GWST 1112: Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (CRN 3336)
Tuesday/Thursday, 10-11:50, 4 credits, Lindsey Feitz
This course provides an introduction to the discipline of Gender and Women's Studies. All cultures engage in a complex process of assigning cultural values and social roles which vary according to the cultural environment in which human interaction occurs. Among these, the process of translating biological differences into a complex system of gender remains one of the most important. Gender and Women's Studies aims to understand how this process of 'gendering' occurs. This course also explores how this system of meaning relates to other systems of allocating power, including socioeconomic class, social status, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and nationality. Using this lens, this course explores contemporary social developments and problems. This class presents students with a variety of texts from sociological articles to literary fictions, and documentary and fictional cinema to explore gender from many directions.

GWST 2981: Victim Advocacy and Activism in a Multicultural Context (CRN 3337)
Monday, 4-5:50, 2 credits, Lisa Ingarfield
Given the prevalence of interpersonal violence (sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking) in society, this course provides students with the intellectual, philosophical, and practical skills to understand advocacy for survivors of interpersonal violence in a multicultural context. The course explores victim advocacy, the focus areas of interpersonal violence, cultural considerations, students' own philosophy of victim advocacy, and the experience of survivors. The class challenges students to consider how their own social identities influence the advocacy relationship. While the focus of the class is on interpersonal violence, the discussions will provide skills for any kind of crime victim advocacy.

GWST 2700: Narratives about Gender: Digital Storytelling
Tuesday/Thursday, 2-3:50, 4 credits, Kate Burns and Ruth Hickerson
This course explores the use of narrative as both a sense‐making and self‐presentation tool. Throughout the quarter students will work on their own digital narratives related to gender created through editing software found on their laptops. Each student will produce a compelling creative treatment of their story through activities that include writing exercises, discovering the story, storyboarding, scripting, digitizing images and video, recording a voiceover and soundtrack, and editing the project. As they build their narratives, students will study the elements of digital storytelling, including point of view, dramatic questions, emotional content, voice, soundtrack, economy, and pacing. Further, their own work on a personal narrative will inform their examination of meta-narratives and resistant narratives related to gender and intersecting identities.

Courses with GWST Attribute:

SOCI 2210: The Family (CRN 2279)
Tuesday/Thursday, 12-1:50, 4 credits, Christine Sheikh
This course explores the family, with emphasis on different kinds of families and on contemporary issues of changing gender roles, intimacy, childbearing, family breakup and reconstitution, and family relationships with other social institutions.

SOCI 2420: Social Inequality (CRN 2210)
Monday/Wednesday, 8-9:50, 4 credits, Lisa Martinez
This course focuses on dimensions of social class and its effect on economic, political and social institutions as well as style of life.

MFJS 3203: Women & Film (CRN 4272)
Monday/Wednesday, 12-1:50, 4 credits, Diane Waldman
This course explores representations of women in film, both in the dominant Hollywood cinema and in alternative filmmaking practices (experimental film, documentary, etc.).

ANTH 2061: Gender, Change, Globalization (CRN 3778)
Tuesday/Thursday, 4-5:50, 4 credits, Ermitte St. Jacques
This course introduces students to anthropological approaches to the study of gender and globalization with a focus on social and cultural change. The course presents a survey of cross-cultural variations in gender identities and practices and analyzes how men and women are affected differently by the economic and cultural changes brought about by globalization, such as international development policies, migration, and media productions are emphasized. Contemporary social issues are discussed to explore these transformations and the effects they have on people's everyday lives.

GWST 1112: Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (CRN 3336)
Tuesday/Thursday, 10-11:50, 4 credits, Lindsey Feitz

This course fulfills an SI: Society core curriculum requirement.

This course provides an introduction to the discipline of gender and women's studies. All cultures engage in a complex process of assigning cultural values and social roles which vary according to the cultural environment in which human interaction occurs. Among these, the process of translating biological differences into a complex system of gender remains one of the most important.

Gender and women's studies aims to understand how this process of "gendering" occurs. This course also explores how this system of meaning relates to other systems of allocating power, including socioeconomic class, social status, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and nationality.

