Past Semesters

GRADUATE SEMINARS IN THE CENTER

The following courses are graduate seminars offered in the Center. They are available to graduate students in the Center and those students working on certificates.

Fall 2023

Proseminar

Alyssa Zucker
WST 5933-Section 5933/Class # 18111
M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Proseminar (seminar that prepares you for more advanced work) introducing graduate students to Women’s Studies scholarship. Overview of feminist thought, interdisciplinary research, and feminist practice. Students are introduced to scholars in the field, and learn how to design and implement an independent research project appropriate to Women’s Studies.

The syllabus can be found here. (opens in new tab)

Feminist Methods in Research and Scholarship

Maddy Coy
WST 6004-Section departmentally controlled.
W 6-8; Room: UST 108; 3 Credits

Provides graduate training covering a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods for giving voice to the diversity of women’s experiences and those of understudied and marginalized populations, making visible the invisible and undercounted aspects of people’s lives and studying intersectionality. Includes overview of feminist critiques of science and epistemologies. Prerequisite: None. Open to all graduate students in all colleges.

The syllabus can be found here. (opens in new tab)

Independent Study

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6905-Section departmentally controlled
Variable Credits, Grading Scheme: Letter Grade

Independent reading or research under guidance. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and department chair; and 1 women’s studies course, or course that counts for women’s studies.

On-line application.

Data Feminism

Hina Shaikh
WST6935– Section 69HS – Class # 18045
R 6-8, Ustler 108; 3 Credits

Draws from critical data and algorithm studies and feminist science and technology studies to develop critical tools of inquiry needed to approach data within a context of racialized, gendered, colonial, and classed systems of power. Combines practical data workshops with critical readings to analyze data across key uses in domains such as healthcare, security apparatuses, carceral systems, and digital infrastructures.

The syllabus can be found here. (opens in new tab)

Latinx Sexualities

Jillian Hernandez
WST6935– Section 69JH/Class 19018
R 4-6; McCarty C0100; 3 Credits

Introduces the interdisciplinary field of Latina/o sexuality studies from an understanding of Latinx sexualities as complex processes in flux. Engages Latinx sexualities through transnational histories, memoirs and testimonios, artworks, literature, music, film, and video to understand how Latinx sexual identities and practices are shaped.

The syllabus can be found here. (opens in new tab)

Internship

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6946-Section departmentally controlled
Variable Credits, Grading Scheme: S/U

Prerequisite: Permission of Graduate Coordinator. Practical experience in community. Internship with local agency, group, or business in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6971- Section departmentally controlled
Variable Credits

Summer 2022

Independent Study

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6905-Section Departmentally Controlled
Location TBA; Variable Credits

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1 Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women’s studies, For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement their regular courses by independent reading or research under guidance. On-line application.

Internship

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6946-Section Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Prerequisite: Permission of Graduate Coordinator. Designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6971- Section Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Spring 2022

Ecofeminism

Anita Anantharam
WST 6348-Section 6348, Class # 29996
T 6-8, Ustler 108, 3 credits

Ecofeminism focuses on Western tradition’s naturalization of women and feminization of nature, drawing the conclusion that the domination of women and the domination of nature are intimately connected and mutually reinforcing. This hypothesized connection of women and nature oppressions gives rise to a common formative structure of “othering” shared by women, animals, nature, people of color and ethnically colonized groups. The course surveys ecofeminist theories, exploring the links between ecological values, principles, activism, and feminisms. Spiritual, philosophical, and activist perspectives are examined through interdisciplinary lens.

The syllabus can be found here. (opens in new tab)

Advanced Feminist Theory

Hina Shaikh
WST6508-Section 6508 – Class # 18150
W 6-8; Ustler 108, 3 Credits

Contemporary theory with focus on common themes among academic disciplines. Since feminist theory is by its very nature interdisciplinary, this course is designed to acquaint students with some foundational feminist theory–in primary texts–across the disciplines: philosophy, art history, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, the sciences. By foundational” I mean feminist thought which has been influential in shaping academic feminist scholarship since the so-called “second wave” of United States and European feminism, beginning (roughly) in the late 1940s and moving up to the present. Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Whitney Chadwick, Janice Radway, Nancy Hartsock, bell hooks, Jane Gallop, Gayatri Spivak, Patricia Williams, Pat Hill Collins, Gayle Rubin will be some of the individuals discussed in the course. Course requirements include one 25-30 page final paper, 8 response papers, and one short presentation.

The syllabus can be found here. (opens in new tab)

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Feminist Political Economy

Aida A. Hozic
WST 6935-Section 69AH – Class # 18152
F8-10, 105 Classroom, Bu0224, 3 Credits

This course introduces students to the key concepts of feminist political economy, a vibrant field of economic analysis, grass-roots activism, and policy-making. The structure of the course lays bare the distinction between feminist political economy and gendered political economy, enabling students to acquire analytical tools for gender-sensitive policy work but also to reflect critically on their use. Throughout the semester we will explore tensions between feminist interventions that seek to recast the roles and positions of gendered and racialized subjects in economic thought and in the global political economy – and gender-informed policies which increasingly view women as significant contributors to economic activity yet remain wedded to the existing frameworks of its analysis.

The syllabus can be found here. (opens in new tab)

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Prerequisite: Permission of Graduate Coordinator. Designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. International students must check with the University of Florida International Center about eligibility for internship before enrollment. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Fall 2021

PROSEMINAR

Devan Johnson
WST 5933-Section 5933/Class # 18799
T 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

FEMINIST METHODS IN RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

Maddy Coy
WST 6004-Section 6004
W 6-8; Room: LEI 207; 3 Credits

This course is an introduction to critical questions about knowledge production and conductingresearch through a feminist lens.The framework for the course is ‘research practices’; youwill engage with intellectual debates about what it means to position yourself as a knowerby exploring feminist epistemologiesand research ethicsand applying these to your own projects. Designed primarily for M.A. students who are seeking to shape their research approach to a topic, it will be helpful to have some prior familiarity with feminist theory and/or women’s and gender studies.

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section departmentally controlled
Variable Credits

DATA FEMINISM

Hina Shaikh
WST6935– Section 69EG – Class # 18723
R 6-8, Ustler 108; 3 Credits

In this course, we center how racial capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy define who is the subject or object of data collection, cleaning, analysis, and management. We learn how to read datasets with a critical feminist science and technology studies lens and critically examine technologies of surveillance such as Big Data, facial recognition, and biometric data collection. We will additionally learn some fundamental ways that Python programming and practices of data visualization, such as GIS mapping, are essential tools for achieving feminist, racial, and social justice. In the end, we consider whether data justice is possible.

The syllabus can be found here.

MASCULINITIES, GENDER, ENVIRONMENT

Susan Paulson
WST6935– Section 17SP/Class 18724
R 4-6; Grinter 376; 3 Credits

Feminist movement(s) and identities have historically been attributed to white women in the United States. Intersectional feminism has made interventions into the mainstream image of feminism problematizing and expanding the definitions and identities of feminist activism and activists. This course aims to situate Latina women within feminism by looking at their histories, discourses, and practices through a feminist lens. Through interdisciplinary readings we will explore how Latinas theorize about feminism through their lived experiences; have practiced feminist activism and advocated for feminist issues; and articulate Latina feminist identities. (WST: HUM)

The syllabus can be found here.

RACE, SEX, REPRESENTATION

Jillian Hernandez
WST6935-Section 69JH/Class 19830
M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

This course engages scholarly debates around the injuries and pleasures that attend the sexual representation of racialized gender in art, film, performance, and other media. Although the forms of representation we will engage will primarily be in the form of visual depictions, the politics of representing racialized gendered sexual subjects in scholarship and cultural, social, political discourse will also be areas of concern. We will survey recent work in the field, and center questions of methodology and research design for intersectional sexuality studies in our discussions. We will also explore how scholars engage in artistic and erotic media production as they transform racialized sexuality from a colonial construct to a creative practice.

The syllabus can be found here.

INTERNSHIP

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section departmentally controlled
Variable Credits

MASTER’S RESEARCH

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section departmentally controlled
Variable Credits

Summer 2021

Independent Study

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section 69IS
Location TBA; Variable Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 6INT
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section 6THE
Variable Credits

Spring 2021

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Advanced Feminist Theory

Jillian Hernandez
WST6508-Section 6508 – Class # 19648
M 6-8; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Intersectional Activisms

Kendall Broad-Wright
WST 6596-Section 69KB – Class # 30131
W 6-8; 3 Credits

Early intersectional work arose from, and was grounded in, social movement activism, especially activism by feminist/queer/trans women of color. Yet the field of intersectional studies has developed in ways that mask its political origin and neutralize the potential of intersectional collective action and resistance. This course seeks to re-center knowledge and strategies of resistance from intersectional social movement activism. We will begin by engaging activist statements (e.g., a call for reimagining the Black Radical Tradition). We will then turn to an emerging interdisciplinary scholarship tracing the many different ways activists have worked to accomplish social movement intersectionality and the many structures and discursive constraints of doing so. For example, we will read research featuring Black feminist intersectional activism as strategically operating between social movements, work tracing Chicana feminist strategies of alliance building and coalition, research detailing how political and economic forces have reduced multi-dimensional queer politics, and research detailing the nuances of online intersectional movement work. The goal is to collaboratively create a seminar that re-centers intersectional activisms’ interventionist and transformative possibilities while simultaneously remembering the mechanisms which whiten, flatten, and elide multi-dimensional, coalitional resistance.

The syllabus can be found here.

Gender and Language

Diana Boxer
WST 6935-Section 69DB – Class # 25807
T 4, R 4-5; 3 Credits

This course offers the student a perspective on gender and sexism in discourse. It is an opportunity to study how language is used by women and men and about women and men in the various domains of interaction (e.g. social, family, workplace) to create and sustain status and power in society. It offers the chance to study how sex and sexism function in language and their repercussions for all areas of life.

