The College Catalogue

First-Year Seminars

For a full description of first-year seminars, see the First-Year Seminar section.

15 {1015} b. Women in the European Union. Fall 2012. Kristen Ghodsee.

16 {1016} c. The Sexual Life of Colonialism: Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial World. Fall 2012. Durba Mitra. (Same as Gay and Lesbian Studies 17 {1017} and History 27 {1032}.)

20 {1020} c. In Sickness and in Health: Public Health in Europe and the United States. Fall 2012. Susan Tananbaum. (Same as History 20 {1010}.)

22 {1022} c. “Bad” Women Make Great History: Gender, Identity, and Society in Modern Europe, 1789–1945. Fall 2013. Page Herrlinger. (Same as History 22 {1012}.)

23 {1034} c. Lesbian Personae. Spring 2013. Peter Coviello. (Same as English 10 {1034} and Gay and Lesbian Studies 20 {1034}.)

27 {1027} c. From Flowers of Evil to Pretty Woman: Prostitutes in Modern Western Culture. Fall 2012. Jill S. Smith. (Same as Gay and Lesbian Studies 27 {1027} and German 27 {1027}.)

[29 {1029} c. Historians, Comediennes, Storytellers: Women Filmmakers in the German-Speaking Countries. (Same as Film Studies 29 {1029}, Gay and Lesbian Studies 29 {1029}, and German 29 {1029}.)]

Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced Courses

101 {1101} b - ESD. Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies. Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. Samaa Abdurraqib.

An interdisciplinary introduction to the issues, perspectives, and findings of the new scholarship that examines the role of gender in the construction of knowledge. Explores what happens when women become the subjects of study; what is learned about women; what is learned about gender; and how disciplinary knowledge itself is changed.

102 {1102} c - ESD, VPA. Cultural Choreographies: An Introduction to Dance. Spring 2013. Paul Sarvis.

Dancing is a fundamental human activity, a mode of communication, and a basic force in social life. Investigates dance and movement in the studio and classroom as aesthetic and cultural phenomena. Explores how dance and movement activities reveal information about cultural norms and values and affect perspectives in our own and other societies. Using ethnographic methods, focuses on how dancing maintains and creates conceptions of one’s own body, gender relationships, and personal and community identities. Experiments with dance and movement forms from different cultures and epochs—for example, the hula, New England contradance, classical Indian dance, Balkan kolos, ballet, contact improvisation, and African American dance forms from swing to hip-hop—through readings, performances, workshops in the studio, and field work. (Same as Dance 101 {1102}.)

117 {1117} c. Christian Sexual Ethics. Fall 2012. Elizabeth Pritchard.

An examination of the themes, varieties, and conflicts of Christian teachings and practices regarding sex and sexuality. Source materials include the Bible, historical analyses, Church dogmatics, legal cases, and ethnographic studies. Topics include celibacy and marriage, the development and status of sexual orientations, natural law, conversion therapy, reproductive rights and technologies, and comparative religious ethics. (Same as Gay and Lesbian Studies 116 {1116} and Religion 116 {1116}.)

140 {1592} c. History of Hip-Hop. Fall 2012. Tracy McMullen.

Traces the history of hip-hop culture (with a focus on rap music) from its beginnings in the Caribbean through its transformation into a global phenomenon. Explores constructions of race, gender, class, and sexuality in hip-hop’s production, promotion, and consumption, as well as the ways in which changing media technology and corporate consolidation influenced the music. Artists/bands investigated include Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, MC Lyte, Lil’ Kim, Snoop Dog, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, and DJ Spooky. (Same as Africana Studies 159 {1592} and Music 140 {1592}.)

201 {2201} b - ESD. Feminist Theory. Fall 2012. Samaa Abdurraqib.

The history of women’s studies and its transformation into gender studies and feminist theory has always included a tension between creating “woman,” and political and theoretical challenges to that unity. Examines that tension in two dimensions: the development of critical perspectives on gender and power relations both within existing fields of knowledge, and within the continuous evolution of feminist discourse itself.

