2009 Summer Sessions for Undergraduates
Summer Session One Courses: May 12 – June 18, 2009
G101: Gender, Culture and Society (3 credits)
Gender, Culture & Society provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - by examining relevant beliefs, practices, debates and political struggles. Lectures, readings and class discussions consider how people of different races, ethnicities, classes and nationalities in various historical periods have assumed gendered identities. Topics may include: romantic love and marriage; sexuality; parenthood, reproduction, birth control and new reproductive technologies; interpersonal violence; the scientific study of sexual differences; fitness, health, body image, and popular culture; the sexual division of labor and economic development; and feminist movements.
Lecture: 1:10-3:10 - MWF– Instructor: Basiliere, J (section: 12352), SSI only
G104: Topics in Gender Studies(3 credits)
Topic: Transnational Women/Global Sex
What is “globalization”? In what way is globalization a “gendered” experience? How do global political and economic structures influence women’s lives around the world? What are the forces that drive women to cross national boundaries and seek transnational connections? By what means do cultural ideologies about gender and sexuality spread globally, and how does it affect and change local people’s behaviors and identity constructions? How do we conceptualize these global-local encounters in a productive rather than conflicting manner? What are feminists and queer theorists’ reaction to this newly-emergent global phenomenon?
Lecture: 10:30-12:30 - MWF– Instructor: Hu, Y (section: 5442), SSI only
G205: Themes in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Sex, Gender & the Brain
Are there male or female brains? Gay or straight brains? or even, brains for different races and ethnicities? This course is designed to explore how the brain has become the contemporary center for research on sex, gender, race, and sexuality. In this course will examine how Darwinian evolution and the medicalization of the body have moved the study of sex, gender, and sexuality into the brain and conscious mind. Using a feminist science theory perspective, we will read primary scientific articles and analyze the meanings, purpose, and overall construction of sex and gender within these texts. Students will develop their critical thinking and will use various social and feminist theories to critique the brain sciences and evolutionary psychology as well as theorize new methodologies that would appropriately incorporate sex and gender into the production of science, empirical research, and scientific epistemology.
Lecture: 1:30-4:30- TR– Instructor: Hill, B (section: 5443), SSI only
G302: Issues in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Vagina Monologues and Transnational Feminist Activism
Having celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, V-Day first began in 1998 as a fundraiser to benefit New York City area anti-domestic violence organizations. It has since evolved into a transnational feminist phenomenon, at the bedrock of which is playwright Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. From V-Day’s early U.S.-based anti-domestic violence focus, its scope has expanded to incorporate a more inclusive critique of all forms of sexualized violence. As a result, The Vagina Monologues has been translated and performed across the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia as part of local feminists’ struggles to pass anti-violence legislation in their own communities and to bring attention to the horrendous acts of sexualized violence perpetrated against women and girls in conflict zones around the world.
Lecture: 1:10-3:10- MWF– Instructor: Williams, K (section: 12354), SSI only
G480: Practicum in Gender Studies (3-6 credits per semester, 6 credits max)
Restricted to Junior or Senior Standing and 12 previous credit hours of Gender Studies coursework.
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu)
In the G480 Practicum, students gain field experience by working in an internship or on a gender-related research project. In an internship, students work in an organization where they apply or gain practical insight into gendered concepts and issues. Students learn by taking on responsible roles as workers in organizations and observing and reflecting on what happens while they are there. Students also produce written work about their experiences, in accordance with their agreement with a faculty sponsor.
(section: 5679) Arr.
G495: Undergraduate Readings & Research in Gender Studies (1-3 credits per semester, 6 credits max)
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu)
The undergraduate Readings and Research course exists to enable Gender Studies BA and undergraduate minor students to undertake intensive independent study of particular topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member supervises the work. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration in consultation with a faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Consult your academic advisor for additional details.
(section: 5680) Arr.
