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WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (L77)  (Dept. Info) Arts & Sciences  (Policies) FL2017 L77 WGSS 100B Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course will provide an introduction to the major and concepts in the interdisciplinary field of women, gender and sexuality studies. We will examine the meanings attached to terms such as "man," "woman," "gay," and "sex." Topics discussed may include the history of feminist movements, masculinity, biological frameworks for understanding gender, intimate violence, sexual identities, and intersectionality. Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors in each section. One section is reserved for freshman and sophomore students only. ATTENDANCE MANDATORY FIRST DAY IN ORDER TO RESERVE YOUR CLASS ENROLLMENT. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P Louderman / 461 Baumgartner Dec 19 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM 20 20 0 Desc: Section 01 is reserved for freshman and sophomore students only. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 02 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P Mallinckrodt / 302 Barounis Dec 19 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM 20 23 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 03 M-W---- 10:00A-11:30A Louderman / 461 Ake Dec 18 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM 20 23 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 04 -T-R--- 8:30A-10:00A Mallinckrodt / 303 Brumbaugh Walter Dec 15 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM 26 24 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 05 -T-R--- 11:30A-1:00P Mallinckrodt / 303 Sangrey No final 20 25 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 07 M-W---- 11:30A-1:00P Louderman / 461 Cislo Dec 19 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM 20 20 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 08 M-W---- 2:30P-4:00P Mallinckrodt / 302 OPONG Dec 18 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM 20 18 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 09 -T-R--- 2:30P-4:00P Mallinckrodt / 302 Barounis Dec 20 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM 20 20 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 10 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P Seigle / 204 Munem Dec 19 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM 20 12 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 117 WOMEN IN MUSIC 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: An examination of women in music from the twelfth-century nun Hildegard of Bingen to Beyonce. The course will consider significant women composers and performers, as well as music-making within women's institutions. Ability to read music not required. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L27 117 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 11:30A-1:00P Music Cls Bldg / 102 Bokulich Dec 19 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM 25 6 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 206 Sexuality and the State: Introduction to Sexuality Studies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Taking Michel Foucault's idea of biopolitics as a starting point. This course examines the ways in which sexuality has been produced and regulated by the state. Drawing on history, theory, and literature, we will look at contemporary examples of the relationship between the state and sexuality. What assumptions lie behind our ideas of sexuality? How are bodies linked by the prevailing logic of sexuality? How does sexuality inform the way that we see bodies as gendered, raced, or able-bodied. In addition to looking at the relationship between sexuality and capitalism, religion, and nation, this course asks how these ideas are embodied in particular raced and gendered ideologies. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:30A Seigle / L002 Musser No final 20 19 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 2118 Freshman Seminar: Angels, Prostitutes and Chicas Modernas: Women in Latin America History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Women have been active players in the construction of Latin American nations. In the last two decades, leading scholars in the field have taken up the challenge of documenting women's participation. This research explosion has produced fruitful results to allow for the development of specialized courses. This course looks at the nation building process through the lens of Latin American women. The course examines the expectations, responsibilities and limitations women confronted in their varied roles from the Wars of Independence to the social revolutions and dictatorial regimes of the twentieth century. Besides looking at their political and economic lives, students will explore the changing gender roles and relations within marriage and the family, as well as the changing sexual and maternal mores. Attributes: A&S: FYSA&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SDBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 2118  L45 2118 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M------ 2:30P-5:30P Duncker / 1 Montano No final 15 9 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 299 Independent Study: Internships Var. Units (max = 3.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: THIS COURSE NUMBER IS TO BE USED FOR INTERNSHIPS ONLY Attributes: Art: HUM Instruction Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Options: P Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Dzuback No final 2 0 0 Actions: Books 02 TBA TBA Baumgartner No final 5 0 0 Actions: Books 03 TBA TBA Nicholson No final 5 0 0 Actions: Books 04 TBA TBA Wanzo No final 5 0 0 Actions: Books 05 TBA TBA Friedman No final 5 0 0 Actions: Books 06 TBA TBA Ake No final 999 0 0 Actions: Books 07 TBA TBA Cislo No final 3 1 0 Actions: Books 08 TBA TBA Musser No final 5 0 0 Actions: Books 09 TBA TBA McCune No final 5 0 0 Actions: Books 10 TBA TBA [TBA] No final 5 0 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 2991 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant 0.0 Unit Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In this course an advanced undergraduate can assist a faculty member in the teaching of an introductory level Women and Gender Studies course. Students can enroll in one course only after having obtained permission from a faculty member who is willing to supervise. Students will not engage in any grading but may serve in a variety of other capacities - as discussion leaders, in providing logistical support, or in otherwise assisting with the transmission of course material. Attributes: Art: HUM