WMST 101 Introduction to Women’s Studies |
An interdisciplinary exploration of intersections between gender, race, class, and sexuality in American society and internationally. Topics include: work; sexuality and sexual identity; gender relations and images of women and gender in literature, religion, art, and science; and the history of feminist movements. Course readings are drawn from the humanities and the social sciences. This course includes lecture and small discussion groups led by teaching assistants. Fulfills Social Science and Cultural Diversity Requirements for Arts and Sciences
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SUMMER SESSION II
WMST 101 Introduction to Women’s Studies |
An interdisciplinary exploration of intersections between gender, race, class, and sexuality in American society and internationally. Topics include: work; sexuality and sexual identity; gender relations and images of women and gender in literature, religion, art, and science; and the history of feminist movements. Course readings are drawn from the humanities and the social sciences. This course includes lecture and small discussion groups led by teaching assistants. Fulfills Social Science and Cultural Diversity Requirements for Arts and Sciences
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FALL 2009
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES
WMST 101 Introduction to Women’s Studies | TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
An interdisciplinary exploration of intersections between gender, race, class, and sexuality in American society and internationally. Topics include: work; sexuality and sexual identity; gender relations and images of women and gender in literature, religion, art, and science; and the history of feminist movements. Course readings are drawn from the humanities and the social sciences. This course includes lecture and small discussion groups led by teaching assistants. Fulfills Social Science and Cultural Diversity Requirements for Arts and Sciences
Instructor: Tanya Shields, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
WMST 290 Section 001 Special Topics: Women and Islam in Africa
001 TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
Using fictional and non-fictional writings by and about African Muslim women, in addition to film and other art forms, we will explore questions such as the following: Does one have to read Arabic or pray at a mosque to identify as Muslim? What is the intersection between religious identity, gender identity, and racial or ethnic identity? How did Muslim women navigate the colonial world, how were they regarded by colonial administrators, and how did they seek to change the world in which they lived? How do we account for the increase in women who claim Muslim identity in many parts of Africa over the course of the twentieth century? How does Islam infuse political action, family life, economic strategies, and education? Rather than focus on textual interpretation or esoteric knowledge, this class examines Islam as a component of social and cultural life – that is, the course is more concerned with exploring Muslim identities than Islamic theology. However, the readings will necessarily touch on certain core principles and the Koran's teachings. Readings will include texts by writers such as Assia Djebar, Mariama Ba, and Nana Asma'u. Films will include the Battle of Algiers, selections from the work of Ousmane Sembene, and others. The course is centered on a case-study approach as a means for conducting an in-depth study of specific locales in Africa.
Instructor: Emily Burrill, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
WMST 290 Section 003 Special Topics: Leadership and Violence Prevention
003 TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
This course will be an examination of violence and violence prevention, with a particular focus on issues related to men’s violence against women. The course will be of particular interest to students who want a better understanding of how to end violence in society. We will examine violence on both individual and structural levels, considering both perpetrators and victims. We will address questions such as: What kind of societal conditions enable violence? How are forms of violence related to each other? How are our communities reacting to and working to prevent violence? Particular focus will be paid to strategies of intervention. Leadership and Anti-Violence Awareness (LAVA) is a discussion-based and student-centered course. The course will also draw on the expertise of local organizers and service providers in the system of care.
Instructor: Robert Pleasants
WMST 293 Gender and Imperialism TR 11:00AM-12:15PM
Prerequisite, one course in gender or non-western societies or consent of instructor. This course focuses on feminist perspectives on imperialism; the effects of imperialism on colonized and European women; imperialism and masculinity; women's participation in anti-imperialist movements; and the legacies of imperialism for feminism today. HS, NA
Instructor: Emily Burrill, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
WMST 297 Women’s Spirituality across Cultures TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. How women’s spirituality interacts with officially-sanctioned religious institutions in a range of cultural contexts and how it forges alternatives to those traditions. Formerly WMST 97. LA, US, GL
Instructor: E. Jane Burns, Professor of Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature
WMST 350 Spitting in the Wind: American Women, Art, and Activism
TR 03:30PM--04:45PM
This course uses films, novels, and essays to engage with various notions of activism (as represented in art and social justice organizations) at play in hemispheric America.
