| WGSS 100-01 |
Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
This course offers an introduction to central concepts, questions and debates in gender and sexuality studies from US, Women of Color, queer and transnational perspectives. Throughout the semester we will explore the construction and maintenance of norms governing sex, gender, and sexuality, with an emphasis on how opportunity and inequality operate through categories of race, ethnicity, class, ability and nationality. After an introduction to some of the main concepts guiding scholarship in the field of feminist studies (the centrality of difference; social and political constructions of gender and sex; representation; privilege and power; intersectionality; globalization; transnationalism), we will consider how power inequalities attached to interlocking categories of difference shape key feminist areas of inquiry, including questions of: work, resource allocation, sexuality, queerness, reproduction, marriage, gendered violence, militarization, consumerism, resistance and community sustainability.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 204 |
| WGSS 101-01 |
Women Write War
Instructor: Claire Seiler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 101-03. This course studies American women's war writing from the US Civil War through the "war on terror." We will ask: what literary forms have women writers adapted or developed to represent war, as well as the social, political, bodily, and emotional effects of armed conflict? How has women's war writing participated in debates about feminism, gender identity, citizenship, civil and human rights, and the American project? How have women's lived experiences and changing social roles impacted the diverse genre of war writing-and vice versa? Primary texts include works of poetry, fiction, and autobiography by writers including Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, Elyse Fenton, Frances E.W. Harper, Toni Morrison, Toyo Suyemoto, and Natasha Trethewey.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 203 |
| WGSS 101-02 |
Disorderly Women
Instructor: Anna Neumann
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-03. According to Merriam-Webster someone behaves disorderly when they are engaged in conduct offensive to public order. In this course, we will ask which women have been (and still are) considered disorderly, why, and by whom. In an American context, who are these women unsettling, upsetting, and disrupting public order in meaningful ways? Predominantly focusing on the particular intersection of race and gender, in our time together we will prioritize narratives and intellectual and cultural production of African American women who have caused good, necessary trouble throughout US-American history. Engaging with activist work, academic scholarship, fiction, art, and film as significant contributions in the struggle for freedom, civil rights, and equality, we will be guided by Black Feminist activist-intellectuals, artists, and creators such as Sojourner Truth, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker. From todays vantage point, and two years after the dramatic overturning of Roe v. Wade, it has become evident once more that hard fought victories and progress can never be taken for granted and that our engagement with current (and past) debates about feminism, gender, power, and justice is as pressing as ever.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 211 |
| WGSS 201-01 |
The Good Invisible Soldier: Gender Equality and Disability in the U.S. Military
Instructor: Mireille Rebeiz
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEST 200-01. This course examines American veterans' stories of deployment in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. It studies veterans' war stories and experiences upon returning to civilian life in the United States of America. The course focuses on memoirs, short stories, and other literary forms written or produced by veterans; it references popular media sources (film, television, political cartoons, and more) and includes discussions with veterans and enlisted members of the United States military. Through an intersectional lens, this course seeks to answer questions related to gender, violence, and disability. For instance, how do veterans tell war stories? Do women veterans have different experiences than men during and after deployment? How does the military view masculinity and disability in its various forms? What are some of the challenges veterans encounter integrating civilians life? How are veterans represented in popular media?
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 104 |
| WGSS 201-02 |
Goddesses, Prostitutes, Wives, Saints, and Rulers: Women and European Art 1200-1680
Instructor: Melinda Schlitt
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 216-01. How has the representation of women been constructed, idealized, vilified, manipulated, sexualized, and gendered during what could be broadly called the "Renaissance" in Europe? How have female artists, such as Sofanisba Anguissola (1532-1625) or Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), among others, represented themselves, men, and other familiar subjects differently from their male counterparts? How have female rulers, like Queen Elizabeth I of England, controlled their own political and cultural self-fashioning through portraiture? What role do the lives and writings of female mystics, like Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) or Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) play in depictions of their physical and spiritual identity? How was beauty and sexuality conceived through the imagery of mythological women, like Venus, or culturally ambivalent women, like courtesans and prostitutes? What kind of art did wealthy, aristocratic women or nuns pay for and use? Through studying primary texts, scholarly literature, and relevant theoretical sources, we will address these and other issues in art produced in Italy, France, Spain, Northern Europe, and England from 1200-1680. The course will be grounded in an understanding of historical and cultural contexts, and students will develop paper topics based on their own interests in consultation with the professor. A screening of the documentary film, "A Woman Like That" (2009), on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi and a trip to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. will take place during the second half of the semester.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
