BIOL 127 - Cell Biology for the Citizen - This course will deal with theories and concepts concerning the origin and evolution of life, the structure and functioning of cells as the fundamental units of life, and the knowledge and methods of classical and modern genetics by which disease may be cured and modified life forms created. Students will be introduced to basic concepts in chemistry and bioenergetics which will serve as a basis for understanding theories of organic and cellular evolution; structure, functioning, and metabolism of cells; and the molecular genetics of prokaryote and eukaryote cells. Also covered will be the methods of recombinant DNA technology, as well as the social and ethical problems resulting from current and future application of this knowledge. Laboratory topics will clarify and support lecture concepts. This course will not count on the biology major or minor, but may be used as a life science course to partially satisfy the collegiate science requiresment. Offered alternate years. Not open to students who have had BIOL 112 or HONR 127. Open to all students. Four hours. Foster. Back to Top
BIOL 136 - Discovering Women in the Biological Sciences - This course will examine the contributions of women to the scientific discovery of major principles in various biological fields. Basic biological principles in the various fields will be introduced, and biographies/autobiographies and scientific publications of women working as scientists in those fields will be studied. The course will also explore the history and politics of women's involvement in biology and examine how science has viewed women. The status of contemporary women scientists and the difficulties they have encountered will be investigated. Laboratories will parallel biological topics covered in class. Partially fulfills the collegiate requirement in laboratory science as a Life Science course, and counts on the major/minor in women's studies. Three class hours and three laboratory hours each week. Four hours. Falls. Back to Top
BIOL 315 - Infectious Disease and Public Health – This course focuses on the pathophysiology of select infectious diseases and their associated public health issues. Students will be introduced to the types of pathogens that cause infectious diseases, the modes through which they are transmitted, and how they are combated by the immune system as well as basic epidemiological concepts and public health measures. Legal and ethical issues that arise out of public health policies directed towards combating infectious diseases will be addressed including compulsory vaccination, antibiotic resistance, bioterrorism, poverty, global warming, forced quarantine, and pandemic preparation. When possible, case studies, historical events, and recent newspaper articles are used to support student engagement and understanding of material. In the laboratory component, students will design and carry out a vaccination strategy in mice and then apply their experimental findings to develop a public health policy for combating a particular infectious disease. Prerequisites: BIOL 121-122. Four hours. Gubbels Bupp. Back to Top
BUSN 367 - Auditing - A study of auditing standards and procedures. Major topics include professional auditing standards, audit reports, ethics, legal requirements, audit programs, working papers, and internal controls. Prerequisites: BUSN 221-222 or permission of the instructor. Three hours. Staff. Back to Top
COMM 303 - Communication Law and Ethics - Explores issues of communication and mass media from legal as well as ethical perspectives. This class will introduce you to the First Amendment and issues concerning the freedom of expression, including libel, privacy, and regulation of broadcasting and advertising. The class will also examine what different philosophical perspectives would say about ethics in communication and apply them to specific cases. Three hours. Conners. Back to Top
ECON 357 - Public Finance - A study of the economic behavior of the public sector with reference to taxing, spending, borrowing, and managing the public debt. Students are expected to be able to analyze the effects of government taxes and expenditures on resource allocation, stabilization, and distribution. Additional topics include an analysis of government regulation, externalities, and benefit-cost analysis. Prerequisites: ECON 201-202 or 203-202. Three hours. Brat. Back to Top
ECON 370 - Economic Justice - An historical examination of the major conceptions of economic justice primarily in the western world. Major ethical schools of thought include the Socratic/Platonic/Aristotelian, the Judeo-Christian, and the Enlightenment school of Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, and Marx. Finally, contemporary moral theorists such as John Rawls and Robert Nozick will be used to compare/contrast this legacy of ethical thought with the orthodox models of economic thought, as represented in the writings of economists such as Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. Students may not receive credit for both ECON 370 and HONR 240. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Brat. Back to Top
ENGL 232 - Introduction to Drama - A survey of dramatic literature, including classical, neo-classical, and experimental forms, with an emphasis on social context and performance. Includes comedies of manners by Moliere and Wilde, absurdist texts by Beckett and Pinter, "social consciousness" plays by Ibsen and Strindberg. Also includes plays from non-western and other minority traditions. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Scott. Back to Top
ENGL 235 - Introduction to the Short Novel - An introduction to the art and technique of storytelling that focuses on the modern short novel. Three hours. Cull. Back to Top
ENGL 271 - Writing Women's Lives - Writing by and about women across time and geography. The course examines both literature and feminist literary criticism to explore a range of topics, including how expectations of women's and men's roles have affected women's access to and practice of writing, how differences of culture, race, sexuality and nationality register in women's texts, how women writers see themselves in relation to various literary traditions, and how distinguishing women's writing as a separate field poses both advantages and problems for the study of literature. Three hours. Staff. Back to Top
