WOMEN’S STUDIES
DM 212, Miami, FL 33199 · Tel. 305-348-2408 · www.fiu.edu/~wstudies ·
Spring 2008 Course Offerings
/ FULLY ONLINE UNDERGRADUATE CERTIFICATE in WOMEN'S STUDIES
Complete 6 online courses (see list on p. 3) to earn an online undergraduate certificate in Women’s Studies. See http://www.fiu.edu/~wstudies/onlineundergradcertificate.htm for details.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
Earn a Women's Studies Degree or Undergraduate Certificate. Double Majors Are Welcome!
B.A. in Women's Studies (10 courses/30 credit hrs)
Certificate in Women' s Studies (6 courses/18 credit hrs). See http://www.fiu.edu/~wstudies/degreeprograms.htm. / GRADUATE CERTIFICATE in WOMEN'S STUDIES
Graduate Certificate candidates must complete a total of 15 CREDIT HOURS at the 5000 level or higher.
6 credit hrs (2 courses) from the core + 9 credit hrs (3 courses) from the list of graduate level electives = 15 credit hrs. See http://www.fiu.edu/~wstudies/GradCert.htm.
Official Registration Week – Nov. 8-21 Open Registration – Nov. 26- Jan. 3
*Students eligible for multi-term registration will be given an appointment date to register for spring courses at the same time they are registering for their fall courses.Degree seeking students will also have an opportunity to register for spring courses during the regular spring registration period beginning in November. See http://multiterm.fiu.edu/ for details.
UNIVERSITY PARKWST 3015 Class # 12859 U01 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S STUDIES Patil MWF 12-12:50 pm
WST 3015 Class # 18844 U02 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S STUDIES Thompson TuTh 5:00 -6:15 pm
This course is designed to introduce students to women's studies as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge. The course will assist students in clarifying the many misconceptions surrounding the discipline and the myths and realities regarding women's status in society. Topics of discussion include: Connections between women’s studies and feminism; questions of identity and socialization process in determining gender roles; diversity: class, race, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation; religion and the status of women in societies; our bodies, ourselves; women and work; women and education. Some of the questions addressed in women’s studies include: Why study women? Are women powerless or powerful? Why are racism, heterosexism, ageism, and class exploitation considered to be women’s studies issues? How can feminist thought be used in transformative ways? (Also taught online, see p. 3)
WST 3641 Class # 12860 U01 GAY AND LESBIAN IN THE U.S. Loynaz M 5:00 - 7:40 pm
This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to gay and lesbian studies by examining the complex issues and debates in American society regarding sexual orientation. An examination of both historical antecedents and the contemporary gay rights movement will include such topics as religion, lifestyles, legal and political issues, and influences on arts and literature.
WST 4504/WST 5507 Class # 14778/ 14779 U01 /U01 FEMINIST THEORY Thompson TuTh 12:30-1:45 pm
Feminist Theory and Methods is designed to enhance your ability to think critically about women, gender, difference, power, oppression, inequality, institutions, social change, and feminist scholarship. This course will improve your ability to articulate and critique feminist ideas while expanding your understanding of debates in second wave and contemporary feminist thought. This class will also explore the connection of theory and research methods in contemporary feminist scholarship.
WST 4930/WST 5935 Class # 13435/13439 U01/U01 WOMEN & LEADERSHIP Onorato Tu 6:25 - 9:05 pm
This course will begin with an examination of the theories of leadership, particularly examining emergent leader theories and feminism. Questions about authority, the appropriate use of power, community building, ethics and responsibility for self and others will be discussed. Students will explore their own leadership attributes and develop an understanding of who they are as leaders in the context of these theories. In the second part of the course students will investigate the state of leadership for women in our society from a historical and current day perspective. We’ve come a long way baby . . . or have we? Guest speakers will include women who are leaders within the campus and greater Miami community. A class project and presentation will be required.
WST 4930/SYP 3456 Class # 14763/14299 U02/U01 SOCIETIES IN THE WORLD: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES Patil W 6:25-9:05 pm
This course explores how different societies around the world construct and institutionalize gender relations. We will focus on differing definitions of gender within and across societies, different gender policies having to do with politics, citizenship, work, family, and sexual and other forms of violence, as well as how gender relations in different parts of the world are interconnected and interdependent. Finally, we will also spend some time on gender-related social movements in different parts of the world.