WEISS 221 |
| WGSS 201-03 |
Hispanic Cultures through Women's Voices
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 231-02.This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 214 |
| WGSS 201-04 |
Hispanic Cultures through Women's Voices
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SPAN 231-03. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 214 |
| WGSS 201-05 |
Pause: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Hip Hop
Instructor: Naaja Rogers
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 220-04 and MUAC 210-01. This course examines the complex and dynamic relationship between race, gender, and sexuality in hip hop, one of the largest cultural movements in the world. However, since hip hop is more than music, fashion, language, and style, and transcends the commercialization of products both in mainstream U.S.A. and globally, this course sets out to achieve two goals: (1) To introduce students to classic and emergent scholarship in the interrelated fields of critical race theory, feminist and gender studies, and queer theory which will be used to analyze hip hop and (2) to use hip hop as a heterogeneous and constantly shifting cultural and political formation that informs, complicates, and offers new of imaginings of these fields of study. Ultimately, utilizing a primarily interdisciplinary approach, this course will examine the ways in which the historical and contemporary social organizations of sexuality, gender, and race are mutually negotiated, contested, and constructed within and across hip hop music, film, dance, dress, and other sites of cultural performance. Students will have ample opportunity to engage hip hop lyrics, videos, and images throughout the span of the course.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |
| WGSS 202-01 |
American Childhood
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 101-01. Drawing from history, literature and art, this course will explore the changing meanings of childhood in the United States, from the 19th century through the present. We will pay particular attention to the ways that concepts of the "child" and "childhood innocence" change dramatically dependent upon time period, gender, race, and class.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 212 |
| WGSS 206-01 |
Fat Studies
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-01. This course introduces students to an emerging academic field, Fat Studies. By drawing from historical, cultural, and social texts, Fat Studies explores the meaning of fatness within the U.S. and also from comparative global perspectives. Students will examine the development of fat stigma and the ways it intersects with gendered, racial, ethnic and class constructions. Not a biomedical study of the obesity epidemic, this course instead will interrogate the very vocabulary used to describe our current crisis. Finally, students will become familiar with the wide range of activists whose work has challenged fat stigma and developed alternative models of health and beauty. This course is cross-listed as AMST 200.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| WGSS 208-01 |
Sex Ed to Sexting, Porn to Polyamory, Medicine to Media: Introduction to Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HEST 250-01. This course explores how practices, identities, behaviors, and representations of sexualities shape and are shaped by political, cultural, social, religious, medical and economic practices of societies across time and space. We will center contemporary Western sexuality in our analysis as we address how sexuality is shaped by sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, ability, nationality and geography. Students will explore the shifting historical and social meanings of sexual activities, and how sexual meanings influence institutional forces and social phenomena. Topics include sex education, racialized sexuality, disability and sex, bisexuality and polyamory, sex work, pornography, sexual violence, and reproductive justice.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 110 |
| WGSS 301-01 |
Medieval Women Writers
Instructor: Chelsea Skalak
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 341-01 & MEMS 200-03. This course examines the writing of female mystics, abbesses, poets, and scholars from the time period 1100-1500. In a historical time in which women were alternately represented as innocent virgins or devilish temptresses, these women negotiate for themselves far more complex identities and relationships with the world than their societies often believed them capable. We will consider issues of class, gender, sexuality, and religion, through the writings of Heloise, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Marie de France, and Christine de Pizan.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 301 |
| WGSS 301-02 |
Victorian Sexualities
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 321-01. Permission of Instructor Required. The Victorian era (1832-1901), so we are told, fostered rigid attitudes toward morality, gender, and sexuality. Yet an array of "dangerous" characters inhabit the pages of nineteenth-century literature, among them effeminate men, political women, prostitutes, and hysterics. This course puts Victorian writing about sexuality into conversation with the period's debates about democracy and equality, scrutiny of marriage and property law, and surprising openness to diversity in gender and sexuality. We will concentrate on changing conceptions of the individual, sexuality, and gender, and explore how these conceptions intersect with race, class, nationality, and other identity categories. The syllabus includes a variety of genres (poetry, drama, novel, and non-fiction prose) and authors (including Lord Alfred Tennyson, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, Charles Dickens, Sigmund Freud, and Michael Field).
