Course Schedules
Course Schedules
WGS 101 Window on Women’s and Gender Studies (1 hr)
Wanda Balzano/ David Phillips
Tuesday (1/22/2013 and 4/30/2013) 5:00-5:50 pm Tribble / DeTamble A110
An opportunity to experience and reflect analytically on the diverse cultural and intellectual life of Wake Forest, with an emphasis on
WGS events and topics. Students attend events and write about them. See www.wfu.edu/wgs. (Class meets twice.) P/F only.
WGS 221 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (3 hr)
Wanda Balzano/ Angéla Kóczé
WGS 620AG Tuesday 2:00-4:30 pm Tribble A108
An interdisciplinary course that integrates materials from the humanities and the sciences, taught by WGS faculty representing at least two fields. Topics include critical methods and practical solutions, history and theory of women’s and gender studies, women in culture and society, and cross-cultural issues of gender, ethnicity, social class, disability, and sexual orientation. (CD)
WGS 321B Research Seminar: Women, Race and Poverty (3 hr)
Sherri Lawson Clark
Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:45 am Tribble B13
This course applies theoretical perspectives of the causes and consequences of social inequality for women of color to a broad array of texts and articles in the social sciences. We will examine important issues of motherhood and marriage; race and identity; class and education; and housing segregation and predatory lending practices. We will address what needs to change in order to dismantle poverty and inequality in the U.S. for future generations of all women. Same as AES 310 and EDU 310. Approved for ANT credit.
WGS 321C Research Seminar: Men, Women and Pornography
Shannon Gilreath
Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:15 pm Tribble A305
This class will engage cultural analyses of pornography and will examine pornography’s role in the lives of men and women.
WGS 321D Research Seminar: The Politics of Women’s Bodies (3 hr)
Mary DeShazer
Wednesday 2:00-4:30 pm Tribble A204
In this course we will examine feminist discourses for embodiment and contemporary literary works that represent women’s bodies as racialized, sexualized, and medicalized but also as powerful, desiring, and resistant. We will consider such topics as the social construction of women’s bodies, the cultural politics of sexuality and appearance, and women’s diverse strategies of representation as they “write the body”: Rose Weitz, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Edwidge Danticat, Joy Harjo, etc. Same as ENG 340/640.
WGS 321E Research Seminar: Feminist Political Thought (3 hr)
Michaelle Browers
Tuesday/Thursday 12:30pm – 1:45 pm Tribble A304
This course will introduce students to debates and developments in contemporary feminist theorizing and their implications for the study and practice of politics. Throughout the course we will pay close attention to the ways in which gender intersects with class, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and other forms of difference. Same as POL 277. Approved for WGS Major Theory Requirement.
WGS 321F/ Research Seminar: Gay and Lesbian Film and Culture (3 hr)
Gary Ljungquist
621FG Tuesday 2:00-4:30 pm Tribble A4
This course uses film to understand and analyze changing cultural representations of gays and lesbians. Using feminist theory and queer theory to develop a critical method, the course will focus on four topics: (1) Before Stonewall: invisibility and shame, (2) Gay
liberation and lesbian feminism: pride and celebration, (3) New queer cinema and queer theory: re-definition and confrontation, and (4) Transgender: challenging basic concepts of gender and sexuality. Same as COM 370. Counts for Media Studies Concentration in COM. Counts toward Film Studies FLM minor.
WGS 329 Feminist Anthropology (3 hr)
Sandya Hewamanne
Wednesday/Friday 2:00-3:15 pm Tribble A305
This course will examine cultural constructions of gender from a cross-cultural perspective, by examining through texts, films and other material from popular culture the ways in which individuals and societies produce, negotiate, perform and contest dominant gender ideologies and identities. We will look at how women at the intersections of gender, race, sexuality and other power hierarchies negotiate social control, globalization, empowerment, socio-cultural change and collective political action in diverse ways.
Same as ANT 329. Approved for WGS Major Theory Requirement.
WGS 377A/ Special Topic: U.S. Women Poets (3 hr)
Mary DeShazer
677AG Tuesday/Thursday 12:30 – 1:45 pm Tribble A108
This course will examine the poetry, aesthetic strategies, and historical contexts of selected U.S. women poets from the 19th – 21st centuries. Among our central themes will be breaking silence and finding voice; representing embodiment, sexuality, and maternity; inscribing political resistance; and envisioning cultural transformation. Focal poets include Dickinson, Moore, Brooks, Plath, Bishop, Rich, and Dove. P-ENG 111. Same as ENG 344/677.
