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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENGL 469 - Studies in Race and Ethnicity (3.00)
A focused study of race and ethnicity in literature and the relevant theoretical frameworks that shape the field. This course is not bound to a specific time period or region and may center on a particular author, genre, literary form, historical moment, or critical methodology. Topics will vary each semester. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 9 credits or 3 attempts.
Course ID: 101892
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Requirement Group: You must complete any 300 level English Course with a grade of C or better
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ENGL 471 - Advanced Creative Writing-Fiction (3.00)
An advanced course in writing fiction.
Course ID: 54148
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 371 with a grade of C or better.
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ENGL 473 - Advanced Creative Writing-Poetry (3.00)
An advanced course in writing poetry.
Course ID: 54149
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 373 with a grade of C or better.
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ENGL 475 - Special Studies in Creative Writing (3.00)
A course in which advanced creative writing students work on collaborative or individual projects that embrace more than one artistic discipline or writing genre. Recommended Preparation: Six credit hours of creative writing in two different genres, or six credit hours in at least two of the following three areas: creative writing, theatre, or visual arts. Six credit hours of creative writing in two different genres, or six credit hours in at least two of the following three areas: creative writing, theatre, or visual arts.
Course ID: 54150
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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ENGL 480 - Seminar in Advanced Journalism (3.00)
An intensive study of one or more areas in the field of journalism, such as reporting, editing, newspaper management, mass media and the history of journalism. Topics to be announced each semester offered. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 380 with a grade of C or better, senior standing and permission of the instructor.
Course ID: 54151
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Seminar in Advance, Seminar in Journalism
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ENGL 481 - Advanced Topics in Journalism (3.00)
This course builds on skills developed in 300-level journalism courses. It will focus on advanced topics in areas of journalism, including subjects with both a literary and historical perspective. Advanced topics may also include an in-depth examination of press law, the history of the press in the United States, the role of women in journalism from an historical perspective and modern developments in a digital news age. Topics to be announced each semester offered.
Course ID: 101762
Consent: Department Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: The Physcian as Writer
Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 380 and ENGL 382 with a C or better.
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ENGL 483 - Writing in the Sciences (3.00)
This course examines scientific writing. Offered with an electronic communication across the curriculum focus, students will hone science writing style and form. Among the texts we will investigate and practice are professional science articles, proposals, abstracts, reports and literature reviews. Students will collect, analyze, and report data on topics ranging from climactic changes, pollution, and deforestation to disease control, genetic research, scientific ethics and medicine.
Course ID: 50090
Consent: Department Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: The Literature of Addiction and Recovery
Requirement Group: You must have completed ENGL 100 or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
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ENGL 485 - The Teaching of Writing (3.00)
An introduction to theories and techniques of writing instruction. Current theory and research is applied in the development of a repertoire of approaches to writing instruction and curriculum development. Students examine research that analyzes writing from linguistic, psychological and developmental perspectives. Direct experience in personal writing reinforces theoretical study of the processes of composition and enables prospective teachers to improve their own writing skills. Each student designs a model writing program or course, including a rationale for choices made, that demonstrates how specific features of the course or program will be taught.
Course ID: 50064
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: EDUC 485
Requirement Group: You must complete a CLPT course or EDUC course.
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ENGL 486 - Seminar in Teaching Composition: Theory and Practice (3.00)
This course examines our changing understanding of the teaching of composition during the past 30 years by tracing key theories and pedagogies across this period. These sometimes conflicting approaches to the teaching of writing include the following orientations: cognitive, expressivist, social constructivist and political. The course is intended for current and prospective teachers of English at elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels.
Course ID: 54152
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Requirement Group: You must have Junior or Senior standing.
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ENGL 488 - Seminar in Computer Assisted Writing Instruction (3.00)
This course introduces the methods of computer-assisted writing instruction to current and prospective teachers across the curriculum. It allows participants to practice these methods in class and provides opportunities for discussion and investigation. Designed for educators in all disciplines and at all levels, elementary through university, this course invites participants to explore ways of integrating technologies into their own classrooms and curricula. This course is repeatable for credit.
Course ID: 54153
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Visual/Technological Lit, Computer Assisted Wrting, Visual Literacy, Assisted Writing
Requirement Group: You must have Junior or Senior standing.
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ENGL 490 - Advanced Topics in the English Language (3.00)
A historical and linguistic study of the English language from its origins in Old English to World English, as well as language issues in contemporary America. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.
Course ID: 54154
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: History Of The Engl Lang, Sem: Orig & Dev/Engl Lang, Top: Evolution Engl Lang, Adv Topics In Engl Lang, History Of Engl Language, Sem: Evolution Engl Lang, Sem: Orgns/Devel Engl Lan, Origin Of English Lang, Sem: Topics In Engl Lang
Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 301 with a grade of C or better and have junior or senior standing.
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ENGL 491 - Seminar in Topics in the English Language (3.00)
A historical and linguistic study of the English language from its origins in Old English to World English, as well as language issues in contemporary America. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 6 credits.
Course ID: 54155
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Spec Studies: Creat Wrtng, English Language
Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 301 with a grade of C or better and have junior or senior standing.
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ENGL 493 - Seminar in Communication and Technology (3.00)
Intensive review of issues and research in communication and technology. Emphasis may vary from historical to contemporary and include various objects of inquiry and research methods. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 6 credits or 2 attempts. Recommended Preparation: Senior standing and permission of the instructor.
Course ID: 54157
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Copyright Culture, Theories of Communicative Practice and Play, Theories of Creativity & Play, The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property, Infomation Freedom and Resistance, Software Studies
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ENGL 494 - American English Structure for ESL/FL Teachers: Syntax and Mrphology (3.00)
The course examines the syntactical, phonological and morphological systems of modern American English, with particular attention to areas most relevant to teachers of English as a second or foreign language. The systems are examined primarily through the transformational model of grammar. The course includes techniques for teaching specific grammatical structures.
