Course Descriptions: GWST | UMBC Undergraduate Catalog 2011

Gender and Women's Studies

GWST 100 (3.00)

Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies

This interdisciplinary course is designed to acquaint students with the status, roles, images and experiences of women. By examining these issues, students also will gain an understanding of the influence of gender on contemporary social organization and behavior, family, workplace, politics, sexuality and the media. Materials will be drawn from many fields, including literature, psychology, sociology and history, focusing particularly on writings by women. Attention will be paid throughout the course to the ways in which women's experiences are affected by such factors as race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation and class.

	Course ID:	051014
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Course Equivalents:	GWST 100H
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 100H (3.00)

Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies

	Course ID:	100129
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Course Equivalents:	GWST 100
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 200 (3.00)

Studies in Feminist Activism

This course examines history and social theory to explain why and how social change occurs. Particular attention is paid to patterns of women's involvement in social change movements internationally, as well as to intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation in social movements. Students then connect theory to practice through individual and group advocacy or community service projects.

	Course ID:	051060
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 210 (3.00)

Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies

This course introduces students to the field of critical sexuality studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course conducts a critical inquiry into the historical precedents and theoretical frameworks necessary to understand the role of sexuality in shaping personal, social, economic, and political life. The course focuses on patterns of subordination and exclusion based on individuals¿ sexual practices and identities, explains the origins and persistence of those patterns, and considers ways of challenging them. Throughout the course, special attention will be given to intersections of sexuality with gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and disability.

	Course ID:	050032
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	AMST 210
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 250 (3.00)

Gender Roles in Economic Life

This course will investigate the influence of gender roles in paid and unpaid work. Topics to be covered include gender in the labor market (job segregation, pay equity, affirmative action), the economics of housework and family care, women in poverty and the role of government. Recommended Preparation: An introductory course in economics, sociology or gender and women's studies.

	Course ID:	050063
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	ECON 250

GWST 255 (3.00)

Intercultural Paris

This culture course aims to introduce students to the field of French studies by examining France¿s capital city in both historical and contemporary contexts and the numerous, marginalized, and multicultural populations it has been home to: women, gays and lesbians, North-and Western African immigrants, Jews, and undocumented workers. The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach informed by cultural studies, history, anthropology, linguistics, urban studies, and gender and women¿s studies.

	Course ID:	100973
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	MLL 255

GWST 258 (3.00)

Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this course critically examines the ways in which women and women's experiences have been ignored and explicitly and implicitly devalued in Western philosophy. It also seeks to uncover what, if anything, about the methods and central concepts of Western philosophy account for such exclusion and (apparent) contempt. More positively, we will evaluate new feminist approaches to old philosophical questions, such as: What is knowledge? What is justice?

	Course ID:	050133
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	PHIL 258

GWST 290 (3.00)

Issues in Gender and Women's Studies

An examination of important issues in gender and women's studies. Topics will be announced each semester.

	Course ID:	051368
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Topics:	Latin American Societies, Issues In Gwst, Issues and Phases in Women's Health

GWST 300 (3.00)

Methodologies of Gender and Women's Studies

This seminar introduces students to the theory and practice of research in gender and women''s studies. The course examines the distinguishing qualities of feminist methodologies in the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. By reading and discussing examples of excellent and innovative gender and women''s studies research, students will acquaint themselves with both the practical details and the ethical issues involved. The course gives particular attention to the interdisciplinary focus of feminist research as well as questions of what distinguishes gender and women''s studies from other disciplines; how feminist research and community/political activism are related; how feminist research is changing the traditional disciplines and the methods used in research; and future direction of feminist methods. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100 or 310 and 200.

	Course ID:	054592
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Attributes:	Writing Intensive

GWST 310 (3.00)

Gender and Inequality in America

An examination of the ways in which gender roles and gender relations are constructed and experienced in American society. The course explores the development of a woman's "sphere" denoting women's position in the family and home; cultural definitions of femininity and masculinity through mass media, education and other agencies of socialization; the relationship between wage-earning and household work; and feminist consciousness and politics. Special attention is paid to the ways in which gender-based experiences are divided by other social relations, particularly those of class, race and age. Recommended Preparation: One lower-level social sciences or humanities course focused on American society or culture.

