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WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (L77)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2018

L77 WGSS 100BIntroduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30AMallinckrodt / 303 CisloMay 7 2018 10:30AM - 12:30PM22200
Desc:THIS SECTION IS RESERVED FOR FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES ONLY.
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02M-W----1:00P-2:30PMallinckrodt / 303 CisloMay 9 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM22200
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03-T-R---8:30A-10:00ALouderman / 461 Brumbaugh WalterMay 4 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM22180
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04-T-R---11:30A-1:00PLouderman / 461 SangreyMay 7 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM22240
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05-T-R---4:00P-5:30PMallinckrodt / 303 BarounisMay 9 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM19190
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07-T-R---11:30A-1:00PDuncker / 1 CisloMay 7 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM15130
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L77 WGSS 3002Feminist Fire!: Radical Black Women in the 20th Century3.0 Units
Description:Black women have been at the forefront of the Black radical tradition since its inception. Often marginalized in both the scholarship and popular memory, there exist a long unbroken chain of women who have organized around the principles of anti-sexism, anti-racism, and anti-capitalism. Frequently critical of heterosexist projects as well, these women have been the primary force driving the segment of the Black radical tradition that is commonly referred to as Black Feminism. Remaining cognizant of the fact that Black Feminist thought has also flourished as an academic enterprise-complete with its own theoretical interventions (ie. standpoint theory, intersectionality, dissemblance, etc.) and competing scholarly agendas-this course will think through the project of Black Feminism as a social movement driven by activism and vigorous political action for social change. Focusing on grassroots efforts at organizing, movement building, consciousness raising, policy reform, and political mobilization, Feminist Fire will center Black Feminists who explicitly embraced a critical posture towards capitalism as an untenable social order. We will prioritize the life and thought of 20th century women like Claudia Jones, Queen Mother Audley Moore, Frances Beal, Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and organizations like the Combahee River Collective, Chicago's Black Women's Committee, and the Third World Women's Alliance. At its core, the course aims to bring the social movement history back into the discourse around Black Feminism.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, SC, SDArchHUMArtHUMBUBAENH
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L90 3002Frequency:None / History

L77 WGSS 3014Queering Citizenship3.0 Units
Description:"Queering Citizenship" explores the fundamental question: is queer citizenship possible? The contestation of citizenship in the U.S. and transnationally makes this question unavoidable for queer and feminist scholars. Provincializing European political history and Western liberal democracy, students will use queer theory to consider the costs of exclusion from, as well as inclusion in, citizenship. We will consider how 'queerness' as a concept and queer theory as a method of analysis can inform our understanding of nationalism, democratic formations, citizenship, transnational labor flows, colonialism and capitalism. Students will also get at questions of the cultural specificity of queer's anti-normative critique. Topics of discussion include the ways gender and sexuality constitute the role of the citizen; the relationship between citizenship and labor; how citizenship is "performed"; grassroots organizing through alternative citizenships; the politics of transgender recognition; homonationalism; and queer complicity in settler colonial state violence and the ascendency of global whiteness. We will also examine case studies of queer politics to compare different constructions of gender/sexuality/race across citizenship regimes. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of citizenship regimes on multiple continents and identify political alternatives to existing, state-centric solutions to violence and marginalization. Pre-Requisite: L77 100B or consent of instructor.
Attributes:A&S IQLCD, SD, SSCArchSSCArtSSCBUBAENS
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Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
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01M-W----2:30P-4:00PSeigle / 210 BrownMay 7 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM1550
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L77 WGSS 301UHistorical Methods-United States History3.0 Units
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01-T-R---4:00P-5:30PRidgley / 107 FloweNo Final20150
Desc:AMERICAN MASCULINITY: This course will introduce the methods and tools of historical analysis. Students will learn the basics of finding, utilizing, and evaluating historical sources, assessing historical work through writing historiographical essays, and organizing and composing research papers. This work will be done through an exploration of the topic of American masculinity. The class will survey differing historical understandings of manhood across American history, and take a comparative approach in examining cultural, geographic, and racial conceptions of masculinity. We will pay particular attention to how varying perceptions of manliness have shaped American popular culture, race relations, criminality, and the physical landscapes of public and private space. Ultimately we will use our study of the history of American manhood as context for understanding topical issues of gender, race, class, and crime. Modern, U.S. PREREQUISITE: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. This course is crosslisted with L98 301U and L77 301U.
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L77 WGSS 305ALiterature and Consent3.0 Units
Description:Western literature begins with a war fought over the raptus (abduction) of a woman, the theft of Helen by the Trojan prince Paris. It's no secret that the violent abduction and sexual assault of women plays a constant-sometimes central, sometimes incidental-role in myth, history, fictional narrative, and poetry from the ancient Greeks to today. This class will consider the omnipresence of sexual violence in English literary history (and its antecedents) and ask why it is there, what its effects are, and how it shapes the way we think about gender, violence, freedom, and desire. This course contends that literature and literary history are keys to understanding the relationship between culture and sexual violence, and, conversely, that attention to sexual violence is key to understanding literary history. Students will acquire a broad historical understanding of consent as it evolved in literary, legal, and philosophical discourses to become a concept that organizes sexual and political freedom. We will ask: Is consent the best framework through which to mediate sexual harm? Are there alternative ways to imagine sexual encounters? How do various media manage sexual experiences? From the medieval romance to the eighteenth-century pornographic novel, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" to "The Handmaid's Tale," this course will interrogate how literary explorations of consent provoke theories of subjectivity, desire, and power.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, SC, SDArchHUMArtHUMBUBAENH
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L14 305Frequency:None / History

L77 WGSS 3171Service Learning: Women and Prison4.0 Units
Description:Since President Reagan declared the war on drugs in the 1980s, the numbers of women in prison have increased dramatically. Due to mandatory minimum sentencing requirements and increasingly harsh sentences for non-violent offences, the U.S. prison population has swelled to unprecedented numbers over the last few decades. While women are the fastest growing population in prison, men still make up the vast majority of prisoners, and the system is largely geared toward men and their needs. In this course, we will explore the historical treatment of and contemporary issues for girls and women who get caught up in the criminal justice system. Through readings, films, reflective writings, and facility tours, we will explore the impact of incarceration on women and their families. While our scope will be national, we will focus on the corrections system in Missouri. 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 4-5 hours a week. There are several organizations with which we are partnering, and you will be assigned to one of these groups to work with for the entire semester. Moreover, there is a required all-day field trip on the last Friday in January when we will visit the women's prison in Vandalia, Missouri and the men's prison in Bowling Green, Missouri. If you cannot commit to these out-of-class obligations, which are required to pass the course, do not register for the class. Prereq: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies or Introduction to Sexuality Studies. JUNIORS AND SENIORS ONLY
Attributes:A&S IQSD, SSCArchSSCArtSSCBUBAENS
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:C Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Every 2-3 Years / History

L77 WGSS 318ATopics in American Literature: The Cultural History of the American Teenager3.0 Units
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01M-W----10:00A-11:30ADuncker / 1 ShipeNo Final25210
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02M-W----2:30P-4:00PUmrath / 140 ShipeNo Final25250
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L77 WGSS 323Selected American Writers: James Baldwin Now3.0 Units
Description:This class will examine why James Baldwin, buried in 1987, often looks like today's most vital and most cherished new African American author. An inexhaustible public witness and the author of plays, essays, novels, and short stories, the Harlem-born Baldwin ranks with the most daring and eloquent American voices of the twentieth century. His first novel, the autobiographical "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), wrestled with the heritage of black Christianity and black social realism. His second novel, "Giovanni's Room" (1956), set in Paris and peopled with non-black characters, explored the complexity of same-sex desire years before the Stonewall riots announced the gay rights movement. "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), the first collection of Baldwin's lush and searching essays, is perhaps the most-tweeted book of our era and is listed among the Modern Library's top twenty nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Our reading list will contain all of these books, but we'll also begin with Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" (1940), the young Baldwin's defining aesthetic enemy, and end with Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir "Between the World and Me" (2015), the prize-winning Baldwin rewrite that illuminates the older author's elevated reputation in the wake of Black Lives Matter. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
Attributes:A&S IQHUMArtHUMBUHUME LitTCENH
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Course Type:IdentSame As:L14 323  L90 335  L98 3232Frequency:None / History

