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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.040.218 (01)
Celebration and Performance in Early Greece
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Anderson, Emily S.K.
Gilman 108
ARCH-ARCH
Celebration and Performance in Early Greece AS.040.218 (01)
Surviving imagery suggests that persons in Minoan and Mycenaean societies engaged in various celebratory performances, including processions, feasts, and ecstatic dance. This course explores archaeological evidence of such celebrations, focusing on sociocultural roles, bodily experience, and interpretive challenges.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH
AS.100.323 (01)
America in the 1960s
M 1:30PM - 3:50PM
Walters, Ronald
Smokler Center 301
HIST-US
America in the 1960s AS.100.323 (01)
The years between 1959, when the course begins, and 1971, when it ends, were tumultuous and divisive. This course explores the political, racial, and cultural struggles of a half century ago.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): HIST-US
AS.213.373 (01)
Sex und Macht
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Pahl, Katrin
Gilman 381
Sex und Macht AS.213.373 (01)
We will discuss postwar and contemporary literature and films that grapple with the effect of unequal power structures on sexual relations. Taught in German.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.200.204 (02)
Human Sexuality
W 4:00PM - 6:20PM
Kraft, Chris S
Ames 218
BEHB-SOCSCI
Human Sexuality AS.200.204 (02)
Course focuses on sexual development, sexuality across the lifespan, gender identity, sexual attraction and arousal, sexually transmitted disease, and the history of commercial sex workers and pornography. Please note that the use of electronic devices is not permitted during this class, in order to promote the full interactive potential of this engaging seminar-style offering. Open to Juniors & Seniors within the following majors/minors: Behavioral Biology; Biology; Cognitive Science; Medicine, Science & the Humanities; Molecular & Cellular Bio; Neuroscience; Psychological & Brain Sciences; Public Health; Sociology; Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 8/30
PosTag(s): BEHB-SOCSCI
AS.070.436 (01)
Vulnerability
Th 1:30PM - 3:50PM
Pandian, Anand
Mergenthaler 426
Vulnerability AS.070.436 (01)
Many in the contemporary world live in states of acute vulnerability. In this course, we will look closely at situations like forced displacement, experience of poverty and injury, environmental devastation, and the politics of social protest. Thinking with ethnography, feminist philosophy, fiction, and film, we will explore whether vulnerability may be taken as a condition to live with rather than one to overcome at any cost.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.230.316 (01)
African American Family
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
McDonald, Katrina Bell
Hodson 311
SPOL-UL, INST-AP
African American Family AS.230.316 (01)
This course is an examination of sociological theories and studies of African-American families and an overview of the major issues confronting African-American family life. The contemporary conditions of black families are explored, as well as the historical events that have influenced the family patterns we currently observe. Special attention will be given to social policies that have evolved as a result of the prominence of any one perspective at a given point in time.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 18/18
PosTag(s): SPOL-UL, INST-AP
AS.200.204 (01)
Human Sexuality
W 1:30PM - 3:50PM
Kraft, Chris S
Ames 218
BEHB-SOCSCI
Human Sexuality AS.200.204 (01)
Course focuses on sexual development, sexuality across the lifespan, gender identity, sexual attraction and arousal, sexually transmitted disease, and the history of commercial sex workers and pornography. Please note that the use of electronic devices is not permitted during this class, in order to promote the full interactive potential of this engaging seminar-style offering. Open to Juniors & Seniors within the following majors/minors: Behavioral Biology; Biology; Cognitive Science; Medicine, Science & the Humanities; Molecular & Cellular Bio; Neuroscience; Psychological & Brain Sciences; Public Health; Sociology; Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 1/29
PosTag(s): BEHB-SOCSCI
AS.100.359 (01)
Gender, Patriarchy, and the English Revolution
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Hinchliff, Catherine M
Gilman 55
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Gender, Patriarchy, and the English Revolution AS.100.359 (01)
This course explores the varied experiences of gender and gender roles in seventeenth-century Britain and analyzes how these roles were challenged, changed, and sometimes upended during the English Revolution (1642-1660).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 16/18
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.426 (01)
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Marshall, John W
Gilman 308
HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe AS.100.426 (01)
Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/25
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL
AS.230.370 (01)
Housing and Homelessness in the United States
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Greif, Meredith
Hodson 303
INST-AP, SPOL-UL
Housing and Homelessness in the United States AS.230.370 (01)
This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/18
PosTag(s): INST-AP, SPOL-UL
AS.180.252 (01)
Economics of Discrimination
MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Morgan, Barbara Anne
Hodson 305
SPOL-UL
Economics of Discrimination AS.180.252 (01)
This course examines labor market discrimination by gender, race and ethnicity in the United States. What does the empirical evidence show, and how can we explain it? How much of the difference in observed outcomes is driven by differences in productivity characteristics and how much is due to discrimination? How have economists theorized about discrimination and what methodologies can be employed to test those theories? What has been the impact of public policy in this area; how do large corporations and educational institutions respond; and what can we learn from landmark lawsuits? The course will reinforce skills relevant to all fields of applied economics, including critical evaluation of the theoretical and empirical literature, the reasoned application of statistical techniques, and analysis of current policy issues. Seniors by Permission Only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/30
PosTag(s): SPOL-UL
AS.250.351 (01)
Reproductive Physiology
W 3:00PM - 4:45PM
Zirkin, Barry R
Shaffer 301
BIOL-UL, BEHB-BIOBEH
Reproductive Physiology AS.250.351 (01)
Focuses on reproductive physiology and biochemical and molecular regulation of the female and male reproductive tracts. Topics include the hypothalamus and pituitary, peptide and steroid hormone action, epididymis and male accessory sex organs, female reproductive tract, menstrual cycle, ovulation and gamete transport, fertilization and fertility enhancement, sexually transmitted diseases, and male and female contraceptive methods. Introductory lectures on each topic followed by research-oriented lectures and readings from current literature.