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| WGSS 301-03 |
Family Matters in Italian Films & Literature
Instructor: Mattia Mossali
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01, ITAL 323-01 and SOCI 230-03. Taught in English. How have concepts of love, marriage, and family evolved over time? How have these ideas responded-or failed to respond-to the profound transformations within Italian and Western society, particularly in the context of capitalism and globalization? Have they adapted to reflect new values and societal shifts? This course begins with an analysis of Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961), a film that critically engages with the patriarchal structures embedded in Italian society, and Antonioni's tetralogy (1960-64), exploring through a transnational perspective how contemporary Italian filmmakers and writers have questioned and deconstructed the notions of "traditional" love and family, along with their associated values. We will critically examine the themes of incommunicability and failure within family dynamics (Ferrante), particularly in the context of pervasive capitalism, finance, and the rise of social networks (Genovese). Emphasizing a challenge to conventional heteronormative paradigms, the course will pay special attention to representations of same-sex families and their portrayal in visual media (Ozpeteck). Through critical readings in history, sociology, and psychoanalysis, we will lay the groundwork for a deeper understanding of the literary texts and films studied throughout the semester, with a focus on how gender, sexuality, and social structures intersect to shape contemporary notions of love, marriage, and family.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| WGSS 302-01 |
Gender and Development
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ECON 351-01 and INST 351-01. This course examines the gender dimensions of economic development and globalization from the perspective of feminist economics. This perspective implies foregrounding labor, broadly defined to include paid and unpaid work, and examining gender differences in work, access to resources, and wellbeing outcomes, and how these are affected by macroeconomic policies and how gender inequalities are relevant for societal wellbeing. Since the early 1980's economic globalization has been achieved on the basis of a common set of macroeconomic policies pursued in industrial and developing countries alike. These policies frame both the gender-differentiated impacts of policy and the initiatives that are implemented to reduce inequalities between men and women. The main objective of the course is to examine the impact of these policies on men and women in the global South (a.k.a. developing countries/Third World) on gender inequalities and to evaluate the policies/strategies for reducing gender inequalities and promoting the well-being of all people. The pursuit of these objectives will entail first a brief examination of the central tenets of feminist economics and an historical overview of the policy-oriented field of gender and development. Gender-differentiated statistics will be reviewed as they pertain to the topics under discussion.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
ALTHSE 110 |
| WGSS 302-02 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EASN 306-01 and HIST 317-01. This course is an exploration of how sexuality and gender have been continually redefined and experienced throughout modern Japanese history. We will analyze the changes Japanese society underwent from the 19th century to the present, paying particular attention to transformations as well as continuities in eroticism, same-sex love, family structure, and gender roles. A key theme of the course is the socially-constructed nature of gender norms and how women and men frequently transgressed feminine and masculine ideals, a theme that we will explore through both primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship. Building upon in-class workshops and a series of short-essay assignments, the final goal of the course will be to produce a paper that analyzes the development of this new and exciting field of history.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 303 |
| WGSS 302-03 |
Consumerism, Nationalism and Gender
Instructor: Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 377-01. This reading seminar examines the development of consumerism and nationalism in Europe and America beginning in the late 18th century and continuing on into the post-WWII era - from American Revolutionary boycotts to French fast food establishments. We will look for overlaps or polarities between the movements and the way gender interacted with both of them. Students may be surprised at the gendered aspects of both movements. We will consider, for example, the historical development of the image of women loving to shop, and we will study propaganda from the two world wars with men in uniform and women on the "home front." Our readings will include both promoters and critics of each movement.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 311 |
| WGSS 302-04 |
Gender and Education
Instructor: Jacquie Forbes
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EDST 330-01.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 213 |
| WGSS 306-01 |
Gender Identities and Sexualities
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PSYC 435-01. In this seminar, we will discuss current psychological theory and research relating to gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and sexual practices. The course is designed to acquaint you with some of the key issues, questions, and findings in this field, as well as to allow you to develop some of the critical skills needed to evaluate research findings. We will discuss topics such as traditional and alternative gender identities; gender socialization in childhood; transgender and nonbinary identities; the development of heterosexual, and LGBTQ+ identities; the relationship between gender and sexual orientation; social pressures and compulsory heterosexuality, heterosexism, and sexual prejudice; and alternative sexual practices and communities. This discussion-based course is designed to encourage deep, thoughtful analysis of issues surrounding gender and sexuality.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 313 |
| WGSS 351-01 |
Writing, Identity, & Queer Studies: In & Out, Either/Or, and Everything in Between
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 221-02. Permission of Instructor Required. Kate Bornstein writes: "I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." In this reading and writing intensive course, students will investigate how we approach the space outside of "one or the other" through literature, film, and narrative more generally. Throughout the semester we will explore and engage critically with established and emerging arguments in queer theory, as well as read and watch texts dealing with issues of identity and identification. Although "queer" is a contested term, it describes-at least potentially-sexualities and genders that fall outside of normative constellations. Students will learn how to summarize and engage with arguments, and to craft and insert their own voice into the ongoing debates about the efficacy of queer theory and queer studies. Moreover, we'll take on questions that relate "word" to "world" in order to ask: How might our theory productively intervene in LGBTQ civil rights discourse outside our classroom? How do we define queer and is it necessarily attached to sexual orientation? How do our own histories and narratives intersect with the works we analyze? Our course texts will pull from a range of genres including graphic novels, film, poetry, memoir, and fiction. Some texts may include Alison Bechdel's _Fun Home_, Audre Lorde's _Zami_, Jackie Kay's _Trumpet_, David Sedaris' _Me Talk Pretty One Day_, and films such as _Paris is Burning_ and _Boys Don't Cry_.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 410 |
| WGSS 400-01 |
Senior Seminar
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
All topics will draw upon the knowledge of the history and theories of feminism and will be interdisciplinary in nature. Prerequisite or co-requisite: 100, 200 and 300 or permission of the instructor.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 315 |
| WGSS 500-01 |
Identity in Memoir
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
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| WGSS 500-02 |
Gender in Public: Gender Identity in Contemporary Legislation
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