Prerequisite: Gender and Women’s Studies 101 or permission of the instructor.

202 {2202} c. Victorian Urban Narratives. Fall 2012. Aviva Briefel.

Seminar. An exploration of London as space and character in Victorian literary narratives. Considers such topics as the intersections between identity and urban setting; the relationship between genre and literary space; and the overlaps in mappings of cities and narratives. Consideration of literary and cultural theory and criticism is central. Authors may include Conrad, Dickens, Dixon, Doyle, Gissing, Marsh, and Wilde. (Same as English 208 {2002} and Gay and Lesbian Studies 202 {2002}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English.

206 {2209} c - ESD. Gender and Islam. Spring 2013. Jorunn Buckley.

Explores categories for interpreting female symbolism in Islamic thought and practice, and women’s religious, legal, and political status in Islam. Attention is given to statements about women in the Qur’an, as well as other traditional and current Islamic texts. Emphasis on analysis of gender in public versus private spheres, individual vs. society, Islamization vs. modernization/Westernization, and the placement/displacement of women in the traditionally male-dominated Islamic power structures. Students may find it helpful to have taken Religion 208, but it is not a prerequisite. (Same as Religion 209 {2209}.)

207 {2207} c - ESD, VPA. Black Women, Politics, Music, and the Divine. Fall 2014. Judith Casselberry.

Seminar. Examines the convergence of politics and spirituality in the musical work of contemporary Black women singer-songwriters in the United States. Analyzes material that interrogates and articulates the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality, generated across a range of religious and spiritual terrains with African diasporic/Black Atlantic spiritual moorings, including Christianity, Islam, and Yoruba. Focuses on material that reveals a womanist (Black feminist) perspective by considering the ways resistant identities shape and are shaped by artistic production. Employs an interdisciplinary approach by incorporating ethnomusicology, anthropology, literature, history, and performance and social theory. Explores the work of Shirley Caesar, The Clark Sisters, Me’shell Ndegeocello, Abby Lincoln, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Dianne Reeves, among others. (Same as Africana Studies 201 {2201}, Music 201 {2591}, and Religion 201 {2201}.)

210 {2210} b - ESD, IP. Global Sexualities, Local Desires. Fall 2012. Krista Van Vleet.

Explores the variety of practices, performances, and ideologies of sexuality through a cross-cultural perspective. Focusing on contemporary anthropological scholarship on sexuality and gender, asks whether Western conceptions of “sexuality,” “sex,” and “gender” help us understand the lives and desires of people in other social and cultural contexts. Topics may include Brazilian transgendered prostitutes (travestí), intersexuality, and the naturalization of sex; “third gendered” individuals and religion in Native North America, India, and Chile; language and the performance of sexuality by drag queens in the United States; transnationalism and the global construction of “gay” identity in Indonesia; lesbian and gay kinship; AIDS in Cuba and Brazil; and Japanese Takarazuka theater. In addition to ethnographic examples of alternative genders and sexualities (so called “third genders” and non-heterosexual sexualities) in both Western and non-Western contexts, also presents the major theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches used by anthropologists to understand sexuality, and considers how shifts in feminist and queer politics have also required anthropologists to focus on other social differences such as class, race, ethnicity, and post-colonial relations. (Same as Anthropology 210 {2110} and Gay and Lesbian Studies 210 {2110}.)

Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 or Sociology 101, or permission of the instructor.

[218 {2218} b - IP. Sex and Socialism: Gender and Political Ideologies of the Twentieth Century.]

220 {2510} c - IP, VPA. Soviet Worker Bees, Revolution, and Red Love in Russian Film. Fall 2012. Kristina Toland.

Explores twentieth-century Russian society through critical analysis of film, art, architecture, music, and literature. Topics include scientific utopias, eternal revolution, individual freedom versus collectivism, conflict between the intelligentsia and the common man, the “new Soviet woman,” nationalism, the thaw and double-think, stagnation of the 1970s, post-glastnost sexual liberation, and black hole post-soviet film. Works of Eisenstein, Vertov, Pudovkin, Tarkovsky, Kandinsky, Chagall, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Brodsky, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, Petrushevskaya, and Tolstaya. Weekly film viewings. Russian majors are required to do some reading in Russian. (Same as Russian 221 {2221}.)

