Provides an introduction to feminist pedagogy in Gender and Women’s Studies, Focuses upon: (1) the historical importance of an explicit feminist pedagogy in the foundation of GWS, (2) the development of feminist pedagogical theory and (3) a hands-on experience with developing feminist pedagogical materials, classroom strategies and a teaching portfolio.
File: GenWS-840_Syllabus_2023.pdfThis seminar will explore both the emergence of and recent work within the field of feminist disability studies. As an interdisciplinary field, feminist disability studies uses the critical lenses of feminist theory and disability studies to interrogate bodyminds norms at the intersections of (dis)ability and gender as well as race and sexuality.
File: GWS-737-Syllabus-Fall-2023.pdfExamines assumptions and debates in contemporary theorizing about gender and women including what constitutes "good" gender and women studies' theorizing, how to recognize gender-based oppression when we see it, how gender, race, sexuality, and other hierarchies of power intersect, as well as the merits of transnational theorizing about gender and women.
File: 830_Schalk_Syllabus_Spring-2022.pdfProvides an overview of the field of gender and women’s studies. Surveys the origin of the field and traces its major transformations. Explores and analyzes historical and contemporary debates that have shaped and continue to shape the field.
File: Lindsay-REV-4-810-Fall-2024-Syllabus-.pdfIntroduces gender and women’s studies as an interdisciplinary area of study and a profession. Reviews the profession, both academic and non-academic. Explores issues both broad (e.g., professional development) and narrow (e.g., obtaining research grants) that are of interest to those building professional careers with a Gender and Women’s Studies Ph.D.
File: GenWS-861_Syllabus_2020_Final.pdfOrients students to key dimensions of scholarly life as well as professional options outside of academia. Explores issues both broad (e.g., professional development) and specific (e.g., obtaining research grants) that are important to those building professional careers with a Gender and Women's Studies Ph.D. Enables students to hear about and learn from individual GWS faculty members’ professional experiences within and beyond the academy.
File: GWS-860-Fall-2024-REV3.pdfFocuses on how specific schools of feminist thought redefine the political, spanning historical and contemporary feminist political theory.
File: GenWS-933_Lindsay_Fall-2021.pdfAdvanced level investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies.
File: GenWS-720-002_Shalaby_Gender-and-Islam_Fall-2022_Syllabus.pdfTransdisciplinary approaches to women's studies/gender studies. Emphasizes theoretical and methodological issues, the nature of interdisciplinary work, and the relationship to traditional disciplines, with an international and multicultural focus.
File: GWS-800-Spring-2022E-Syllabus.docxIntroduces new graduate students to the breadth of scholarship in Gender and Women's Studies. It also develops particular skills (critical reading, critical writing and basic research) important to graduate level scholarship.
File: GenWS-880_Ipsen_Fall-2021.pdf