Global Women of Color

Manoucheka Celeste
WST 6935-Section 69MC – Class # 19651
T 8-10; 3 Credits

This is an interdisciplinary course on women of color feminism(s). We engage with interventions of women of color feminist theorists and activists in thinking about race, class, gender, nation, and sexuality. We explore works by and experiences of women of color across topics including immigration, media & popular culture, globalization, colonialism, the state, and academia. We pay particular attention to scholars of Borderland, U.S. Third World, Caribbean, Latin American, and South Asian feminisms in addition to the works that students bring into the class. We continually ask the question: “what is the relationship between women of color feminisms and globality?”

The syllabus can be found here.

Latina Children’s Literature

Elizabeth Garcia
WST 6935-Section 69EG – Class # 21852
R 6-8; 3 Credits

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of Latinx children’s and young adult literature written by Latinx women. Many of these books have received numerous awards and national acclaim. In this course, we explore this trend by taking an in-depth look at selections from this literature. We’ll begin with one of the earliest women writers of Latinx children’s books, Pura Belpré, whose legacy is recognized through the Pura Belpré award. We’ll explore the picture books of Chicana feminist theorist, Gloria Anzaldúa, analyzing why such a prominent feminist theorist would turn to children’s literature. Finally, we’ll explore a series of middle-grade and young adult novels analyzing their portrayal of intersectional identities in the everyday lives of Latinx girls and young women.

The syllabus can be found here.

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Fall 2020

GRADUATE SEMINARS IN THE CENTER

The following courses are graduate seminars offered in the Center. They are available to graduate students in the Center and those students working on certificates. Please also see this link for a complete listing of approved graduate electives offered outside the center.

Proseminar

Alyssa Zucker
WST 5933-Section 5933
W 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Feminist Methods in Research and Scholarship

Maddy Coy
WST 6004-Section 6004
T 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section 69IS
Variable Credits

Latina Feminist Thought & Practice

Elizabeth Garcia
WST6935– Section 69EG
R 6-8; Weimer 1094; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Social Justice Praxis

Jlllian Hernandez
WST6935-Section 69JH
M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

This course explores the rich connections between the intersectional study of gender and social justice practices. Through feminist engagements with the fields of ethnic studies and Black studies, it poses questions regarding how particular forms of life are valued and devalued, and interrogates how some populations are viewed as deviant and/or “at risk.” The course examines what drives the desire for intervention in the lives of others and what assumptions these desires can be based on. It also poses questions regarding how scholar-activits grapple with the tensions between theory and praxis. Course materials center on the visions and practices of freedom that women, youth, racialized populations, queer and trans people are developing and working toward. Through discussing scholarship, creative production, and a wide range of social justice initiatives, the course examines the stakes and ethics of engaging communities to address social inequalities and oppression. The course will also include a unit on grant and proposal writing for social justice initiatives.

The syllabus can be found here.

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 6INT
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- 9MR
Variable Credits

Summer 2020

Independent Study

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section 69IS
Location TBA; Variable Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 6INT
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section 6THE
Variable Credits

Spring 2020

GRADUATE SEMINARS IN THE CENTER

The following courses are graduate seminars offered in the Center. They are available to graduate students in the Center and those students working on certificates.

Advanced Feminist Theory

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6508-Section 6508
F 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Women and Aging

Constance Shehan
WST 6935-Section 61CS
M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Global Women of Color

Manoucheka Celeste
WST6935-Section 62MC
T 8-10; UST 108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

A. Peterson
WST6935-Section 66AP
T 5-6; MAT 0013; 3 Credits

This course will explore the relations between scholarship on gender, women, and sexuality and work in religious studies. We will examine both the ways that women’s and gender studies have influenced religious studies and also the distinctive contributions that religious studies might make to scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality, including attention to concrete practices and communal life as well as conceptions of the divine, normative judgments, social movements, and spiritual experience. We will read both theoretical pieces and historical and ethnographic case studies, including contemporary and classic works by a range of authors. Some of the course’s main themes will include the religious experiences of women and LGBTQ communities; the roles of religion in the construction of gender identity; and the interactions between religion and movements of reform, critique, and social change related to gender and sexuality. The course is open to graduate students in any field.

The syllabus can be found here.

Latina Narratives

Elizabeth Garcia
WST6935-Section 65EG
R 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

In this course we will explore how Latinx women navigate citizenship and belonging In the United States as represented in the literary narratives of Latinx women. Given the historical anti-immigrant discourse that has existed in this country and which has targeted Latinx populations in particular ways, how do Latinx women (re)define citizenship and belonging for themselves. We will focus on literary narratives representing various Latinx groups in order to also explore how the particular historical backgrounds of Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, Dominican Americans, and Peruvian Immigrants, and their respective experiences of (im)migration to the United States influence their experiences of citizenship and belonging. Furthermore, we will use an intersectional feminist approach in our analysis, looking at how race, gender, sexuality, and class, intersect to construct national identities.

The syllabus can be found here.

Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Women’s Resistance

Ryan Morini
WST6930-Section 69RM
T 3-5; TBA; 3 Credits

This course engages with a reality that scholarship has not historically explored with great thoroughness: that anti-Black violence has historically been enacted on Indian lands, and that Native dispossession and genocide has been significantly powered by anti-Black violence and exploitation. Lee D. Baker points out in Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, that the United States was in its early years primarily conceived of as tri-racial: White, Black, and Indian/Native. In this course, we will explore the gendered aspects of that interrelationship through the work of Black and Indigenous writers past and present, some of whom examine these interrelationships directly, and some of whom focus on particular issues or examples that will help us to deepen our overall discussion.

The syllabus can be found here.

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Fall 2019

Proseminar

Alyssa Zucker
WST 5933-Section 0432
W 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This class will serve as an introduction to graduate scholarship in Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) at the University of Florida. We will explore this broad, interdisciplinary, intersectional field by a) reading about and discussing key aspects of Women’s Studies and feminist theory, and b) reading scholarship by, and meeting core and affiliate faculty of, the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Additionally, the class will prepare students to conduct their own research for Master’s projects and other significant writing assignments.

The syllabus can be found here.

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Critical Girlhood Studies

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6935-Section 16A3
M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

This course enacts a critical mapping of girls’ studies, an intellectual formation that coalesced into a sub-field of Women’s and Gender Studies in the late 1990s. The course will consist in part of a survey of work in the field, but the bulk of our efforts will place analytic pressure on the question of which girls become legible as the “proper objects” of girls’ studies and what questions about girlhood are (im)possible to ask. We will think collectively and creatively to (re)imagine what histories, methods, pedagogies and futures a formation of critical girlhood studies could offer as both an intellectual and social justice project. Course material will reflect the instructor’s expertise in the areas of sexuality, arts-based community praxis, Black and Latinx studies, and popular cultures. Students will work together to design part of the course syllabus to reflect their own research interests and address blind spots we have identified in the field.

Intersectional Activisms

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST6935-Section 17F1
R 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Feminist/Queer of Color Studies

Tanya Saunders
WST6935-Section 3B38
T 8-10; UST 108; 3 Credits

This graduate level course is a survey course of the scholarship and key debates in the emerging fields of Black Queer/Queer of Color Studies, which have their origins in Black, Chicana, and Latina Feminist Studies. We will take a sociological approach to understanding how race, sexuality, gender, and coloniality affects our understanding of ourselves, and how we experience social life through placing non-heteronormative Black and Latinx Queer subjects at the center of our analyses. We will engage the social implications of the scientific study on sexuality, engage key theoretical perspectives in the area of queer/sexuality studies, and review empirical studies concerning Black and Latinx queer identities and cultural politics within Africa and the Diaspora in the Americas. Sexuality studies is a large and broad field of inquiry, therefore this course is not exhaustive. The goal of the course is to give you a strong theoretical and empirical base from which you can think about Diaspora, race, gender, “sexuality‟ and society.

The syllabus can be found here.

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Summer 2019

Independent Study

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Sections 7G44
TBA; Variable Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 72FG
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section 8B54
Variable Credits

Spring 2019

Advanced Feminist Theory

Tace Hedrick
WST 6508-Section 09B6
R 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section: Departmentally controlled
TBA; Variable Credits

Jobs, Gender, Justice

Constance Shehan
WST 6935-Section 02H5
W, 7-9; MAT 010; 3 Credits

This course focuses primarily on waged labor in the contemporary United States. However, since the US is embedded in an increasingly globalized economy, the experiences of workers in and from other parts of the world will also come into our discussions at several points. We will look at differential access to – and outcomes of — jobs (e.g., discrimination in hiring and wages; motherhood wage penalty) and experiences of workers (i.e., sexual harassment/assault). We will also consider the challenges of the work-life/family nexus. This is an interdisciplinary social science course. While being in a social science discipline is not a prerequisite for the course, students will be expected to read, write, and speak about issues considered from a social science perspective.

The syllabus can be found here.

Race, Sex, Representation

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6935-Section 4G22
M 7-9; MAT 0010; 3 Credits

This course engages scholarly debates around the injuries and pleasures that attend the sexual representation of gendered/racialized people in art, film, performance, and other media. Although the forms of representation we will engage will primarily be in the form of visual depictions, the politics of representing racialized gendered sexual subjects in scholarship and cultural, social, political discourse will also be areas of concern. We will survey recent work in the field, and center questions of methodology and research design for intersectional sexuality studies in our discussions.

The syllabus can be found here.

Global Women of Color

Manoucheka Celeste
WST6935-Section 0976
T, 8-10; UST 108; 3 Credits

This course will engage with the scholarship and activism of women of color around the world thinking about race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation. Paying particular attention to the relationship between representation and materiality, we will explore the contributions and experiences of women of color across topics. This includes media and popular culture, immigration, globalization, colonialism, the state, and academia. We will focus on scholars of U.S. “Third World,” Borderland, Caribbean, and South Asian feminisms, in addition to the works that students bring into the class, as we continually ask the question: “What is the relationship between women of color feminisms and globality?”

The syllabus can be found here.

