Women's Studies Courses Spring 2003
Women's Studies 112: Introduction to Women's Studies in the Social Sciences
Same as HDFS 145, SOC 145. Section U1: for Unit One and WIMSE students through Dec. 10 or by permission of Unit One director.
Projansky (Lect.) MW 1:00
Disc. A Th 2:00
Disc. B Th 11:00
Disc. C Th 1:00
Disc. D Th 10:00
Disc. E Th 12:00
Disc. F Th 10:00
Disc. G F 11:00
Disc. U1 F 10:00
What is Women's Studies and what does it have to do with you? Or with the social sciences? This course introduces key ideas in Women's Studies, encourages students to find links between their own lives and issues raised by feminist scholars, and maps some of the terrain of feminist scholarship in the social sciences. Discussions, readings, and lectures will explore the interplay of gender with other social categories such as race, sexuality, and class, through materials that come from a variety of disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, political science and history, as well as feminist theory.
Women's Studies 114: Contemporary Issues in Women's Studies
Morey MW 1:00 - 2:20
Explores the most recent debates and research related to contemporary issues that primarily affect women. Review issues related to sexual and domestic violence, gender socialization, feminization of poverty, women's health, sexual harassment, work and family, politics, and media influences from a multi-discipline and multicultural perspective.
Women's Studies 199: Undergraduate Open Seminar
May be repeated, 1 to 5 hours, independent study. For independent study registration in this course, students should contact the departmental office. See other sections below.
CONF ARR Ind. Study
Women's Studies 199 KA: Undergraduate Open Seminar
Topic: Making the Moral Revolution: Screening Civil Rights
Alston ARR
The Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium Week 2003 will include a week-long film series that will simultaneously be open to the public and serve as the basis for a one-hour credit course. Students who wish to register for the course must be available to attend four evening screening/discussions (7:00 - 10:00, January 20-23) and the afternoon culminating panel discussion on Friday, January 24, from 2:00 - 5:00. Students will complete a paper under the direction of Professor Alston during the first half of the semester. Film titles and supplemental readings will be available to registered students the last week of class Fall 2002.
Women's Studies 199 RW: Undergraduate Open Seminar
Topic: Fraternity Peer Rape Education and Prevention
Students must be members of fraternities and have permission of the instructor. To enroll contact Ross Wantland at wantland@uiuc.edu.
Wantland (LecD.) Tu 1:00 - 3:00
Can fraternity men stop rape? This course seeks to answer this question by providing interested fraternity men with skills to become peer rape educators for their own chapters. In the fall semester, students go through an 8-week course that trains them to become peer rape educators. In the spring semester, students build on their existing facilitation skills, and develop, implement, and evaluate a series of presentations for their individual chapters. Students must be members of fraternities and have permission of the instructor.
Women's Studies 199 U1: Undergraduate Open Seminar
Topic: Women in Sports
This section of WS 199 is for students in Unit One, WIMSE, Global Crossroads, or by permission of Unit One director, h-schein@uiuc.edu. This section will meet 8 times over the semester and is graded S/U. First class meeting, January 22, 2003.
Metz (LecD.) Tu 4:00 - 6:00 P.M.
In recent years, America has seen proliferation of women's professional sporting leagues (WNBA, W*USA), celebrated the 30th anniversary of Title IX women's and watched as women's sports and female athletes have been thrust into the media spotlight. This course is designed for the students to critically examine the world of women and sports and its increasing visibility in the American landscape. The class will explore sports from a historical and social perspective using a multi- media approach of readings, films and class discussion. Course topics will include: the history of women's sports; gendered construction of sport; women and the media; race and sport; Title IX; the selling of sex in sport; sexuality in sport; motherhood and sport.
Women's Studies 201: Introduction to Feminist Theory
Frost TuTh 10:00 - 11:20
Using a range of historical documents and contemporary essays, we will study various formulations of feminist theory in order to identify the philosophical and historical underpinnings that have structured the arguments for (as well as against) feminism.
Women's Studies 221: Gender in Transnational Perspective
Same as SOC 221. Prerequisite: SOC 100, WS 112, or consent of instructor.
Poster WF 12:00 - 1:20
This course will examine how gender inequality is structured on an international level. The objectives of the course are: To demonstrate how the concept of gender and the processes of gender inequality are transformed when considered in global perspective. To identify and analyze some of the key aspects of globalization, which are currently altering, gender relations. To break down myths about women in both "first world" and "third world" societies, through a self-reflective viewpoint which explores our commonalities as well as our differences. To expand gender analysis to include both masculinities and femininities, and interconnections of race, class, sexuality, and nation on a global scale. The course is broadly divided in three sections. First, it will examine commonalities and differences in women's oppression world-wide, and the historical factors, which have shaped them. Second, it will look at contemporary patterns of globalization which are shifting the dynamics of gender inequality, such as inter-governmental organizations, state governments, formal and informal global economies, entertainment industries, etc. The last section of the course will then look at women's resistance and international feminist movements. Overall, emphasis will be placed on the interactive relationship between various countries, and how globalization promotes racial, ethnic, sexual, and national hierarchies among women, both in developing countries as well as highly-industrialized countries.
Women's Studies 240: Sex and Gender in Classical Antiquity
Same as C LIT 262, CLCIV 240. Section &A for Chancellor's Scholars. Others may enroll with consent of the instructor and the director of the Campus Honors Program.
Parca (Lect.) MW 12:00
Disc. &A F 12:00
Disc. B Th 2:00
Disc. C Th 3:00
Disc. D F 11:00
Is the nineteenth-century premise that mythology preserves a nucleus of historical fact a valid tool in the study of Greek women? How is the assimilation of female to nature and male to culture exploited in Greek literature? In what ways are the poems of Sappho a response to the male consciousness of the Homeric epics? What does the archaeology of domestic housing in Athens reveal about the social status and role of Athenian women? In what ways do the Hippocratic writers reflect the cultural assumptions about the female body and the manner in which it operates? Can Plato be called the first feminist? Why can Athenian sexual attitudes and practices be termed "political?" Was the incidence of divorce in Roman society particularly high? To whom was child custody granted in Roman law? Who were the working women of Rome? Did Christianity appeal more quickly to women than to men? Curious? The course will address these and many other issues, using the resources of Greek and Roman literary and non literary written sources, art, and architecture. While fiction reflects the culturally motivated and emotionally embedded bias of a society, archaeology, art and architecture provide a visual and material record of lives and mores, and graffiti, inscriptions and papyri constitute a source of direct insight into the thoughts, emotions and beliefs of antiquity and reveal much about the legal and social status of the people.
