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.
Spring 2020
WMST 2010 -Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 001) Wagner (TR 9:45AM-11:05AM) 3.00
hrs
The lens of feminism, ideas, theories, and methodologies from many disciplines will
be utilized to examine the lives of women, including extensive inquiries into gender,
race, and sexuality.Throughout this process, we will examine our own lives as humans
functioning in an ever-changing culture.
WMST 2010–Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 002, TR 11:15AM-12:35PM; Section 901,
ONLINE) Clark 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.
WMST 2010 –Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 003) Tolley (TR 12:45PM-2:05PM) 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.
WMST 2010-Intro to Women’s Studies (Section FE1) (R 5:30PM-8:00PM) 3.00 hrs
Last 7 weeks: March 9-May 1
With an intersectional approach, we will examine how our understanding of gender and
sexuality is informed by sociocultural dynamics and power relations embedded in everyday
experiences of family, work, identity formation, and popular media representation.
WMST 2010-Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 902) 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.
WMST 2020-Women in Global Perspective (Section 001) Buck (TR 2:15PM-3:35PM) 3.00hrs
Emphasizes diversity of women’s experience in non-western, non-industrialized societies.
Concentrates on women’s participation in, interaction with, and resistance to patriarchal
structures that inhibit economic, political, and human rights for women.
WMST 3110-Men and Masculinities (Section 201) Watson (T 6:00PM-8:50PM) 3.00 hrs
Over the course of the semester, we analyze the intersection of race, ethnicity,
class, and sexuality with masculinity, examining how these interlocking aspects of
identity affect the ways in which masculinities are assumed and performed. We pay
particular attention to the social and political consequences of associating violence,
defense, protection, and financial providence with masculinity, and track these associations
throughout popular media.
SOWK 1030– Cultural Diversity (Section 001) Geiger (TR 12:45PM-2:05PM) and (Section
901)Reath (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
WMST 4957-Special Topics: Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality (Section 001) Drouillard
(TR 9:45AM-11:05AM) 3.00 hrs
Birds do it, bees do it…you do it. I’m talking about sex, but not just as an erotic
activity (though that is certainly part of it), but as a performance. I’m talking
about how discourse and the way we act, dress, and talk is part of a script that repeats
and reinforces how sex is viewed in any given society. But, what is sex? What is its
relation to gender? What distinguishes it from sexuality? How do sex and gender intersect
with other axes of identity, such as race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity?
How do our views on sex inform our role as (re)productive citizens on the national
stage? This course analyzes diverse philosophical texts in attempting to unpack the
sex/gender/sexuality baggage that we all carry with us.
WMST 4957-Special Topics: Contemporary Sexuality (Section FE1) Novotny
(M 2:15PM-4:45PM) 3.00 hrs
Last 7 weeks: March 9-May 1
This course presents an integrated approach to understanding the fluidity of human
sexuality and gender identity as well as the range of human sexual expression within
a framework of intersectionality. It examines sexuality from a bio-psycho-social-spiritual
perspective and aims to explore contemporary issues in sexuality through a multicultural
lens. Diverse experiences of sexuality and gender identity/expression, as well as
representations in literature, art, and popular media will be examined.
HDAL 2340-Understanding Cultural Diversity FULL TERM (Section 201) Oaks (M 5:00PM-7:45PM) and (Sections 901/902 ONLINE) 3.00 hrs
Paulson (ONLINE) Last 7 weeks: March 9-May 1
The purpose of the course is to assist students in developing awareness of biases,
prejudice and discrimination on an individual level as well as a community and national
level and to develop personal skills that will enable the student to work and live
more effectively with diverse groups of people.
SOCI 3030—Gender & Society (Section 001) Hirsch (MWF 12:35PM-1:30PM) 3.00 hrs
Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1020 or permission of instructor. Study of the social construction
of gender and its consequences for individuals and society. Examination of our cultural
assumptions about gender identities, roles, behaviors, and the social processes that
reproduce gender inequality.
**SOWK 4567/5567 - Human Sexuality (Sections 901, 902) (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.
It provides students with the opportunity for value clarification and exploration
of personal and social attitudes toward varying forms of sexual behavior and orientations.
PSYC 3330-Psychology of Women (Section 001) Williams (MW 3:10PM-04:30PM)
Prerequisites: PSYC 1310. In this course, we will explore and discuss important issues
in the field of psychology as it relates to women and gender, apply our discoveries
to real world situations, and critically evaluate the research being done in the psychology
of women.
**THEA 3525-Theatre History II (Section 901) Brewster (ONLINE) 3.00 hrs
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010, ENGL 1020. A women-focused study of the development of
theatrical art from the 18th century, its role in the history of civilization, and
its relation to other arts in society.
HIST 3313-Women in the Ancient World (Section 001) Burgess (MWF 12:35PM-1:30PM) 3.00 hrs
*Also satisfies non-US history gen-ed requirement* A study of the history and circumstances
of women in antiquity, including the cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome.
ENGL 4087-Themes in Women’s Literature: Uncovering Women’s Stories; Documenting Women’s
Lives (Section 001) Thompson (TR 9:45AM-11:15AM) 3.00 hrs
What do queer kids from Appalachia, women coal miners, and Freedom Riders have in
common? They represent folks whose knowledge is often undervalued and stories are
often neglected. In this course, we will uncover these and other stories left out
of the canon. As we reclaim these voices, we will unpack power-knowledge, reframe
how we do research, and discuss how we could repurpose the archive as a site of grassroots
organizing, movement building, social transformation, and radical inclusion. Texts
include personal diaries, letters, and recipe books; blogs, StoryCorps, Country Queers,
Inside Appalachia, digital libraries, zines; and photographs, film, and material artifacts.
Local field trips are planned.
**SOCI 4252-Race, Class, & Gender in Film (Section 201) Copp (T 4:00PM-6:50PM) 3.00
hrs
Prerequisites: SOCI 1020 or ANTH 1240 or WMST 2010 or ENGL 3290 or equivalent. A sociological
examination of film entertainment, the film industry, and how films represent social
life, social problems, and social processes of inequality.