ENGL 363 - Contemporary British and American Drama - A survey of dramatic developments and social contexts in Britain and America since the 1960s. Topics include AIDS, the Vietnam War, and class/race relations with an emphasis on non-traditional dramatic performance, incorporating music, dance and graphic design. Three hours. Offered every third year. Scott. Back to Top
FLET 202 - Greek and Roman Tragedy - As democracy evolved in Ancient Athens, the ability to speak for one's self before the assembled populace became the distinguishing mark and crucial skill of the free citizen. The Greeks then developed a theoretical framework and an educational curriculum for eloquence which was preserved by the Romans, passed into the Middle Ages and formed the basis for the traditional liberal arts. To study both the ancient theory and practice of eloquence, students will read speeches of Demosthenes and Cicero as well as historical and theoretical works about rhetoric and education. Students themselves will put these theories into practice in a series of speeches and presentations. Staff. Back to Top
HIST 332 - The Problem of Slavery - This course surveys the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Primary emphases include: the role of slavery in the colonial expansion of Europe; the emergence of a unique ideology of slavery in the southern United States; and the creation of Afro-Caribbean and African-American cultures that enabled Blacks to challenge slavery. Offered every third year. Three hours. Malvasi. Back to Top
JOUR 303 - Communication Law and Ethics - Explores issues of communication and mass media from legal as well as ethical perspectives. This class will introduce you to the First Amendment and issues concerning the freedom of expression, including libel, privacy, and regulation of broadcasting and advertising. The class will also examine what different philosophical perspectives would say about ethics in communication and apply them to specific cases. Three hours. Conners. Back to Top
PHIL 212 - Ethics - This course is an introduction to philosophy focused on ethical thinking. Its fundamental aim is to occasion the clarification of our thought concerning how to live, what sorts of persons to be, which kinds of actions and principles to affirm and which not in our relations to others. We will pursue this inquiry by reading classical texts, contemporary dialogues and essays on ethics, and decided cases in law. Our thinking about ethics will attend to three broad approaches to ethical situations: Utility, Rights and Duties, Virtue. Our discussion of these and other considerations will constantly attend to specific moral problems (e.g., abortion, sexual morality, affirmative action, animals, and the environment). Offered every spring. Three hours. Huff. Back to Top
PHIL 213/313 - Environmental Ethics - This course addresses some basic issues of environmental ethics: human beings' treatment of animals and non-animal nature, the value of ecosystems, the meaning and justification of moral obligations to species and to the environment, conflicts between ethical and economic concerns in resolving certain environmental problems (e.g., the control of pollution or the regulation of the consumption of resources). We will constantly apply moral theory to environmental problems in the enterprise of formulating an adequate environmental ethic. Three hour. Staff. Back to Top
PHIL 220 - Philosophy East-West - The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the classic philosophic traditions of Greece, Rome, India, China, and Japan. This introduction might consist of a study of representative texts or of a comparative analysis of central concepts and assumptions. Offered every fourth year. Three hours. Huff. Back to Top
PHIL 234 - Philosophy of Education - What are the proper goals of education, and how can we best achieve those goals? In this course we read and discuss classic works in the philosophy of education by authors such as Plato, Rousseau, and Confucius, contemporary writings by philosophers and educators, and recent news articles spotlighting pressing questions in education today. We will consider the roles of autonomy and authority, the development of values and desires as compared with skills and information, and the opportunities and dangers of specialization. Students will reflect on their own experiences in education, and develop their views as to what sort of education they should pursue for themselves. They will also develop and argue for their views on what kind of education is best to build a healthy, flourishing society. Offered every two or three years. Three hours. Huff. Back to Top
PHIL 251 - History of Western Philosophy: Ancient - A study of classical philosophers who importantly shaped Western thinking and sensibility. Readings include the Pre-Socratic, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Epictetus. Emphasis is placed on the writings of Plato and Aristotle. Three hours. Back to Top
PHIL 260 - Philosophy of Religion - This course investigates the relation between philosophy and religion and applies philosophic methods to such problems as the nature of religious experience, the nature of religious language, the question of the existence and nature of God, the problem of the reality of evil or suffering as it relates to assertions of the benevolence and omnipotence of deity, and the issue of the relevance of religious experience to human existence. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Turney. Back to Top
PHIL 308 - Feminist Theory - Critical examination of contemporary theories in feminism according to a variety of discourses on difference. Topics include: the politics of sexuality, black feminism, feminist theories of knowledge and reality, marginality, and Post-Colonial theory. Interdisciplinary readings, seminar format. Prerequisite: At least one course in women¹s studies or consent of instructor. Recommended: One course in philosophy. Offered in alternate years Three hours. Turney. Back to Top
PHIL 313 - Environmental Ethics - See PHIL 213/313, above.
