Gender and Women's Studies

Spring 2009 Courses

GWST 2700

Special Topics in GWST: Geography of the Queer Body

4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m., Tuesday/Thursday, 4 credits, Luc Beaudoin

This course examines the creation of an identifiable queer body (as in queer representations of femininity and masculinity in popular culture, high art, literature, and film) in countries which are struggling to incorporate non-normative representations of sexuality in a nationalist framework: the Russian Federation and Brazil.  The course will deconstruct the creation of such a queer body and its presence in such national discourses and will place it in some theoretical frameworks so that its fabrication can be better understood.  Ultimately, students in this course will leave with a greater understanding of the manufacturing of gender, and the rolde that such manufacturing of gender plays in the creation of national cultures, including how non-normative sexualities are ultimately integrated.

GWST 2983

Colloquium in GWST: Women and Work

Day/Time TBD, 2 credits, Nancy Reichman

GWST 3985

Gender and Women's Studies Internship
Arranged, Staff 

GWST 3991

Independent Study
Arranged, Staff
Prereq: Independent Study Form - available in Registrar's Office

GWST 3998

Gender and Women’s Studies Honors Thesis
Arranged, Staff

GWST 4991

Graduate Independent Study
Arranged, Staff 
Prereq: Graduate Independent Study Form – available in Graduate Dean's Office