Note: May be counted towards a minor in film studies.

221 {2221} c. Dostoevsky and the Novel. Spring 2013. Raymond Miller.

Examines Fyodor Dostoevsky’s later novels. Studies the author’s unique brand of realism (“fantastic realism,” “realism of a higher order”), which explores the depths of human psychology and spirituality. Emphasis on the anti-Western, anti-materialist bias of Dostoevsky’s quest for meaning in a world growing increasingly unstable, violent, and cynical. Special attention is given to the author’s treatment of urban poverty and the place of women in Russian society. (Same as Russian 223 {2223}.)

222 {2222} b - ESD. “The Wire”: Race, Class, Gender, and the Urban Crisis. Spring 2015. Brian Purnell.

Postwar U.S. cities were considered social, economic, political, and cultural zones of “crisis.” African Americans—their families, gender relations; their relationship to urban political economy, politics, and culture—were at the center of this discourse. Using David Simon’s epic series, The Wire, as a critical source on postindustrial urban life, politics, conflict, and economics, covers the origins of the “urban crisis,” the rise of an “underclass” theory of urban class relations, the evolution of the urban “underground economy,” and the ways the “urban crisis” shaped depictions of African Americans in American popular culture. (Same as Africana Studies 220 {2220} and Sociology 220 {2220}.)

Prerequisite: Africana Studies 101, Education 101, Gender and Women’s Studies 101, or Sociology 101, or permission of the instructor.

[223 {2223} b - ESD. Cultural Interpretations of Medicine. (Same as Sociology 223 {2223}.)]

230 {2230} c - ESD. Science, Sex, and Politics. Spring 2014. David Hecht.

Examines the intersection of science, sex, and politics in twentieth-century United States history. Issues of sex and sexuality have been contested terrain over the past hundred years, as varying conceptions of gender, morality, and “proper” sexual behavior have become politically and socially controversial. Explores the way that science has impacted these debates—often as a tool by which activists of varying political and intellectual persuasions have attempted to use notions of scientific objectivity and authority to advance their agendas. Explores debates over issues such as birth control, eugenics, abortion, and the “gay gene.” (Same as Gay and Lesbian Studies 229 {2681} and History 229 {2201}.)

232 {2232} c - ESD. Transatlantic Crossings. Fall 2012. Terri Nickel.

Traces the circulation of narratives at the height of Britain’s colonial power in the Americas. Situates such literary commerce alongside the larger exchange of people and goods and focuses on the fluctuating nature of national, racial, and sexual identities in the circum-Atlantic world. Explores how literary texts attempted, and often failed, to sustain “Englishness” in the face of separation, revolution, or insurrection. Of special interest are figures who move across the Atlantic divide and exploit the possibility of multiple roles—sailors, pirates, freed or escaped slaves, female soldiers. Texts may include General History of the Pirates; The Woman of Colour; Moll Flanders; The History of Emily Montague; Obi, or the History of Three-Fingered Jack; The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; the Journals of Janet Schaw; The History of Mary Prince; The Female American. (Same as Africana Studies 234 {2703} and English 233 {2703}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English.

Note: This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for English majors.

233 {2233} b. Gender and Secularisms: Comparative Cultures of Church-State Relations. Fall 2012. Kristen R. Ghodsee.

Examines the gendered implications of different ideologies informing the post-Enlightenment separation of Church and State. Students will be expected to engage with recent critical scholarship on secularism, post-secularism, and the process of secularization. Asks how different configurations of religion and politics shape collective definitions of the public and private sphere and how these particular conceptions then affect gender relations between men and women. Examines competing histories of secularization as well as engages with recent controversies such as the headscarf bans in Turkey and France and the issue of abstinence-only sex education in school in the United States. In particular, explores the paradox of trying to simultaneously uphold gender equality and protect religious freedoms when these two goals are seemingly at odds.