Instruction Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Options: P Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Dzuback No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 02 TBA TBA Baumgartner No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 03 TBA TBA Nicholson No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 04 TBA TBA Wanzo No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 05 TBA TBA Friedman No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 06 TBA TBA Ake No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 07 TBA TBA Cislo No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 08 TBA TBA Musser No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 09 TBA TBA McCune No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 10 TBA TBA Gross No final 3 1 0 Actions: Books 11 TBA TBA Brumbaugh Walter No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 12 TBA TBA Musser No final 1 1 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 301U Historical Methods-United States History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This is a small-group reading course in which students are introduced to the skills essential to the historian's craft. Emphasis will be on acquiring research skills, learning to read historical works critically, and learning to use primary and secondary sources to make a persuasive and original argument. See course listings for current topics. Required for history majors. Preference given to History majors; other interested students welcome. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 301U  L98 301U Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P Eads / 102 Friedman No final 15 9 0 Desc: HOW TO DO THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: Researching and writing the history of sexuality presents a unique set of challenges. At many times and places sex has been supposed to be confined to the "private" sphere and so the kinds of evidence that historians often rely on can be difficult to find. Sex is also highly policed, with the result that the diversity of sexual practices is often hidden--"what ought to be" is radically different from "what is." This course will investigate how historians have responded to these challenges to understand how sexual practices, ideologies, identities and regulatory systems have changed over time. We will explore innovative approaches to evidence as well as theoretical frameworks for thinking about the relationship between private and public, experience and identity, practice and power. Most of our examples will be drawn from the United States, but where useful we will compare the U.S. experience to other locales as well. PREREQUISITE: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Modern, U.S. This section is crosslisted with L77 301U. Actions: Books 02 -T-R--- 2:30P-4:00P Cupples I / 216 Kastor No final 0 17 0 Desc: HAMILTON'S AMERICA: HOW TO DO THE HISTORY OF POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT: The popularity of the musical Hamilton has fueled a renewed interest in the politics of the early American republic. This seminar explores that world by examining how Americans sought to translate their notions of government into a realistic set of priorities and a functioning set of public institutions during the years following ratification of the Constitution. In the process, this course also considers the methods that historians can use to analyze politics, policymaking, and governance. This course uses the life and career of Alexander Hamilton as a point of departure for investing how the federal government came into being, what it did, and who populated the civilian and military rank of American officialdom. The course will examine the various methodologies that historians can use to address these topics. We will consider the relative merits and limits of both qualitative and quantitative methods. This course will also devote considerable attention to the methods of digital history that have emerged in recent years, both as a means of analyzing and representing historical material. This course does not require any prior knowledge of early American history or digital methods. PREREQUISITE: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Pre-modern, U.S. Actions: Books Waits Not Allowed L77 WGSS 310 From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines issues surrounding women's health care in America. While the scope is broad, the major emphasis will be on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through an examination of popular writing, scientific/medical writing, letters, diaries, and fiction, we will look at the changing perceptions and conceptions of women's bodies and health in America. Attributes: A&S IQ: SSCArt: SSCBU: BACFH: MHEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L85 310  L98 310A Frequency: Every 3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-4:00P Louderman / 461 Baumgartner No final 14 21 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3101 An Intellectual History of Sex and Gender 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: When did sexuality begin? Is it safe to assume that gender constructions are universal and timeless? In this course, we will engage with a broad range of readings that serve as primary texts in the 'history of sexuality and gender.' Our aims are threefold: to analyze the literary evidence we have for sexuality and gender identity in Western culture, to survey modern scholarly approaches to those same texts and to consider the ways in which these modern theoretical frameworks have become the most recent set of 'primary' texts on sexuality and gender. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L93 310 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Cupples II / L007 Ake No final 16 16 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3121 Topics in American Literature: Girls' Fiction 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Little Goody Two Shoes taught morality and the alphabet to the poor children of her village and eventually rode in a coach and six; Nancy Drew drove a blue roadster (later a convertible and still later a hybrid) while solving crimes and bringing justice to the town of River Heights. Between these two landmark characters lie the two and a half centuries of rich and diverse fiction for girls that will be at the center of this writing-intensive course. After grounding our studies by reading selected works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we will concentrate on twentieth-century productions, beginning with the surprisingly progressive serial fiction produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and others in the early 1900s. (Titles such as The Motor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, and The Outdoor Girls advertise the series´ departure from domestic settings.) Throughout our study of both popular and classic texts, we will investigate the social, political and familial roles for girls that the texts imagine. Major genres will include mysteries, frontier fiction, career fiction, domestic fiction, school stories, and fantasy. Authors will include Newbery, Alcott, Montgomery, Wilder, Lindgren, and "Carolyn Keene." Writing Intensive. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, WIArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUME Lit: TCEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L14 316W  L66 316W  L98 3121 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Rudolph / 282 Pawl No final 14 15 0 Actions: Books 02 M-W---- 4:00P-5:30P Cupples II / L011 Pawl No final 14 15 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3173 Service Learning: Documenting the Queer Past in St. Louis 4.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Around the U.S. and the world, grassroots lgbtq history projects investigate the queer past as a means of honoring the courage of those who have come before, creating a sense of community today, and understanding the exclusions and divisions that shaped their communities and continue to limit them. In this course, we participate in this national project of history-making by helping to excavate the queer past in the greater St. Louis region. Course readings will focus on the ways that sexual identities and communities in the United States have been shaped by urban settings since the late nineteenth century, with particular attention to the ways that race, class and gender have structured queer spaces and communities. In their community service project, students will work with the grassroots St. Louis LGBT History Project to research St. Louis's queer past, including conducting oral histories with local LGBTQ elders. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a service-learning class, which means it combines classroom learning with outside work at a community organization. In addition to regular class time, there is a service requirement, which will necessitate an additional 3-4 hours a week. Before beginning community service students must complete required training. Prerequisite: Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or Introduction to Queer Studies, or permission of instructor. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L22 3173  L98 317S Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:30A Eads / 204 Friedman No final 15 12 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 318A Topics in American Literature: Queer U.S. Literature 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are often understood as marking the beginning of a coherent queer culture in the United States. However, long before 1969, U.S. writers such as James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, and Walt Whitman depicted queer sexuality in their work. In this course, through our readings of fiction, poetry, and drama, we will survey queer literary production before the liberatory moment of Stonewall. During the semester, we will also screen several films, such as the award-winning Capote and the experimental documentary Looking for Langston. Throughout, we will consider a number of questions. What, if anything, is unique about queerness in America? How do American writers represent nonnormative sexualities, in either explicit or coded ways? In what ways did the pre-Stonewall U.S. enable lesbian and gay sexualities, and in what ways did it render those identities unsustainable? How do racial, class, and gender identities intersect with sexual identities? What is queer about the literary forms and styles these writers deployed? Satisfies the Twentieth Century and Later requirement. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUME Lit: TCEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L14 318  L98 3182 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 4:00P-5:30P Seigle / 205 Windle No final 25 6 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 330A Native American/Euro-American Encounters: Confrontations of Bodies and Beliefs 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course surveys the history and historiography of how Native Americans, Europeans, and Euro-Americans reacted and adapted to one another's presence in North America from the 1600s to the mid-1800s, focusing on themes of religion and gender. We will examine the cultural and social implications of encounters between Native peoples, missionaries and other European and Euro-American Protestants and Catholics. We will pay particular attention to how bodies were a venue for encounter-through sexual contact, through the policing of gendered social and economic behaviors, and through religiously-based understandings of women's and men's duties and functions. We will also study how historians know what they know about these encounters, and what materials enable them to answer their historical questions. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L57 330  L22 3306  L23 3300  L98 330A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-1:00P Seigle / 210 Croxall No final 25 9 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 343 Understanding the Evidence: Provocative Topics of Contemporary Women's Health and Reproduction 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Contemporary topics of women's health and reproduction are used as vehicles to introduce the student to the world of evidence-based data acquisition. Selected topics will span and cross a multitude of contemporary boundaries. Issues will evoke moral, ethical, religious, cultural, political and medical foundations of thought. The student will be provided introductory detail to each topic and subsequently embark on an independent critical review of current data and opinion to formulate their own said notions. Examples of targeted topics for the upcoming semester include, but are not limited to: Abortion, Human Cloning, Genetics, Elective Cesarean Section, Fetal Surgery, Hormone Replacement, Refusal of Medical Care, Medical Reimbursement, Liability Crisis and Gender Bias of Medical Care. This course is limited to students with junior or senior standing. Attributes: A&S IQ: SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: ETHEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L98 341 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T----- 6:00P-9:00P Simon / 022 Baum, Gross Dec 16 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM 29 21 0 Desc: ATTENDANCE MANDATORY FIRST DAY OF CLASS IN ORDER TO RESERVE YOUR CLASS ENROLLMENT. 