Gender and Sexuality Courses at Bryn Mawr
This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses in this department for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.
For information about courses offered by other Bryn Mawr departments and programs or about courses offered by Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, please consult the Course Guides page.
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Students must choose a major subject and may choose a minor subject. Students may also select from one of seven concentrations, which are offered to enhance a student's work in the major or minor and to focus work on a specific area of interest.
Concentrations are an intentional cluster of courses already offered by various academic departments or through general programs. These courses may also be cross-listed in several academic departments. Therefore, when registering for a course that counts toward a concentration, a student should register for the course listed in her major or minor department. If the concentration course is not listed in her major or minor department, the student may enroll in any listing of that course.
Spring 2013
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTH B102-001 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Dalton Hall 300 | Uzwiak,B. |
| ANTH B102-002 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Thomas Hall 110 | Merritt,C. |
| COML B245-001 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture: A History of Queer Bodies | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM- 9:30 PM M | Dalton Hall 2 | Schlipphacke,H. |
| LEC: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM SU | Dalton Hall 2 | ||||
| COML B302-001 | Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes écrivains des débuts | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM W | Taylor Hall B | Armstrong,G. |
| COML B345-001 | Topics in Narrative Theory: Theory of the Ethnic Novel | Semester / 1 | LEC: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | English House I | Harford Vargas,J. |
| COML B365-001 | Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM T | English House II | Hedley,J., Salkever,S. |
| EAST B315-001 | Spirits, Saints, Snakes, Swords: Women in East Asian Literature & Film | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM MW | Bettws Y Coed 127 | Kwa,S. |
| LEC: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM T | |||||
| ENGL B210-001 | Renaissance Literature: Performances of Gender | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | English House II | Hedley,J. |
| ENGL B260-001 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture: A History of Queer Bodies | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM- 9:30 PM M | Dalton Hall 2 | Schlipphacke,H. |
| Screening: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM SU | Dalton Hall 2 | ||||
| ENGL B263-001 | Toni Morrison and the Art of Narrative Conjure | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | English House I | Beard,L. |
| ENGL B334-001 | Topics in Film Studies: Curating Film: Festivals, Nationalism and Revoluti | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM TH | Carpenter Library 13 | Rastegar,R. |
| ENGL B345-001 | Topics in Narrative Theory: Theory of the Ethnic Novel | Semester / 1 | LEC: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | English House I | Harford Vargas,J. |
| ENGL B365-001 | Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM T | English House II | Hedley,J., Salkever,S. |
| FREN B302-001 | Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes écrivains des débuts | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM W | Taylor Hall C | Armstrong,G. |
| GERM B245-001 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture: A History of Queer Bodies | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM- 9:30 PM M | Dalton Hall 2 | Schlipphacke,H. |
| LEC: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM SU | Dalton Hall 2 | ||||
| HART B107-001 | Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Carpenter Library 25 | Levine,S., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| HART B108-001 | Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Art | Semester / 1 | LEC: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Carpenter Library 25 | Shipley,L. |
| HART B334-001 | Topics in Film Studies: Curating Film: Festivals, Nationalism and Revoluti | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM TH | Carpenter Library 13 | Rastegar,R. |
| Screening: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM TH | Carpenter Library 21 | ||||
| HART B354-001 | Gender and Contemporary Art | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W | Thomas Hall 111 | DeRoo,R. |
| HEBR B115-001 | Women in Judaism: History, Texts, Practices | Semester / 1 | LEC: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Thomas Hall 104 | Albert,A. |
| HIST B115-001 | Women in Judaism: History, Texts, Practices | Semester / 1 | LEC: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Thomas Hall 104 | Albert,A. |
| HIST B325-001 | Topics in Social History: Sexuality in America | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM T | Carpenter Library 13 | Ullman,S. |
| ITAL B304-001 | Il Rinascimento in Italia e oltre | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM F | Carpenter Library 15 | Ricci,R. |
| PHIL B252-001 | Feminist Theory | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 111 | Koggel,C. |
| PHIL B344-001 | Development Ethics | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | English House Lecture Hall | Koggel,C. |
| PHIL B365-001 | Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM T | English House II | Hedley,J., Salkever,S. |
| POLS B253-001 | Feminist Theory | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 118 | Koggel,C. |
| POLS B262-001 | Who Believes What and Why: the Sociology of Public Opinion | Semester / 1 | LEC: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Dalton Hall 119 | Wright,N. |
| POLS B344-001 | Development Ethics | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Taylor Hall B | Koggel,C. |
| POLS B365-001 | Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM T | English House II | Hedley,J., Salkever,S. |
| POLS B393-001 | U.S. Welfare Politics: Theory and Practice | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M | Dalton Hall 6 | Schram,S. |
| PSYC B340-001 | Women's Mental Health | Semester / 1 | LEC: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM MW | Bettws Y Coed 127 | Rosenfeld,A. |
| SOCL B262-001 | Who Believes What and Why: The Sociology of Public Opinion | Semester / 1 | LEC: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Dalton Hall 119 | Wright,N. |
| SOCL B350-001 | Movements for Social Justice | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM W | Dalton Hall 1 | Karen,D. |
Fall 2013
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTH B101-001 | Introduction to Anthropology: Prehistoric Archaeology and Biological Anthropology | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Carpenter Library 21 | Davis,R. |
| ANTH B101-00A | Introduction to Anthropology: Prehistoric Archaeology and Biological Anthropology | Semester / 1 | Laboratory: 2:00 PM- 3:30 PM T | Dalton Hall 315 | Seselj,M. |
| ANTH B101-00B | Introduction to Anthropology: Prehistoric Archaeology and Biological Anthropology | Semester / 1 | LEC: 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM T | Dalton Hall 315 | Seselj,M. |
| ANTH B101-00C | Introduction to Anthropology: Prehistoric Archaeology and Biological Anthropology | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM W | Dalton Hall 315 | Seselj,M. |
| ANTH B101-00D | Introduction to Anthropology: Prehistoric Archaeology and Biological Anthropology | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM W | Dalton Hall 315 | Seselj,M. |
| ANTH B248-001 | Race, Power and Culture | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Dalton Hall 25 | Uzwiak,B. |
| ANTH B268-001 | Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and Family | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Dalton Hall 2 | Merritt,C. |
| ANTH B312-001 | Anthropology of Reproduction | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM T | Dalton Hall 6 | Pashigian,M. |
| ANTH B316-001 | Gender in South Asia | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM TH | Dalton Hall 212A | Weidman,A. |
| CITY B205-001 | Social Inequality | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Dalton Hall 2 | Osirim,M. |
| CITY B335-001 | Topics in City and Media: Popular Cultures in East Asia | Semester / 1 | LEC: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM M | Thomas Hall 118 | Zhang,J. |
| ENGL B193-001 | Critical Feminist Studies | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | English House Lecture Hall | Dalke,A. |
| ENGL B217-001 | Narratives of Latinidad | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
| ENGL B272-001 | Queer of Color Critique | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Taylor Hall F | Nguyen,H. |
| Screening: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| ENGL B334-001 | Topics in Film Studies | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH | Thomas Hall 102 | Rastegar,R. |
| Film: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM T | Carpenter Library 25 | ||||
| ENGL B354-001 | Virginia Woolf | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Dalton Hall 2 | Tratner,M. |
| ENGL B373-001 | Masculinity in English Literature: From Chivalry to Civility | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM MW | English House Lecture Hall | Ricketts,R. |
| ENGL B379-001 | The African Griot(te) | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM M | English House I | Beard,L. |
| GNST B290-001 | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 111 | Song,R. |
| GREK B201-001 | Plato and Thucydides | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Carpenter Library 15 | Edmonds,R. |
| HART B334-001 | Topics in Film Studies: Middle East on Film | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH | Thomas Hall 102 | Rastegar,R. |
| Film: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM W | Carpenter Library 25 | ||||
