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Course Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Students planning a program of study or concentration are urged to review program requirements and course descriptions before meeting with their advisors. Not all courses listed here are taught every year, and students should consult the Course Schedule on the Wheaton website for information about offerings in a particular semester. Courses are numbered to indicate levels of advancement as follows: 100–199, elementary or introductory; 200–299, intermediate; 300 and above, advanced. Departments often design new courses, either to be offered on a one-time basis or an experimental basis, before deciding whether to make them a regular part of the curriculum. These courses are numbered 098, 198, 298 or 398.
Information is available online through WINDOW about prerequisites that must be completed before enrolling in a course, as well as the curriculum and general education requirements that a course fulfills. Most courses are offered for one course credit; a course credit at Wheaton is the equivalent of four semester hours.
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGS 233 - Sweatshops in the World Economy This course engages students in the controversy regarding sweatshops and their role in the global economy. We ask why sweatshops have returned to the United States, the richest economy in the world. We also ask what role the spread of sweatshops in the developing world played in the alleviation and perpetuation of poverty.
Prerequisites ECON 101 or ECON 102 or ECON 112 or WGS 101
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ECON 233
Area Social Sciences
Connection 20091
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 234 - United States Women, 1790-1890 This course surveys the history of women in the 19th-century United States, exploring changing constructions of gender, race and class during a period of significant economic and political development. The course examines the emergence of the women’s rights movement among members of the emerging white middle class as well as the changing experiences of free and enslaved African American women. Students complete original research in diaries held in the Wheaton College Archives and Special Collections.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with HIST 233
Area History
Connection 23005
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 235 - Women in Modern Italy This course surveys the history of women in the United States in the 20th century. Beginning with an examination of suffrage and numerous movements for social and economic change, the course challenges students to explore the complexities of women’s experiences. Throughout the course, particular attention is paid to intersections among multiple identities grounded in social constructions of gender, race, class and sexual orientation in local, national and international contexts.
Credits 1
Notes Course taught in English. Cross-listed with ITAS 235 .
Area Humanities
Connection 23006
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Global Honors, Foreign Language, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 236 - Human Sexuality A comprehensive introduction to the biological, behavioral, psychological and cultural aspects of human sexuality. Considers the relation of sexual values and behavior; anatomy, arousal and response; sexual behavior and orientation; issues of gender; sexuality through the lifespan; sexual problems; and important social issues such as rape, abortion and pornography. Classroom exercises, films and guest presentations.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with PSY 235
Area Social Sciences
Connection 23006
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 237 - Sex, God and the Victorians See ENG 236 for course description.
Prerequisites ENG 101 or AP English credit
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ENG 236
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 238 - United States Women since 1890 This course surveys the history of women in the United States in the 20th century. Beginning with an examination of suffrage and numerous movements for social and economic change, the course challenges students to explore the complexities of women’s experiences. Throughout the course, particular attention is paid to intersections among multiple identities grounded in social constructions of gender, race, class and sexual orientation in local, national and international contexts.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with HIST 234
Area History
Connection 23005
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Structure/Power/Inequality, Humanities |
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WGS 239 - Families in Transition See SOC 235 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with SOC 235
Area Social Sciences
Connection 20078
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 240 - Identity, Genre and Poetry Contemporary poems have often embraced the complexities of identity, revealing untold stories and unheard perspectives. This course introduces you to the study of poetry by focusing on how identity gets associated with types of poetry and what individual poets do to subvert or refuse those associations. We will ask questions, such as what gender has to do with categories such as race, class and sexuality in the writing of poetry? How do aesthetic or formal choices make us think differently about race? How do contemporary poems call back to poems from different periods and cultures to rethink a particular form, such as the sonnet or the fragmentation associated with High Modernism? This course is cross listed with ENG 240 .
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ENG 240
Area Humanities
Connection 23004, 20085
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 241 - Women in United States Economy Theories and empirical analysis of women’s work in the United States. Topics include the influence of feminist thought on economics, a multicultural history of women’s work, labor force participation, occupational distribution and wages, the gender division of labor in household production (housework and child rearing) and related policy issues. Cross listed with ECON 241 .
