The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) is looking for graduate students interested in TAing undergraduate courses for the Spring 2025 semester. Applications for these 50% Teaching Assistant positions are open to both incoming and continuing students. Teaching experience and familiarity with LGBTQ+ Studies and/or Gender and Women’s Studies is preferred.
GWS is recruiting TAs for the following courses:
Gen&WS 101: Gender, Women, and Cultural Representation: A humanities-oriented analysis of cultural representations of women and men within the social and historical contexts of race, class, gender and sexuality; engages with a range of traditions and modes of representation including literature, mass media and popular culture.
This position would teach a total of 80 students across 4-discussion sections and attend lecture at an on-site, campus location, on MW from 9:55-10:45am.
Gen&WS 103: Gender, Women, Bodies, and Health: Gender, Women, Health, and Bodies:
Examines both physiological and social processes relating to gender and health across the lifespan among cisgender, transgender, and non-binary individuals. Examples of topics include hormonal processes, reproductive anatomy & physiology, sexuality, sexual pleasure, chronic illness, depression, and sexual violence. A primary course objective is for students to connect information about their bodies and personal health to larger social and political contexts. In particular, considers how health and health disparities are shaped by multiple kind of social inequalities, particularly inequalities based on gender.
This position would teach a total of 80 students across 4-discussion sections and attend lecture at an on-site, campus location, on MW from 11-11:50am.
Gen&WS 104: Gender, Sexuality, and Global Health: Provides an introductory overview to critical global health studies, linking past trends to current research and health inequalities. Examines current trajectories in disaster relief and public health interventions through a gendered lens, with a solid grounding in the historical context. Explores social, demographic, political, economic, and ecological determinants of global health, and the ways that these factors interconnect with biomedicine to create and affect health outcomes, both within and across countries. Uses an intersectional approach to analyze how public health policies prioritize whose lives represent “save-able” or “salvageable” ones in the public, political, and corporate eye.
This position would teach a total of 80 students across 4-discussion sections and attend lecture at an on-site, campus location, on MW from 12:05-12:55pm.
To apply for a teaching assistant position in GWS, please complete this form and upload a PDF of your CV and contact information for references before 5pm on Thursday, October 16th, 2024. Please contact the GWS Department Administrator via email at administrator@gws.wisc.edu for additional information.
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