Women’s and Gender Studies Courses

Course Offerings Spring 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
AFST 220-03	Marginalization & Represent Instructor: Vanessa Tyson Course Description: Cross-listed with POSC 290-02. This course explores the political representation of groups that have historically been marginalized in American society and excluded from the democratic process either through statute or through common practices. In particular, issues of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia will be addressed.	1330:W DENNY 311
AFST 220-04	Global Eastern Africa Instructor: James Ellison Course Description: Cross-listed with ANTH 255-01. This course examines global connections in the intersections of culture and power that underlie contemporary issues in eastern Africa. The globally marketed indigenous cultures and exotic landscapes of eastern Africa, like current dilemmas of disease and economic development, are products of complex local and transnational processes (gendered, cultural, social, economic, and political) that developed over time. To understand ethnicity, the success or failure of development projects, the social and economic contexts of tourism, responses to the AIDS crisis, the increasing presence of multinational corporations, and other contemporary issues, we will develop an ethnographic perspective that situates cultural knowledge and practice in colonial and postcolonial contexts. While our focus is on eastern Africa, the course will offer students ways to think about research and processes in other contexts.	1330:MR DENNY 303
AFST 320-01	Postcolonial Fem Sci Studies Instructor: Megan Glick Course Description: Cross-listed with AMST 301-01 and WGST 300-01. This course will provide an introduction to postcolonial feminist critiques of medicine, science, and technology. We will begin by interrogating how ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality are shaped by medical, scientific, and technological discourses. We will continue on to address how these concepts are deployed in reproductive politics, the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, and the use and dissemination of modernizing technology in developing nations. We will then consider the place of women both as objects of, and active participants in - scientific research projects. We will examine all of these phenomena from cross-cultural perspectives, paying particular attention to the circulation of knowledge and research across the globe, and the relationship between scientific progress and conditions of socio-economic inequality.	1030:TR ALTHSE 109
AFST 320-02	African American Women Writers Instructor: Lynn Johnson Course Description: Cross-listed with ENGL 375-01 and WGST 300-04. This course examines a range of the literary productions written by African American women. Specifically, we will span the African-American literary tradition in order to discover the historical, political, and social forces that facilitated the evolution of Black women's voices as well as their roles inside and outside the Black community. Additionally, we will discuss such issues as self-definition, womanhood, sexuality, activism, race, class, and community.	1330:MR ALTHSE 206
AFST 320-03	Franco-Maghrebi Imagination Instructor: Nancy Mellerski Course Description: Cross-listed with FLST 310-01, FREN 363-01, MEST 200-08 and WGST 300-02. We will study writers and filmmakers of two generations in France: those who immigrated to the Mtropole from North Africa during the postcolonial period, and those who were born in France of Maghrebi parents but still find themselves on the other side of the ethnic divide in a society that maintains an ambivalent relationship with its cultural minorities. Our approach will be an eclectic one, as we explore the history of Franco-Maghrebi relations during the colonial era, the socioeconomic experiences of the guest workers who toiled to rebuild France during the postwar period, the meaning of social and geographical marginalization in the banlieue, the particular situation of Muslim female authors, and, finally, the ways in which cultural hybridity is expressed in both prose and cinema.	1330:TF BOSLER 310
AFST 320-04	African Women's History Instructor: Constanze Weise Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 374-01 and WGST 374-01. This course examines the role of women in African societies since the nineteenth century. Lectures and readings will be arranged thematically. Themes include sexuality and reproduction, the household, women's economic activity, political power, religion, colonialism, and democracy. After a discussion of gender, we will analyze pre-colonial production and reproduction, family life and religion in the twentieth century, women's roles in nationalist politics, the politics of female genital mutilation, and the lives of two contemporary African women leaders. Readings, including historical studies and novels, songs, and art, will be drawn from across the cultures and languages of Africa.	1030:MWF DENNY 104
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AMST 200-01	Fat Studies Instructor: Amy Farrell Course Description: Cross-listed with WGST 202-02. 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.	0900:TR DENNY 212
