Women and Gender Studies is proud to offer courses this fall that cover a wide range of topics on gender, sexuality, and identity.
Students can study the connections between sexuality and citizenship; learn about Pan-African travel; and be introduced to LGBTQ studies.
Here are some of this fall's offerings:
WMST 300-001: Sexuality and Citizenship
Jennifer Miller
Wednesday, 4:30–7:10 p.m. East Building, Room 201
The state’s treatment of homosexuality has produced sexual minorities as second-class citizens with limited access to many socio-political institutions. This course surveys recent theoretical work produced at the intersection of Critical Citizenship Studies and Queer Theory, which explores how and why LGBTQ citizens are constructed as “other” within the nation, as well as the consequences of this on the real lives of LGBTQ citizens. Issues highlighted may include: same-sex marriage, immigration, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” school bullying or the Employment Non-Discrimination Policy.
WMST 300-003: Gender Experiences of Pan-Africanism: Travel Encounter During the Cold War
Yevette Richards Jordan
Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15 p.m. Science and Technology I, Room 126
This course will examine the activism of people of African descent who looked toward the African continent for racial solidarity and a connection to a shared cultural past. Professor Yevette Richards Jordan will explore the links between diaspora and Africa within the context of the Cold War, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, African anti-colonial movements and the racial and gender ideologies of that time.
WMST 308-001: Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
Ric Chollar
Monday, 4:30-7:10 p.m. Science & Tech II, Room 258
Taught by the Associate Director of LGBTQ Resources at Mason, this course will offer an introduction to a broad range of "queer" issues, beginning with a critical examination of the categories we use to describe sexuality. This course will also explore major events in LGBTQ culture and history in the United States and throughout the world to understand how identities, experiences, and movements have been socially constructed and have changed in different times and places, often as a result of race, class, and gender -inequities.
WMST 312-002: Gender, Trauma, and Recovery
Elizabeth Martinez
Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 a.m. Innovation Hall, Room 208
In this course we will examine changing ideas of girls and girlhood, feminisms, and how this plays out in consumption, production and use of media and communications technologies. We will discuss feminist scholarship and practice in media and visual culture alongside questions of age and generation, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality.
WMST 600-001: Women and Nationalism
Yevette Richards Jordan
Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 p.m. Johnson Center, Room 240A
This course will examine both the gendered nature of nations and meanings of nationalism. This course will look at the hidden roles of women in the political processes and will reveal how gendered nationalisms exclude or control women’s participation in political and institutional processes. In addition the course will explore the reinforcement of binary gender roles and processes of sexual control and exploitation in the interplay between nationalism and militarism.
WMST 630-002: Feminist Theory Across The Disciplines
Nancy Hanrahan
Thursdsay, 4:30-7:10 p.m. Science & Tech II, Room 019
This multidisciplinary course examines the central issues of feminist theory and explores the various strategies of feminist theorists. The course analyzes the ways in which feminist theories have challenged established disciplinary boundaries and contested the traditional assumptions of the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences.
August 24, 2011