| HART B372-001 | Feminist Art and Theory, 1970-Present | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W | Carpenter Library 15 | DeRoo,R. |
| PHIL B221-001 | Ethics | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Taylor Hall G | Koggel,C. |
| POLS B375-001 | Gender, Work and Family | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM F | Dalton Hall 212A | Golden,M. |
| SOCL B102-001 | Society, Culture, and the Individual | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Dalton Hall 300 | Karen,D. |
| SOCL B205-001 | Social Inequality | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Dalton Hall 2 | Osirim,M. |
| SOCL B375-001 | Gender, Work and Family | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM F | Dalton Hall 212A | Golden,M. |
| SPAN B217-001 | Narratives of Latinidad | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
| SPAN B309-001 | La mujer en la literatura española del Siglo de Oro | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM MW | Dalton Hall 6 | Quintero,M. |
Spring 2014
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTH B102-001 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Dalton Hall 300 | Uzwiak,B. |
| ANTH B102-002 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Dalton Hall 300 | Weidman,A. |
| ARTD B240-001 | Dance History I: Roots of Western Theater Dance | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM- 9:30 PM T | Goodhart Hall B | Caruso Haviland,L. |
| COML B237-001 | The Dictator Novel in the Americas | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
| COML B245-001 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture: Nation and Identity in Post-War Austrian Literatur | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Taylor Hall, Seminar Room | Meyer,I. |
| COML B345-001 | Topics in Narrative Theory | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | English House II | Ricketts,R. |
| CSTS B175-001 | Feminism in Classics | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Carpenter Library 25 | Conybeare,C. |
| CSTS B209-001 | Eros in Ancient Greek Culture | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Carpenter Library 15 | Edmonds,R. |
| ENGL B237-001 | Latino Dictator Novel in Americas | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
| ENGL B260-001 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Taylor Hall, Seminar Room | Meyer,I. |
| ENGL B345-001 | Topics in Narrative Theory: Realism | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | English House II | Ricketts,R. |
| ENGL B378-001 | Eating Culture: Food and Britain 1798 to 1929 | Semester / 1 | Lecture: Date/Time TBA | ||
| GERM B245-001 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture: Nation and Identity in Post-War Austrian Literatur | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Taylor Hall, Seminar Room | Meyer,I. |
| HART B107-001 | Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Carpenter Library 25 | Levine,S., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| HART B108-001 | Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Art | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Carpenter Library 25 | Saltzman,L., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| HART B354-001 | Gender and Contemporary Art | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM M | Carpenter Library 15 | DeRoo,R. |
| HIST B325-001 | Topics in Social History: Women's Higher Education in 19th and 20th Century | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM F | Dept. staff, TBA | |
| ITAL B212-001 | Italy Today: New Voices, New Writers, New Literature | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 129 | Interim,R. |
| PHIL B225-001 | Global Ethical Issues | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Thomas Hall 111 | Koggel,C. |
| POLS B225-001 | Global Ethical Issues | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Thomas Hall 111 | Koggel,C. |
| SOCL B102-001 | Society, Culture, and the Individual | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Taylor Hall G | Marquez,E. |
| SOCL B257-001 | Marginals and Outsiders: The Sociology of Deviance | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Dalton Hall 6 | Washington,R. |
| SPAN B237-001 | Latino Dictator Novel in Americas | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
Courses at Haverford
Fall 2010
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/UNITS | MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTH 204 | Anthropology of Gender | TTh 1-2:30pm | Uygun, Bany Nilgun | ||
| ENGL 278 | MW 12:30-2:00pm | Solomon, Asali | |||
| ENGL 383 | Topics in American Literature | MW 12:30-2pm | Sherman, Debora | ||
| GERM 223 | Writing Nations: Africa and Europe | M 1:30-4pm | Brust, Imke | ||
| HIST 266 | Sex and Gender in Early Modern Islamic World | MW 2:30-4pm | Azfar, Farid | ||
| HIST 310 | Political Technologies of Race and the Body | M 1:30-4pm | Friedman, Andrew | ||
| ICPR 244 | Quaker Social Witness | TTh 11:30am-1pm | Edwards, Kaye | ||
| PHIL 105 | Love, Friendship, and the Ethical Life | TTh 1-2:30pm | Wright, Kathleen | ||
| POLS 235 | African Politics | TTh 10-11:30am | Glickman, Harvey | ||
| RELG 301 | Religious Polemics | T 1:30-4pm | Koltun-Fromm, Naomi |
Spring 2011
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/UNITS | MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GERM 224 | Visualizing Europe | MW 12:30-2:00pm | Brust, Imke | ||
| ICPR 281 | Violence and Public Health | MW 12:30-2pm | Edwards, Kaye | ||
| ICPR 290 | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender | M 1:30-4pm | Stadler, Gustavus | ||
| POLS 123 | American Politics: Difference and Discrimination | MW 12:30-2pm | Oberfield, Zachary | ||
| POLS 229 | Latino Politics in the U.S. | WF 2:30-4pm | Beltran, Cristina | ||
| RELG 330 | Seminar in the Writings of Women of African Descent | M 1:30-4pm | Hucks, Tracey |
Fall 2011
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/UNITS | MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
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2013-14 Catalog Data
ANTH B101 Introduction to Anthropology: Prehistoric Archaeology and Biological Anthropology Fall 2013 An introduction to the place of humans in nature, primates, the fossil record for human evolution, human variation and the issue of race, and the archaeological investigation of culture change from the Old Stone Age to the rise of early civilizations in the Americas, Eurasia and Africa. There are four lab sections for ANTH 101. In addition to the lecture/discussion classes,students must select and sign up for one lab section. Limited enrollment: 18 students per lab section. Division I: Social Science Scientific Investigation (SI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ANTH B102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Spring 2014 An introduction to the methods and theories of cultural anthropology in order to understand and explain cultural similarities and differences among contemporary societies . Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Major ANTH B248 Race, Power and Culture Fall 2013 This course examines race and power through a variety of topics including colonialism, nation-state formation, genocide, systems of oppression/privilege, and immigration. Students will examine how class, gender, and other social variables intersect to affect individual and collective experiences of race, as well as the consequences of racism in various cultural contexts. Prerequisites: ANTH B102 or permission of instructor. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ANTH B268 Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and Family Fall 2013 This course explores the family and marriage as basic social institutions in cultures around the world. We will consider various topics including: kinship systems in social organization; dating and courtship; parenting and childhood; cohabitation and changing family formations; family planning and reproductive technologies; and gender and the division of household labor. In addition to thinking about individuals in families, we will consider the relationship between society, the state, and marriage and family. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 or permission of instructor. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ANTH B312 Anthropology of Reproduction Fall 2013 An examination of social and cultural constructions of reproduction, and how power in everyday life shapes reproductive behavior and its meaning in Western and non-Western cultures. The influence of competing interests within households, communities, states, and institutions on reproduction is considered. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or permission of instructor. Division I: Social Science Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ANTH B316 Gender in South Asia Fall 2013 Examines gender as a culturally and historically constructed category in the modern South Asian context, focusing on the ways in which everyday experiences of and practices relating to gender are informed by media, performance, and political events. Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or permission of instructor. Division I: Social Science Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ANTH B322 Anthropology of the Body Not offered 2013-14 This course examines a diversity of meanings and interpretations of the body in anthropology. It explores anthropological theories and methods of studying the body and social difference via a series of topics including the construction of the body in medicine, identity, race, gender, sexuality and as explored through cross-cultural comparison. Prerequisite: ANTH B102 and preferably a 200 level cultural anthropology course. Division I: Social Science Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ANTH B350 Advanced Topics in Gender Studies Not offered 2013-14 This is a topics course. Topics vary. Division I: Social Science Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ARCH B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity Not offered 2013-14 We investigate representations of women in different media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in the ancient world, the objects that they were associated with in life and death and their occupations. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as HART B234 Cross-listed as CSTS B234 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ARCH B303 Classical Bodies Not offered 2013-14 An examination of the conceptions of the human body evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the visible expression of character and emotions; and the formulation of the "classical ideal" in antiquity and later times. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B305 Cross-listed as COML B313 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ARTD B240 Dance History I: Roots of Western Theater Dance Spring 2014 This course investigates the historic and cultural forces affecting the development and functions of pre-20th-century dance as well as its relationship to and impact on the development of Western culture. It will consider nontheatrical forms and applications, but will give special emphasis to the development of theater dance forms. It will also introduce students to the varied forms of historic research and the changing modes of documenting dance and to a view of history not only as a linear progression of events but also as process, change and cultural shift. Lecture, discussion, and audiovisual materials. Div: III; Approach: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP); Haverford: Humanities (HU). Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies BIOL B214 The Historical Roots of Women in Genetics and Embryology Not offered 2013-14 This course provides a general history of genetics and embryology from the late 19th to the mid-20th century with a focus on the role that women scientists and technicians played in the development of these sub-disciplines. We will look at the lives of well known and lesser-known individuals, asking how factors such as their educational experiences and mentor relationships influenced the roles these women played in the scientific enterprise. We will also examine specific scientific contributions in historical context, requiring a review of core concepts in genetics and developmental biology. One facet of the course will be to look at the Bryn Mawr Biology Department from the founding of the College into the mid-20th century. Division II: Natural Science Inquiry into the Past (IP) Scientific Investigation (SI) Cross-listed as HIST B214 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies CITY B205 Social Inequality Fall 2013 Introduction to the major sociological theories of gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequality with emphasis on the relationships among these forms of stratification in the contemporary United States, including the role of the upper class(es), inequality between and within families, in the work place, and in the educational system. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-listed as SOCL B205 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies CITY B335 Topics in City and MediaSection 001 (Fall 2012): Popular Cultures in East Asia
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Popular Cultures in East Asia Fall 2013 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Looking at TV drama, animation, pop music, fashion and fast food, this course investigates how popular culture works and how it shapes people's lives in East Asian countries. Seeing popular culture as terrains of power struggles and articulation, we explore how class, gender and national identities are constructed and contested through pop culture that is in turn shaped by these social relationships in specific political and historical context Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as EAST B336 Cross-listed as ANTH B335 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies CMSC B257 Gender and Technology Not offered 2013-14 Explores the historical role technology has played in the production of gender; the historical role gender has played in the evolution of various technologies; how the co-construction of gender and technology has been represented in a range of on-line, filmic, fictional, and critical media; and what all of the above suggest for the technological engagement of everyone in today's world. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ENGL B257 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies COML B220 Writing the Self in the Middle Ages Not offered 2013-14 What leads people to write about their lives? Do men and women present themselves differently? Do they think different issues are important? How do they claim authority for their thoughts and experiences? We shall address these questions, reading a wide range of autobiography from the Medieval period in the West, with a particular emphasis on women's writing and on feminist critiques of autobiographical practice. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as CSTS B220 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies COML B237 The Dictator Novel in the Americas Spring 2014 This course examines representations of dictatorship in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore the relationship between narrative form and absolute power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Southern Cone. Prerequisite: only for students wishing to take the course for major/minor credit in SPAN is SPAN B200/B202. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ENGL B237 Cross-listed as SPAN B237 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B245 Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture
Section 001 (Spring 2013): A History of Queer Bodies
Section 001 (Spring 2014): Nation and Identity in Post-War Austrian Literatur Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Taught in English. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as GERM B245 Cross-listed as ENGL B260 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies COML B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes écrivains des débuts Not offered 2013-14 This study of selected women authors from the French Middle Ages, Renaissance and Classical periods--among them, Marie de France, the trobairitz, Christine de Pisan, Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, and Madame de Lafayette--examines the way in which they appropriate and transform the male writing tradition and define themselves as self-conscious artists within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to identifying recurring concerns and structures in their works, and to assessing their importance to female writing: among them, the poetics of silence, reproduction as a metaphor for artistic creation, and sociopolitical engagement. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as FREN B302 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies COML B313 Classical Bodies Not offered 2013-14 An examination of the conceptions of the human body evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the visible expression of character and emotions; and the formulation of the "classical ideal" in antiquity and later times. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ARCH B303 Cross-listed as HART B305 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies COML B314 Troilus and Criseyde Not offered 2013-14 Examines Chaucer's magisterial Troilus and Criseyde, his epic romance of love, loss, and betrayal. We will supplement sustained analysis of the poem with primary readings on free will and courtly love as well as theoretical readings on gender and sexuality and translation. We will also read Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Cross-listed as ENGL B314 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies COML B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies Not offered 2013-14 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as GERM B321 Cross-listed as CITY B319 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies COML B322 Queens, Nuns, and Other Deviants in the Early Modern Iberian World Not offered 2013-14 The course examines literary, historical, and legal texts from the early modern Iberian world (Spain, Mexico, Peru) through the lens of gender studies. The course is divided around three topics: royal bodies (women in power), cloistered bodies (women in the convent), and delinquent bodies (figures who defy legal and gender normativity). Course is taught in English and is open to all juniors or seniors who have taken at least one 200-level course in a literature department. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as SPAN B322 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B340 Topics in Baroque Art
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Costume and Consumer Culture Not offered 2013-14 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B340 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies COML B345 Topics in Narrative Theory
