Examines 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. Explores whether gender and women's studies' theorizing is a form of activism, how to teach theory in gender and women's studies' classrooms, the value of cultivating distinct gender and women studies' methods, and other dimensions of putting gender and women's studies' theorizing into practice.
File: 830_Schalk_Syllabus_Spring-2022.pdf
Provides 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. Interrogates the mission of gender and women’s studies. Examines the processes and products of academic professionalization. Investigates the value of graduate training in gender and women’s studies. (TO BE FIRST TAUGHT IN 2023-2024 AND LATER)
File: GenWS-810-Syllabus_2020_Final.pdf
Introduces 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. Provides an orientation to basic features of scholarly life as well as some professional options outside of academia, and allows students to become acquainted with a variety of our faculty. Explores formation of independent perspectives on gender and women’s studies as an interdisciplinary academic field and profession. (TO BE FIRST TAUGHT IN 2023-2024 AND LATER)
File: GenWS-861_Syllabus_2020_Final.pdf
Provides an introduction to theory, as well as hands on experience with pedagogical practices in Gender and Women’s Studies. Offers opportunities to synthesize and deepen understandings of gender-related issues through intensive reading, writing and discussion. Engages with theories, conceptual developments, debates, as well as epistemological and methodological issues, which chart the development of feminist pedagogical thought. Interrogates the different intellectual traditions that have shaped debates and issues within feminist politics and practices. Examines these traditions from an explicitly interdisciplinary perspective, highlighting contributions made by feminist scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds that include: education, anthropology, history, performance studies, arts, literature, health, etc. (TO BE FIRST TAUGHT IN 2023-2024 AND LATER)
File: GenWS-860_Syllabus_2020_Final.pdf
Focuses on how specific schools of feminist thought redefine the political, spanning historical and contemporary feminist political theory.
File: GenWS-933_Lindsay_Fall-2021.pdf
Advanced level investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies.
File: GenWS-720_Garlough_Care-Theory_Fall-2021.pdf
Transdisciplinary 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: GenWS-800_Lindsay_Spring-2021.pdf
Introduces 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