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| Courses Offered in AFST |
| AFST 220-04 |
Pause: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Hip Hop
Instructor: Naaja Rogers
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MUAC 210-01 and WGSS 201-05. This course examines the complex and dynamic relationship between race, gender, and sexuality in hip hop, one of the largest cultural movements in the world. However, since hip hop is more than music, fashion, language, and style, and transcends the commercialization of products both in mainstream U.S.A. and globally, this course sets out to achieve two goals: (1) To introduce students to classic and emergent scholarship in the interrelated fields of critical race theory, feminist and gender studies, and queer theory which will be used to analyze hip hop and (2) to use hip hop as a heterogeneous and constantly shifting cultural and political formation that informs, complicates, and offers new of imaginings of these fields of study. Ultimately, utilizing a primarily interdisciplinary approach, this course will examine the ways in which the historical and contemporary social organizations of sexuality, gender, and race are mutually negotiated, contested, and constructed within and across hip hop music, film, dance, dress, and other sites of cultural performance. Students will have ample opportunity to engage hip hop lyrics, videos, and images throughout the span of the course.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |
| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 101-01 |
American Childhood
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-01. Drawing from history, literature and art, this course will explore the changing meanings of childhood in the United States, from the 19th century through the present. We will pay particular attention to the ways that concepts of the "child" and "childhood innocence" change dramatically dependent upon time period, gender, race, and class.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 212 |
| AMST 200-01 |
Fat Studies
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 206-01. This course introduces students to an emerging academic field, Fat Studies. By drawing from historical, cultural, and social texts, Fat Studies explores the meaning of fatness within the U.S. and also from comparative global perspectives. Students will examine the development of fat stigma and the ways it intersects with gendered, racial, ethnic and class constructions. Not a biomedical study of the "obesity epidemic," this course instead will interrogate the very vocabulary used to describe our current "crisis." Finally, students will become familiar with the wide range of activists whose work has challenged fat stigma and developed alternative models of health and beauty.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| AMST 200-03 |
Disorderly Women
Instructor: Anna Neumann
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-02. According to Merriam-Webster someone behaves disorderly when they are engaged in conduct offensive to public order. In this course, we will ask which women have been (and still are) considered disorderly, why, and by whom. In an American context, who are these women unsettling, upsetting, and disrupting public order in meaningful ways? Predominantly focusing on the particular intersection of race and gender, in our time together we will prioritize narratives and intellectual and cultural production of African American women who have caused good, necessary trouble throughout US-American history. Engaging with activist work, academic scholarship, fiction, art, and film as significant contributions in the struggle for freedom, civil rights, and equality, we will be guided by Black Feminist activist-intellectuals, artists, and creators such as Sojourner Truth, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker. From todays vantage point, and two years after the dramatic overturning of Roe v. Wade, it has become evident once more that hard fought victories and progress can never be taken for granted and that our engagement with current (and past) debates about feminism, gender, power, and justice is as pressing as ever.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 211 |
| Courses Offered in ARTH |
| ARTH 216-01 |
Goddesses, Prostitutes, Wives, Saints, and Rulers: Women and European Art 1200-1680
Instructor: Melinda Schlitt
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-02. How has the representation of women been constructed, idealized, vilified, manipulated, sexualized, and gendered during what could be broadly called the Renaissance in Europe? How have female artists, such as Sofanisba Anguissola (1532-1625) or Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), among others, represented themselves, men, and other familiar subjects differently from their male counterparts? How have female rulers, like Queen Elizabeth I of England, controlled their own political and cultural self-fashioning through portraiture? What role do the lives and writings of female mystics, like Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) or Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) play in depictions of their physical and spiritual identity? How was beauty and sexuality conceived through the imagery of mythological women, like Venus, or culturally ambivalent women, like courtesans and prostitutes? What kind of art did wealthy, aristocratic women or nuns pay for and use? Through studying primary texts, scholarly literature, and relevant theoretical sources, we will address these and other issues in art produced in Italy, France, Spain, Northern Europe, and England from 1200-1680. The course will be grounded in an understanding of historical and cultural contexts, and students will develop paper topics based on their own interests in consultation with the professor. A screening of the documentary film, A Woman Like That (2009), on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi and a trip to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. will take place during the second half of the semester. Offered every year.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
WEISS 221 |
| Courses Offered in EASN |
| EASN 306-01 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 317-01 and WGSS 302-02. This course is an exploration of how sexuality and gender have been continually redefined and experienced throughout modern Japanese history. We will analyze the changes Japanese society underwent from the 19th century to the present, paying particular attention to transformations as well as continuities in eroticism, same-sex love, family structure, and gender roles. A key theme of the course is the socially-constructed nature of gender norms and how women and men frequently transgressed feminine and masculine ideals, a theme that we will explore through both primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship. Building upon in-class workshops and a series of short-essay assignments, the final goal of the course will be to produce a paper that analyzes the development of this new and exciting field of history.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 303 |
| Courses Offered in ECON |
| ECON 351-01 |
Gender and Development
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with INST 351-01 and WGSS 302-01. This course examines the gender dimensions of economic development and globalization from the perspective of feminist economics. This perspective implies foregrounding labor, broadly defined to include paid and unpaid work, and examining gender differences in work, access to resources, and wellbeing outcomes, and how these are affected by macroeconomic policies and how gender inequalities are relevant for societal wellbeing. Since the early 1980s economic globalization has been achieved on the basis of a common set of macroeconomic policies pursued in industrial and developing countries alike. These policies frame both the gender-differentiated impacts of policy and the initiatives that are implemented to reduce inequalities between men and women. The main objective of the course is to examine the impact of these policies on men and women in the global South (a.k.a. developing countries/Third World) on gender inequalities and to evaluate the policies/strategies for reducing gender inequalities and promoting the well-being of all people. The pursuit of these objectives will entail first a brief examination of the central tenets of feminist economics and an historical overview of the policy-oriented field of gender and development. Gender-differentiated statistics will be reviewed as they pertain to the topics under discussion.