Prerequisites ECON 101 or ECON 102 or ECON 112 or WGS 101 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ECON 241
Area Social Sciences
Connection 23005
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 247 - Feminist Fiction See ENG 247 for course description.
Prerequisites Open to Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ENG 247
Area Humanities
Connection 20034, 23005
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 250 - Feminism, Philosophy and the Law See PHIL 255 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with PHIL 255
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 251 - Love and Marriage See ITAS 250 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Course taught in English. Cross-listed with ITAS 250
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 255 - Women in Africa What contributions have women made to the societies of Africa prior to colonialism? How and why did colonialism affect men and women differently? What are the implications of gender inequality for economic development in Africa today? These questions are considered from ethnographic, autobiographical and fictional accounts. Gender, class and cultural identity will be focal points.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ANTH 255
Area Social Sciences
Connection 23001
Division Social Sciences
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 256 - The Ancient Romance Stories of lovers destined to be separated and reunited, of pirates and thieves, false death and miraculous revival, of identity lost and found. From Homer’s Odyssey through Daphnis and Chloe and The Ethiopian Tale to utopian and picaresque literature, Petronius’ Satyricon and the historical fantasy The Romance of Alexander the Great.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with CLAS 256
Division Arts and Humanities
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WGS 260 - Gender Inequality See SOC 260 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with SOC 260
Area Social Sciences
Connection 20008, 23004
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 262 - Women and Development This course focuses some of the central development problems in the Global South (poverty, hunger, infectious disease, illiteracy) and how our thinking about these issues changed once women were entered into the development equation. The backdrop to the issues we will tackle is the re-organization of the global political economy and the way that different actors in the business of development (international bodies such as the UN and its subsidiaries, national governments, multinational corporations and trade bodies, NGOs and Aid agencies, and the local recipients of aid) understand the fundamental problems causing underdevelopment and the solutions that they affirm. While we will consider the big picture of development from the top down, our key focus will remain on how women and men in the Global South understand and cope with the key development challenges they face in a rapidly changing world.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ANTH 260
Area Social Sciences
Division Social Sciences
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 266 - Gender, Power and the Gods An introduction to the study of the public and private lives of women in Mediterranean antiquity from classical Athens and Rome to late antiquity (fifth century B.C.E. to fourth century C.E.). The relationship of secular authority to religious custom in the Greco-Roman city-states and empires, and the social status of women within these cultures as understood (and misunderstood) by civic institutions and religious customs, including medicine, law, mythology, art and politics. Special attention to religious practices that allowed women more visible and powerful social identities, including state festivals, the so-called mystery cults, and the emerging Rabbinic (Jewish) and Christian traditions.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with CLAS 266
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 267 - Weimar and Nazi Cinema and Culture This course examines the films of the Weimar and Nazi periods and their socio-historical, politico-cultural and aesthetic contexts of production. It covers a wide variety of works from the early beginnings of German cinema to the end of WWII. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the male gaze,” “mass culture and modernity”, or “fascist aesthetics.” (Previously Lulu, Lola and Leni: Women of German Cinema)
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with GER 267 .
Area Humanities
Connection 23014
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 270 - Gender and Education Gender plays a significant but not always obvious role in the lives of individual students, teachers, and policymakers in American education. Examining both P-12 schools and colleges, this course explores schools as sites for learning and teaching about gender, and as gendered workplaces for teachers and administrators. We explore ways that gender and gender identities affect students’ school experience, both in school culture and in the curriculum (direct instruction and “hidden curriculum”); gender differences in achievement and educational choices; curricular efforts to challenge gender assumptions; ways that teachers enact, construct, and challenge the gendered nature of education; and teaching as a gendered profession. We also investigate Wheaton College as a gendered setting. This course is cross listed with EDUC 270 .
Credits 1
Notes Cross listed with EDUC 270
Area Social Sciences
Connection CONX20008, CONX23004
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 272 - Romancing the Novel See ENG 272 for course description.