[237 {2237} b - ESD, IP. Family, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America. (Same as Anthropology 237 {2737} and Latin American Studies 237 {2737}.)]

239 {2240} c. Women and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Spring 2014. Ann Kibbie.

Explores how women are represented in eighteenth-century fiction and the impact of women readers and women writers on the development of the novel. Authors include Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen. (Same as English 232 {2302}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or gender and women’s studies.

Note: This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement for English majors.

244 {2244} c. Victorian Crime. Fall 2012. Aviva Briefel.

Investigates literary representations of criminality in Victorian England. Of central concern is the construction of social deviancy and criminal types; images of disciplinary figures, structures, and institutions; and the relationship between generic categories (the detective story, the Gothic tale, the sensation novel) and the period’s preoccupation with transgressive behavior and crime. Authors may include Braddon, Collins, Dickens, Doyle, Stevenson, and Wells. (Same as English 244 {2404} and Gay and Lesbian Studies 244 {2404}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or gender and women’s studies, or Gay and Lesbian Studies 201.

247 {2247} c. Modernism/Modernity. Every other year. Fall 2013. Marilyn Reizbaum.

Examines the cruxes of the “modern,” and the term’s shift into a conceptual category rather than a temporal designation. Although not confined to a particular national or generic rubric, takes British works as a focus. Organized by movements or critical formations of the modern, i.e., modernisms, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, cultural critique. Readings of critical literature in conjunction with primary texts. Authors/directors/works may include T. S. Eliot, Joyce’s Dubliners, Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, Sontag’s On Photography, W. G. Sebald’s The Natural History of Destruction, Ian McEwen’s Enduring Love, Stevie Smith, Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic, and Coetzee’s Disgrace. (Same as English 245 {2451} and Gay and Lesbian Studies 245 {2451}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English, gay and lesbian studies, or gender and women’s studies.

248 {2248} c - ESD. Family and Community in American History, 1600–1900. Fall 2012. Sarah McMahon.

Examines the social, economic, and cultural history of American families from 1600 to 1900, and the changing relationship between families and their kinship networks, communities, and the larger society. Topics include gender relationships; racial, ethnic, cultural, and class variations in family and community ideals, structures, and functions; the purpose and expectations of marriage; philosophies of child-rearing; organization of work and leisure time; and the effects of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and social and geographic mobility on patterns of family life and community organization. (Same as History 248 {2128}.)

249 {2601} c. History of Women’s Voices in America. Spring 2013. Sarah McMahon.

Seminar. Examines women’s voices in America from 1650 to the twentieth century, as these emerged in private letters, journals, and autobiographies; poetry, short stories, and novels; essays, addresses, and prescriptive literature. Readings from the secondary literature provide a historical framework for examining women’s writings. Research projects focus on the form and content of women’s literature and the ways that it illuminates women’s understandings, reactions, and responses to their historical situation. (Same as History 249 {2609}.)

Prerequisite: One course in history.

251 {2251} c - ESD. Women in American History, 1600–1900. Spring 2014. Sarah McMahon.

A social history of American women from the colonial period through the nineteenth century. Examines women’s changing roles in both public and private spheres; the circumstances of women’s lives as these were shaped by class, ethnic, and racial differences; the recurring conflict between the ideals of womanhood and the realities of women’s experience; and focuses on family responsibilities, paid and unpaid work, religion, education, reform, women’s rights, and feminism. (Same as History 246 {2126}.)

252 {2518} c. Empire of Feeling. Every other year. Fall 2014. Peter Coviello.

A study of the relations between sentiment and belonging across the American nineteenth century. Considers how a language of impassioned feeling promised to consolidate a nation often bitterly divided, and some of the problems with that promise. Centers on a reading of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Other authors may include Jefferson, Wheatley, Melville, Hawthorne, Wilson, and Du Bois. (Same as Africana Studies 277 {2503} and English 252 {2503}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English, Africana studies, or gender and women’s studies.

Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.

256 {2256} c - ESD. Gender, Body, and Religion. Spring 2013. Elizabeth Pritchard.

A significant portion of religious texts and practices is devoted to the disciplining and gendering of bodies. Examines these disciplines including ascetic practices, dietary restrictions, sexual and purity regulations, and boundary maintenance between human and divine, public and private, and clergy and lay. Topics include desire and hunger, abortion, women-led religious movements, the power of submission, and the related intersections of race and class. Materials are drawn from Christianity, Judaism, Neopaganism, Voudou, and Buddhism. (Same as Religion 253 {2253}.)

257 {2257} c. White Negroes. Spring 2013. Guy Mark Foster.

Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates “whiteness” and “blackness” as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These are constructs that, while socially and historically produced, are no less “real” in their tangible effects, whether internal or external. Includes works by Charles Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, John Howard Griffin, Andrea Lee, Sandra Bernhard, and Warren Beatty. (Same as Africana Studies 254 {2654} and English 227 {2004}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or Africana Studies.

259 {2259} c - ESD, IP. Sex and the Politics of the Body in Modern India. Spring 2013. Rachel Sturman.

Seminar. Explores changing conceptions of the body, sexuality, and gender in South Asia, with a focus on modern formations since the late eighteenth century. Topics include arranged marriage; courtesanship and prostitution; ideas of purity and defilement; gender, sexuality, and nationalism; and the emergence of a contemporary lesbian/gay/queer movement. (Same as Asian Studies 237 {2583} and History 259 {2801}.)

Prerequisite: One course in history or permission of instructor.

260 {2260} c. (Re)Writing Black Masculinities. Spring 2013. Guy Mark Foster.

In 1845, Frederick Douglass told his white readers: “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.” This simple statement effectively describes the enduring paradox of African American male identity: although black and white males share a genital sameness, until the nation elected its first African American president the former has inhabited a culturally subjugated gender identity in a society premised on both white supremacy and patriarchy. But Douglass’s statement also suggests that black maleness is a discursive construction, i.e., that it changes over time. If this is so, how does it change? What are the modes of its production and how have black men over time operated as agents in reshaping their won masculinities? Reading a range of literary and cultural texts, both past and present, students examine the myriad ramifications of, and creative response to, this ongoing challenge. (Same as Africana Studies 260 {2650} and English 260 {2650}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English, Africana studies, or gender and women’s studies.

Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.

262 {2262} c. Modern Drama and Performance. Spring 2013. Marilyn Reizbaum.

Examines dramatic trends of the modern period, beginning with a triumvirate of modern dramatists—Henrik Ibsen, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett—and draws lines from their work in drama of ideas, epic theatre, and absurdism to developments in the dramatic arts through the modern period into the twenty-first century. Includes plays by Lorraine Hansberry, Caryl Churchill, and Martin McDonagh. Readings staged. (Same as English 246 {2452} and Theater 246 {2846}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English or gender and women’s studies.

265 {2265} b. Gender and Family in East Asia. Fall 2012. Nancy Riley.

Family and gender are central to the organization of East Asian societies, both historically and today. Uses comparative perspectives to examine issues related to family and gender in China, Japan, and Korea. Using the enormous changes experienced in East Asia in recent decades as a context, explores the place of Confucian influences in these societies, the different roles of the state and economy, and the ways that gender and family have been shaped by and shaped those changes. (Same as Asian Studies 264 {2101} and Sociology 265 {2265}.)

Prerequisite: Sociology 101 or Anthropology 101.

266 {2266} c - IP. Chinese Women in Fiction and Film. Spring 2013. Shu-chin Tsui.

Approaches the subject of women and writing in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century China from perspectives of gender studies, literary analysis, and visual representations. Considers women writers, filmmakers, and their works in the context of China’s social-political history as well as its literary and visual traditions. Focuses on how women writers and directors negotiate gender identity against social-cultural norms. Also constructs a dialogue between Chinese women’s works and Western feminist assumptions. (Same as Asian Studies 266 {2073}.)