Instructor: Tanya Shields, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
WMST 391 Practicum in Women’s Studies TBA
Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. Supervised internships designed to provide experience working in local, state, and national organizations concerned with women's issues. Readings and research paper required. Comprises 2-4 credit hours. Interested students should contact Suzanne Hahn, Administrative Assistant, Women's Studies, 962-3908, prior to the beginning of the semester. Formerly WMST 190. EE
Instructor: Staff
WMST 396 Independent Reading and Research TBA
Intensive reading and research in a student's chosen area of interest under faculty supervision. Results in a written report. Open to Women's Studies majors and other qualified undergraduate and graduate students. Permission of the Chair and faculty member required. Formerly WMST 199
Instructor: Staff
WMST 691H Honor’s Thesis in Women’s Studies TBA
Designed to encourage independent thought and research among outstanding undergraduate majors in Women's Studies. Students must take WMST 99 or WMST 99H. Writing and completion of an honors essay. Students must plan their project with a faculty advisor and secure permission from the Chair of the Curriculum in Women's Studies. Guidelines and forms for initial contract are available in the Women's Studies Office. Formerly WMST 98
Permission of the Chair of the Curriculum in Women's Studies and a faculty member is required.
Instructor: Staff
WMST 695 Senior Capstone Seminar: Principles of Feminist Inquiry TBA
Students taking Honors in Women's Studies must take this course Fall semester. A senior seminar for Women's Studies majors and other interested juniors and seniors.CI Permission of instructor required.
Instructor: Michele Berger, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES
WMST 124/SOCI 124 Sex and Gender in Society
001: TR 12:30AM-01:45PM
002: TR 02:00 PM-03:15PM
This course examines social differentation between men and women with attention to the extent, causes and consequences of gender inequality, and the changes in gender roles and their impact on interpersonal relations. Formerly WMST 024/SOCI 024. SS
Instructor: 001 - S. Kleinman, Professor of Department of Sociology
002 - Beth Latshaw, Department of Sociology
WMST 140/ENGL 140 Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Literature
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
This course introduces literary and cultural topics such as the AIDS crisis, gender stereotypes, aging in queer communities, racial politics and gay/lesbian sexuality, and representations of political activism and queer politics. LA, US
Instructor: Wendy Weber, Faculty in the Department of English
WMST 188/MUSC 188
Introduction to Women and Music
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
This course addresses issues of women and music from three distinct perspectives: global practice, historical evolutions, and local context. In all cases, the subject matter is anchored in the music that women created, performed, and presented, so students will be exposed to varied, diverse, and thought-provoking repertories drawn from Western and non-Western musics, and ranging from “art” to “popular.” Comparisons will also be made with the other arts, issues will be viewed in cultural, social and political contexts, and methodologies will necessarily draw upon a range of disciplines. Thus this course deals with broader aesthetic issues; it takes a comparative approach between Western and non-Western repertories; and it is by definition culturally diverse in several senses of the term. Formerly WMST 48/MUSC 48. VP, NA, GL
Instructor: Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Lecturer in the Department of Music
WMST 240/CLAS 240 Women in Greek Art and Literature
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
This course examines law, religion, medicine, social practices and ideologies in the lives of women in ancient Greece, from Homer to Hellenistic Egypt, using literature, art, epigraphy. LA, NA, WB
Instructor: Sharon L. James, Professor of Classics
WMST 224/COMM 224 Introduction to Gender & Communication
001: TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
002: MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM
Examines multiple relationships between communication and gender. Emphasizes how communication creates gender and power roles and how communicative patterns reflect, sustain and alter social conceptions of gender. Formerly WMST 56/COMM 24. CI
Instructor: Staff
WMST 225/GEOG 225 Space, Place, and Difference MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM
Gender, race and class are examined in terms of the spatial patterns of everyday life, regional patterns and global patterns. Feminist ideas about social diversity have had an enormous impact on the social sciences in the last two decades. The discipline of geography is no exception to this trend. This course will provide an introduction to active debates on the ways in which “space” and “place” contribute to deeper understanding of social diversity and social change. Formerly WMST 125/GEOG 125. SS
Instructor: Staff
WMST 253/AMST 253/JWST 253 Jewish Women in America
MWF 02:00PM-02:50PM
This course will examine the history and culture of Jewish women in America from their arrival in New Amsterdam in 1654 to the present day, and will explore how gender shaped this journey. This course also examines critical scholarship in women's studies, Jewish Studies, and American Studies that has not been previously taught at UNC. This course is especially important in course development for modern Jewish life and American Jewish history at UNC. HS, NA
Instructor: Marcie Ferris, Assistant Professor of American Studies ...