Prerequisite: For ECON 351: ECON 288; For INST 351: ECON 288 or INST 200 or INBM 200; For WGSS 302: at least one WGSS course or ECON 288. This course is cross-listed as INST 351& WGSS 302.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
ALTHSE 110 |
| Courses Offered in EDST |
| EDST 330-01 |
Gender and Education
Instructor: Jacquie Forbes
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 302-04. An examination of the historical, sociological, political, and legal issues related to gender and education in the United States. Particular issues of focus each semester will be selected by the instructor and might include theoretical perspectives on gender in education, single-sex vs. coeducational schooling, representation of gender in curriculum, the feminization of the teaching profession, gender equity and policy initiatives such as Title IX, and student achievement and college access. Prerequisite: 260 or Social Science Research Methods (AFST 200, AMST 202, ANTH 240, ANTH 241, EASN 310, ECON 228, LAWP 228, PMGT 228, POSC 239, PSYC 211, SOCI 240, SOCI 244, or WGSS 200), or permission of instructor.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 213 |
| Courses Offered in ENGL |
| ENGL 101-03 |
Women Write War
Instructor: Claire Seiler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 101-01. This course studies American women's war writing from the US Civil War through the "war on terror." We will ask: what literary forms have women writers adapted or developed to represent war, as well as the social, political, bodily, and emotional effects of armed conflict? How has women's war writing participated in debates about feminism, gender identity, citizenship, civil and human rights, and the American project? How have women's lived experiences and changing social roles impacted the diverse genre of war writing-and vice versa? Primary texts include works of poetry, fiction, and autobiography by writers including Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, Elyse Fenton, Frances E.W. Harper, Toni Morrison, Toyo Suyemoto, and Natasha Trethewey.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 203 |
| ENGL 221-02 |
Writing, Identity, & Queer Studies: In & Out, Either/Or, and Everything in Between
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 351-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Kate Bornstein writes: "I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." In this reading and writing intensive course, students will investigate how we approach the space outside of "one or the other" through literature, film, and narrative more generally. Throughout the semester we will explore and engage critically with established and emerging arguments in queer theory, as well as read and watch texts dealing with issues of identity and identification. Although "queer" is a contested term, it describes-at least potentially-sexualities and genders that fall outside of normative constellations. Students will learn how to summarize and engage with arguments, and to craft and insert their own voice into the ongoing debates about the efficacy of queer theory and queer studies. Moreover, we'll take on questions that relate "word" to "world" in order to ask: How might our theory productively intervene in LGBTQ civil rights discourse outside our classroom? How do we define queer and is it necessarily attached to sexual orientation? How do our own histories and narratives intersect with the works we analyze? Our course texts will pull from a range of genres including graphic novels, film, poetry, memoir, and fiction. Some texts may include Alison Bechdel's _Fun Home_, Audre Lorde's _Zami_, Jackie Kay's _Trumpet_, David Sedaris' _Me Talk Pretty One Day_, and films such as _Paris is Burning_ and _Boys Don't Cry_.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 410 |
| ENGL 321-01 |
Victorian Sexualities
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-02. Permission of Instructor Required. The Victorian era (1832-1901), so we are told, fostered rigid attitudes toward morality, gender, and sexuality. Yet an array of "dangerous" characters inhabit the pages of nineteenth-century literature, among them effeminate men, political women, prostitutes, and hysterics. This course puts Victorian writing about sexuality into conversation with the period's debates about democracy and equality, scrutiny of marriage and property law, and surprising openness to diversity in gender and sexuality. We will concentrate on changing conceptions of the individual, sexuality, and gender, and explore how these conceptions intersect with race, class, nationality, and other identity categories. The syllabus includes a variety of genres (poetry, drama, novel, and non-fiction prose) and authors (including Lord Alfred Tennyson, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, Charles Dickens, Sigmund Freud, and Michael Field).
