Women’ Studies Courses Spring 2013
Core Courses (Courses meet 01/22/13-05/10/13 unless otherwise indicated) Course Descriptions Below
WOMST 105A
WOMST 105B
WOMST 105C
WOMST 105D
WOMST 105E
WOMST105F
WOMST105G
WOMST105H
WOMST 105I
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
9:30-10:20
9:30-10:20
10:30-11:20
10:30-11:20
1:30-2:20
2:30-3:20
8:05-9:20
9:30-10:20
11:30-12:45
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
TU
TU
TU
LSP 126
LS 001
LS 010
LS 001
LS 001
LS 001
W 120
LS 001
LS 001
Sabates
Tushabe
Sabates
Tushabe
Roshanravan
Roshanravan
Dickinson
Dickinson
Padilla Carroll
WOMST 105J
Intro to Women’s Studies
(Honors Perm Required)
Intro to Women’s Studies
Intro to Women’s Studies
(meets 1/23/13 to 3/13/13)
Intro to Women’s Studies
(meets 3/14/13 to 5/9/13)
Intro to Women’s Studies
1:05-2:20
TU
LS 001
Padilla Carroll
1:05-2:20
5:30-7:55
TU
MW
LS 001
W 025
Padilla Carroll
Denney
5:30-7:55
TU
LS 001
Vaughan
Distance
Hockett
Fundamentals of Women’s
Studies
Women & Aging
Feminist Thought
Stories of a Young Girl
Women & Pop Culture
Women & Islam
(meets 3/14/13 to 5/9/13)
Women & The Politics of Class
Internship in Wm Studies
(Permission Required)
2:30-5:20
W
S 130
Tushabe
11:30-12:45
12:30-1:20
1:05-2:20
2:30-5:20
5:30-7:55
TU
MWF
TU
T
MW
CW 122
BH 122
T 213
BH 112
LS 001
Dickinson
Sabates
Hubler
Padilla Carroll
Earles
2:30-3:45
APPT
TU
LS 06A
APPT
Hubler
Janette
WOMST 105K
WOMST 105ZA
WOMST 105ZB
WOMST 105ZC
WOMST 305A
WOMST 345A
WOMST 410A
WOMST 450A
WOMST 550A
WOMST 585ZA
WOMST 700A
WOMST 784A
Distance
Cross-Referenced Courses (Courses meet 01/22/13-05/10/13 unless otherwise indicated)
DAS 355ZA
EDCEP 312A
ENGL 315A
ENGL 315B
ENGL 388A
ENGL 680A
ENGL720A
ENGL 740A
FSHS 350A
FSHS 350B
FSHS 350C
HIST 542A
POLSC 606A
SOCIO 545A
SOCIO 635ZA
THTRE 782A
Intro Non-Violence Study
SHAPE
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Asian American Lit
Topic/Two-Spirit Literature
Topic/Brontes
Topic/Afro-Amer Lit Theory
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Family Rel/Gender Roles
Women in America: Civil War
to Present
Gender & Politics
Sociology of Women
Sociology of Human Trafficking
(meets 3/18/13 to 5/10/12)
Women in Theatre
Distance
2:30-3:45
9:30-10:20
10:30-11:20
2:30-3:20
7:05-9:55
11:30-12:45
11:30-12:20
1:30-2:20
11:30-12:45
5:30-8:20
3:55-5:50
TU
MWF
MWF
TU
U
TU
MWF
MWF
TU
M
TU
Distance
LSH 270
ECS 017
ECS 017
LS 010
ECS 017
EH 224
EH 021
JU 253
JU 109
JU 109
EH 226
Allen
Gibbs
Leader-Picone
Leader-Picone
Janette
Tatonetti
Longmuir
Leader-Picone
Berryhill
Welch
Welch
Zschoche
9:30-10:20
2:30-3:45
Distance
MWF
TU
AK 231
S 132
Distance
Heidbreder
Baird
Shapkina
1:30-2:20
MWF
N 311
Vellenga
Graduate Student Only Classes (courses meet 1/22/13-8/10/13 unless otherwise indicated)
FSHS 865A
SOCIO 933A
WOMST 810A
Revised 1/25/2013
Treatment Domestic Violence
& Substance Abuse
Gender & Society
Gender: Inter. Overview
8:30-11:20
M
BH 112
Stith
6:30-9:20
5:30-8:30
T
W
W 025
LS 112
Baird
Roshanravan
Women’s Studies Course Descriptions
Spring 2013
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section A: MWF 9:30; Section C: MWF 10:30--G. Sabates
An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist scholarship, which seeks to understand the
creation and perpetuation of gender inequalities, by examining historical, theoretical and cross-cultural
frameworks for the comparative study of women and gender. This course aims to sharpen students' critical
awareness of how gender operates in institutional and cultural contexts and in their own lives. Particular
attention will be paid to the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, national origin,
disability, culture, and movements for social change. Work for this course involves five quizzes, an ad analysis,
an ethnographic study, and a final paper and presentation.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section B: MWF 9:30; Section D: MWF 10:30--Tushabe
This course introduces students to a wide range of issues, which include social, political, and legal
issues pertaining to women’s lives and experiences in society and feminist movements worldwide. The course
is interdisciplinary in its approach. It encourages students to see and think about the world around them in a
matrix of connections and relationships, while examining and understanding the relevance of specific topics
such as abortion, contraception, and sexual violence within a comparative and international framework to
women, men and feminisms. Through assigned course texts and discussions students will learn and engage a
feminist methodology of self-reflection, a narrative of one’s journey, that takes a big picture and the complexity
of the connections and relationships that allow or impede a person to be in society for oneself, others and the
