Please note: Many of the following courses have prerequisites - either in the home department or Women's Studies -specific, if taken as a WS course. Check the academic calendar for more information or contact Ann Braithwaite, Coordinator of Women's Studies.
Prof: Dr. Ann Braithwaite
Time: T & Th 11:30-12:45
This course provides an interdisciplinary, multicultural introduction to the discipline of Women's Studies, with a focus on the concepts of equality and difference. It explores how these concepts have been thought about and debated, and how they have informed theories about a variety of social identities. It looks at their implications for a number of issues, including bodies and body politics, sex, work, family, sports, health, and popular culture.
Prof: Dr. Pamela Courtenay Hall
Time: T & Th 1:00-2:15
This course explores philosophical issues related to love and sexuality as constructed and experienced in particular cultural and historical contexts in Anglo-American culture. Topics may include analysis of love and sexuality as portrayed in music, literature, film and art; kinds of love; conceptions of self and community underlying different accounts of love; sexual activity as expressive, communicative, sacred, profane, athletic, goal-oriented; the commodification of sex; competing conceptions of sexual health and sexual liberation; conservative, liberal, radical and feminist perspectives; ethical issues in intimate relationships, families, sex-trade work and pornography.
Prof: Valerie Campbell
Time: M, W, F 10:30-11:20
This course examines gender (the social concept of masculinity and femininity) and compares it to current views about sex (the biological distinction of female and male). Several sociological and/or anthropological issues are examined, such as the biological bases and evolutionary development of sexual differences; abortion; homosexuality; sexual violence; and affirmative action. Cross-cultural information is introduced throughout the course.
Prof: Nia Phillips
Time: T & Th 8:30-9:45
Prof: Nia Phillips
Time: W 3:00-6:00
This course will focus on women's development throughout the life span. Topics will include: views of the nature of women, biological influences, the socialization process and its consequences at the individual, interpersonal relationship, and societal levels, as well as recent alternative views of the psychology of women.
Prof: Dr. Jean Mitchell
Time: W 1:00-4:00
This course provides an overview of medical anthropology and its approaches to understanding human illness and healing systems in a cross-cultural context. Students examine theoretical and applied approaches to topics which include: ethno- medical systems; biomedical models; symbolism in the healing process; the interrelationships of gender, class, and race in the cultural construction of illness and well being. The impact of colonialism and globalization, infections and inequalities, as well as cross-cultural conceptualizations of the body, are also considered.
Prof: Dr. Ann Braithwaite
Time: T 2:30-5:30
This course explores a variety of feminist theoretical approaches, focusing especially on Anglo-American second-and third-wave feminisms. It provides comparative and critical analyses of how a number of different feminist theories have attempted to understand and explain gender divisions within society, examining the differences between, for example, liberal, radical, cultural, lesbian, psychoanalytic, Marxist, socialist, postmodern, third-wave, and post-feminist approaches.
Prof: Nia Phillips
Time: M 3:00-6:00
This course provides a critical examination of gender and sexuality. It explores the individual, interpersonal, and societal constructions of gender and sexuality within varying biological, cultural, and historical contexts; and uses psychological theory and research to analyze experiences and representations of gender and sexuality.
Prof: Laura Kelly
Time: M & W 3:00-4:15
This course will look at how the problem of inequality has been explained in a variety of liberal, socialist/marxist, post-
colonial, and feminist approaches to that term, with a focus on how it has been defined and what would be needed to achieve it. What kinds of equality have been sought? Who has been included and excluded - and how and why? How effective have these approaches been - and for whom? Questions of race, class, and sexuality will be central to our examinations.
Prof: Dr. Charles Adeyanju
Time: T & Th 4:00-5:15
This course examines how social, economical and political inequality is organized along the lines of class, age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Students are introduced to the major theoretical and ideological explanations (and justifications) for such inequalities and given the opportunity to engage in a critical examination of how power, ideology, and the distribution of material, cultural, and social resources continue to contribute to social injustice.
Prof: Dr. Ann Braithwaite
Time: T & Th 11:30-12:45
This course examines some of the differences between and among women, exploring how claims to various identities and politics have transformed Women's Studies. It analyzes essentialist assumptions about identity categories such as race, sex, gender, and sexuality, and examines their social construction and contemporary interconnections at the institutional level.
Prof: Dr. Ann Braithwaite
Time: T & Th 2:30-3:45
Prof: Dr. Colleen MacQuarrie
Time: M & W 3:00-4:15
The purpose of this course is to help students gain a theoretical, practical and critical understanding of qualitative research methodology, and to teach skills for the execution of research projects based upon qualitative data. Qualitative research is research that focuses upon understanding, rather than predicting or controlling phenomena. Nine different paradigms of qualitative research methodology, their implications, and applications, are examined in this course. These paradigms are: data display, grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, psychobiography and historiography, psychoanalytic approaches, narrative psychology, hermeneutics and textual deconstruction, and social constructivism. Political and ethical issues are also highlighted in order to problematize and promote more critically informed inquiry.
Prof: Nia Phillips
Time: T 2:30-5:30
This course will focus on women's development throughout the life span. Topics will include: views of the nature of women, biological influences, the socialization process and its consequences at the individual, interpersonal relationship, and societal levels, as well as recent alternative views of the psychology of women.