PHIL 328 - Bio-Medical Ethics - An examination of the ethical dimensions of decision-making in medical practice, research, and medical technology. Among the issues considered are: the concepts of health and illness, experimentation and consent, abortion, death and dying, rights and justice in health care, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy (PHIL 212 recommended) or consent of instructor. Once every fourth year. Three hours. Turney. Back to Top
PHIL 343 - Confucian Tradition - An in-depth study of the Confucian philosophical tradition, including both classical sources and neo-Confucian developments, guided by recent scholarship. The Confucian philosophical tradition has been a pillar of Chinese culture for millennia, with a primary emphasis on ethics and social/political thought, in the context of a uniquely Chinese anthropology and cosmology. We will explore debates within the tradition over key questions such as the relationship between virtue and human nature and the authority of tradition versus individual insight. We will also consider Confucian thought’s potential to address contemporary philosophical and practical challenges in both the East and the West. Students should have prior experience in philosophy and/or Asian Studies. Prerequisites: Either Phil 212 or 220 or consent of instructor. Offered every three years. Three hours. Huff. Back to Top
PHIL 363 - Social and Political Philosophy - A consideration of the justification of political authority, fundamental social principles and the social policies that follow from them. Issues considered include: anarchism and political authority, freedom, justice and equality, rights, as well as such contemporary social controversies as reverse discrimination, free expression and censorship, property rights, and social welfare. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy (PHIL 212 recommended) or consent of instructor. Speaking intensive. Once every second or third year. Three hours. Huff. Back to Top
PHIL 404 - Freedom - A study of human freedom and how the causality of the human will is to be understood in light of the laws of nature. If humans are a part of the natural world, governed by the laws of biology, physics and chemistry, can we be free? Is freedom simply the ability to carry one's desires into action? To be truly free, must we also be free with respect to the contents of our wills? Contemporary readings from the analytic tradition will be combined with reading from the history of philosophy that provide both context and critical perspective. Prerequisites: Two courses in philosophy or consent of instructor. Recommendations: Phil 211,212,252 or 280. Once every two to three years. Huff. Back to Top
PHIL 405 - Emotion - Traditional conceptions of objectivity devalue the influence of emotion in rationality. This course examines a variety of approaches to thinking that insist on the importance of feeling. Topics include: emotion as a kind of judgment, self-deception and the problem of self-knowledge, mind-body dualism, and the politics of emotion. Readings from cognitive psychology, ethics and moral psychology, cultural anthropology and feminist theories of knowledge. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or consent of instructor. Offered every third or fourth year. Three hours. Turney. Back to Top
PHIL 408 - Virtue - In ancient Greece, philosophical discussions of ethics typically centered on a notion of good character, or virtue. A virtuous person has good judgment of what to do, and desires to do it. This approach fell out of favor during the modern period as desire was given less attention, and Kantian and utilitarian approaches came to dominate philosophical ethics. In recent decades, however, there has been a strong revival of interest in virtue as a central concept in ethical theory. We will typically examine both historical sources for virtue ethics, such as texts by Plato and Aristotle, and contemporary work. Prerequisite: Either Phil 212 or Phil 251 and one other course in Philosophy, or consent of instructor. Offered every three years. Three hours. Huff. Back to Top
PSYC 120 - Children, Youth, Families and Society - This course will utilize a developmental perspective to examine various issues involving children, youth, and their families in society (e.g., media influences, child care, child abuse, effects of poverty). Children both influence and are affected by the social contexts in which they develop, and we will explore some of these complex, multidirectional effects in depth. This course will emphasize the application and real-world examples of how research and theory in child development are used to affect children, youth, and families. Partially satisfies the Area of Knowledge requirement in the Social Sciences. Three hours. Parker. Back to Top
PSYC 175 - Psychology of Prejudice and Stereotyping - This course explores the psychology of prejudice and stereotyping with a special, but not exclusive emphasis on issues concerning race. Topics such as modern forms of prejudice and discrimination, how and why these attitudes and beliefs are formed, strategies for reducing discrimination, and issues of special relevance to college campuses will be covered. A diverse set of readings will include work from several disciplines with a special emphasis on social psychological research and theory. Films, short stories, and essays will also be used to investigate expressions and consequences of prejudice. Partially fulfills the collegiate requirement in social science through psychology and counts on the major/minor in psychology and the minor in Black studies. Not open to students who have taken HONR 186. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Klaaren. Back to Top