Course ID: 54158
Consent: Department Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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ENGL 495 - Internship (1.00 - 4.00)
Practical experience in applying communication and research skills in an actual work setting. Student interns perform six to eight hours of supervised tasks each week for a newspaper, television or radio station, advertising company, publishing house or other similar agency. Internship opportunities are individually arranged by the English department in cooperation with the sponsoring agency. Variable credit course repeatable for a maximum of 8 credits. Prerequisite: Upper-division status, at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average overall and permission of the department’s internship coordinator
Course ID: 54159
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Independent Study
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ENGL 498 - Senior Honors Seminar (3.00)
Course ID: 54160
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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ENGL 499 - Senior Honors Project (4.00)
This project enables the honors student to pursue an inquiry of special interest and to gain experience in planning and executing a major project that is historical, critical or creative in nature.
Course ID: 54162
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Independent Study
Requirement Group: You must complete ENGL 399 with a C or better.
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ENTR 200 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship (3.00)
This course will provide an overview of the basic concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation focusing on the nature, environment, and risks of new venture formation. Topics include the entrepreneurial mindset, opportunity recognition, market assessment, social need, feasibility plan, and structure, costs, and sustainability. Assignment include writing a business or social entrepreneurial proposal.
Course ID: 100555
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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ENTR 201 - The Entrepreneurial Mindset (3.00)
An introductory course explaining entrepreneurial and innovative thinking. The course encourages the development of personal attributes that foster creative thinking among students from all majors. The course introduces students to the attributes of thinking like an innovative entrepreneur, and guides them, using real-life problems, to acquire personal attributes shared by successful social innovators and business entrepreneurs.
Course ID: 100554
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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ENTR 300 - Internship in Entrepreneurship (1.00-3.00)
This course will allow students to earn credit while pursuing an Internship outside the classroom that is directly related to their particular entrepreneurship-related course of study. Students can intern for start-ups and early stage for-profit businesses, as well as for non-profits and other social entrepreneurs. Internships must be approved by the Director of the ENTR Minor. A contract will be required. Students will earn 1 credit hour for every 40 hours they intern. Recommended Course Preparation: ENTR 200 AND ENTR 201
Course ID: 101794
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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ENTR 320 - Entrepreneurial Marketing (3.00)
This course arms student entrepreneurs with an overview and understanding of the new media and marketing landscape. New media have fundamentally changed the way that all businesses approach marketing. Students in this course can expect to develop a high level understanding of the planning and execution of messaging and engagement within new marketing media. This course will include a combination of both individual and team based projects, (such as blogs, pod casts, and E-mail newsletters).
Course ID: 101854
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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ENTR 330 - Entrepreneurial Finance (3.00)
This course focuses on the finance and start¿up considerations that every entrepreneur must face. It is designed for students with a continued interest in the inter-workings of a start-up. The purpose of this course is to teach how to properly plan, finance, and maintain a healthy entrepreneurial venture, with an emphasis on the single most critical aspect (outside of the idea itself), which is the strength of its financial research, plan, and forecast.
Course ID: 102254
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite:You must complete ENTR 200 and ENTR 201 with a C or better.
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ENTR 340 - Innovation, Creative Problem-Solving & the Socialpreneur (3.00)
This course explores approaches to solving specific social problems that are too ambiguous, complex, or messy to be addressed directly through traditional strategies. It seeks to increase the students’ understanding of innovation and creative problem solving through readings, guest speakers, and an outside project. Students will work with a local, socially conscious entrepreneur (socialpreneur) and their organization to develop solution to a real-world problem. The course is designed to be approachable for all undergraduate majors.
Course ID: 101987
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Requirement Group:You must have completedENTR 200 and (ENTR 201 or AMST 205 or SOCY 205 or POLI 205 )
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FREN 101 - Elementary French I (4.00)
An introduction to French through a communicative approach. Language is learned in a thematic context, based on real-life situations. Listening comprehension and basic speaking skills are emphasized. Aspects of life in French- speaking countries are also presented.
Course ID: 54325
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Language (GFR)
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FREN 102 - Elementary French II (4.00)
Continuation of FREN 101 . Emphasis is on extending skills in spoken French, within the context of real-life situations. A greater amount of reading and writing is included in this course.
Course ID: 54327
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must have completed FREN 101 with a C or better before taking this class or have completed 2 years of high school French.
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FREN 103 - Intensive Review of Elementary French (4.00)
Open to students who have completed level III in high school and who nevertheless are unprepared for FREN 201 either as the result of an interruption of five years in their study of the language or as a result of a weak language background. This course offers an intensive review of Elementary French I and II as an opportunity to improve the student’s listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. FREN 103 or FREN 102 , but not both, may be used toward UMBC’s GFR language/culture requirement.
Course ID: 54329
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Language (GFR)
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FREN 201 - Intermediate French I (4.00)
Further development of listening comprehension and speaking skills and increased emphasis on reading, writing and cultural knowledge. Focus is on everyday life in France and other French-speaking countries.
Course ID: 54331
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: FREN 201H
Attributes: 201 Level Language Requirement (GEP), 201-Level Foreign Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 102 or FREN 103 with a grade of C or better or have completed 3 years of high school FREN
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FREN 202 - Intermediate French II (4.00)
A continuation of FREN 201 , with deeper emphasis on advanced grammar and discussion in French on social and cultural issues.
Course ID: 54334
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: FREN 202H
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Culture (GFR), Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 201 with a C or better before taking this class or have completed 4 years of high school French.
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FREN 300 - Special Projects in French Language (1.00 - 3.00)
Intensive individualized program of study in French language in an area determined by the student’s particular needs. Variable credit course is repeatable for credit. Note: Credits earned in FREN 300 may not be used to satisfy the basic requirements for any track in the MLL major, minor or certificate of French studies. Exceptions will be granted only with the written permission of an instructor and the chair of MLL.