Women's Studies 245: Women in the Labor Market
Same as ECON 245. Prerequisite: ECON 102 or equivalent. Credit is not given for ECON 245 if student has credit for or is enrolled in ECON 346.
Brun Michael TuTh 11:00 - 12:20
The changing role of women in the labor market and the economy; supply and demand for women; nature, extent, and legal remedies for sex discrimination in employment; "earnings gaps" and variable employment costs, men versus women; new role of multi-earner families; and comparative use of women as a professional resource.
Women's Studies 262: Cultural Images of Women
Gottlieb TuTh 12:30 - 2:00
Do women everywhere wish to be slender? Is menstruation everywhere viewed as a curse or handicap? Is childbirth seen universally as an illness to be medicated? Is motherhood by definition a heterosexual experience? This course will explore these and related questions, investigating how women around the world experience their bodies. Throughout the semester we will inquire how, not only social roles, but also images, uses and meanings of the bodies that all women inhabit are shaped in deep, though often invisible, ways by culture. Through a variety of readings, films, and inquiries on these topics, the course will introduce you to critical approaches to gender and society offered by cultural anthropology.
Women's Studies 286: Women in Popular Film and Television
Same as COMM 256.
Dubrofsky TuTh 9:30 - 10:50
Examines the notion that the mass media might influence our development as gendered individuals, looking at those who have argued both for and against this notion. Considers different forms of feminist theory and their application to the study of the mass media. The course then examines the development of images of women in film and television, and how these images might function for different segments of the female audience. The course also looks at the history of these media, the history of their portrayal of women, feminist criticisms of these portrayals, and feminist discussions of the appeal of specifically "female" genres such as melodramas and soap operas to the female audience, as well as feminist attempts to create alternatives to mainstream images in various media. The representation of women of color in the dominant media will also be scrutinized.
Women's Studies 290: Individual Study
Prerequisite: One course in Women's Studies; consent of instructor. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Students may register in this course more than once in the same term. For independent study registration in this course, students should contact the department office. Sections listed below.
CONF. ARR Independent Study
Women's Studies 290 RGI: Race, Gender and Information Technology
Same as LIS 250 RGI.
Searing & Mehra TuTh 12:00 - 1:20
This course examines how gender and race affect, and are affected by, information technologies. Race and gender representations will be studied in different settings as they intersect with information use and technology practices. The course is framed by two broad, interrelated concepts - the expression of identity in cyberspace and the "digital divide."
Women's Studies 332: Women and Language
Same as LING 332, SPCOM 332. Prerequisite: a course in Speech Communication or Linguistics, or equivalent.
Mastronardi TuTh 11:00 - 12:20
Study of actual and perceived differences and similarities in the use of language by women and by men; emphasizes the social contexts of speech.
Women's Studies 358: Social Issues Theatre
Same as THEAT 358. May be repeated in separate semesters to a maximum of 6 hours or 2 units. Graduate students will be required to develop additional projects to be approved and assessed by the instructor.
Manetti MWF 3:00 - 4:50
Research, writing, and production of original plays that address selected health and social issues on the UIUC campus in cooperation with the Counseling and Health Center. The course will emphasize training in acting and in the methods of peer education and discussion facilitation.
Women's Studies 376: "Trans" Bodies and Politics
Prerequisite: One course in Women's Studies at the 200- or 300-level, or consent of instructor. Meets with WS 490.
Cole Tu 3:00 - 6:00
This seminar examines the historical and political significance of the current models of, claims about, and contests for meaning surrounding "sex" and the human body. In general, our readings and discussions will aim to critically examine the dynamics implicated in the ongoing making of nature and sexual difference as they are enacted and encoded on and through trans-bodies. We are using the term "trans" as a cover term for the multiple categories of bodies and identities that are not simply integrated into the dominant gender/sex/sexuality matrix (and that may or may not challenge the familiar heterosexual/homosexual division). We will use theoretical writings, empirical studies, and concrete exemplars to critically evaluate the durability of the dichotomies informing the essentialist/constructionist (nature/nurture) debate. That is, rather than viewing the debate as futile and/or outdated, our seminar aims to take the debate seriously. By focusing on concrete medical and scientific trans-related technologies and technologies as practices of classification, regulation, and order, we will investigate the formation of fundamental categories, the production of evidence, and the changing concepts, practices and relationships related to pathology, sex, and nature. Examples will be drawn from case studies, clinical reports, and cultural commentaries, and will include work by academics of various persuasions, videomakers, laboratory scientists, health practitioners, activists, health policy makers, public figures, and performance artists. Ideally, several recent events will help organize our discussions throughout the semester: Transgender civil rights; the Aurora/Zachery Lipscomb case; Littleton v. Prange; the academic (including recent research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center) and public response to post-As Nature Made Him John Money; the International Olympic Committee's "sex testing" policy; ISNA's influence on paradigms of intersex surgery; and Transgender Health Projects. The concerns and issues raised through the specific cases should help us think about a wide variety of empirical and theoretical questions. Thus, our discussions will be organized around the concrete medical and everyday, and, relatedly, the enabling and limiting aspects of feminist theory, queer theory, and their relationship. In sum, our readings and discussions will constantly move between the empirical and theoretical, research and culture, culture and science, sexuality and bodies, technologies and identities, and conceptual dynamics and ethics.
Women's Studies 380: Gender Roles and International Development
Prerequisite: One course in Women's Studies or one course in international, social, economic, or political development; or consent of instructor. For undergraduates, consent of instructor is required. Meets with HCD 495 G.
Summerfield W 1:00 - 4:00
This course is multidisciplinary and policy-oriented in scope. We will focus on analysis of the gendered dimensions of globalization and socio-economic transformation policies, stressing the last few decades. The impacts on people's lives and the agency roles of women and men as they adopt strategies to improve conditions for themselves and their families are examined. The course will address conceptual tools for evaluating development policies based on different paradigms. Because the seminar is policy-oriented, key topics will change each year, influenced by current events, the themes of the WGGP program, and the interests of the students. This year's themes stress human security and the arts and social change; the enrolled students may identify additional topics. This course satisfies the core requirement for the graduate level GRID concentrations offered by the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives (WGGP) program in cooperation with departments and units across campus; for more information, check the WGGP web site at
http:// www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp/.
Women's Studies 396: Seminar in Women's Studies
Prerequisite: WS 111 or 112, and two additional courses in Women's Studies at the 200-300 level; junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated once as content varies. For independent study registration in this course, students should contact the department office. See below for section.