PSYC 341 - Psychology of Social Judgment - This course explores how people make judgments about themselves, others, and a wide variety of events. Emphasis will be placed on how we form these judgments as well as how we make predictions, explain behavior, and decide between options. Additional topics include: impression formation, self-presentation, group stereotyping, views of the self, nonconscious processes, and the interplay between affect and cognition. This course will focus on many biases and errors in our thinking and discuss ways in which these biases are adaptive or maladaptive. Ways to improve our judgments and decisions also will be discussed. Students will have a chance to explore the processes involved in many judgments and decisions they make on a daily basis. Prerequisites: PSYC 200 and 201 (Research Methods). Not open to those who have previously taken PSYC 170. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Klaaren. Back to Top
RELS 227 - Islam - This course is an introduction to and overview of Islam, from its beginnings to the present. The class examines the origins of Islam, the content and significance of the Qur'an, the role of Muhammad, and the primary beliefs and practices of Muslims throughout the centuries. We will study the development and expansion of Islam and its impact on politics, law, families, the arts and sciences, and other areas of society around the world. Students will learn about various groups within the Islamic tradition, such as Sunni, Shi', Sufi, and The Nation of Islam. We will also examine the relationship of Islam to other religions and the continuing importance of Islam throughout the world today. Area Two: The World's Religious Traditions. Offered every third or fourth year. Three hours. Brown. Back to Top
RELS 235 - Religious Ethics - An introduction to religious ethics, as both a field of study and a way of life. By examining the ethics of major living world religions, students will learn about the relationship between religious faith and practice and personal and social ethics. We will study ways in which religious traditions and faith communities, in different cultural and historical contexts, affect moral action and decision making and the relationship of these to specific and basic ethical concerns of the human community. We will also investigate how major living religious traditions understand and address specific ethical issues, such as war, economics, marriage and families, and the environment. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Three hours. Breitenberg. Back to Top
RELS 237 - Christian Ethics - This course examines how the Christian tradition, past and present, understands and teaches how Christians should live, what they should and should not do, and the kinds of persons they should be. We will study the development of Christian ethics and consider similarities and differences between Protestant and Catholic approaches. Persistent and contemporary moral issues and concerns will be addressed-such as war and peace, terrorism, economics, the environment, globalization, capital punishment, euthanasia, abortion, and cloning-along with various Christian responses to them. Three hours. Breitenberg. Back to Top
RELS 251 - Literature of the Holocaust - A study of the impact of the Holocaust upon individuals and groups as evidenced in writings, films, and works of art. The course begins with a historical study, then examines various forms of Holocaust literature produced by survivors of the Holocaust and by its perpetrators, victims, resisters, and bystanders. These works include eyewitness accounts, fiction, poetry, diaries, tales, oral histories, visual arts, music, and videos. We will also learn from the work of Holocaust scholars. Throughout the course we will give attention to religion's role in the Holocaust and ask about the Holocaust's continuing significance for both personal and social ethics and religious faith and practice. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Offered every two or three years. Three hours. Breitenberg. Back to Top
RELS 262 - Religion and Science - An introduction to religion and science and the relationship between them, focusing primarily on the West. We will examine some of the most important perspectives, events, discoveries, theories, and texts that influenced religion, science, and the broader societies in which they developed along with changing perceptions of connections between them. Topics include a survey of the history of the relationship between religion and science, major debates and turning points in that relationship, and contemporary issues. While Christianity and science in Europe and America are the primary areas of study, we will also examine the relationship between science and other religions, including Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Offered every two or three years. Three hours. Mr. Breitenberg. Back to Top
RELS 271 - Women and Religion - An examination of the pertinent biblical texts and documents of the Judeo-Christian tradition that relate to the issue of women and religion. A careful inquiry will be made into the roots and the range of the dominant model that has informed Western culture with respect to this concern and alternative patterns of experience will be suggested. Particular attention will be given to the formative role of language in the shaping of attitudes. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Not open to freshmen. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Breitenberg. Back to Top
