Women's Studies Complete Course Listing
- The prerequisites for 500 and 600 level courses are10 hours of women's studies or the equivalent or permission of the instructor.
NOTE: WS 300 is prerequisite to most 500 level courses.
NOTE: Days and Times are subject to change. Please check the Registrar's website for correct days and times - Students taking courses at the 700 level or above (except for WS H783 Honors Thesis) must have graduate standing.
Introductory Courses
WS 101 and H101Introduction to Women's Studies in the Humanities(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC's - Social Diversity and Arts & Humanities Cultures and Ideas]
This introduction to women's studies in the humanities emphasizes feminist analysis and critical thought as a way of making knowledge. We will draw from arts, literature, popular culture, and history, to analyze forces that shape women's lives. We will take apart "common sense" notions of sex and gender, and look at how ideas of womanhood are constructed through society, race, and class. This course fulfills two General Education Requirements (GEC's) pays particular attention to differences among women along lines of race, class, and sexuality. Not open to students with credit for WS 110. (Formerly WS 201 - Number Change Only)
WS 110 and H110 Women, Culture, and Society
(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC's - Social Diversity and Social Science]
Women's Studies 110 is an introduction to the study of women and gender and can be used to fulfill two General Education requirements (GEC's). The course explores the social and cultural diversity found among women through an examination of the ways in which gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and physical ability intersect to influence the status of women. We will consider how individuals learn gender, how culture shapes the way we think about gender, and how law, public policy, and economics affect gender and the struggle for equality. Not open to students with credit for WS 101. (Formerly WS 210 - Number Change Only)
WS 215 Reading Women Writers
(undergrad, 5 credit
hours) [GEC - Arts & Humanities Literature]
Study of women writers’ strategies for articulating experiences and using literature as a lens for social reality and catalyst for social and political change.
WS 230 Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Popular Culture (undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC Arts & Humanities Literature and Arts & Humanities Visual Performing Arts]
This course explores how popular culture generates and articulates our understandings of gender and sexuality and their intersections with race and class. We will investigate the popular images and stories that shape our gender/sexual identities and standards, paying particular attention to their racial specificity and class markers. We will study a variety of theories and methods used in contemporary gender/sexual scholarship on popular culture, and we will examine a number of popular media texts.
WS 294 and H296 Group
Studies
(undergrad, 1-5 credit hours)
Special studies not otherwise offered; the topic for this course varies and a full description is available from the Department. (Repeatable to a maximum of 15 credit hours.)
Intermediate Courses
WS 300 Introduction to Feminist Analysis(undergrad, 5 credit hours)
This course is an introduction to principles of feminist analysis as it applies to a range of contemporary issues and institutions. The topics will change. (This course should be taken as early as possible after declaring a major in Women's Studies; it is prerequisite to most WS 500 level courses).
WS 305 Gender, Culture, and Power
(undergrad, 5 credit hours)
Women's Studies 305 is an introduction to studying gender systems and women's situations across cultures and countries. The class focuses on globalization, the flows of people and culture that are increasing around the world. The class begins with the historical background for understanding the current period of globalization. We will look at specific cases of colonization in different parts of the world and emphasize on its role in the rise of factories in both the colonized and colonizing nations. We then consider the role of these factories in today's world as they employ women from the third world (sweatshops), and explore other issues related to gender and globalization and discuss feminist responses to the changing world system. This class approach stresses that in order to understand women's lives in the non-western world, it is important to understand the on-going connections between the first world and between the United States and the rest of the world.
(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [ GEC - Arts & Humanities Visual Performing Arts]
This course is a critical survey of the representation of women in Hollywood cinema with examples drawn from different historical periods (from the 1930's to the present). The goals of the course are to understand how the film medium has functioned, historically and aesthetically, in its representations of women and to understand how and why women have created alternative visions of women in film.
WS 325 Issues in Women's Health
(undergrad, 5 credit hours)
This course is a feminist perspective analyzing women's health in the United States with respect to race, class, gender, sexuality, ability and other forms of discrimination. The course examines specific groups of women and their access to health care and also looks at specific women's health trends including birth control, violence against women, menstruation, STD's and other diseases, and eating disorders. Requirements are an interest in learning about women's health, background in women's studies preferred by not required. Grades based on attendance and participation.