Using this lens, this course explores contemporary social developments and problems. This class presents students with a variety of texts from sociological articles to literary fictions, and documentary and fictional cinema to explore gender from many directions.

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GWST 2982: Gender and Disability: "Witches, Cripples and other Monsters" (CRN 2284)
Tuesdays, 4-5:50, 2 credits, Heike Peckruhn

This course examines the constructions of the intersecting categories of disability and gender via social, political, cultural and symbolic means. Special focus will be given to the ways disability is gendered and gender is disabled, though in investigation of texts and cultural examples we will also keep in mind the intersections with other bodily and social markers, such as race, sexuality, class and nationality.

We will mainly focus on the experiences of women with disabilities, but will also investigate intersections with queerness, masculinities and gender transgression. This course provides and introduction to different theoretical approaches to disability and explores similarities and differences to theories of gender. We will also explore issues regarding sexuality, relationships, civil rights, cultural representation and advocacy.

For the purposes of this course, "disability" will include various ways in which bodies/minds can be seen as "abnormal," including physical and cognitive disabilities as well as chronic illness and emotional/mental difference.

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GWST 3950: Theories in Gender and Women's Studies (CRN 4542)
Wednesdays, 6-9:50, 4 credits, Luc Beaudoin

Prerequisite: GWST 1112

This course is an overview of a number of different manifestations of gender theory. The course is divided into four parts: feminist theory, masculinity theory, queer theory and international perspectives.

We will be covering some of the foundational approaches to questions of sexuality and gender identity, as well as exploring examples of these questions through select works of literature and film.

This course may be repeated for credit as long as course subtitles are different.

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ASEM 2687: Sex and Globalization (CRN 3316)
Mondays/Wednesdays, 12-1:50 p.m., 4 credits, Lindsey Feitz

You may get major credit for an ASEM if it is taken after your ASEM requirement is met.
Email hava.gordon@du.edu to discuss further.

Over the last 30 years, scholars from a variety of disparate fields have laid claim to the study of the complex, pervasive phenomena that many now simply refer to as "globalization." More recently, however, feminist scholars in these same fields have argued that globalization is also an inherently gendered (and sexed and raced) phenomenon that has profound consequences on people's livelihoods, identities and well-being around the world.

This course will examine globalization as a process that centers upon these gendered, raced and sexual differences. You will be introduced to range of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and asked to consider the following questions:

• What does a gendered analysis of globalization look like?
• How does it enhance our understanding of the ways power, privilege and inequality manifest themselves in different parts of the world?
• In what ways do women and men get enlisted to support (both physically and symbolically) global commerce, migration and war?
  
  

Courses with GWST attribute (which means they count for GWST credit):

HIST 2630: American Women's History (CRN 4376)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 10-11:50, 4 credits, Elizabeth Escobedo

This course is a survey of U.S. women's history from the colonial period to the present. It will examine the social, cultural, economic, and political developments shaping American women's public and private roles over several centuries, in addition to the ways in which women gave meaning to their everyday lives.

Particular attention will be paid to the variety of women's experiences, with an emphasis on the interplay of race, class, ethnicity and sexuality.

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COMN 1015: Voice and Gender (CRN 2666)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 8-9:50, 4 credits, Brian Grewe

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SOCI 2730: Gender in Society (CRN 4396)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 8-9:50, 4 credits, Amie Levesque

Although there is a prerequisite, please talk to the instructor about waiving for GWST.

Every day, gender norms and prescriptions shape the ways we think about, act upon and discuss the world we live in. From the moment we are born, boys and girls are treated differently based on the roles that are assigned by the dominant culture.

In this course, we will examine the ways in which societal expectations and our own perceptions of sexuality, violence, family, religion, education, health, work and public policy are shaped by gender. Within each of these categories, we will also analyze the intersections of race and class.

We will look at gender theories in the contexts of femininities and masculinities, as neither are possible to understand without an analysis of the other. We will also explore the ideas of gender beyond the exclusive dichotomy of men and women.

It is my goal that each of you will leave this course with a comprehension of the sociological understanding that gender is not essential, but rather, it is a social construction and a complex process that is continuously created, maintained, and transformed.