Prerequisites ENG 101 or AP English credit
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ENG 272
Area Social Sciences
Connection 23006
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 274 - Black in Berlin On a map of contemporary Berlin, Germany, we find a subway station called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and a street named after Jesse Owens. Owens upset Nazi theories of white physical superiority by winning four gold medals for the U.S. in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Berlin reflects African American history in these and many more historical, political and cultural traces. This seminar will compare the troubled histories of the U.S. and Germany as we investigate the very different, but interwoven, changing definitions of, and expectations for, race, gender and identity. We will begin by considering Berlin as an unexpected place of openness and opportunity for African Americans, as it was here that W.E.B. DuBois analyzed race not as a biological but as a social phenomenon. We will continue to the deadly racial catastrophes of the early twentieth century and the changing social and economic climates of both countries. We will continue the course with the ecstatic German welcome of presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and the hope for a new post- racial era. Our final weeks will examine present day Afro-German culture. Questions of gender and intersectionality infuse every topic of Black in Berlin, from the first readings on Colonialism to the last week on contemporary Afro-German culture.
Through film, music, fiction, art, essays, newspapers and interviews we will discuss the following topics:
· German colonialism in Africa
· German universities and black intellectuals
· 19th & 20th century travel and expat communities
· Jesse Owens and the black athlete in Germany
· American G.I.s in Germany after WWII
· Audre Lorde’s Berlin Years
· Obama in Berlin 2008
· Contemporary German hip-hop & rap
This course is cross listed with GER 270 Black in Berlin .
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with GER 270 Black in Berlin . Course taught in English.
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 275 - Disability and Difference Disability Studies examines the societal treatment and lived experiences of people with disabilities. While disability is often seen as a deviation from “normal” functioning, it is a near-universal human experience. This class takes a critical approach to disability, asking questions like: To what extent is disability “natural,” and to what extent is it mediated by cultural norms, medicine, and politics? What does disability, in combination with gender, class, race, and age, reveal about power and inequality in society? And how might we work toward a future in which more people can be meaningfully included in the life of our society?
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with SOC 275
Area Social Sciences
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 284 - Women in Russian Culture See RUSS 284 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Course taught in English. Cross-listed with RUSS 284
Area Humanities
Connection 23020
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 285 - Women and Politics This course examines the way those who identify or are identified as women have been excluded from the political arena all over the world, and the ways in which their increasing participation has changed the way politics is done. This course is organized into two sections. The first part examines the effect of gender on the political process, focusing on women’s political participation and representation. The second part of the course reviews some of the key policy concerns of women around the world, including economic opportunity, education, health, and physical autonomy.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-referenced with POLS 285
Area Social Sciences
Division Social Sciences
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 290 - The Psychology of Women Examines psychological theories and research about women and gender. Discusses similarities as well as gender differences and the multiple causes for those differences. Explores the ways in which ethnicity, class and sexual orientation interact with gender in the U.S.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with PSY 290
Area Social Sciences
Connection 23004, 23005
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 291 - Sociology of Sexualities See SOC 290 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with SOC 290
Area Social Sciences
Connection 20078
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 298 - Animated Bodies, Lively Things See ARTH 298 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ARTH 298 .
Foundation Beyond the West
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WGS 298 - Fashioning Selves: Performing Identity in Dress See THEA 298 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with THEA 298 .