270 {2270} c - ESD. Spirit Come Down: Black Women and Religion. Spring 2014. Judith Casselberry.

Explores issues of self-representation, memory, material culture, embodiment, and civic and political engagement through autobiographical, historical, literary, anthropological, cinematic, and musical texts. Primarily focused on Christian denominations: Methodist, Baptist, and Pentecostal. Examines the religious lives of black women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. (Same as Africana Studies 271 {2271} and Religion 271 {2271}.)

274 {2274} c - ESD. Writing Muslim Women’s Lives: Western Muslim Women’s Writing Post-9/11. Spring 2013. Samaa Abdurraqib.

Focuses on Muslim women in the West writing literature in a post-9/11 world. In particular, considers the connections between Western curiosity about Muslim women’s lives and the demand for publications by Western Muslim women. In more recent years, there has been a proliferation of memoirs and personal essays published by Muslim women—the numbers of these personal narratives have eclipsed the fictive narratives and poetry written by Muslim women in the West. Makes connections between the desire to “unveil” Muslim women’s lives and the demand for certain types of narratives written by Muslim women and looks at the different ways these demands open up and/or restrict the types of stories Muslim women can tell. Addresses themes of spirituality, religiosity, sexuality, love, and fiction vs. memoir. (Same as English 283 {2800}.)

275 {2600} b. Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Eastern Europe. Spring 2013. Kristen Ghodsee.

Seminar. Examines the current scholarship on gender and sexuality in modern Eastern Europe: the countries of the former Soviet Union, the successor states of Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Albania. Focusing on research produced by academics based in the region, examines the dialogue and interchange of ideas between East and West, and how knowledge about the region is dialectically produced by both Western feminists and East European gender studies scholars. Topics include the women question before 1989; nationalism, fertility, and population decline; patterns and expectations for family formation; the politics of EU gender mainstreaming; visual representations in television and film; social movements; work; romance and intimacy; spirituality; and the status of academic gender studies in the region. (Same as Gay and Lesbian Studies 275 {2600}.)

Prerequisite: Gender and Women’s Studies 101.

[277 {2277} - MCSR. Applied Research Practicum: Chinese Rural to Urban Migration. (Same as Asian Studies 269 {2090} and Economics 277 {3277}.)]

282 {2282} c. Gender, Sexuality, and Schooling. Fall 2012. Doris Santoro.

Schools are sites where young people learn to “do” gender and sexuality through direct instruction, the hidden curriculum, and peer-to-peer learning. In schools, gender and sexuality are challenged, constrained, constructed, normalized, and performed. Explores instructional and curricular reforms that have attempted to address students’ and teachers’ sexual identities and behavior. Examines the effects of gender and sexual identity on students’ experience of school, their academic achievement, and the work of teaching. Topics may include Compulsory Heterosexuality in the Curriculum; The Gender of the Good Student and Good Teacher; Sex Ed in an Age of Abstinence. (Same as Education 212 {2212} and Gay and Lesbian Studies 212 {2120}.)

Prerequisite: Education 101, Gay and Lesbian Studies 201, or Gender and Women’s Studies 101.

283 {2283} c. Interracial Narratives. Fall 2012. Guy Mark Foster.

Examines the stories that Americans have told about intimate relationships that cross the color line in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century imaginative and theoretical texts. Considers how these stories have differed according to whether the participants are heterosexual or homosexual, men or women, Black, White, Asian, Latino, or indigenous. Explores the impact historically changing notions of race, gender, sexuality, and U.S. citizenship have had on the production of these stories. Texts include literature, film, Internet dating sites, and contemporary debates around mixed-race identity and the United States census. (Same as Africana Studies 205 {2653}, English 209 {2653}, and Gay and Lesbian Studies 265 {2653}.)

Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in English.

289 {2289} c - IP. Construction of the Goddess and Deification of Women in Hindu Religious Tradition. Fall 2013. Sree Padma Holt.