world. We will follow closely the significance and meaning of gender and other categories in American culture
and other societies. Additional resources such as films will be crucial to our discussion and critical thinking
skills, philosophical meanings and implications of social identities.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section E: MWF 1:30; Section F: WMF 2:30 --S. Roshanravan
In this course, we will explore what it means to be gendered and how gender must be understood in
relation to race, class, sexuality, culture, ability, nationality and other identity markers. One of the guiding
questions for the course is: How has your gender shaped your understanding of who you are, who you get to be,
where you can or cannot go, and what you get to have in this world? We will pay particular attention to the
way gender and gender oppression are produced through histories of power and how these histories position us
to live in ways that perpetuate the oppression of our selves and/or others, including those who we may not
immediately think of as crucial to our daily living. In addition to histories of power, we will also pay attention
to histories of resistance and how “women” have created strategies, theories and liberation movements that
challenge oppression of all kinds.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section G: TU 8:05; Section H: TU 9:30--T. Dickinson
This course is a foundation for the Women's Studies major and minor. It is an interdisciplinary,
historically based course that provides broad, multicultural feminist understandings of diverse groups of
women, girls, families and communities in the U.S. and in other countries, and in a rapidly changing world.
We'll discuss diverse readings, films, and other sources about the creation of gender-sexuality, racial-ethnic,
class, and global hierarchies. Students will have a chance to think about how we have been shaped by
inequalities and movements for change, how they have responded and shaped their lives, and how feminists are
working to remake their worlds at many levels. We'll think about our social relationships with different groups
of women in the U.S. and around the world. We'll learn in a collaborative way. And we'll have a chance to
participate in campus activities that relate to Women's Studies.
Revised 1/25/2013
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section I: TU 11:30; Section J (Honors): TU 1:05--M. Padilla Carroll
This course is a broad overview of Women’s Studies as a discipline—an interdisciplinary area of study
drawing from a variety of other disciplines including history, sociology, psychology, art, literature, and
philosophy among others. Topics will include history and theory of women and women’s studies, issues
concerning women, and how race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality intersect with gender. Throughout this course,
we will emphasize critical thinking and communication skills.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section ZA: MW 5:30--A. Denney
This class is a broad, interdisciplinary introduction to feminist history, thought, and politics. The course
will place responses to gender inequality in a historical framework that pays close attention to race, sexuality,
nationality, and class. We will also read about and discuss contemporary feminist issues. As part of this work,
students will have the opportunity to do research about gender inequality in relationship to their own majors.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section ZB: TU 5:30--M. Vaughn
Introduction to Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary examination of the experiences of women, the
ways in which gender inequality operates in society, and the strategies by which we can develop a more
inclusive society. This course will also examine the history of feminism in the United States and the ways in
which feminists have analyzed women’s position in society and have sought to change it. We will study
institutions and issues that currently affect women. Since this course is an “introduction,” we will not be able
to explore any of these topics in great depth, but will broadly cover a variety of issues.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Section ZC: Distance--J. Hockett
An interdisciplinary examination of women’s experiences, social gender inequality, and strategies for
empowerment in past and current Western (especially the United States) society. We will study institutions and
issues that affect women. Since this course is an “introduction,” we will not be able to explore any of these
topics in great depth, but will broadly cover a variety of issues. We will use a range of materials, from art to
magazine articles to peer-reviewed academic scholarship from a wide variety of disciplines (e.g., sociology,
history, psychology, and education).
