Gender Studies Courses

1. All four Core Courses (16 semester hours) required for the Minor in Gender Studies:

GEND 200 Women and Men in American Society
Fall semester, Kimberly Brodkin, M 3:00-4:30 pm and TH 3:30-5:00 pm
The gender system in contemporary American society. Contemporary debates considering biological bases for sex differences in reproductive functions and in physical, sexual, and psychological development. Socialization into masculine and feminine identities, sexual and reproductive choices, the relationship between family and career, occupational segregation and wage differentials, housework and consumption, participation in public life. Interactions among gender, class, and race. Situations of middle-class and working-class people and members of dominant and minority racial groups. Feminist thought applied to current problems; alternative approaches to their solution. An
introductory course intended for sophomores and second-semester first-year students.

Spring semester, Kimberly Brodkin, M 3:00-4:30 and Th 3:30-5:00 pm

GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Fall semester, Deborah Heath, T TH 01:50 - 03:20 pm, Miller 104.
Gender - how maleness and femaleness are defined-as it has been socially, culturally, and historically constituted in different times and places. Theoretical developments in the anthropology of gender. Cross-cultural exploration using examples from a wide range of societies, past and present. The relationship between cultural definitions of gender and the social experience of women and men.

GEND 300 Gender and Aesthetic Expression
Spring semester, Andrea Hibbard, TTH, 1:50-3:20 p.m.

GEND 440, Feminist Theory
Fall semester, Linda Angst, T TH 11:30am - 01:00 pm, 243 Howard
Philosophical and political analysis of issues in feminist theory. Discussion of recent theoretical work (e.g., Butler, Mitchell) in relation to past feminist thinking (e.g., Wollstonecraft, Gilman, deBeauvoir). A problem-oriented approach that explores feminist theorizing about such topics as sex, gender, race, power, oppression, identity, class, and difference.

2. At least 8 semester hours of electives from the following:

Approved Electives

COMM 326 Communication and Gender
COMM 352 Gender in Public Communication
COMM 406 Race, Rhetoric and Resistance

ENG 234 Strange Bedfellows in Poetry
ENG 243 Women Writers
ENG 314 The Romantics
ENG 321 Pre Civil War American Literature

GEND 244 Practicum
GEND 299 Independent Study
GEND 444 Practicum
GEND 499 Independent Study
GEND 298 Gender in the City Internship
GEND 298 Special Topics

HIST 231A US Women’s History 1600 1980
HIST 311 History of Family/Gender China
HIST 330 Race and Ethnicity in American History
HIST 331 American Culture/Society:1880 1980
HIST 345 Race/Nation in Latin America

POLS 275 Gender and Politics

PSY 230 Infant and Child Development
PSY 360 Psychology of Gender

RELS 340 Women/American Religious History

SOAN 225 Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
SOAN 228 Class Power and Society
SOAN 240 The Family in Cross Cultural Perspective
SOAN 255 Medicine Healing and Culture
SOAN 261 Gender/Sexuality Latin America
SOAN 266 Latin America Cultural Perspective
SOAN 273 Japanese Culture: Gender and Identity
SOAN 280 Gender in Asia
SOAN 285 Culture and Power in the Middle East
SOAN 324 Anthropology of Violence
SOAN 352 Women in Developing Countries
SOAN 395 Anthropology of the Body

TH 106 Fundamentals of Movement

These courses may work as electives depending on topic/instructor/focus:

ENG 333 Major Figures
ENG 450 Senior Seminar
FREN 230 French Literature in Translation
GERM 230 German Literature in Translation
HIST 400 Reading Colloquium
HIST 450 History Seminar
MUS 362 Topics in History and Music I
MUS 363 Topics in History and Music II
RUSS 290 Topics in Russian Literature