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ASEM 2653: Law & Politics of Reproduction (CRN 4387)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 12-1:50, 4 credits, Jennifer Reich

You may get major credit for an ASEM if it is taken after your ASEM requirement is met.
Email hava.gordon@du.edu to discuss further.

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COMN 2700: Topics: Gender, Culture, Identity in the Middle East (CRN 4349)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 10-11:50, 4 credits, Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui

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ECON 2280: Gender in the Economy (CRN 2459)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 12-1:50, 4 credits, Paula Cole

Although there is a prerequisite, please talk to the instructor about waiving for GWST.

GWST 1112: Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (CRN 3209)
Monday/Wednesday, 10-11:50, 4 credits, Lindsey Feitz
This course fulfills an SI: Society core curriculum requirement.

This course provides an introduction to the discipline of gender and women's studies. All cultures engage in a complex process of assigning cultural values and social roles which vary according to the cultural environment in which human interaction occurs. Among these, the process of translating biological differences into a complex system of gender remains one of the most important.

Gender and women's studies aims to understand how this process of "gendering" occurs. This course also explores how this system of meaning relates to other systems of allocating power, including socioeconomic class, social status, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and nationality.

Using this lens, this course explores contemporary social developments and problems. This class presents students with a variety of texts from sociological articles to literary fictions, and documentary and fictional cinema to explore gender from many directions.

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GWST 2215: Selling Sex, Gender, and the American Dream (CRN TBD)
Monday/Wednesday, 2-3:50, 4 credits, Lindsey Feitz
This course fulfills an AI: Society core curriculum requirement.

This course analyzes how commercial culture has evolved into the defining cornerstone of American life over the last sixty years. In the first half of the quarter, we will examine key historical moments (including the Cold War, the Civil Rights/Women's and Gay Liberation movements) and investigate how women, ethnic minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community became important "consumer citizens" in the United States.

The second half of the quarter will examine these same social groups from a contemporary perspective, and the degree to which globalization, "multiculturalism" and "going green" have emerged as dominant tropes in contemporary commercial culture. By moving from past to present, students will gain an understanding of the complex connections between consumption and U.S. nation-building, as well as the consequences "shopping" and the accumulation of "stuff" have had in both shaping and reconfiguring understandings of what it means to live the "American Dream."
 

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GWST 2983: B'hoys to Men: 19th Century Masculinities (Colloquium in GWST) - CRN TBD
Thursdays, 10-11:50, 2 credits, Charlotte Quinney

This course will explore the various attempts to construct and define masculine power and identity in nineteenth-century America. For example, we will analyze the formation of class identities and the professionalization of manhood, showing how working-class identity was articulated as nationalistic, patriotic, and in opposition to racial and ethnic groups such as the Irish and the Chinese. We will investigate how patriarchy was often cloaked in the benevolent rhetoric of paternalism, and how the notion of the family was fraught with irony in the slaveholding South. This class will trace the decline of gentility and middle-class manhood in the Wild West, as well as exploring masculine indulgence in sentimentality, friendship, and fraternalism. The focus of this course is masculine identity as expressed in literature, pornography, politics, reform movements, protest, labor, and entertainment, as well as an analysis of male sexuality, body politics, performativity and masquerade, and the
intersectionality of gender, race and class.

 

Courses with GWST attribute (which means they count for GWST credit):

COMN 2210: Gender, Communication, Culture (CRN 4601)
Tuesday/Thursday, 12-1:50, 4 credits, Pavithra Prasad

This course considers how gender is created, maintained, repaired, and transformed through communication in particular relational, cultural, social, and historical contexts. This course is designed to help students develop thoughtful answers to the following questions: What is gender, how do we acquire it, how do cultural structures and practices normalize and reproduce it, and how do we change and/or maintain it to better serve ourselves and our communities? Throughout the term, we explore how dynamic communicative interactions create, sustain, and subvert femininities and masculinities
"from the ground up."