WS 326 Women and Addiction: A Feminist Perspective
(undergrad, 5 credit hours)
This course offers a multicultural feminist perspective on "women and addiction." Using an interdisciplinary approach, students will explore addiction within the contexts of social construction, popular culture, mental health, and public policy. Discussion topics explore the socially constructed meanings of addiction, gender, power, and privilege. Particular attention will be given to the various ways these social constructions can create cultural beliefs about addictions. These cultural beliefs can negatively impact recovery processes due to the stigma associated with labels such as "crack mother." Students will engage in an interactive approach to learning about women and addiction. Through lectures, readings, popular culture analyses, group work and activities, students will gain a wider perspective on gender, multiculturalism, addiction, and recovery.
WS 340 Latina Experience in the U.S.
(undergrad, 5 credit hours)
This course provides an introduction to the historical, social, cultural and political contexts that produce vectors of identification between/across apparently "separate" ethnic/national communities of Chicana, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican women such that they are often recognized - and recognize themselves - as a collectivity: Latinas. Through an engagement with literary and visual texts by and about Latinas, the course will pay particular attention to how the shared - and the divergent - experiences of Latinas in the US are produced, reflected, and resisted in cultural representations. Of central importance in our exploration of these themes will be the question(s) of how sexuality, gender, race, and class shape the individual and communal identities and struggles of Latinas. Assignments will include weekly journal entries, "key concepts" quizzes, a group presentation, a mid-term and a final exam.
WS 350 Feminist Perspectives on Women and Violence
(undergrad, 5 credit hours)
This course uses a feminist, interdisciplinary approach to analyze selected issues of interpersonal and institutionalized violence in which women are victims or perpetrators.
WS 367.01 U.S. Women Writers: Text and Context
(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC's 2nd Writing Course and Social Diversity]
This course will enhance students' critical and analytical reading and writing skills through an interdisciplinary study of women's literary representations of critical issues in United States social history. The emphasis will be on women writers' strategies for articulating female experience and on the role of literature as a metaphor for social reality and catalyst for social and political change. Avoiding any claims to "universal women's experience," the content of the course will include a multicultural cross section of women's experience as women, authors and members of diverse social groups. Although gender will serve as the primary category of analysis, we also will analyze race, class, ethnicity, social identity, age and the intersections among these categories throughout the course.
WS 367.02 U.S. Latina Writers: Text and Context
(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC's - 2nd Writing Course and Social Diversity]
This course will enhance students' critical and analytical reading and writing skills through an interdisciplinary study of Latina representations of critical issues in the social history of the Americas. Patterns and events of Latina American
history will help contextualize many of the readings, but the focus of the course is on U.S. Latina writers and their own representations of their cultures (now part of U.S. culture through annexation, invasion, immigration, emigration, U.S. occupation). We will explore Latina writers' strategies for articulating Latina experience (through intersections of race, class, and gender), and on the role of literature as a metaphor for social reality and catalyst for social and political change. The course will highlight a multi-racial women's literature of dissent and alternatives. Topics covered may include the Spanish conquest, Yankee imperialism, slavery, historic Latino settlements in the "U.S. Southwest", U.S. foreign Policy, immigration, territories and possessions, civil rights, citizenship, and contemporary Latina feminisms. Along with race, gender and ethnicity, analysis of social class and sexuality will be critical components of the course. Substantial writing is required and a significant amount of course time will be devoted to helping students develop their writing skill. Students will be required to participate in peer editing groups, both providing and receiving critical readings.
WS 367.03 U.S. Lesbian Writers: Text and Context
(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC's - 2nd Writing Course and Social Diversity]
A course in writing and analysis of U.S. Lesbian experiences with emphasis on interdisciplinary relationships between literature and U.S. Lesbian socio-political history. Fulfills second level writing requirement for BA.