Focuses include (1) an examination of the manner in which the power of the feminine has been expressed mythologically and theologically in Hinduism; (2) how various categories of goddesses can be seen or not as the forms of the “great goddess”; and (3) how Hindu women have been deified, a process that implicates the relationship between the goddess and women. Students read a range of works, primary sources, biographies and myths of deified women, and recent scholarship on goddesses and deified women. (Same as Asian Studies 289 {2501} and Religion 289 {2289}.)

291–294 {2970–2973}. Intermediate Independent Study in Gender and Women’s Studies. The Program.

299 {2999}. Intermediate Collaborative Study in Gender and Women’s Studies. The Program.

301 {3301} b. Doing Gender Studies: Ethnographies of Gender. Spring 2013. Kristen R. Ghodsee.

Explores how research and scholarship on gender can be an engine for social change. Students learn how to use the different “tools” of the scholar: interviews, surveys, oral history, archival research, participant observation, and discourse analysis. Through a semester-long research project, each student has a hands-on experience of designing and implementing an in-depth study on the gender issue of the student’s choice. Open to gender and women’s studies majors and minors, or with permission of the instructor.

[302 {3302} b. The Economics of the Family. (Same as Economics 301 {3531}.)]

310 {3310} c. Gay and Lesbian Cinema. Spring 2013. Tricia Welsch.

Considers both mainstream and independent films made by or about gay men and lesbians. Four intensive special topics each semester, which may include classic Hollywood stereotypes and euphemisms; the power of the box office; coming of age and coming out; the social problem film; key figures; writing history through film; queer theory and queer aesthetics; revelation and revaluations of film over time; autobiography and documentary; the AIDS imperative. Writing intensive; attendance at evening film screenings is required. (Same as Film Studies 310 {3310} and Gay and Lesbian Studies 310 {3310}.)

Prerequisite: One course in film studies or permission of the instructor.

323 {3323} c. Voices of Women, Voices of the People. Fall 2012. Hanétha Vété-Congolo.

Focuses on texts written by women from former West African and Caribbean French colonies. Themes treated—womanhood, colonization, slavery, individual and collective identity, relationships between men and women, independence, tradition, modernism, and alienation—are approached from historical, anthropological, political, social, and ideological perspectives. Readings by Mariama Bâ, Aminata Sow Fall (Sénégal); Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Simone Schwartz-Bart (Guadeloupe); Ina Césaire, Suzanne Dracius (Martinique); and Marie Chauvet and Jan J. Dominique (Haïti). (Same as Africana Studies 321 {3201}, French 322 {3201}, and Latin American Studies 322 {3222}.)

Prerequisite: Two of the following: French 207 or 208, French 209 or 210, one 300-level course in French; or permission of the instructor.

346 {3346} c. Philosophy of Gender: Sex and Love. Fall 2012. Sarah Conly.

Issues of sex and love preoccupy us but may not be well understood. Considers what “counts” as having sex, why that matters, and what it is to love someone. These and other relevant topics explored through readings and discussion. (Same as Gay and Lesbian Studies 346 {3346} and Philosophy 346 {3346}.)

358 {3202} c - ESD, VPA. Music, Memory, and Identity. Spring 2013. Tracy McMullen.

Explores how music relates to nostalgia, identity creation, repetition, memory, history, embodiment and “liveness” in the postmodern era. Traces the ways race, gender, sexuality, and class are performed through music. Music examined ranges from classical and jazz to “world music” and pop. Artists/bands examined may include Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Beethoven, Palestrina, and their various tributes and revivals. Authors may include Baudrillard, Boym, Butler, DeNora, Freud, Gates, Goehr, hooks, Huyssen, Jameson, Sterne, and Taruskin. Primarily intended for juniors and seniors with experience in critical and cultural studies. Sophomores admitted with consent of instructor during the add/drop period. (Same as Music 358 {3202}.)

401–404 {4000–4003}. Advanced Independent Study and Honors in Gender and Women’s Studies. The Program.

405 {4029}. Advanced Collaborative Study in Gender and Women’s Studies. The Program.