Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2003
Study of Women and Gender (WGST)
Rice Course Schedule as of 03/03/2003.
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 201 INTRODUCTION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary examination of sexual
desires, sexual orientations, and the concept of sexuality generally, with a
particular focus on the construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
identities. The course will look specifically at how these identities interact
with other human phenomena such as government, family, popular culture,
scientific inquiry, and especially gender. In exploring sexual diversity, we
will highlight the complexity and variability of sexualities both across
different historical periods, and in relation to identities of race, class,
ethnicity, and nation.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Huffer, Lynne Enr: 40 Max: NA
WGST 235 U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY II: CIVIL WAR TO TH Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of WGST 234. This survey of American women's history examines the
ways that diverse groups of women-including blacK, Asian-American, Chicana,
native American, and white women of the elite, middle, and working classes-
have experienced, forged, and clashed in the related projects of defining
American culture, democracy, and freedom. Readings emphasize women's engagement
in organized struggles for economic, political, and social justice including
suffrage, anti-lynching, welfare, birth control, and the modern civil rights
and feminist movements. Offered with additional work as WGST 382. Also offered
as HIST 242.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Sneider, Allison Enr: 5 Max: 0
WGST 240 GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This course examine the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian
countries-particularly Hindu and Muslim-focusing on the women participants in
these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society.
We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have
been willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. Also
offered as ASIA 240.
001 RH 106 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Shehabuddin, Elora Enr: 3 Max: NA
WGST 325 SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Comparative analysis of role structure, sexuality, emotional bonds, gender, and
the family as a support network in differing forms of contemporary families.
The functioning of the family in differing cultures, classes, and lifestyles.
Also offered as SOCI 334.
001 SH 307 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Karner, Tracy Enr: 10 Max: 15
WGST 337 FEMINIST ISSUES: THIRD WAVE FEMINIST CUL Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This course explores the cultural and political productions of a diverse group
of young "third wave" women. We read novels and essays, listen to music and
stand up comedy, go online for magazines like bust and bitch and organizations
like the Third Wave Foundation. Our focus throughout is to understand the
differences between Boomer women's lives and those of Generation X and Y, so we
can approach constructively the current feminist generation gap. We also focus
on women in sports, and the role of consumer culture in producing youth values.
Also offered as ENGL 383.
001 ML 251 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Comer, Krista Enr: 10 Max: NA
WGST 340 GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION (enriche Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This course examine the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian
countries-particularly Hindu and Muslim-focusing on the women participants in
these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society.
We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have
been willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. Also
offered as ASIA 340.
001 HZ 118 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Shehabuddin, Elora Enr: 2 Max: NA
WGST 350 GENDER AND SYMBOLISM Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examinations of beliefs concerning men, women, and gender in different
cultures, including the West, relating to issues of symbolism, power, and the
distribution of cultural models. Also offered as ANTH 327.
001 GRB 212W - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 6 Max: NA
WGST 370 SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This course traces, through various genres and themes, African American
literary history from the late eighteenth century to the present. The course
provides an overview of representations of African American identities. We will
ask how the construction of identity shapes ideas about what it means to be
African American. Texts include, among others, slave narratives, fiction,
poetry, drama, and film. Attention is given to theories and critiques of
African American literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the
present. Also offered as ENGL 370.
001 HANS 207 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Fultz, Lucille P. Enr: 2 Max: NA
WGST 382 HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN II: CIVIL WAR Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of WGST 235. Students may not receive credit for both WGST
235 and WGST 382. Also offered as HIST 392.
001 HUM 327 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Sneider, Allison Enr: 2 Max: 0
WGST 387 CULTURAL STUDIES: RACE, GENDER, & THE PO Credits 3.00 Spring 03
How are categories of identity constituted through culture? How does capital
investment affect the forms of cultural expression? How does the global flow of
bodies, commodities, and information complicate our interpretation of
individual texts? This course will examine the uses of audiovisual media in the
production and contestation of racial and gender identities in both mainstream
and oppositional forms of culture, in the U.S. and abroad. We will consider
theories of representation, spectatorship, and subjectivity, in relation to
questions about the politics and economics of the mass media, avant-garde and
experimental art forms, community-based activist video, and independent film
production. Examples will be drawn from Latin American grassroots video (such
as Chiapas Media Project), queer safer sex videos (from Gay Men's Health
Crisis), antiracist film and television (from the black British film collective
Sankofa and Paper Tiger Television), feminist film distribution networks (Big
Miss Movieola and Women Make Movies), and various Hollywood productions. Also
offered as ENGL 387 and HART 387. Enrollment is limited to 25.
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Ostherr, Kirsten Enr: 7 Max: 7
WGST 391 PRODUCING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE: METHODOLOG Credits 3.00 Spring 03
In this course we will examine various methodologies used by feminist scholars
in the Social Sciences and the humanities. Particular attention will be devoted
to the practical application of feminist methodologies in visual culture and
the history of art, as well as to interdisciplinary feminist inquiries in
science, ethnography, and epistemology. Also offered as HART 391. Enrollment is
limited to 10.