Course ID: 54339
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Independent Study
Topics: Spec Proj Fren Lang, Independent Study
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FREN 301 - Advanced French I (3.00)
An advanced French language course offering practice in the four language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing) primarily through the use of French films. In addition to regular speaking practice, the course will include formal oral presentations and expository writing.
Course ID: 54341
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: FREN 301H
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Culture (GFR), Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 202 with a grade of C or better before taking this class.
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FREN 302 - Advanced French II (3.00)
A continuation of FREN 301 , with more attention devoted to the development of reading and writing skills.
Course ID: 54343
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Culture (GFR), Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 301 or FREN 301H with a grade of C or better before taking this class.
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FREN 310 - Interconnections: Language (3.00)
This course is an introduction to language history and use in the French-speaking world. Among the topics covered are style and register, the origins of French, dialect diversity, language attitudes, and language policy. Lectures, readings and activities will focus on a number of different Francophone societies and will emphasize connections and contrasts with North American habits and practices. Taught in French. Recommended Course Preparation: MLL 190
Course ID: 54349
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Culture (GFR), Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 302 with a grade of C or better.
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FREN 315 - French Phonetics (3.00)
Detailed analysis of problems in diction; the use of the international phonetic alphabet; functions of the human vocal apparatus; the essentials of an authentic French accent through systematic exercises in pronunciation, intonation and rhythm. Extensive use of the Media Center.
Course ID: 54356
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 202 with a grade of C or better before taking this class.
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FREN 319 - French Translation (3.00)
Instruction and practice in translating from French to English. Students work with various written materials covering many fields. Highly recommended: MLL 190 and FREN 310 .
Course ID: 54357
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 302 with a grade of C or better.
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FREN 320 - Interconnections: Trade, Technology, and Globalization (3.00)
This course focuses on France’s role within the European Union and in the world economy. It will examine how economic and technological developments are shaping France’s sociopolitical landscape while raising new questions about French identity. Globalization trends and the anti-globalization movement will be studied from a French point of view. Taught in French. This course is repeatable for credit.
Course ID: 54359
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Culture (GFR), Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 302 with a grade of C or better.
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FREN 330 - Interconnections: Ideas, Literature and the Arts (3.00)
This course examines major moments in French intellectual, literary and artistic history and their interactions with other cultures. Emphasis will be on those movements that have left their mark on present-day cultures, such as medieval religious, courtly and architectural ideals; renaissance humanism, rationalist and classical appeals to moral and aesthetic balance; the Enlightenment belief in progress and human rights; romantic and realist concerns with the environment and social justice; impressionism; surrealism; existentialist and post-structuralist thought; feminisms; and francophone post-colonialism and post-modernism. Taught in French. This course is repeatable for credit.
Course ID: 54369
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Culture (GFR), Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 302 with a grade of C or better.
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FREN 339 - Exploration in Ideas, Literature and the Arts (3.00)
This course will examine a selected topic in French and Francophone literature, arts and ideas. Topics could include a movement, such as classicism, romanticism or post colonialism; a genre, such as drama or the novel; a theme; or individual authors. Emphasis will be placed on artistic and intellectual interconnections between French-speaking countries and other cultures. Notes: May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.
Course ID: 54372
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 301 and FREN 302 and one upper level FRENCH course with a grade of C or better before taking this class.
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FREN 340 - Interconnections: Social and Historical Confluences (3.00)
This course treats key historical events and social movements in France and French-speaking lands and their connections with the rest of the world. These include: exploration in the New World, the Great Revolution of 1789, nationalism, the Napoleonic legacy, socialism and communism, the World Wars, imperialism and decolonization.
Course ID: 100494
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR), Culture (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 302 with a grade of C or better.
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FREN 349 - Explorations in History and Society (3.00)
An examination of modern French or Francophone society and culture. Topics may include politics, youth and the education system, feminism, immigration issues, cultural practices and policies, and intellectual and daily life. This course is repeatable for credit.
Course ID: 54373
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Mod French Civilization, French Feminisms, Reading the News: France and Algeria, Women in French Society
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Culture (GFR), Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 301 and FREN 302 and one upper level FRENCH course with a grade of C or better before taking this class.
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FREN 399 - Experiential Learning in French (3.00)
Intensive language practice in a French-speaking environment. This course is most effectively completed through study abroad or through a work or community service placement in a French-speaking milieu. This course is repeatable for credit. Recommended Preparation: FREN 302 and the Area Coordinator’s permission.
Course ID: 54374
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Experiential Lrning Fren, Experiential Learning, Experiential Learning Fr
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 302 with a grade of C or better.
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FREN 400 - Special Topics in French (1.00 - 3.00)
This course is open to students on application to the instructor who will supervise the particular project. This variable credit course may be repeated for credit. Notes: Credits earned in FREN 400 may not be used to satisfy the basic requirements for any track in the MLL major, minor or certificate of French studies. Exceptions will be granted only with the written permission of an instructor and the chair of MLL. Request for permission to register in the course must be in writing and must specify the number of credits sought.
Course ID: 54375
Consent: Department Consent Required
Components: Independent Study
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FREN 410 - Studies in French Language and Linguistics (3.00)
Advanced work in French language and linguistics. Topics may include intensive work on prose style, study of a particular sociolinguistic problem, or analysis of some aspect of the French language. This course is repeatable for credit.
Course ID: 54379
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Historical & Compar Exam, La Guerre Des Langues, Historical Analysis: French, Language & Political Conflict
Attributes: Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 310 with a grade of C or better before taking this class.
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FREN 430 - Studies in French Literature (3.00)
Selected topics in French and Francophone literature may include the study of a century, movement, genre, theme or individual author. Topics will be announced each semester offered. Notes: May be repeated for credit.
Course ID: 54381
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: North African Literature, Stars of French Cinema, Stars of French Film, Francophone Caribbean Lit
Attributes: Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 330 and FREN 340 with a grade of C or better.
