March 2022

WGS 2000: Gender, Sex, and Justice
Instructor: Megan Novell
Mon., 4-6:30 – Online
Fulfills Core requirements: IT4, IT6

Provides students with an introduction to the discipline and critical rubrics of Women’s and Gender Studies including: the development of major theoretical concepts and issues of feminist and gender theories; strategies of resistance and activism; history of the women’s and gender movements in the U.S.; global feminisms; and critical reflection on particular aspects of women’s daily lives such as violence, sexuality, reproduction, representations of the body, creativity, law, politics and religion.

ENL 2450: Study of Poetry
(only CRN 17694 is WGS)
Instructor: Megan Novell
Tues., 4-5:30 – Online
Fulfills Core requirement: E2

Discussion and close analysis of poems, designed to improve critical skills, increase understanding of the genre of poetry, and show how poets voice the human concerns of their time. Discussion and close analysis of several forms of poetry, designed to improve critical skills and increase understanding of the genre of poetry and its role as a cultural artifact.

ENL 2550: Study of Film
Instructor: Heather Hill
Mon., 4-6:30 PM
Fulfills Core requirement: E3

Introduces students to key genres, technologies, and styles of films as well as major film theories and critical approaches. Through close observation and discussion, students learn to analyze and appreciate film as an art form while investigating the role of film as a barometer of cultural values and beliefs.

ENL 2750: Diverse Voices in Literature
Instructor: Amanda Hiber
Thur., 4-6:30 PM
Fulfills Core requirements: IT4, IT6

Introduces students to issues of difference, identity, and literary representation through the careful analysis of texts drawn from a wide range of voices and multiple genres. Students explore how authors negotiate the complex relationships between aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions in their work. By the end of the semester students will demonstrate an ability to analyze literary texts and develop a critical vocabulary and set of reading and writing practices for approaching a wide range of human differences.

HIS 3650: Women in Modern Europe
Instructor: Diane Robinson-Dunn
Tues., 4-6:30 PM

This class covers the history of women in Europe from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. The lectures, films, events and course packet readings focus primarily on Western Europe, England and France and to a lesser extent Germany, while the textbook gives an overview of women in Europe more generally. We will examine their role in the political, intellectual, social and economic developments of this period, including first-wave feminism of the 19th century and second-wave feminism of the 20th. We will consider also how historical processes impacted upon their roles in society and the relationship between representation and experience. A central theme of the course will be an exploration of the construct of gender and the operation of the politics of gender and sexuality.

POL 3100: Women and Politics
Instructor: Genevieve Meyers
Tues./Thur., 2-3:15 PM
Fulfills Core requirements: C2, IT3, IT4

This course provides a broad analysis of women and politics as a field of study. It examines the way in which women and politics interact and influence each other. Focus is not just on the role of women in political life but on gender as an analytic category, and how theories of sex and gender apply to politics. The course examines the role that women play in politics in the United States and around the world. Women’s rights, political participation, and feminism and its interpretation and manifestation across nations and cultures, are examined. An analysis of the role of women in political life, the suffrage movement, gender gap in political attitudes and voting; and variation in representation, employment and economic status is offered.

PYC 2750: Human Sexuality
Instructor TBA
Online/asynchronous
Fulfills Core requirement: IT4

Study of approaches to sexuality in order to promote a deeper understanding of the central role which sexuality plays in human life. Aspects of sexuality include evolutionary, genetic, physiological, hormonal, developmental, emotional, dynamic, interpersonal, legal and cultural. Particular emphasis is placed on appreciating functional explanations for many common and uncommon behaviors associated with human sexuality.

RELS 3610: Religions and Sci-Fi
Instructor: Hsiao-Lan Hu
Tues., 4-6:30 PM – Online
Fulfills Core requirements: D3, IT4

This course will employ the academic approach of cultural studies and lead students to examine the representations or misrepresentations of religions in Sci-Fi films and television series, discern their endorsements or criticisms of traditional religious doctrines, investigate their anxiety about or celebration of cross-cultural and interreligious encounters, examine the fairness or the lack thereof in their portrayal of the gender, racial, cultural, or religious “others,” and critique the genre from the perspectives of gender justice, racial justice, and inter-cultural justice.

RELS 4140: Gender and Religion
Instructor: Sharde’ Chapman
Tues., 6:40-9:10 PM
Fulfills Core requirements: D3, IT4

Examination from a gender standpoint of the experiences of women and men in various religious traditions, including issues of social status, leadership, teachings, ethics, reform. The course will be taught from a (pro) feminist/womanist perspective.