WMST 130 - GENDER, POWER & DIFFERENCE
A multicultural course.  Introduces methods and approaches of Women’s Studies from varied feminist perspectives. Surveys what is happening to women in the contemporary world; the various feminist theories; the social constructions of gender; sexual harassment.  Surveys various aspects of women’s lives past and present, such as women and psychology, business, philosophy, religion, the law, literature, art, the popular media, the family, etc.
MWF   10:00-10:50     Betty Wambui
TTh        1:00-2:15       Bambi Lobdell

WLIT 227 - SEX & GENDER IN GREEK LITERATURE
This course explores gender in ancient Greek literature by examining the roles of men and women in Greek society, how the Greeks defined the categories of male and female, and how concepts of masculinity and femininity shaped Greek literature, mythology, and daily life.
TTh      4:00-5:15         Akira Yatsuhashi

ANTH 238 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION
This course examines women's and men's experiences of reproduction in anthropological perspective, including childbearing, childbirth, menarche, and menopause across cultures and societies. Emphasizes reproduction as a cultural and social experience.
TTh      11:30-12:45     Sallie Han

COMM 241 – GENDER COMMUNICATION
This elective for graduate or undergraduate students explores the sexual biases which affect male-female communication in the rhetorical discourse of the every- day and literary market place. The distinct verbal and non-verbal vocabularies of men and women affect the way people interact in education, politics, marriage and family, business, and broadcasting. The modern attitudinal remnants of one historical pattern for male-female role playing -- the courtly love tradition--will be explored. The course will consider empirical studies which prove or disprove these and other traditional myths about male/female communication. Consideration will be given to the way that sex affects credibility or status in discussion, debate, mass media portraits, and other realms of both public and private discourse.
MWF   2:00-2:50         Erin Reynolds

WMST/PSYC 243 – PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN
A feminist perspective is used to explore the influence of social and psychological factors in shaping women’s attitudes and behavior and in shaping the attitudes and behavior of people toward women.  The role played by psychology in creating scientific myths about women and, more recently, psychology’s interest in correcting these misconceptions, are examined.  Topic areas include sex-role stereotyping and androgyny, traditional and non-traditional roles of women, women and mental health issues, sexuality, culture and language, and health.
Prerequisites: C or better in PSYC 100.
TTh      1:00-2:15     Cynthia Miller

PSYC 257 – PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
An overview of human sexual behavior. Topics include sex and gender, biological factors, sexual development, interpersonal relationships, intimacy and love, communication, sexual orientation, pregnancy and birth, contraception, abortion, sexual dysfunction, sexual diseases, sexual exploitation, legal and ethical issues. Gender differences and sex role behavior will be discussed, with special attention to the question of whether male and female behaviors differ, and how best to explain such differences.   Prerequisites: C or better in PSYC 100
MWF   10:00-10:50     Michael Brown

ALS 273 – RACE, GENDER, CLASS AND CULTURE
This course will use a multidisciplinary approach to examine some of the ways race, gender, class and culture intersect in the lives of women and men in various Africana and Latino societies and cultures in the Americas (including the Caribbean and the United States). Attention is focused on the historical, economic, and political context that underlie race-, gender-, class- and ethnic-based inequalities that persist in contemporary societies. By exploring individual and community experiences, we will assess the dynamic variation in women and men's racial-ethnic, class and gender identity formation. Method: ISSUE/Topic Centered.
 MWF   11:00-11:50    Betty Wambui
MWF    1:00-1:50      Betty Wambui
TTh      11:30-12:45   Caridad Souza
M       5:30-8:00      Caridad Souza

ELIT 275 – Jane Austen
An intensive reading of novels such as Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma.  Additional, related readings will cover topics such as Austen’s biography, criticism, the history of the novel, and contemporary literary developments.  Prerequisites: Comp 100 and LITR 100 or LITR 150.
MWF   1:00-1:50         Bianca Tredennick