RELS 275 - Liberation Theology - An examination of the development and expression of liberation theology through the study of representative writings emerging from current liberation movements (Black, feminist, Latin American); theological and ethical resources on which they draw; the delineation of unresolved problems such as the liberation of oppressors and viable forms of political and social transformation. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Offered every third or fourth year. Three hours. Staff. Back to Top
RELS 341 - Contemporary Theology and Ethics - This course is designed to introduce the student to the field of theology through a study of selected contemporary theological issues and directed reading in works by theologians including Tillich, Bultmann, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Ruether, Niebuhr, Trible and Buber. Students will be expected to research assigned topics and to prepare papers for presentation and class discussion. Prerequisites: Two previous courses in the department or permission of the instructor. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Offered every three or four years. Three hours. Mr. Breitenberg. Back to Top
RELS 343 - Civil Religion and Public Theology - A study of two related but different topics: civil religion and public theology. We will learn about the history and development of civil religion and public theology, consider the relationship between them, and study the areas of religious and public life they address. We will analyze the relationship of civil religion to American society and the U.S. presidency and study public theologies concerned with things such as government, economics, the family, the environment, health, and human rights. While civil religion and public theology in the U.S.A. is our primary focus, we will also treat these in other parts of the world and consider their potential future significance. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Offered every two or three years. Three hours. Mr. Breitenberg. Back to Top
RELS 352 - Religion and Literature - An attempt to relate major themes of such authors as Auden, Melville, Camus, Dostoevsky, Greene, Hurston, Fugard, Eliot, and Faulkner with the concerns of religion. Emphasis will be placed upon the dominant values and attitudes arising in Western literature in relation to theological issues and religious practice. Students will be expected to research assigned topics and to conduct class discussions dealing with their research. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Staff. Back to Top
RELS 375 - Christianity and Sexuality - An exploration of the theological dimension of human sexuality and how differing faith perspectives understand issues in sexuality. Concerns that face individuals and how these are framed through religious experience will be examined. Issues include the role of women in the church, AIDS, pornography, family life education, homosexuality, and abortion. Area Three: Religion and Culture. Three hours. Staff. Back to Top
SOCI 219 - Death and Dying - This course develops the social and cultural sources of our hopes, values and fears toward matters of dying and death. Beginning with historical and cross-cultural analyses of death orientations, the course proceeds to sociologically develop the role of religion, philosophy, psychology, science, politics and medicine in shaping our orientations toward war, abortion, suicide, environmental destruction, organ transplants, euthanasia, funeral ritual and capital punishment. It concludes with analyses of the experiences of those who die and those who survive, including Kubler-Ross's studies of the stages of death, the out-of-body sensations reported by those surviving clinical death, and the experiences associated with grief and bereavement. Not open to students who have passed SOCI 319. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Gill. Back to Top
SOCI 241 - Racial and Ethnic Relations - This course presents the major concepts and methods developed for gaining insight into dominant-minority relations. It considers the past and present positions of ethnic and racial minorities in historical and cross-cultural perspective. Offered every year. Three hours. Armenia. Back to Top
SOCI 320 - Aging and the Life Course - This service learning seminar course will examine these processes of aging as they affect individuals, families, cohorts, and societies and how the aging process is affected by psychological, historical, political, economic, and cultural factors. Students explore the dynamic interactions between people and their environments, and the ways in which society's beliefs, values, and attitudes are reflected in the aging experience. Special attention is given to the impact of social policy on the lives of older individuals focusing on how racial, ethnic, class, and gender differences shape the nature of health and human service policy and delivery on behalf of older persons. Prerequisites: Any 200 level course in sociology or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years. Four hours. Gill. Back to Top
SOCI 340 - Gender, Sex and Society - This course offers a sociological and anthropological analysis of the status of women in the U.S. and cross-culturally. Special emphasis is placed on the role culture and socialization play in determining women's interaction patterns and society's response to them. The course will use an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the social sciences and the humanities to determine how women develop cultural, sociological, and historical realities. Prerequisites: Any 200 level course in sociology or consent of instructor. Offered alternate years. Three hours. London. Back to top.