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FREN 440 - Studies in French Speaking Culture and Society (3.00)
Selected topics will deal with French-speaking societies of the present or past, both in Europe and elsewhere. Topics will be announced each semester offered. Among the recent offerings: contemporary French cinema, the dark side of the Classical period, Senegal and the French experience, and French public memory and national identity. Notes: May be repeated for credit.
Course ID: 54383
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: N. African Lit In French, Beur And Banlieue Cinema, Occitania: Socy/Lit Pers, Cinema and (Post)Colonialism, Stars of French Film, Uses of French in Africa, The Arab Spring, Paris in French Film, Screening Integration in France, Francophone Literature
Requirement Group: You must complete FREN 330 and FREN 340 with a grade of C or better.
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FREN 450 - Seminar in French (3.00)
Topics will cover some aspect of French language, literature or civilization. Topics will be announced each semester offered. Notes: May be repeated for credit.
Course ID: 54384
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: New Rebels Film, Society, Occupation & Aftermath
Attributes: Language (GFR)
Requirement Group: You must have completed 12 credits in FREN courses higher than FREN 302 all with a grade of C or better.
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FYS 101 - First Year Seminar (AH) (3.00)
Course ID: 054403
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: FYS 101Y
Topics: What Makes A Community?, The Divine Comedy, Understanding Human Beings, Beethoven’s Music and Cultural Legacy, Turning to One Another: Beliefs and Behaviors Beliefs and Behaviors, Living and Dying in Ancient Athens: An Archaeologist’s Point of View , What Makes a Community?, Political Rhetoric in the Media Age, Science Versus Religion: The Battlefield of Evolution, The Internet and the Humanities, Becoming American: Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary Society, Mulit-Cultural Perspectives on September 11, Technological Disasters and Their Causes, Intermedia: Poetics of Everyday Life, The Pursuit of Wisdom in Everyday Life: Montaigne’s Essays in Postmodern Times, Arts, Humanities, or Sciences: Which Road to Reality?, Building a Culture of Peace: What Would It Take?, Sustainability in American, Culture, Creating Stories about Times of Change, Discussing Classics, But is it Art? Filmmakers, Art, and the Artist, Perspectives on the Heroic Journey
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)
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FYS 101Y - First Year Seminar (AH) (4.00)
Course ID: 102228
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture,Discussion
Course Equivalents:FYS 101
Topics: What Makes A Community?, The Divine Comedy, Understanding Human Beings, Beethoven’s Music and Cultural Legacy, Turning to One Another: Beliefs and Behaviors Beliefs and Behaviors, Living and Dying in Ancient Athens: An Archaeologist’s Point of View , What Makes a Community?, Political Rhetoric in the Media Age, Science Versus Religion: The Battlefield of Evolution, The Internet and the Humanities, Becoming American: Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary Society, Mulit-Cultural Perspectives on September 11, Technological Disasters and Their Causes, Intermedia: Poetics of Everyday Life, The Pursuit of Wisdom in Everyday Life: Montaigne’s Essays in Postmodern Times, Arts, Humanities, or Sciences: Which Road to Reality?, Building a Culture of Peace: What Would It Take?, Sustainability in American, Culture, Creating Stories about Times of Change, Discussing Classics, But is it Art? Filmmakers, Art, and the Artist, Perspectives on the Heroic Journey
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)
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FYS 102 - First Year Seminar (SS) (3.00)
Course ID: 054419
Consent: No Special Consent required
Components: Lecture
Topics: First Year Seminar, Sexuality, Health and Human Rights, Images of Madness, Seeking Truth and Justice: Human Rights Today, Diversity, Ethics and Social Justice in the Context of Schooling, Investigating Everyday Problems and Their Current IT Solutions, What Should Government Do? Exploring the Interplay of Economics and Philosophy, Sexuality, Health and Human Rights, The United States and Iran Since World War II, France Under German Occupation: Collaboration, Resistance, Survival, Passive-Aggressive Behavior, Banned Books: An American Contradiction, Conflict Resolution Education: Handling Conflict Constructively, Exploring Mixed Identities, H.E.A.L.T.H.: How Environment, Access and Legislation Transform Health, Creativity, Innovation, and Invention, History under the Microscope, Learning About, With, and From Students with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, The Deaf Community and Its Culture, International Migrations and the National Debate, Poverty Amidst Plenty: The Economics of American Poverty, Life and Death in a Police State, Race, Science, and Society, Transformational Technologies, Imaginations and Expectations: Creating Contemporary Childhoods, Need for Fantasy
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
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FYS 103 - First Year Seminar (S) (3.00)
Course ID: 054429
Consent: No Special Consent required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Computation as an Experimental Tool, Paradigms and Paradoxes: An Attempt to Understand the Universe, Issues in Biotechnology, Global Warming, Physics Through the Decades, Thinking with Visualization, Living as Well-Informed & Engaged Individuals in an Ongoing Age of Irrationality, Dynamics of Problem Solving, Exploring Examples from Mathematical Biology, Chasing Lightening: Sferics, Tweeks, and Whistlers, What is the World made of?, Crimebusting with Math and Statistics, Monitoring Global Environmental Change with NASA Satellite Imagery, Microbes, Humans, and History: How Microorganisms have Shaped World History
Attributes: Science (non-lab) (GEP), Science (non-lab) (GFR)
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FYS 104 - First Year Seminar (C) (3.00)
Course ID: 054440
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Exploration Through Film, Intercultural Exploration Through Film, Stereotypes: How We Deal With Differences, The Italians, Paris: The Happy Years,
Attributes: Culture (GEP) Culture (GFR)
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FYS 106 - First Year Seminar in SS or C (3.00)
Course ID: 054447
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Diversity and Pluralism: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Vienna 1900, Latin America and the United States in the World Today
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Culture (GFR), Social Sciences (GFR)
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FYS 107 - First Year Seminar (AH/C) (3.00)
Course ID: 054449
Consent: No Special Consent required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Happy Birthday, Don Quixote!, Latin America and the United States in the World Today, Love’s Philosophy, American Orientalism
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR), Culture (GFR)
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FYS 108 - First Year Seminar (M) (3.00)
Course ID: 101956
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Computation as an Experimental Tool, Dynamics of Problem Solving, Crimebusting with Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics in Literature
Attributes: Mathematics (GEP)
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GWST 099 - Women’s Self-Defense (0.00)
Drawing on feminist, queer, social, and critical race theory, this course examines the status of the body in both historical and contemporary debates about identity, representation, and politics. We tend to take the body for granted as the ground of experience and knowledge, but this course challenges that common sense, asking how the body is produced, managed, and deployed in a various ways to discipline and manage populations. We will also investigate the political possibilities of body work to resist and reshape these same disciplinary practices, paying particular attention to “queer” forms of embodiment.