AMST 200-03	Introduction to Queer Studies Instructor: Laura Grappo Course Description: This course will examine major ideas in the field of queer studies. Relying upon theoretical, historical, and cultural studies texts, we will consider the representation and constructions of sexuality-based identities as they have been formed within the contemporary United States. We will explore the idea of sexuality as a category of social identity, probing the terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender to try and understand what they really mean in various cultural, social, legal, and political milieus. In doing so, we will we ask: what does it mean to study sexuality? How do institutions religious, legal, scientific, shape our understandings of queer identities? In what ways do sexuality and gender interact, and how does this interaction inform the meanings of each of these identity categories? How do other social categories of identification race, ethnicity, class, etc. affect the ways in which we understand expressions of queerness? What does studying queerness tell us about the workings of contemporary political, cultural, and social life?	1330:MR DENNY 304
AMST 301-01	Postcolonial Fem Sci Studies Instructor: Megan Glick Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-01 and WGST 300-01. This course will provide an introduction to postcolonial feminist critiques of medicine, science, and technology. We will begin by interrogating how ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality are shaped by medical, scientific, and technological discourses. We will continue on to address how these concepts are deployed in reproductive politics, the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, and the use and dissemination of modernizing technology in developing nations. We will then consider the place of women both as objects of, and active participants in - scientific research projects. We will examine all of these phenomena from cross-cultural perspectives, paying particular attention to the circulation of knowledge and research across the globe, and the relationship between scientific progress and conditions of socio-economic inequality.	1030:TR ALTHSE 109
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ANTH 217-01	Cross-Cult Perspect of Gender Instructor: Ann Hill Course Description: Cross-listed with WGST 217-01. Permission of Instructor Required	1030:MWF DENNY 211
ANTH 255-01	Global Eastern Africa Instructor: James Ellison Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 220-04. Global Eastern Africa This course examines global connections in the intersections of culture and power that underlie contemporary issues in eastern Africa. The globally marketed indigenous cultures and exotic landscapes of eastern Africa, like current dilemmas of disease and economic development, are products of complex local and transnational processes (gendered, cultural, social, economic, and political) that developed over time. To understand ethnicity, the success or failure of development projects, the social and economic contexts of tourism, responses to the AIDS crisis, the increasing presence of multinational corporations, and other contemporary issues, we will develop an ethnographic perspective that situates cultural knowledge and practice in colonial and postcolonial contexts. While our focus is on eastern Africa, the course will offer students ways to think about research and processes in other contexts.	1330:MR DENNY 303
Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
ENGL 375-01	African American Women Writers Instructor: Lynn Johnson Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-01 and WGST 300-04. This course examines a range of the literary productions written by African American women. Specifically, we will span the African-American literary tradition in order to discover the historical, political, and social forces that facilitated the evolution of Black women's voices as well as their roles inside and outside the Black community. Additionally, we will discuss such issues as self-definition, womanhood, sexuality, activism, race, class, and community.	1330:MR ALTHSE 206
Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
FLST 310-01	Franco-Maghrebi Imagination Instructor: Nancy Mellerski Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-03, FREN 363-01, MEST 200-08 and WGST 300-02. We will study writers and filmmakers of two generations in France: those who immigrated to the Mtropole from North Africa during the postcolonial period, and those who were born in France of Maghrebi parents but still find themselves on the other side of the ethnic divide in a society that maintains an ambivalent relationship with its cultural minorities. Our approach will be an eclectic one, as we explore the history of Franco-Maghrebi relations during the colonial era, the socioeconomic experiences of the guest workers who toiled to rebuild France during the postwar period, the meaning of social and geographical marginalization in the banlieue, the particular situation of Muslim female authors, and, finally, the ways in which cultural hybridity is expressed in both prose and cinema.	1330:TF BOSLER 310