WMST/ALS 294:01 – SpTp: Marked Bodies
This intermediate upper level class in Women and Gender Studies as well as Africana and Latino Studies will work to trace the relationship between power and bodies. Specifically, this course will be interested in sexed, gendered and ethno-raced bodies. The course shall seek to discuss the way inequalities; difference and crime are constructed around particular bodies as power acts on them. Besides working to develop an understanding of bodies and power in their various its manifestations, it shall also consider relationships such as those between embodiment, discipline, punishment, knowledge and practice.  Prerequisites: SoS
MWF   2:00-2:50         Betty Wambui

WMST 294:02 – SpTp: Introduction to Transgenders
Queer genders are those gender presentations and gender identities that resist, challenge, or otherwise do not fit traditional definitions of gender through sex (male/female), gender (masculinity/femininity) or styles of sexuality commonly associated with heteronormative gender. While transgender may seem to be a  new phenomenon that developed in the last century, in reality, gender variance is as old as humankind, and only became an issue when an artificial bi-gendered order was imposed on society, framing gender variance as “abnormal”.   This course will examine various gender queer styles throughout history and across cultures including but not limited to androgyny, transvestism, transsexuality, intersexuality, female masculinity, passing women, sissy boys and tomboys, and drag queens and kings. We will explore recent theoretical and cultural works and consider the challenge transgender poses to common understandings of sex, gender, sexuality, and the body as site of identity.
Exploration of non-normative gender will focus on medical standards and definitions, psychiatric definitions and treatments, mores, laws, social attitudes, and representations in film and other media, both from hegemonic cis-gender and emerging transgender perspectives. Armed with information gained from transgender theory, we will analyze the ways sexual and gender embodiment is produced, experienced, and performed as something real.
Through a variety of texts including literature, television, and films this course will investigate the complexity of being differently gendered in a gender binary world, and the liberatory potential of gender variance and nonconformity.
TTh      2:30-3:45         Bambi Lobdell

WMST/HIST 294:81 – Men & Masculinity in Europe
This course will analyze the roles of men in European society, politics and war, as well as investigate representations of men and concepts of masculinity in early modern and modern Europe, with a focus on Britain, France and Germany.  The following topics will be discussed: Developments in the raising and education of men, the patriarchal family model, relationships between men, women and children in European societies.  Representations of men, masculinity and “manliness” in European society, politics and warfare.  Changes in male manners and fashions, and transformations in male sociability, friendship and codes of honour from “feudal” to “bourgeois” society.  Political paternalism and masculine symbols in the age of revolution, the formation of modern nation-states and twentieth century ideologies.  Feuds, duels, vendettas and other forms of inter-male violence in European societies.  Men under arms from the French revolutionary to the two World Wars, and male responses to conscription, victory and defeat from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.  Prerequisites: SoS or 3 s.h. 100 level History course.
T          5:30-8:00         Mette Harder

WMST/LITR 394:81 – SPTP: QUEER LITERATURE
What constitutes gay, lesbian, or queer literatures? What is the relationship between sexual desire, gender construction, and literary expression? This course will examine non-heterosexualities and identities in selected British and American literary texts from the Renaissance to the present. Culturally and historically situated definitions of gender, gender roles, sexuality and sexual orientation will guide our close readings of a variety of texts from novels and poetry to essays and short stories. Theoretical and critical readings in queer thoery and gender studies will help students tackle broader cultural questions posed by this literature. By semester's end, students should be able to identify both the normative assumptions about heteronormativity within western culture and the varying aesthetic, political, and social concerns of gay, lesbian, and queer literatures.
Th        5:30 – 8:00      Bambi Lobdell

WMST 397 - WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES INTERNSHIP
Working, reading and/or research in all areas of Women’s and Gender Studies under faculty supervision (e.g., government agency, publishers, reproductive health).  Approval of the advisor and Department chair required.
Susan Bernardin