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Theory of the Ethnic Novel Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Students in this course will explore the history of literary "realism" and the development of the verisimilitude we take for granted in prose today. Whether they aimed to portray real life vividly or describe made-up worlds realistically, many authors exploited the blurry boundary between factual and fictional writing, between storytelling and reporting. Course texts will include essays, novels, plays, and short stories from a range of British and American literary traditions. Cross-listed as ENGL B345 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B365 Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the relationship between love and art, "eros" and "poesis," through in-depth study of Plato's "Phaedus" and "Symposium," Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and "Antony and Cleopatra," and essays by modern commentators (including David Halperin, Anne Carson, Martha Nussbaum, Marjorie Garber, and Stanley Cavell). We will also read Shakespeare's Sonnets and "Romeo and Juliet." Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ENGL B365 Cross-listed as POLS B365 Cross-listed as PHIL B365 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies CSTS B175 Feminism in Classics Spring 2014 This course will illustrate the ways in which feminism has had an impact on classics, as well as the ways in which feminists think with classical texts. It will have four thematic divisions: feminism and the classical canon; feminism, women, and rethinking classical history; feminist readings of classical texts; and feminists and the classics - e.g. Cixous' Medusa and Butler's Antigone. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies CSTS B209 Eros in Ancient Greek Culture Spring 2014 This course explores the ancient Greek's ideas of love, from the interpersonal loves between people of the same or different genders to the cosmogonic Eros that creates and holds together the entire world. The course examines how the idea of eros is expressed in poetry, philosophy, history, and the romances. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies CSTS B220 Writing the Self in the Middle Ages Not offered 2013-14 What leads people to write about their lives? Do men and women present themselves differently? Do they think different issues are important? How do they claim authority for their thoughts and experiences? We shall address these questions, reading a wide range of autobiography from the Medieval period in the West, with a particular emphasis on women's writing and on feminist critiques of autobiographical practice. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as COML B220 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies CSTS B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity Not offered 2013-14 We investigate representations of women in different media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in the ancient world, the objects that they were associated with in life and death and their occupations. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as ARCH B234 Cross-listed as HART B234 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies EAST B315 Spirits, Saints, Snakes, Swords: Women in East Asian Literature & Film Not offered 2013-14 This interdisciplinary course focuses on a critical survey of literary and visual texts by and about Chinese women. We will begin by focusing on the cultural norms that defined women's lives beginning in early China, and consider how those tropes are reflected and rejected over time and geographical borders (in Japan, Hong Kong and the United States). No prior knowledge of Chinese culture or language necessary. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies EDUC B280 Gender, Sex and Education: Intersections and Conflict Not offered 2013-14 This course explores the intersections and conflict between gender and education through focus on science/mathematics education and related academic domains. It investigates how gender complicates disciplinary knowledge (and vice-versa), the (de)constructing and reinforcing of genders (via science and schooling), and ways gender troubles negotiation of disciplines. Implications for teaching, society, and social justice, as well as relationships among different cultural categories, will be explored. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies EDUC B290 Learning in Institutional Spaces: Education in Dialogue Not offered 2013-14 This course considers how two "walled communities," the institutions of schools and prisons, operate as sites of learning. Beginning with an examination of the origins of educational and penitential institutions, we examine how these institutions both constrain and propel learning, and how human beings challenge and change their soundings. Division I: Social Science Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Praxis Program ENGL B193 Critical Feminist Studies Fall 2013 Combines the study of specific literary texts with larger questions about feminist forms of theorizing: three fictional texts will be supplemented by a wide range of essays. Students will review current scholarship, identify their own stake in the conversation, and define a critical question they want to pursue at length. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B210 Renaissance Literature: Performances of Gender Not offered 2013-14 Readings chosen to highlight the construction and performance of gender identity during the period from 1550 to 1650 and the ways in which the gender anxieties of 16th- and 17th-century men and women differ from, yet speak to, our own. Texts will include plays, poems, prose fiction, diaries, and polemical writing of the period. Division III: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad Fall 2013 This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics of shared concern among Latino groups such as imperialism and annexation, the affective experience of migration, race and gender stereotypes, the politics of Spanglish, and struggles for social justice. By analyzing novels, poetry, performance art, testimonial narratives, films, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Latinadad in the Americas. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as SPAN B217 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ENGL B228 Silence: The Rhetorics of Class, Gender, Culture, Religion Not offered 2013-14 This course will consider silence as a rhetorical art and political act, an imaginative space and expressive power that can serve many functions, including that of opening new possibilities among us. We will share our own experiences of silence, re-thinking them through the lenses of how it is explained in philosophy, enacted in classrooms and performed by various genders, cultures, and religions. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Praxis Program ENGL B235 Reading Popular Culture: Freaks Not offered 2013-14 This course traces the iconic figure of the "freak" in American culture, from 19th c. sideshows to the present. Featuring literature and films that explore "extraordinary Others", we will flesh out the ways in which our current understandings of gender, sexuality, normalcy, and race are constituted through images of "abnormality." Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas Spring 2014 This course examines representations of dictatorship in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore the relationship between narrative form and absolute power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Southern Cone. Prerequisite: only for students wishing to take the course for major/minor credit in SPAN is SPAN B200/B202. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as SPAN B237 Cross-listed as COML B237 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ENGL B254 American Literature 1750-1900 Not offered 2013-14 This course explores the subject, subjection, and subjectivity of women and female sexualities in U.S. literatures between the signing of the Constitution and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. While the representation of women in fiction grew and the number of female authors soared, the culture found itself at pains to define the appropriate moments for female speech and silence, action and passivity. We will engage a variety of pre-suffrage literatures that place women at the nexus of national narratives of slavery and freedom, foreignness and domesticity, wealth and power, masculinity and citizenship, and sex and race "purity." Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B257 Gender and Technology Not offered 2013-14 Explores the historical role technology has played in the production of gender; the historical role gender has played in the evolution of various technologies; how the co-construction of gender and technology has been represented in a range of on-line, filmic, fictional, and critical media; and what all of the above suggest for the technological engagement of everyone in today's world. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as CMSC B257 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B260 Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture
Section 001 (Spring 2013): A History of Queer Bodies Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Taught in English. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as GERM B245 Cross-listed as COML B245 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B261 Topics: Film and the German Literary Imagination
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Coming of Age: Picturing the Time of Childhood in Not offered 2013-14 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as GERM B262 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies ENGL B263 Toni Morrison and the Art of Narrative Conjure Not offered 2013-14 All of Morrison's primary imaginative texts, in publication order, as well as essays by Morrison, with a series of critical lenses that explore several vantages for reading a conjured narration. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B269 Vile Bodies in Medieval Literature Not offered 2013-14 The Middle Ages imagined the physical body as the site of moral triumph and failure and as the canvas to expose social ills. The course examines medical tracts, saint's lives, poetry, theological texts, and representations of the Passion. Discussion topics range from plague and mercantilism to the legal and religious depiction of torture. Texts by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Dante, and Kempe will be supplemented with contemporary readings on trauma theory and embodiment. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B270 American Girl: Childhood in U.S. Literatures, 1690-1935 Not offered 2013-14 This course will focus on the "American Girl" as a particularly contested model for the nascent American. Through examination of religious tracts, slave and captivity narratives, literatures for children and adult literatures about childhood, we will analyze U. S. investments in girlhood as a site for national self-fashioning. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B272 Queer of Color Critique Fall 2013 Queer of color critique (QoCC) is a mode of criticism with roots in women of color feminism, post-structuralism, critical race theory, and queer studies. QoCC focuses on "intersectional" analyses. That is, QoCC seeks to integrate studies of race, sexuality, gender, class, and nationalism, and to show how these categories are co-constitutive. In so doing, QoCC contends that a focus on gay rights or reliance on academic discourse is too narrow. QoCC therefore addresses a wide set of issues from beauty standards to terrorism and questions the very idea of "normal." This course introduces students to the ideas of QoCC through key literary and film texts. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B280 Video Practices: From Analog to Digital Not offered 2013-14 This course explores the history and theory of video art from the late 1960's to the present. The units include: aesthetics; activisim; access; performance; and institutional critique. We will reflect on early video's "utopian moment" and its manifestation in the current new media revolution. Feminist, people of color and queer productions will constitute the majority of our corpus. Prerequisite: ENGL/HART B205 Intro to Film or consent of the instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B280 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies ENGL B284 Women Poets: Giving Eurydice a Voice Not offered 2013-14 This course covers English and American woman poets of the 19th and 20th centuries whose gender was important for their self-understanding as poets, their choice of subject matter, and the audience they sought to gain for their work. Featured poets include Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lucille Clifton, H.D., Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Christina Rossetti, Anne Sexton, and Gertrude Stein. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B297 Terror, Pleasure, and the Gothic Imagination Not offered 2013-14 Introduces students to the 18th-century origins of Gothic literature and its development across genres, media and time. Exploring the formal contours and cultural contexts of the enduring imaginative mode in literature, film, art, and architecture, the course will also investigate the Gothic's connection to the radical and conservative cultural agendas. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B314 Troilus and Criseyde Not offered 2013-14 Examines Chaucer's magisterial Troilus and Criseyde, his epic romance of love, loss, and betrayal. We will supplement sustained analysis of the poem with primary readings on free will and courtly love as well as theoretical readings on gender and sexuality and translation. We will also read Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Cross-listed as COML B314 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B333 Lesbian Immortal Not offered 2013-14 Lesbian literature has repeatedly figured itself in alliance with tropes of immortality and eternity. Using recent queer theory on temporality, and 19th and 20th century primary texts, we will explore topics such as: fame and noteriety; feminism and mythology; epistemes, erotics and sexual seasonality; the death drive and the uncanny; fin de siecle manias for mummies and seances. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B334 Topics in Film Studies
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Curating Film: Festivals, Nationalism and Revoluti
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Global Queer Cinema Fall 2013 This is a topics course. Content varies.
Current topic description: This course examines contemporary cinematic images produced in Middle Eastern and Arab countries and in their Diasporas. In his groundbreaking text Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western representations of the "East" are constructed through an inverted mirror reflection of the West. Grounded in postcolonial theory and film studies, students will explore the role of cultural formation through moving image production and circulation. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B334 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory
Section 001 (Spring 2014): Realism
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Theory of the Ethnic Novel Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Students in this course will explore the history of literary "realism" and the development of the verisimilitude we take for granted in prose today. Whether they aimed to portray real life vividly or describe made-up worlds realistically, many authors exploited the blurry boundary between factual and fictional writing, between storytelling and reporting. Course texts will include essays, novels, plays, and short stories from a range of British and American literary traditions. Cross-listed as COML B345 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ENGL B353 Queer Diasporas: Empire, Desire, and the Politics of Placement Not offered 2013-14 Looking at fiction and film from the U.S. and abroad through the lenses of sexuality studies and queer theory, we will explore the ways that both current and past configurations of sexual, racial, and cultural personhood have inflected, infringed upon, and opened up spaces of local/global citizenship and belonging. Prerequisites: An introductory course in film, or GNST B290, or ENGL B250. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies ENGL B354 Virginia Woolf Fall 2013 Virginia Woolf has been interpreted as a feminist, a modernist, a crazy person, a resident of Bloomsbury, a victim of child abuse, a snob, a socialist, and a creation of literary and popular history. We will try out all these approaches and examine the features of our contemporary world that influence the way Woolf, her work, and her era are perceived. We will also attempt to theorize about why we favor certain interpretations over others. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B365 Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the relationship between love and art, "eros" and "poesis," through in-depth study of Plato's "Phaedus" and "Symposium," Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and "Antony and Cleopatra," and essays by modern commentators (including David Halperin, Anne Carson, Martha Nussbaum, Marjorie Garber, and Stanley Cavell). We will also read Shakespeare's Sonnets and "Romeo and Juliet." Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as POLS B365 Cross-listed as PHIL B365 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B367 Asian American Film Video and New Media Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the role of pleasure in the production, reception, and performance of Asian American identities in film, video, and the internet, taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian Americans in works produced by Asian American artists from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, we will study graphic sexual representations, including pornographic images and sex acts some may find objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage analytically with all class material. To maintain an atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B367 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies ENGL B369 Women Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath Not offered 2013-14 In this seminar we will be playing three poets off against each other, all of whom came of age during the 1950s. We will plot each poet's career in relation to the public and personal crises that shaped it, giving particular attention to how each poet constructed "poethood" for herself. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B373 Masculinity in English Literature: From Chivalry to Civility Fall 2013 This course will examine images and concepts of masculinity as represented in a wide variety of texts in English. Beginning in the early modern period and ending with our own time, the course will focus on texts of the "long" 18th century to contextualize the relationships between masculinity and chivalry, civility, manliness, and femininity. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B378 Eating Culture: Food and Britain 1798 to 1929 Spring 2014 This class will explore British culinary culture across the long 19th century. One of our main goals will be to explore the role of matters culinary in the ordering and Othering of the world and its populations. We will pay particular attention to the relationship of food to 19th-century class and labor relations, colonial and imperial discourse, and analyze how food both traces and guides global networks of power, politics and trade. We will work towards theorizing food's materiality, considering the physiognomy of food, the aesthetics of a menu, and the hermeneutics of taste. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ENGL B379 The African Griot(te) Fall 2013 A focused exploration of the multi-genre productions of Southern African writer Bessie Head and the critical responses to such works. Students are asked to help construct a critical-theoretical framework for talking about a writer who defies categorization or reduction. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies FREN B201 Le Chevalier, la dame et le prêtre: littérature et publics du Moyen Age Not offered 2013-14 Using literary texts, historical documents and letters as a mirror of the social classes that they address, this interdisciplinary course studies the principal preoccupations of secular and religious women and men in France from the Carolingian period through 1500. Selected works from epic, lai, roman courtois, fabliau, theater, letters, and contemporary biography are read in modern French translation. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies FREN B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes écrivains des débuts Not offered 2013-14 This study of selected women authors from the French Middle Ages, Renaissance and Classical periods--among them, Marie de France, the trobairitz, Christine de Pisan, Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, and Madame de Lafayette--examines the way in which they appropriate and transform the male writing tradition and define themselves as self-conscious artists within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to identifying recurring concerns and structures in their works, and to assessing their importance to female writing: among them, the poetics of silence, reproduction as a metaphor for artistic creation, and sociopolitical engagement. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B302 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies GERM B245 Interdisciplinary Approaches to German Literature and Culture
Section 001 (Spring 2013): A History of Queer Bodies