WOMST 300 (will be 305) Fundamentals of Women’s Studies
Section A: W 2:30--Tushabe
This course examines the development of Women’s Studies as a discipline, and introduces theories,
issues, and major paradigms underlying feminist scholarship. We will emphasize multicultural approaches and
perspectives in order to understand important concepts, research methods and methodologies to feminist work.
This course is writing intensive.
WOMST 345 Women & Aging
Section A: TU 11:30--T. Dickinson
"Women and Aging" examines the life experiences of middle years and
older women in the United States and around the world. This is an interdisciplinary class that examines
historical, social scientific, and literary materials to understand how definitions of age, gender, sexuality, class,
ethnicity/race, and global hierarchy have shaped the lives of different groups of women in our social system.
We also will study how groups of women, their families, and their communities have challenged rules about
gender and age as they have worked to change personal and social relations.
Revised 1/25/2013
WOMST 410 Feminist Thought
Section A: MWF 12:30--G. Sabates
Survey of a variety of feminist analyses of society, culture, and work, as well as visions for social
change. The historical development of key feminist theories, contemporary debates, and multicultural and
global feminism will be analyzed. Work for this course involves three reflection papers, a midterm, and a final
paper with a project presentation.
WOMST 450 Stories of a Young Girl
Section A: TU 1:05--A. Hubler
This course analyzes the experience of female adolescence, beginning with Girls Rock!, a film about a
summer rock camp for girls founded by women involved in the Riotgrrl movement to challenge ways in which
adolescent girls are limited and oppressed. A historical perspective on female adolescence is offered by Joan
Jacobs Brumberg’s The Body Project and by Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women. The role of
educational institutions is analyzed in Peggy Orenstein’s Schoolgirls. The impact of colonialism is the focus of
Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. The study of literary depictions of female
adolescence will comprise about one half of the course, and we’ll pay particular attention to race, class, sexual
orientation, and other differences. This course counts towards the Women's Studies minor and major, K-State 8
(Aesthetic and Interpretive) and UGE.
WOMST 550 Women & Pop Culture
Section B: T 2:30 --V. Padilla Carroll
This course uses a gendered lens to examine the images of women in popular culture forms like fiction,
film, television, music, magazines, advertising, and material culture. In this course we will use intersectional
feminist perspectives to interrogate the portrayal of women and feminism within historical and cultural
contexts. Student will develop their own popular culture research project and by the end of the course, will
present their research in a poster session.
WOMST 585 Women and Islam
Section ZA: MW 5:30--B Earles
A study of the history and sources of Islam with particular reference to women in a variety of cultures,
ranging from South East Asia, Africa, the Middle East, to the Western World. Half of the course will consist of
case studies and include videotaped interviews with Muslim women on the importance of Islam in their
everyday lives and the challenges they face.
WOMST 700 Women & the Politics of Class
Section A: TU 2:30--A. Hubler
While poverty and class have historically been central factors in women’s lives, the current economic
crisis highlights the salience of these issues: US Census figures show that 16% of women and 31% of femaleheaded households were in poverty in 2011. Yet continuing calls for cuts to local, state and federal budgets
have shredded the social safety net. In light of this, the course will analyze class as it intersects with gender,
race, and geographic location, focusing on the material and economic factors that shape critical feminist issues
including the environment, sexuality, and the commodification and exploitation of women’s bodies and labor.
Course reading and content will include social and political theory and analysis, literature, and film, and will
range from foundational texts by Marx and Engels to contemporary socialist-feminist writers--including
consideration of Hester Eisenstein’s claim that feminist ideologies are being manipulated in the service of
global corporate capitalism--to Marge Piercy’s feminist utopian novel, Woman on the Edge of Time; to the
blacklisted 1954 film Salt of the Earth; to the Sundance award winning 2008 film Frozen River.
Open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Counts toward the major, minor and graduate
certificate in Women’s Studies.
Revised 1/25/2013
WOMST 784 Internship in Women’s Studies
Section A: By Appointment--M. Janette
(Obtain permission from Women’s Studies Program Director in 3 Leasure Hall) Gain valuable
experience in community, volunteer, activist, or political organizations at the local, state, national, or
international levels.
WOMST 810 Gender: Inter. Overview
Section A: W 5:30--S. Roshanravan
Examines the development of feminist theories, contemporary debates, and multicultural feminist
perspectives and practices within community-based, national, transnational, and global frameworks. Explores
resistance and movements and the historical-social construction of gender and sexuality in relationship to
race/ethnicity, class, and colonialism. Required for Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies.
Revised 1/25/2013