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WGS 298 - Horror Film and the Unruly Body See FNMS 298 for course description
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with FNMS 298
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WGS 298 - Masculinities This course surveys the meaning(s) of “masculinity” as this concept has developed in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly (but not only) in the United States. In so doing, the class seeks to understand how a bundle of disparate forces, values, and norms came to be associated with this term, such that it could be mobilized to justify and/or buttress a wide range of power structures in our society. The course then considers what resources exist within the concept of masculinity - or what resources could be added to it - to better understand, critique, and ameliorate these power structures. WGS 298 thus engages students with questions and texts that explore how social structures systematically advantage and reward some groups and disadvantage others, and the way that individuals and groups have reinforced, resisted, modified, and challenged these structures. It also explores disparities in access, opportunities, or benefits of natural, cultural, social, legal, political, and economic structures, systems or institutions.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 298 - Representing the Enchanted World See ARTH 298 for course description
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ARTH 298
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WGS 298 - Sociology of Militarism: Race, Gender, Class and US Empire See SOC 298 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with SOC 298
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WGS 299 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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WGS 301 - Fashion, Sex and the City What is fashion? Is it just about appearances? Is it only about clothing? How does fashion relate to literary and audiovisual culture, politics, ideology, philosophy? What role did fashion play in shaping the world as we know it? How has Italy contributed to the “fashion system”? In order to answer these questions, “Fashion, Sex and the City” explores the birth and development of fashion in Italy between the 14th and the 21st centuries, highlighting the links between clothing and gender, cultural and national identity, and fashion, seduction, eroticism and morality in Italian literary and visual culture. (Taught in English)
Credits 1
Notes Course taught in English. Cross-listed with ITAS 310
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 310 - Gender and Nation This is a course on feminist epistemology. It examines how various forms of feminist knowledge are constructed and deconstructs notions such as “woman,” gender, gender oppression, patriarchy, women’s liberation, women’s rights and sisterhood. The course examines contentious debates about and among Western, Third World, global, postcolonial, poststructural and transnational feminisms.
Prerequisites Two courses in either Women and Gender Studies and/or Sociology
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with SOC 310
Area Social Sciences
Connection 23006
Division Social Sciences
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 312 - Feminist Theory This advanced-level course is designed to explore in depth many of the theoretical frameworks and methodological issues that are touched upon in women’s studies and gender-balanced courses. The course focuses on historical and contemporary writings from a range of perspectives, including liberal feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism and postmodernism. Special topics such as racism, lesbianism and international women’s issues are also examined.
Credits 1
Notes Open to Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Cross-listed with PHIL 312 and ENG 312
Area Humanities
Connection 23005
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 317 - Queer Theory Developed partly in response to the AIDS epidemic and to make sense of the continued marginalization of people who were not heterosexual, queer theory is a field of inquiry aimed at understanding difference and inequality. The central subjects of queer theory are people marginalized due to their gender or sexuality. Queer theory also asks how “queer” can help us understand a broad range of stigmatized differences: as resistance to the “normal.” This course examines both the intellectual roots of queer theory and its branches into areas like transgender studies, disability studies, and more.
Prerequisites One WGS course or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with SOC 317
Area Social Sciences
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 320 - Race, Gender and Poverty See SOC 320 for course description.
Prerequisites Open to Juniors and Seniors or by Permission of Instructor`
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with SOC 320
Area Social Sciences
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 324 - The 18th Century Novel Before the 18th century, novels in English did not exist. By the end of the 18th century, however, many cultural figures worried about the seemingly obsessive novel reading that was going on among young (particularly female) readers. This course will examine what changed between 1700 and 1800 to make the novel the most important genre of English literature. We will explore the novel as a historical and literary phenomenon. We will see the many ways that the novel answered the grand social and cultural questions which dominated the 18th century. What is the difference between men and women? What makes a human life worthwhile? How should I relate to my family and loved ones? What makes a story seem truthful or false? By reading the prose of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney and Austen, we shall find out.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ENG 325
Compass Attributes Structure/Power/Inequality, Global Honors |
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WGS 325 - Early Modern Feminism: Spain and the New World The history of women in Golden Age Spain is a largely untapped field. In early modern Spain, church and state, helped by the powerful Inquisition, promptly extended their dominance from the control of basic expression of faith to the domain of daily life, of personal privacy, and inside this sphere, sexual behaviors. Women were not spared in this general domestication of minds and bodies. On the contrary, in this patriarchal and catholic society all eyes were focused on their writings, talk, body and its image, sexuality, and faith, even their dreams and visions. In this course we will examine the position of women in religious, political, literary, and economic life. Drawing on both historical and literary approaches we will challenge the portrait of Spanish women as passive and marginalized, showing that despite forces working to exclude them, women in Golden Age Spain influenced religious life and politics and made vital contributions to economic and cultural life.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with HISP 320
Compass Attributes Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 326 - Queer Politics and Hispanisms This course will provide a framework to study the historical and theoretical foundations of queer theory and queer activism. We will explore how queer theory problematizes stable identities in Latin American, Latin@ and Iberian cultures. We will discuss what happens when people challenge or refuse normativized sexuality and gender categories and look at how queer citizens are caught within the processes of nationalism, neocolonialism, globalization and neoliberalism. We will start the semester reading canonical texts by Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Eve Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Judith Halberstam or Gloria Anzaldúa that will help us understand the interdisciplinary scholarship that we will explore during the second half of the semester. The second part of the course will address the question of queerness by analyzing literature, film and cultural products focusing primarily on explicit representation of LGBTQ characters and communities in Latin American, Latin@ and Iberian cultures.