Women's Studies 396 B: Introduction to South Asian Literature
Topic: South Asian and South Asian-American Women Writers (1850 - Present)
Prerequisite: Consent of course coordinator. Knowledge of a South Asian language not required. Meets with Hindi 308 and Comparative Literature 396 B.
Sawhney MW 11:00 - 12:20
This course will present a broad survey of South Asian women's writing from the early years of the nationalist movement to the present. The section on contemporary writing will include works by immigrant and second-generation writers, thereby allowing us to compare major themes that appear in the works of women writing in South Asia and in the diaspora. We will take note of concerns and questions that surface recurrently in these texts and ask how they are informed by the political and social history of the region. Do these writers present themselves predominantly as artists or activists? How is the category of "literature" or "art" understood and transformed by women writing in a colonial and post-colonial context? What is the relation between the literary and the critical work being produced today by South Asian women, both within and outside the university? Beginning with Pandita Ramabai's short book The High-Caste Hindu Woman (written in the US in 1886), we will go on to read Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1905 representation of a feminist utopia, Sultana's Dream, and selections from the writings of two major figures in twentieth-century Indian writing, Mahadevi Verma (1907-1987) and Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1987). Among contemporary works we will read Anita Desai's novel In Custody as well as short stories by Amrita Pritam and Mahasweta Devi. Asian-American texts will include Meena Alexander's Fault Lines, Tahira Naqvi's Attar of Roses, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, and Anita Rau Badami's Tamarind Mem. A course packet will make available to the students some powerful analyses of gender, caste and class in South Asian communities. We will focus in particular on Uma Chakravarti's "Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi," Tharu and Niranjana's "Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender" and "Chaste Identities" from Sunaina Marr Maira's Desis in the House. All readings in English.
Women's Studies 396 GS: Advance Gender Relations in International Development Research Methods
Meets with HCD 492.
Summerfield Th 1:00 - 4:00
Explores use of quantitative and qualitative statistical methods to examine gender issues in developing countries. Topics include: the availability of data from the United Nations and other sources, methods of collecting one's own data and working with local specialists and participants, ethics, and focus groups. Students choose research methods for a project and critically evaluate alternatives. Satisfies the methodology requirement for the doctoral GRID (Gender Relations in International Development) concentration offered by the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. Prerequisites: WS/380/HCD495G Gender Relations in International Development; for more information, check the WGGP webpage at www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp/.
Women's Studies 396 R: Representing Sex, Power and Politics
Meets with COMM 291 R.
Frost TuTh 1:00 - 2:30
Debates about sexuality have shaped the self-conception, the self-representation, and the agendas of contemporary feminist theory and practice. Different conceptions of the relationship between sex and power have generated conflicting representations of the nature of women's oppression and the kinds of feminist politics necessary to fight it. This course examines how different representations of the relationship between sex, power, and subjectivity have shaped feminism. While we will situate our exploration of this issue against the backdrop of the bitter disagreements about the social and political significance of sexuality in the early years of the second wave of feminism in the United States, the bulk of our analysis will be theoretically oriented. We will draw on the theoretical frameworks provided by Freud, Deleuze, Bataille, and Foucault in order to explore how to think about and represent the relationship between power, desire, prohibition, subjectivity and political agency in the context of racial and class differences, in situations of rape and sexual slavery, and in the lives of those who are queer or who are prostitutes.
Women's Studies 396 RC: Feminism and Film
Same as English 373 R2. Prerequisite: one film, communication studies or women's studies course or consent of instructor.
Curry TuTh 1:00 - 2:50
This course on feminist approaches to film and other mass media will begin by examining the representation of gender differences in classical Hollywood cinema. While we will address to some extent how also newer industrialized media (tv, now the Internet) structure female images, the balance of the course (approximately half of it) will focus on films and videotapes produced over the last 30 years by various women, to evaluate their efforts to create alternative modes of representation. Throughout, the course will emphasize the relevance of theory to creative practices and the relation of feminist media criticism and production to on-going struggles in the movements to achieve full civil rights and social /interpersonal equality for all women. It will devote special attention to issues of "spectator pleasure" in media consumption, particularly to determining how the works studied address or ignore women of diverse class, race, age and sexual identities as audience members. Extensive readings and active class participation required.
Women's Studies 401: Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities
Prerequisite: At least one graduate-level humanities course or consent of instructor.
Somerville Th 1:00 - 3:00
This course will explore a wide range of questions in feminist theory and interdisciplinary gender studies, particularly those that have influenced and been shaped by the fields of literary studies, film studies, social and cultural history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. The first part of the course will focus retrospectively on key developments in various feminist theories and approaches; the second half will focus on the most recent scholarship in the field. The particular emphasis of our discussions will be shaped in large part by the interests of seminar participants, as well as such questions as: How do various feminisms construct the relation between theory and practice? What models of identity inform various feminist theoretical paradigms? What are the stakes of feminist theory in the context of recent theoretical interest in intersectionality and the heterogeneity of subject positions, especially those that emphasize the multiple determinants of gender, class, race, and sexuality? Please note that I will be assigning readings for our first class meeting; see the information posted on my office door (English Building 343) after December 16 for further details.
Women's Studies 402: Feminist Scholarship in the Social Sciences: Theory and Research
Same as SOC 425. Prerequisite: Undergraduate statistics; at least one graduate-level course, or permission of instructor. A graduate-level course in social science research methods is strongly recommended.
Kenney W 1:30 - 3:30
This course will combine a review of various quantitative and qualitative research methods in the social sciences with readings in feminist critiques of these methods, considering how such critiques have changed over the past 30 years. We will also read examples of research produced using these methods (quantitative-only and qualitative-only, as well as research that combines methods) and discuss this research, informed by the feminist critiques we have read. Over the course of the semester, students will produce a proposal for research they intend to pursue in the future. In this proposal, they will draw on the various perspectives we have discussed in class to develop and justify the methodology to be employed in their own research.
Women's Studies 451: Women, Society and Social Welfare Issues
Same as SOC W 451. Prerequisite: SOC W 351 or consent of instructor.
Zhan Th 1:00 - 3:50
This course seeks to understand the interactive complexities involving individuals, families, groups, organizations, institutions, and communities that affect women in different cultural and societal contexts. Topics relevant to social work practice of all specialization areas (school, child welfare, health and mental health) as well as policy will be developed in the course.
