Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2002
Study of Women and Gender (WGST)
Rice Course Schedule as of 11/26/2002.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some WGST courses.
WGST 232 ENGENDERING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: THE HIST Credits 3.00 Fall 02
This seminar traces the history of American voting rights from the colonial
period through the present and focuses our attention on changing ideas about
democracy, sovereignty, and consent. In turn we will assess the importance of
class, gender, and race to the cultural, political, and legal history of
enfranshisement. Enrollment is limited to 25. Also offered as HIST 332.
Pre-req- Permission of the instructor.
001 KH 107 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Sneider, Allison Enr: 0 Max: 0
WGST 234 U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY I: COLONIAL BEGINNI Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This survey of American women's history examines the lives of elite, working,
black, Indian, and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political,
and economic status from the mid-17th-century through the Civil War. Readings
emphasize women's engagement with Revolutionary politics, slavery, divorce law,
temperance agitation, and the origins of American feminism. Offered with
additional work as WGST 381. Also offered as HIST 241.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Sneider, Allison Enr: 5 Max: 0
WGST 301 ARTHURIAN LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the origins and development of the Arthurian legend from the
earliest chronicles in the sixth century and later medieval French, Wlesh,
Irish, and English Arthurian poems to modern adaptations of Arthurian material,
including films. Refer to course web site at
http//www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/arthurian2.html. Also offered as ENGL 317 and
MDST 317.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Chance, Jane Enr: 0 Max: 0
WGST 305 CHAUCER AND THE SUBVERSIVE OTHER Credits 3.00 Fall 02
A fourteenth-century poet who worked for the king as controller of customs and
works, Chaucer nevertheless embedded in his poems sympathetic treatments of
women, the commons, homosociality, and otherness as expressed through
multicultural indicators expressive of nation and religion. This seminar will
explore exemplary treatments of alterity and difference in Chaucer and the
complex poetic strategies he chose to conceal his sympathies. Refer to course
web site at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/ch.html. Also offered as ENGL 516
and MDST 416.
001 TBA - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Chance, Jane Enr: 0 Max: 0
WGST 323 THE KNOWING BODY: BUDDHISM, GENDER AND T Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Western thought tends to regard mind and body dualistically, a view with
significant impact on religious cultural, gendered and social processes. This
course juxtaposes received Western assumptions with Buddhist perspectives
(especially Tibetan Buddhist), mapping Western and Buddhist categories onto
each other to better understand the implications of each. Also offered as RELI
323, SOCI 323, and ASIA 323.
Prereq- Permission of instructor.
001 HUM 226 - W 07:00PM - 10:00PM Klein, Anne C. Enr: 6 Max: 0
Long, Elizabeth
WGST 329 LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN W Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Survey of the literature on the American West, emphasizing the contemporary
period. Also offered as ENGL 369.
001 FL 525 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Comer, Krista Enr: 3 Max: 0
WGST 331 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Overview of research and theory on gender in psychology. The myths and
stereotypes associated with women and men in society the social, biological,
and psychological gender differences identified in research. Offered every
other year. Also offered as PSYC 331.
001 SH 301 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Hebl, Mikki Enr: 7 Max: 0
WGST 332 SELF, SEX AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
An introductory venture into conducting fieldwork in the past. The course
treats a wide range of artifacts, from philosophical essays to vase paintings.
It derives its focus from a rich corpus of recent research into the ancient
problematization of desire and self-control. Also offered as ANTH 325.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 0 Max: 0
WGST 339 FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Fall 02
This course is an introduction to feminist philosophy, including texts by both
historical and contemporary thinkers (e.g. Wollstonecrat, Mill, de Beauvoir,
MacKinnon, Gilligan, Irigaray). We shall discuss both feminists' radical
critiques of traditional values and beliefs, and feminist alternative views of
justice, ethical judgment, and truth. Also offered as PHIL 319.
001 RH 106 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Zuckert, Rachel Enr: 5 Max: 0
WGST 358 MAPPING GERMAN CULTURE:EUROPEAN WOMEN FI Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Filmmaking has celebrated its first hundred years. Women's contributions were
significant and deserve to widen the film canon for all filmgoers. The course
will concentrate on films by European women directors, taking into account
historical pioneering, cultural identities, aesthetic particularities, gender
commitment, subject orientations, and post-feminist attempts. Importance will
also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film production. Taught
in English. All films are subtitled in English. Also offered as GERM 321.
001 RH 310 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Eifler, Margret E. Enr: 4 Max: 0
WGST 381 U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY I: COLONIAL BEGINNI Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
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: 1 Max: 0
WGST 405 VICTORIAN STUDIES: AUSTEN ONLY Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Also offered as Engl 441.
001 FL 525 - M 02:30PM - 05:00PM Michie, Helena Enr: 2 Max: 0
WGST 412 WOMEN AND WOMEN'S VOICES IN FRENCH LITER Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Examination of ways that women have been represented in fiction-by themselves
and by others-since the early modern period. Readings from Mme. de Lafayette,
Sade, Baudelaire, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, de Beauvoir, Duras, and Wittig, with
emphasis on the constitution of the "feminine" in literary texts as cultural,
historical, and social artifact. Also offered as FREN 460.
Prereq- FREN 301, FREN 311, or FREN 312.
001 RH 202 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Harter, Deborah A. Enr: 0 Max: 0
WGST 453 TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: W Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Topic varies from year to year. Different topics may be repeated for credit.
Also offered as Engl 470.
001 FL 517 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:50AM Fultz, Lucille P. Enr: 3 Max: 0
WGST 484 VICTORIAN FICTION: ON OR ABOUT 1860 Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Also offered as ENGL 542.
001 FL 525 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Michie, Helena Enr: 0 Max: NA
WGST 485 GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950S Credits 4.00 Fall 02
This course examines representations of gendered subjectivity in Hollywood
cinema during the 1950s. Some of the topics to be addressed include the uneasy
relationship between normative domesticity and heterosexual masculinity, and
issues of voyeurism, eroticism, the ongoing conflict between liberated
individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society.
Enrollment is limited to 20. Also offered HART 485.
001 MECN 100 - T 01:00PM - 05:00PM Brennan, Marcia Enr: 3 Max: NA
WGST 496 APPLIED WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDY Credits 1.00 Fall 02
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 02
Directed reading under the supervision of a SWG faculty member. Permission of
instructor required. May count only once toward major requirements.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
WGST 498 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Open to SWG majors only. With permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
WGST 499 RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND GENDE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWG
majors only.
001 TBA - TBA Michie, Helena Enr: 5 Max: 0
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