Dept & Number

Title

Course Desc.

Notes

AFRO
A210

Black Women in the Diaspora

Interdisciplinary examination of salient aspects of black women's history, identity, and experience, including policies, cultural assumptions, and knowledge systems that affect black women's lives. While the primary focus is North America, the lives of black women in other cultural settings within the African Diaspora are also examined.

None

ANTH
E400

Undergraduate Seminar

Current Topic(s)

Only with gender-related faculty or topic.

ANTH
E600

Seminar in Cultural and Social Anthropology

Current Topic(s)

Only with gender-related faculty or topic. Graduate course.

BIO
L340

Biological Sex Roles

Biological mechanisms underlying sex differences in physiology, behavior, and evolution of sex roles. Emphasis is on the origin and implications of general patterns of sex-related function across a variety of types of organisms with special attention to higher vertebrates.

Not open to Biology majors.

BUS
W220

Intro to Non-Profit Corporation

Introduces students to the not-for-profit sector and provides them with a quality volunteer experience. Students participate in a complete volunteer experience (careful placement, orientation, reflection/3 hours per week/12 weeks). Students gain an understanding of the not-for-profit sector as distinct from and overlapping with business and government. Course uses reading, writing, discussion, and lecture, as well as many guest speakers.

Only with gender-related internship site or project. Please note: This course will not count towards COAS requirement of 25 COAS credit hours in a COAS major.

CMLT
C321

Medieval Literature

Current Topic

Only with gender-related faculty or topic

CMLT
C340

Women and Literature

Current Topic

None

EDUC
C750

Topical Seminar

Current Topic

Only with gender-related faculty or topic. Graduate course.

ENG
L207

Women and Literature

Issues and approaches to critical study of women writers and their treatment in British and American literature.

None

ENG
L210

Studies in Popular Culture and Mass Media

Popular literary modes in England and America, such as detective, western, fantasy; history and theories of "mass" or "popular" culture; uses of literacy. Literary analysis of particular mass media forms, including television drama. Check with English department about current topic.

Only with gender-related faculty or topic.

ENG
L389

Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism

Selected critical approaches to the issue of gender over time and in various cultural settings. Topics vary. They include feminist criticism and popular culture, the history of feminist expository prose, deconstructionism and feminism.

None

ENG
L690

Advanced Readings in Linguistics

Check with English department for current topic.

Only with gender-related faculty or topic. Graduate course.

ENG
L763

American Fiction

Check with English department for current topic.

Only with gender-related faculty or topic. Graduate course.

HISP
S470

Women and Hispanic Literature

Hispanic woman within her cultural context through literary texts. Topics such as women authors, characters, themes, and feminist criticism.

Prerequisate: S331-S332 or equivalent.

HIST
B260

Women, Men, and Society in Modern Europe

An overview of the development of gender roles in Europe since the French Revolution; development of the private and public spheres; political ideology and women's roles in society; the industrial revolution, Darwinism, imperialism, nationalism, communism and gender roles; feminism and the sexual revolution.

None

HIST
H645

Colloquium in East European History

Check with History department for current topic.

Only with gender-related faculty or topic. Graduate course.

HON
H203

Interdepartmental Colloquia

Check with Honors College for current topic(s).

Only with gender-related faculty or topic.

HPER
H305

Women's Health

Applied Health courses

Please note: This course will not count towards COAS requirement of 25 COAS credit hours in a COAS major.

HPER
H522

Women's Health

Applied Health homepage

Graduate course.

HPSC
X706

Special Topics in the History of Science

Semester offerings

Only with gender-related faculty or topic. Graduate Course.

JOUR
J475

Race, Gender, and the Media

Current Description

Please note: This course will not count towards COAS requirement of 25 COAS credit hours in a COAS major.

LSTU
L290

Topics in Labor Studies

Gay Issues in the Workplace; Sexual Harassment; Welfare Reform: Prospects and Issues

Only with gender-related faculty or topic. Contact Labor Studies for semester offerings, or go to the ~Dean of Faculties Course Descriptions webpage. Please note: This course will not count towards COAS requirement of 25 COAS credit hours in a COAS major.

LSTU
L385

Class, Race, Gender, and Work

Contact Labor Studies for semester offerings, or go to the ~Dean of Faculties Course Descriptions webpage.

Please note: This course will not count towards COAS requirement of 25 COAS credit hours in a COAS major.

PHIL
P301

Medieval Philosophy

A selective survey of Western philosophy from the turn of the Christian era to theend of the Middle Ages. Readings from some or all of Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, Abelard, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Ockham.

Only with gender-related faculty or topic.

POLS
Y480

Individual Readings and Research

No more than 6 credit hours total may be taken. May be taken only with consent of instructor.

Only with gender-related faculty or topic.

POLS
Y481

Field Experience in Political Science

P: junior or senior standing, 15 credit hours of political science and project approved by instructor. Faculty-directed study of aspects of the political process based on field experience. Directed readings, field research, research papers. Certain internship experiences may require research skills. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

Only with gender-related internship site or project.

PSY
P493

Supervised Research I

Active participation in research. An independent experiment of modestmmagnitude, participation in ongoing research in a single laboratory. Students who enroll in P493 will be expected to enroll in P494. May be repeated once.

Prerequisite: P101 or P151 and P102 or P152, or P106; P211 and K300 or K310. Only with gender-related faculty or topic.

REL
R300

Studies in Religion

Dean of Faculties Current Course Descriptions webpage

Only with gender-related topic or faculty.

REL
R360

Comparative Studies of Religious Phenomena

Dean of Faculties Current Course Descriptions webpage

Women in Religion only.

SOC
S316

The Family

Sociology Course Descriptions

None

SOC
S321

Sexual Diversity

Sociology Course Descriptions

None

SOC
S338

Gender Roles

Sociology Course Descriptions

None

SOC
S660

Advanced Topics

Sociology Course Descriptions

Only with gender-related faculty or topic. Graduate course.

SPEA
V381

Professional Experience

Students will be required to fulfill a minimum of 120 hours of professional relevant work.

Only with gender-related inernship site or project. Please note: This course will not count towards COAS requirement of 25 COAS credit hours in a COAS major.

TEL
T192

Women in the Media

Examines the representation of women in the media and analyzes women's creative work as media producers. The course will include screening, lecture, and discussion in areas of critical debate: positive images, visual representation; racial and ethnic stereotyping; women's employment in media industries; women as an audience/consumer group.

Credit not given for both T192 and T203.

TOPICS
E103/E104

Topics in the Humanities

Goddesses, Freaks, and He-Men; Women in Nazi Culture; Antiheroes and Antiheroines in Literature and Film; Language and Gender; Gender, Religion, and History; Who am I?; Gender, Race, and Persons; Gender and Ethnicity in Soviet Literature and Art; Gender, Crime and Violence; Gender and Sexuality in American History; Sex, Race and Politics; Sex, Technology, and Power; Divided Lives: Women and Men at Home and at Work; Women in the Media

None