Women's Studies 463: Feminist Theory in Anthropology
Same as ANTH 463. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Gottlieb Tu 2:30 - 5:20
What is feminist anthropology, how does it relate to broader feminist theory, and how does it relate to anthropology? Can feminism and cultural relativity engage in a productive dialogue? What is feminist ethnography, and is/can/should it be written "differently"? In this graduate seminar we will take a roughly chronological look at how a range of authors, from founding mothers to contemporary scholars, have reshaped the subdiscipline of cultural anthropology by reminding us that we are all gendered. We explore a range of theoretical perspectives, from political economy to postcolonial to literary. Although we mostly focus on writings by anthropologists, we will also look at relations between feminist anthropology and other disciplines.
Women's Studies 490: Topics in Women, Gender and Sexualities
Topic: "Trans" Bodies and Politics
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and previous coursework in women's or gender studies, or consent of instructor. Meets with WS 376.
Cole Tu 3:00 - 6:00
See the course description for WS 376.
Afro-American Studies 290: Black Masculinities: History, Theory, Politics, and Culture
Rustin MW 2:30 - 3:50
Can we talk about gender when we talk about men's experiences? Are there different ways of being a black man? What does it mean for men to claim to be black feminists? How do black men negotiate expectations around family and sexuality? Are young black men's experiences of politics or culture representative of the black community? These questions serve as a starting point for the issues which this course will deal with over the course of the semester. Throughout the course, students will be required to think critically about issues of race and gender as they read and research questions around culture, politics, and history. We will consider whether or not men (across racial lines) can be feminists and what types of theoretical arguments can be made from such a vantage. We will examine the relationship between sociology and memoir in documenting the experiences of men of color. We will address the intersections between cultural practice and sexual identity as well as the impact of representations of masculinity on political and legal thought. The course will focus on how these questions pertain to African American masculinity in particular and will examine constructions of African American gender and sexuality in academic and mainstream writing. We will scrutinize the counter-narratives articulated by African American cultural theorists and historians. Contrary to arguments that masculinity studies resituate men at the center of historical, sociological, cultural, and theoretical debates, this course emphasizes the complexity of gender as an analytical site.
Afro-American Studies 314: Race and Ethnic Issues in Family Sociology and Education
Same as EPS 314, HDFS 314, and SOC 314.
Barnett TU 10:00 - 11:50
Graduate-level sociological examination of how gender, race, ethnicity, cultural diversity and class function in the development of diverse American families, which are important foundations of education. Primary attention will be given to African American and Hispanic families. Secondary attention will be given to Asian American, Native American and other racial and ethnic family groups.
Agricultural and Consumer Economics 255: Economics of Rural Poverty and Development
Allen MW 10:00 -11:20
Examines poverty and development issues with particular attention to current anti-poverty policies and programs and alternative policies. Includes discussion of family size and structure, sex discrimination in education and the labor market, welfare reform and child-support enforcement.
Anthropology 185: An Introduction to Contemporary Korean Society through Film
Same as EALC 185. First-year Discovery Program course: enrollment restricted to freshmen.
Abelmann MW 2:00 - 3:50
Using feature films to look at contemporary South Korea, we examine the lives of men and women and the way in which all social practices and ideas are gendered.
Art History 430: Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art
Topic: Women and Art in Renaissance Italy, 1400 - 1600
Wood Tu 10:00 - 12:00
This seminar addresses a series of issues concerning the representation and experiences of women in 15th- and 16th-century Italy. Its analysis of artistic and historical evidence offers a starting point for understanding the ideological function of art in framing women's roles and in codifying attitudes toward women during the early modern period.
Art History 435: Graduate Seminar in European Baroque Art
Topic: Portraiture and Self-Portraiture in the Seventeenth Century
Graduate students from disciplines other than Art History are welcome. For more information email Professor Rosenthal: lrosenth@uiuc.edu.
Rosenthal Th 2:00 - 3:50
This graduate seminar will explore developments in the genre of portraiture during the 17th century as it is deployed for diverse purposes by an ever-widening range of patrons. What do these portraits tell us and how do we read them? Our inquiry will consider how evolving concepts of civility and social status form the conditions of portraiture in this period. We will also focus on family portraits in relation to the emergent modern nuclear family with its shifting ideals of gender and new conceptions of childhood. Additionally, we will look at a variety of strategies that artists engaged when representing themselves and will consider how women artists negotiated the available models of professional identity.
Communications 221: Film Culture, Interpretation and Theories: American Gangster Films
Gill (Lect.) MW 1:00 - 1:50
Disc. Sections Th or F
This course will examine the classic American genre of gangster films from their inception to recent reworkings. During the Depression, the gangster emerged as a living presence - his activities were routinely chronicled in newspapers - and as a folk hero. The typical gangster saga is something of a celebration of undisciplined American entrepreneurial spirit, of unrestrained vitality and enterprise. Film gangsters are often assertive, determined, focused, and exciting, but their restless intensity and unpredictable actions hint at psychopathic maladjustments. Gangster films always suggest that there is something fearfully, fatally wrong with gang lords, that in some way their climb to power is generated by displaced sexual energy. The automatic quality of gangsters - callous brutality and often sadistic behavior makes them both frightening and intriguing. These powerful, authoritative characters seem more often than not to be dangerously out of control, harmful both to themselves and others, and wholly in service to an insistent desire that may give them pleasure at times but also drives them mercilessly. Class readings and discussions will focus on the social issues, depictions of violence, and constructions of masculinity elaborated in gangster narratives. The course will neither employ the notion of auteurism, chart the progression in a great director's oeuvre, nor discuss film assessments that rely on the taste and sensibilities of individual professional critics. By looking at exemplary selections of this genre and reading pertinent theoretical essays, the class will examine the narrative premises, gender constructions, and visual strategies of gangster films, assessing their historical significance as well as their explorations of a social identity that both violates and confirms traditional American values. Films to be screened: Little Caesar (1930), The Public Enemy (1931), Scarface (1932), The Roaring Twenties (1939), White Heat (1949), Al Capone (1959), Murder Inc.(1960), The Godfather (1972)/The Godfather Part II (1974), Scarface (1983), Goodfellas (1990), Miller's Crossing (1990), New Jack City (1991), Gotti (1996)
Communications 291: Jazz and Urban Life
Same as COMM 490 D.
Rustin MW 11:30 - 12:50
This course explores the dynamic influence of cities on the development of jazz as an art form and a cultural metaphor. It examines how jazz performers articulate a sense of themselves as gendered and raced subjects based on their experiences of the city, and as musicians and consumers. It also considers how and when jazz is used as a metaphor for identifying a cultural moment, process, and/or cultural group. We will use the following questions as a starting point for our investigation. How does the meaning of jazz as a black music change over time? In what ways do the freedoms and restrictions of the city have an impact on musicians ability to perform? When do women figure in our constructions of jazz history? What do the stories men tell of themselves teach us about masculinity or music? How do we understand jazz as a discourse; as an aesthetic? We will draw on historical, musical, literary, theoretical, biographical, and autobiographical texts for our study.