Section 001 (Spring 2014): Nation and Identity in Post-War Austrian Literatur Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Taught in English. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ENGL B260 Cross-listed as COML B245 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies GERM B321 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies Not offered 2013-14 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Topic for 2011-12 is The Transnational Cosmopolitanism of Swiss Literature. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as HART B348 Cross-listed as COML B321 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies GNST B223 Acting in Prison: Vision as Resource for Change Not offered 2013-14 This course uses the theme of "vision" to explore the context and consequences of mass incarceration, daily experiences inside correctional institutions and social movements formed and inspired by incarcerated individuals. Students will explore and apply course materials in campus-based classes and in classes with incarcerated women inside a correctional facility. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Praxis Program GNST B290 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality Fall 2013 This course offers a rigorous grounding for students interested in questions of gender and sexuality. Bringing together intellectual resources from multiple disciplines, it also explores what it means to think across and between disciplinary boundaries. Team-taught by Bryn Mawr and Haverford professors from different disciplines, this course is offered yearly on alternate campuses. This semester it will be taught at Bryn Mawr College by Professor Rosi Song, Spanish, Bryn Mawr College and Professor Nilgun Uygun, Anthropology, Haverford College. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies GREK B201 Plato and Thucydides Fall 2013 This course is designed to introduce the student to two of the greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, the philosopher, Plato, and the historian, Thucydides. These two writers set the terms in the disciplines of philosophy and history for millennia, and philosophers and historians today continue to grapple with their ideas and influence. The brilliant and controversial statesman Alcibiades provides a link between the two texts in this course, and we examine the ways in which both authors handle the figure of Alcibiades as a point of entry into the comparison of the varying styles and modes of thought of these two great writers. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B107 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France Spring 2014 A study of artists' self-representations in the context of the philosophy and psychology of their time, with particular attention to issues of political patronage, gender and class, power and desire. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B108 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Art Spring 2014 An investigation of the history of art since the Renaissance organized around the practice of women artists, the representation of women in art, and the visual economy of the gaze. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity Not offered 2013-14 We investigate representations of women in different media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in the ancient world, the objects that they were associated with in life and death and their occupations. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as ARCH B234 Cross-listed as CSTS B234 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B280 Video Practices: Analog to Digital Not offered 2013-14 This course explores the history and theory of video art from the late 1960's to the present. The units include: aesthetics; activisim; access; performance; and institutional critique. We will reflect on early video's "utopian moment" and its manifestation in the current new media revolution. Feminist, people of color and queer productions will constitute the majority of our corpus. Prerequisite: ENGL/HART B205 Intro to Film or consent of the instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ENGL B280 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies HART B305 Classical Bodies Not offered 2013-14 An examination of the conceptions of the human body evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the visible expression of character and emotions; and the formulation of the "classical ideal" in antiquity and later times. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ARCH B303 Cross-listed as COML B313 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B334 Topics in Film Studies
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Curating Film: Festivals, Nationalism and Revoluti
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Global Queer Cinema
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Middle East on Film Fall 2013 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: This course examines contemporary cinematic images produced in Middle Eastern and Arab countries and in their Diasporas. In his groundbreaking text Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western representations of the "East" are constructed through an inverted mirror reflection of the West. Grounded in postcolonial theory and film studies, students will explore the role of cultural formation through moving image production and circulation. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ENGL B334 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies HART B340 Topics in Baroque Art
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Costume&Consumer Culture in Spain & Latin America Not offered 2013-14 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B340 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B348 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies Not offered 2013-14 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as GERM B321 Cross-listed as COML B321 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B354 Gender and Contemporary Art Spring 2014 We will examine artists from 1960 to the present whose work thematizes gender, including Robert Morris, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Mike Kelley. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HART B367 Asian American Film, Video and New Media Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the role of pleasure in the production, reception, and performance of Asian American identities in film, video, and the internet, taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian Americans in works produced by Asian American artists from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, we will study graphic sexual representations, including pornographic images and sex acts some may find objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage analytically with all class material. To maintain an atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ENGL B367 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies HART B372 Feminist Art and Theory, 1970-Present Fall 2013 How have feminist artists and theorists challenged the conventions of art history? This course begins with the feminist art world activism that arose in the 1970s in the context of the women's liberation movement and continues through current issues in global feminism. In the 1970s, feminist activist artists sought to establish new forms of art education, venues for exhibition, theoretical writing, and creative working methods to provide alternatives to traditional art institutions and art criticism. We will examine how current artists, building on this recent history, continue to develop feminist aesthetics and politics in a variety of contemporary practices, including installation art, multi-media art, and performance. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HEBR B115 Women in Judaism: History, Texts, Practices Not offered 2013-14 This course will investigate the varied experiences of women in Jewish history. Cultural, religious, and theoretical perspectives will be engaged as we seek to illuminate the roles, practices, and texts of Jewish women, from the biblical matriarchs to Hasidic teenagers today. No previous knowledge of Judaism is required. Division III: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as HIST B115 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HIST B115 Women in Judaism: History, Texts, Practices Not offered 2013-14 This course will investigate the varied experiences of women in Jewish history. Cultural, religious, and theoretical perspectives will be engaged as we seek to illuminate the roles, practices, and texts of Jewish women, from the biblical matriarchs to Hasidic teenagers today. No previous knowledge of Judaism is required. Division III: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as HEBR B115 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HIST B214 The Historical Roots of Women in Genetics and Embryology Not offered 2013-14 This course provides a general history of genetics and embryology from the late 19th to the mid-20th century with a focus on the role that women scientists and technicians played in the development of these sub-disciplines. We will look at the lives of well known and lesser-known individuals, asking how factors such as their educational experiences and mentor relationships influenced the roles these women played in the scientific enterprise. We will also examine specific scientific contributions in historical context, requiring a review of core concepts in genetics and developmental biology. One facet of the course will be to look at the Bryn Mawr Biology Department from the founding of the College into the mid-20th century. Division II: Natural Science Inquiry into the Past (IP) Scientific Investigation (SI) Cross-listed as BIOL B214 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies HIST B284 Movies and America
Section 001 (Fall 2012): The Past Lives Forever Not offered 2013-14 Movies are one of the most important means by which Americans come to know - or think they know--their own history. This class examines the complex cultural relationship between film and American historical self fashioning. Division I or Division III Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies HIST B325 Topics in Social History