Course ID: 51367
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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GWST 100 - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies (3.00)
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of gender and women’s studies, feminist scholarship, and feminist activism. We will examine the relationship between gender, power, and the production of feminist knowledge in a variety of fields, including psychology, sociology, literature, media studies and history. The course provides critical perspectives on the social construction of gender and sexuality, social inequalities based on gender and sexuality, and how those norms function interactively with categories of difference such as race, class, nation, ability and age.
Course ID: 51014
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: GWST 100H
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR), Culture (GEP)
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GWST 100H - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies (3.00)
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of gender and women’s studies, feminist scholarship, and feminist activism. We will examine the relationship between gender, power, and the production of feminist knowledge in a variety of fields, including psychology, sociology, literature, media studies and history. The course provides critical perspectives on the social construction of gender and sexuality, social inequalities based on gender and sexuality, and how those norms function interactively with categories of difference such as race, class, nation, ability and age.
Course ID: 100129
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: GWST 100
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR), Culture (GEP)
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GWST 200 - Studies in Feminist Activism (3.00)
This course examines theories of civic agency and social change in both historical and contemporary contexts. Particular attention is paid to the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in feminist and anti-racist social movements. Students then connect theory and praxis through the group planning and implementation of activist projects on campus and/or in the wider community.
Course ID: 51060
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
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GWST 210 - Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies (3.00)
This course introduces students to the field of critical sexuality studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course conducts a critical inquiry into the historical precedents and theoretical frameworks necessary to understand the role of sexuality in shaping personal, social, economic, and political life. The course focuses on patterns of subordination and exclusion based on individuals¿ sexual practices and identities, explains the origins and persistence of those patterns, and considers ways of challenging them. Throughout the course, special attention will be given to intersections of sexuality with gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and disability.
Course ID: 50032
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents:GWST 210H
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: AMST 210
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GWST 210H - Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies (3.00)
This course introduces students to the field of critical sexuality studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course conducts a critical inquiry into the historical precedents and theoretical frameworks necessary to understand the role of sexuality in shaping personal, social, economic, and political life. The course focuses on patterns of subordination and exclusion based on individuals¿ sexual practices and identities, explains the origins and persistence of those patterns, and considers ways of challenging them. Throughout the course, special attention will be given to intersections of sexuality with gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and disability.
Course ID: 101887
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents:GWST210
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
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GWST 220 - Introduction to Transgender Studies (3.00)
Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this course is an introduction to and survey of the field of transgender studies with a particular emphasis on the intersection of the field with feminist and LGBTQ studies. While seeking to understand the emergence and varied lived experiences of transgender identities, the course also aims to teach students to think critically about the political, economic, ideological, and transnational lives of “transgender” as a concept.
Course ID: 102479
Consent: No Special consent Required
Components: Lecture
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GWST 250 - Gender Roles in Economic Life (3.00)
This course will investigate the influence of gender roles in paid and unpaid work. Topics to be covered include gender in the labor market (job segregation, pay equity, affirmative action), the economics of housework and family care, women in poverty and the role of government. Recommended Preparation: An introductory course in economics, sociology or gender and women’s studies.
Course ID: 50063
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: ECON 250
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GWST 255 - Intercultural Paris (3.00)
This culture course aims to introduce students to the field of French studies by examining France’s capital city in both historical and contemporary contexts and the numerous, marginalized, and multicultural populations it has been home to: women, gays and lesbians, North-and Western African immigrants, Jews, and undocumented workers. The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach informed by cultural studies, history, anthropology, linguistics, urban studies, and gender and women’s studies.
Course ID: 100973
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP)
Same as Offered: MLL 255
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GWST 258 - Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (3.00)
Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this course critically examines the ways in which women and women’s experiences have been ignored and explicitly and implicitly devalued in Western philosophy. It also seeks to uncover what, if anything, about the methods and central concepts of Western philosophy account for such exclusion and (apparent) contempt. More positively, we will evaluate new feminist approaches to old philosophical questions, such as: What is knowledge? What is justice?
Course ID: 50133
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: PHIL 258
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GWST 290 - Issues in Gender and Women’s Studies (3.00)
An examination of important issues in gender and women’s studies. Topics will be announced each semester and the course may be repeated for credit.
Course ID: 51368
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: Latin American Societies, Issues In Gwst, Issues and Phases in Women’s Health, Women of the Hebrew Bible
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GWST 292 - Issues in Critical Sexuality Studies (3.00)
An introductory examination of important issues in critical sexuality studies. Topics will be announced each semester and the course may be repeated for credit.
Course ID: 102084
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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GWST 300 - Methodologies in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (3.00)
This writing intensive seminar introduces students to the theory and practice of interdisciplinary research in the field of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies. The course examines the distinguishing features of feminist methodologies that draw from the social sciences and the humanities. By reading and discussing examples of excellent and innovative research, students will become acquainted with the practical details, intellectual challenges, and the ethical dilemmas involved in doing research about women, gender, and sexuality. The course also explores the connections between research and community activism. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100 , GWST 210 , GWST 310 and/or GWST 200 .
Course ID: 54592
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Writing Intensive
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GWST 310 - Gender and Inequality in America (3.00)
An examination of the ways in which gender roles and gender relations are constructed and experienced in American society. The course explores the development of a woman’s “sphere” denoting women’s position in the family and home; cultural definitions of femininity and masculinity through mass media, education and other agencies of socialization; the relationship between wage-earning and household work; and feminist consciousness and politics. Special attention is paid to the ways in which gender-based experiences are divided by other social relations, particularly those of class, race and age. Recommended Preparation: One lower-level social sciences or humanities course focused on American society or culture.
Course ID: 50033
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: AMST 310H
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)
Same as Offered: AMST 310
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GWST 310H - Gender and Inequality in America - Honors (3.00)
Course ID: 51369
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)
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GWST 315 - Modern Masculinities (3.00)
By integrating theoretical and experiential perspectives, this course explores the social construction of masculinities and their intersections with other systems of inequality, such as race, class, and sexuality. Drawing on the contemporary feminist and masculinity studies scholarship on men and masculinities, the course examines the multiple and hierarchically organized configurations of masculinities primarily within the U.S. context. However, an overall global approach is also pursued through an investigation of the linkages between formations of globalization and masculinities. Recommended Course Preparation:GWST 100 or GWST 200
Course ID: 102060
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: AH (Arts and Humanities), C (Culture)
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GWST 320 - Transnational Feminist Film (3.00)
This course uses a feminist film studies lens to analyze transnational documentary and feature films. Drawing on feminist, documentary, and postcolonial film theory, students will gain the necessary skills to critically analyze representations of gender, race, class, nationality, and sexuality in transnational film. We will examine the politics of gender in films produced in the West and the Global South and we will assess the flows between “first world” and “third world” cinematic traditions. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100 and GWST 200 , or GWST 210 .
Course ID: 050105
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: (AH) Arts and Humanities (GEP), (C) Culture (GEP), (AH) Arts and Humanities (GFR)
Same as Offered: MLL 320
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GWST 321 - Queer Representation in Film and TV (3.00)
This course will utilize films, television programs and theoretical, historical, and analytic readings to focus on the ways in which LGBTQ people and queer issues have been represented historically in film and television, and how issues of homosexuality intersect with issues of race and gender. Using material from before and after the modern LGBTQ rights movement, we will explore such themes and stereotypes as sissies, mannish lesbians, cross dressing/drag, AIDS, transgender, bisexuality, and others. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100 , GWST 200 , or permission of instructor.
Course ID: 54593
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP)
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GWST 322 - Gender, Race, and Media (3.00)
This course critically examines how ideologies of gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexuality are produced and disseminated in a range of media genres and forms such as film, television, music, advertising, news, visual and performing arts, the Internet, radio, and print media. As consumers and producers of media, students will learn to assess how media articulates, creates, and enforces identities and power. Students will practice tools of critical reading and thinking, such as textual analysis, visual discourse analysis, and the basics of media literacy. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100 and (200 or 210).
Course ID: 50004
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)
Same as Offered: AFST 347 , MLL 322
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GWST 323 - Gender and Sitcoms (3.00)
The course studies the relationship between changing gender roles and the leading ladies of television situation comedy between the 1950s and the 1990’s with particular emphasis on the sitcom form and the representation of domesticity. The course explores the second wave of US feminist history and shifting sitcom roles of wife, mother and working women during this period. Text studied will include: Mary Tyler Moore, The Honeymooners, Leave It to Beaver, Murphy Brown, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, Roseanne, The Burns and Allen Show and Father Knows Best. Feminist readings, analysis and discussion support the understanding of the media.
Course ID: 100365
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP) effective from Winter/Spring 2018
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GWST 325 - History of Women in America to 1870 (3.00)
This course examines the changing roles of women in American society from colonial times to 1870 and covers such topics as family, work, rebellion, religion, sexuality, slavery, reform movements and early efforts for women’s rights. Emphasis is placed on both the variety of women’s experiences and the evolving concerns and position of American women as a group. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course, junior/senior standing or permission of the instructor.
Course ID: 50112
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: HIST 325
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GWST 326 - History of Women in America Since 1870 (3.00)
A study of the changing roles of women in American society since 1870, focusing on such topics as work, higher education and the professions, social reform, the suffrage movement, war and peace, working-class and immigrant women, birth control and sexual freedom, and the rebirth of feminism. Emphasis is placed on both the variety of women’s experiences and the evolving concerns and position of American women as a group. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level Social Science course or junior/senior status or permission of the instructor.
Course ID: 50130
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: HIST 326
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GWST 327 - African American Women’s History (3.00)
This course traces the history of African -American women in the United States, beginning with their ancestors’ history in pre-colonial Africa and U.S. slavery to the present. Topics covered include work; family roles; activism; achievements; and bouts with racism, sexism and poverty. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level Social Science course or 200-level Literature course or junior/senior standing or permission of the instructor
Course ID: 50010
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Culture(GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: AFST 354 , HIST 323
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GWST 328 - Women and Politics (3.00)
This course is an examination of significant current trends in women’s political mobilization in the United States, including topics such as the gender gap, gender differences in electoral strategies, the impact of gender on political behavior, the status of women in public office, the history of women in public office and the history of women’s political participation. Recommended Preparation: One prior course in political science or gender and women’s studies.
Course ID: 50129
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: POLI 328
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GWST 330 - Gender and Women in the Classical World (3.00)
What do we and can we know about the lives of women in ancient Greece and Italy, and how did women and men interact? In this course, archaeological and written evidence will be examined to reconstruct the activities, status and images of Greek, Etruscan and Roman women and place them within their historical and cultural contexts. Attention will be paid to the way both ancient and modern views about women and men influence our understanding of the past and present.
Course ID: 50042
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP), Writing Intensive, Arts and Humanities (GFR), Culture (GFR)
Same as Offered: ANCS 320
Requirement Group: You must complete one course from the following: ANCS course or GWST course or ARCH 200 or ARCH 201 or HIST 453 or HIST 455 or HIST 456 with a C or better.