Community Health 199 B: Campus Acquaintance Rape Education
Wantland MW 3:00 - 4:30
Why is it difficult to speak out against rape? Is anyone actually in support of rape? If the majority of perpetrators are men, why is it still seen as a "woman's problem"? This class explores the realities of sexual assault and its societal foundations. Students will have an opportunity to discuss and critically analyze the effects of culture, oppression, and socialization on sexual violence. Students acquire facilitation skills which allow them to work as peer educators with the C.A.R.E. program. For more information, contact Ross Wantland at 333-3137.
Community Health 206: Human Sexuality
See the Timetable for lecture and discussion times.
Staff
This discussion-oriented course is offered to students who want to obtain a broader perspective on, and increase their own understanding of, the topics and issues associated with sexuality. Content areas such as communication in relationships, sexual behavior, conception and contraception, pregnancy and childbirth, sexual orientation, sexual health and coercive sex will be covered.
Community Health 240 B2: C.A.R.E. Practicum
For information to enroll, contact Ross Wantland at 333-3137.
Wantland Ind. ARR
Students in this class will have the opportunity to explore specific issues not discussed in CHLTH 199B. Emphasis is placed on facilitation skill building and sexual violence education and prevention. Students meet twice a month as a group for in-services and trainings.
Community Health 304: Gerontology
Same as HDFS 304. Open to any interested senior or graduate student.
Armstrong MW 2:00 - 3:15
Introduces gerontology as the multidisciplinary study of human aging and examines its theories, research and applications. Considers the contributions of women as participants in the aging process, as scholars and theory builders, as practitioners in aging-related professions. Examines aging and later life in the contemporary U.S. and incorporates global and crosscultural perspectives. Projects based in the student's major field are encouraged.
Comparative Literature 205: Islam and the West through Literature
Blake TuTh 1:00 - 2:20
This course gives attention to global gender issues and is organized around major cultural/historical/religious topics present in literature through Western and Islamic eyes, beginning with the Crusades and proceeding into the present, this new course will examine stereotypes, fantasies, identifications and political opportunism prompted by the encounter between the West and the Islamic World. Texts include: Crusades through Arab Eyes by Maalouf; Daughter of Isis by El Saadawi; Leo Africanus by Maalouf; Palace Walk by Mahfouz; Palestine's Children:Returning to Haifa and Other Stories by Kanafani; Sleepwalkers and Other Stories: The Arab in Hebrew Fiction by Ben-Ezer; The Satanic Verses by Rushdie; The Song of Roland by Anon; The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories by Salih; and Turkish Embassy Letters by Montagu.
Educational Policy Studies 490 X: Seminar for Advanced Students of Education
Topic: Gender, Race and Sexuality
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Pillow Tu 1:00 - 3:50
No course description available at this time.
Educational Psychology 360: Introduction to Counseling and Psychotherapy
Same as PSYCH 367.
Espelage MW 3:00 - 4:30
In this course a wide range of theories of psychotherapy are covered, ranging from psychodynamic approaches to feminist therapy. Each theory is evaluated in relation to gender issues. In addition, lectures focus on how each approach assesses its efficacy and verifies its tenets, the process of therapy in each model (i.e., stages of therapy), and how these models related to individual differences (e.g., sex, race, sexual orientation). We will give attention to multicultural counseling and feminist theories.
English 280 Q: Women Writers
Topic: Asian American Women Writers
Moynihan TuTh 12:30 - 1:45
This course provides an introduction to the diverse body of literature produced by Asian American women writers. While racist constructions such as the "Dragon Lady," the silent "Lotus Blossom," the sacrificial Madame Butterfly, and the Oriental prostitute have served as the predominant representations of Asian American women in American society, more complex understandings of the intersections of race, gender and sexuality are offered through Asian American women's texts, both through the innovative use of literary forms and narrative strategies, and through engagement with cultural and political issues. Our approach to the texts will consider both points of commonality and issues of difference among the writers, particularly in terms of ethnicity, class, and national affiliations. The texts may include the following: Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, Cathy Song's Picture Bride, Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, Chanrithy Him's When Broken Glass Floats, and critical essays. Course requirements will include a short critical essay, a research paper, midterm and final exams, and active class participation.
English 281 X: Women in the Literary Imagination
Topic: The Evolution of Marriage, Sexuality and Economics in British Fiction
Baron MWF 12:00
For much of British history, women of all classes were expected to maintain the social hierarchy through marriage, and to fulfill their destiny through pregnancy and motherhood. This course will explore the evolution of women's marital choices, sexual practices and economic rights in England over a two hundred year period. We'll begin by examining the nuances of 18th-century marriages, how women regarded courtship and how the advent of the novel and the rise of the upper middle class began to change the rules about marriage in England. Then we'll see why in spite of their many accomplishments and a powerful female figurehead to lead the nation, Victorian women were barred from owning property, barred from voting, and forced into submissive marriages that could leave them either vulnerable and depressed or curiously satisfied with their constrained lives. Moving into the late 19th and early 20th centuries, we'll take a look at how women from varying social classes dealt with the changes that technology had on their vocations, marital choices and sexual practices, and how the culture at large regarded these women. We'll end the semester on a lighter note with Bridget Jones's Diary, focusing on the liberated late 20th-century woman as she struggles to find just the right man, battles bad hair days, unwanted cellulite, poor career choices and non-committal boyfriends. Texts: Austen, Persuasion; Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Forster, Howards End; Woolf, To the Lighthouse; Fielding, Bridget Jones' s Diary and Yalom, A History of the Wife. Films and essays will supplement course readings.