WGS 377D Special Topic: Women, Men and the Law (3 hr)
Maureen Eggert
Tuesday/Thursday 5:00-6:15 pm Tribble A203
An introduction to the judicial system, focusing on feminism and feminist legal theory. We will first address the legal history and development of American women’s legal rights and then move to particular legal issues of importance to women today. Topics will include constitutional equality, family law, reproductive rights, employment, and violence against women.
WGS 377E Special Topic: Human Rights – Theory and Practice (3 hr)
Patricia Willis
Thursday 2:00-4:30 pm Tribble A4
We will focus on various human rights documents, as defined and promoted by the United Nations, and will examine what can be done on local levels through service learning. In recent years human rights issues have come to the forefront of world and local agendas as activists, lawyers, and others have sought to promote justice on all levels of human life: indigenous rights, economic rights, women’s rights, gender and sexuality identification rights, the rights of the disabled, etc. Approved for WGS Major Public Engagement Requirement.
WGS 377J Special Topic: Feminism, Advocacy and Policymaking (3 hr)
Angéla Kóczé
Monday/Wednesday 12:30-1:45 pm Tribble A4
This course will explore and analyze public policies through case studies of how feminists have influenced transnational and national policy making. We will examine how feminist groups set their agendas, how decision-making takes place, and how public policy is influenced by gendered social and political issues. Same as AES 390. Approved for WGS Major Public Engagement Requirement.
WGS 396A Independent Study (1-3 hr)
Staff TBA
Independent projects in women’s and gender studies which either continue study begun in regular courses or develop new areas of interest. Permission of Department. POI.
WGS 397A Internships in WGS (1.5-3.0 hr)
Sherri Lawson Clark
Thursday 1:00-1:50 pm (1/17/13, 3/21/13, 4/25/13) Tribble A4
Opportunities to engage with local social service providers in applying theoretical and empirical concepts learned in WGS classes to real world experiences in professional, supervised internships, performing direct services, conducting programmatic research, and/or receiving training in program administration.
WGS 397B Internships: PREPARE (1.5)
Amy Shuman/Alan Cameron
Tuesday 3:30-4:45 pm Classroom TBA
This course provides students with an overview of the social, emotional and legal issues related to sexual violence, and teaches them to design and implement educational programs on this topic. P/F only.
WGS 100C-J RAD: Rape Aggression Defense for Women (1 hr)
Ana Caitlin Burchette
(8 sections) Sections C-H,(time) ; Sections I-J, (time Luter Lounge
C 1/22-03/05, Tuesday D 03/19-04/30, Tuesday E 01/16-02/27, Wednesday F 03/20-05/01, Wednesday
G 01/17-02/28, Thursday H 03/21-05/01, Thursday I 01/16-03/04, Mon/Wed J 03/18-05/01, Mon/Wed
A class that develops and enhances the options of self-defense for women in case of attack. Includes basic physical self-defense tactics, risk reduction, and avoidance. Requires violence against women readings. P/F only.
Other Course Offerings for WGS Credit Spring 2013
AES 310 Race, Class and Gender in a Color-blind Society (3 hr)
Sherri Lawson Clark
Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:45 am Tribble B13
This course applies theoretical perspectives of the causes and consequences of social inequality for women of color to a broad array of texts and articles in the social sciences. We will examine important issues of motherhood and marriage; race and identity; class and education; and housing segregation and predatory lending practices. We will address what needs to change in order to dismantle poverty and inequality in the U.S. for future generations of all women. Same as WGS 321B and EDU 310. Approved for ANT credit.
ANT 329 Feminist Anthropology (3 hr)
Sandya Hewamanne
Wednesday/Friday 2:00-3:15 pm Tribble A305
This course will examine cultural constructions of gender from a cross-cultural perspective, by examining through texts, films and other material from popular culture the ways in which individuals and societies produce, negotiate, perform and contest dominant gender ideologies and identities. We will look at how women at the intersections of gender, race, sexuality and other power hierarchies negotiate social control, globalization, empowerment, socio-cultural change and collective political action in diverse ways.
Same as WGS 329. Approved for WGS Major Theory Requirement.
AES 390 Special Topic: Feminism, Advocacy and Policymaking (3 hr)
Angéla Kóczé
Monday/Wednesday 12:30-1:45 pm Tribble A4
This course will explore and analyze public policies through case studies of how feminists have influenced transnational and national policy making. We will examine how feminist groups set their agendas, how decision-making takes place, and how public policy is influenced by gendered social and political issues. Same as WGS 377J. Approved for WGS Major Public Engagement Requirement.