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| ENGL 341-01 |
Medieval Women Writers
Instructor: Chelsea Skalak
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEMS 200-03 & WGSS 301-01. This course examines the writing of female mystics, abbesses, poets, and scholars from the time period 1100-1500. In a historical time in which women were alternately represented as innocent virgins or devilish temptresses, these women negotiate for themselves far more complex identities and relationships with the world than their societies often believed them capable. We will consider issues of class, gender, sexuality, and religion, through the writings of Heloise, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Marie de France, and Christine de Pizan.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 301 |
| Courses Offered in FMST |
| FMST 310-01 |
Family Matters in Italian Films & Literature
Instructor: Mattia Mossali
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ITAL 323-01, SOCI 230-03 and WGSS 301-01. Taught in English. How have concepts of love, marriage, and family evolved over time? How have these ideas responded-or failed to respond-to the profound transformations within Italian and Western society, particularly in the context of capitalism and globalization? Have they adapted to reflect new values and societal shifts? This course begins with an analysis of Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961), a film that critically engages with the patriarchal structures embedded in Italian society, and Antonioni's tetralogy (1960-64), exploring through a transnational perspective how contemporary Italian filmmakers and writers have questioned and deconstructed the notions of "traditional" love and family, along with their associated values. We will critically examine the themes of incommunicability and failure within family dynamics (Ferrante), particularly in the context of pervasive capitalism, finance, and the rise of social networks (Genovese). Emphasizing a challenge to conventional heteronormative paradigms, the course will pay special attention to representations of same-sex families and their portrayal in visual media (Ozpeteck). Through critical readings in history, sociology, and psychoanalysis, we will lay the groundwork for a deeper understanding of the literary texts and films studied throughout the semester, with a focus on how gender, sexuality, and social structures intersect to shape contemporary notions of love, marriage, and family.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in HEST |
| HEST 250-01 |
Sex Ed to Sexting, Porn to Polyamory, Medicine to Media: Introduction to Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 208-01.This course explores how practices, identities, behaviors, and representations of sexualities shape and are shaped by political, cultural, social, religious, medical and economic practices of societies across time and space. We will center contemporary Western sexuality in our analysis as we address how sexuality is shaped by sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, ability, nationality and geography. Students will explore the shifting historical and social meanings of sexual activities, and how sexual meanings influence institutional forces and social phenomena. Topics include sex education, racialized sexuality, disability and sex, bisexuality and polyamory, sex work, pornography, sexual violence, and reproductive justice.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 110 |
| Courses Offered in HIST |
| HIST 317-01 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EASN 306-01 and WGSS 302-02. This course is an exploration of how sexuality and gender have been continually redefined and experienced throughout modern Japanese history. We will analyze the changes Japanese society underwent from the 19th century to the present, paying particular attention to transformations as well as continuities in eroticism, same-sex love, family structure, and gender roles. A key theme of the course is the socially-constructed nature of gender norms and how women and men frequently transgressed feminine and masculine ideals, a theme that we will explore through both primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship. Building upon in-class workshops and a series of short-essay assignments, the final goal of the course will be to produce a paper that analyzes the development of this new and exciting field of history.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 303 |
| HIST 377-01 |
Consumerism, Nationalism and Gender
Instructor: Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 302-03. This reading seminar examines the development of consumerism and nationalism in Europe and America beginning in the late 18th century and continuing on into the post-WWII era - from American Revolutionary boycotts to French fast food establishments. We will look for overlaps or polarities between the movements and the way gender interacted with both of them. Students may be surprised at the gendered aspects of both movements. We will consider, for example, the historical development of the image of women loving to shop, and we will study propaganda from the two world wars with men in uniform and women on the "home front." Our readings will include both promoters and critics of each movement. Offered every two or three years.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 311 |
| Courses Offered in INST |
| INST 351-01 |
Gender and Development
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ECON 351-01 and WGSS 302-01. This course examines the gender dimensions of economic development and globalization from the perspective of feminist economics. This perspective implies foregrounding labor, broadly defined to include paid and unpaid work, and examining gender differences in work, access to resources, and wellbeing outcomes, and how these are affected by macroeconomic policies and how gender inequalities are relevant for societal wellbeing. Since the early 1980s economic globalization has been achieved on the basis of a common set of macroeconomic policies pursued in industrial and developing countries alike. These policies frame both the gender-differentiated impacts of policy and the initiatives that are implemented to reduce inequalities between men and women. The main objective of the course is to examine the impact of these policies on men and women in the global South (a.k.a. developing countries/Third World) on gender inequalities and to evaluate the policies/strategies for reducing gender inequalities and promoting the well-being of all people. The pursuit of these objectives will entail first a brief examination of the central tenets of feminist economics and an historical overview of the policy-oriented field of gender and development. Gender-differentiated statistics will be reviewed as they pertain to the topics under discussion.Prerequisite: For ECON 351: ECON 288; For INST 351: ECON 288 or INST 200 or INBM 200; For WGSS 302: at least one WGSS course or ECON 288. This course is cross-listed as ECON 351 & WGSS 302.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