English 296 &C: Honors Seminar, I
Topic: Reading Out: U.S. Lesbian Print Cultures in the Twentieth Century
Foote W 10:00 - 11:50
This class has as its aim the study of two interrelated phenomena. First, we will look at the twentieth century's increased attention to sexuality as a category of identity. How did the idea of identity become privileged as an object of inquiry? How are the emergence of gay and lesbian sexual identities implicated in twentieth-century political and social movements around feminism, civil rights, AIDs and pornography? What kind of place does sexual identity have in the "major" texts of United States literature? What counts as lesbian literature anyway? But as we ask these questions, we will also turn our attention to the field of publication itself, looking at the emergence of new presses to publish literature dealing specifically with sexual difference and lesbian concerns. What relationship do alternative press venues have to more established presses? How did the production of lesbian pulp influence the development of press lists? What does it mean that so many lesbian texts reference "classic" lesbian novels, or that so many autobiographical essays discuss the reading of lesbian texts as a pivotal element in coming out? How have some narratives of lesbian literature wished to interpellate readers into an idealized community? How has the emergence of what Danae Clark has called "commodity lesbianism" - the increased visibility of lesbians as a consumer group and as a fetish social identity - changed the literary field? Texts may include: R. Hall, The Well of Loneliness (not American, but yes, we have to read it); selection of nineteenth-century American regionalists; fiction from The Ladder; Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons; Ann Bannon, Odd Girl Out and Beebo Brinker; Jane Rule, The Memory Board; Clare Morgan, The Price of Salt; Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle; Sarah Schulman, People in Trouble; Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues; short stories by Dorothy Allison, Jewelle Gomez, and Audre Lorde; Alison Bechdel, Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For; Joan Nestle, A Restricted Country; selections from butch/femme autobiographical readers including work by Minnie Bruce Pratt; a packet of material on the history of alternative presses in the US and selected texts of queer theory and history; selections from Liz Kennedy and Madeline Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold.
English 297 &S1: Honors Seminar, II
Topic: Gender and Power in Seventeenth Century Comedy
Kay Th 2:00 - 3:50
Women in 17th-century England were at a disadvantage in relation to men because of a lack of educational and vocational opportunities, a marriage system in which dowries and arranged marriage limited freedom of choice and masculine ideology proclaimed husbands the head of the household, and a double standard of sexual morality that allowed men license but demanded chastity from women. Nevertheless, gender roles were the subject of lively negotiation in the period immediately before and after the English civil war, and the new commercial theater of the late 16th and early 17th century capitalized on the interest in the balance of power between men and women by staging examples of assertive and independent women. Moreover, in the Restoration, the innovation of women actresses expanded the role of women in drama and made their parts more equal. We will examine power relations between men and women in seventeenth comedy, exploring how attempts at male dominance or sexual conquest are challenged by female assertiveness and wit and considering whether the scope allowed to female characters is genuine or subtly qualified. Texts (tentative): Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing; Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday; Jonson, Epicoene: or The Silent Woman; Dekker & Middleton, The Roaring Girl; Marston, The Dutch Courtesan; Fletcher, The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed; Wycherley, The Country Wife; Etheridge, The Man of Mode; Behn, The Rover; Congreve, The Way of the World, All for Love; Farquahar, The Beaux Stratagem.
English 300 C: Writing about Literature
Topic: Love in the Middle Ages
Lartigue MWF 10:00
Dante and Beatrice, Troilus and Criseyde, Lancelot and Guinevere, and Heloise and Abelard - the literature of the Middle Ages made these lovers famous. This course will explore secular and sacred love in medieval writings from England and the continent. We'll consider the roles for men and women in medieval love, how men and women writers work within the medieval love tradition, and how these authors express their love, longing, and loss. We'll also evaluate claims that medieval love is the basis for modern attitudes about romantic love and consider possible connections between attitudes of "courtly love" and misogyny. Readings will include Andreas Capellanus's instruction manual for lovers, Marie de France's Lais, some of Chretien de Troyes's Arthurian romances, Dante's Vita Nuova, various lyrics and short tales, and Chaucer's masterpiece Troilus and Criseyde. We'll also look at some depictions of sacred love - Julian of Norwich's mystical visions of Jesus, Heloise's letters to Abelard, and a poet's struggle to come to terms with his grief for a lost loved one in Pearl. All readings will be in modern English translation, excerpt for Troilus and Criseyde which we'll read in the original Middle English; no previous experience reading Middle English is expected, however.
English 300 E: Writing about Literature
Topic: Women and Oral Tradition
Garner MWF 1:00
Verbal arts that derive from oral traditions often require different methods of analysis than literary texts written for silent readers. This course seeks to understand the implications a work's roots in oral tradition have for its interpretation and, more specifically, how oral traditions are affected by gender. Among other questions, we will examine ways men and women differ as performers of and audiences for oral traditions, how women negotiate power through folklore performance skills, and how women are represented in folklore traditions. Throughout the semester, we will consider the contexts of various distinctly female traditions in the past and present in a number of ways. We will be interested in living oral traditions, in literary texts that derive from oral traditions, and in performances and texts at all points along the spectrum between these poles. Readings will likely include Epic of Sara (West African), Laxdæla Saga (Old Norse), excerpts from Siri Epic (Tulu), South Slavic healing charms and women's lyric, Anglo-Saxon childbirth charms and the Old English Judith, women's ballads of the southern United States, and Spider Woman's Granddaughters (Native American). These and other primary texts will be supplemented by secondary readings that provide theoretical and historical context. Coursework will emphasize writing with at least four short paper assignments, culminating in a longer research paper.
English 361 P2: Topics in English and American Literature
Topic: Women Writers in the U.S.
Somerville TuTh 11:00 - 12:15
This course will explore fiction, poetry, memoirs, and essays by women writers in the U.S. from a variety of historical periods. Throughout the course, we will pay special attention to the ways in which gender intersects with class, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity in shaping both literary representation and the positions of women as writers and readers. By also engaging with a range of theories and histories of gender in American culture, we will question precisely what we mean when we refer to the category "woman" and what it means to conceive of "women's writing." Texts may include works by writers including Susanna Rowson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Pauline Hopkins, Sui Sin Far, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Bishop, Jamaica Kincaid, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldúa, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cherríe Moraga, Leslie Feinberg, and Theresa Hak Kung Cha.
French 432: Studies in Medieval French Literature
Topic: The Construction of Gender in Medieval French Texts
Non-French majors welcome. For additional information, contact k-fresco@uiuc.edu.
Fresco F 2:00 - 3:50
During this course we will investigate the construction of gender in a variety of texts, both literary and non-literary, with a view to distinguishing a relativized concept of gender determined by various cultural contexts. We will review several approaches to gender, including anthropological, Marxist, psychoanalytical, postmodern and queer approaches. Readings will be drawn from the works of Michel Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, and Teresa De Lauretis, among others. The medieval texts that we will study will include courtesy literature (Le Mesnagier de Paris, Christine de Pizan's Livre des trois vertus), medical literature (Women's Secrets, A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis Mulierum), monastic rules for women and Heloise's letter to Abelard about the rule, saints' lives, La Chanson de Roland, Silence (a thirteenth-century romance), selections of courtly lyric (lovesong, chansons de femmes, pastourelles), fabliaux. Some of the questions that we will address: How can we think about the relation of gender and sexuality to power? How do the shifting borders between what counts as masculine and what counts as feminine produce other kinds of bodies? What political and ethical issues are thus raised? All texts will be available in either modern French or English translation.
