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 inter-disciplinary 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. Meets core
curriculum requirement for Women’s Studies.Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
WS 2023. Women and Leadership: Theory and Practice. Same as KINS 2023.
Explores and challenges women’s relationships to nature and the environment
through textual and experiential learning as influenced by a range of feminist
perspectives. Uses critical thinking skills from both theoretical and practical
perspectives, thus merging feminist theory and practice. Fosters leadership by
connecting tangible, physical experiences in the outdoors to a thorough
consideration of the existing literature. Meets core curriculum requirement for
Women’s Studies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 2053. The Role of Women in Engineering, Math 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 HIST
2093/GOVT 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. 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 stereotypes.
Meets core curriculum requirement for Women’s Studies. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3013. Gender and Education. Same as ECSE 3013. An interdisciplinary
examination of the relationship between gender and education in the U.S.
Explores how gender relationships and created, maintained, enacted, and
transformed through educational structures, practices and institutions. 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. Meets core curriculum
requirement for Women’s Studies. 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. 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 work place. 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, socio-economic 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 3143. 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. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 3163. The Evolving Woman. Same as BIOL 3163 and NURS 3163. Emphasizes
the physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, and development evolution of
the female from conception to death. Focuses on issues of each age group from
a feminist perspective. Satisfies core curriculum requirement for Women’s 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 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. Satisfies 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. 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 3903. Political Communication and Women of Color. Same as SOCI 3093
and SPCH 3093. Examines the rhetorical strategies and the cultural-historical
differences and similarities of women of color in the U.S. Focuses on
race/ethnicity, class and gender as socially and politically constructed and
the influences of various media used for political discourse and identity.
Meets core curriculum requirement for Women’s Studies. Three lectures 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.
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.
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. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 4493. Feminist Theory. Explores the diversity of feminist theory and
its 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 give to particular theorists. Foundation course in women’s
studies. Prerequisite: WS 2013. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
WS 4863. The Female Experience in American History. Same as HIST 4863.
Focus on the changing role of women in America, on a comparsion of the differences
and similarities between male and female experiences, and on society’s changing
attitudes towards women. Special emphasis on the health sciences, textiles,
education, and politics. Prerequisite: Three hours of history. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