ALTHSE 110 |
| Courses Offered in ITAL |
| ITAL 323-01 |
Family Matters in Italian Films & Literature
Instructor: Mattia Mossali
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01, SOCI 230-03 and WGSS 301-03. Taught in English. How have concepts of love, marriage, and family evolved over time? How have these ideas responded-or failed to respond-to the profound transformations within Italian and Western society, particularly in the context of capitalism and globalization? Have they adapted to reflect new values and societal shifts? This course begins with an analysis of Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961), a film that critically engages with the patriarchal structures embedded in Italian society, and Antonioni's tetralogy (1960-64), exploring through a transnational perspective how contemporary Italian filmmakers and writers have questioned and deconstructed the notions of "traditional" love and family, along with their associated values. We will critically examine the themes of incommunicability and failure within family dynamics (Ferrante), particularly in the context of pervasive capitalism, finance, and the rise of social networks (Genovese). Emphasizing a challenge to conventional heteronormative paradigms, the course will pay special attention to representations of same-sex families and their portrayal in visual media (Ozpeteck). Through critical readings in history, sociology, and psychoanalysis, we will lay the groundwork for a deeper understanding of the literary texts and films studied throughout the semester, with a focus on how gender, sexuality, and social structures intersect to shape contemporary notions of love, marriage, and family.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in MEMS |
| MEMS 200-03 |
Medieval Women Writers
Instructor: Chelsea Skalak
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 341-01 & WGSS 301-01. This course examines the writing of female mystics, abbesses, poets, and scholars from the time period 1100-1500. In a historical time in which women were alternately represented as innocent virgins or devilish temptresses, these women negotiate for themselves far more complex identities and relationships with the world than their societies often believed them capable. We will consider issues of class, gender, sexuality, and religion, through the writings of Heloise, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Marie de France, and Christine de Pizan.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 301 |
| Courses Offered in MEST |
| MEST 200-01 |
The Good Invisible Soldier: Gender Equality and Disability in the U.S. Military
Instructor: Mireille Rebeiz
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-01. This course examines American veterans' stories of deployment in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. It studies veterans' war stories and experiences upon returning to civilian life in the United States of America. The course focuses on memoirs, short stories, and other literary forms written or produced by veterans; it references popular media sources (film, television, political cartoons, and more) and includes discussions with veterans and enlisted members of the United States military. Through an intersectional lens, this course seeks to answer questions related to gender, violence, and disability. For instance, how do veterans tell war stories? Do women veterans have different experiences than men during and after deployment? How does the military view masculinity and disability in its various forms? What are some of the challenges veterans encounter integrating civilians life? How are veterans represented in popular media?
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 104 |
| Courses Offered in MUAC |
| MUAC 210-01 |
Pause: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Hip Hop
Instructor: Naaja Rogers
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 220-04 and WGSS 201-05. This course examines the complex and dynamic relationship between race, gender, and sexuality in hip hop, one of the largest cultural movements in the world. However, since hip hop is more than music, fashion, language, and style, and transcends the commercialization of products both in mainstream U.S.A. and globally, this course sets out to achieve two goals: (1) To introduce students to classic and emergent scholarship in the interrelated fields of critical race theory, feminist and gender studies, and queer theory which will be used to analyze hip hop and (2) to use hip hop as a heterogeneous and constantly shifting cultural and political formation that informs, complicates, and offers new of imaginings of these fields of study. Ultimately, utilizing a primarily interdisciplinary approach, this course will examine the ways in which the historical and contemporary social organizations of sexuality, gender, and race are mutually negotiated, contested, and constructed within and across hip hop music, film, dance, dress, and other sites of cultural performance. Students will have ample opportunity to engage hip hop lyrics, videos, and images throughout the span of the course.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |
| Courses Offered in PSYC |
| PSYC 145-01 |
Psychology of Human Sexuality
Instructor: Michele Ford
Course Description:
This course is a study of human sexuality emphasizing psychological aspects. We will cover sexual development from childhood to adulthood, sexual orientations, biological influences, sexual attitudes and behavior, gender, sex therapy, sexual coercion and abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health, and the development of sexual relationships. The study of human sexuality is inherently interdisciplinary in nature (drawing from such varied disciplines as sociology, women's studies, biology, anthropology, history, and others). Although we will cover some material from these disciplines, we will take an explicitly social psychological perspective, focusing on individual, personal, and social aspects of sexual behaviors, attitudes and beliefs. This course is a study of human sexuality emphasizing psychological aspects. We will cover sexual development from childhood to adulthood, sexual orientations, biological influences, sexual attitudes and behavior, gender, sex therapy, sexual coercion and abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health, and the development of sexual relationships. The study of human sexuality is inherently interdisciplinary in nature (drawing from such varied disciplines as sociology, women's studies, biology, anthropology, history, and others). Although we will cover some material from these disciplines, we will take an explicitly social psychological perspective, focusing on individual, personal, and social aspects of sexual behaviors, attitudes and beliefs.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