10 seats will be reserved for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors and minors. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 345A Sexual Politics in Film Noir and Hard-boiled Literature 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Emerging in American films most forcefully during the 1940s, film noir is a cycle of films associated with a distinctive visual style and a cynical worldview. In this course, we will explore the sexual politics of film noir as a distinctive vision of American sexual relations every bit as identifiable as the form's stylized lighting and circuitous storytelling. We will explore how and why sexual paranoia and perversion seem to animate this genre and why these movies continue to influence "neo-noir" filmmaking into the 21st century, even as film noir's representation of gender and sexuality is inseparable from its literary antecedents, most notably, the so-called "hard-boiled" school of writing. We will read examples from this literature by Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, Raymond Chandler and Cornell Woolrich, and discuss these novels and short stories in the context of other artistic and cultural influences on gendered power relations and film noir. We will also explore the relationship of these films to censorship and to changing post-World War II cultural values. Films to be screened in complete prints or in excerpts will likely include many of the following: The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Murder My Sweet, Phantom Lady, Strangers on a Train, The Big Sleep, The Killers, Mildred Pierce, The High Wall, Sudden Fear, The Big Combo, Laura, The Glass Key, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, The Crimson Kimono, Touch of Evil, Alphaville, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, Devil in a Blue Dress, The Bad Lieutenant, and Memento. Required Screenings: Mondays @ 4 pm. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L53 345  L14 3451  L98 3450 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Seigle / L004 Studlar No final 22 11 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3561 Law, Gender, and Justice 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course (formerly called "Women and the Law") explores how social constructions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have shaped traditional legal reasoning and American legal concepts, including women's legal rights. We will begin by placing our current legal framework, and its gender, race, sexuality, and other societal assumptions, in an historical and Constitutional context. We will then examine many of the questions raised by feminist theory, feminist jurisprudence, and other critical perspectives. For example, is the legal subject gendered male, and, if so, how can advocates (or women and men) use the law to gain greater equality? What paradoxes have emerged in areas such as employment discrimination, family law, or reproductive rights, as women and others have sought liberal equality? What is the equality/difference debate about and why is it important for feminists? How do intersectionality and various schools of feminist thought affect our concepts of discrimination, equality, and justice? The course is thematic, but we will spend time on key cases that have influenced law and policy, examining how they affect the everyday lives of women. Over the years, this course has attracted WGSS students and pre-law students. This course is taught by law students under the supervision of a member of the School of Law faculty.. STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN L77 3561 WOMEN AND THE LAW CAN NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: BAEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L84 3561  L98 3561  U92 3561 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 --W---- 4:00P-7:00P AB Law Bldg / 404 Tokarz No final 25 21 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 359 Topics in European History: Modern European Women 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines the radical transformation in the position and perspective of European women since the eighteenth century. The primary geographical focus is on Britain, France, and Germany. Topics include: changing relations between the sexes; the emergence of mass feminist movements; the rise of the 'new woman;' women and war; and the cultural construction and social organization of gender. We will look at the lives of women as nurses, prostitutes, artists, mothers, hysterics, political activists, consumers, and factory hands. PREREQUISITE: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Modern, Europe. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SDArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 359 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Duncker / 1 Treitel No final 20 18 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 360 Trans Studies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Trans* Studies is an interdisciplinary course that was previously named Transgender Studies. The new course title represents the development of the field and the identity in U.S. culture. In this course students will engage with the following questions: When and why did the category gender emerge? What is the relationship between sex, sexuality and gender? How have the fields of Medicine and Psychology dealt with gender? How have approaches to "gender dysphoria" changed over time? Why is LGBT grouped together as a social movement? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this grouping? What are the legal obstacles faced by people who resist normative gender categories? What legal obstacles are faced by people who transition from one sex to another? To what extent do U.S. citizens have autonomy over defining their gender -or- sex? How are trans people represented in fiction? What does it mean to apply transgender theory to interpret fictional accounts of trans? Prerequisite L77 100B Intro to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BACFH: MHEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L85 360 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Louderman / 461 Cislo No final 20 17 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 361 Women and Social Movements: Gender and Sexuality in US Social Movements 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines the history of grassroots activism and political engagement of women in the US. Looking at social movements organized by women or around issues of gender and sexuality, class texts interrogate women's participation in, and exclusion from, political life. Key movements organizing the course units include, among others: the Temperance Movement, Abolitionist Movements, the Women's Suffrage Movements, Women's Labor Movements, Women's Global Peace Movements, and Recent Immigration Movements. Readings and discussion will pay particular attention to the movements of women of color, as well as the critiques of women of color of dominant women's movements. Course materials will analyze how methods of organizing reflect traditional forms of "doing politics," but also strategies and tactics for defining problems and posing solutions particular to women. Prerequisites: Any 100- or 200- level Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course or permission from the instructor. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L98 361A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Mallinckrodt / 303 Sangrey No final 20 15 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3616 Ecofeminism: Environmental Social Movements and Anthropology 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course provides a survey of environmental social movements around the world and over time, in the process challenging commonly held perceptions about environmental movements and scales of activism. Specifically, it demonstrates that environmental social movements are often as much or more about people, identity and human rights than they are about protecting the environment. In addition to juxtaposing dominant traditions of American environmentalism with environmental movements in other parts of the world, the course focuses in on intersections of women's movements and environmental justice, such as cosmetic toxicity, reproduction, agrojustice, externalization and ecowarefare. Throughout, the course draws on interdisciplinary social science theories with a focus on anthropological descriptive interpretations and critical theoretical analyses of various environmental social movements and the differences that constitute them. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, SSCArt: CPSC, SSCBU: BAEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L48 3616 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-4:00P Seigle / 104 O'Leary No final 25 23 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3666 Women and Film 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: The aim of this course is primarily to familiarize students with the work of prominent women directors over the course of the twentieth century, from commercial blockbusters to the radical avant-garde. Approaching the films in chronological order, we will consider the specific historical and cultural context of each filmmaker's work. In addition we will be discussing the films in relation to specific gender and feminist issues such as the status of women's film genres, representations of men and women on screen and the gender politics of film production. Required screenings on Tuesdays @ 7pm Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SDBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L53 366  L79 366  L97 366  L98 3660 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-1:00P Seigle / L003 Powers Default - none 23 15 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 383 Topics in Women,Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Sex in the City: Gender, Sexuality, Urban landscape 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Topic varies. See semester course listings for current offering. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L98 3832 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-1:00P Seigle / 111 Wooten Dec 18 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM 20 5 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 385A Topics in Jewish Studies: Jewish Sexual Ethics 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: How have Jews engaged with questions of sex and sexuality over the course of their history? How do the various streams of Jewish tradition respond to contemporary questions of sexual ethics? What are the ways in which Jewish thought on matters of sex has interacted with non-Jewish thought, and how have sexual norms served to define the boundaries of Jewish identity and behavior? This course will explore the above questions by engaging with primary texts and secondary literature. The first unit of the course will examine ways the Jewish tradition has grappled with sexuality at various points during its history and development. The second unit will explore the roles sex and sexuality have played in situating Jews in the broader world, and in situating groups of people within Judaism itself. The third unit will engage a (non-exhaustive!) set of particular questions that animate contemporary discussions of sexual morality. Prerequisite: one course in Jewish Studies or permission of instructor. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L75 385  L23 387  L75 585A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 4:00P-5:30P Rudolph / 282 Epstein-Levi Default - none 15 5 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 399 Independent Study: Undergraduate Work in Women's Studies Var. Units (max = 3.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Directed readings and research in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or undergraduates. Prereq: permission of instructor. Credit variable:maximum 3 credits. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Dzuback No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Baumgartner No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Nicholson No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Wanzo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Friedman No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Ake No final 0 6 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA Cislo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 08 TBA TBA Musser No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 09 TBA TBA McCune No final 2 0 0 Actions: Books 10 TBA TBA Brown No final 1 1 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 416 The Politics of Pleasure 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This 400 level seminar interrogates the concept of pleasure. Pleasure occupies a fraught space in feminist and queer theory. This course examines several ways that people have theorized pleasure as a space for politics, a space for conservatism, or a way to think about racialized difference. This course is not interested in defining what pleasure is, but it interrogates what the stakes of talking about pleasure have been within contemporary theory and culture. Beginning with an examination of pleasure in the context of early twentieth century sexology, this course looks at the sex wars of the 1970s, the turn toward pleasure as a space of protest, and ends by thinking of ways to imagine pleasure outside of current paradigms of sexuality. The course takes gender, race, and sexuality as central analytic components to understand how pleasure is defined and who has access to it. Either Introduction to Sexuality Studies or Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies are prerequisites. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P Seigle / 304 Musser No final 20 16 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 417W Feminist Research Methodologies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Research is the foundation of academic knowledge and of much knowledge produced outside of the academy in think tanks, non-profit organizations, social service agencies, corporations, and many other venues of economic and social activity. Informed by theory, and shaped by specific methods, research can and does help to frame problems, contribute to policymaking, and evaluate the effectiveness of policies and programs. Research is employed in a variety of ways in the different disciplines within the academy and within different practices outside of the academy. This course examines the different ways in which research is conducted and examines the reasons for these differences and the ways in which they contribute to or hamper feminist goals. The course also explores the ways in which some research methods are privileged over others in hegemonic understandings of what counts as "research" and of what counts as "knowledge." The course examines how gender theory and feminist politics shape the kinds of research questions researchers ask, the types of materials and other information researchers use, and the ways researchers define our relationships with our sources of data, evidence, and other information. Students are expected to reflect on and engage with feminist approaches to research in this course in order to develop and complete a detailed research proposal. Prerequisite: At least 2 courses in WGSS, including Introduction to WGSS or Sexuality Studies at the 100 or 200-levels and one 300-level WGSS course, preferably in feminist or queer theory. This class is a writing intensive course. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, WI Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M------ 2:30P-5:30P McMillan / 221 Dzuback No final 12 10 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 421 From Mammy to the Welfare Queen: African American Women Theorize Identity 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: How do representations of identity affect how we see ourselves and the world sees us? African American women have been particularly concerned with this question, as the stories and pictures circulated about black female identity have had a profound impact on their understandings of themselves and political discourse. In this course we will look at how black feminist theorists from a variety of intellectual traditions have explored the impact of theories of identity on our world. We will look at their discussions of slavery, colonialism, sexuality, motherhood, citizenship, and what it means to be human. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L90 421A  L98 4214 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 10:00A-11:30A Mallinckrodt / 303 Wanzo Dec 18 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM 22 19 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 4231 Topics in American Literature I: White American Masculinities 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course builds on the new interest in whiteness studies, which assumes that whiteness and masculinity are social constructions rather than "natural" identities. Moving from about 1830 to 1925, we will explore the development of a deeply contested discourse of "national manhood" in the United States, as it emerges in historically specific circumstances. How does whiteness intersect with related discourses of gender, sexuality, and social class? Beginning with the apocalyptic poetry and prose of Edgar Allan Poe, we will examine terrorized whiteness as an identifying feature of normative masculinity in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Henry James, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Do these authors claim the power to resist threats to their individual autonomy? To what extent do they experience masculine self-reliance as a myth? How do they imagine meaningful communities? Addressing these social issues and related aesthetic questions, we will venture, as Whitman says, "in paths untrodden." Students will write three papers of increasing complexity and there will be shorter writing assignments as well. Class attendance and active participation are required, naturally! Satisfies the Nineteenth Century requirement. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUME Lit: NCEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L14 4231  L98 4231 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-4:00P Duncker / 3 Pollak No final 15 13 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 427 Technology and Feminist Practice: Gender Violence Prevention Tools 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: How can we best use technology, and the tools and insights of the Digital Humanities in particular, to promote effective approaches to addressing gender-based violence? What are the most effective ways to bridge the innovations of the research university with the everyday work of practitioners seeking to prevent violence or intervene in its aftermath? What are the ethics involved in constructing tools for public and professional use? Which interests should govern the choices in content, design, and dissemination of information? This course will introduce students to the strategies and challenges of devising technological tools for violence prevention for use beyond the classroom. Class readings and discussions will be supplemented by hands-on project work with Washington University's Gender Violence Database and lab sessions that focus on skill-building in digital project construction. Prerequisite: For undergraduate students, L77 393 01 or previous work experience with the Gender Violence Database. Graduate students by permission of instructor. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L93 427 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P Eads / 14 Ake No final 15 8 0 Actions: Books Waits Not Allowed L77 WGSS 437 Transnational Feminisms 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course engages contemporary feminist theories from diverse transnational contexts, as well as the social movements and local resistances they inspire. Through engagement with key works of feminist theory, political manifestos, and creative works of resistance, we will explore how transnational feminist alliances and coalitions have contested and responded to gendered and racialized forms of exploitation, navigating and reshaping territorial and social boundaries. We will engage with debates around the notion of a "global sisterhood"; tensions between universal and local feminist practice; the role of difference, nationality and culture in navigating the possibility of solidarity; the role of the Internet in forging cross-border alliances; human rights-based activism; "women's" work; transgender inclusivity and transfeminisms. Part of our goal will be to ask how feminist theories from diverse geographical locations have influenced the politics of borders, movements for environmental justice, migrations and mobility, resistance to imperialism and the forging of alternative economies. We will also explore the gray areas existing in between binaries such as feminist/anti-feminist; local/global; home/away; global South/North; victim/agent; domination/dependency. Finally, we will ask how processes of knowledge-production take shape within different intellectual and political movements such as post-colonial feminism, decolonial and indigenous feminism, liberal and radical feminism, Marxist feminism and religiously-based feminisms. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, SD, SSCEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-4:00P Seigle / 104 Brown Dec 18 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM 20 10 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 482 Reading Seminar in Gender and Chinese Literature: Writing Women of Imperial China 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Although women of premodern China have often been portrayed as little more than long-suffering victims of male patriarchy and sexual repression, their lives were far more complicated, diverse, and interesting. Women played roles as filial daughters, dutiful wives, and devoted mothers, but also as proud courtesans, clever entrepreneurs, educated scholars and teachers, independent nuns, fierce warriors and even powerful rulers. In this course we will begin with a broad overview of the ideal traditional roles for women established in early China. We will then move on to a general exploration of some of the ways women were represented in classical literature by male writers. Our main focus, however, will be on how, over time, more and more women took up the brush and began to write themselves. In so doing they were able to express their own subjectivity and often radically reinscribe many of the notions of femininity and of female roles that were dominant during their times. We will conclude with a discussion of ways in which traditional women writers both anticipated and contributed to the 20th century transition to modernity. Most of our class discussion will be based on primary sources in English translation, supplemented by occasional secondary critical scholarly articles where relevant. Prerequisite: Some background in premodern Chinese literature history or culture would be helpful but is not required. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L04 482  L03 482  L97 482 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P Eads / 112 Grant No final 20 11 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 498 Supervised Reading and Research 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is designed for students who are pursuing an independent study project as part of the Department Honors Program. Students must apply to the Department. May be repeated once. Prerequisite: Senior Standing and permission of the department. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Baumgartner No final 5 0 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 499 Honors Thesis: Research and Writing 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Enrollment in this course is limited to students accepted into the Honor's Program. Petition for permission to enroll is available in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Office, 210 McMillan Hall Attributes: EN: H Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Dzuback No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Baumgartner No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Nicholson No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Wanzo No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Friedman No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Ake No final 4 2 0 Actions: Books 07 TBA TBA Cislo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 08 TBA TBA Musser No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 09 TBA TBA McCune No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 10 TBA TBA O'Leary No final 1 1 0 Actions: Books 11 TBA TBA Chandra No final 3 1 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 500 Independent Study: Graduate Work in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Var. Units (max = 4.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Directed readings and research in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for graduate students. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Credit variable; maximum 4 credits. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Dzuback No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 02 TBA TBA Baumgartner No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 03 TBA TBA Nicholson No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 04 TBA TBA Wanzo No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 05 TBA TBA Friedman No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 06 TBA TBA Ake No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 07 TBA TBA Cislo No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 08 TBA TBA Musser No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 09 TBA TBA McCune No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 501 Advanced Feminist Theory 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: The purpose of this course is to engage students with some of the most important debates within feminist theory over the past sixty years. These debates will include those that have emerged among scholars in arts and sciences as well as those that have emerged among legal scholars. In the case of all of these debates, we will examine the ideas justifying each of the contributory positions and challenge students to develop their own positions.Prerequisites: Prior coursework in feminist theory or permission of instructor. Attributes: Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: U96 6013 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T----- 2:30P-5:30P McMillan / 221 Nicholson No final 15 2 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use.