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WS 1013 Women in Learning Communities
Interdisciplinary introduction to the acquisition, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge from women's perspectives. Centers on the intellectual creativity of various disciplines, women's contributions to the disciplines, and career opportunities resulting from the disciplines. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 2013 Women: Images and Perspectives
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of the status and role of women. Examines myths and realities of women's experience across various socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and cultural groupings. Focuses on women in relation to themselves, to others, to institutions, and to society. Emphasis on the self as an agent of social change. Offered online as well as face-to-face. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies or Multicultural Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 2053 Women and Minorities in Engineering, Mathematics and Science
Same as Math 2053. Examination of reasons why women and minorities are traditionally underrepresented in the areas of engineering, mathematics, and science and will include strategies, useful for any discipline, which emphasize solutions incorporating both current and emerging technologies. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 2093 Women as Citizens: Women and Community Activism
Same as GOV 2093 and HIST 2093. Interdisciplinary analysis of women's roles in community building from colonial period to present and examination of current grassroots activism in the United States and worldwide. Emphasis on women leaders, interest groups, and movements impacting the political process. Required community service internship. Prerequisites: ENG 1013 and 1023; HIST 1013 and 1023; and either GOV 2013 or 2023. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies or Multicultural Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 2803 Women in Business
Same as BUS 2803. The study of the status and roles of women working both inside and outside the domestic workforce. Examines myths and realities of women's experiences across various socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and cultural groupings. Surveys advances made by women in the workforce and coping techniques developed by practitioners to enable women to be valued in terms of professional competencies rather than gender stereotype. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3013 Gender and Education
Same as EDUC 3013. An interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between gender and education in the U.S. Explores how gender relationships are created, maintained, enacted, and transformed through educational structures, practices, and institutions. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3063 Women in Politics
Same as GOV 3063. Impact of gender on power and influence in society; political socialization, participation, and leadership of women; women's political issues and movements. Prerequisite: Three hours of government or consent of instructor. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3083 Ethics and Feminism
Same as PHIL 3083. A comprehensive study of the literature, principles, and linguistic impact of contemporary ethics with special emphasis on the origins, authors, and audiences related to feminist philosophy. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies or Multicultural Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3093 Women's Health Issues in the Workplace
Same as NURS 3093 and OT 3093. Examines health issues impacting women in the workplace. Analyzes historical and current factors influencing the well-being of women at work, incorporating views of feminist theorists. Studies cultural influences on choice of occupation and balance of work and home responsibilities. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3133 Perspectives on Women's Health
Same as HS 3133 and NURS 3133. Feminist theory provides framework for exploration of women's health care issues throughout the life span. Examines roles of women as providers and consumers of health care. Emphasizes the interface of gender, socioeconomic and minority status, and medicalization of women's health. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3143 Multicultural Women's Health Issues.
Same as NURS 3243. Focuses on roles and health needs of women within the context of their culture. Empowerment of women to overcome barriers to health access and delivery will be emphasized. Cultures will be organized by ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age groups as well as alternative health practices. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies or Multicultural Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3163 The Evolving Woman
Same as NURS 3163 and BIOL 3163. Emphasizes the physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, and developmental evolution of the female from conception to death. Focuses on issues of each age group from feminist perspective. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies or Multicultural Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3213 Women's Roles
Same as SOCI 3213. Women's roles are examined in the context of social institutions such as the family, the economy, and the government. Implications of sexual inequality, changing gender roles, and diversity by race, ethnicity, class, and age. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3343 Women in the Visual Arts
Same as ART 3343. A survey of women visual artists of the western world and how their roles relate to those of women visual artists around the world. An analysis, from a traditional and a feminist point of view, of the recording of the female artist's place in history. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3383 History of Women In Dance
Same as DNCE 3383. History of women dance artists, performers, and choreographers and their contributions related to and contextualized by important events in the history of women, women's roles as art makers, and explored from a feminist perspective. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3393 Law for Women
Same as BUS 3393 and GOV 3393. Impact of gender on legal status: evolution of the current legal environment, with an emphasis on parallels between racial and gender discrimination; substantive law regarding working conditions, compensation, education, the family, reproductive rights, and criminal law; feminist perspectives on legal reforms to improve the professional and personal lives of women and men. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3703 Women in Music
Same as MU 3703. An examination of music from the historical, cultural, and contemporary perspectives of women. Topics will include women as composers and performers, and the cultural values that have affected women's participation in musical life. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies or Multicultural Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3733 Psychology of Women
Same as PSY 3733. Issues in the development and behavior of women, including theoretical perspectives, male-female differences, achievement, motivation, stereotypes, androgyny, sexuality, career choices, mental health and disorder, psychotherapy, life-span, and special sub-groups. Prerequisites: PSY 1013 and junior standing or permission of the instructor. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4013 Texts, Trends and Issues in Women's Studies
Focuses on contemporary women's issues, a body of research or scholarly work relevant to women, or topics of a specialized nature such as women and health, women and leadership, women and work, or women of color. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4023 Sexualities and Identities: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Same as SOCI 4023 and SOWK 4023. Sexuality as an identity formation social category, and theoretical construct. Interdisciplinary in focus and foundation. Aesthetic, cultural, historical, and institutional discourses that frame our contemporary understandings of sexuality. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4033 Philosophy of Women in Western Religions
Same as PHIL 4033. A comprehensive study of feminist critiques of Western religious traditions. Includes historical and philosophical perspectives of women in scripture, religious leadership, attitudes toward sexuality, experiences of the sacred, and gendered imagery of the divine. Emphasis on readings of primary sources. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies or Multicultural Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4113 The Family
Same as SOCI 4013. A sociological and feminist analysis of the family as an institution and of the processes and dynamics of the interpersonal relations of marriage and family life. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4203 Family Violence
Same as SOCI 4203. Examines the various forms of family violence and sexual assault with an emphasis on women as victims and as survivors. Theoretical explanations, research literature, treatment, and prevention will be studied in relation to child abuse, battering, incest, and sexual assault. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4393 American Women and Literature
Same as ENG 4393. Emphasis on the changing images of major female characters and on the contributions of major female writers from the colonial period to the present. Focus may be on fiction or on poetry and drama. Prerequisite: 12 hours of English. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Meets core curriculum requirement for Women's Studies Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4493 Feminist Theories
Explores the diversity of feminist theories and their applications to the social, political, and intellectual contexts of women's lives. Includes consideration of historical context for the development of the theoretical perspectives and critiques their analytical strengths and weaknesses. Attention also given to particular theorists. Prerequisite: WS 2013. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4913 Independent Study
Individual study of topics in feminist theory, scholarship or practical areas consistent with student interests and needs. Contract between student and professor expected. Prerequisite: Minor in Women's Studies. Credit: Three hours.
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