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FREN 363-01	Franco-Maghrebi Imagination Instructor: Nancy Mellerski Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-03, FLST 310-01, MEST 200-08 and WGST 300-02. The Monday session will be taught in French. We will study writers and filmmakers of two generations in France: those who immigrated to the Mtropole from North Africa during the postcolonial period, and those who were born in France of Maghrebi parents but still find themselves on the other side of the ethnic divide in a society that maintains an ambivalent relationship with its cultural minorities. Our approach will be an eclectic one, as we explore the history of Franco-Maghrebi relations during the colonial era, the socioeconomic experiences of the guest workers who toiled to rebuild France during the postwar period, the meaning of social and geographical marginalization in the banlieue, the particular situation of Muslim female authors, and, finally, the ways in which cultural hybridity is expressed in both prose and cinema.	1330:MF BOSLER 310
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HIST 215-01	Mediterranean Migrations Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose Course Description: Cross-listed with SOCI 230-02. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. 1 credit course cross-listed in History and Sociology will focus on the development of migratory flows between Morocco and southern Europe in the context of trans-Mediterranean migration history. In addition, the course will place migration from Morocco within the larger historical contacts between Europe and Moroccoincluding colonialism and its aftermathand it will consider the impact of larger socioeconomic and political changes on geographic mobility across the Mediterranean. The course will address the interplay of structural socioeconomic and political factors with individual trajectories of migrant men and women, and the impact they have on families and communities.	0900:TR CMST SEM
HIST 215-02	Qualitative Methods Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose Course Description: Cross-listed with SOCI 240-02. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. Qualitative Research Methods will introduce students to ethnographic research methods, interviewing, oral history, mapping, demographic, and archival research. Students will be actively engaged in all phases of the research process from research design to data collection, analysis, and presentation.	1330:W CMST SEM
HIST 215-05	Muslim Masculinities Instructor: Derek Mancini-Lander Course Description: Cross-listed with WGST 202-01 and MEST 200-05. This course explores and problematizes the social and cultural construction of masculinity in the Islamic world. With the overall goal of introducing students to the complexities of gender studies in Islam, our immediate objective is to develop a critical apparatus for studying Muslim modes of masculinity in a historically grounded way. We will center our attention on the perceptions of bodily and social differences in Islamic culture, trying to understand how masculinities have been defined in Islamic societies with respect to a variety of marked categories of orientation and identity, including, but not limited to, gender, age, class, and sexual practice. The overall approach of the course is historical: We will explore the history of masculinity as an evolving concept and lived experience from the pre-Islamic period to contemporary times, across a variety of geographical areas. Despite its historical perspective, the course is arranged topically rather than chronologically. While some knowledge of the history of the Islamic world or Islam as a religious system will be helpful, no background knowledge is required.	1030:TR DENNY 303
HIST 215-06	Representations of (Im)migrant Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose, Sylvie Toux Course Description: Cross-listed with SOCI 230-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. This course will focus on the ways in which 1) (im)migrants are represented in various cultural contexts through film, the arts, and the media; and 2) individual (im)migrants and collectivities represent themselves. We will explore how (im)migrants and receiving societies negotiate demographic, religious, and cultural changes as well as changing conceptions of identity at individual, collective, and national levels. We will examine topics such as: accommodation and resistance; inclusion and exclusion; gender and generational dynamics; globalization and identities in flux; art and politics; borders and border-crossings; and nativism.	1030:TR CMST SEM
HIST 374-01	African Women's History Instructor: Constanze Weise Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-04 and WGST 374-01. This course examines the role of women in African societies since the nineteenth century. Lectures and readings will be arranged thematically. Themes include sexuality and reproduction, the household, women's economic activity, political power, religion, colonialism, and democracy. After a discussion of gender, we will analyze pre-colonial production and reproduction, family life and religion in the twentieth century, women's roles in nationalist politics, the politics of female genital mutilation, and the lives of two contemporary African women leaders. Readings, including historical studies and novels, songs, and art, will be drawn from across the cultures and languages of Africa.	1030:MWF DENNY 104