Women and Islam

Gwendolyn Simmons
WST 6935-Section 18C3
M, 10-11, W 10; AND 013; 3 Credits

This course will cast a feminist insider perspective on the volatile subject of “Women and Islam.” Most non-Muslims credit Islam as being the root cause of the oppression of women in the Muslim world. However, a growing number of Muslim women scholars and activists have begun to challenge the notion that Islam is synonymous with the oppression of women. In this course we will review the history of the religion and women’s place in it, bringing to the foreground the significant role women played in Islam’s early history. We will also examine the situation of Muslim women contemporarily from both the perspectives of Islamic Nationalists and Islamists. Both groups see that women are a crucial component for the preservation of Islamic societies.

The syllabus can be found here.

Internship

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 08F5
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section 4433
Variable Credits

Fall 2018

Proseminar

Alyssa Zucker
WST 5933-Section 0432
W 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Independent Study

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section 05B6
TBA; Variable Credits

Women and Entrepreneurship

Anita Anantharam
WST 6935-Section 16A0
T, 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Entrepreneurs are concerned with creating value but that does not have to compromise a commitment to gender equality or social justice. Diversity and inclusion initiatives are becoming an important part of the entrepreneurial landscape and social impact ventures are becoming more profitable today. This class focuses on the role of the entrepreneur as visionary and solution provider. Course content draws from women’s/gender studies and will attend to challenges and opportunities associated with women in entrepreneurship.

The syllabus can be found here.

Social Justice Praxis

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6935-Section 16A3
R, 6-8, UST 108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

LGBTQ Movements and Activism

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 6935-Section 17F1
M 6-8; 3 Credits

This course will offer an in-depth consideration of LGBTQ+ social movements and activisms. The course will engage key pieces of research about LGBTQ+ movements and read selected new contributions to the field. In addition, the course will analyze and discuss primary movement and activist materials and take up key debates of, and between, activists. Finally, the course will also take seriously important critiques of LGBTQ+ movements and include creative projects and assignments. Course material will include (but not be limited to) consideration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, queerPOC, ally, asexual, pansexual, two-spirit politics, and the politics thereof (depending on resource availability).

The syllabus can be found here.

Testimonio in the Americas: Voices in Pursuit of Social Justice

Dr. Clara Sotelo, Spanish and Portuguese Department
Dr. Ryan Morini, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
Juanita Duque, Center for Latin American Studies and SPOHP
WST6935– Section 3B38
R, 3-5; ROG 0106; 3 Credits

This course critically reevaluates U.S. history through testimonio, challenging the myth of exceptionalism by listening to the voices of marginalized peoples from throughout the Americas. These accounts offer us openings to examine the destructive and contradictory nature of capitalism, opening a space for dialogue on changes within or alternatives to the current system that could accommodate all peoples of the world. In this course, we seek to break out of and transcend narrow conceptions of objectivity that dehumanize people and reduce them to subjects for study or numbers for calculation. Testimonio is not exclusively the domain of women, but women have provided some of the strongest voices in testimonio, speaking out urgently about injustices faced by their communities.

The syllabus can be found here.

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 0442
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section 6363
Variable Credits

Summer 2018

Independent Study

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Sections 04B7 4161, 7G44
TBA; Variable Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 72FG
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section 72F2
Variable Credits

Spring 2018

GRADUATE SEMINARS IN THE CENTER

Advanced Feminist Theory

Tace Hedrick
WST 6508-Section 09B6
R 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section: Departmentally controlled
TBA; Variable Credits

Reproductive Health and Justice

Alyssa Zucker
WST 6935-Section 02H5
T, 7-9; UST 108; 3 Credits

The term reproductive justice was coined in 1994 by U.S. black women activists and frames reproductive health as a human rights issue. It focuses both theory and activism on three interconnected human rights: the right not to have children using safe birth control, abortion, or abstinence; the right to have children under the conditions individuals choose; and the right to parent children who are already born. In this seminar we will examine how social structures of oppression and privilege shape people’s experiences of their reproductive bodies and health, and ways to organize for change using the tools of reproductive justice. We will focus on historical and current instances of reproductive injustices (e.g., contraceptive experiments on unknowing populations, forced sterilization, TRAP laws)—mainly in a U.S. context. Although the primary theory and writing on reproductive justice is centered on the intersection of race and biological sex, this framework applies to thinking about intersections with disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity as well, and we will read broadly on these topics from authors grounded in women’s studies, social sciences, medicine, law, and social change movements.

Women and Therapy

Patricia Travis
WST 6935-Section 0230
M, 6-8, TUR 2319; 3 Credits

Contemporary “psychology” had its origins in the 19th century treatment of mad women. Today, men constitute the bulk of in-patient mental health clients, while the vast majority of out-patient services go to women, who are diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and related somatic complaints at approximately three times the rate of men. Unsurprisingly, women are the largest consumes of “self-help” culture as well. And at the same time, the American Psychological Association estimates that 75% of postgraduate students in psychology and related fields today are women. This class examines the relationship between women and therapy as it has evolved since the 19th century, looking at women both as patients and as practitioners. While attending to the bio- and neurological dimensions of mental illness, it is grounded in a social constructivist approach, and draws on history, literature, and feminist and critical theory as well as clinical writings. Attention will be paid to traditionally “female complaints,” including hysteria (and its contemporary analogue, borderline personality disorder), eating disorders, and depression as well as to the innovations of feminist therapy and multicultural counseling. Students will do weekly short papers and a substantial final project. Although the class will not dwell at length on the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, the class presumes some knowledge of Freud, if for no other reason than to understand both his continued utility and the feminist critique of him. Students should purchase and read Freud for Beginners (Appignanesi and Zarate; available through amazon.com) in preparation for the first class meeting.

The syllabus can be found here.

Sexing the Past

Jodi Schorb
WST 6935-Section: Department Controlled
W 9-11; 3 Credits

The course will help students understand and analyze constructions of gender and sexuality prior to the 20th century. This seminar takes as its grounding point the post-Foucaultian debates over methodology and the epistemologies of sexuality, familiarizing students with the ongoing “continuity vs. alterity” debates, the challenges of periodization and chronology, influential methodological shifts (the temporal turn, the aesthetic turn, etc.) with an eye for how they proffer expanded possibilities for literary analysis.

The syllabus can be found here.

Post Colonial Feminism

Tanya Saunders
WST 6935-Section 1D62
W, 7-9; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Postcolonial feminisms is a broad term that engages the issues of women in the overwhelming majority of the world. That is, postcolonial feminism does not simply address the issues pertaining what it means to be a woman, to experience life as a woman and/or the political investments of people who are feminist identified. The postcolonial in Postcolonial feminisms addresses questions concerning colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, decoloniality/coloniality studies and neo-colonialism. As such, postcolonial feminisms also engages questions concerning culture (religion, gender and sexuality) and includes the process of racialization as a colonial project and a colonial legacy. Additionally, this course description is also being intentional about challenging our definition of “the west,” as there are many countries (Latin America and the Caribbean), that are certainly western, but given their relationship to global power relations, are written out of “the west.” Given the broad field of postcolonial feminisms, this course is a graduate-level introductory course to the field, that aims to prepare students for advanced studies in this important area. Having taken the course in Transnational Feminism may be helpful but is not required.

The syllabus can be found here.

Feminist Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6935-Section 112G
F, 5-7; CBD 0238; 3 Credits

This seminar is designed to allow graduate students to consider what it means to do feminist research. The first half of the semester will engage readings to foster discussion about core questions and strategies feminists have brought to the process of research. Centrally, the seminar will focus on how knowledge is conditioned by the socio-political, cultural, and historical contexts of thinkers, researchers, and research production. To explore these ideas in-depth, the second half of the course will focus on how these have impacted the project(s) of social science research by challenging central tenets of positivism and considering how that has translated into feminist methods of social science research (especially feminist ethnography and feminist interviewing). Throughout students will be working on individual projects to develop their strategies for doing feminist research.

The syllabus can be found here.

Women and Islam

Gwendolyn Simmons
WST 6935-Section 18C3
M, 10, W 10-11; AND 0032; 3 Credits

The syllabus can be found here.

Gender and Empowerment in Developing Nations

Renata Serra
WST 6935-Section 2A33
T, 6-8; TUR 2303; 3 Credits

This course examines the interface between research and development practice around questions of transformation of gender norms, social change, women’s empowerment and men’s involvement. We will review the latest research on gender equity and empowerment across different contexts, the main drivers of change, and different methods to assess and measure change – while paying attention to the diversity of feminist and other perspectives from the South. We will then examine the challenges encountered by development organizations in putting into practice the research findings and recommendations; as well as the pressures they face to demonstrate gender integration into their programming, in response to donors’ increased demand for evidence-based outcomes and impacts.

The course aims to develop not only knowledge but also expertise in a range of skills, such as leadership and training, survey design, focus group discussions, role-play, key informant interviews, or data analysis. For the main assignment, students will work in groups to organize a symposium at the end of the semester, presenting on the different perspectives on gender equity and women’s empowerment from the South. This is an advanced course. Students must have taken previous coursework in gender and development or women in development or have significant relevant field expertise.

The syllabus can be found here.

Internship

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section: Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section: Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Fall 2017

Proseminar

Alyssa Zucker
WST 5933-Section 0432
W 6-8; UST 0105; 3 Credits

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section 09BE
TBA; Variable Credits

Feminism in Popular Women’s Genres

Tace Hedrick
WST 6935-Section 16A0
T, R 9-10, 9; TUR 2346; 3 Credits

In this course we will be reading theory, criticism, and popular fiction in an effort to see how feminism has (or has not) been taken up and/or been adapted by popular-culture genres such as the romance and the detective/mystery novel. We will also be discussing possible differences and similarities in novels whose main characters (and authors) are white, of color, straight or queer.

Global Women of Color

Manoucheka Celeste
WST 6935-Section 16A3
T 6-8; MAT 0005; 3 Credits

Description to be announced.