L77 WGSS 348Rethinking the Second Wave: Race, Sexuality and Class in the Feminist Movement 1960-19903.0 Units
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01-T-R---11:30A-1:00PMallinckrodt / 303 FriedmanNo Final20150
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L77 WGSS 3561Law, Gender, & Justice3.0 Units
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 IQSD, SSCArchSSCArtSSCBUBAENSUCollSSC
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L84 3561  L98 3561  U92 3561Frequency:None / History
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01--W----4:00P-7:00PAB Law Bldg / 404 AppletonMay 4 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM24150
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L77 WGSS 364Gender, War, and Migration3.0 Units
Description:This course will examine the forced transnational migration of war refugees and their resettlement in host societies. A central question that guides this course is: How does war impact and complicate belonging and influence the movement of people across borders and boundaries? With this question in mind, we will explore the dynamic relationships between specific groups of refugees and nation-states, while considering inseparable intersectional configurations of gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, class, age, and religion as lenses through which to consider ideas of personhood and notions of national belonging. In the first part of the semester we will focus on transnational displacement because of conflict and deterritorialization. We will utilize readings in feminist theory, post-colonial theory, and cultural studies to examine historical processes of dislocation and relocation. The second part of the semester will examine ethnographic case studies of resettled refugees in different sites and their day-to-day practices to understand how displaced people earn a place in host societies. We will also explore how identity categories influence the architecture of personhood in nation-states. Lastly, we will analyze the multi-layered ways in which diasporic subjects and nations rearticulate themselves virtually and digitally (via Internet and social media). We will combine diverse readings and theoretical engagements, lectures, documentary films, discussion, and class-based activities to interrogate notions of subjectivity, alterity, and belonging across time, place, and space. Pre-Requisite: L77 100B or consent of instructor.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, LCD, SC, SD, WIArchHUMArtHUMBUBAENH
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Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Unpredictable / History
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01-T-R---10:00A-11:30ALouderman / 461 MunemMay 8 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM1590
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L77 WGSS 393Gender Violence3.0 UnitsLab Required
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01-T-R---2:30P-4:00PSeigle / 109 AkeMay 9 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM30290
Desc:10+ seats reserved for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors and minors
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A--W----3:00P-4:00PMallinckrodt / 303 AkeNo Final12130
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B--W----4:00P-5:00PMallinckrodt / 303 AkeNo Final1290
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C--W----4:00P-5:00PSeigle / L003 AkeNo Final1230
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D--W----5:00P-6:00PMallinckrodt / 303 AkeNo Final1240
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L77 WGSS 3942Service Learning: Projects in Domestic Violence4.0 Units

L77 WGSS 406ASexual Health and the City: A Community-Based Learning Course3.0 Units
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01--W----2:00P-5:00PMcMillan / 219 ParikhNo Final20140
Desc:Prerequisite: Students will be placed on the waitlist and will complete a bio form indicating their related past experience or coursework, and their commitment to partnering with a community agency.
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L77 WGSS 418CSexuality and Gender in East Asian Religions3.0 Units

L77 WGSS 429Feminist Political Theory3.0 Units
Description:This course asks how feminist thinkers from various political and intellectual traditions critique,adopt and transform political theories of justice, citizenship, property and the state. To uncover how different feminist theories have been adopted in the struggle for political transformation and social justice, we will pursue two main lines of inquiry. The first asks how feminist thinkers from various traditions critique and engage the history of political thought within the social contract tradition. We will ask, in particular, how gender, race, slavery, colonialism and empire shape conceptions of citizenship and property. We will also examine transnational feminist critiques of the public/private division in the Western political theory canon as it impacts the role of women and the social construction of women's bodies. During the second half of the semester, we will ask how various transnational social movements have engaged and adopted feminist theories in efforts to resist state violence, colonialism, labor exploitation and resource extraction. In following these lines of inquiry we will draw from postcolonial, decolonial, liberal, Black, radical, Marxist and Chicana feminist perspectives. Part of our goal will be to uncover how various feminist theories treat the relationship between politics and embodied experience, how gendered conceptions of family life affect notions of political power and how ideas about sexuality and sexual conquest intersect with empire-building. Pre-Requisite: L77 100B or consent of instructor.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, SC, SDArchHUMArtHUMBUBAENH
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Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
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01M-W----11:30A-1:00PSeigle / 104 BrownMay 8 2018 10:30AM - 12:30PM20100
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L77 WGSS 455Topics in Korean Literature and Culture: Gender in Korean Literature and Film3.0 Units

L77 WGSS 457Gender and Modernity in Latin America3.0 Units
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01M------4:00P-7:00PEads / 102 MorañaMay 4 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM20120
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L77 WGSS 499Honors Thesis: Research and Writing3.0 Units
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01TBATBADzubackNo Final110
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02TBATBABaumgartnerNo Final100
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03TBATBANicholsonNo Final100
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04TBATBAWanzoNo Final110
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05TBATBAFriedmanNo Final300
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06TBATBAAkeNo Final120
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07TBATBACisloNo Final100
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08TBATBAMusserNo Final110
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09TBATBAMcCuneNo Final100
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10TBATBAO'LearyNo Final110
11TBATBABrownNo Final100
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12TBATBAChandraNo Final100
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