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Bryn Mawr:Women's Higher Education in 18th &19th C
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Sexuality in America
Section 001 (Spring 2014): Women's Higher Education in 19th and 20th Century Spring 2014 This a topics course that explores various themes in American social history. Course content varies. Division I or Division III Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ITAL B212 Italy Today: New Voices, New Writers, New Literature Spring 2014 This course, taught in English, will focus primarily on the works of the so-called "migrant writers" who, having adopted the Italian language, have become a significant part of the new voice of Italy. In addition to the aesthetic appreciation of these works, this course will also take into consideration the social, cultural, and political factors surrounding them. The course will focus on works by writers who are now integral to Italian canon - among them: Cristina Ali-Farah, Igiaba Scego, Ghermandi Gabriella, Amara Lakhous. As part of the course, movies concerned with various aspects of Italian Migrant literature will be screened and analyzed. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies ITAL B235 The Italian Women's Movement Not offered 2013-14 Emphasis will be put on Italian women writers and film directors, who are often left out of syllabi adhering to traditional canons. Particular attention will be paid to: a) women writers who have found their voices (through writing) as a means of psychological survival in a patriarchal world; b) women engaged in the women's movement of the 70's and who continue to look at, and rewrite, women's stories of empowerment and solidarity; c) "divaism", fame, via beauty and sex with a particular emphasis on the '60s (i.e. Gina Lollobrigida, Sofia Loren, Claudia Cardinale). Counts toward the Gender and Sexuality Studies Concentration. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies ITAL B299 Grief, Sexuality, Identity: Emerging Adulthood Not offered 2013-14 Adolescence is an important time of personality development as a result of changes in the self-concept and the formation of a new moral system of values. Emphasis will be placed on issues confronting the role of the family and peer relationships, prostitution, drugs, youth criminality/gangsters/violence, cultural diversity, pregnancy, gender identity, mental/moral/religious development, emotional growth, alcoholism, homosexuality, sexual behavior. Prerequisite: ITAL B102. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Film Studies ITAL B304 Il Rinascimento in Italia e oltre Not offered 2013-14 Students will become familiar with the growing importance of women during the Renaissance, as women expanded their sphere of activity in literature (as authors of epics, lyrics, treatises, and letters), in court (especially in Ferrara), and in society, where for the first time women formed groups and their own discourse. What happens when women become the subject of study? What is learned about women and the nation? What is learned about gender and how disciplinary knowledge itself is changed through the centuries? Prerequisite: At least one 200-level course. Taught in Italian. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies PHIL B221 Ethics Fall 2013 An introduction to ethics by way of an examination of moral theories and a discussion of important ancient, modern, and contemporary texts which established theories such as virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, relativism, emotivism, care ethics. This course considers questions concerning freedom, responsibility, and obligation. How should we live our lives and interact with others? How should we think about ethics in a global context? Is ethics independent of culture? A variety of practical issues such as reproductive rights, euthanasia, animal rights and the environment will be considered. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies PHIL B225 Global Ethical Issues Spring 2014 The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and requires has become urgent in a context of increasing globalization, the emergence of new forms of conflict and war, high rates of poverty within and across borders and the prospect of environmental devastation. This course examines prevailing theories and issues of justice as well as approaches and challenges by non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, and disability theorists. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as POLS B225 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Major PHIL B252 Feminist Theory Not offered 2013-14 Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated and women have achieved equality have become commonplace. We challenge these assumptions examining the concepts of patriarchy, sexism, and oppression. Exploring concepts central to feminist theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory and contemporary accounts of women's place and status in different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of the phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the relevance of gender to philosophical questions about identity and agency with respect to moral, social and political theory. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as POLS B253 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies PHIL B344 Development Ethics Not offered 2013-14 This course explores the meaning of and moral issues raised by development. In what direction and by what means should a society "develop"? What role, if any, does the globalization of markets and capitalism play in processes of development and in systems of discrimination on the basis of factors such as race and gender? Answers to these sorts of questions will be explored through an examination of some of the most prominent theorists and recent literature. Prerequisites: a philosophy, political theory or economics course or permission of the instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as POLS B344 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Major PHIL B365 Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the relationship between love and art, "eros" and "poesis," through in-depth study of Plato's "Phaedus" and "Symposium," Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and "Antony and Cleopatra," and essays by modern commentators (including David Halperin, Anne Carson, Martha Nussbaum, Marjorie Garber, and Stanley Cavell). We will also read Shakespeare's Sonnets and "Romeo and Juliet." Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ENGL B365 Cross-listed as POLS B365 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies POLS B225 Global Ethical Issues Spring 2014 The need for a critical analysis of what justice is and requires has become urgent in a context of increasing globalization, the emergence of new forms of conflict and war, high rates of poverty within and across borders and the prospect of environmental devastation. This course examines prevailing theories and issues of justice as well as approaches and challenges by non-western, post-colonial, feminist, race, class, and disability theorists. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as PHIL B225 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Major POLS B253 Feminist Theory Not offered 2013-14 Beliefs that gender discrimination has been eliminated and women have achieved equality have become commonplace. We challenge these assumptions examining the concepts of patriarchy, sexism, and oppression. Exploring concepts central to feminist theory, we attend to the history of feminist theory and contemporary accounts of women's place and status in different societies, varied experiences, and the impact of the phenomenon of globalization. We then explore the relevance of gender to philosophical questions about identity and agency with respect to moral, social and political theory. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as PHIL B252 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies POLS B262 Who Believes What and Why: the Sociology of Public Opinion Not offered 2013-14 This course explores public opinion: what it is, how it is measured, how it is shaped, and how it changes over time. Specific attention is given to the role of elites, the mass media, and religion in shaping public opinion. Examples include racial/ethnic civil rights, abortion, gay/lesbian/transgendered sexuality, and inequalities. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as SOCL B262 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies POLS B282 The Exotic Other: Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East Not offered 2013-14 This course is concerned with the meanings of gender and sexuality in the Middle East, with particular attention to the construction of tradition, its performance, reinscription, and transformation, and to Western interpretations and interactions. Prerequisite: one course in social science or humanities. Previous gender or Middle East course is a plus. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Middle East Studies POLS B344 Development Ethics Not offered 2013-14 This course explores the meaning of and moral issues raised by development. In what direction and by what means should a society "develop"? What role, if any, does the globalization of markets and capitalism play in processes of development and in systems of discrimination on the basis of factors such as race and gender? Answers to these sorts of questions will be explored through an examination of some of the most prominent theorists and recent literature. Prerequisites: a philosophy, political theory or economics course or permission of the instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as PHIL B344 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Major POLS B365 Erotica: Love and Art in Plato and Shakespeare Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the relationship between love and art, "eros" and "poesis," through in-depth study of Plato's "Phaedus" and "Symposium," Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and "Antony and Cleopatra," and essays by modern commentators (including David Halperin, Anne Carson, Martha Nussbaum, Marjorie Garber, and Stanley Cavell). We will also read Shakespeare's Sonnets and "Romeo and Juliet." Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ENGL B365 Cross-listed as PHIL B365 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies POLS B375 Gender, Work and Family Fall 2013 As the number of women participating in the paid workforce who are also mothers exceeds 50 percent, it becomes increasingly important to study the issues raised by these dual roles. This seminar will examine the experiences of working and nonworking mothers in the United States, the roles of fathers, the impact of working mothers on children, and the policy implications of women, work, and family. Cross-listed as SOCL B375 Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies POLS B393 U.S. Welfare Politics: Theory and Practice Not offered 2013-14 Major theoretical perspectives concerning the welfare state with a focus on social policy politics, including recent welfare reforms and how in an era of globalization there has been a turn to a more restrictive system of social provision. Special attention is paid to the ways class, race, and gender are involved in making of social welfare policy and the role of social welfare policy in reinforcing class, race, and gender inequities. Prerequisite: POLS B121 or SOCL B102. Division I: Social Science Cross-listed as SOCL B393 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies PSYC B340 Women's Mental Health Not offered 2013-14 This course will provide an overview of current research and theory related to women's mental health. We will discuss psychological phenomena and disorders that are particularly salient to and prevalent among women, why these phenomena/disorders affect women disproportionately over men, and how they may impact women's psychological and physical well-being. Psychological disorders covered will include: depression, eating disorders, dissociative identity disorder, borderline personality disorder, and chronic pain disorders. Other topics discussed will include work-family conflict for working mothers, the role of sociocultural influences on women's mental health, and mental health issues particular to women of color and to lesbian women. Prerequisite: PSYC B209 or PSYC B351 (or equivalent 200-level course). Division I: Social Science Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies SOCL B102 Society, Culture, and the Individual Fall 2013, Spring 2014 Analysis of the basic sociological methods, perspectives, and concepts used in the study of society, with emphasis on culture, social structure, personality, their component parts, and their interrelationship in both traditional and industrial societies. The sources of social tension, order, and change are addressed through study of socialization and personality development, inequality, power, and modernization. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward International Studies Major SOCL B205 Social Inequality Fall 2013 Introduction to the major sociological theories of gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequality with emphasis on the relationships among these forms of stratification in the contemporary United States, including the role of the upper class(es), inequality between and within families, in the work place, and in the educational system. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-listed as CITY B205 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies SOCL B217 The Family in Social Context Not offered 2013-14 A consideration of the family as a social institution in the United States, looking at how societal and cultural characteristics and dynamics influence families; how the family reinforces or changes the society in which it is located; and how the family operates as a social organization. Included is an analysis of family roles and social interaction within the family. Major problems related to contemporary families are addressed, such as domestic violence and divorce. Cross-cultural and subcultural variations in the family are considered. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies SOCL B225 Women in Society Not offered 2013-14 A study of the contemporary experiences of women of color in the Global South. The household, workplace, community, and the nation-state, and the positions of women in the private and public spheres are compared cross-culturally. Topics include feminism, identity and self-esteem; globalization and transnational social movements and tensions and transitions encountered as nations embark upon development. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Child and Family Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies SOCL B257 Marginals and Outsiders: The Sociology of Deviance Spring 2014 An examination of unconventional and criminal behavior from the standpoint of different theoretical perspectives on deviance (e.g., social disorganization, symbolic interaction, structural functionalism, Marxism) with particular emphasis on the labeling and social construction perspectives; and the role of conflicts and social movements in changing the normative boundaries of society. Topics will include alcoholism, drug addiction, homicide, homosexuality, mental illness, prostitution, robbery, and white-collar crime. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies SOCL B262 Who Believes What and Why: The Sociology of Public Opinion Not offered 2013-14 This course explores public opinion: what it is, how it is measured, how it is shaped, and how it changes over time. Specific attention is given to the role of elites, the mass media, and religion in shaping public opinion. Examples include racial/ethnic civil rights, abortion, gay/lesbian/transgendered sexuality, and inequalities. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as POLS B262 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies SOCL B350 Movements for Social Justice Not offered 2013-14 Throughout human history, powerless groups of people have organized social movements to improve their lives and their societies. Powerful groups and institutions have resisted these efforts in order to maintain their own privilege. Some periods of history have been more likely than others to spawn protest movements. What factors seem most likely to lead to social movements? What determines their success/failure? We will examine 20th-century social movements in the United States to answer these questions. Includes a film series. Prerequisite: At least one prior social science course or permission of the instructor. Division I: Social Science Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Peace and Conflict Studies SOCL B375 Gender, Work and Family Fall 2013 As the number of women participating in the paid workforce who are also mothers exceeds 50 percent, it becomes increasingly important to study the issues raised by these dual roles. This seminar will examine the experiences of working and nonworking mothers in the United States, the roles of fathers, the impact of working mothers on children, and the policy implications of women, work, and family. Division I: Social Science Cross-listed as POLS B375 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies SPAN B217 Narratives of Latinidad Fall 2013 This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics of shared concern among Latino groups such as imperialism and annexation, the affective experience of migration, race and gender stereotypes, the politics of Spanglish, and struggles for social justice. By analyzing novels, poetry, performance art, testimonial narratives, films, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Latinadad in the Americas. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ENGL B217 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B223 Género y modernidad en la narrativa del siglo XIX Not offered 2013-14 A reading of 19th-century Spanish narrative by both men and women writers, to assess how they come together in configuring new ideas of female identity and its social domains, as the country is facing new challenges in its quest for modernity. Division III: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas Spring 2014 This course examines representations of dictatorship in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore the relationship between narrative form and absolute power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Southern Cone. Prerequisite: only for students wishing to take the course for major/minor credit in SPAN is SPAN B200/B202. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ENGL B237 Cross-listed as COML B237 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura española del Siglo de Oro Fall 2013 A study of the depiction of women in the fiction, drama, and poetry of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics include the construction of gender; the idealization and codification of women's bodies; the politics of feminine enclosure (convent, home, brothel, palace); and the performance of honor. The first half of the course will deal with representations of women by male authors (Calderón, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo) and the second will be dedicated to women writers such as Teresa de Ávila, Ana Caro, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas. Pre-requisites: SPAN 200/202 and another 200-level course in Spanish. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B322 Queens, Nuns, and Other Deviants in the Early Modern Iberian World Not offered 2013-14 The course examines literary, historical, and legal texts from the early modern Iberian world (Spain, Mexico, Peru) through the lens of gender studies. The course is divided around three topics: royal bodies (women in power), cloistered bodies (women in the convent), and delinquent bodies (figures who defy legal and gender normativity). Course is taught in English and is open to all juniors or seniors who have taken at least one 200-level course in a literature department. Students seeking Spanish credit must have taken BMC Spanish 202 and at least one other Spanish course beyond 202, or received permission from instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B322 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures