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COMN 1015: Voice and Gender (CRN 2671)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 10-11:50, 4 credits, TBA

In this course, students explore gender in personal and political contexts with the intent of developing their individual voices in these arenas. Students learn to express creatively their voice through strengthening both their written and oral communication skills. This course also discusses gender issues prevalent in today's society and significant moments in rhetorical history that have impacted these issues. 

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SOCI 2220: Sociology of Childhood (CRN 4344)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 2-3:50, 4 credits, Jennifer Reich

Although there is a prerequisite, please talk to the instructor about waiving for GWST.

This course explores the social meanings of childhood. In this course we will examine aspects of the symbolic meanings of childhood as well as the experiences of being a child. The commercialization of childhood through marketing to children, contradictory messages about children as innocent or problematic, the experience of gender socialization for children, and the expectations of creating perfect children will be explored in detail.

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SOCI 2765: The Female Offender (CRN 4348)
Mondays/Wednesday, 4-5:50, 4 credits, Lisa Pasko

Although there is a prerequisite, please talk to the instructor about waiving for GWST.

Female offenders are one of the fastest growing segments in both the juvenile and adult justice systems. This course introduces students to debates and issues surrounding girls, women, and crime; explores different theoretical perspectives of gender and crime; and examines the impact of gender on the construction and treatment of female offenders by the justice system. In addition, this course specifically looks at girls' and women's pathways to offending and incarcerations; understanding girls' violence in the inner city; exploring the reality of prison life for women, with a particular focus on the gender-sensitive programming for incarcerated mothers; and ending with an examination of how capital punishment has affected women offenders historically and contemporarily.

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ENGL 2830: Representations of Women (CRN 2631)
"Sluts," "Hussies," and "Whores": An Examination of the Sexualized Woman in British and American Literature, 1675-1985
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 12-1:50, 4 credits, Nichol Weizenbeck

This course will be an exploration of the ways in which women, specifically sexualized women, have been represented in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century film and literature of Britain and the United States. The "sexual" women we will look at will include prostitutes, "the fallen woman," the adulteress, the anti-ingénue, and the porn star. We will focus on how these representations shift and mutate over time, yet also in which ways they retain the same kernels of yore. An example of a query will ask ourselves is what do the seemingly happy prostitute of the eighteenth century and the "fallen woman" of the Victorian era have in common? How are they different? Students should note that due to the subject matter, strong adult language (and imagery) will be, at times, used by the instructor and present in the texts.

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ENGL 3733: Topics in English: Jane Austen (CRN 3032)
Mondays/Wednesdays, 2-3:50, 4 credits, Benjamin Kim

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ANTH 3380: Women and Development (CRN 4268)
Mondays/Wednesdays, 2-3:50, 4 credits, Tracy Ehlers

This course looks at issues of international development from the dual perspectives of gender analysis and cultural anthropology. While it is heavily based on political economy and assumptions about dependency and underdevelopment, it takes a strong micro-level, case study approach as well. That is to say, while we are concerned about policy issues, we expand our analysis to the women and their families whose day-to-day existence is at the heart of the topics. Finally, we engage in gender training workshops to learn lessons of facilitation and participatory change in grassroots development.

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MFJS 3652: Culture, Gender & Global Communication (CRN 2659)
Tuesdays, 4-7:50, 4 credits, Maria Suarez

This course explores the ways in which culture, gender, and communication intersect and shape a variety of issues from an international and intercultural perspective. Using a global feminist perspective, it also focuses on paradigms and paradigm shifts in creating social change. Also explored are alternative paradigms of thought, action and media communications by women and indigenous peoples, which have often been ignored, discounted or buried in history.

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ASEM 2493: Caring in a Capitalist Economy (CRN 2616)
Tuesdays/Thursdays, 4-5:50, 4 credits, Paula Cole
You may get major credit for an ASEM if it is taken after your ASEM requirement is met. Email hava.gordon@du.edu to discuss further.

How does a good society address the needs of members of that society who cannot fully take care of themselves? Does caring have a place in our capitalist economy? Do we organize the provision of care in a just way? How do we balance our caregiving responsibilities in our daily lives? Through course lecture, discussion and community caregiving, we explore these challenging questions using insight from economists, philosophers, sociologists and others to help us better understand how we provide care within our capitalist economy.