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Core and Cross-listed Elective Course Offerings Spring 2010 Semester Each semester, the Women's and Gender Studies program offers its own core courses and cross-listed courses from other departments at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Descriptions for all of these courses appear below. At the undergraduate level, WGS 210 and WGS 304 are required for the WGS minor. They may also be taken as electives or be used to fulfill a general education requirement. At the graduate level, WGS 402 and WGS 404 are required for both the master's degree and the graduate certificate. Students in both these programs may take multiple sections of WGS 404, Topics in Feminist Theories, as electives. These courses are also available to any graduate student looking for a stimulating elective. Cross-listed courses count as electives for the WGS minor, master's degree, or graduate certificate. WGS core course offerings WGS 210: Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies Marjorie Jolles, Monday/Wednesday, 4:30 - 5:45 PM This core course introduces students to feminist thought and gender studies. We will study analytical models for examining gender and survey some of the specific research and writing that these analytical models have fostered. We will include in our reflections a look at the development of feminism(s), the sexual politics of women's rights, and the cultural structures of gender, and we will pay attention to the issues of race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity that influence these matters. Topics will include: gender and consumption, femininity and masculinity, socialization and identity, language and representation, revision and recovery, domesticity and family, oppression and resistance, law and violence, bodies and sexualities, theory and activism. Required for WGS minors. Open to freshmen. Can be used to fulfill either the Humanities or Social Sciences general education requirement. WGS 304: Fashion: The Politics of Style Marjorie Jolles, Monday/Wednesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM This course explores fashion as a crucial domain for the creation of identity and circulation of social meaning. As a sphere where history, technology, imagination, the body, global capital, politics, and ideology intersect, fashion is situated within multiple networks of power. Taking a feminist cultural studies approach, we will investigate those networks in order to understand and analyze the role fashion plays in the lives of gendered, raced, classed, sexed, aged, and national bodies and selves who are simultaneously produced by, and find agency in, everyday stylistic acts. Topics will include: theories of style and selfhood, production and consumption, taste and class, fashion and protest, subcultural and mainstream style, irony and authenticity, the body and materiality, age and timelessness, icons and iconoclasm, and more. WGS 404: Fashion: The Politics of Style Marjorie Jolles, Tuesday, 2:00-4:30 PM This graduate seminar explores fashion as a crucial domain for the creation of identity and circulation of social meaning. As a sphere where history, technology, imagination, the body, global capital, politics, and ideology intersect, fashion is situated within multiple networks of power. Taking a feminist cultural studies approach, we will investigate those networks in order to understand and analyze the role fashion plays in the lives of gendered, raced, classed, sexed, aged, and national bodies and selves who are simultaneously produced by, and find agency in, everyday stylistic acts. Topics will include: theories of style and selfhood, production and consumption, taste and class, fashion and protest, subcultural and mainstream style, irony and authenticity, the body and materiality, age and timelessness, icons and iconoclasm, and more. NOTE: This is a graduate student-only seminar. Open to graduate students in all disciplines. WGS 404: LGBTQ Communities Jeffery Edwards, Thursday, 2:00-4:30 PM We will explore the making of gender and sexual identities, communities, and politics in the US urban context over the past 75 years. Our central concerns will be the emergence and development of an LGBTQ social movement, and the crucial role urban space and political economy have played, and continue to play, in the production of gender and sexual identities, communities, and politics. The first seven sessions will be devoted to reading specific community histories, all but one written by academic historians, that collectively cover the early 20th century through the rise of second-wave feminism, lesbian feminism, and gay liberation and on through the 1970s. Following that historical background, we will read texts written by anthropologists, literature and cultural studies scholars, geographers, journalists, sociologists, political scientists, as well as by non-academic activists, that will allow us to examine developments from the rise of AIDS organizing to political “mainstreaming,” queer politics, transgender identities and politics, and contemporary radical gender and sexual communities and politics. NOTE: This is a graduate student-only seminar. Open to graduate students in all disciplines.
Cross-listed elective course offerings PSYC 108: Human Sexuality Chicago Campus Schaumburg Campus SOC 215: The Family ECON 308/408: Feminist Economics: Theory, History, & Politics June Lapidus, Thursday, 2:00-4:30 PM Chicago Campus AFS 317: The African American Woman Jacqueline Trussell, Tuesday/Thursday, 12:30 – 1:45 PM ENG 319/419 Staging Witchcraft Plays Regina Buccola, Thursday, 2:00-4:30 PM Chicago Campus Witchcraft Plays begins with one of the best known and most widely influential stage portrayals of witchcraft in theater history, Macbeth, which uses the figure of the witch to explode ideological assumptions about class (patriarchy, class-based social stratification, upward mobility) and gender (social, political and domestic roles). In this course, we will examine both fantastic portrayals of the witch, including Shakespeare’s Macbeth, John Martson’s Sophonisba, and Thomas Middleton’s The Witch in conjunction with “realistic” portrayals of witchcraft in British and Scottish court depositions as well as the stage representations of those cases in Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton and Heywood and Brome’s The Witches of Lancashire. We will consider witchcraft’s dual valence in early modern England as both a means of vilifying women and as a means by which women could exercise autonomy and empowerment. SOC 321/421: Education and Gender ENG 327: 20th-century American Women's Fiction: Gender and Mobility SOC 340/440: Gender and Society PSYC 345: Psychology of Women HIST 383/483: History and Politics of Women in the United States PSYC 386: Eating Disorders Contact instructor for description and details. PSYC 387/487: Child Abuse/Family Violence M. Rowley, Saturday, 9:30 AM-12:15 PM Students will learn about the critical issue of youth violence, its causes, and ways to reduce its prevalence. The class has a skill-building and applied focus: Students will participate in community exploration and political action to improve the lives of children who experience risk and adversity in Chicago. Students will interview and consult with neighborhood organizations and community members, explore effective policies and programs that reduce youth violence, and advocate for strategies that prevent and minimize youth violence to their elected officials and the broader public. Course requires 25 hours of community service. ENG 427: 20th-Century American Women's Fiction: Gender and Mobility In many ways, the American experience has been defined by the promise of mobility, that is, the freedom to go anywhere and become anyone. In fact, the two have often been linked: spatial mobility—the movement between places or across space—has often been understood as a way to achieve a range of other mobilities, from the psychological and sexual to the social and economic. In this course, we will study a range of novels that address a series of related questions: What does mobility mean, and what does gender have to do with it? How can stories of mobility tell us something about the ways gendered and sexed identities, meanings, and performances are negotiated, navigated, and transformed? How can we think of gender and sexuality as modes of mobility? In what ways has mobility been central to definitions of an American identity and experience, and why is that interesting? Focusing on the various ways mobility has been defined, we will examine representations of mobility that include: immigration and assimilation; escape; spatial, social, and sexual border crossings; time travel; racial and gender passing; western expansion and national conquest; the road trip; transnational migration; gender bending and fluidity; bodily mutability; exile and displacement. NOTE: This is a graduate student-only seminar.
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