	Course ID:	050033
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	AMST 310
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)

GWST 310H (3.00)

Gender and Inequality in America - Honors

	Course ID:	051369
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)

GWST 320 (3.00)

International Feminist Filmmakers

This course will explore the evolution of women-directed cinema across 100 plus years of filmmaking - from the first films of the turn of the 20th century to contemporary female filmmakers of the present day. We will study films from all parts of the globe. Analyses of the films' form and content and in their historical and cultural contexts will provide a grounds for comparison with the debates, trends, and politics of international cinematic practices. The course will examine the growing body of feminist film theory and the different, sometimes irreconcilable ideas that have been used to analyze and create both independent cinema and commercial films. Films will include a selection of early cinema, avant-garde, shorts, documentary and contemporary feature films.

	Course ID:	050105
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	MLL 320
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)

GWST 321 (3.00)

Queer Representation in Film and TV

This course will utilize films, television programs and theoretical, historical, and analytic readings to focus on the ways in which LGBTQ people and queer issues have been represented historically in film and television, and how issues of homosexuality intersect with issues of race and gender. Using material from before and after the modern LGBTQ rights movement, we will explore such themes and stereotypes as sissies, mannish lesbians, cross dressing/drag, AIDS, transgender, bisexuality, and others. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100, GWST 200, or permission of instructor.

	Course ID:	054593
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP)

GWST 322 (3.00)

Gender, Race, and Media

In this course, we define media and analyze intersecting formations of gender, race, class, and sexuality, as produced through a range of media genres and forms. These include, but are not limited to, advertisements and commercials, television and film, music and music videos, visual arts, and digital visual cultures. We interrogate media as powerful, pervasive sites where dynamic relations between dominant representations and resistant subject formations are staged. As consumers and producers of media, we learn to articulate the entanglement of social justice concerns, politics, and cultural and economic resources. We practice tools of critical reading and thinking, such as textual analysis, visual discourse analysis, and the basics of media literacy.

	Course ID:	050004
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	AFST 347, MLL 322
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)

GWST 323 (3.00)

Gender and Sitcoms

The course studies the relationship between changing gender roles and the leading ladies of television situation comedy between the 1950s and the 1990's with particular emphasis on the sitcom form and the representation of domesticity. The course explores the second wave of US feminist history and shifting sitcom roles of wife, mother and working women during this period. Text studied will include: Mary Tyler Moore, The Honeymooners, Leave It to Beaver, Murphy Brown, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, Roseanne, The Burns and Allen Show and Father Knows Best. Feminist readings, analysis and discussion support the understanding of the media.

	Course ID:	100365
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 325 (3.00)

History of Women in America to 1870

This course examines the changing roles of women in American society from colonial times to 1870 and covers such topics as family, work, rebellion, religion, sexuality, slavery, reform movements and early efforts for women's rights. Emphasis is placed on both the variety of women's experiences and the evolving concerns and position of American women as a group. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course, junior/senior standing or permission of the instructor.

	Course ID:	050112
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	HIST 325
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 326 (3.00)

History of Women in America Since 1870

A study of the changing roles of women in American society since 1870, focusing on such topics as work, higher education and the professions, social reform, the suffrage movement, war and peace, working-class and immigrant women, birth control and sexual freedom, and the rebirth of feminism. Emphasis is placed on both the variety of women's experiences and the evolving concerns and position of American women as a group. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course, junior/senior status or permission of the instructor.

	Course ID:	050130
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	HIST 326
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 327 (3.00)

African American Women's History

This course traces the histroy of African -American women in the United States, beginning with their ancestors' history in pre-colonial Africa and U.S. slavery to the present. Topics covered include work; family roles; activism; achivevements; and bouts with racism, sexism and poverty. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course, 200-level literature course, junior/senior standing or permission of the instructor

	Course ID:	050010
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	AFST 354, HIST 323
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 328 (3.00)

Women and Politics

This course is an examination of significant current trends in women's political mobilization in the United States, including topics such as the gender gap, gender differences in electoral strategies, the impact of gender on political behavior, the status of women in public office, the history of women in public office and the history of women's political participation. Recommended Preparation: One prior course in political science or gender and women's studies.