HST 388 Nation, Faith, and Gender in the Middle East (3 hr) Charles Wilkins
Monday/Wednesday/Friday 10:00 – 10:50 am Tribble A208
This course surveys the development of national, religious, transnational, and individual identities in the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include Arab nationalism, Zionism, Turkish nationalism, Islamist movements, and the construction of gender in these contexts.
EDU 310 Race, Class and Gender in a Color-blind Society (3 hr) Sherri Lawson Clark
Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:45 am Tribble B13
This course applies theoretical perspectives of the causes and consequences of social inequality for women of color to a broad array of texts and articles in the social sciences. We will examine important issues of motherhood and marriage; race and identity; class and education; and housing segregation and predatory lending practices. We will address what needs to change in order to dismantle poverty and inequality in the U.S. for future generations of all women. Same as WGS 321B & AES 310. Approved for ANTcredit.
ENG 340/ The Politics of Women’s Bodies (3 hr)
Mary DeShazer
ENG 640 Wednesday 2:00-4:30 pm Tribble A204
In this course we will examine feminist discourses for embodiment and contemporary literary works that represent women’s bodies as racialized, sexualized, and medicalized but also as powerful, desiring, and resistant. We will consider such topics as the social construction of women’s bodies, the cultural politics of sexuality and appearance, and women’s diverse strategies of representation as they “write the body”: Rose Weitz, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Edwidge Danticat, Joy Harjo, etc. Same as WGS 321D
ENG 344/ U.S. Women Poets (3 hr)
Mary DeShazer
ENG 644G Tuesday/Thursday 12:30 – 1:45 pm Tribble A108
This course will examine the poetry, aesthetic strategies, and historical contexts of selected U.S. women poets from the 19th – 21st centuries. Among our central themes will be breaking silence and finding voice; representing embodiment, sexuality, and maternity; inscribing political resistance; and envisioning cultural transformation. Focal poets include Dickinson, Moore, Brooks, Plath, Bishop, Rich, and Dove. Same as WGS 377A/677AG.
HST 336 Gender and Power in African History (3 hr)
Nate Plageman
Monday/ Wednesday 2:00-3:15 pm Tribble A103
Examines the centrality of gender to the African past. Topics include definitions of gender in African settings; the operation of gender in pre-colonial African societies; gender and slavery; gendered transformations during colonial rule; gender, nationalism and independence; and the evolution of relationships between men and men, men and women, and women and women in various regions of the continent. Cultural Diversity.
POL 277 Feminist Political Thought (3 hr)
Michaelle Browers
Tuesday/Thursday 12:30-1:45 pm Tribble A304
This course will introduce students to debates and developments in contemporary feminist theorizing and their implications for the study and practice of politics. Throughout the course we will pay close attention to the ways in which gender intersects with class, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and other forms of difference. Same as WGS 321E. Approved for WGS Major Theory Requirement.
PSY 265 Human Sexuality (3 hr)
Phillip Batten
Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:45 pm Greene313
An exploration of the psychological and physiological aspects of human sexuality, with attention to sexual mores, sexual deviances, sexual dysfunction, and sex-related roles. P-PSY 151
PSY 364 Stereotyping and Prejudice (3 hr)
Catherine Seta
Tuesday/Thursday 12:30-1:45 pm Greene 313
Theoretical and empirical examination of the processes underlying prejudice, discrimination, and racism. P-PSY 151 (CD, D)
REL 388 South Asian Women: Religion, Culture and Politics (3 hr)
Tanisha Ramachandran
Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:15 pm Wingate 314
Using a feminist and post-colonial perspective, and taking into account the histories, experiences and lives of South Asian women, this course examines the intersection of religion, race and gender from both a theoretical and a practical point of view. It focuses on issues of representation and identity formation, recognizing how categories such as “South Asian” and “woman” become tools for a simultaneous understanding of both culture and gender, creating a place for both oppression and empowerment.
SOC 309 Sexuality in Society (3 hr)
Catherine Harnois
Monday/Wednesday 2:00-3:15 pm Carswell 302
This course will draw from sociological, feminist, and queer theories to explore the social dimensions of sexuality. We will consider the processes through which sexuality is socially constructed and maintained, and how sexuality, as a social institution, relates to other social institutions such as gender, class, and race. Approved for WGS Major Theory Requirement.