FALL 2009 COURSE SCHEDULE
The courses listed below may be taken to meet general education requirements, some major requirements and to complete the Women and Gender Studies Minor or Concentration. If you are unable to schedule a course and want to be added to a wait list, contact the Department where the course is housed or contact Kathy Shirey at 2720 or email kshirey@clarion.edu.
WGS 100: Survey of Women and Gender Studies 3 Credits
12041 TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM 124 Harvey Burghardt, D.
12042 To be arranged Web Course Burghardt, D.
Students in this course will learn the meaning of Women's Studies and how feminist scholarship is connected with other academic disciplines. Students will examine the diverse experiences of women today and in the past, social issues which affect the status of women, (like race, class, age, sexual orientation, etc.) and consider women's relationship to social institutions such as education, religion, law, and health care from a feminist perspective. On occasion, guest speakers will join the class, and class discussion will be an important part of this survey of topics offered in more advanced courses.
PSY 220: Human Sexuality 3 Credits
11392 MWF 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM 124 Harvey Ashcraft, D.
11627 T 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM 125 Harvey Ashcraft, D.
11394 To Be Arranged Ashcraft, D.
This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the area of human sexuality. It begins with an explanation of how human sexuality is studied. Other topics discussed include sex roles; the biological division of males and females; and the physiology of the human sexual response cycle. Sexual behavior is discussed as well, including such topics as homosexuality, and sexual dysfunctions. On a more practical level, health issues such as sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, pregnancy, and childbirth are also covered. The course has a lecture format, but this format is supplemented with group and individual activities and discussions as well as films/videos.
ENG 244: American Working-Class Literature 3 Credits
10001 MWF 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM 102 Davis Welsch, K.
Work pervades our lives. As children we're asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" As college students, we're asked, "What will you do with that degree?" As adults we're judged by whether we have work, the type of work we do and the salary we make. Studs Terkel writes that the very nature of work is "about violence - to the spirit as well as the body." This course examines the work experience of American women and men in literature written by working-class writers. Get ready to roll up your sleeves as we explore this frequently overlooked literary tradition.
ENG 265: Survey of Women's Literature 3 Credits
11599 MWF 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM 1 25 Stevens Downes, M.
The course surveys women writers from the Medieval period to the present. The contributions of these women to a distinctly female literary tradition provides the focus of study, but critical issues regarding women's literature will also be discussed and explored. Pedagogical techniques will include lecture, discussion, film, and collaborative learning, among others.
ENG 265: Survey of Women's Literature: "Women's Work 3 Credits
11941 To Be Announced Web Course Knepper, J.
This course examines literature and film written by women on the topic of women's work. We'll read books, plays, and poems that treat running the home, doing charity work, mothering, finding a husband, and "being supportive" as work. Additionally, we'll read literature that relates the adventures of women who enter (or try to enter) the traditionally male professions such as medicine, business, and photography, and we'll look at women in 'fictional work': the female action hero and the female sleuth in popular detective fiction. ENG 265 is a survey of literature written by women, so we'll begin in the Middle Ages with Christine de Pizan and "work" our way to the 21st century.
GER 302: Special Topics in German Literature and Culture: 3 Credits
Women Writers in Germany
11694 TBA Web Course ter Horst, E
This course (taught in English) will explore novels, short stories and poems written by women in German-speaking countries from the end of WW II to the present. Questions to be considered include: How are women's experiences reflected in this writing? What roles are assigned to men and women in literature, and does women's writing challenge social constructions of gender? Are feminist issues in German-speaking countries different from those addressed in the United States? How do race and ethnicity affect the presentation of gender? After Germany was divided and a tradition of East German literature developed under different circumstances from West German literature, what important literary contributions were made by women? How did different social conditions in the East and West cause women to focus on different issues? After German reunification, what were women's experiences? How did the social upheavals and radical changes experienced by (former) East German and West German writers find expression?
WGS 311: Gender, Violence, and Activism 3 Credits
12121 To Be Announced Web Course Burghardt, D.
This course explores the socio-structural and cultural dimensions of gender based violence among men and boys, among women and girls and between men/boys and women/girls in the United States and world-wide. Multiple forms of gender based violence, the effects of perpetrating and/or being the recipient of violence, and societal response to violence at the intersections of ethnicity, race, class, sexuality and religion will be examined. Additionally, the role of promoting, reducing and preventing violence through social activism and civic engagement will be considered at the individual, family, community, and institutional levels.
ANTH 315: Ending Poverty 3 Credits
11739 TR 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM 105 Founders Dr. Occhipinti
Introduces the field of development anthropology with a focus on those populations most vulnerable to poverty- women, indigenous peoples, and minorities. Explores the history of development, models of cultural change, contemporary issues of poverty and globalization, models of program design. Provides students with a practical background in project design, assessment and management.
CMST 320: Communication and Gender 3 credits
11624 W 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM 146 Marwick-Boyd Kuehn, M.
The course investigates the effects of gender roles on communication behaviors, such as naming behavior, language acquisition, professional orientation, conflict management, self-image, dress, and social roles.
ENG 342: English Drama to 1642: "Dangerous Familiars: 3 Credits
Women and Sin in Early English Theater"
11603 R 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM 103 Davis Knepper, J.
This course is a study in Medieval and (mostly) non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, examines representations of 'dangerous familiars' on stage. These dangerous familiars are depicted as being both inside and outside the self; that is, the dangerous familiar can be the inner urge toward sin and violence, but also, for the patriarchal culture of the 14th - 16th centuries, the dangerous familiar can be the female in the household or in the village: the wife, the sister, the lover, even the queen or duchess. We will examine religious and popular theater's unflattering representation of women-as unruly; as oversexed; as enticers to lust, decadence, and evil; as deceivers-the consummate actors; and as emblems of or scapegoats for class mobility. We will also read plays that present women more sympathetically, as pawns in games of power between men or as victims of male ambition or perversion. The majority of the course concerns itself with representations of women in medieval biblical and moral plays and in the very popular non-Shakespearean drama of the Renaissance--drama that probed the seamy side of early modern relationships and politics and that exploited such sensationalist themes as unbridled passion, adultery, murder, and revenge. As we examine the theme of the 'dangerous familiar' and the representation of female subjectivity, we will examine the early theater-the conditions of staging, acting and characterization conventions, relations to the audience, and the role of theatricality.