	Course ID:	050129
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	POLI 328

GWST 330 (3.00)

Gender and Women in the Classical World

What do we and can we know about the lives of women in ancient Greece and Italy, and how did women and men interact? In this course, archaeological and written evidence will be examined to reconstruct the activities, status and images of Greek, Etruscan and Roman women and place them within their historical and cultural contexts. Attention will be paid to the way both ancient and modern views about women and men influence our understanding of the past and present. Recommended Preparation: One ancient studies course, one gender and women's studies course or permission of instructor.

	Course ID:	050042
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	ANCS 320
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP), Writing Intensive, Arts and Humanities (GFR), Culture (GFR)
	Requirement Group:	You must complete one course from the following: ANCS course, GWST course, ARCH 200, ARCH 201, HIST 453, HIST 455, HIST 456 with a c or better.

GWST 332 (3.00)

Human Sexuality in Sociological Perspectives

The course focuses upon sociological forces that influence sexuality and govern itsexpression. Topics include the sexual socialization of children and adolescents; teenage pregnancy; sexuality of single, married and older adults; governmentaland educational services related to sexuality; sexual orientation; pornography; and sexual coercion. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or consent of instructor.

	Course ID:	050132
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	SOCY 332

GWST 333 (3.00)

Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Norms and mores that sanction and regulate human sexuality exist universally, but their particular forms vary widely from one society to another. This course examines theories that offer a sociological explanation for the variation of sexual attitudes and behaviors in both industrialized and nonindustrialized societies. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or consent of instructor.

	Course ID:	050131
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	SOCY 333

GWST 338 (3.00)

Women, Gender, and Law

This course examines ways in which gender affects rights with the American civil and criminal legal systems. It explores the interrelationship between traditional attitudes and stereotypes concerning women's roles in society and the historical development of women's legal rights. The course focuses on the consequences of sex differences in shaping the rights of persons under the U.S. Constitution statutory remedies to discrimination in employment and education, legal issues relating to reproduction and personal life, and the response of criminal law to issues affecting women, including domestic violence, rape and prostitution. Recommended Preparation: One prior course in political science or gender and women's studies.

	Course ID:	050109
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	POLI 338
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 340 (3.00)

Global Perspectives on Gender and Women

The course addresses gender issues in the local context of women's movements in several regions and countries around the world as articulated by feminist scholars within those countries. Taking a comparative perspective the course considers the diversity of issues and perspectives within women's/feminist movements around the globe as well as the relationship between U.S. women and global feminist struggles. Interdisciplinary readings, including fiction and feminist theory, bring the gender perspective to global/international political and economic structures. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100, GWST 200, or permission of instructor.

	Course ID:	054595
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Attributes:	Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Culture (GFR), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 345 (3.00)

Unruly Bodies

Drawing on feminist, queer, social, and critical race theory, this course examines the status of the body in both historical and contemporary debates about identity, representation, and politics. We tend to take the body for granted as the ground of experience and knowledge, but this course challenges that common sense, asking how the body is produced, managed, and deployed in a various ways to discipline and manage populations. We will also investigate the political possibilities of body work to resist and reshape these same disciplinary practices, paying particular attention to "queer" forms of embodiment. Recommended Course Preparation: GWST100 or 200.

	Course ID:	101763
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 349 (3.00)

Gender, Sex and Theatre Performance.

The course explores representations of both gender and sexual identity in contemporary Western theatre and performance art. Specifically, we will study how representations of gender and sexuality in performance both replicate and resist normative roles and stereotypes. The course investigates feminist and queer critiques of theatrical performance, as well as the meaning of female and queer characters in dramatic literature and their embodiment on the stage.

	Course ID:	050110
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	THTR 349
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)
	Requirement Group:	You must have Sophomore Standing.

GWST 352 (3.00)

Women, Gender, and Information Technology

This course examines important issues concerning women, gender and information technology (IT). Students will consider such topics as the history of women's involvement with IT; how women are impacted by technology; how women and girls fare in the educational setting as well as online; and the way gender intersects with IT in relation to other dimensions of women's experience, such as race, class and age. Students will connect issues relevant to women and IT to their own career choices, interact with women in the IT field and utilize technology for research and presentation.

