Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2001
Study of Women and Gender (WGST)

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WGST 101   INTRODUCTION-STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDER   Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
An introductory survey of issues in the study of women and gender, including
women's social, political, and legal status in the United States and around the
world; feminist perspectives on sexuality, gender, family, and reproduction;
and the implications of these perspectives for social and critical theory.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Huffer, Lynne             Enr: 63 Max: NA

WGST 225   WOMEN IN GREECE AND ROME                 Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Survey of the depiction of women in Greek and Roman mythology, literature, and
art. Includes a study of the lives of Greek and Roman women as evidenced by
arcaheological as well as literary materials. Also offered as CLAS 225.
001 FL 412 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM      Wallace, Kristine Gilmart Enr: 4 Max: NA

WGST 232   ENGENDERING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: THE HIST Credits 3.00  Fall 01
This course traces the complicated history of American voting rights from the
Colonial period through the present and focuses our attention on changing ideas
about democracy, sovereignty, and consent. Centering our attention on a series
of expansions and contradictions in the American electorate, we will assess the
importance of class, gender, and race to the cultural, potical, and legal
history of enfranchisement. Also offered as HIST 332. Enrollment is limited to
25.
Pre-req- Permission of the instructor.
001 SH 207B - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Sneider, Allison          Enr: 0 Max: 25

WGST 234   HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN: COLONIAL BEGI Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Beginning with an examination of the similarites, and differences in the lives
of women across the colonies, this course will trace changes in the dominant
cultural definitions of womanhood and women's roles from the
mid-seventeenth-century thorugh the antebellum period. Offered with additional
work as WGST 381. Also offered as HIST 241 and with additional work as HIST
391.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Sneider, Allison          Enr: 2 Max: 499

WGST 283   WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD    Credits 3.00  Fall 01
This course introduces students to the history of women in the Islamic world.
Topics include women and law, family relations, work, women as political actors
in Islamic history, the harem as a social and political institution, women as
property owners, veiling, and modern feminist movements throughout the Islamic
world. Also offered as HIST 283.
001 KH 105 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Sanders, Paula            Enr: 8 Max: 0

WGST 300   MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS                   Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Topics vary from year to year. Among courses taught: Dante in English-close
reading of The Divine Comedy, with attention to it theological, philosophical,
scientific, literary, historical, and artistic background; and Medieval Women
Writers-a survey of major continental European women writers and their works,
in translation and in Middle English, from the 5th to the 15th centuries, with
attention to feminist, gender, and reader-response theory. Among the mystics,
philosophers, scientists, and court-poets will be Hrotsvit of Gandersheim,
Heloise, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Margery Kempe and Julian of
Norwich, and Christine de Pizan. Also offered as ENGL 311 and MDST 300. Refer
to course web site at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/mewom.htm.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM     Chance, Jane              Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 329   WOMEN IN THE WEST                        Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Also offered as ENGL 369.
001 FL 524 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Comer, Krista             Enr: 2 Max: NA

WGST 365   GENDER, SUBJECTIVITY, & THE HISTORY OF P Credits 3.00  Fall 01
This course will examine a range of subjects within the history, theory, and
criticism of photography, including the relationship between commodification,
eroticism, and the objectification of the body, and the intersecting issues of
mechanical reproduction, authorship, and authenticity in modern and postmodern
discourses. Also offered as HART 365.  Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 TBA - T 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Brennan, Marcia           Enr: 1 Max: NA

WGST 368   MYTHOLOGIES                              Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to a variety of world
mythologies and mythmakers, from the beginnings to the modern period. Designed
to explore the relationship between a culture and its myths as expressed in
specific literary or religious works, "Mythologies" offers a means of
understanding cultural difference as well as the fundamental topics of human
desire and aspiration (creation and birth, the purpose of life, heroic struggle
against nature and death, the hope for rebirth, etc.). Included mythologies:
Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Welsh, Old Norse,
Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, modern (Borges, Philip Glass).  Also offered
as ENGL 368 and MDST 368.
Refer to course web site at
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/myth.htm.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Chance, Jane              Enr: 4 Max: NA

WGST 372   VICTORIAN FICTION                        Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The novel, from Austen to Hardy. Also offered as ENGL 342.
001 HZ 122 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Michie, Helena            Enr: 1 Max: NA

WGST 381   HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN: COLONIAL BEGI Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Enriched version of WGST 234. Students may not receive credit for both WGST 234
and WGST 381. Also offered as HIST 391.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Sneider, Allison          Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 440   WOMEN IN MUSIC                           Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Study of gender in music, including aesthetics and representation, and of the
major roles women have assumed in music, especially as composers, performers,
and patrons.  While the course emphasizes the Western Art tradition, other
types of music are explored as well.
001 APB 1404 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM    Meconi, Honey             Enr: 1 Max: NA

WGST 453   TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT BLACK WOM Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Content varies from year to year.  Also offered as Engl 470.
001 FL 517 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Fultz, Lucille P.         Enr: 1 Max: NA

WGST 481   LITERARY THEORY: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY   Credits 3.00  Fall 01
An investigation of political and ethical concerns in literary interpretation.
Also offered as ENGL 599.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 HZ 119 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM       Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 496   APPLIED WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDY           Credits 1.00  Fall 01
Internships will be arranged individually, at the request of students and the
details must approved by the Director.  Students will also be required to
submit a paper of between 8-15 pages (depending on the amount of credit) that
demonstrates their ability to apply critically their knowledge of women's and
gender studies.  With permission of SWG director.
Prereq- permission of SWG Director required.
001 TBA - TBA                           Michie, Helena            Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 497   DIRECTED READING IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN A Credits 1.00  Fall 01
Directed reading under the supervision of a SWG faculty member.  Permission of
instructor required.  May count only once toward major requirements.
001 TBA - TBA                           Michie, Helena            Enr: 1 Max: 0

WGST 498   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Open to SWG majors only.  With permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA                           Michie, Helena            Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 499   RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDE Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWG
majors only.
001 TBA - TBA                           Michie, Helena            Enr: 4 Max: 0