KAUF 179 |
| PSYC 435-01 |
Gender Identities and Sexualities
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 306-01. : In this seminar, we will discuss current psychological theory and research relating to gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and sexual practices. The course is designed to acquaint you with some of the key issues, questions, and findings in this field, as well as to allow you to develop some of the critical skills needed to evaluate research findings. We will discuss topics such as traditional and alternative gender identities; gender socialization in childhood; transgender and nonbinary identities; the development of heterosexual, and LGBTQ+ identities; the relationship between gender and sexual orientation; social pressures and compulsory heterosexuality, heterosexism, and sexual prejudice; and alternative sexual practices and communities. This discussion-based course is designed to encourage deep, thoughtful analysis of issues surrounding gender and sexuality.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 313 |
| Courses Offered in SOCI |
| SOCI 230-03 |
Family Matters in Italian Films & Literature
Instructor: Mattia Mossali
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 310-01, ITAL 323-01 and WGSS 301-03. Taught in English. How have concepts of love, marriage, and family evolved over time? How have these ideas responded-or failed to respond-to the profound transformations within Italian and Western society, particularly in the context of capitalism and globalization? Have they adapted to reflect new values and societal shifts? This course begins with an analysis of Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961), a film that critically engages with the patriarchal structures embedded in Italian society, and Antonioni's tetralogy (1960-64), exploring through a transnational perspective how contemporary Italian filmmakers and writers have questioned and deconstructed the notions of "traditional" love and family, along with their associated values. We will critically examine the themes of incommunicability and failure within family dynamics (Ferrante), particularly in the context of pervasive capitalism, finance, and the rise of social networks (Genovese). Emphasizing a challenge to conventional heteronormative paradigms, the course will pay special attention to representations of same-sex families and their portrayal in visual media (Ozpeteck). Through critical readings in history, sociology, and psychoanalysis, we will lay the groundwork for a deeper understanding of the literary texts and films studied throughout the semester, with a focus on how gender, sexuality, and social structures intersect to shape contemporary notions of love, marriage, and family.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in SPAN |
| SPAN 231-02 |
Hispanic Cultures through Women's Voices
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-03. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
BOSLER 214 |
| SPAN 231-03 |
Hispanic Cultures through Women's Voices
Instructor: Eva Copeland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-04. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
BOSLER 214 |
| Courses Offered in THDA |
| THDA 316-01 |
Dance History Seminar: Modernism and the Body
Instructor: Sarah Skaggs
Course Description:
This course will focus on contemporary dance history using theoretical frameworks that interrogate how race, class and gender resist, assimilate, and converge to create the construction of American modern concert dance. We will explore how the politics of the dancing female body on the concert stage produced a radicalized agenda for contemporary dance. We will address key themes and questions throughout the semester, questions such as: What makes a body "modern?" How does the feminist agenda on the concert stage aid in the construction of a "modern" body? What was the role of appropriating from exotic cultures in the making of contemporary concert dance? What is the role of technology in the creation of modern dance? What are the effects of war and politics on the dancing body? Orientalism, the Africanist presence in Western concert dance, and the restaging of Native American dances by American choreographers will be addressed as part of the overall construction of American modern dance. Through response papers, in-class presentations, and an in-depth research paper, students will engage with significant issues contributing to the development of modern concert dance. Prerequisite: 102. This course is cross-listed as WGSS 301. This course will focus on contemporary dance history using theoretical frameworks that interrogate how race, class and gender resist, assimilate, and converge to create the construction of American modern concert dance. We will explore how the politics of the dancing female body on the concert stage produced a radicalized agenda for contemporary dance. We will address key themes and questions throughout the semester, questions such as: What makes a body "modern?" How does the feminist agenda on the concert stage aid in the construction of a "modern" body? What was the role of appropriating from exotic cultures in the making of contemporary concert dance? What is the role of technology in the creation of modern dance? What are the effects of war and politics on the dancing body? Orientalism, the Africanist presence in Western concert dance, and the restaging of Native American dances by American choreographers will be addressed as part of the overall construction of American modern dance. Through response papers, in-class presentations, and an in-depth research paper, students will engage with significant issues contributing to the development of modern concert dance. Prerequisite: 102. This course is cross-listed as WGSS 301.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, WF
MONTGM 100 |