2/2015

Throughout the course, we will connect class discussion to larger issues of women’s and as an institutional setting, and of emancipatory possibilities of approaches to research, while addressing the intersecting goals of teaching, research, writing and activism.

WOMST 784 Internship in Women’s Studies Section A & ZA: By Appointment--A. Hubler (Obtain permission from Department Head 3 Leasure Hall) An opportunity to gain valuable experience in community, volunteer, activist, or political organizations at the local, state, national, or international levels.

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