WS 367.04 Black Women Writers: Text and Context
(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC's - 2nd Writing Course and Social Diversity]
The interdisciplinary content of this course - a combination of literary, social, political and cultural readings - will enable the student to read, discuss, and write about how African American female authors have historically depicted and interpreted their own socio-political and cultural status in the USA. We will also explore the notion of an African American woman's literary tradition. We will consider the notion of "intersectionality" to posit the ways in which race, culture and gender intersect the most common and universal literary themes and structures. Although gender will be the primary category of analysis, analysis of race, class, ethnicity, and sexual identity will also be important components of the course.
WS 370 Varieties of Female Experience: Lesbian Cultures
(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC - Social Diversity]
This course uses an historical approach to understand the experiences of lesbians in various cultures in the United States throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. Films are used to expand on readings. For one assignment, students can choose a fictional text to analyze. Another assignment allows students to develop an activist project if they wish. This a core course in the Sexuality Studies minor.
WS 372 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
(undergrad, 5 credit hours) [GEC - Arts & Humanities Literature]
This course is designed to provide the student with a comprehensive overview of the emergence and development of fiction written by Arab women through translated works. Emphasis will be laid on differences and similarities between Western and Arab feminist theories as reflected in literature. These objectives will be achieved through reading and discussion of representative novels.
WS 375 Women and Visual Culture
(undergrad, 5 credit hours)
This course will explore the relationship between women and visual culture: photography, cinema, medical imagery, advertising and pornography. Each of these forms of visual culture depends on and constructs women as visual objects through "the gaze," which contributes to the constructions of sexuality, gender, race and nation. We will explore several theories of "the gaze" and its means of producing modern identities, as well as visual and theoretical responses from women artists and thinkers.
WS 389 The Theory and Practice of Peer Outreach in Women's Studies
(undergrad, 5 credit hours)
The purpose of this course is to prepare undergraduate students with the necessary kills to effectively participate in the Peer Power program. Peer Power uses interactive and dynamic presentations to introduce Women's Studies topics at the middle and high school grade levels in the greater Columbus area. Course topics will include pedagogical issues, such as presenter identity, presentation as performance, and the interactive nature of presentation. Topics will also include theoretical issues informed by feminist scholarship related to pedagogy, the construction of privilege and difference in the US, and the significance of diversity (i.e., race, class, sexuality, gender) within the US educational system. Students will also be given the opportunity to develop outreach skills (e.g., presentation development, discussion facilitation, and activity design), and an understanding of how diversity-related issues have an impact on the implementation of these skills.
WS 494 Group Studies
(undergrad, 2-5 credit hours)
Special studies not otherwise offered. Interdisciplinary topics vary from quarter to quarter; students should consult Women's Studies quarterly listings. (Repeatable to a maximum of 15 credit hours.)
Advanced Courses (Undergraduate / Graduate)
WS 505 Feminist Analysis in Global Perspective
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course has two primary objectives. The first is to introduce students to the problems, experiences, and activism of women in Non-Western countries. We will focus on understanding some of the differences and commonalities among women in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. The emphasis will be on issues of identity (as mothers, women, citizens, workers) and organizing for change (economic, political, cultural, legal). The second, equally important, objective is to develop the capacity for cross cultural analysis. Conceptual tools include notions of "lenses," "standpoint," "traveling feminism," "global feminism," "the patriarchal bargain," and "practical vs. strategic interests." Requirements include short papers on books and a final paper making use of conceptual tools for discussing a topic covered in course pack readings and films.
WS 510 and H510 American Women's Movements
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course will examine women's movements and organized activism in the United States. Through primary source documents and monographs, we will look at a diverse assortment of women, examining female public activism from the standpoints of race, ethnicity, class, sexual identity, and more. This course is intended for students who have completed either Women's Studies 101/201 or 101/210 plus preferably one other Women's Studies course. Requirements may include essay exams, reading notes or short papers, and a research or bibliography paper. Regular attendance will be required.
WS 513 Women, Government, and Public Policy
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
An examination of policy making on gender related issues and the impact of women in government.
WS 517 Women Film Directors
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
Building upon the concepts learned in WS 317, WS 517 examines the work of mainstream and independent women film directors in various countries from the 1920's to the present. We will pay particular attention to the ways their films focus on the representation of a female point of view and on the diversity of women's experiences.