Internship

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 08F5
TBA; Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 697-Section 4433
TBA; Variable Credits

Spring 2017

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section 09BE
TBA; Variable Credits

LGBTQ+ HEALTH

Alyssa N Zucker
WST 6935-Section 1D62
T 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

We will study LGBTQ+ health and well-being from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including women’s studies, medicine, public health, and psychology. We will examine: (1) mechanisms by which social mistreatment of LGBT people “gets under the skin” to affect health behaviors and health outcomes; (2) how the healthcare setting improves and detracts from LGBT health at population and individual levels, and how providers can improve in this domain; and (3) specific illnesses and medical processes that concern members of these groups (e.g., HIV/AIDS, cancer, substance use, gender transition). Although the focus of this class is on people who identify as LGBTQ+, those identities do not exist in isolation. Thus we will adopt an intersectional analysis of sexual orientation and gender identity with race, social class, and other important social identities whenever possible within our analysis.

Feminist/Queer of Color Studies

Tanya Latrice Saunders
WST 6935-Section 18C3
W 7-8;UST 0108; 3 Credits

Internship

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 08F5
TBA; Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 697-Section 4433
TBA; Variable Credits

Fall 2016

Proseminar

Patricia Travis
WST 5933 – Section 0432
M 6-8; UST 0108, 3 Credits

This Proseminar will prepare you for work in graduate-level women’s and gender studies. There will be an overview of feminist scholarship, interdisciplinary research, and writing. Reading, discussion, and assignments will focus on the development of women’s studies as an academic field and on current trends and standards in scholarship. The Proseminar’s grounding in the broad discourse of interdisciplinary women’s studies will help you frame and make use of more specialized courses and to conceptualize your thesis or non-thesis project. By the end of the semester, you will be prepared to design and carry out independent research projects required in your women’s and gender studies graduate programs. Moreover, you will be familiar with humanities and social science methodologies suitable to women’s studies; options for further study and for careers; professional associations in the field of women’s studies; and leading journals in the field. Syllabus

Independent Study (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6905 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Feminist Media Studies

Tace Hedrick
WST 6935 – Sec 16A0
R 9-11; UST 0108; 3 Credits

In this course, we will be examining what it means to have a grasp of feminist media literacy—that is, how to “read” and interpret media (the internet, television, movies, news, magazines, etc.) in terms of how and why each of these mediums deliver us hegemonic (normative) messages about race, class, gender, and sexuality, and how we interpret such messages. We will be looking at feminist media theory, production theory (how movies, television programs, news programs, get produced), cultural studies theories about how the media is part of our “culture,” as well as reception theory—how the audience “receives” messages. We will be seeing lots of movie and television clips, along with documentaries and websites. Syllabus

Intersectional Activisms

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 6935 – Sec 16A3
T 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

In this graduate seminar, participants will become familiar with early intersectional research and perspectives and more current reconsiderations of typologies and developments in intersectional analysis. Continual analyses in terms of social movements and activism using an intersectional lens such will help participants develop fluency in raising and engaging questions from an intersectional perspective.Opportunities will be provided to do in-depth independent research about one movement or type of activism in order to develop skills and knowledge necessary to conduct relevant research to contribute to intersectional scholarship. Syllabus

Internship (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled
Credits: 1-3; Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971-Section Departmentally Controlled
1-6 Credits

Spring 2016

Independent Study (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Online application.

Internship (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. An application can be found on the Internships page.

Fall 2015

Proseminar

Patricia Travis
WST 5933 – Section 0432
M 6-8; UST 0108, 3 Credits

Advanced Feminist Theory

Anita Anantharam
WST 6508 – Sec 5987
W 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Independent Study (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6905 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Internship (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled
Credits: 1-3; Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of Graduate Coordinator. Designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971-Section Departmentally Controlled
1-6 Credits

Summer 2015

Independent Study (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Online application.

Internship (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled

Spring 2015

Independent Study (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6905 – Section departmentally controlled; Credits: 1-3

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1 Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women’s studies independent reading or research under guidance. For an on-line application, click here.

Feminist Media Studies

Tace Hedrick
WST 6935 – Section 082E
R 9-11; UST 0108; 3 Credits

In this course, we will be examining what it means to have a grasp of feminist media literacy—that is, how to “read” and interpret media (the internet, television, movies, news, magazines, etc.) in terms of how and why each of these mediums deliver us hegemonic (normative) messages about race, class, gender, and sexuality, and how we interpret such messages. We will be looking at feminist media theory, production theory (how movies, television programs, news programs, get produced), cultural studies theories, as well as reception theory—how the audience “receives” messages. We will be looking at movie and television clips as well as websites.

Gendered History of American Medicine

Trysh Travis
WST 6935 – Section 082H
T 4, R 4-5; TUR 2346; 3 Credits

This class surveys evolving ideas of health, sickness, and doctoring in the United States (with some attention to Western Europe) from the colonial period to the present. To organize this broad span of history, we will focus on the ways in which gender and sexuality have figured in the creation of patient and caregiver identities (What makes a “good” patient? Why see an OBGYN rather than a midwife?), the development of medical and public health institutions (the AMA, the Visiting Nurse Service), and the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of disease entities such as addiction, coronary heart disease, depression, headache, and erectile dysfunction. The ultimate aim of the course is to challenge the positivist claims of pure “science” by examining the ways in which historical context and social norms—including, though not exclusively norms of gender and sexuality—shape what “science” can see.

Advanced Gender, Agriculture, and Rural Development

Sandra Russo
WST 6935 – Section 146H
M, 7-9; TUR 2333; 3 Credits

Rapid changes are occurring in development practice as donor agencies are collaborating or vying with philanthropic and non-governmental organizations to achieve the best possible, evidence-based outcomes and impacts. Integrating gender into rural and agricultural development is an expected practice that is heavily influenced by different development perspectives and approaches. The course will dig deeply into the latest theories, approaches, and methods for achieving gender equity and will provide you with a set of tools and skills for designing, analyzing and assessing gender in the context of development. You must have taken previous coursework in gender and development or women in development or have significant field expertise in GAD/WID.

Internship (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Prerequisite: Permission of graduate coordinator. This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section Departmentally Controlled
1-15 Credits

Fall 2014

Proseminar

Patricia Travis
WST 5933 – Section 0432
M 6-8; UST 0108, 3 Credits

Advanced Feminist Theory

Constance Shehan
WST 6508 – Sec 5987
W 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Independent Study (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6905 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Gender and Social Movements

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 6935 – Section 049G
T 7-9; UST 0108; 3 Credits

“Social movements are conscious, concerted and sustained efforts by ordinary people to change some aspect of their society by using extra-institutional means.” (Goodwin and Jasper, 2004, pg. 3). This course will provide an overview of the interdisciplinary (mostly sociological) research and theory about social movements. The course will address various questions central to understanding social movements (e.g., who joins a movement? How are movements organized? How do institutions influence movements?). In addition, the course will include readings and research about various social movements (e.g., Civil Rights movement, Farmworkers movements, Women’s Movements, Environmental Justice movement, and LGBTQ movements). (SS)

Internship (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled
Credits: 1-3; Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971-Section Departmentally Controlled
1-6 Credits

Summer 2014

Independent Study (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Online application.

Internship (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair. This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. An application can be found on the Internships page.

Spring 2014

Independent Study (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6905 – Section departmentally controlled; Credits: 1-3

Feminist Anthropology

Florence E. Babb
WST 6935 – Section 08E8
M 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This advanced seminar will consider issues in feminist anthropology through reading and discussing theory, research, and exemplary scholarship in the field. We will ask challenging questions about feminist anthropology and the dilemmas of field research, including the fundamental question of whether there is indeed a feminist ethnographic methodology. We will discuss the feminist politics of ethnographic representation (by the researcher depicting the researched) and of positionality (of the researcher in relation to the researched). Studies from a wide range of societies will present opportunities for students to consider the relative merits of various approaches in feminist anthropology. Seminar participants will write position papers as well as a final paper, which will be presented at the end of the semester.

Feminist Methods

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 6935 – Section 082E
T 7-9; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This graduate seminar will focus on feminist methods and methodologies in relation to social sciences. The course will begin by considering feminist challenges to positivism. We will carefully examine feminist methodologies (theories and analyses of how research should proceed) and new feminist epistemologies (theories of knowledge), considering how they have redefined the project of social science and the study of gender, race, class and sexuality. By challenging central tenets of positivism (objectivity, generalizability, subject/object relations in research, etc.), feminist work has question whether social science grounded in positivist ideals can really represent women and be adequate for inquiry about gender. This will be the central question of the first part of the seminar. The second part of the seminar will focus on actual methods of (mostly) social science research, considering techniques for doing research such as feminist quantitative research, feminist interviewing, feminist field work, feminist focus groups, feminist oral history, and feminist writing.

Gender and Reproduction

Constance Shehan
WST 6935 – Section 082H
R 7-9; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This course will take a global, sociological perspective on the ways in which women’s reproductive rights are controlled by religious and governmental policies. We will examine changes in fertility associated with globalization. Special attention will be given to differential access to contraception, abortion, and sexual and reproductive health care, along with consequences to maternal and child health and mortality, in different global regions.

Women and Therapy

Patricia Travis
WST 6935 – Section 1A06
T 4, R 4-5; TUR 2336, TUR 2346; 3 Credits

Internship (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section Departmentally Controlled
1-15 Credits

Fall 2013

Proseminar

Patricia Travis
WST 5933 – Section 0432
M 6-8; UST 0108, 3 Credits

Advanced Feminist Theory

Anita Anantharam
WST 6508 – Sec 5987
W 3-5; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Independent Study (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6905 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Intersectional Activisms

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 6935 – Section 049G
T 7-9; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This graduate seminar will focus on intersectional activisms – social change efforts that, at minimum, seek to address multiple and interlocking forms of oppression. We will begin the seminar by reviewing central theories of intersectionality from sociology, women’s studies, and critical legal race theory (Collins, Crenshaw, etc). Additionally, the seminar will read and discuss historical and sociological research that traces how intersectional understandings were, and are, articulated and developed out of various activist strategies (e.g., the organizing of Black feminists). Centrally, the seminar will pay considerable attention to recent research about how activists, organizations and movements seeking to do an intersectional politics (e.g., environmental justice efforts, queer activisms, and domestic violence activism) strive to do their work. Throughout we will take up the question of how intersectional activisms are differently done. Click here for syllabus.