	Course ID:	050049
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Course Equivalents:	GWST 352H
	Same as Offering:	CMSC 352, IS 352
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 352H (3.00)

Women, Gender, and Information Technology

	Course ID:	100342
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Course Equivalents:	CMSC 352, GWST 352, IS 352
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)
	Requirement Group:	You must have completed one IS, CMSC, or GWST course with a grade of C or better.

GWST 353 (3.00)

Marriage and the Family

Marriage and family as social institutions. Primary relationships in marriage, their development in courtship, formalization in marriage and extension to children. The course draws on materials from related disciplines, as well as from sociology. Special emphasis on marriage and change in sex roles in modern societies. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or ANTH 211

	Course ID:	050134
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	SOCY 353
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 355 (3.00)

The Sociology of Women

Women in society, social roles and socialization, women in the labor force, class and lifestyle differences among women as a minority group, and women's social movement. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or ANTH 211

	Course ID:	050117
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	SOCY 355
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 356 (3.00)

The Psychology of Sex and Gender

An examination of the psychology and biology of sex and gender differences. The major focus of the course is an examination of the psychological and social factors that lead to the development of sex and gender differences and similarities in behavior. Sexuality and variations in sexual orientation will be discussed. Research on both sexes (biological construct) and gender (consequence of socialization) will be included. Diversity and variation on concepts will be explored.

	Course ID:	050116
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	PSYC 356

GWST 357 (3.00)

Psychology of Women

The course will discuss psychological models of the female personality (psychoanalytic, social learning, cognitive development and gender schema perspectives); sexuality; gender roles; gender bias in psychological research; and psychological research on such topics as women's achievement, mental health and interpersonal relationships.

	Course ID:	050115
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	PSYC 357

GWST 364 (3.00)

Perspectives on Women in Literature

Reading and analysis of literature by or about women. The course intends to familiarize students both with major women writers and with ways in which women have been portrayed in literature. Particular attention will be paid to issues of canonization, gender and genre, as well as to the development of a female literary tradition. Topics to be announced each semester offered.

	Course ID:	050085
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Topics:	New Women Novelists, Pers: Women In Amer Lit, Persp: Women In Amer Lit, Jane Austen Romantic Nov, Pers:Women In Amer Fictn, Images Of Joan Of Arc, Pers:Women In Amer Lit, The Woman Intellectual in the, Women in Medieval Literature and Culture, Women Writers & the French Revolution, Women and the Fictions of Colonization, The Female Captive in Early American Literature, Romanticism, Gender and Magic
	Same as Offering:	ENGL 364
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP), Writing Intensive, Arts and Humanities (GFR)
	Requirement Group:	You must complete a 200 level ENGL course with a C or better.

GWST 365 (3.00)

Black Women Novelists

In this course, students will read and analyze the first-person narratives of African and diasporan women to understand how women have used language to define and empower themselves in conformity to or in opposition to the social conventions and political ideologies of their societies. Personal narratives such as letters, diaries, memoirs, essays, journals and autobiographies will be read as literary texts - which are imaginative, reflexive and symbolic - and as social documents - which underscore the ways in which race, class, gender and sexual orientation affect the lives of black women. Texts will be examined within the framework of feminist, particularly black feminist theory and practice. Recommended Course Preparation: GWST100/GWST/AFST370.

	Course ID:	100003
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 370 (3.00)

Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

A comparative examination of selected social and psychological factors that influence the lives of black women in Africa and the diaspora. Recommended Preparation: AFST 100, GWST 100 or permission of instructor

	Course ID:	050007
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	AFST 370
	Attributes:	Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 371 (3.00)

The Female Offender

An examination of causes and incidence of female crime and the exploration of major theories from Freud to the feminist. Community response to female crime and alternative forms of treatment are evaluated. Recommended Preparation: AFST 271 or junior/senior standing

	Course ID:	050009
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	AFST 371

GWST 374 (3.00)

European Women's History 1200-1750

An examination of the status and roles of women in European society throughtout the Middle Ages and Early Modern period. Through a mixture of secondary readings, primary sources, and film, this course investigates ideas about women and gender as well as the actions and ideas of women in the past. Topics include women and religion, women and work, women's household and familial roles, women and sexuality, women and politics, and women's education and writings. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course or junior/senior status

	Course ID:	050135
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	HIST 374
	Attributes:	Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Culture (GFR), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 375 (3.00)

European Women's History 1750-1914

An examination of the role of women in European society from the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution until World War I. Because the approach will be both from a social and a cultural history perspective, readings will include contemporary descriptions of European women's role, as well as visions of what those roles should (could) have been, autobiographies, biographies and historical fiction. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course, 100-level literature course, junior/senior standing or permission of the instructor.

	Course ID:	050123
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	HIST 375
	Attributes:	Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Culture (GFR), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 376 (3.00)

European Women's History, 1914 - Present

An examination of the role of women in European society from the eve of World War I until the present. Because the approach will be from a political, social, economic and cultural history perspective, readings will include a women's history textbook, primary documents, autobiographical and biographical sketches, historical fiction and scholarly analysis of the role of gender in 20th-century Europe. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course, 200-level literature course, junior/senior standing or permission of the instructor.

	Course ID:	050104
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	HIST 376
	Attributes:	Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP), Culture (GFR), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 377 (3.00)

Women and Social Policy

This course explores the impact of social welfare programs and policies upon women's lives, examines the assumptions and values that have gone into the formulation of these policies, and discusses alternative approaches to dealing with women's concerns. Topics include economic circumstances, women and violence, traditional and alternative social services, and agendas for reform.

	Course ID:	050136
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	SOWK 377
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 378 (3.00)

Women, Gender and Science

This course will explore connections between science and gender by turning our attention to two interrelated themes. Once focus will be on questions of how gender shapes the practice of science -- whether or not women and men "do" science differently. The other focus will be on how sex, gender, and sexuality are constructed by the natural and social sciences -- how have the sciences understood and anlyzed sex, gender, and sexuality? Throughout the course, science will be explored as activity and knowledge that is grounded in social and historical contexts. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100, a 100-level social sciences course or permission of instructor.

	Course ID:	051374
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Topics:	Gndr, Science And Tech
	Attributes:	Social Sciences (GEP), Writing Intensive, Social Sciences (GFR)

GWST 380 (3.00)

Women and Gender in Asia

An examination of the role of women and gender in Japan, China and Korea since ancient times. Topics include the influence of gender roles in work, marriage, sexuality and birth control practices. Scholarly analysis, historical fiction and film will be used. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course or permission of instructor.

	Course ID:	050127
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	HIST 380
	Attributes:	Culture (GEP), Culture (GFR)

GWST 381 (3.00)

The Cultural Politics of Population in the U.S.

The course investigates the history and cultural politics of U.S. population control policy, including 19th and early 20th century criminalization of contraception and abortion and restriction of immigration as well as the subsequent liberalization of those laws. Special attention is given to women''s organizations and advocacy on population and birth control issues and to the influence of wider gender, racial, religious, and international politics on U.S. population policy. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100, GWST 200, or permission of instructor

	Course ID:	054596
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 382 (3.00)

Perspectives on the Family

An investigation of family life in America in various historical periods and among different subgroups. Three themes or questions dominate the course: the relationship of the family to the social context within which it exists; the nature and cause of different forms of family life within various American subcultures, past and present; and the extent to which the family has changed and not changed during several centuries. Specific families examined include the colonial New England family, the 19th-century urban middle class, the ethnic family, the black family and the contemporary family. Within each of these types of family experience, specific topics to be investigated include the role of women, relationships between women and men, attitudes toward children, modes of child-rearing, housing styles and others. As part of the course, students examine their own family history. Recommended Preparation: One lower-level social sciences or humanities course focused on American society or culture or permission of the instructor

	Course ID:	050035
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	AMST 382
	Attributes:	Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)

GWST 383 (3.00)

History and Politics of Sexuality

Sexuality is often considered a timeless fact of human existence, but it too has a history. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course introduces students to ways of thinking historically about sexuality, its politics, and its changing role in personal, social, and economic life. Using case studies from different times and places, students will learn to think critically about the social-historical production of sexuality as well as how those productions shape current conceptions of sexuality, sexual orientation, gender, identity, and politics. Recommended Preparation: GWST 210.