HIST 404-01	Hist Constructions of Gender Instructor: Regina Sweeney Course Description: This seminar will grapple with the concept of gender and how genders were constructed and defined in different historical periods. We will consider how definitions were generated or negotiated through religious texts, school curriculums, childrearing manuals, advertising, scientific treatises, or many other primary sources. Readings will also explore how definitions of femininity and masculinity may have affected peoples experiences at work, in family relationships, or at war. We will also discuss how gender has interacted with sexuality and sexual identities. Students will have the opportunity to choose a topic from a wide range of times and places to research in depth, resulting in a long final paper.	0900:TR DENNY 112
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LALC 200-01	Border Feminisms Instructor: Gloria Garcia Course Description: Cross-listed with WGST 202-05. An examination of the cultural and theoretical production generated by and about women inhabiting the Mexico-U.S. border. Historically, this two-thousand-mile-long geographical zone has witnessed vibrant crossings of peoples, capital, and ideas, a condition that resonates powerfully in the cultural and political life of both nations. The course traces the workings of power that continue to mediate these flows along the lines of nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. Readings include works on feminist, gender, border, and visual theories as well as a selection of films, songs, artwork, performances, photography, murals, and fiction.	1500:MR LAND SEM
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MEST 200-05	Muslim Masculinities Instructor: Derek Mancini-Lander Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 215-05 and WGST 202-01. This course explores and problematizes the social and cultural construction of masculinity in the Islamic world. With the overall goal of introducing students to the complexities of gender studies in Islam, our immediate objective is to develop a critical apparatus for studying Muslim modes of masculinity in a historically grounded way. We will center our attention on the perceptions of bodily and social differences in Islamic culture, trying to understand how masculinities have been defined in Islamic societies with respect to a variety of marked categories of orientation and identity, including, but not limited to, gender, age, class, and sexual practice. The overall approach of the course is historical: We will explore the history of masculinity as an evolving concept and lived experience from the pre-Islamic period to contemporary times, across a variety of geographical areas. Despite its historical perspective, the course is arranged topically rather than chronologically. While some knowledge of the history of the Islamic world or Islam as a religious system will be helpful, no background knowledge is required.	1030:TR DENNY 303
MEST 200-08	Franco-Maghrebi Imagination Instructor: Nancy Mellerski Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-03, FLST 310-01, FREN 363-01 and WGST 300-02. We will study writers and filmmakers of two generations in France: those who immigrated to the Mtropole from North Africa during the postcolonial period, and those who were born in France of Maghrebi parents but still find themselves on the other side of the ethnic divide in a society that maintains an ambivalent relationship with its cultural minorities. Our approach will be an eclectic one, as we explore the history of Franco-Maghrebi relations during the colonial era, the socioeconomic experiences of the guest workers who toiled to rebuild France during the postwar period, the meaning of social and geographical marginalization in the banlieue, the particular situation of Muslim female authors, and, finally, the ways in which cultural hybridity is expressed in both prose and cinema.	1330:TF BOSLER 310
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POSC 290-02	Marginalization & Represent Instructor: Vanessa Tyson Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 220-03. This course explores the political representation of groups that have historically been marginalized in American society and excluded from the democratic process either through statute or through common practices. In particular, issues of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia will be addressed.	1330:W DENNY 311
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PSYC 335-01	Rsch Meth in Gnder & Sexuality Instructor: Megan Yost Course Description: This course addresses the methodological principles underlying empirical psychological research on gender and sexuality. We will specifically consider qualitative methods as they are used within psychology. Because the study of gender in particular has been strongly guided by feminist theory, this course will focus on feminist epistmologies as related to social psychological research. Class and lab time will be spent developing the following skills: critical reading and analysis of published research, design of empirical research, data collection, and qualitative data analysis. This course will culminate in the design and implementation of an original research project in the area of psychology of gender or human sexuality. Three hours classroom plus three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisites: 201 and 202, and either 135 or 145.	1330:TF KAUF 185 1500:TF KAUF 185 1330:TF KAUF 186 1500:TF KAUF 186
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SOCI 228-01	Sociology of Sexualities Instructor: Amy Steinbugler Course Description: Cross-listed with WGST 202-04. Permission of Instructor Required.	1030:TR DENNY 304