WS 520 Women of Color and Social Activism
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
[GEC - Social Diversity]
This course focuses on contemporary black feminist writings on citizenship, leadership, political activism, and democratic politics. We will consider the political roles of African American women and multiple perspectives on the importance of race and gender in modern US politics.
WS 524 Women and Work
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course will explore the global economic and cultural factors that influence women's work for wages in the US and the participation of women in a variety of campaigns and social movements to secure economic rights and social justice. We will examine how labor markets are gendered and racialized and how other categories of difference such as class, sexuality, immigration, and disability intersect with race and gender to shape work and workplace activism. We will explore the causes and consequences of wage gap, sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, balancing work and family, glass ceiling, sticky floor, poverty, and sweatshop labor. We will discuss and analyze the ways in which working women use law, public policy, and unions to fight for their rights on the job. Learn more about why janitors are organizing for justice, why nurses are demanding universal health care, and how students and labor are fighting against sweatshops.
WS 527 Studies in Gender and Cinema
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course uses the tools of feminist film criticism to examine a variety of topics including but not limited to, female spectatorship, women's film history, stardom, women and genre, representation of sexualities, women's documentaries, feminist filmmaking, and the feminist avant-garde. Classes will focus on the application of feminist film theory to weekly film screenings. Particular attention will be paid to the analysis of race, class, and sexuality in contemporary feminist criticism of cinema. WS 527 will improve students' visual literacy, making them better readers of films, as well as introducing them to feminist film theory.
WS 535 Gender and Science
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
Examination of relations between gender and science; topics include gendering of "science" and "nature", biological theories of sexual inequality, feminist critiques of science and tehnology.
WS 540 Studies in Women of Color Writing Culture
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
Interdisciplinary feminist study of selected historical and cultural movements through writings by Women of Color. Topics vary by genre and by era.
WS 545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course examines intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality in various sites within American culture (e.g., legal system, civil rights discourse, and social justice movements.
WS 550 History of Western Feminist Thought
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course introduces fundamental concepts of Western Feminist thought, primarily in the US context, from the eighteenth century until the 1970's. Course readings demonstrate continuities as well as differences in feminist thinking about women's oppression and possibilities for greater civic and social freedom during that two-hundred year period. To assist students in considering both differences and continuities in feminist thought, readings are organized according to topics that cross the centuries: redefining sex and gender; marriage and family structures; sexuality and reproduction; religious views of women's status; gender and the state. In addition, the course focuses on definitions and critiques of feminism. Readings and discussion also explore every topic from multi-racial perspectives, both within and across time periods.
WS 575 Issues in Contemporary Theory
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
Women's Studies 575 is a "capstone" experience for Women's Studies majors at the Ohio State University. Feminist theories analyze and critique social and political arguments and practices whose consequences disadvantage individuals because of their gender, race, class, or sexuality. This course offers a variety of feminist theoretical perspectives on oppression and feminist responses to contemporary social and political ideologies.
WS 576 Women & Visual Culture in Latin America
(undergrad/grad 5 credit hours)
This interdisciplinary course offers students an introduction to Latin American women visual artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Focusing primarily on the mediums of photography, film, painting, and performance, students will examine visual texts produced by specific women artists in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Panama, and other countries of Latin America for how they depict and analyze the intersections of gender, sexuality, class, disability, race and ethnicity within the contexts of colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Introductory readings and discussions about the social relationships and cultural and theoretical practices that attend modernity and post modernity will complement our treatment of these artists' works. Of primary importance will be the examination of these texts and contexts with an emphasis on contemporary feminist theories of visual culture. Class discussions and texts will be in English, and/or contain English subtitles.
WS 589 Internship in Feminist Theory and Collective Action
(undergrad 5 credit hours)
This course allows students the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in collective action on behalf of women and/or girls through individually arranged internships in a range of Columbus-area settings. The course is designed as one of two options to fulfill the senior core requirement in the Women's Studies major and is open to both WS majors and minors. Readings, written assignments and class discussions encourage students to probe connections between academic coursework and feminist practice; to consider what feminist theory might look like "on the ground"; and to consider themselves as change agents in an increasingly complex world. Enrollment requires permission of the instructor.