Feminist Fictions

Tace Hedrick
WST 6935 – Section 0496
T 7, R 7-8; TUR 2333, TUR 2336; 3 Credits

In this course, we will be reading some of the better-known United States feminist narratives written from 1973 to the early 2000s. We will be looking at historical context, genre, style, and other issues in order to think about what shaped the concerns of feminism, and how these concerns were expressed in narrative form. (WST: H) Click here for syllabus.

Gender and Diaspora

Anita Anantharam
WST 6935 – Section 0497
M 6-8; TUR 2333; 3 Credits

Diaspora is defined as the movement or the scattering of people away from their homeland. Originally used to describe the exodus of Jews from their home, diaspora, as it is used today, refers to a wide range of ethnic groups and communities who have experienced forced expulsion due to slavery, indentured-labor, colonialism, ethnic or religious violence, and environmental disasters such as tsunamis and famine. In this class we will consider the ways in which women and men of the Asian and African diaspora identify and/or refuse their cultural ties to their homelands, the cohesion or trauma that this creates in their lives, and the sense of belonging or loss that they feel as a result of their migration. This is a split undergraduate and graduate-level class and the requirements and readings for the two sections will be different. Click here for syllabus.

Black Women Writer’s Nationalism

Debra Walker King
WST 6935 – Section 094F
M 9-11; MAT 0051; 3 Credits

This course explores the challenges, voices, and place of Black women in the discourses of the Black Nationalist and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s-70s with some review of more recent political and social writings. Using Madhu Dubey’s Black Women Novelists & the Nationalist Aesthetic and Patricia Hill Collin’s From Black Power to Hi Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism as points of departure, we will read, discuss, and analyze materials representing both the theory and praxis of the Black Arts Movement and Black Nationalism. Click here for syllabus.

African Development and Gender Equality

Renata Serra
WST 6935 – Section 1A22
T 6, R 6-7; MAT 0115; 3 Credits

This course examines gender discrimination across Africa. What are the social and economic domains in which women are more/less empowered? Why do projects aiming at improving women’s lives often fail? The course addresses these questions by examining gender norms and relationships across Sub-Saharan Africa, within the context of development theory and practice. Students will reflect on the complexity of the issues at stake, and identify overlapping aspects of subordination and empowerment, global constraints and local resistance. The aim is to question existing stereotypes about gender roles and relationships in developing countries, while thinking constructively of feasible and valid policy approaches. Click here for syllabus.

Women’s Health and Well Being

Laura Guyer
WST 6935 – Section 1538
W 6-8; MAT 0115; 3 Credits

This course draws on a range of social science, pre-professional/professional and public health disciplines to examine the health and well-being of women. The Holistic Model of Health will be used to explore the physical, social, emotional and spiritual aspects of women’s health. Health issues across the lifespan will be examined: health disparities, clinical trials, sexual identity, women of color, chronic disease, mental health, tobacco use, substance abuse, domestic violence and care giving. Click here for syllabus.

Internship (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled
Credits: 1-3; Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of Graduate Coordinator Designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971-Section Departmentally Controlled
1-6 Credits

Summer 2013

Independent Study (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Online application.

Internship (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled

Spring 2013

Independent Study (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6905 – Section departmentally controlled; Credits: 1-3

Bell hooks and Cultural Studies

Tace Hedrick
WST 6935 – Section 01EB
R, 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

In this class, we will be reading many of the works of feminist, public intellectual, race theorist and cultural worker bell hooks. I envision this course as one which not only looks at the many concerns which hooks addresses (race, feminism, love, writing, teaching, spirituality, cultural criticism), but also investigates certain ideas about how a black intellectual career is shaped over time: how a reader balances, and/or values, the varied moments of an intellectual career; what we think the terms “public” or “organic” intellectual mean; the presumed split between the intellectual and the public (“mind” and “body”); the role of influence; what it means to be a public feminist black woman; what “cultural studies” from a woman of color frame of reference might look like; and others. At the same time, we will be “reading around/with hooks”: looking at other writers and thinkers who have influenced her work in one way or another.

Toni Morrison–Shooting from the Hip

Debra Walker King
WST 6935 – Section 08E8
M, 3-5, TBA; 3 Credits

This course focuses on an extraordinary woman whose work, both fictional and critical, has shaken the foundations of American literature (and criticism) to reconstitute both it and the boundaries of its canon. Students will investigate why critics herald Toni Morrison as the “most formally sophisticated novelist in the history of African-American literature” while also discovering why she is its most renowned. Her works are lyrical prose memorials to suffering and loss that move beyond characters’ of Morrison’s novels (10), focusing on several themes. Among them are the relationship of the sacred to the secular, history and heritage, identity and subjectivity, language and rhetorical strategy, motherhood and self, life and love. We will also evaluate what critics have to say about Morrison, how they construct and reconstruct the artist and her work, as well as evaluate the author’s own creative and critical perspectives.

Human Rights and Globalization

Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol
WST 6935 – Section 1A06
M, 6-7, T, 6; HOL 0335A; 3 Credits

This class will explore the state of economic rights in the wake of globalization. Economic, social and cultural rights are a broad category of human rights guaranteed in international and regional instruments such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Protocol of San Salvador to the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights. These rights are, along with civil and political rights, for human flourishing. The course will engage the significance, development and desirability of these rights in human existence. Topics to be covered include the rights to and in work, housing, property, culture (including language), food and nutrition, water, education, social security. It also will explore children’s rights, indigenous rights, and rights of women in and under development.

Family Law and Social Policy

Nancy E. Dowd
WST 6935 – Section 1B15
R, 3-4; HOL 0350; 2 Credits

The focus of this seminar is the development of law and public policy at the federal and state level with respect to families and children. The initial substantive focus of the seminar will be on children’s rights. This implicates a broad range of issues, including constitutional and developmental frameworks, international human rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, juvenile justice, reproductive rights of minors, rights of identify for adopted children and children conceived through alternative reproductive technologies, foster care, educational and disability rights, rights of children during conflict and wartime, children as victims of domestic violence and abuse, and consideration of class, race and gender issues (disproportionate minority representation in foster care and juvenile justice; failure to consider girls in the juvenile justice system).

Feminism and Critical Development Studies

Florence E. Babb
WST 6935 – Section 1B99
M, 7-9; Ustler 0108; 3 Credits

This graduate seminar will offer an overview of classic writings and debates since the 1970s relating to gender and development, and then consider recent writings that assess and critique conventional development models. There will be considerable attention to work based in Latin America and elsewhere in the global South, and to such questions as how alternative approaches to gender, culture, and development may be more inclusive of diverse peoples and grassroots movements for change.

Gender and International Relations

Laura E. Sjoberg
WST 6935 – Section 1D18
T, 11-E2; DAU 0342; 3 Credits

Despite the importance of gender in global politics, gender is still not fully integrated in the academic study of international politics. Feminist approaches are offering new views of a field previously defined as devoid of gender politics. Early IR feminists challenged the discipline to think about how its theories might be reformulated and how its understandings of global politics might be improved if gender were included as a category of analysis and if women’s experiences were part of its subject matter. More recently, “second generation” IR feminist empirical case studies have focused on hitherto understudied issues such as military prostitution, domestic service, diplomatic households, and home-based work much of which is performed by women. Through these studies feminists have sought to demonstrate how vital women are to states’ foreign policies and to the functioning of the global economy. Since most women speak from the margins of international politics, their lives offer us a perspective outside the state-centric focus of conventional western international theories and broaden the empirical base upon which we build our theories. Feminist scholars have suggested that if we put on “gendered lenses” we get quite a different view of international politics (Peterson and Runyan 1999: 21). This course examines that suggestion through the study of feminist work in International Relations.

Anthropology of Pregnancy and Birth

Alyson G. Young
WST 4930 – Section 14D3
M 3-5; MAT 0002; 3 Credits

This course uses a biocultural life course approach to examine variability in health among mothers across the world. The class focuses on several aspects of maternal heath including reproductive ecology and determinants of fertility, maternal-fetal nutrition, birth experience and the political ecology of maternal health. Each of these topics has a long history, and could be covered in an individual course, but this class endeavors to provide a systematic overview and foundation for understanding issues associated with global maternal health and the anthropology of reproduction across the life course.

Internship (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section Department Controlled
1-15 Credits

Fall 2012

Proseminar

Patricia Travis
WST 5933 – Section 0432
W 7-9; TUR 2303, 3 Credits

Advanced Feminist Theory

Anita Anantharam
WST 6508 – Sec 5987
T 8-10; MAT 009; 3 Credits

Prereq: 6000 level course in Feminist Theory or equivalent. Contemporary theory with focus on common themes among academic disciplines. Since feminist theory is by its very nature interdisciplinary, this course is designed to acquaint students with some foundational feminist theory–in primary texts–across the disciplines: philosophy, art history, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, the sciences. By foundational” I mean feminist thought which has been influential in shaping academic feminist scholarship since the so-called “second wave” of United States and European feminism, beginning (roughly) in the late 1940s and moving up to the present. Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Whitney Chadwick, Janice Radway, Nancy Hartsock, bell hooks, Jane Gallop, Gayatri Spivak, Patricia Williams, Pat Hill Collins, Gayle Rubin will be some of the individuals discussed in the course. Course requirements include one 25-30 page final paper, 8 response papers, and one short presentation.

Trade and Human Rights

Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol
WST 6935- Sec 1E73
T 6, W 6-7; MLAC 209; 3 Credits

This Seminar explores premises of trade and human rights debate from perspectives of both free trade advocates and human rights activists, with the purpose of imparting a better understanding of the rationales for both systems of law and the ways each is attempting to avoid a clash that could have profound impact on the protection of human rights and on the global market. Attempts to answer the question: Must trade and human rights regimes necessarily conflict? This course is cross listed with the Levin College of Law.