	Course ID:	101812
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 390 (3.00)

Topics in Gender and Women¿s Studies

A critical examination of selected issues in gender and women's studies. Topics will be announced each semester.

	Course ID:	051375
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Topics:	Tv's Funny Ladies, Gender And Aging, Violence Against Women, Queer Represent Film/Tv, Gender & American Comedy, Gender & The Environment, Romantic Women Writers, Polit. Economy Of Gender, Women's Health, Studies Of Masculinities, Issues & Phases Of Hlth., Issues In Women's Health, Amer Women In War Times, Cult Poli Of Population, Gender And Nationalism, Gender and Sexuality in Asian/American Visual Cult, Contemporary Arts in the Non-Western World, Black, Queer and Feminist Film, Feminist Internat'l Relations, Unruly Bodies, Gender in Modern South Asia, Diagnosing Gender, Gender and Human Rights in Latin America, Gender and International Development, Anthropology of Gender

GWST 391 (3.00)

The Philosophy of Sex

An examination of the philosophical aspects of human sexuality. Topics include theories of sexual desire and sexual activity; the concept of sexual perversion; the moral evaluation of sex acts; feminist analysis of the sexual relations between men and women; and the moral status of homosexuality, adultery, pornography and abortion.

	Course ID:	050122
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	PHIL 391
	Requirement Group:	You must have taken (1) PHIL course and received a grade of "C" or better before taking this course.

GWST 400 (3.00)

Senior Independent Study

	Course ID:	051175
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 401 (1.00 - 3.00)

Special Projects in Gender and Women's Studies

Intended for students who wish to study independently an aspect of gender and women's studies not covered by regular course offerings. Recommended Preparation: Junior/ senior standing, at least six prior credits in gender and women's studies courses and written permission of the instructor who will supervise the project

	Course ID:	051176
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Independent Study

GWST 413 (3.00)

Language, Gender & Culture

In Language, Gender and culture, students gain an in-depth understanding of how gender and language are integrated into the fabric of cultures and societies and how sociocultural contexts give meaning to linguistic practices and to gender categories. Students will examine and evaluate a diverse body of literature and scholarship from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, gender studies, and sociology that bear on these issues. Critical attention will be paid to understanding the roles of language and gender in the U.S. context, especially with regard to the U.S. social institutions of education and the media; we will also explore relationships between language and gender in a range of other Western and non-Western cultures. Students will apply what they have learned in the course to final projects that may be research-based or outreach-based. Recommended preparation is one of the following: GWST 100, GWST 200, LING 360

	Course ID:	100279
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	GWST 613, LLC 613, MLL 413, MLL 613

GWST 433 (3.00)

Gender, Work, and Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Work and family relationships as affected by gender stratification. Topics include separation of work and family, division of household labor, gender-wage differences, occupational segregation, impact of government work, and family policies on women and men.

	Course ID:	050121
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	SOCY 433
	Attributes:	Writing Intensive

GWST 434 (3.00)

Gender and the Life Course

This course examines the complex interactions of two critical social constructs: gender and the life course. Material will examine how these constructs have developed over time, how they vary across cultures and historical periods and how they interact to construct very different lives for males and females in society. Specific foci of the course include demographic and biological underpinnings of gender and the life course, age stratification systems, and times of family and other life events by gender.

	Course ID:	050107
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	SOCY 434
	Requirement Group:	You must complete Sociology 101 or Gender Women's Studies 100 with a minimum grade of C and your academic standing must be junior.

GWST 439 (3.00)

Women in Africa and the Diaspora

This course uses the comparative approach to examine the experiences of women of African descent from the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. It will introduce students to interdisciplinary and comparative theories and materials that will enable them to explore the economic, cultural, social and political roles of women in Africa and African descended women in the United States. Using comparative gender analysis as its theoretical focus with a global perspective, the course emphasizes the diverse, shared historical experiences of women of African descent as enslaved persons, colonial subjects and victims of all forms of oppression as well as agents of social change. Examined as well are their roles in society as mothers, daughters, wives and workers along with their participation in social and political movements since the abolition era. The course also highlights how such other social indexes as class, race, ethnic, national and religious backgrounds affect women's lives and roles in society. Problems and issues that directly affect them and how to improve their status in the face of increased globalization will be explored.