WS 620 Topics in Feminist Studies
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
Interdisciplinary in-depth analysis of selected topics in feminist research and interpretation. Topic varies quarterly; contact the Department of Women's Studies for specific course descriptions. (Repeatable to a maximum of 15 credit hours.)
WS 623 African Women: History and Socioeconomic Change
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course uses a cross-cultural approach to examine the cultures and roles of African women in the 20th and 21st centuries. Particular attention is given to the voices of African women as they confront and work to overcome the complex problems they encounter in their everyday lives.
WS 624 Women and Social Change in Latin America
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
Feminist perspectives to introduce students to Latin American women's experiences and reality as perceived by those who study women and women themselves.
WS 670 Gender Discrimination
(undergrad/graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course will examine how law, social movements, and public policy shape our understanding of justice and gender discrimination and our efforts to end gender discrimination. We will consider the meaning and significance of gender discrimination within a global context and how gender discrimination intersects with other forms of discrimination based on caste, race, class, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, etc. We will examine case law, government policies, and UN resolutions on a variety of topics including rape, sexual harassment, educational equity, comparable worth and pay equity, sexual rights, Title IX, and human rights. We will compare and contrast a number of different approaches including, affirmative action, gender mainstreaming, and human capabilities theory. This course is cross-listed with Sociology.
WS 693 Individual Studies
(undergrad/graduate, 1-5 credit hours)
Students may register for individual directed study in subjects not covered in regular course work. For names of faculty members who are available to work with students on individual women's studies projects and information about their area of expertise, contact the Department. Enrollment is limited to Women's Studies majors, minors, and MA students; no more than 5 hours of 693 may be applied toward a Women's Studies major.
WS 697 Study at a Foreign Institution
(undergrad/graduate, 1-15 credit hours)
An opportunity for students to study at a foreign institution and receive Ohio State credit for that work. Written permission of the department chairperson is required. Students will pay Ohio State fees and any fees in excess of Ohio State tuition, as well as all travel and subsistence costs. Student should contact the Office of International Education at 292-6101 to see what is available each quarter.
WS 699 Undergraduate Research in Women's Studies
(undergrad, 1-15 credit hours)
Undergrad research or creative activities in variable topics.
WS 783 Honors Research
(undergrad, 3-5 credit hours)
A program of individual study for undergraduate honors students; may include individual conferences and reports; requires presentation and oral defense of an honors thesis.
WS 792 Interdepartmental Studies in Humanities
(undergrad/graduate, 3-5 credit hours)
Two or more departments offer courses on subjects of mutual interest.
Graduate Courses
WS 700 Introduction to Graduate Studies
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course provides an introduction to Women's Studies as a professional/academic field of study and an orientation to the Department's graduate program, facilities, resources, and faculty. The course will introduce skills necessary for analyzing and comparing graduate level readings, techniques of group discussion, basic theoretical terminology and key issues and intellectual debates that characterize contemporary feminist discourse, epistemology, and pedagogy. Readings, discussion, activities, and papers will help students understand the nature of graduate study and clarify their academic goals.
WS 702 Teaching Women's Studies
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
The purpose of this seminar is to assist graduate teaching assistants in meeting instructional responsibilities and developing the necessary skills for college level teaching in women's studies. Topics cover both the practical aspects of teaching such as course planning, designing and conducting lectures, leading discussions, test construction, evaluating student performance, and using computer assisted learning resources, as well as the more theoretical issues embedded in the feminist scholarship on pedagogy.
WS 710 Theorizing Difference
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
This graduate-level course will examine cultural and theoretical treatments of difference by feminist scholars and artists. The texts will explore the social, political and cultural construction of difference, the relationships and intersections between categories of difference, and the ways in which individual women and groups of women interpret and experience multiple categories of difference. We will also explore the political, ethical and methodological dimensions of studying difference.