Summer Session Two Courses: June 19 – August 14, 2009
G101: Gender, Culture and Society (3 credits)
Gender, Culture & Society provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - by examining relevant beliefs, practices, debates and political struggles. Lectures, readings and class discussions consider how people of different races, ethnicities, classes and nationalities in various historical periods have assumed gendered identities. Topics may include: romantic love and marriage; sexuality; parenthood, reproduction, birth control and new reproductive technologies; interpersonal violence; the scientific study of sexual differences; fitness, health, body image, and popular culture; the sexual division of labor and economic development; and feminist movements.
Lecture: 12:30-2:30 - MWF– Instructor: Thomas-Williams (section: 12353), SSII only
G225: Gender, Sexuality, & Popular Culture (3 credits) (A&H, CS)
Gender, Sexuality & Popular Culture surveys the making and meaning of masculinity, femininity and sexuality in popular culture. Emphasizing ways in which the form and technology of popular culture have changed during the twentieth century, the course explores gender/sexuality in such contexts as: fiction, theater, cinema, music, television, journalism and other mass media. Issues interrogated may include: gender and the power of the image; sex and spectatorship; melodrama, film noir and "the women's film"; rock music women and MTV; race, age and representation; masculinity and femininity; and violence and pornography.
Lecture: 2:00 pm-5:00 pm – TR – Instructor: Maher, J (section: 5440), SSII only
G480: Practicum in Gender Studies
(3-6 credits per semester, 6 credits max)
Restricted to Junior or Senior Standing and 12 previous credit hours of Gender Studies coursework.
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu)
In the G480 Practicum, students gain field experience by working in an internship or on a gender-related research project. In an internship, students work in an organization where they apply or gain practical insight into gendered concepts and issues. Students learn by taking on responsible roles as workers in organizations and observing and reflecting on what happens while they are there. Students also produce written work about their experiences, in accordance with their agreement with a faculty sponsor.
(section: 5681) Arr.
G495: Undergraduate Readings & Research in Gender Studies
(1-3 credits per semester, 6 credits max)
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies
(for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu)
The undergraduate Readings and Research course exists to enable Gender Studies BA and undergraduate minor students to undertake intensive independent study of particular topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member supervises the work. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration in consultation with a faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Consult your academic advisor for additional details.
(section: 5682) Arr.
2009 Summer Sessions for Undergraduates
Summer Session One Courses: May 12 – June 18, 2009
G101: Gender, Culture and Society (3 credits)
Gender, Culture & Society provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - by examining relevant beliefs, practices, debates and political struggles. Lectures, readings and class discussions consider how people of different races, ethnicities, classes and nationalities in various historical periods have assumed gendered identities. Topics may include: romantic love and marriage; sexuality; parenthood, reproduction, birth control and new reproductive technologies; interpersonal violence; the scientific study of sexual differences; fitness, health, body image, and popular culture; the sexual division of labor and economic development; and feminist movements.
Lecture: 1:10-3:10 - MWF– Instructor: Basiliere, J (section: 12352), SSI only
G104: Topics in Gender Studies(3 credits)
Topic: Transnational Women/Global Sex
What is “globalization”? In what way is globalization a “gendered” experience? How do global political and economic structures influence women’s lives around the world? What are the forces that drive women to cross national boundaries and seek transnational connections? By what means do cultural ideologies about gender and sexuality spread globally, and how does it affect and change local people’s behaviors and identity constructions? How do we conceptualize these global-local encounters in a productive rather than conflicting manner? What are feminists and queer theorists’ reaction to this newly-emergent global phenomenon?
Lecture: 10:30-12:30 - MWF– Instructor: Hu, Y (section: 5442), SSI only
G205: Themes in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Sex, Gender & the Brain
Are there male or female brains? Gay or straight brains? or even, brains for different races and ethnicities? This course is designed to explore how the brain has become the contemporary center for research on sex, gender, race, and sexuality. In this course will examine how Darwinian evolution and the medicalization of the body have moved the study of sex, gender, and sexuality into the brain and conscious mind. Using a feminist science theory perspective, we will read primary scientific articles and analyze the meanings, purpose, and overall construction of sex and gender within these texts. Students will develop their critical thinking and will use various social and feminist theories to critique the brain sciences and evolutionary psychology as well as theorize new methodologies that would appropriately incorporate sex and gender into the production of science, empirical research, and scientific epistemology.
