Upcoming Courses
Fulfill a requirement for the Women's Studies minor
Any of the classes below may be taken to fulfill a requirement for the Women's Studies minor. Email us or stop by our office (Campus Center Building 211) if you have questions.
**Indicates courses that require a substitution for the program of study before census.
Summer 2021
Full Session (05/17-08/13)
**SOWK 4567.901 | Human Sexuality | TBA
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
This survey course on human sexuality introduces students to sexual attitudes, sexual
physiology and response, sexual techniques and behavior, reproduction and reproductive
control, sexually transmitted diseases, and how sexual behavior is learned and developed,
i.e., psychosocial development and cultural impact. It provides students with the
opportunity for value clarification and exploration of personal and social attitudes
toward varying forms of sexual behavior and orientations.
Session 1 (06/07-07/09)
WMST 2010.910 | Intro to Women’s Studies | Martin
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
This course provides a broad interdisciplinary perspective of the academic field of
women’s studies. This course is, for the most part, taught thematically and covers
topics that include women’s history; gender, race, and class; women and family; women
and religion; women and work; women and the arts; women and politics; and women’s
health.
**PSCI 4957.901 | Special Topics: Women in Politics | Crumley
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
This course examines what it means to be politically powerful, how women have achieved
political power historically, why women remain underrepresented in formal political
institutions, and why gender inequality persists. The relationship between gender,
power, markets, culture, and the state are explored through theoretical and empirical
analysis and highlighting the variations of experiences of women in developed, developing,
and less developed countries.
Session II (07/12-08/13)
WMST 2010.950 | Intro to Women’s Studies | Marsh
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
We will take an intersectional approach to understanding how gender and sexuality
are shaped by sociocultural dynamics and power relations embedded in everyday experiences.
Course content includes histories of feminisms, reproductive justice, labor and the
family, gender-based violence, and media representation of gender and sexuality.
SOWK 1030.902 | Cultural Diversity | Brookstreet
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
The dual purpose of this course is to introduce the knowledge necessary for social
work practice with disadvantaged, marginalized, and oppressed groups and to advance
a philosophy that people come first and must be treated with dignity and respect.
Issues of power, privilege, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, civil rights,
historical and legal heritage, and contemporary news events are central course components.
Fall 2021
WGSS 2010.001 | Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Clark
MW 9:20-10:15 (3.00 hrs)
This course provides a broad interdisciplinary perspective of the academic field of
women’s studies. You will learn to speak eloquently about gender and sexuality; examine
your own preconceived notions about Gender; examine and deconstruct society’s underlying
assumptions about Maleness and Femaleness; and laugh at the absurd notions we all
carry around about Gender, Sex and Women’s roles in everyday life.
WGSS 2010.00 | Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Tolley
TR 11:15-12:25 (3.00 hrs)
Learn how current events, popular culture, and students’ personal experiences are
useful starting points in discussing theories, concepts, and issues in women’s studies.
Themes emphasized in this section are equity, identity, and social justice. As a writing
intensive course, this section focuses on refining student composition. Further, this
section encourages students to develop their voices (both written and oral) as a person
and in expressing their perspective in a safe space.
WGSS 2010.003 | Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Buck
TR 12:45-2:05 (3.00 hrs)
Women's Studies examines how social structures and cultural heritage impact women
in public life (e.g., work and politics), private life (e.g., family and relationships),
and one's inner life (e.g., self-concept and gender identity). Students are expected
to make connections between the scholarship they read and their own lived experiences.
Assignments include reading responses, essays, quizzes, and reports on current events.
WGSS 2010.901 | Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Martin
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
This course provides a broad interdisciplinary perspective of the academic field of
women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. This course is, for the most part, taught
thematically and covers topics that include women’s history; gender, sexuality, race,
and class; women and family; women and religion; women and work; women and the arts;
women and politics; and women’s health.
WGSS 2010.902 | Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Clark
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
This course provides a broad interdisciplinary perspective of the academic field of
women’s studies. You will learn to speak eloquently about gender and sexuality; examine
your own preconceived notions about Gender; examine and deconstruct society’s underlying
assumptions about Maleness and Femaleness; and laugh at the absurd notions we all
carry around about Gender, Sex and Women’s roles in everyday life.
WGSS 2010.910 | Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Marsh
Last 7 weeks (10/19-12/10) ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
We will take an intersectional approach to understanding how gender and sexuality
are shaped by sociocultural dynamics and power relations embedded in everyday experiences.
Course content includes histories of feminisms, reproductive justice, labor and the
family, gender-based violence, and media representation of gender and sexuality.
WGSS 2110.FE1 | Sex, Gender, & the Body | Novotny
Last 7 weeks (10/19-12/10) MW 1:40-4:30 (3.00 hrs)
This course examines the diverse and historically varying relationships forged between
biological sex, cultural discourses of masculinity and femininity, and the sexed,
gendered, and racialized body. Combining texts from the field of gender and sexuality
studies with memoir, documentary, and visual art, we investigate how our diverse experiences
of embodiment are historically and politically shaped.