Feminist Ethnography

Florence Babb
WST 6935 – Sec 01H6
M 7-9; TUR 2303; 3 Credits

This graduate seminar will consider issues in qualitative research methodology through reading and discussing feminist ethnographies as well as critical assessments of feminist scholarship and methods. We will ask challenging questions about interdisciplinarity and the dilemmas of field research, including the fundamental question of whether there is indeed a feminist ethnographic methodology. Moreover, we will discuss the feminist politics of ethnographic representation (by the researcher depicting the researched) and of positionality (of the researcher in relation to the researched). Case studies from a wide range of societies will present opportunities for students to consider the relative merits of various approaches in feminist anthropology and related fields in the social sciences. Seminar participants will be expected to write frequent précis based on the reading and to try out their own feminist ethnographic writing as a way to refine analytical and writing skills.

Feminist Theory

Laura Sjoberg
WST 6935 – Section 06C3 (Departmentally Controlled)
T 11E2; AND 0019; 3 Credits

Independent Study (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6905 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Internship (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled
Credits: 1-3; Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971-Section Departmentally Controlled
1-6 Credits

Summer 2012

Independent Study (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Online application.

Internship (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled

Spring 2012

Independent Study (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6905 – Section departmentally controlled; Credits: 1-3

Race Perspectives in Women’s Studies

Milagros Pena
WST 6935 – Section 01EB
T, 7-9; UST 0108; 3 Credits

The course considers issues taken up by feminists of color; differences in experience across ethnicities, and similarities that emerge out of living in a racially marked body in the U.S. The course explores questions such as: About what do feminists of color theorize? What have feminists of color contributed to feminism? How does making race and ethnicity explicit change feminism? In analyzing the intersections of race/ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality the course will focus on two basic questions as we explore a number of issues: How are feminist movements culturally and historically situated; and, How do representations of women shape knowledge, as well as agency? Please click here for a syllabus.

Feminist Media Studies

Tace Hedrick
WST 6935 – Section 01EF
R6-8; Ustler 108; 3 Credits

Gender and Sustainable Development

Sandra Russo
Kathy Coverson
WST 6935 – Section 1B99
M, 6-8; Ustler 308; 3 Credits

This course will be an overview of current theories and frameworks that contribute to development principles and how gender is or isn’t integrated into these. There will be a focus on different geographic regions and gender issues within those contexts. It will include readings, discussion, presentations and opportunities to gain practical skills in gendered planning and analysis. There will be an optional trip to Washington D.C. to meet with development organizations that integrate gender into their work.

Internship (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section Department Controlled
1-15 Credits

Fall 2011

Women’s/Gender Studies Honors Thesis

Faculty
3 Credits; WST 4970- Section Department Controlled

Students register for this course when pursuing an Honors Thesis in the WST major. In accordance with the protocols established by WST and the Honors Program, students design and pursue an independent research project with guidance from an adviser. Further information is available here.

Proseminar

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 5933 – Section 0432
W 6-8, Ustler 108; 3 Credits

This Proseminar will prepare you for work in graduate-level women’s and gender studies. There will be an overview of feminist scholarship,interdisciplinary research, and writing. Reading, discussion, and assignments will focus on the development of women’s studies as an academic field and on current trends and standards in scholarship. The Proseminar’s grounding in the broad discourse of interdisciplinary women’s studies will help you frame and make use of more specialized courses and to conceptualize your thesis or non-thesis project. By the end of the semester, you will be prepared to design and carry out independent research projects required in your women’s and gender studies graduate programs. Moreover, you will be familiar with humanities and social science methodologies suitable to women’s studies; options for further study and for careers; professional associations in the field of women’s studies; and leading journals in the field.

Advanced Feminist Theory

Anita Anantharam
WST 6908 – Sec 5987
T 8-10; 3 Credits

Prereq: 6000 level course in Feminist Theory or equivalent.

Sexuality and the Law

Shelbi Day
WST 6935 – Section 01H6 (Departmentally Controlled)
M 6:00 p.m.-7:50 p.m; 2 Credits

This course will examine how the law has dealt with, applied to, and been enforced on issues relating to sexuality, and how sexual orientation and gender identity and expression influence the application of legal rules to individuals in our society. How has law shaped the social meaning of sexuality, and how have legal rights, protections, and deprivations evolved along with identities as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender? We will look at these issues in a number of contexts including employment, education, marriage, sexual expression, family relationships and the military. Throughout the course, we will examine the extent to which assumptions about morality, gender, sex identity, and race have shaped the law’s approach to sexuality, and the ways in which the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights is different from and similar to other rights movements. Focus on constitutional doctrines, including equal protection, due process/privacy, freedom of speech and freedom of association.

Independent Study (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6905 – Section Departmentally Controlled;
Credits: 1-3

Internship (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled
Credits: 1-3; Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971-Section Departmentally Controlled
1-6 Credits

Summer 2011

Independent Study (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Online application.

Internship (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled

Spring 2011

Contemporary Feminist Theory

Florence Babb
WST 6508 – Section 2012
W 8-10; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This graduate seminar will provide an overview of past and present contributions to feminist theory, with an emphasis on how contemporary writings build on or depart from classic writings in the field. To this end, we will read from works that develop theoretical frameworks for understanding gender differences across societies and gain greater familiarity with the political landscape of feminist theory. Readings will include such authors as Simone de Beauvoir, Audre Lorde, Nancy Hartsock, Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, bell hooks, Aihwa Ong, Amrita Basu, and Gloria Anzaldúa. We will attempt to work against notions of a fixed and established canon by including the important contributions of lesser-known writers, not only from the US and Europe but from a host of world regions. Our objective will be to develop a multicultural and transnational perspective on the active production of feminist theory and on the relationship of this scholarship to feminist politics. We will consider what the most fruitful analytical frameworks are for understanding gender relations as they intersect with race, class, sexuality, and nationality over the course of history. Students will participate in leading seminar discussion and will have several writing assignments including a final paper for the course.

Independent Study (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6905 – Section departmentally controlled; Credits: 1-3

Feminist Narratives

Tace Hedrick
WST 6935 – Section 5594
R E1-E3; Ustler 108; 3 Credits

In this course, we will be looking at feminist fiction writing from the 1970s to the present, as well as reading feminist theory, history, and criticism about these texts in particular and feminist narrative in general. Among other questions, we will be thinking about what different understandings of the term “feminist” have had to do with narrative innovations, limitations, focus, and thematics, and how those have changed (or not) along with feminist itself over the forty-some years these novels span. Works will include feminist “classics” such as Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and some lesser-known work like the short stories of James Tiptree, Jr. in Her Smoke Rose up Forever, Black Artemis’ and Cherríe Moraga’s Loving in the War Years. (WST: H)

Internship (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled
Credits: 1-3

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section Department Controlled
1-15 Credit

Fall 2010

Proseminar

Trysh Travis
WST 5933 – Section 0432
T 8-10, Ustler 108; 3 Credits

This Proseminar will prepare you for work in graduate-level women’s and gender studies. There will be an overview of feminist scholarship,interdisciplinary research, and writing. Reading, discussion, and assignments will focus on the development of women’s studies as an academic field and on current trends and standards in scholarship. The Proseminar’s grounding in the broad discourse of interdisciplinary women’s studies will help you frame and make use of more specialized courses and to conceptualize your thesis or non-thesis project. By the end of the semester, you will be prepared to design and carry out independent research projects required in your women’s and gender studies graduate programs. Moreover, you will be familiar with humanities and social science methodologies suitable to women’s studies; options for further study and for careers; professional associations in the field of women’s studies; and leading journals in the field.

Women and Race

Debra Walker-King
WST 6935 – Section Department Controlled
R 9-11; 3 Credits

This course looks at women’s literary and critical responses to gendered race relations in America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, from Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl through the Second Wave Feminist Movement, to Toni Morrison’s Paradise (which opens with a reference to the murder of a white woman who is never clearly identified, indicating that the women’s struggles the novel encompasses are cross-racial, borderless and shared). Students will trace and analyze how racially different women during the period under review talk about each other, coop and reject each other, or, simply, ignore each other as they negotiate gendered social, political, and domestic challenges.

Feminist Ethnography

Florence Babb
WST 6935 – Section 1400
M8-10; Ustler 108; 3 Credits

This graduate seminar will consider issues in qualitative research methodology through reading and discussing feminist ethnographies as well as critical assessments of feminist scholarship and methods. We will ask challenging questions about interdisciplinarity and the ethics of field research, including the fundamental question of whether there is indeed a feminist ethnographic methodology. Moreover, we will discuss the feminist politics of ethnographic representation (by the researcher depicting the researched) and of positionality (of the researcher in relation to the researched). Case studies from a wide range of societies will present opportunities for students to consider the relative merits of various approaches in feminist anthropology and related fields in the social sciences. Seminar participants will be expected to try out their own feminist ethnographic writing, which will be shared with others in the course as a way to refine analytical and writing skills.

Sexual and Social Movements

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 6935 – Section 1411
W 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Independent Study (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6905 – Section departmentally controlled; Credits: 1-3

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1
Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women’s studies, For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement their regular courses by independent reading or research under guidance. On-line application.

Internship (Graduate)

Faculty
WST 6946 – Section departmentally controlled
Credits: 1-3; Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of Graduate Coordinator
Designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971-Departmentally controlled
1-6 Credits

Summer 2010

Independent Study (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair For advanced graduate students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Online application.

Internship (Graduate)

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair
This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. An application can be found at http://www.sites.clas.ufl.edu/womensstudies/Internships.htm.

