Programs of
Study
Women’s Studies
Concentration
Sharon M. Meagher, Ph.D., Director
Overview
The Women's Studies Concentration consists of courses that
examine women's experiences and the ways gender-related issues affect human
lives and cultures. Faculty and students analyze the ways gender roles and
images, and assumptions about gender, are reflected in art, business,
literature, law, philosophy, public policy, religion, language, history, the
sciences, and their own lives. At the same time many Women's Studies courses
will address issues of race, class, ethnicity, and age that intersect with
gender-related issues.
Women's Studies courses focus on women's experiences in
history, society, and culture, and examine their reactions to such experiences;
examine institutional structure/modes of authority/analysis of power,
especially considering their implications for women; and incorporate one or
more feminist analyses/scholarly works (recognizing that there are multiple,
and even conflicting, feminist perspectives).
Women's Studies seek to promote critical thinking,
intellectual growth, and a selfawareness useful to all students. It is an
attractive academic supplement to the programs of students planning careers in
government, law, business, human services, ministry, and teaching – to
name but a few.
Courses for the Women's Studies Concentration are drawn
from all the colleges at the university and are open to students in all majors.
(To enroll, students must see the Director of Women's Studies.) The
concentration consists of six courses including one required core course. The
student may take PHIL 218 or SOC 215 as the required core course. The remaining
five courses are chosen across several departments by the student from
cross-listed courses approved by the Women's Studies Committee. Many of the
cross-listed Women's Studies courses also fulfill major, minor, cognate, and/or
general education requirements.
Students may seek permission from the Women's Studies
Committee to take no more than one reader for Women's Studies credit, subject
to the usual rules governing readers. Students may also petition to substitute
no more than one course not cross-listed with Women's Studies, if the course
has sufficient Women's Studies content and the student is able to do a
significant project/assignment on a Women's Studies topic.
Women's Studies Courses
Some of the listed courses have prerequisites; please
consult departmental description.
| ARTH 210 |
(CA,D) Women in the
Visual Arts |
| COMM 229 |
(D) Gender and
Communication |
| ENLT 225 |
(CL,D,W) Writing Women
|
| ENLT 227 |
(CL,D,W) Frankenstein's
Forebears |
| ENLT 226 |
(CL,D) Novels by Women
|
| ENLT 228 |
(CL,D,W) Race in
Anglo-American Culture 1600-1860 |
| FREN 430* |
French Women Writers
|
| HIST 213 |
(CH,D) Gender and Family
in Latin America |
| HIST 238 |
(CH,D) History of
American Women I |
| HIST 239 |
(CH,D) History of
American Women II |
| ITAL 207 |
(CL,D,W) Italian Women's
Writing in Translation |
| HS 337 |
(D) Counseling Girls and
Women |
| LIT 207 |
(CL,D,W) Literature of
American Minorities |
| NURS 111 |
(D) Women's Health
|
| PHIL 218 |
(P,D) Feminism: Theory
and Practice |
| PHIL 326 |
(P,D) Advanced Topics in
Feminist Theory |
| PHIL 331 |
(P) Feminist Philosophy
of Science |
| PS 216 |
(D) Women's Rights and
Status |
| PS 227 |
(D) Women, Authority and
Power |
| SOC 215 |
Feminism and Social
Change |
| SOC 217 |
(D) Family Issues and
Social Policies |
| SPAN 430* |
Hispanic Women Writers
|
| T/RS 315 |
(P,D) Women in
Christianity |
| T/RS 319 |
(P,D)Women's
Spiritual/Autobiographical Writings |
| WOMN
380-81 |
Women's Studies
Internship |
| WOMN 429 |
Special Topics
|
* Taught in the original language
|
- WOMN 380-81 — Women’s Studies
Internship — 3 credits
- (Prerequisites PHIL 218, or SOC 215, or permission
of Women's Studies Committee) Designed to broaden the educational experience of
students by providing practical experience for them in various non-profit and
other organizations that deal primarily with women's issues or women clients.
Students will ordinarily be expected to write a reflection paper. Supervision
by faculty members and agency supervisor.
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