WS 720 Theorizing Gender, Power, and Change
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course is one of the graduate core courses in Women's Studies. It provides an overview of analyses of gender in relation to social, political, and economic contexts, with particular attention to the ways that theories of power, knowledge, and identity have unfolded in the last 30 years. Readings include background excerpts from Marx, Fanon, Gramsci, & Althusser and a wide range of feminist works including ethnography, social theory, and critical race theory.
WS 726 Gender & Public Policy
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
Public policy affects the lives of men and women differently. Public policy is gendered in very specific ways. Women are treated differently by public policy and much of this treatment is accredited to the different views of women's needs and abilities across time. This course will explore the historical development of public policies affecting women's lives and the ways in which public policy has constructed the category women. We will also explore the ways in which feminists have resisted public policy categorizations particularly as they divide women along the lines of age, race, class, sexuality, urban/rural, and parental status.
WS 740 Theorizing Gender Representations
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the central debates that have characterized feminist theories of representation of the last two decades. Such theories of representation have included analyses of gender in particular representational forms (autobiography, film, literature), explorations of the complex relationships between social context and individual text, and studies of the dynamics of identification, subjectivity, and desire.
WS 742 Feminism and the Cinema
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
Study of the relationship between feminist film theory and criticism and specific genres, historical periods and issues in cinematic representation.
WS 750 Violence Against Women: Theory and Response
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
The primary objective of this course is to provide graduate training in theorizing and developing analytical tools to assess the structural/cultural factors that contribute to violence against women, social responses to such violence, women's agency, and diverse strategies to eliminate violence against women.
WS 760 Survey of Feminist Methodologies
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
An overview of feminist methodological issues and dilemmas and an introduction to a variety of research methods.
WS 771 Feminism and Psychoanalysis
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
An analysis of feminist and multicultural psychoanalytic writings that emphasizes the major psychoanalytic traditions, and surveys clinical and theoretical contributions to the literature.
WS 810 Topics in Black Feminist Theory
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
Theoretical analysis of the politics and perceptions of womanhood in the black community.
WS 820 Topics in Gender, Power, and Social Change
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
Advanced study of variable topics relating to gender, power and change, both theoretical (especially materialist and practical).
WS 840 Topics in Representing Gender
(graduate 5 credit hours)
This course will offer in-depth investigations of topics and genres central to feminist theories of gender representation, including considerations of aesthetics, subjectivity, intersectionality, narrative, and/or the gaze. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 15 credit hours.
Prereq: 740, 742, or permission of instructor.
WS 860 Topics in Feminist Studies
(graduate 5 credit hours)
This course will embody feminist studies on a variety of topics such as sexuality, activism, and materialism. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 15 credit hours.
WS 863 Practicum
(graduate, 1-5 credit hours)
This course offers students the opportunity to integrate feminist theory with practice and can be a capstone experience of the graduate program. Students will work in a community agency or organization that serves women. The types of activities graduate students are involved in vary depending on the particular site, but may include research, policy analysis and development, community education and outreach, program evaluation, gender equity projects and training. All internships must be approved in advance by the coordinating advisor. For each hour of credit, students will work in the internship a minimum of 3 hours per week for 10 weeks
of the quarter.
WS 870 Topics in Sexuality Studies
(graduate 5 credit hours)
Contemporary biological, psychological, social, legal, and political theories of sexuality.
WS 890 Interdepartmental Studies in Critical Theory
(graduate, 5 credit hours)
An interdisciplinary study of a movement (phenomenology, deconstruction, postmodernism, etc.) or problem (intentionality, evaluation, etc.) in literary theory. A seminar course with varying themes and topics (e.g. Queer Theory, Womanist Theory, French Feminist Theory).
WS 893 Individual Studies
(graduate, 1-5 credit hours)
Women's Studies PhD students may register for individual directed study in subjects not covered in regular course work. Students must file a Learning Contract before beginning an Independent Study. Students must complete a graduate-level paper or project to receive credit.
WS 998 Research in Women's Studies: Thesis
(graduate, 1-15 credit hours)
Directed research for thesis. Restricted to MA students with special permission to write a thesis.
WS 999 Research in Women's Studies: Dissertation
(graduate, 1-15 credit hours)
Directed research for dissertation. Restricted to PhD students who have passed candidacy exams.