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GWST 332 - Human Sexuality in Sociological Perspectives (3.00)
The course focuses upon sociological forces that influence sexuality and govern its expression. Topics include the sexual socialization of children and adolescents; teenage pregnancy; sexuality of single, married and older adults; governmental and educational services related to sexuality; sexual orientation; pornography; and sexual coercion. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or consent of instructor.
Course ID: 50132
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: SOCY 332
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GWST 333 - Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3.00)
Norms and mores that sanction and regulate human sexuality exist universally, but their particular forms vary widely from one society to another. This course examines theories that offer a sociological explanation for the variation of sexual attitudes and behaviors in both industrialized and nonindustrialized societies. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or consent of instructor.
Course ID: 50131
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Effective Spring 2018 Culture (GEP) , Social Sciences (GEP)
Same as Offered: SOCY 333
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GWST 338 - Women, Gender, and Law (3.00)
This course examines ways in which gender affects rights with the American civil and criminal legal systems. It explores the interrelationship between traditional attitudes and stereotypes concerning women’s roles in society and the historical development of women’s legal rights. The course focuses on the consequences of sex differences in shaping the rights of persons under the U.S. Constitution statutory remedies to discrimination in employment and education, legal issues relating to reproduction and personal life, and the response of criminal law to issues affecting women, including domestic violence, rape and prostitution. Recommended Preparation: One prior course in political science or gender and women’s studies.
Course ID: 50109
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: POLI 338
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GWST 340 - Women, Gender and Globalization (3.00)
This course focuses on how gender influences social, economic,and political forms of globalization, development, labor and migration, international sexual and health politics, and activism in various regions outside of the United States. We start with representations and consider how “women” have been constructed as a group crossculturally and as part of feminist imaginaries. We analyze case studies of global and transnational movements for change led by women around the world. Finally, we discuss the ways in which gender matters as a framework for understanding global relationships and politics.
Course ID: 54595
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Culture (GFR), Social Sciences (GFR)
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GWST 342 - Gender in Modern South Asia (3.00)
This course examines how gender operates as an organizing force in social, political, and economic life in South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. We will start by discussing representations of South Asian women from the colonial to the post-colonial period, and then using casestudies, we will explore contemporary debates related to nationalism, family relationships, sexuality, labor and migration, development, globalization and social movements in South Asia. Students taking this course will gain an understanding of the complex histories of the region, the relationship between colonialism, nationalism, postcolonial politics, identity and contemporary gender issues. Recommended Course Preparation: GWST 100 or ASIA 100
Course ID: 101900
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP)
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GWST 343 - Gender, Human Rights, and Political Violence in Latin America (3.00)
This class examines the politics of human rights and cultural representations of gender violence in contemporary Latin American history. Focusing on specific moments of state-sponsored violence in Latin America, the class will explore broader issues relating to Western and Third World discourses on human rights, feminism and gender relations. Students taking this course will gain an understanding of the histories of the region, the relationship between universal human rights, nationalism, political violence and contemporary gender issues. Recommended Course Preparation:GWST 100 or GLBL100
Course ID: 102012
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP)
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GWST 344 - Transnational Femininities (3.00)
This course studies femininity in a trans/national context. “Trans” suggests that we will discuss femininity as something performed by and written on many kinds of bodies, not only those assigned female at birth. “Transnational” denotes that we will situate femininity in the US, across multiple nations, and within a broad sociocultural framework. We will discuss how class, bodily comportment, sexuality, nation, ability, and religion affect feminine performance and feminine/feminist/queer politics. Recommended Course Preparation: GWST 100 or GWST 210
Course ID: 102477
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Effective Spring 2018 Culture (GEP), Arts & Humanities (GEP)
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GWST 345 - Unruly Bodies (3.00)
Drawing on feminist, queer, social, and critical race theory, this course examines the status of the body in both historical and contemporary debates about identity, representation, and politics. We tend to take the body for granted as the ground of experience and knowledge, but this course challenges that common sense, asking how the body is produced, managed, and deployed in a various ways to discipline and manage populations. We will also investigate the political possibilities of body work to resist and reshape these same disciplinary practices, paying particular attention to “queer” forms of embodiment. Recommended Course Preparation: GWST 100 or GWST 200 .
Course ID: 101763
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Effective Spring 2018 Culture (GEP), Arts & Humanities (GEP)
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GWST 348 - Black, Queer, and Feminist Film (3.00)
This course examines prominent themes in films that fall within the categories “Black,” “Queer,” and “Feminist.” Most of the films are narrative, dealing with issues involving race, gender, and sexuality. This course is not just about watching films. It makes extensive use of critical historical and theoretical texts from the disciplines of psychoanalysis, feminism, literary and queer theory, as well as from film history, art history, and critical theory. Prior knowledge of film-making and/or film history/theory is not required. Recommended Course Preparation :GWST 210
Course ID: 102061
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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GWST 349 - Gender, Sex and Theatre Performance. (3.00)
The course explores representations of both gender and sexual identity in contemporary Western theatre and performance art. Specifically, we will study how representations of gender and sexuality in performance both replicate and resist normative roles and stereotypes. The course investigates feminist and queer critiques of theatrical performance, as well as the meaning of female and queer characters in dramatic literature and their embodiment on the stage.
Course ID: 50110
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)
Same as Offered: THTR 349
Requirement Group: You must have Sophomore Standing.
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GWST 352 - Women, Gender, and Information Technology (3.00)
This course examines important issues concerning women, gender, and information technology (IT). It considers women’s contributions to technology, from the 19th century Analytical Engine to contemporary cybersecurity industry; how women are impacted by technology; how women and girls fare in IT educational settings; and the way these issues intersect with multiple dimensions of experience, such as nationality, race, class and age. Students will connect these issues to their ow n experiences, including academic and career choices, and will utilize information technology to completing course assignments. Recommended Course Preparation:A prior course in computer science, information systems or gender and women’s studies.
