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Core Course Offerings Spring 2007 Each semester, the Women’s and Gender Studies program offers at least two core courses and cross-lists a number of courses from other departments. These courses are available to students enrolled in any WGS program or to those looking for a stimulating elective. Core courses for Fall 2007 appear below. For cross-listed courses, click on Women’s and Gender Studies in the Attributes box on Roosevelt University’s Fall 2007 Coursefinder page. Every semester, two different sections of Topics in Feminist Theories (WGS 3/404) will be offered. One of these sections will be a graduate students-only seminar, designed for WGS master’s and graduate certificate students, but also open to graduate students in other disciplines. WGS 3/404 Feminist Theories of Performance Gina Buccola Chicago campus M 2-4.30 PMStarting with theatrical, biographical, and frankly fictive accounts of the “roaring girl,” Mary Frith, or Moll Cutpurse, charged with repeated counts of transvestism in seventeenth-century London, we will explore how gender is performed in both the theater and in life. We will bring a variety of critical perspectives to bear on our examination of plays, novels, films, and performance art, including feminist theater theory, feminist literary theory, feminist cultural theory and the feminist philosophical musings of Judith Butler. By the end of the term, students will be able to apply feminist criticism from all of these perspectives to their own written analyses of works in all four genres (drama, film, fiction and performance art). In addition to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s seventeenth-century play The Roaring Girl, we will also read Ellen Galford’s lesbian historical romance novel Moll Cutpurse: Her True History, Caryl Churchill’s gender-bending, cross-cast play Cloud 9, Eve Ensler’s recent play The Good Body, and the texts of Karen Finley’s performance art pieces collected in Shock Treatment. Finally, we will view and critique the films Boys Don’t Cry and Transamerica. WGS 304: required for new WGS minors; PRE-REQ: RUA. WGS 404 is required for all WGS master’s and certificate students and open to graduate students in all disciplines. WGS 304 Feminist Theories of Sexuality WGS 404 Feminist Theories of the Body WGS Internship: Feminist and Critical Pedagogy at the Writing CenterCarrie Brecke Chicago campus Days/times TBAIn this graduate-level internship, the student works directly with the Writing Center Director to participate in planning and teaching the tutor training course (an advanced course in writing) and assist in administering at the writing center. Readings in critical and feminist pedagogy and the politics of literacy and community will be supplemented by classroom and writing center observation and participation. The student will help create and foster a community working towards social justice goals—in this case a writing community dedicated to bringing a writing voice to all. Prerequisite: WGS 402 or 404; apply through WGS advisor (Ann Brigham) |
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