001 SH 305 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Brennan, Marcia Enr: 5 Max: 0
Shehabuddin, Elora
WGST 399 WOMEN IN CHINESE LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This course examines women's roles in Chinese literature as writers, readers,
and characters, focusing particularly on the tension between women's lived
bodily experiences and the cultural experiences inscribed on the female body
and how, in the process, women have contrarily gendered patriarchal culture
into their own. It will also touch on Chinese women's incorporation of the
Western Tradition. Also offered as ASIA 399.
001 FL 412 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Qian, Nanxiu Enr: 3 Max: NA
WGST 408 TOPICS IN LITERATURE:THE CULTURE OF LOVE Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This course explores how the poetry and art of England from Elizabeth's
accession in 1558 to the restoration of Charles II created a culture of love,
and how that culture of love in turn shaped the language and thought of those
living in it. Why was the "self" during this period so persistently thought,
written, and lived in terms of its desires, affections, and attachments? How is
the lover defined through the objects of his or her affection? Examining a wide
range of poetry, prose, and visual artifacts, we will consider the impact of
this love culture on issues of gender, spectatorship, interiority and the gaze;
examine popular forms of bodily depiction in love poetry such as anatomies and
blazons; study the interrelationship of magic and eros; and examine the
problematic distinction between arts depicting diving and profane love. This
course meets the pre-180 requirement for the English major.
001 FL 414 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Dietz, Elizabeth Enr: 0 Max: NA
WGST 410 THE LITERARY & HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE M Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature
with extant evidnce of historical women form contemporary documents and
records. Undergraduate version of WGST 450. Also offered as FREN 410 and MDST
410.
Pre-req- FREN 201 and FREN 311
001 RH 204 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Nelson, Deborah H. Enr: 0 Max: 0
WGST 434 FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 03
The purpose of this course is to gain a broad understanding of the important
problems of contemporary feminist theories in French. We will focus on the
interrelated issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethics, language, and power by
exploring in depth primary texts in feminst theory. Readings (in English) will
include Beauvoir, Irigaray, Djebar, and Brossard. This course specifically
intends to expose the fundamentals of French feminist theory as they apply to
the broader spectrum of contemporary feminist thought and philosophy. Course
will be offered in translation. Also offered as FREN 434.
Prereq- require reading knowledge of French, recommend one course in SWG,
Philosophy, or Literary Theory.
001 TBA - W 01:00PM - 04:00PM Huffer, Lynne Enr: 2 Max: NA
WGST 448 DISEASE AND DIFFERENCE: THE BODY IN VISU Credits 3.00 Spring 03
This couse examines the history of visual representations of disease in
photography, cinema, and digital media. We will consider how nationally,
racially, and sexually marked bodies constitute an iconography of social and
organic contamination. Topics include early cinema, colonialism, photography,
eugenics, immigration, science fiction, and internet "viruses". Also offered as
HART 486 and ENGL 458.
001 SH 562 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Ostherr, Kirsten Enr: 1 Max: NA
WGST 462 2OTH CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIES: 20TH/21ST Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Also offered as ENGL 462.
001 FL 524 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Lurie, Susan Enr: 1 Max: 0
WGST 476 RESEARCH SEMINAR IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Topics for Spring 2003 is "Feminist Approaches" to Public Life: The Organized
Womens' Movements in the United States." This graduate and advanced
undergraduate seminar explore several classic questions in the history of
women's activism including: the historical origins of racial divisions within
the modern women's movement, the importance of international networks to
domestic political agendas, and the multiple origins of "feminist" politics.
Along with substantive issues raised by the readings, the course also seeks to
engage students in fundamental issues of historical practice. Participants will
assess several of the major theoretical paradigms central to this field as well
as many issues of basic historiography. Also offered as HIST 476. Enrollment is
limited to 10.
Prereq- Advanced standing and permission of instructor.
001 SH 207A - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Sneider, Allison Enr: 0 Max: 5
WGST 477 RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN MEXICAN ART Credits 3.00 Spring 03
The seminar will study representations of race, class, and gender in Mexican
art from the 16th century to the present. The course will begin with the
traumatic encoutner of the Spanish and Mesoamerican cultures. Primary emphasis
will be on 20th century art, especially on images created after the Mexican
Revolution of 1910-20. Also offered as HART 477. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 TBA - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM Deffebach, Nancy Enr: 1 Max: 5
WGST 487 RACE, CLASS, GENDER IN MEXICAN ART (enri Credits 3.00 Spring 03
The seminar will study representations of race, class, and gender in Mexican
art from the 16th century to the present. The course will begin with the
traumatic encoutner of the Spanish and Mesoamerican cultures. Primary emphasis
will be on 20th century art, especially on images created after the Mexican
Revolution of 1910-20. Also offered as HART 677. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 TBA - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM Deffebach, Nancy Enr: 0 Max: 3
WGST 496 APPLIED WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDY Credits 1.00 Spring 03
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:
WGST 497 DIRECTED READING IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN A Credits 1.00 Spring 03
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:
WGST 498 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Open to SWG majors only. With permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max:
WGST 500 RESEARCH IN THE STUDY OF WOMEN & GENDER Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Spring research seminar for SWG seniors to fulfill capstone requirement. Open
to SWG majors only.
001 TBA - TBA Michie, Helena Enr: 5 Max: NA
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