WGSS 3330.901 | Feminist Thought and Practice | Thompson
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
Prerequisites: WMST 2010 or WMST 2020. This course provides an introduction to intersectional
feminist theories (including fat studies, disability studies, trans studies, #metoo,
black feminist thought, affect, belonging, Chicana/Borderlands) and promotes the important
project of critical thinking about power and privilege as it connects to lived experience.
WMST 3410.901 | Gender and Violence | Thompson
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
The aim of the course is to expose myths about gender-based violence, understand the
origins, recognize forms and effects, and identify interventions that can reduce and
prevent their occurrence.
In this course, students explore
-the socio-cultural, sexual, psychological, economic and political, aspects of gender-based
violence
-the impact of violence including physical and psychological scars
-the high cost of health disparities for survivors
-cycles of abuse and tactics for survival
-strategies for prevention, intervention, and healing that connect gender-based violence
to human rights issues; gender, sex, and race equity; social norms; and societal development.
Course participants will take part in a SAMSHA-based Trauma-Informed Care workshop
and will use this practical methodology to discuss access and engagement and design
interventions during the semester. For more information, email thompsop@etsu.edu.
WGSS 4080.001 | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Internship |
Thompson
Time TBA (3.00 hrs)
Prerequisites: WGSS 2010, senior standing, and director approval. Provides supervised
experience with a professional, non-profit, civic, or other social justice group work
experience that synthesizes the student’s program of study. A mandatory orientation
meeting is required, and a completed internship permission form must be completed
before working any hours on site.
**ANTH 4957.904 | Special Topics: Anthropology of Sex and Gender | Schrift
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
Cross-cultural perspective on gender identities and roles, sex & biology, beauty and
bodily processes, sexuality, healing & human rights. Email schrift@etsu.edu for more
information.
ARTH 4117 | Women and Queers in the Arts | Fowler
TR 3:45-5:05 (3.00 hrs)
With a thematic focus on gender and sexuality, this lecture surveys the contributions
of women and LGBTQ artists, who are often marginalized in the historical study of
art and criticism. The course will proceed chronologically, from prehistory to today,
and consider the lives and achievements of artists working in diverse cultural milieus.
In addition to situating women and queer artists in their respective historical contexts,
the course will discuss the various obstacles they had to overcome to pursue an artistic
vocation. Lectures will address several related issues, such as the dichotomy between
art and craft, the hierarchy of genres, the relationship between subject matter and
artistic identity, and art as protest.
COMM 4200 | Gender and Communication | Buerkle
MWF 10:25-11:20 (3.00 hrs)
Men are not from Mars, nor are women from Venus. Often, however, we are asked to think
of identifying as male to female in such polarizing ways. This course investigates
how communication practices affect or ideas about and experiences of gender as well
as how our gender may affect our own communication. You should leave the class more
aware of the dynamics of gender on your journey to being a more effective and ethical
communicator.
CJCR 4670.901 | Race, Gender, and Crime | Klepper
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
Examines experiences of women and people of color with agencies of social control.
Comparisons of crime rates, types of criminal offending, and victimization including
discussion of sexual and racial harassment in the workplace are studied.
ENGL 3500.001 | Women Authors | Childress
MWF 10:25-11:20 (3.00 hrs)
In his course subtitled Women Writing Appalachia, we will explore the voices of women
from Appalachia, their political, intellectual, and emotional experiences, and their
broad contribution to the cultural understanding of the lives of women in the region.
We will consider fiction, poetry, essays, and creative non-fiction (some in their
entirety, excerpts from others) within their literary contexts, as well as within
their social contexts, to discover how Appalachian women authors wield literary force
as well as political and social influence.
HDAL 2340 | Understanding Cultural Diversity | 3 Sections
TR 9:45-11:05 / ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
This course is designed for the student to develop competencies that allow her/ him
to be more effective when relating and/or working with individuals of diverse groups
in society. Students will have opportunities to develop awareness of their own cultural
values and biases, to study prevalent beliefs and attitudes of different cultures,
and to develop skills useful for appropriate interactions with particular groups.
SOCI 3030.901 | Gender and Society | Hirsch
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
Prerequisites: SOCI 1020 or permission of instructor. Studies the social construction
of gender and its consequences for individuals and society. Examines our cultural
assumptions about gender identities, roles, behaviors, and the social processes that
reproduce gender inequality.
SOWK 1030.001 / 901 | Cultural Diversity | 2 Sections
TR 9:00-10:20 / ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
The dual purpose of this course is to introduce the knowledge necessary for social
work practice with disadvantaged, marginalized, and oppressed groups and to advance
a philosophy that people come first and must be treated with dignity and respect.
Issues of power, privilege, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, civil rights, historical
and legal heritage, and contemporary news events are central course components.
SOWK 4567.901 | Human Sexuality | TBA
ONLINE (3.00 hrs)
This survey course on human sexuality introduces students to sexual attitudes, sexual
physiology and response, sexual techniques and
behavior, reproduction and reproductive control, sexually transmitted diseases, and
how sexual behavior is learned and developed, i.e., psychosocial development and cultural
impact. It provides students with the opportunity for value clarification and exploration
of personal and social attitudes toward varying forms of sexual behavior and orientations.