Lecture: 1:30-4:30- TR– Instructor: Hill, B (section: 5443), SSI only
G302: Issues in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Vagina Monologues and Transnational Feminist Activism
Having celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, V-Day first began in 1998 as a fundraiser to benefit New York City area anti-domestic violence organizations. It has since evolved into a transnational feminist phenomenon, at the bedrock of which is playwright Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. From V-Day’s early U.S.-based anti-domestic violence focus, its scope has expanded to incorporate a more inclusive critique of all forms of sexualized violence. As a result, The Vagina Monologues has been translated and performed across the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia as part of local feminists’ struggles to pass anti-violence legislation in their own communities and to bring attention to the horrendous acts of sexualized violence perpetrated against women and girls in conflict zones around the world.
Lecture: 1:10-3:10- MWF– Instructor: Williams, K (section: 12354), SSI only
G480: Practicum in Gender Studies (3-6 credits per semester, 6 credits max)
Restricted to Junior or Senior Standing and 12 previous credit hours of Gender Studies coursework.
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu)
In the G480 Practicum, students gain field experience by working in an internship or on a gender-related research project. In an internship, students work in an organization where they apply or gain practical insight into gendered concepts and issues. Students learn by taking on responsible roles as workers in organizations and observing and reflecting on what happens while they are there. Students also produce written work about their experiences, in accordance with their agreement with a faculty sponsor.
(section: 5679) Arr.
G495: Undergraduate Readings & Research in Gender Studies (1-3 credits per semester, 6 credits max)
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu)
The undergraduate Readings and Research course exists to enable Gender Studies BA and undergraduate minor students to undertake intensive independent study of particular topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member supervises the work. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration in consultation with a faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Consult your academic advisor for additional details.
(section: 5680) Arr.
Summer Session Two Courses: June 19 – August 14, 2009
G101: Gender, Culture and Society (3 credits)
Gender, Culture & Society provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - by examining relevant beliefs, practices, debates and political struggles. Lectures, readings and class discussions consider how people of different races, ethnicities, classes and nationalities in various historical periods have assumed gendered identities. Topics may include: romantic love and marriage; sexuality; parenthood, reproduction, birth control and new reproductive technologies; interpersonal violence; the scientific study of sexual differences; fitness, health, body image, and popular culture; the sexual division of labor and economic development; and feminist movements.
Lecture: 12:30-2:30 - MWF– Instructor: Thomas-Williams (section: 12353), SSII only
G225: Gender, Sexuality, & Popular Culture (3 credits) (A&H, CS)
Gender, Sexuality & Popular Culture surveys the making and meaning of masculinity, femininity and sexuality in popular culture. Emphasizing ways in which the form and technology of popular culture have changed during the twentieth century, the course explores gender/sexuality in such contexts as: fiction, theater, cinema, music, television, journalism and other mass media. Issues interrogated may include: gender and the power of the image; sex and spectatorship; melodrama, film noir and "the women's film"; rock music women and MTV; race, age and representation; masculinity and femininity; and violence and pornography.
Lecture: 2:00 pm-5:00 pm – TR – Instructor: Maher, J (section: 5440), SSII only
G480: Practicum in Gender Studies (3-6 credits per semester, 6 credits max)
Restricted to Junior or Senior Standing and 12 previous credit hours of Gender Studies coursework.
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu)
In the G480 Practicum, students gain field experience by working in an internship or on a gender-related research project. In an internship, students work in an organization where they apply or gain practical insight into gendered concepts and issues. Students learn by taking on responsible roles as workers in organizations and observing and reflecting on what happens while they are there. Students also produce written work about their experiences, in accordance with their agreement with a faculty sponsor.
(section: 5681) Arr.
G495: Undergraduate Readings & Research in Gender Studies (1-3 credits per semester, 6 credits max)
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies
(for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu)
The undergraduate Readings and Research course exists to enable Gender Studies BA and undergraduate minor students to undertake intensive independent study of particular topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member supervises the work. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration in consultation with a faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Consult your academic advisor for additional details.
(section: 5682) Arr.
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