Credits 1
Notes Course taught in English. Cross-listed with HISP 325
Area Humanities
Connection 20058, 23003, 23006
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 331 - Other Voices, Other Stories: Great Works by Women from France and the Francophone World In this course we study novels and short stories by contemporary women writers whose work defies traditional literary forms and introduces new modes of expression, whether as narrative experiments, figures of discourse or alternative texts” the body, for example, as metaphor or “text.” We explore how these writers respond to marginalization, subjugation or oppression through literature and how their stories operate on a political level. The course begins with a short introduction to French feminist theory. Authors may include Cixous, Leclerc, Duras, Letessier, Ernaux, Djébar, Tadjo, Bâ, Sow Fall. This course is part of connection 23006 (Sexuality). This course is cross listed with FR 331 .
Credits 1
Notes Course taught in French. Cross-listed with FR 331
Area Humanities
Connection 23006
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Humanities, Global Honors, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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WGS 341 - Sex and Culture in the 19th Century U.S. Examines the history of thinking about the nature and meaning of sexuality, with particular attention to the religious, medical, psychiatric and sexological discourses in the United States and Europe; popular responses to these discourses; and the changing boundaries between “normality” and “deviance.”
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with HIST 341
Area History
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 343 - Fictions of the Modern See ENG 343 for course description.
Prerequisites Open to Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores who have taken ENG 290 or by Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ENG 343
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WGS 344 - Medieval Sex, Gender & Body This class explores how historians study sex, gender, and the body in medieval Europe and Byzantium, especially in religious contexts. We will focus on historiography and methodology through topics such as the role of women, manipulation of bodies by torture and asceticism, and blurring of traditional gender lines through same-sex relations, cross-dressing and castration.
Credits 1
Notes Open to Juniors and Seniors or by Permission of Instructor. Cross-listed with HIST 344
Area History
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor & Lane Scholars |
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WGS 350 - The Social Life of Gender See ANTH 350 for course description.
Prerequisites ANTH 102 or WGS 101
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ANTH 350
Area Social Sciences
Connection 23006
Division Social Sciences
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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WGS 356 - The Ancient Romance See CLAS 256 for course description. Students at the 300 level will do extra reading, writing and research in projects directed by the instructor.
Prerequisites Open to Classics, Classical Civilization, Ancient Studies Majors or by Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with CLAS 356
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WGS 366 - Gender, Power and the Gods See CLAS 366 for course description.
Prerequisites Open only to Classics, Classical Civilization, Ancient Studies or Women’s and Gender Studies Majors or by Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with CLAS 366
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WGS 370 - Contemporary Women Writers in Spain See HISP 370 for course description.
Prerequisites HISP 240 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-referenced with HISP 370
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Foreign Language
Compass Attributes Foreign Language, Humanities |
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WGS 371 - Women at Work: Art History and Feminism This course considers the ways feminist scholarship has transformed the discipline of art history, examining the rediscovery of exceptional women artists from the 1970s onward, as well as recent feminist critics’ efforts to redefine the structure of the field. Students examine two overlapping categories of work; the production of women artists and patrons, and the textual contributions of feminist scholars and critics. The rationale for this new course is to strengthen the department’ ties to women’ studies and to broaden the theoretical focus of the history of art major.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ARTH 370
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 372 - Masculinity and American Art See ARTH 371 for course description.
Prerequisites One 200-level History of Art course or higher or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ARTH 371
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 374 - Black in Berlin On a map of contemporary Berlin, Germany, we find a subway station called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and a street named after Jesse Owens. Owens upset Nazi theories of white physical superiority by winning four gold medals for the U.S. in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Berlin reflects African American history in these and many more historical, political and cultural traces. This seminar will compare the troubled histories of the U.S. and Germany as we investigate the very different, but interwoven, changing definitions of, and expectations for, race, gender and identity. We will begin by considering Berlin as an unexpected place of openness and opportunity for African Americans, as it was here that W.E.B. DuBois analyzed race not as a biological but as a social phenomenon. We will continue to the deadly racial catastrophes of the early twentieth century and the changing social and economic climates of both countries. We will continue the course with the ecstatic German welcome of presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and the hope for a new post- racial era. Our final weeks will examine present day Afro-German culture. Questions of gender and intersectionality infuse every topic of Black in Berlin, from the first readings on Colonialism to the last week on contemporary Afro-German culture.
Through film, music, fiction, art, essays, newspapers and interviews we will discuss the following topics:
· German colonialism in Africa
· German universities and black intellectuals
· 19th & 20th century travel and expat communities
· Jesse Owens and the black athlete in Germany
· American G.I.s in Germany after WWII
· Audre Lorde’s Berlin Years
· Obama in Berlin 2008
· Contemporary German hip-hop & rap
This course is cross listed with GER 370 Black in Berlin .
Prerequisites GER 240 Advanced German or Permission of Instructor.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with GER 370 . Course taught in German.
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Beyond the West, Foreign Language
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars, Foreign Language |
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WGS 376 - Literary and Cultural Theory See ENG 376 for course description.
Prerequisites Two courses in English Literature or Permission of Instructor. Open to Junior and Seniors
Credits 1
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WGS 377 - Feminist Criticism See ENG 377 for course description.
Prerequisites Two courses in literature and/or Women’s and Gender Studies. Open to Juniors and Seniors only
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ENG 377
Area Humanities
Connection 23005
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 384 - Women in Russian Culture Advanced See RUSS 284 for course description.
Prerequisites Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Course taught in English. Cross-listed with RUSS 384 .
Area Humanities
Connection 23020
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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WGS 398 - Animated Bodies, Lively Things See ARTH 398 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ARTH 398 .
Foundation Beyond the West
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WGS 398 - Queer Cinema See FNMS 398 for course description
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with FNMS 398
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WGS 398 - Representing the Enchanted World See ARTH 398 for course description
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ARTH 398
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WGS 399 - Independent Study Advanced students, in consultation with an instructor, may arrange to pursue independent study on topics not covered by the regular course offerings.
Credits 1
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WGS 401 - Senior Seminar A semester of directed reading and research where students will examine significant issues at the forefront of feminist theory and research, as well as the principal theoretical debates within the field of women’s studies. Topics chosen for discussion will depend on class interest, recent research and timeliness. Potential topics include postcolonial feminisms, women and war, and black feminist theory.
Prerequisites Open only to Senior Women’s and Gender Studies Majors and Minors
Credits 1
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WGS 499 - Independent Research Advanced students, in consultation with an instructor, may arrange to pursue independent study on topics not covered by the regular course offerings.
Credits 1
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WGS 500 - Individual Research Open to senior majors by invitation of the Program. All other interested students should speak with the program coordinator or Women’s Studies academic advisor.
Credits 1
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WCI 098 - Wheaton Credit Internship This course, designed for students who have secured an internship, integrates on-site and academic learning. Supervised by a faculty member, students consider academic perspectives that complement and contextualize their internship experience. Course credit varies from .25 to 1 credit, depending upon the internship and the nature of the course work.
Before enrolling in a WCI course, students must complete a WCI Internship Agreement Form detailing the plan for the internship, and obtain signatures from Career Services, the internship onsite supervisor, and the faculty supervisor.
Prerequisites Secured Internship
Credits .25 to 1
Notes This course is graded as “Pass” or “Fail.” A grade of “P” is not factored into a student’s grade point average, and does not count as one of the three “P” grades that a student can earn through the “G/P/F” option. A grade of “F” will be factored into a student’s grade point average.
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