	Course ID:	100280
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	AFST 439

GWST 450 (1.00 - 3.00)

Internship

This course offers practical work experience in businesses, agencies and organizations dealing with women's concerns (e.g., Maryland Commissionfor Women, Planned Parenthood, National Women's Health Network). Recommended Preparation: Sophomore standing, GPA of 2.5 or higher, at least six prior credits in gender and women's studies courses and written permission of the program director.

	Course ID:	051067
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Field Studies

GWST 452 (2.00)

WILL Internship Seminar

This seminar links women's studies scholarship with women's work experiences. It examines the social, cultural and historical factors that shape women's work in contemporary society. Particular attention will be paid to the conflict and compromises between public leadership and private lives and strategies for change in the gendered structures of the workplace.

	Course ID:	051019
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 458 (3.00)

Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy

A detailed examination of some single field of feminist philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year but are likely to include the following: feminist ethics, feminist epistemology and feminist aesthetics. In each case, the class will focus on the theoretical and practical impact of feminist thinking on these traditional areas of philosophy. We will critically discuss the relevance of women's lived experience for philosophical theorizing. Recommended Preparation: Two of the following PHIL 258, PHIL 350, PHIL 368, PHIL 371, PHIL 373, PHIL 372, GWST 480 or permission of the instructor

	Course ID:	050120
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Same as Offering:	PHIL 458
	Requirement Group:	You must complete (2) PHIL courses (at least one 300 level), with a grade of C or better to take this class.

GWST 480 (3.00)

Theories of Feminism

This course examines the major theories of feminism considered in their social, historical and intellectual contexts. Particular attention is paid to feminist theoretical explorations of the intersections of class, race, ethnicity, nationality and sexual orientation with gender. Recommended Preparation: GWST 100 and 200.

	Course ID:	051020
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 485 (3.00)

Sexuality and Queer Theory

This course is a seminar in sexuality and queer theory. The primary focus is critical engagement with social, political, and cultural theories of the social construction of sexuality and sexual identities, and of the sources, causes, and effects of sexual inequality and strategies for reducing or eradicating inequality. While emphasis will be placed on theories of sexuality, substantial time will be spent on theories of how sexuality is implicated in and supported by other forms of inequality such as gender, race, ethnicity, and class.

	Course ID:	101764
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 490 (3.00)

Advanced Topics in Gender and Women's Studies

Advanced investigation of selected topics in gender and women's studies. Topics will be announced each semester.

	Course ID:	051332
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Topics:	Women & Poli Latin Amer, Language And Gender, Advanced Topics In Gwst, Femin & Masc Middle Age, Women & Politics:Latn Am, Seminar:Art Hist & Theor, Women in African Diaspora, Critical Studies of Pornography, Latin American Women Writers, Gender, Ideology & War in 20th Centure Europe, Environment,Science,Gender&Politics/Chemical World

GWST 491 (2.00)

WILL Senior Seminar

This WILL-only seminar provides the space to examine intersections of gender, race, class, sexual orientation and how these identities shapedaily lives. Course readings and assignments provide a springboard for students to reflect on their life choices, the choices and constraints faced by women very different from themselves, and to develop strategies for both personal growth and civic engagement.

	Course ID:	051179
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture

GWST 495 (3.00)

Colloquium: Research and Activism

The Colloquium provides an opportunity to integrate the subject matter and interdisciplinary methodologies of the major program by focusing on a significant problem in the study of gender and women's issues and activism. Emphasis is placed on student involvement in both the process and the content of gender analysis. Written and oral reports and a research paper are required.

	Course ID:	051126
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture
	Attributes:	Writing Intensive
	Requirement Group:	You must have completed GWST100,300 and 480

GWST 99 (0.00)

Women's Self-Defense

	Course ID:	051367
	Consent:	No Special Consent Required
	Components:	Lecture