Spring 2010

Advanced Feminist Theory

Tace Hedrick
WST 6508 – Section 2012
T 8-10; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Prereq: 6000 level course in feminist theory or equivalent.
Contemporary theory with focus on common themes among academic disciplines. Since feminist theory is by its very nature interdisciplinary, this course is designed to acquaint students with some foundational feminist theory–in primary texts–across the disciplines: philosophy, art history, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, the sciences. By “foundational” I mean feminist thought which has been influential in shaping academic feminist scholarship since the so-called “second wave” of United States and European feminism, beginning (roughly) in the late 1940s and moving up to the present. Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Whitney Chadwick, Janice Radway, Nancy Hartsock, bell hooks, Jane Gallop, Gayatri Spivak, Patricia Williams, Pat Hill Collins, Gayle Rubin will be some of the individuals discussed in the course. Course requirements include one 25-30 page final paper, 8 response papers, and one short presentation.

Sex, Love & Globalization

Florence Babb
WST 6935 – Section 2323
M 8-10; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This graduate seminar will consider the diverse ways in which intimacy and power mix with sex and gender in an increasingly transnational world. We will read and discuss various theorizations and ethnographies by scholars in anthropology, history, and cultural studies, as well as in feminist studies. Topics will include, but won’t be limited to, new forms of romance mediated by the Internet and global economy; non-heteronormative sexualities in diverse locales; diasporic cultures and intimacies; commoditized sex and romance in tourist circuits; and the impact of globalization on youth and family relationships. The course will focus on recent and innovative ethnographic writing based on studies carried out in the US and beyond, in areas of Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and their diasporas. Videos and occasional recommended outside lectures will complement course material.

Sociology of Gender

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 6935 – Section 5594
W 8-10; Ustler 108; 3 Credits

This course provides a graduate-level overview of gender scholarship in sociology, especially focusing on key work in the last twenty-five years. The course begins by engaging work that confronts some basic assumptions about gender (that it is based in biology and is simply a sex role) and examining early ways of defining gender sociologically (i.e., “doing gender”), paying attention to ways those initial understandings have been extended, critiqued and complicated. Next the course closely examines two crucial areas of gender scholarship (intersections analyses and masculinities studies) and considers the conceptual, methodological and empirical impact these areas have had. In addition, the course will include critical analysis of recent sociological conceptualizations of gender (gender as an institution, practice, social structure, etc.). Finally, the last part of the course addresses two areas of feminist scholarship (understandings of gender performativity and transnational feminist approaches). In sum, this course provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical work of gender scholarship in sociology.

Trade and Human Rights in the Americas

Berta Hernandez, Stephen Powell
WST 6935 – Section 4957
M 7, T 7-8; HOL 355D; 3 Credits

Although human rights law and trade law have developed well-established regimes through a series of negotiations on parallel tracks since World War II, there is increasing criticism from a variety of fronts that international trade rules are insensitive to basic human rights and that globalization has done little to alleviate the gap between rich and poor. Must trade and human rights regimes necessarily conflict? This seminar will explore the premises of the trade and human rights debate from the perspectives of both free trade advocates and human rights activists, with the purpose of imparting a better understanding of the rationales for both systems of law and the ways each is attempting to avoid a clash that could have profound impact on the protection of human rights and on the global market. Using actual examples from the 35 nations of the Hemisphere, the seminar will examine the effect of international trade on human rights policies in the Americas, including conscripted child labor, sustainable development, health promotion, equality of women, trafficking, indigenous peoples, poverty, citizenship, and economic sanctions.

Independent Study (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6905 – Section departmentally controlled; Credits: 1-3

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1 Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women’s studies independent reading or research under guidance.

Internship (Graduate)

STAFF
WST 6946 – Section Departmentally Controlled; Credits: 1-3

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair
This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. Click here for more information and an on-line application.

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section Department Controlled
1-15 Credits

Fall 2009

Proseminar

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST 5933 – Section 0432
R 8-10, Ustler 108; 3 Credits

This Proseminar will prepare you for work in graduate-level women’s and gender studies. There will be an overview of feminist scholarship,interdisciplinary research, and writing. Reading, discussion, and assignments will focus on the development of women’s studies as an academic field and on current trends and standards in scholarship. The Proseminar’s grounding in the broad discourse of interdisciplinary women’s studies will help you frame and make use of more specialized courses and to conceptualize your thesis or non-thesis project. By the end of the semester, you will be prepared to design and carry out independent research projects required in your women’s and gender studies graduate programs. Moreover, you will be familiar with humanities and social science methodologies suitable to women’s studies; options for further study and for careers; professional associations in the field of women’s studies; and leading journals in the field.

Independent Study

Faculty
Variable Credits 1-3
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled

Can be repeated up to 6 credits Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1 Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women=s studies Independent reading or research under guidance. Online application.

Gender and Social Justice Literature

Anita Anantharam
WST 6935 – Section 0435
W 7-9; Ustler 108; 3 Credits

The study of literature and film offers social scientists a stimulating mode of inquiry into social and political institutions and principles. This class explores the ways in which literature provides unique insights into the nature of political life and the study of politics. Additionally, we will explore how activists and politicians have used literature (memoirs, autobiographies, film, poetry, etc) to find a critical voice to address social injustices.

Issues in Theory: Bell Hooks

Tace Hedrick
WST 6935 – Section 0940
R E1-E3; 3 Credits

In this class, we will be reading many of the works of feminist, public intellectual, race theorist and cultural worker bell hooks. I envision this course as one which not only looks at the many concerns which hooks addresses (race, feminism, love, writing, teaching, cultural criticism), but also investigates certain ideas about how a black intellectual career is shaped over time: how a reader balances, and/or values, the varied moments of an intellectual career; what we think the terms “public” or “organic” intellectual mean; the presumed split between the intellectual and the public (“mind” and “body”); the role of influence; what it means to be a public feminist black woman; what “black cultural studies” might be; and others. We will also be doing some of what I call “reading around/with hooks”: looking at other writers who have influenced her work in one way or another.

Internship

Faculty
1-3 Credits
WST 6946 – Section 0588

Can be repeated up to 6 credits Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair Practical experience in community. Internship with local agency, group, or business in women’s issues.

Online Application Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section 6363
1-15 Credits

Summer 2009

Internship

Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled

Spring 2009

Gender & Cultural Politics in Latin America

Florence Babb
WST 6935 – Section 7835
M 8-10; UST 108 3 Credits

This graduate seminar will consider recent and innovative work that examines gender, culture, and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. We will draw on literature from gender and cultural studies, anthropology, history, and other fields in order to consider changing political economies and cultures on the one hand and lived experiences of those of different gender, race, class, and sexual identities on the other hand. We will read about and discuss contemporary popular culture, everyday life, tourism, development, social movements, and globalization. The class will have a discussion format in which students participate actively.

Feminist Pedagogy (Feminist Challenges)

Trysh Travis
WST 6936 – Section 2255
T 8-10; UST 108 3 Credits

How is feminist teaching different from just plain good teaching? Do feminist women automatically become feminist teachers? How can feminist teaching benefit male students (and instructors)? Focusing on the United States, we will look briefly at the history of women’s education during the 19th and early 20th centuries, then turn to examine the feminist critiques of traditional education that developed during the 1960s and ‘70s and the Utopian visions of student-centered classrooms that arose out of that radical period. Feminist theories of curriculum development, instruction, and evaluation will be considered. The class will conclude by exploring the possibilities for transformative teaching within the corporate educational institution. This course is relevant for prospective educators in any subject area and at any level, K-16; individual students may tailor the research and writing assignments so that they are relevant to their subject specialty and to the age group with which they work.

Master’s Internship

Faculty

WST6946 -Section Department Controlled

For advanced students who desire to supplement the regular courses by independent reading or research. Online application.

Fall 2008

Proseminar: Feminist Ethnography

Florence E. Babb
WST 5933– Section 0432
T 8-10; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This Proseminar will prepare you for work in graduate-level women’s and gender studies. There will be an overview of feminist scholarship,interdisciplinary research, and writing. Reading, discussion, and assignments will focus on the development of women’s studies as an academic field and on current trends and standards in scholarship. The Proseminar’s grounding in the broad discourse of interdisciplinary women’s studies will help you frame and make use of more specialized courses and to conceptualize your thesis or non-thesis project. By the end of the semester, you will be prepared to design and carry out independent research projects required in your women’s and gender studies graduate programs. Moreover, you will be familiar with humanities and social science methodologies suitable to women’s studies; options for further study and for careers; professional associations in the field of women’s studies; and leading journals in the field.

Independent Study

Faculty
Variable Credits 1-3
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled
Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1
Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women’s studies Independent reading or research under guidance. Online application.

Masculinity & Suburbia

Trysh A. Travis
WST 6935– Section 0435
M 8-10; UST 0108; 3 Credits

This class explores the connections between normative masculinity–white, middle-class, able-bodied, heterosexual manhood–and the space of the American suburb. Tracing the development of the suburb from the early 19th century to the present, we will explore the way that changes in demographics, economics, technology, law, and the built environment have contributed to the creation of a masculine identity that has become both an ideal and a caricature in the contemporary U.S. Within this historical and material context, we will examine imaginative works that explore the interior life of the suburban man, asking how the authors that created them are influenced by and/or react against the larger culture around them.

Gender and Language

Martha J. Hardman
WST 6935- Section 6139
T 7, AND 0019; R 7-8, AND 0019; 3 Credits

This course offers the student an opportunity to study how language is used by women and men and about women and men in the various domains of interaction (e.g. social, family, workplace) to create and sustain status and power in society. It offers the chance to: Study how sex and sexism are realized through language, investigate the myths about language and woman’s place, learn how gender and politeness interact, ponder how women are derogated in language, reflect on the repercussions of the generic masculine in grammar, study how female-male miscommunication arises, come to terms with gendered language and power in society, including the language of sexual harassment, learn how girls and boys are linguistically socialized in gendered ways, ponder the question of difference vs. dominance.