WMST 261 / AFRI 261 African Women:
Changing Ideals and Realities
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
Introduction to recent literature, theoretical questions and methodological issues concerning the study of women in Africa. Topics include women in traditional society, and the impact of colonial experience and modernization on African women. Formerly WMST 61/AFRI 61. SS, BN
Instructor: Staff
WMST 266/AFAM 266 Black Women TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
An examination of the individual and collective experiences of Black women in America from slavery to the present and the evolution of feminist consciousness. SS
Instructor: Kia L. Caldwell, Department of Women's Studies
WMST 275/PHIL 275 Philosophical Issues in Feminism TR 01:00PM-02:15PM
Moral issues of equal rights and justice; sex role stereotypes; equal opportunity and reverse discrimination; abortion; philosophers' theories of feminism. Formerly WMST 46/PHIL 46. PH, US
Instructor: Staff
WMST 294 /FREN 294 Courtship and Courtliness
from King Arthur to Queen Victoria TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. Explores the cultural foundations of western romantic love in courtly literature of the French Middle Ages. Songs of troubadour poets and chivalric tales of knights and ladies will be read against amorous compositions by medieval women authors and further compared with contemporary manifestations of love in the modern world (modern song lyrics, greeting cards, the singing telegram, popular fiction, film). Literary texts will be studied in relation to pertinent historical and art historical materials. Formerly WMST 94A. LA, WB
Instructor: E. Jane Burns, Professor of Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature
WMST 373/CMPL 373 Modern Women Writers MWF 12:00PM--12:50PM
An examination of the works of selected 20th-century European and American women writers, their development of experimental narrative techniques and their contributions to the evolution of a women's tradition in literature. Discussions will focus on the concept of "women's writing" and its characteristics in terms of subject matter, themes and structure. Readings are in English and include works by Virginia Woolf, Isak Dinesen, Toni Morrison, Christa Wolf, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Clarice Lispector and Maria Luisa Bombal. LA, NA
Instructor: D.R. Leonard
WMST 388/INTS 388 International Politics of Sexual and
Reproductive Health
TR 02:00PM--03:15PM
Prerequisite, WMST 101 or permission of instructor. This course takes a feminist political economy perspective on debates over current women's and men's health issues of international concern, including HIV/AIDS, population control, reproductive technology, childbirth, and sexual violence. We also discuss theories of "the body" in relation to health, the medical industry, science, and religion. SS, BN, GL
Instructor: Karen Booth, Associate Professor of Women's Studies
WMST 410/INTS 410 Comparative Queer Politics TR 03:30PM--04:45PM
This course focuses on two related issues in the effort to understand and assess the prospects of the emerging global movement for equality for sexual minorites. First, we compare the histories and practices of local- and national-level queer movements, looking particularly at how communities in South Africa, Thailand, China, Native America, Mexico and elsewhere negotiate between "imported" sexual identities (that is , Euro-American notions of gay, lesbian, or queer) and indigenous identifications. Second, we examine the international organizations and networks that have emerged to link these diverse communities, focusing especially on the notions and practices of "human rights," "global feminism," "gay pride," as well as the issues of HIV/AIDS and sexual and non-sexual "gay tourism." SS, BN, GL
Instructor: Karen Booth, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
WMST 444/SOCI 444 Race, Class and Gender TR 03:30PM--04:45PM
Conceptualizations of gender, race, and class and how, separately and in combination, they are interpreted by the wider society. Emphasis on how black and working class women make sense of their experiences at work and within the family.
Instructor: TBA
WMST 446/ENGL 446 American Women Authors MWF 09:00AM--09:50AM
This course is a study of major American women authors from the seventeenth century into the twentieth century. LA, NA
Instructor: Donna Bickford, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Director, Carolina Women’s Center
WMST 458/ANTH 458 Archeology of Sex and Gender
MWF 10:00AM--10:50AM
Exploration of gender relations in past and gendered archaeological practice in present, involving relevance of gender to general social theory in archaeology, and development of research designs addressing gender meanings and practices, childhood, identity, sexuality. HS, WB
Instructor: Silvia Tomášková, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
WMST 561/COMM561 Performance of Literature by Women of Color
R 02:00PM--04:50PM
Explores, through performance, contemporary poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and fminist thought by women of color in the United States. GC Cultural Diversity perspective. BA-level Aesthetic perspective.
Instructor: Renee Alexander Craft, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication Studies
WMST 656/COMM 656 Women and Film TR 02:00PM--03:15PM
Students in the course will develop and use critical, analytic skills to analyze the representation of women in classical and contemporary Hollywood films. Through a variety of reading and writing assignments, students will have the opportunity to develop basic critical writing and reading skills. VP
Instructor: Joanne Hershfield, Professor of Women’s Studies
WMST 666/ENGL 666 Queer Latina/o Text and Image T 05:00PM--06:50PM
This course explores Latina/o literature about photography in relation to photography by queer Latina/o artists and, through this double focus, poses certain questions about identity, subjectivity, and culture.
Instructor: Maria Deguzman, Associate Professor of English