WST 4930/IDS 4920 Class # 14768/12369 U03/U02 GENDER, IDENTITY & TECHNOLOGY Walker TuTh 2:00 - 3:15 pm
Gender, Identity and Technology is a 3-credit course intended to look at how technology has shaped and influenced our view of gender and identity. This course will look at how society views gender and identity today. We will define technology and look at the gender and identity issues associated with different types of technology. The course will explore the social and cultural factors that have created stereotypes of gender with respect to technology as well as look at how current technologies have forced us to change our concept of identity. Finally, the course will explore how the concepts of identity and gender have changed as the world has become more technologically advanced.
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WST 4930/MAN 4930 Class # 20784/TBA U05/ WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN LATIN AMERICA Kenny TuTh 2:00 - 3:15 pm
Women are starting businesses at a faster rate than any other group, especially in Latin America where they play a critical role in the economy. This course will look at a variety of socio-economic factors and their impact on women entrepreneurs in the region. Topics of discussion include: a) status of women business owners in the region, b) societal conditions that support or block women business owners, c) challenges to their entrepreneurial success, d) business strategies used, e) empowerment through targeted technical assistance and information, f) unique opportunities and resources, including the need for specialized communities, associations, funding. Through direct communication with women business owners in the region, students will be able to gather the stories and concerns of real women engaged in a variety of businesses.
WST 4940/WST5946 Class # 13008/13009 U01/U01 WOMEN’S STUDIES INTERNSHIP Thompson M 3:00 - 4:50 pm
This course is available only to students who have taken three Women's Studies courses. Internship sites are arranged on a case by case basis. Students may propose a site or select from sites already established. Most sites are off campus. Students must provide a resume.
AMH 4561/AMH 5935 Class # 19038/20777 U01 EARLY AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY Wood TuTh 12:30 -1:45 pm
Women in colonial and nineteenth-century America, including some or all of the following; colonialism, Native Americans, witch-craft, migration, slavery, industrialization, Civil War, lynching
AML 4300 Class # 14428 U01 MAJOR AMER WRITERS Luszczynska TuTh 12:30-1:45 pm
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AML 4607 Class # 19263 U01 20C AFRICAN-AM LIT Andrade MWF 12:00 - 12:50 pm
This course examines C20th African American Literature within its relevant social, historical, political and cultural contexts. African American Literature will examine the unfolding and development of the African American literary tradition –a tradition that is constituted by what literary critic Hortense Spillers describes as a matrix of “cross-currents and discontinuities.” Additionally, the course will foreground the intersections of race, gender and class as mutually interlocking categories of analysis. Though not intending to be comprehensive the course will examine the central markers that frame C20th African American Literature: Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, Civil Rights Movement, Black Feminist movement and New Black Aesthetics.
AML 5305 Class # 19264 U01 19C NARRATIVES OF ENSLAVEMENT Andrade W 2:00 - 4:45 pm
C19th Narratives of Enslavement and Resistance examines the genre conventionally called “the slave narrative,” which, will be referred to as narratives of enslavement and resistance. This course examines testimonies of enslavement, survival and resistance, written from the perspectives of New World African enslaved persons. Narrative form is examined within relevant socio-historical and political contexts, namely the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, The Civil War, Abolition, et al. The course further examines the ways in which narratives of enslavement and resistance lend themselves to exploration and examination of race, gender and subjectivity as they are constituted by black Atlantic subjects during the C19th.
ANT 4211 Class # 15004 U01 DISCOURSE, IDENTITY AND GENDER Suleiman MWF 11:00 -11:50 am
This course investigates the relationship between language, self and identity . It will also investigate research which focuses on the correlation between linguistic forms and social identity. In addition, there will be more explicitly feminist linguistics readings such as Robin Lakoff’s classic work from 1975, and Deborah Tannen’s best selling book from 1991. It will explore the parallel development between feminist linguistics and second and third wave feminism. How do Lakoff’s and Tannen’s writings fit into feminist theory? Where is the field of feminist discourse analysis going in the aftermath of this scholarship? And where is it going in the aftermath of post-structuralism? How does contemporary post-structuralism understand the relationship between language, identity and gender identity?
