2012 - 2013 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Women’s Studies
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Woman’s Studies Program
Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary academic program designed to acquaint students with current scholarship and theory on women, gender, and feminism. Each semester a wide variety of courses in humanities and social science departments as well as in Women’s Studies offers students the opportunity for cultural and cross-cultural studies of the effects of representations and assumptions about gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality on our lives. Courses generally of interest to Women’s Studies students and eligible for major credit are listed below; in addition, a separate flyer listing each semester’s eligible courses is available through the Women’s Studies office (757) 221-2457 and on the Women’s Studies web page (www.wm.edu/as/womensstudies/index.php). Students may declare an interdisciplinary major or a minor in Women’s Studies.
The Women’s Studies major prepares students who wish to gain a strong interdisciplinary perspective in advance of employment and/or graduate or professional study leading to careers in a wide variety of fields including law, education, politics, business, social action, the arts, medicine and so on. Graduates of Women’s Studies programs nationwide report reasons for choosing this field of study that range from lifelong interest in feminism, to discovering new intellectual challenges, to providing themselves with the confidence and freedom to “do whatever you choose to do.”
The following guidelines have been reviewed and approved by the Women’s Studies Curriculum Committee, the Women’s Studies Executive Committee and the Committee for Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies.
Additional Courses Eligible for Major or Minor
Following is a sample listing of courses that have been counted toward the major or minor. Not all of these courses are offered every semester, and additional courses may qualify for Women’s Studies credit. Check the Women’s Studies flyer or web page or consult a program advisor for a list of each semesters approved courses. (Note: Courses in which topics vary should be selected according to the relevance of the topics offered that semester; sample titles are given. Students may request permission from Women’s Studies to count a particular course not listed in the flyer if the course’s relevance to the student’s program of study can be demonstrated.)
- Freshman Seminars: in topics related to Women’s Studies (most disciplines; check schedule)
- (e.g., Multiculturalism in America; Masculinity in America)
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- Chinese 312: Special Issues in Chinese Poetic Tradition (e.g., Women in Classical Poetry)
- (e.g., Love and the Novel: Lesbian Fictions)
- (e.g., Woolf; The Brontes; 20th Century American Women Writers)
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- German 405: 20th-Century German Women Writers
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- GOVT 390 , (e.g., Varieties of Feminist Ideology)
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- Government 472: The Courts, Constitutional Politics and Social Change
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- HIST 211 , (e.g., Southern Women)
- HIST 490 , (e.g., Black Women in the Americas; Gender and the Civil War)
- International Studies 390: Topics
- (e.g., Sport, Body and Culture)
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- (e.g., Music and Gender)
- Psychology 373: Human Sexuality
- (e.g., Women in the Christian Tradition)
- Religion 306: Sexuality, Women and Family in Judaism
- (e.g., History of Adam and Eve; Women and Their Bible; Theologies of Liberation)
- (e.g., Women in Russian Literature)
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- (e.g., Race, Gender and Health; Gender and Sexuality in Cross Cultural Perspective)
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