SOCI 420 - Law and Society - The focus of this course is on the reciprocal relationship between law and society, and on the social nature of the law. Topics include: comparative legal systems, theories of law, and various issues in the sociology of the law, including mental illness and obscenity. Prerequisites: SOCI 200 and 300 or permission of instructor. Not open to students who have passed SOCI 352. Offered alternate years. Four hours. London. Back to Top
SOCI 430 - Health, Illness and Healing - This course is an upper-level reading and research-intensive survey of sociological and anthropological ideas and theories about health and illness. In particular, the course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western (bio-medicine); students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind, and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international. Topics of study will include, but are not limited to, nature of disease, the doctor-patient relationship, the structure and dynamics of health care facilities, the structure and role of medical occupations and their occupational ideologies, the growth of medical technology and its challenge to medicine's moral stability, the medical research process ( including ethical issues), problems of discriminations and inequality, as well as health care policy. It is likely to be of interest to sociology majors and students intending to pursue a career in the health professions. Prerequisites: SOCI 200 and 300 or permission of instructor. Not open to students who have passed SOCI 365. Offered alternate years Four hours. Gill. Back to Top
WMST 101 - Introduction to Women's Studies -This course offers an interdisciplinary, team-taught examination of issues that are significant in influencing women's lives. Participants examine women's roles under a variety of social conditions. Consideration of such seemingly disparate areas as sport, religion, education, and science function as the background against which both differences and similarities between women are brought into relief. The primary goal of this examination is to consider explanations for the representations of women that emerge in these areas. Concepts central to feminist theory are introduced as preparation for continued work in women's studies. This course is a requirement for both the major and minor in women's studies. Three hours. Staff. Back to Top
WMST 282 - Women and Development - This course is designed to analyze the impact of changing development strategies on the lives of women in the Third World and especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as to see how women have responded to these strategies. One major aim of the course is to examine how colonialism and later development policies have affected the status of women, and to examine critically the goal of the "integration of women in development." Differences of ethnicity/race, sexual orientation, age and class will be taken into consideration. Partially fulfills the AOK requirement in Social Science through WMST and counts on the majors/minors in International Studies and Women's Studies. Same as INST 282. Offered at least alternate years. Three hours. Rodman. Back to Top
WMST 326 - Gender and change in the Maya Diaspora - This course will explore the different kinds of feminist theories produced by a variety of thinkers both inside and outside academia. The course will stress the interdisciplinary character of women's studies and the diversity of thought within feminist inquiry. Prerequisite: WMST 101 or consent of instructor. Counts on the major/minor in women's studies. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Rodman. Back to Top
WMST 347 - Women and Film - This course is designed as an introduction to feminist film criticism, theory, and film-making. It examines both the images of women and classic cinema as well as films made by women and various feminist film-making strategies. The first part of the course is devoted to introducing students to the field of film analysis and to examining the representation of women on screen. In the second half of the course, we will look at different manifestations of feminist film making ranging from the traditional to the experimental, addressing issues of race/ethnicity and sexuality in addition to those of gender. We will also look at women as consumers of films, dealing thus with the reception aspect of cinema and gender. Works include films by American and European (German, French, Dutch) film makers. Offered every three years. Four hours. Eren. Back to Top
