WGS 300: Topics Women's&Gender Studies

Attention Students: This Summer 2024 course section is a crossed subject section. Please double check your academic transcript, to make sure you have not taken this course in a prior semester. Contact your Advisor if needed. Thank you. COURSE INFORMATION: Feminist bioethics is a newly established field that is committed to an examination of the moral issues surrounding health and healthcare through the lens of gender and its multiple intersecting lenses of race, sexuality, class, age, etc. The recent Covid-19 pandemic provides a microcosm for the study of these issues, and - in its turn - feminist bioethics offers an essential critical perspective on the moral and social issues (many of them new) that have accompanied the Covid-19 pandemic. This course satisfies a Humanities distribution requirement. WGS Majors: This course can be used to fulfill either the "Intersectional Gender Studies" or the "Politics, Policy, and Justice" focus area learning outcome. WGS Minors: This course can be used to fulfill a minor elective.

Attention Students: This Summer 2024 course section is a crossed subject section. Please double check your academic transcript, to make sure you have not taken this course in a prior semester. Contact your Advisor if needed. Thank you COURSE INFORMATION: Queens & Princesses: Women and Power in the Victorian Era explores the socio-political and economic network that made powerful women "fit, proper, and legally regal." The goal is to explore the development of social expectations of female behavior during the Victorian Era (1837-1901) and their consequences through the Edwardian Era (1901-1910) and the two world wars (1914-1918 & 1919-1945). The course examines primary and secondary sources (including scholarly work, biographies, eulogies, and so on) that exalted the life and virtues of specific Victorian women as well as documentaries focusing on the instruction of young princesses on how to live, love, and act both in the public and the private spheres. This is also a course for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, which claims to reveal "the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen, a Victoria for our times." The course provides vital information that can get us closer to understanding changes in power and the ideal royal female behavior, which responded to and was emulated by the nascent middle class. The course follows a chronological format. Among its main threads, we will explore the idea of marriage & children; sex, sexuality, & Gender Roles; fashion & the healthy body; education & class; as well as the nationalistic imperial policies. Each of those threads/themes reveals a different aspect of Victorian social life, when the royal public and domestic spheres molded what came to be deemed fit, proper, and legal. The course requires virtual attendance and participation in the different online assignments. This course satisfies a Humanities distribution requirement. WGS Minors: This course fulfills an elective. WGS Majors: This course can be used to fulfill either the "Intersectional Gender Studies" or the "Politics of Cultural Representation" focus area learning outcome.

COURSE INFORMATION: Using an intersectional framework of analysis, this course examines questions of race, gender, and sexuality in French film, supplemented by readings. We will also address structural racism and sexism in the French film world. Films covered include: Ousmane Sembène's "Black Girl" (1966), about the experience of a young woman from Senegal working as a maid to a family in France; Claude Chabrol's "Story of Women" (1988), about an abortionist in World War II France; Yamina Benguigui's documentary "The Glass Ceiling" (2004), about the discrimination faced by Black and Arab young adults; Céline Sciamma's "Tomboy" (2011), about a gender non-conforming child. All films will have English subtitles; all readings will be in English. This course satisfies a Humanities distribution requirement. WGS Minors: This course fulfills an elective. WGS Majors: This course can be used to fulfill either the "Intersectional Gender Studies" or the "Politics of Cultural Representation" focus area learning outcome.

COURSE INFORMATION: This course examines women's health disparities in the United States, using an intersectional feminist lens to better understand the dimensions underlying disease and illness. We conduct a critical examination of the causes of health inequity, and evaluate strategies used by government and political advocacy groups to improve women's health outcomes. We closely examine the following health issues: mental health, HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, disability, reproductive justice, and gender violence. We will examine social conditions as a predictor for poor health outcomes. We will examine women's health using an intersectional feminist lens in order to better understand the dimensions underlying disease and illness with a focused look at the impact systematic interlocking oppressions influence. We will conduct a critical examination of the causes of health inequity, and critically evaluate strategies used by government and political advocacy groups to improve women's health outcomes. We will emphasize social, economic, environmental, and political factors that impact health and illness of women. This course satisfies a Social Science distribution requirement. WGS Majors: This course can be used to fulfill either the "Politics, Policy, and Justice" focus area learning outcome. WGS Minors: This course can be used to fulfill a minor elective.

Attention Students: This Summer 2024 course section is a crossed subject section. Please double check your academic transcript, to make sure you have not taken this course in a prior semester. Contact your Advisor if needed. Thank you. COURSE INFORMATION: The topic of this course is Intimate Personal Violence. The focus is more specific than what is commonly referred to as "domestic violence." Domestic violence includes all aspects of violence that occurs between family and some friends. This could include child abuse, elder abuse, and abuse of a parent by a child. Intimate violence refers only to violence between intimate partners. The nature of violence that women experience is often different than ordinary violence. Women's lives are often constructed around the fear of stranger violence, yet they most often experience violence at the hands of family, friends and acquaintances. Most often, though certainly not always, in intimate relationships, women are the recipients of the violence. This is even more true for women of color. We will explore both the fear and the reality of such intimate violence. We will explore the how race and class intersect in understanding. We will examine mutually violent relationships to understand how the dynamics differ. And we will look at the changing societal and criminal/legal response to such violence, while we explore its efficacy. Much has been made of this issue in the media. Part of our task will be distinguishing myth from reality. This course satisfies a Social Science distribution requirement. WGS Majors: This course can be used to fulfill either the "Intersectional Gender Studies" or the "Politics, Policy, and Justice" focus area learning outcome. WGS Minors: This course can be used to fulfill a minor elective.

Attention Students: This Summer 2024 course section is a crossed subject section. Please double check your academic transcript, to make sure you have not taken this course in a prior semester. Contact your Advisor if needed. Thank you. COURSE INFORMATION: A critical examination of historical and contemporary criminology theory, with emphasis on the disproportionate criminalization of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other people of Color (BIPOC), particularly womxn and non-cisgender folx. This course draws from traditions including, but not limited to: Black feminist thought, critical race theory, Black queer studies, and critical criminology. This course satisfies a Social Science distribution requirement. WGS Majors: This course can be used to fulfill either the "Intersectional Gender Studies" or the "Politics, Policy, and Justice" focus area learning outcome. WGS Minors: This course can be used to fulfill a minor elective.

Attention Students: This Fall 2024 course section is a crossed subject section. Please double check your academic transcript, to make sure you have not taken this course in a prior semester. Contact your Advisor if needed. Thank you.

Attention Students: This Fall 2024 course section is a crossed subject section. Please double check your academic transcript, to make sure you have not taken this course in a prior semester. Contact your Advisor if needed. Thank you.

Attention Students: This Fall 2024 course section is a crossed subject section. Please double check your academic transcript, to make sure you have not taken this course in a prior semester. Contact your Advisor if needed. Thank you.