Course ID: 50049
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: CMSC 352H ,GWST GWST 352H
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: CMSC 352 , IS 352
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GWST 352H - Women, Gender, and Information Technology (3.00)
This course examines important issues concerning women, gender, and information technology (IT). It considers women’s contributions to technology, from the 19th century Analytical Engine to contemporary cybersecurity industry; how women are impacted by technology; how women and girls fare in IT educational settings; and the way these issues intersect with multiple dimensions of experience, such as nationality, race, class and age. Students will connect these issues to their ow n experiences, including academic and career choices, and will utilize information technology to completing course assignments. Recommended Course Preparation:A prior course in computer science, information systems or gender and women’s studies.
Course ID: 100342
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents:GWST352
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: CMSC352, IS352
Requirement Group: You must have completed one IS, CMSC, or GWST course with a grade of C or better.
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GWST 353 - Marriage and the Family (3.00)
Marriage and family as social institutions. Primary relationships in marriage, their development in courtship, formalization in marriage and extension to children. The course draws on materials from related disciplines, as well as from sociology. Special emphasis on marriage and change in sex roles in modern societies. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or ANTH 211
Course ID: 50134
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: SOCY 353
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GWST 355 - The Sociology of Gender (3.00)
This course introduces the key concepts sociologists have contributed to the study of gender. We will examine the origins and development of those concepts and empirical work on the sociology of gender in the last three decades. Intersectional feminist theories and research will be emphasized, as we examine how gender is socially constructed within ethno-racial contexts. Students will also be introduced to global/transnational concerns, studies of masculinities, the body and sexuality studies.
Course ID: 50117
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: SOCY 355
Requirement Group: You must have completed SOCY 101 or ANTH 211 or GWST 100 , any with “C” or better.
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GWST 356 - The Psychology of Sex and Gender (3.00)
An examination of the psychology and biology of sex and gender differences. The major focus of the course is an examination of the psychological and social factors that lead to the development of sex and gender differences and similarities in behavior. Sexuality and variations in sexual orientation will be discussed. Research on both sexes (biological construct) and gender (consequence of socialization) will be included. Diversity and variation on concepts will be explored.
Course ID: 50116
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: PSYC 356
Prerequisite: You must have completed PSYC 100 and one other PSYC course both with a C or better.
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GWST 357 - Psychology of Women (3.00)
The course will discuss psychological models of the female personality (psychoanalytic, social learning, cognitive development and gender schema perspectives); sexuality; gender roles; gender bias in psychological research; and psychological research on such topics as women’s achievement, mental health and interpersonal relationships.
Course ID: 50115
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: PSYC 357
Prerequisite You must have completed PSYC 100 and one other PSYC course both with a C or better.
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GWST 364 - Perspectives on Women in Literature (3.00)
Reading and analysis of literature by or about women. The course intends to familiarize students both with major women writers and with ways in which women have been portrayed in literature. Particular attention will be paid to issues of canonization, gender and genre, as well as to the development of a female literary tradition. Topics to be announced each semester offered. This course is repeatable for credit.
Course ID: 50085
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Topics: New Women Novelists, Pers: Women In Amer Lit, Persp: Women In Amer Lit, Jane Austen Romantic Nov, Pers:Women In Amer Fictn, Images Of Joan Of Arc, Pers:Women In Amer Lit, The Woman Intellectual in the, Women in Medieval Literature and Culture, Women Writers & the French Revolution, Women and the Fictions of Colonization, The Female Captive in Early American Literature, Romanticism, Gender and Magic, Women’s Work in Early America
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GFR)
Writing Intensive (WI)
Same as Offered: ENGL 364
Requirement Group: You must complete a 200 level ENGL course with a C or better.
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GWST 365 - Black Women Novelists (3.00)
In this course, students will read and analyze the first-person narratives of African and diasporan women to understand how women have used language to define and empower themselves in conformity to or in opposition to the social conventions and political ideologies of their societies. Personal narratives such as letters, diaries, memoirs, essays, journals and autobiographies will be read as literary texts - which are imaginative, reflexive and symbolic - and as social documents - which underscore the ways in which race, class, gender and sexual orientation affect the lives of black women. Texts will be examined within the framework of feminist, particularly black feminist theory and practice. Recommended Course Preparation: GWST 100 /GWST 370 /AFST 370 .
Course ID: 100003
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
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GWST 366 - Doing It: Case Studies in the History of Western Sexuality (3.00)
This course will explore how sexuality works in Western history. We will work with the contention that sexuality, along with connected notions of masculinity and femininity, are largely social constructions, and have been the object of intense social scrutiny and political regulation. We will investigate sexual desire and behavior, and sexual and gender ideologies, and will explore how they relate to a variety of topics such as race, marriage, reproduction, same-sex relations, religion, and the politics of state building. Recommended Course Preparation: Any 100 SS or C course
Course ID: 101930
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: HIST 366
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GWST 367 - The Anthropology of Gender (3.00)
The Anthropology of Gender concerns the wide range of meanings given to gender and sexuality in different settings. In exploring how gender and sexuality are culturally constructed the course does not focus on the biology of gender and sexuality per se. Rather, the course explores distinctive peoples’ understandings of gender and sexuality. Lectures focus on basic principles by which to examine gender in cross-cultural perspective. Readings focus on detailed and complex examples of distinctive gender and sexuality systems.
Course ID: 102062
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: ANTH 367
Requirement Group: You must complete ANTH 211 or SOCY 101 with a C or better.
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GWST 370 - Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (3.00)
A comparative examination of selected social and psychological factors that influence the lives of black women in Africa and the diaspora. Recommended Preparation: AFST 100 , GWST 100 or permission of instructor
Course ID: 50007
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
Same as Offered: AFST 370
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GWST 371 - The Female Offender (3.00)
An examination of causes and incidence of female crime and the exploration of major theories from Freud to the feminist. Community response to female crime and alternative forms of treatment are evaluated. Recommended Preparation: AFST 271 or junior/senior standing
Course ID: 50009
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Same as Offered: AFST 371
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