SOCI 230-01	Representations of (Im)migrant Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose, Sylvie Toux Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 215-06. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. This course will focus on the ways in which 1) (im)migrants are represented in various cultural contexts through film, the arts, and the media; and 2) individual (im)migrants and collectivities represent themselves. We will explore how (im)migrants and receiving societies negotiate demographic, religious, and cultural changes as well as changing conceptions of identity at individual, collective, and national levels. We will examine topics such as: accommodation and resistance; inclusion and exclusion; gender and generational dynamics; globalization and identities in flux; art and politics; borders and border-crossings; and nativism.	1030:TR CMST SEM
SOCI 230-02	Mediterranean Migrations Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 215-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. 1 credit course cross-listed in History and Sociology will focus on the development of migratory flows between Morocco and southern Europe in the context of trans-Mediterranean migration history. In addition, the course will place migration from Morocco within the larger historical contacts between Europe and Moroccoincluding colonialism and its aftermathand it will consider the impact of larger socioeconomic and political changes on geographic mobility across the Mediterranean. The course will address the interplay of structural socioeconomic and political factors with individual trajectories of migrant men and women, and the impact they have on families and communities.	0900:TR CMST SEM
SOCI 240-02	Qualitative Methods Instructor: Marcelo Borges, Susan Rose Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 215-02. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic. This course will focus on the ways in which 1) (im)migrants are represented in various cultural contexts through film, the arts, and the media; and 2) individual (im)migrants and collectivities represent themselves. We will explore how (im)migrants and receiving societies negotiate demographic, religious, and cultural changes as well as changing conceptions of identity at individual, collective, and national levels. We will examine topics such as: accommodation and resistance; inclusion and exclusion; gender and generational dynamics; globalization and identities in flux; art and politics; borders and border-crossings; and nativism.	1330:W CMST SEM
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WGST 200-01	Intro to Women's & Gender St Instructor: Stephanie Gilmore Course Description: This is an interdisciplinary course, integrating literature, economics, sociology, psychology, history, anthropology, and geography. This course will focus on historical and contemporary representations of women. It will also examine the varied experiences of women, with attention to the gendered dynamics of family, work, sexuality, race, religion, socioeconomic class, labor, and feminism. Prerequisite: one semester of college study, with preference given to sophomores. This course fulfills the DIV II social sciences distribution requirement and US Diversity graduation requirement.	1330:TF DENNY 204
WGST 200-02	Intro to Women's & Gender St Instructor: Stephanie Gilmore Course Description: This is an interdisciplinary course, integrating literature, economics, sociology, psychology, history, anthropology, and geography. This course will focus on historical and contemporary representations of women. It will also examine the varied experiences of women, with attention to the gendered dynamics of family, work, sexuality, race, religion, socioeconomic class, labor, and feminism. Prerequisite: one semester of college study, with preference given to sophomores. This course fulfills the DIV II social sciences distribution requirement and US Diversity graduation requirement.	1500:TF DENNY 204
WGST 202-01	Muslim Masculinities Instructor: Derek Mancini-Lander Course Description: Cross-listed with HIST 215-05 and MEST 200-05. This course explores and problematizes the social and cultural construction of masculinity in the Islamic world. With the overall goal of introducing students to the complexities of gender studies in Islam, our immediate objective is to develop a critical apparatus for studying Muslim modes of masculinity in a historically grounded way. We will center our attention on the perceptions of bodily and social differences in Islamic culture, trying to understand how masculinities have been defined in Islamic societies with respect to a variety of marked categories of orientation and identity, including, but not limited to, gender, age, class, and sexual practice. The overall approach of the course is historical: We will explore the history of masculinity as an evolving concept and lived experience from the pre-Islamic period to contemporary times, across a variety of geographical areas. Despite its historical perspective, the course is arranged topically rather than chronologically. While some knowledge of the history of the Islamic world or Islam as a religious system will be helpful, no background knowledge is required.	1030:TR DENNY 303
WGST 202-02	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.	0900:TR DENNY 212