Credits: 2.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/100
PosTag(s): BIOL-UL, BEHB-BIOBEH
AS.363.329 (01)
Gender and Sexuality Beyond the Global West: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art in North Africa and the Middle East
W 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Ince, Ezgi
ISLM-ISLMST
Gender and Sexuality Beyond the Global West: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art in North Africa and the Middle East AS.363.329 (01)
This course aims to explore how gender and sexuality is situated in contemporary artistic practices in the geographical Middle East, through concepts of religion, war, revolution, resistance, nation-state, post-colonialism, and neoliberalism, especially as written and observed first-hand by artists, curators and scholars from the Middle East and North Africa region and their diasporas. Every week, under an overarching topic, notions of gender and sexuality will be questioned through works of selected artists across the region, as well as texts that provide the historical, theoretical, sociological and political background.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST
AS.280.225 (01)
Population, Health and Development
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Becker, Stanley
Hodson 210
GECS-SOCSCI
Population, Health and Development AS.280.225 (01)
This course will cover the major world population changes in the past century as well as the contemporary situation and projections for this century. Topics include rapid population growth, the historical and continuing decline of death and birth rates, contraceptive methods as well as family planning and child survival programs, population aging, urbanization, population and the environment and the demographic effects of HIV/AIDS. This course is restricted to Public Health Studies majors. Students minoring in Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality can register with instructor approval.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 22/72
PosTag(s): GECS-SOCSCI
AS.290.420 (01)
Human Sexual Orientation
W 6:30PM - 8:50PM
Jarema, Ann, Kraft, Chris S
Ames 218
BEHB-SOCSCI
Human Sexual Orientation AS.290.420 (01)
This course will examine the historical and current theories of sexual orientation and sexual variation development by examining the biological, psychological and social contributing factors that influence the development of sexual orientations and variations along with treatment and modification of problematic sexual behaviors. Please note that the use of electronic devices is not permitted during this class, in order to promote the full interactive potential of this engaging seminar-style offering. Students may enroll in both AS.200.204 and AS.290.420, but cannot do so in the same semester. Enrollment is limited to Senior Majors & Minors in Behavioral Biology; Biology; Cognitive Science; Medicine, Science & the Humanities; Molecular & Cellular Bio; Neuroscience; Psychology; Public Health; Sociology; Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/30
PosTag(s): BEHB-SOCSCI
AS.363.337 (01)
The Poetics & Politics of Sex: Struck From the Record: Reclaiming Women’s Contribution to the Global March Towards Modernity
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Stewart, Simone Gamali
Krieger 308
The Poetics & Politics of Sex: Struck From the Record: Reclaiming Women’s Contribution to the Global March Towards Modernity AS.363.337 (01)
The course examines claims that present women’s historic role as limited to confinement in the home, and bearing children. Students will gain an understanding of the complexity the world’s path to modernity and the important, and⎯until recently, silent⎯roles that women have played.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.445 (01)
Reading Judith Shakespeare: Women and Gender in Elizabethan England
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Patton, Elizabeth
Mergenthaler 431
Reading Judith Shakespeare: Women and Gender in Elizabethan England AS.363.445 (01)
If Shakespeare had a sister who went to London to be a writer, what would she write? Virginia Woolf’s account of the thwarted career of Shakespeare’s hypothetical sister, Judith, in A Room of One’s Own frames our reading of plays and poetry by Shakespeare and contemporary women writers, including Isabella Whitney, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Sidney, Aemelia Lanyer, and Mary Wroth. Working within a selected historical context, students will create fictional biographies of “Judith Shakespeare,” including her perspective on our identified authors and a sample or description of Judith’s own literary accomplishments. Secondary course readings will reflect contemporary economic, political, and religious contexts.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.312 (01)
Imagining Revolution and Utopia
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Eakin Moss, Anne
Shaffer 3
Imagining Revolution and Utopia AS.300.312 (01)
What form should revolution take, and what should society look like after the revolution? What would happen to the state, family, home, status of women, human interrelations, and everyday life? These questions consumed radicals in 19th century Russia and Europe, and their answers helped to shape the political culture of the 20th century. This course examines theories of revolution and utopia and responses to them in literature, art and film. Primary case study is Russia and the Soviet Union, with a comparative look at influential European works.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.363.201 (01)
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Pahl, Katrin, Wegenstein, Bernadette
Gilman 55
Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality AS.363.201 (01)
This course offers an introduction into the fields of Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, and Sexuality Studies. It explores why we need these fields of inquiry, how they have emerged historically, what some of the major and most interesting contributions are and where we might go from here. The course is meant as a preparation for the other WGS core courses.
