Gender Studies Courses

This course examines theory and research on gender and communication. Its purpose is to help students explore how gender and communication are interrelated, how these concepts intertwine with other aspects of our identities, and how these factors play out in their own lives.

Using theoretical guidance, students will explore the way that women's roles in the justice system - as offenders, victims, citizens, and workers - reflect their position in the wider society. Students will develop an understanding of theories explaining female offending and how the criminal justice system responds to illegal acts committed by women and girls as well as women's victimization and the criminal justice system response to their victimization. Students will examine the experiences of women working within the criminal justice system.

This course teaches students to analyze the economic decisions made by both males and females in two main areas: the labor market and the household. Specific areas of inquiry include the following: the family as an economic unit, gender differences in labor force participation, occupational gender segregation, explanations for gender earnings differentials and efforts to reduce such differentials, gender earnings discrimination, and international gender issues. Identical with GST 315. Cannot receive credit for both ECO 315 and GST 315.

Students will read literature by women from various cultures, continents, and historical periods. Course explores how female experience is shaped by cultural contexts as well as how women authors have used writing to change societies' ideas about women and men. Emphasis is on basic elements of literary study and of feminist analysis. Coursework includes discussion, exams, and short papers. Appropriate for students in all majors.

Consideration of gender issues from the standpoint of literary history, genre, composition/rhetoric, linguistics, or feminist theory. May be repeated to a maximum of six hours if topic is different. May be taught concurrently with ENG 682. Cannot receive credit for both ENG 580 and ENG 682.

Selected topics of contemporary interest in Family and Consumer Sciences, offered when resources and demand allow. Variable content course. May be repeated to a maximum of six hours when topics change.

An introduction to Gender Studies that explores the influence that ideas about sex, gender, and gender roles have on women and men, both as individuals and as social beings. Using new research on gender in many disciplines, it examines representations of male and female experiences, and historical and social constructions of women's and men's roles.

This course teaches students to analyze the economic decisions made by both males and females in two main areas: the labor market and the household. Specific areas of inquiry include the following: the family as an economic unit, gender differences in labor force participation, occupational gender segregation, explanations for gender earnings differentials and efforts to reduce such differentials, gender earnings discrimination, and international gender issues. Identical with ECO 315. Cannot receive credit for both GST 315 and ECO 315.

This course will explore the effects of an integrated global community on gender; how global trends are gender-based in terms of labor market participation, resource allocation, family regulations, health care, crime, war and regional politics. Students will discuss how events and policies in one part of the globe affect gender relations in another region.

Recommended Prerequisite: HST 103 or 104. This course will introduce students to women's participation in Africa's history and contemporary issues. The readings cover a broad geographical range of North, West, Central and Southern Africa. The course will include five topics: Women and the Family; Women, Politics, and Economics; Religious Women; Women in Colonial Rebellion; and Women and National Revolutions. Identical with AAS 323. Cannot receive credit for both HST 323 and AAS 323.

A survey of the role of American women from the colonial era to the present. Topics include women's historical roles in work, family, politics, sexuality and culture.

A survey of the role of women in sport and how they have developed to present status. Topics to be covered include women in the history of sport: athletic injury specific to women, care and prevention: physiology of the woman athlete and sport psychology for the woman athlete.

An examination of sport as a major institutional locus for the historical and contemporary construction of gender relations.

Issues concerning women's health. Content is appropriate for non-nursing majors. Variable course content. Cannot be used to meet the nursing elective requirement.

This course examines the major strands of feminist philosophy. It focuses in particular on how issues of gender affect ethical theories and theories of knowledge.

A course that examines why women engage in political action and how the broader socio-economic and institutional context shapes their involvement and impact.

Recommended Prerequisite: 50 hours. This course examines the civil liberties of individuals and groups, with focus on church-state relations, religious liberty, freedom of speech, and the right to privacy. A careful study of U.S. Supreme Court decisions is emphasized, with particular focus on the political, moral, and social impact these decisions have had on life in America.

A balanced and comprehensive perspective of the field of human sexuality. Content includes the psychological, physiological, and interpersonal variables of human sexuality.

Exploration of women's roles in Christianity and other religions. Alienation from places of power has had profound implications for the personal, social, political, economic, and religious aspects of women's existence. Course will examine patterns of religious domination of women and explore possibilities for transformation.

This course focuses on gender differences, patterns, and inequalities. It analyzes the social construction of gender, femininities and masculinities, gender socialization, and how gender intersects with race, class, and sexuality. Specific attention is paid to the significance of gender in interaction, culture, and social institutions, including work, politics, media, and the family.