WGST 202-04	Sociology of Sexualities Instructor: Amy Steinbugler Course Description: Cross-listed with SOCI 228-01. Permission of Instructor Required. This course explores the social origins of sexual behaviors, identities, and desires. We will investigate how sexuality intersects with other social hierarchies including race, gender, and class. Our current frameworks for understanding sexuality and sexual identity are the product of social, political, and economic forces, and reflect the common sense of a particular historical moment. We will consider a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of sexuality and explore more closely how these perspectives inform the analysis of contemporary sexual issues.	1030:TR DENNY 304
WGST 202-05	Border Feminisms Instructor: Gloria Garcia Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 200-02. An examination of the cultural and theoretical production generated by and about women inhabiting the Mexico-U.S. border. Historically, this two-thousand-mile-long geographical zone has witnessed vibrant crossings of peoples, capital, and ideas, a condition that resonates powerfully in the cultural and political life of both nations. The course traces the workings of power that continue to mediate these flows along the lines of nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. Readings include works on feminist, gender, border, and visual theories as well as a selection of films, songs, artwork, performances, photography, murals, and fiction.	1500:MR LAND SEM
WGST 217-01	Cross-Cult Perspect of Gender Instructor: Ann Hill Course Description: Cross-listed with ANTH 217-01.Permission of Instructor Required	1030:MWF DENNY 211
WGST 300-01	Postcolonial Fem Sci Studies Instructor: Megan Glick Course Description: Cross-listed with AMST 301-01 and AFST 320-01. This course will provide an introduction to postcolonial feminist critiques of medicine, science, and technology. We will begin by interrogating how ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality are shaped by medical, scientific, and technological discourses. We will continue on to address how these concepts are deployed in reproductive politics, the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, and the use and dissemination of modernizing technology in developing nations. We will then consider the place of women both as objects of, and active participants in - scientific research projects. We will examine all of these phenomena from cross-cultural perspectives, paying particular attention to the circulation of knowledge and research across the globe, and the relationship between scientific progress and conditions of socio-economic inequality.	1030:TR ALTHSE 109
WGST 300-02	Franco-Maghrebi Imagination Instructor: Nancy Mellerski Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-03, FLST 310-01, FREN 363-01 and MEST 200-08. We will study writers and filmmakers of two generations in France: those who immigrated to the Mtropole from North Africa during the postcolonial period, and those who were born in France of Maghrebi parents but still find themselves on the other side of the ethnic divide in a society that maintains an ambivalent relationship with its cultural minorities. Our approach will be an eclectic one, as we explore the history of Franco-Maghrebi relations during the colonial era, the socioeconomic experiences of the guest workers who toiled to rebuild France during the postwar period, the meaning of social and geographical marginalization in the banlieue, the particular situation of Muslim female authors, and, finally, the ways in which cultural hybridity is expressed in both prose and cinema.	1330:TF BOSLER 310
WGST 300-04	African American Women Writers Instructor: Lynn Johnson Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-02 and ENGL 375-01. This course examines a range of the literary productions written by African American women. Specifically, we will span the African-American literary tradition in order to discover the historical, political, and social forces that facilitated the evolution of Black women's voices as well as their roles inside and outside the Black community. Additionally, we will discuss such issues as self-definition, womanhood, sexuality, activism, race, class, and community.	1330:MR ALTHSE 206
WGST 374-01	African Women's History Instructor: Constanze Weise Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-04 and HIST 374-01. This course examines the role of women in African societies since the nineteenth century. Lectures and readings will be arranged thematically. Themes include sexuality and reproduction, the household, women's economic activity, political power, religion, colonialism, and democracy. After a discussion of gender, we will analyze pre-colonial production and reproduction, family life and religion in the twentieth century, women's roles in nationalist politics, the politics of female genital mutilation, and the lives of two contemporary African women leaders. Readings, including historical studies and novels, songs, and art, will be drawn from across the cultures and languages of Africa.	1030:MWF DENNY 104
WGST 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Amy Farrell Course Description:	:
WGST 550-01	Women's & Gender St In Rsch Instructor: Megan Yost Course Description:	:
WGST 550-02	Women's & Gender St In Rsch Instructor: Stephanie Gilmore Course Description:	: