Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2003
Study of Women and Gender (WGST)

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WGST 101   INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF WOMEN & GEN Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* 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 U. S. and around the world;
feminist perspectives on sexuality, gender, family, and reproduction; and the
implications of these perspectives for social and critical theory.
001 BL 131 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Shehabuddin, Elora        Enr: 53 Max: 0

WGST 225   WOMEN IN GREECE & ROME                   Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* 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
archaeological as well as literary materials. Also offered as CLAS 225.
001 GRB 211W - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM    Wallace, Kristine         Enr: 5 Max: 0

WGST 317   MAPPING GERMAN CULTURE: WOMEN AND NATION Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Through a variety of readings (fiction and non-fiction), film viewings
(documentaries and feature films), and classrom discussions, this course will
introduce participants to the Nazi idea of "womanhood" and the actual roles
women played during National Socialism. The spectrum ranges from varioius kinds
of female perpetraors (e.g., convinced party members, brutal concentration camp
Kapos) to Mitlaufer (fellow-travelers of the Nazi ideology), to a multiplicity
of victims (due to their race, their sexual orientation, or their political or
religious views), and to resistance fighters. The course will be taught in
English. For students of German (at the minimal proficiency level
intermediate-mid), an additional German reading/discussion hour for credit can
be arranged. Also offered as GERM 327.
Enrollment is limited to 25.
001 BL 123 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Kecht, Maria-Regina       Enr: 0 Max: 15

WGST 324   SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER                      Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Relationship between gender and social role.  Development of the contemporary
sexual division of labor and process of socialization with reference to family,
education, media, and occupations. Enrollment is limited to 27. Also offered as
SOCI 306.
001 HZ 212 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Long, Elizabeth           Enr: 23 Max: 30

WGST 325   SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY                  Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course is intended to educate students about the importnat structures,
issues, and dimensions of American family life. As a sociologist and
demographer, my goal is to teach you to use sociological perspective when
studying families. We will consider many family behaviors, such as lover and
sex, marriage and cohabition, divorce, parenting, family structure, gay and
lesbian families, domestic violence and sexual abuse, parent-child
relatinships, household labor and division of family tasks, and familty
decision-making. In addition to thinking about individuals in families, we will
examine the role of society in shaping family norms, the relatinships between
family and economy, and government family policy. Enrollment is limited to 30.
Also offered as SOCI 334.
001 SH 207B - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM     Heard, Holly              Enr: 20 Max: 15

WGST 327   20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS: AMERICAN & B Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Also offred as ENGL 380.
001 FL 524 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 1 Max: NA

WGST 330   MAPPING GERMAN CULTURE: COURTSHIP, LOVE  Credits 3.00  Fall 03
The literature of the High Middle Ages is the first since antiquity to probe
the hazards and potentials of romance between men and women, as well as
single-sex friendship and love. This course will show how the literary ideal of
love emerged in a society that was torn apart by war and rivalry. The poems and
stories we will read belong to the treasures of medieval literature from the
German lands. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Enrollment is
limited to 25. Also offered as GERM 330 and MDST 335.
001 RH 202 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: 7

WGST 366   TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE ASIAN Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Topics in American Literature: The Asian American Novel.  This course surveys
the thematics and historical contexts of Asian American literary traditions. We
read a range of texts, from the late nineteenth century to the present,
emphasizing the novel but also including some short fiction. We start in Gold
Rush California, move to early Chinese America, then to mid-century Chinatown,
and World War II and Japanese internment. The largest part of the course deals
in Civil Rights inspired literatures, and this backdrop also informs the
course's concluding look at recent texts that work from new and different
political and literary paradigms.  Also offered as ENGL 366 and ASIA 366.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Comer, Krista             Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 368   MYTHOLOGIES                              Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* 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, and modern (Borges, Philip Glass). Also
offered as ENGL 309 and MDST 368.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Chance, Jane              Enr: 3 Max: NA

WGST 369   SEMINAR ON BEAUTY & FRAGEMENTATION IN MO Credits 3.00  Fall 03
This course will examine literal and symbolic representations of the body in
modern American and European art.  Topics addressed will include conceptions on
beauty versus subjective fragmentation; the performance nature of soical
identity; and art history's long-standing precoccupation with the sensuous
equivalency of flesh and paint. Also offered as HART 369.
001 SH 429 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Brennan, Marcia           Enr: 4 Max: 7

WGST 372   SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION              Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The novel, from Austen to Hardy. Also offered as ENGL 342.
001 FL 525 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Michie, Helena            Enr: 1 Max: NA

WGST 390   HISPANIC CINEMA                          Credits 3.00  Fall 03
This course examines the ways in which films in both Spain and Latin America
have represented the political contexts of their countries. Focus is on the
theme of power, and on the social & individual consequences of repressive
regimes.
Also offered as SPAN 390.
Prereq- Third year of Spanish or permission of instructor.
001 RH 205 - TH 03:00PM - 05:30PM       Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz Enr: 1 Max: NA

WGST 420   WOMEN & GENDER IN 19TH-CENTURY EUROPE    Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Examination of the political and cultural discussions concerning the so-called
"Woman Question" in 19th-century Europe.  Includes the role of public and
private legal rights in republicanism and the early feminist movement, the
reformulation of notions of gender equality in the context of 19th-century
socialist movements, and the challenges to gender identity posed by cultural
modernism at the end of the century. Also offered as HIST 349.
001 HUM 120 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Wildenthal, Lora          Enr: 3 Max: NA

WGST 430   STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY               Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Also offered as ENGL 499.
001 FL 517 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 441   HILDEGARD OF BINGEN                      Credits 3.00  Fall 03
The course examines the life and works of 12th century polymath Hildegard of
Bingen, including her achievements in music, poetry, religious thought,
medicine, natural science, and linguistics. Not offered every year. Enrollment
is limited to 15. Also offered as MUSI 724 and MDST 441.
001 APB 1403 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM    Meconi, Honey             Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 452   VICTORIAN TOPICS: VICTORIAN & MODERN SEX Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Also offered as ENGL 542.
001 FL 517 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Michie, Helena            Enr: 0 Max: NA

WGST 455   WOMEN & GENDER IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC W Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Examines some features of the legal position and social realities of men and
women in the Islamic world, with emphasis on how boundaries of gender have
traditionally been drawn. Includes the family and sexual ethics, he harem,
polygamy, divorce, and eunuchs (who played an important role in both the
military and in certain religious institutions). Enrollment is limited. Also
offered as MDST 438 and HIST 438.
001 KH 105 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Sanders, Paula            Enr: 2 Max: 0

WGST 496   APPLIED WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES         Credits 1.00  Fall 03
Internships will be arranged individually, at the request of students; details
must be 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                           Huffer, Lynne             Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 497   DIRECTED READING IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN & Credits 1.00  Fall 03
Directed reading under the supervision of a SWG faculty member.  With
permission of instructor.  May count only once toward major requirements.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 498   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Open to SWG majors only.  With permission of instructor.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: 0

WGST 499   RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN & GENDER  Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open to SWG
majors only.
001 TBA - TBA                           Huffer, Lynne             Enr: 6 Max: 0