History 298 G: Undergraduate Research and Writing Seminar
Topic: History of Reproduction
Prerequisite: Junior standing; 14 hours in history; or, with consent of instructor, 14 hours in the social sciences or humanities.
Reagan Tu 2:00 - 3:50
As the reports and debates about reproductive practices, ethics, and policy that appear in contemporary news reports and political discourse underscore, human reproduction is neither simply a personal nor biological event. This course not only historicizes contemporary concerns, it is designed to introduce students to important themes in the history of medicine and women as well as to a range of historical theories and methods. Topics include midwifery, obstetrics, birth control, abortion, mother and fatherhood, adoption, birth defects, infant mortality, and more. Although often treated as a "private" family issue, in fact, pregnancy and reproductive topics have long been of great interest to the nation, militaries, and medicine, and subject to state control and political debate. As such, reproduction deserves critical attention. The social status of women has been defined by their reproductive capacity, which has raised important questions about the relationship between biology and society, about what is "natural" and what socially constructed. A number of theorists argue that reproduction is as important to as a society's mode of production and political structure. The study of reproduction also sheds new light on the history of medicine and health. We will examine the nature of medical practice, the relationship between physicians and patients, professionalization and competition in medical care, public policy, and the impact of changing technology on medicine and society. The course is designed around both readings and research. Students will analyze and become familiar with a variety of historical sources in class. Each student will also do their own research in primary sources and write a lengthy, analytical paper on a topic chosen in consultation with the professor. The course will also include one or more documentaries and field trip(s) to the library.
History 493 A: Problems in Comparative Women's History
Topic: Gender and Colonialism
Allman & Burton W 1:00 - 2:50
This course provides a thematic overview of the intellectual questions, methodological challenges and historiographical innovations that arise when gender as a category of historical analysis is brought to bear on colonialism as a world-historical phenomenon. Among the subjects under consideration are the civilizing mission; the subaltern subject; conjugality; the materialities of culture; newly imagined geographies of sex and race; the fate of the nation/state; and the limits of the discipline of History itself.
Human and Community Development 495 M: Seminar in Human and Community Development
Topic: Gay Families
Oswald W 2:30 -5:30
An in-depth examination of the current social science literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people's chosen and bio-legal family relationships. The intersection of families with gender, geography,
GLBT community history and politics, law/policy, economics, race, generation, ethnicity, age, human service provision, religion, and broad historical trends will also be addressed. All students will be responsible for class facilitation as well as a final paper.
Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) 110: Introduction to Family Studies
Fulfills the General Education Social Sciences requirement.
Jarrett (Lect.) Th 9:00 - 10:50
Disc. A M 11:00
Disc. B M 12:00
Disc. C F 9:00
Disc. D F 10:00
This course is an overview of family development, including courtship, marriage, parenting, the aging family, and family crisis; it emphasizes the application of research findings to individual decision making.
HDFS 210: Comparative Family Organization
Same as ANTH 210. Fulfills the General Education Social Sciences requirement.
Yazedjian (Lect.) Tu 9:00 - 10:50
Disc. A W 11:00
Disc. B W 12:00
Disc. C W 3:00
Disc. D W 4:00
This course emphasizes the link between economic organization/change and family organization/change. We look at family life in both historical and cross-cultural perspective. It is required for all HDFS undergraduates, and satisfies a social science general education requirement for others.
HDFS 310: Contemporary American Family
Prerequisite: HDFS 210 or consent of instructor; and 6 hours of social science.
Umana-Taylor Tu Th 9:00-10:30
Examination of the variety of forms families assume in the United States; families are compared in the areas of kinship, family organization, patterns of interpersonal relationships, socialization, values, and integration with the larger society.
HDFS 335: Latina/Latino Families and Children in the United States
Same as LLS 335. Prerequisite: HDFS 110 or 210.
Umana-Taylor Tu 3:30 - 5:50
This course will introduce students to the existing work on Latino families and children living in the U.S., with a special focus on the diversity that exists within Latino families. Topics such as immigration, intergenerational relationships, ethnic identity, and education will be examined.
HDFS 370: Family Conflict Management
Prerequisite: HDFS 210 or 310 or equivalent.
Kramer TuTh 11:00 - 12:30
Examines processes of conflict management in family and community disputes; emphasizes communication, collaboration, and mediation as modes of dispute settlement.
HDFS 419: Seminar in Family Research and Theory
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in HCD or consent of instructor.
J. Pleck Th 2:00 - 4:50
This course emphasizes systems theory but we also cover symbolic interactionism, exchange theory, and family discourse/ideology as important conceptual frameworks in the family field. Feminist theory is used to inform our use and critique of each framework. It is intended for HDFS graduate students, but may also be relevant to those in sociology, social work, psychology, education, speech communication and nursing.
Kinesiology 249: Sport and Modern Society
Same as SOC 249. Contact the Department of Kinesiology for more information. See Timetable for discussion sections.
Staff (Lect.) MW 11:00
This course focuses on concepts of power, ideology and hegemony in sporting practice. Intersections between gender, race and social class receive considerable attention, as each has a direct relationship to sporting practice. The complexity and contradictions of these intersections are closely examined.
Kinesiology 494 C4: Special Topics in Kinesiology
Topic: Cultural Studies of Racism and Sport
Cole M 3:00 - 6:00
This course will provide students with an advanced introduction to recent themes, theoretical influences, and methodological approaches that are facilitating the study of sport and race. In particular, we will consider how cultural studies has expanded our ability to investigate the relations between race, gender, and nation and sport-related phenomena. In addition to considering the analytical resources and controversies that now condition our perceptions of sport and racism, our readings and discussion this semester are expressly intended to shape how and where race and sport are studied in the future. Confirmed guest speakers include: Grant Farred (Duke University); Adrian Burgos (U.S. Latino History, UIUC); Derek Pardue (Anthropology, UIUC); and Damien Thomas (Afro-American Studies, UIUC). Conference: Students will be expected to attend the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society's conference - Capitalizing on Sport: America, Democracy, & Everyday Life (March 14-15, 2003).
Labor and Industrial Relations 466: International Human Resource Management
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Lawler Th 2:00 - 4:50
Deals with human resource management practices in global companies. Primary emphasis on the selection, training, assessment, and compensation of employees in international (expatriate) assignments. Relevant GRID material would include cross-national differences in culture as these relate to work, roles of women and also family life, the issues confronting women international assignments, gender-based employment discrimination in international assignments, and marital and family issues related to expatriation and repatriation.
