Graduate Studies Required Courses

Women's Studies Course Offerings for Fall 2007 (Testudo)
Women's Studies Course Offerings for Fall 2007

WMST 601 Approaches to Women's Studies I (3 credits)

This course examines two fundamental concepts in Women’s Studies: Intersectionality and interdisciplinarity. It looks at how feminisms have shaped and been shaped by the processes of knowledge-production within and across disciplinary boundaries, cultures, and paradigms. The course works to develop an appreciation of intersectional theory as a critical research tool and as a set of responses to issues of power, domination, oppression and other loci of difference.

 

WMST 602 Approaches to Women's Studies II (3 credits)

A continued examination of two fundamental concepts in Women’s Studies: Intersectionality and interdisciplinarity.
It looks at how feminisms have shaped and been shaped by the processes of knowledge-production within and across disciplinary boundaries, cultures, and paradigms. The course works to develop an appreciation of intersectional theory as a critical research tool and as a set of responses to issues of power, domination, oppression and other loci of difference.

 

WMST 618 Feminist Pedagogy
(3 credits)

This course is designed to train students to teach in the women's studies classroom. Students work as apprentices within a course taught by a full-time faculty member, learn to lead discussion sections, prepare and present class sessions, develop a syllabus, and problem-solve about pedagogical issues.

 

WMST 619 Supervised Teaching
(3 credits)

This course provides Women's Studies graduate teaching assistants with ongoing regular faculty supervision during the semesters the students are teaching WMST courses. Students meet several times during the semester for group discussion about progress and problems. Faculty provide written evaluations of students' work in the classroom near the beginning and conclusion of their assistantships.

 

WMST 621 Feminist Theories and Women's Movements: Genealogies (3 credits)

This course will examine the various theories that feminists have offered to explain the matrix of domination from the nineteenth century to the present. It is structured so that students will learn the key debates that produced new insights and shifted the ground of subsequent feminist theorizing within multi-racial feminisms and to examine those debates within global perspectives. We will also examine how dominant theoretical frameworks have been developed at specific historical moments, question their purpose in the moment of that construction and their current usefulness.

 

WMST 628 Women's Studies
Colloquium (1 credit)

The colloquium is designed to introduce students to the women’s studies community both on and off campus and to facilitate their transition into the doctoral program and the profession through providing professional development. As a result, the seminar is designed to help students deepen their understanding of women’s studies as an intellectual concern, an academic enterprise, a profession and a social movement and to begin the process of locating themselves within it. The content of the course seeks to create opportunities in which students can reflect upon and process their experiences in the classroom, interact with WMST and affiliate faculty and with one another.

 

WMST 799 Master's Research

Supervision (1-6 credits)

 

WMST 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research Supervision (1-8 credits)

 

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