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 before census.
Summer 2019
Pre-Summer (May 13-May 31)
SOCI 3030– Gender and Society (Section 904) Schrift (ONLINE)
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.
Session I (June 03-July 05)
PSYC 3300– Psychology of Women (Section 904) Williams (ONLINE)
Prerequisite(s): 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.
COUN 4957—Girl’s and Women’s Wellness in the Helping Professions (Section 910) Byrd
(ONLINE)**
This course is designed to increase students’ knowledge of biological, psychological,
and social issues that disproportionately impact girls’ and women’s wellness; to assist
students in developing effective prevention/interventions that are tailored to the
unique needs of girls and women; and to promote student understanding of advocacy
processes needed to address the institutional and social barriers that may impact
girls’ and women’s access, equity, and success.
Session II (July 08-August 09
WMST 2010-Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 950) Martin (ONLINE)
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.
SOWK 1030– Cultural Diversity (Section 902) Presnell (ONLINE)
The 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.
HDAL 2340—Understanding Cultural Diversity (Section 950) Novotny ONLINE
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.
Fall 2019
WMST 2010 – Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 001) Wagner (MWF 9:20am-10:15AM)
This introduction to the interdisciplinary academic field has a triple focus: integrating
information about women's contributions to culture and history into the curriculum,
uncovering and understanding structures of oppression (gender, race, and class), and
exploring change.
WMST 2010– Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 002, TR 11:15AM-12:35PM & Section 003,
TR 11:15AM-12:35PM)
This course provides a broad interdisciplinary perspective of the academic field
of women’s studies. In this course you will learn to speak eloquently about gender
andsexuality; examine your own preconceived notions about Gender; examine and deconstruct
society’s underlying assumptions about Maleness and Femaleness; 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 004) Tolley (TR 12:45PM-2:05PM)
Popular culture, e.g. Lady Gaga, Nikki Minaj, Jay Z, etc., and current events appear
frequently because they demonstrate the theories introduced in women’s studies and
are relevant to the themes emphasized in this section (equality, identity, and social
justice). This section encourages students to develop their voices (both written and
oral) as a person and to express their perspective in a safe space.
WMST 2010- Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 901) Buck (ONLINE)
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 experience.
Assignments include reading responses, essays, quizzes, and reports on current events.
WMST 2010-Intro to Women’s Studies (Section 902) Martin (ONLINE)
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 2110—Sex, Gender, & the Body (Section 901) Novotny (TR 2:15PM-3:35PM)**
An examination of the diverse and historically varying relationships forged between
biological sex, culturally formulated discourses of masculinity and femininity, and
the sexed body. Combining theoretical and historical texts from the fields of gender,
sexuality, and disability studies with memoir, documentary, and visual art, this course
investigates how the diverse experiences of embodiment are historically and culturally
shaped.
WMST 3330-Feminist Thought and Practice (Section 001) Thompson (ONLINE)
Prerequisites: WMST 2010 or WMST 2020. Explores a variety of theoretical frameworks
for studying women and gender and links feminist theory to social action and civic
responsibility.
SOWK 1030– Cultural Diversity (Section 002) Yarosh (TR 12:35PM-2:05PM) and ONLINE
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.
HDAL 2340—Understanding Cultural Diversity (Section 201) Oaks (M 5:00PM-7:45PM) and
ONLINE
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.
SPCH 4200—Gender & Communication (Section 001) Buerkle (MW 1:40PM-3:00PM)
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.
MGMT-4460 – Organizational Leadership (Section 001) Moore (TR 12:45PM-2:05PM)
The study of leadership from an historical and contemporary perspective. Students
will identify, apply, and reflect on aspects of leadership development. Topics cover
personal assessment and development, values and ethics, power and influence, followership,
group dynamics, controversy with civility, and citizenship.
ENGL 3500-Women Authors (Section 201) Childress (TR 12:45PM-2:05PM)
Prerequisite: ENGL 1020. Study of significant women writers, including essayists,
and how their works address gender issues.
HIST 4957/RELI 4957—Special topics: Women, Gender, & Religion in America (Section
001) Adler (MW 1:40pm-3:00pm)**
This course examines the intersection of religion and gender in American religious
history, with particular attention to the history and experience of women. Applying
critical insights from contemporary gender studies, this course will consider how
gender has been constructed, re-constructed, and de-constructed within and across
various religious traditions. Particular attention will be paid to the intersection
of gender and religion in historical debates over women’s authority and power, bodies
and sexuality, and social and political norms.
SOWK 4567—Human Sexuality (Section 901, Webb; Section 902, Yarosh) ONLINE**
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.
PHIL 3063—Phil colloquium: Race, Gender, and Social Identity (Section 002) Holter
(TR 2:15pm-3:35pm)**
This course will examine the relationship and interactions between our inherent biological
natures and our social environments. Human kinds (or categories) like race and gender
will be the focus, and we will explore the extent to which these categories are biologically
determined and/or socially constructed.
CDST 4017—Ecofeminism: Nature, Gender, & Culture (Section 901) LeRoy-Frazier (ONLINE)**
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor. This course explores
the ways in which Wester Culture has constructed its ideas of nature and human beings’
relationship to it, and in particular the ways in which women and nature have been
conceptually linked. The course engages with the proposition that oppression of women
is related to the notion that nature should be conquered, and considers the insights
offered by ecofeminism into contemporary issues such as environmental racism, biodiversity,
globalization, and social justice.
CJCR 4760—Race, Gender, & Crime (Section 001) Klepper (MWF 1:40pm-3:00pm)**
Examination of experiences of women and people of color with agencies of social control.
Comparisons of crime rates, types of criminal offending, and victimization including
discussion on sexual and racial harassment in the workplace.
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