ENG 4134 Class # 19294 U01 WOMEN AND FILM Hoder-Salmon Th 2:00 - 4:45 pm
In this era, as in previous cycles, modern visual cultures that portray images of women employ widely diverse perspectives that affect cultural perceptions of women and the status of women. Students will study how gender identity and difference are illustrated and formulated by film, particularly in the new cinema of women filmmakers. We will view a series of noteworthy films, including “A Question of Silence,” “Daughters of the Dust,” “Thelma and Louise,” “Antonia’s Line,” and “Carmen Miranda: Bananas are My Business.” Course books include texts on feminist film criticism and women filmmakers. Requirements include scheduled film criticism practice and research projects.
EUH 4312/ EUH 5905 Class # 19080/ 19089 U01/U01 HISTORY OF SPAIN Morcillo TuTh 11:00-12:15 pm In this class we will discuss the historical experience of Spanish women in the modern period. Some of the topics of discussion will center on Spanish women's access to education, suffrage, and reproductive rights. We will learn about the Woman question in the nineteenth century,the turn of the twentieth century, Second Republic and Spanish Civil War, Franco's dictatorship, and Spain's transition to democracy from a gender perspective. The experience of Spanish women in the last two centuries has much to say to those interested in the political and social situation of women in Latin cultures both in North and South America.
LAH 4721/ LAH 5935 Class # 19262/ 13445 U01 HIST. OF WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA Premo Tu Th 2:00 - 3:15 pm
Examines women’s roles in indigenous societies, in the colonial period, during independence, and in the 19th century. Also explores women and slavery, populism and popular culture, and the rise of the feminist movement.
MAN 4102 Class # 15125 U01 MANAGING DIVERSITY Osborne M 5:00 – 7:40 pm
Examines how workforce diversity can lead to competitive advantage and ethical, fair-minded decision making. Includes topics of gender, race, ethnicity, and other areas of diversity. Covers perception and stereotyping, sexual harassment, the “glass ceiling,” and legal issues.
PAD 5435 Class # 17889 U01 ADMINISTRATION AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN Patterson M 5:00 - 7:40 pm
The course is designed for women and men who are interested in moving into management positions, or who have done so and want to broaden their understanding of the changing role of women. Classes will allow for experimental as well as academic exploration of the issues. The course will also explore design, implementation, and evaluation of affirmative action programs.
POT 4309 Class # 19820 U01 SEX, POWER, AND POLITICS Stiehm Tu Th 6:25 – 7:40 pm
Theories are examined that explain differences between women’s and men’s power in the political arena. Their internal consistency and “fit” with reality are also explored. There is an oral presentation but no computer requirement.
PUP 4323 Class # 19764 U01 WOMEN IN POLITICS Poggione Tu Th 11:00am -12:15 pm
This course will examine the role of gender in American political processes and institutions. We will pay particular attention to the influence of gender on political participation and the behavior of elected officials.
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REL 3520/REL 5502 Class # 19573/ 19579 U01 SAINTS, WITCHES Gudorf W 5:00 - 7:45pmSaints, Witches surveys the second millennium of Christian history with a focus on medieval saints and cathedrals, the witchcraft persecutions, and the Reformation. The course pays special attention to the role of gender in medieval theology and hagiography and in Reformation theology, with limited attention to 19th and 20th century Christian theological reassessments of gender.
REL 4937 Class # 12983 U01 LATINAS AND RELIGIONS Bidegain MWF 12:00 -12:50 pm
Examines the active participation of particular individuals, or concrete women’s religious organizations in different historical contexts. It will cover the colonial and early republican periods, but the emphasis will be on important figures and processes in the 20th century. The 20th century, in particular, is a time of crucial changes in women’s lives, including religion. Latinas’ practices, beliefs, social and political activism and theological and biblical reflections will be analyzed in order to explain the impact of women’s religious experiences in cultural, social and political realms.
REL 4937 Class # 13226 U02 MIGRATION AND RELIGION Bidegain MWF 1:00 - 1:50 pm
This course will analyze the main ways in which the complex phenomenon of migration overlaps with religion. This area of study necessarily demands an interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Important relationships that have been thematized within the fields of History, Theology, Pastoral Studies, Sociology and Anthropology will be identified. This course will present a panorama of these approaches, taking into account a gender perspective. The course will focus on the historical migration process in different places and time in the Americas. There will be a balance between conceptual, methodological aspects and a retrospective overview of the reality of migration and religion as has been experienced historically since the formation of the Americas to the present.