Latina/Latino Studies 202 X2: The Chicano Experience
Topic: Post-Movement and Feminism
Same as SPAN 202. Does not count toward a major in Spanish.
Harris Fonseca MWF 10:00
No course description available at this time.
Philosophy 107 P: Introduction to Political Philosophy
Wagner MWF 9:00
Topics: citizenship and human rights; war and political violence; feminist perspectives. We'll start with several human rights classics: the United Nations Charter, the Declaration of Independence, the Communist Manifesto, Declaration of the Rights of the Human Being and the Citizen (from the French Revolution), some documents from the Nuremberg trials. Selections from James Madison, Thomas Paine, and a few other authors are likely. Following that we'll look both at political violence (war, massacre, etc.) and at some theoretical perspectives on it. Primary sources on violence will be Rigoberta Menchu (her 1983 memoir), Iris Chang (The Rape of Nanking), and Hibakusha (memoirs by the survivors of the atomic bombings). The theorists will certainly include Virginia Woolf (Three Guineas, A Room of One's Own), as well as more recent authors. This is an informal class based on discussion and student contributions.
Physiology 199: Discovery in Reproductive Biology
Discovery course: enrollment restricted to freshmen.
Dziuk & Jackson MWF 3:00
This course will introduce the class to recent advances in reproductive biology that have profound economic, social and/or ethical consequences. The class will read articles on topics such as cloning and other advanced reproductive technologies, estrogens and breast cancer, androgens and prostate cancer, environmental pollutants and their effects on reproduction, human population growth, and maintaining threatened species. Several professors who are reproductive biologists on this campus will present topics, and the course may include one or more field trips.
Rhetoric 133 P: Principles of Composition
Topic: Writing About Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Experience
Fulfills the campus Advanced Composition requirement.
Staff TuTh 11:00 - 12:15
In this section of Rhetoric 133, our writing and research will focus primarily upon representations of gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender (GLBT) experience in the media and popular culture. Using the broad categories of publishing (books, magazines and newspapers), music, film and television as framework for analysis, we will research and write about key issues using historical accounts in addition to contemporary representations. Our writing and reading will enable us to explore some key questions: Is the GLBT community a fact or a myth? AIDS - personal tragedy, or perfect plot line? What does it mean to be "out?" Does the media encourage homophobia? Gay icons - who, why? Do fictional representations of GLBT issues help or hinder understanding?
Sociology 482 WP: Recent Developments in Sociology
Topic: Gender and Globalization
Poster W 6:00 - 9:00 P.M.
This course will examine how gender inequality is structured on an international level. First, it will examine commonalities and differences in women's oppression world-wide, and the historical factors which have shaped them. Second, it will look at contemporary patterns of globalization which are shifting the dynamics of gender inequality, such as the international migration of women, the over-seas movements of transnational corporations, and the administration of international state policies. Emphasis will be placed on the interactive relationship between various countries, and how globalization promotes racial, ethnic, and national hierarchies among women in all parts of the world. The last section of the course will then look at women's resistance and international feminist movements.
Spanish 256 N2: Spanish American Literature, II
Topic: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Spanish American and Caribbean Literature
Meets with SPAN 290 N2. Class will be taught in Spanish and is generally open to undergraduates who have completed SPAN 227 or equivalent (students should contact Amy Swanson in Spanish if they have general questions about eligibility and/or how to register for the course).
Goldman TuTh 1:30 - 2:45
Do gender and sexuality in twentieth-century Spanish American and Caribbean literature constitute a mechanism of resistance and change, or do these works simply produce subjects which - although compelling and dramatic in their apparent revolutionary instability - ultimately reinforce the status quo that they appear to challenge? The purpose of this course is to examine issues of gender in contemporary prose fiction, theater and films. Drawing upon recent theories of gender and sexuality, we will analyze how salient representations of gender contribute to, shape, and contest the articulation of Spanish American cultural identities.
Spanish 340 G1: The Spanish American Novel
Topic: Gendered Voices in the Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
Prerequisite: SPAN 254 and 256, or equivalent. The class will be taught in Spanish and is usually open to graduate students and (occasionally) rather advanced undergraduates.
Goldman TuTh 10:30 - 11:45
This course will examine salient constructions of gender in contemporary Spanish American and Caribbean literature from the perspective of Gender and Sexuality Studies. We will analyze how and to what extent the articulation of gendered subjectivity within these works problematizes, subverts or lays claim to a legitimacy (and, by extension, an authority) that is presumably not found within traditional models of normativity and interrogate the role of these representations within Latin American cultural discourse.
Spanish 420: Seminar in Modern Peninsular Literature
Topic: Gender Trouble in the Spanish Fin de Siglo
Prerequisite: Spanish 320 or consent of instructor.
Tolliver Tu 3:00 - 4:50
This seminar will examine the cultural, literary, and artistic manifestations of the "gender trouble" provoked by the changing landscape of gender and sexuality at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries in Spain. Readings of literary and non-literary texts from the period will be carried out through the lens of current theoretical writings on performativity, the body, and the historical construction of sex and sexualities. Participants will be asked to develop individual research/interpretive projects throughout the semester, which will be presented to the class.
Speech Communication 429 3: Seminar in Speech Communication
Topic: Language and Gender
Mastronardi Tu 2:00 - 5:00
Focuses on research that explores how language and gender are mutually constitutive. Examines research from a range of traditions, including communication, education, linguistics, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, and literature. Places particular emphasis on the social construction of gender and on poststructuralist approaches to language. Emphasizes the role of feminist theory in delineating intersections between language, gender, and social power. Topics include feminist theories of language, poststructuralist and postmodern approaches, political economy of language, discourse analysis, gender and sociolinguistic variation, and critical theories of gender, race, and class as they relate to language.
Urban and Regional Planning 394 D: Ethics and Multiculturalism
This course, which involves ten faculty from five academic units, is only open to undergraduate students. For more information, call 244-5377.
Donaghy Tu 6:00 - 8:50 P.M.
The purpose of this seminar is to promote both an appreciation of complex ethical issues that arise in settings defined by conflicting cultural viewpoints and the development of practical skills needed to address such issues in arenas of professional practice and private life. While prominent ethical positions are surveyed, the subject material is developed primarily through the examination of case studies. Among the topics considered are tolerance of religious differences, cross-cultural views of human rights, interpretations of terrorism, defining gender in a global setting, globalization and local autonomy, ethical implications of biotechnology development, and workfare/welfare and preferential hiring.
