Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Courses
| WGS 525 | Culture and Personality (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing; ANT 100 or PSY 100 or SOC 100. |
| Cross-cultural examination of the construction of personhood and relationships between individuals and culture. Critique of psychological interpretations in anthropological texts and of universalizing tendencies in the field of psychology; the basic Freudian model in contrast with models of self in African, Asian, and Native American cultures. Not open to students with credit for ANT/SOC/WGS 325. Also listed as ANT 525 and SOC 525. | |
| WGS 531 | Women and Work (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing. |
| Women’s paid employment and job segregation by sex: relation of women’s paid work to women’s family work, nature of women’s jobs and occupations, and a variety of state policies that influence women’s employment (e.g. anti-discrimination law, maternity and parental leave). White women and women of color in the advanced capitalist economy of the United States. Not open to students with credit for POL 331/SOC 362/WGS 331. Also listed as POL 531. | |
| WGS 538 | Critical Race Theory (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing. |
| Examination of the historical centrality and complicity of law in upholding white supremacy (and concomitant hierarchies of gender, class and sexual orientation). Topics include: segregation and integration legislation, affirmative action, hate speech, hate crimes, antiracism and whiteness. Not open to students with credit for PHL/WGS 438. Also listed as PHL 538. | |
| WGS 540 | Girls, Culture and Education (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing. |
| Interdisciplinary introduction to empirical research and critical inquiry on the education of girls in the U.S. Study of contemporary educational thought on the gendered social and cultural context of schooling. Not open to students with credit for EDE 433 (EDU 440) or WGS 440. Also listed as EDE 533. | |
| WGS 554 | Sociology of Families (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing, SOC 100; or consent of instructor. |
| The family as a social institution: its place in the social structure; its internal dynamics. Comparative analysis of evolution of modern family patterns in the United States and other societies. Not open to students with credit for SOC/WGS 354. Also listed as SOC 554. | |
| WGS 567 | Race and Gender (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing. |
| Examination of central issues in gender and race theory including: gender, sex and race identity theories, social construction and essentialism, self and other identity formation. Not open to students with credit for PHL/WGS 467. Also listed as PHL 567. | |
| WGS 569 | History of American Women (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing. |
| Examination of the evolution of women’s experience in the United States from 1600 to the present, paying particular attention to the economic, reproductive and sexual, familial, and communal roles; participation in public life; and the means by which women have expressed their culture. Not open to students with credit for HIS/WGS 369. Also listed as HIS 569. | |
| WGS 574 | Gender and Society (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing; SOC 100 or WGS 200; or consent of instructor. |
| Nature and causes of sex stratification in society. Cross-cultural regularities in sex role development. Freudian and neo-Freudian perspectives, Marxist perspectives, structural functionalism, and radical feminism. Interpersonal and institutional processes which operate to keep women and men in their place in American society. Alternatives to structured sexual inequality in societies. Not open to students with credit for SOC/WGS 474. Also listed as SOC 574. | |
| WGS 576 | Sex, Work, and International Capital (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing, SOC 100 or ANT 100; or consent of instructor. |
| Analysis of significance of women’s labor to international capital in a cross-cultural perspective. Examination of social construction of “third world” and “development,” and potential and limits of these categories in understanding ideological and material conditions of lives of women across race, class and national boundaries in the world of work. Not open to students with credit for SOC/ANT/WGS/INT 376. Also listed as ANT 576, INT 576 and SOC 576. | |
| WGS 578 | Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing; ANT/INT 100. |
| Comparison of gender divisions in various societies; social roles of men, women and other categories. African, Asian, and Native American conceptualizations of gender, in comparison with data from Western cultures. Cultural construction of femaleness, maleness, and sexual behaviors and their relationships (or lack of relationship) to gender stereotypes. Not open to students with credit for ANT/WGS 378. Also listed as ANT 578. | |
| WGS 580 | Gender Theory (3) |
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing. |
| Exploration of major theories about gender. Focus on intersections of race/ethnicity, class and gender in the formation of identities and reproduction of inequality. Theories explored include Marxist-Feminism, Psychoanalytic Feminism, Queer Theory, Post Modern Feminism. Not open to students with credit for PHL 486/WGS 480. Also listed as PHL 586. | |