Feminist Challenges: East-West Encounters: Gender, Migration, and Postcolonialism

Anita Anantharam
WST 6936– Section 0298
T 6, TUR 2342; R 6-7; TUR 2350; 3 Credits

Internship

Faculty
1-3 Credits
WST 6946 – Section 0588

Can be repeated up to 6 credits Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair Practical experience in community. Internship with local agency, group, or business in women’s issues. Online Application

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section 6363
1-15 Credits

Spring 2008

Proseminar: Feminist Social Science Research Methods

Milagros Peña
WST 5933 – Sec 5488
W 7-9, UST 108; 3 Credits

This course is designed to expose students to feminist qualitative social science research methods. In doing so, we explore the relationship between feminism and methodology by engaging a number of issues central to exploring how intersections of gender, race, and class shape social research. Questions related to the problem of speaking for others, author identities, and biases are also explored. The course uses feminist research methods as a basis for developing studies focused on field research, oral and life histories, ethnographies, and text analyses. A major theme in the course will be how social science research can provide an opportunity for those who are “subjects” of study to reflect on their experiences and be transformed and empowered by the process, including the researcher.

Advanced Feminist Theory

Tace Hedrick
WST 6508 – Section 1594
T 7-9; LIT 0223; 3 Credits

Prereq: 6000 level course in feminist theory or equivalent.
Contemporary theory with focus on common themes among academic disciplines. Since feminist theory is by its very nature interdisciplinary, this course is designed to acquaint students with some foundational feminist theory–in primary texts–across the disciplines: philosophy, art history, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, the sciences. By foundational” I mean feminist thought which has been influential in shaping academic feminist scholarship since the so-called “second wave” of United States and European feminism, beginning (roughly) in the late 1940s and moving up to the present. Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Whitney Chadwick, Janice Radway, Nancy Hartsock, bell hooks, Jane Gallop, Gayatri Spivak, Patricia Williams, Pat Hill Collins, Gayle Rubin will be some of the individuals discussed in the course. Course requirements include one 25-30 page final paper, 8 response papers, and one short presentation.

Independent Study

Faculty
Variable Credits 1-3
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled
Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1 Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women’s studies Independent reading or research under guidance. Online application.

Sociology of Gender

Kendal Broad
WST 6935 – Section 4766
M 6-8; MCCB 2102; 3 Credits
Joined with SYD 6807/ Sec 9079

Theoretical and empirical literature about social construction of gender, providing overview of key literature.

Internship in Applied Women’s Studies and Gender Research

Faculty
1-3 Credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled
Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of program director.
Practical experience in community. Internship with local agency, group, or business in women’s issues. Online Application

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section Department Controlled
1-15 Credits

Fall 2007

Independent Study

Faculty
Variable Credits 1-3
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled
Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1 Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women’s studies Independent reading or research under guidance. Online application.

Black Gender

Stephanie Y. Evans
WST 6935– Section 3542
R 8-10; MAT 102; 3 Credits

In this course students will explore various ways that African American gender has been and can be performed, articulated, and researched. Using social science, humanities, and natural science materials from the early 20th-century to present, students will ask and answer questions about gendered aspects of race relevant to their own academic discipline.

Sociolingustics of Gender and Language

Diana Boxer
Joined with LIN 6932
WST 6935- Section 6139
T 7-8, AND, 21; R 7-8, AND 13; 3 Credits

Sex, Love and Globalization

Florence Babb
WST 6935– Section 9640
M 8-10; TUR 2303; 3 Credits

Internship in Applied Women’s Studies and Gender Research

Faculty
1-3 Credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled
Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of program director
Practical experience in community. Internship with local agency, group, or business in women’s issues. Online Application.

Master’s Research

Faculty
WST 6971 – Section Department Controlled
1-15 Credits

Spring 2007

Feminist Ethnography

Florence Babb
WST 5933– Section 5488
T 8-10, UST 108; 3 Credits
Joined with ANG 6930 Sect 3468

This graduate seminar will consider issues in qualitative research methodology through reading and discussing feminist ethnographies as well as critical assessments of feminist scholarship and methods. We will ask challenging questions about interdisciplinarity and the ethics of field research, including the fundamental question of whether there is indeed a feminist ethnographic methodology. Moreover, we will discuss the feminist politics of ethnographic representation (by the researcher depicting the researched) and of positionality (of the researcher in relation to the researched). Case studies from a wide range of societies will present opportunities for students to consider the relative merits of various approaches in feminist anthropology and related fields in the social sciences. Seminar participants will be expected to try out their own feminist ethnographic writing, which will be shared with others in the course as a way to refine analytical and writing skills.

Independent Study

Faculty Variable
Credits 1-3
WST 6905 – Section Department Controlled
Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department chair and 1 Women’s Studies course or course that counts for women’s studies Independent reading or research under guidance. Online application.

Women and Islam

Gwendolyn Simmons
WST 6935– Section 7187
R 8-10,TUR B310; 3 Credits
Joined with REL 5365/6073

International Human Rights: Women in the Americas

Berta Hernandez-Truyol
WST6935– Section 8453
M 5-7; Holland Hall Rm 350; 3 Credits
Joined with LAS 6938/8437 and LAW 6936/8440

In this seminar, we will study the rights afforded to women by the international human rights regime and the inter-American regional system (including the OAS), as well as the trade regimes – WTO, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and the proposed FTAA. Our focus is to explore how women’s lives have fared in the Americas in numerous contexts including how they affect the lives of women, women and the family, the state (representation, democracy), the global economy (labor, trade, etc.), armed conflict, globalization, education, the environment, intersectionalities (gender, race including indigenous populations, class, sex, sexuality, religion), culture, property, violence, and health. Specific topics will coincide with students’ writing projects.

Feminist Challenges to Traditional Paradigms:Race Perspectives

Milagros Peña
WST 6936 – Section 6481
M 8-10, UST 108; 3 Credits
Joined with SYA 7933/DEPT

Major feminist thinkers of theoretical movements. Topics include French feminist Luce Irigaray, Marxism and feminist theory, feminism and postmodern theory, African-American feminist theorists, construction of gender identity.

Internship in Applied Women’s Studies and Gender Research

Faculty
1-3 Credits
WST 6946 – Section Department Controlled
Can be repeated up to 6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of program director Practical experience in community. Internship with local agency, group, or business in women’s issues. Online Application

GRADUATE SEMINARS IN THE CENTER

Proseminar

Alyssa Zucker WST 5933-Section 5933 W 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Feminist Methods in Research and Scholarship

Maddy Coy WST 6004-Section 6004 T 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright WST 6905-Section 69IS Variable Credits

Latina Feminist Thought & Practice

Elizabeth Garcia WST6935– Section 69EG R 6-8; Weimer 1094; 3 Credits

Social Justice Praxis

Jlllian Hernandez WST6935-Section 69JH M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6946-Section 6INT Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6971- 9MR Variable Credits

Summer 2020

Independent Study

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6905-Section 69IS Location TBA; Variable Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6946-Section 6INT Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright WST 6971- Section 6THE Variable Credits

Spring 2020

GRADUATE SEMINARS IN THE CENTER

Advanced Feminist Theory

Jillian Hernandez WST 6508-Section 6508 F 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright WST 6905-Departmentally Controlled Variable Credits

Women and Aging

Constance Shehan WST 6935-Section 61CS M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Global Women of Color

Manoucheka Celeste WST6935-Section 62MC T 8-10; UST 108; 3 Credits

Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

A. Peterson WST6935-Section 66AP T 5-6; MAT 0013; 3 Credits

Latina Narratives

Elizabeth Garcia WST6935-Section 65EG R 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Women’s Resistance

Ryan Morini WST6930-Section 69RM T 3-5; TBA; 3 Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6946-Departmentally Controlled Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6971- Departmentally Controlled Variable Credits

Fall 2019

Proseminar

Alyssa Zucker WST 5933-Section 0432 W 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright WST 6905-Departmentally Controlled Variable Credits

Critical Girlhood Studies

Jillian Hernandez WST 6935-Section 16A3 M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Intersectional Activisms

Kendal Broad-Wright WST6935-Section 17F1 R 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Feminist/Queer of Color Studies

Tanya Saunders WST6935-Section 3B38 T 8-10; UST 108; 3 Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6946-Departmentally Controlled Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6971- Departmentally Controlled Variable Credits

Summer 2019

Independent Study

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6905-Sections 7G44 TBA; Variable Credits

Internship

Kendal L. Broad-Wright WST 6946-Section 72FG Variable Credits

Master’s Research

Kendal L Broad-Wright WST 6971- Section 8B54 Variable Credits

Spring 2019

Advanced Feminist Theory

Tace Hedrick WST 6508-Section 09B6 R 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Independent Study

Kendal L Broad-Wright WST 6905-Section: Departmentally controlled TBA; Variable Credits

Alyssa Zucker
WST 5933-Section 5933
W 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Maddy Coy
WST 6004-Section 6004
T 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section 69IS
Variable Credits

Elizabeth Garcia
WST6935– Section 69EG
R 6-8; Weimer 1094; 3 Credits

Jlllian Hernandez
WST6935-Section 69JH
M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 6INT
Variable Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- 9MR
Variable Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section 69IS
Location TBA; Variable Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 6INT
Variable Credits

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section 6THE
Variable Credits

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6508-Section 6508
F 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Constance Shehan
WST 6935-Section 61CS
M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Manoucheka Celeste
WST6935-Section 62MC
T 8-10; UST 108; 3 Credits

A. Peterson
WST6935-Section 66AP
T 5-6; MAT 0013; 3 Credits

Elizabeth Garcia
WST6935-Section 65EG
R 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Ryan Morini
WST6930-Section 69RM
T 3-5; TBA; 3 Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Alyssa Zucker
WST 5933-Section 0432
W 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Jillian Hernandez
WST 6935-Section 16A3
M 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Kendal Broad-Wright
WST6935-Section 17F1
R 6-8; UST 108; 3 Credits

Tanya Saunders
WST6935-Section 3B38
T 8-10; UST 108; 3 Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Departmentally Controlled
Variable Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Sections 7G44
TBA; Variable Credits

Kendal L. Broad-Wright
WST 6946-Section 72FG
Variable Credits

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6971- Section 8B54
Variable Credits

Tace Hedrick
WST 6508-Section 09B6
R 6-8; UST 0108; 3 Credits

Kendal L Broad-Wright
WST 6905-Section: Departmentally controlled
TBA; Variable Credits