Spring 2010 Course Descriptions
Dr. Janet M. Cramer - Director
Dr. Kathryn E. Wichelns – Undergraduate Advisor
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REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW WOMEN STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE
for students declaring a major, 2nd major, or minor in Women Studies as of Fall 2006.
* BE AWARE THAT ALL STUDENTS WHO CHOOSE TO BECOME WOMEN STUDIES MAJOR OR MINOR OR WHO, AS BUS MAJORS, CHOOSE WS AS THEIR FOCUS AREA IN OR AFTER FALL 2006 SEMESTER, ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NEW UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR, MINOR, 2ND MAJOR. THE FORMER UNDERGRADUATE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE PHASED OUT AS STUDENTS WHO CHOSE THAT DEGREE GRADUATE. PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NEW UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE ARE NOT LISTED CORRECTLY IN THE 2006-7 CATALOGUE. WEBSITE AND HARD COPY DESCRIPTIONS IN WOMEN STUDIES ARE THE CORRECT VERSION.*
Major Study Requirements
36 hours as follows:
1.) 18 hrs of required courses
WS 200 Women: Social and Historical Perspectives (3 hrs)
WS 224 Introduction to Contemporary Feminist Theory (3 hrs)
WS 298 FEMINIST Writing/Research Lab (1 hr).
WS 322 Race, Class, Feminism (3 hrs)
WS 492 Senior Seminar (3 hrs)
WS 498 Field Study (2 hrs)
History course (3 hrs) from one of the following:
History 320, 321, 322, 344, 345, 427, 428, 462, 471, 472. Other courses may be used upon petition to the Director.
2.) 9 hrs in one focus area (Feminist & Gender Theory Cluster, Social Science
Literature/Film/Arts, Regional/Global, Sexualities). Other courses may be used upon petition to the Director. History courses taken to fulfill core requirements may not be used to fulfill requirements for the focus areas.
3.) 9 Hours in at least 2 additional focus areas. (Feminist & Gender Theory, Social Science, Literature/Film/Arts, Regional/Global, Sexualities). Other courses may be used upon petition to the Director. History courses taken to fulfill core requirements may not be used to fulfill requirements for the focus areas.
Second Major Study Requirements
Students may present Women Studies as a second major with 24 hours as follows:
(15 hours of required courses), 200, 224, 322, 298 (1 HOURS), 492, 498 (2 HOURS), and one history course from the following: History/Wm St 320, 321, 322, 330, 344, 345, 428, 462, 471, 472. 6 hours in 1 focus area and 3 additional hours from one other focus area. Other courses may be used upon petition to the Director. History courses taken to fulfill core requirements may not be used to fulfill requirements for the focus areas.
Minor Study Requirements
The Women Studies minor consists of 21 hours as follows:
9 hours from 200, 224 or 322, 492; 3 hours from 298 (1 HOUR), 498 (2 HOURS), History/Wm St 320, 321, 322, 330, 344, 345, 428, 462, 471, 472; 6 hours from 1 focus area and 3 additional hours from one other focus area Other courses may be used upon petition to the Director. History courses taken to fulfill core requirements may not be used to fulfill requirements for the focus areas
Departmental requirements for major’s declared Pre-Fall 2006
A total of 36 hours is required for a major in Women Studies. These hours must be distributed among the following requirements:
a. 12 hours from the core courses (200, 322, 324, and 492);
b. 6 hours from WS foundational courses numbered 233 or above (see list in Women Studies Program); 3 hours from History courses (315, 316, 330, 415, 416, 418, 419, 479--Women in the US West);
c. 15 additional hours (12 of which must be upper division) of any Women Studies course or 26 other designated electives.
Departmental requirements for minor
A total of 21 hours, with 9 hours required (200, 492, and 322 or 324) and 12 hours of electives, including 3 hours from the following (233, 234, 250, 331, 332, 335).
Group requirements*
These are listed by each course description. *IV-Social Science *V-Humanities *VII-Fine Arts
WMST 200.001 #13945 WM Social & Hist Perspectives 3 Credits T R 1100 - 1215 MVH 2131
Johnson Jordon@unm.edu
Women’s status in society: Women’s socialization by sex, class, race and culture; the economics of discrimination, and role of education and family, Historical and social perspectives.
WMST 231.001 #28392 Psychology of Human Sexuality 3 Credits T R 1400-1515 KIVA 104
Crossed listed with PSY 231.001
Brown emmy@unm.edu
Exploration of the physiological, cultural, social and individual factors that influence sexual behavior, sex roles and sex identity.
WMST 250.001 #29164 Black Women 3 Credits T R 1230 - 1345 MVH 4022
Cross Listed with AFST 250.001; Offered with AMST 350.006, HIST 220.001 and SOC 398.009.
Rankin sgrankin@unm.edu
A comprehensive survey of the role Black Women have played in the society of the United States. Emphasis will be placed on achievements and contributions.
WMST 279.005 #32770 Peace Studies 3 Credits T R 1530 -1645 MITCH 120
Offered with ANTH 230.005, POLS 299.005, and RELG 247.005
Carpenter carpenk@unm.edu
This course provides an introduction to the field of peace studies. Peace studies explores and works to transform various interconnected challenges to peace occurring at all levels of society, from the micro to the macro, both locally and globally. This course will encourage students to engage with peace theory, research, education and action in order to develop their critical capacities, practical skills, innovative strategies and to develop visions and plans for a more peaceful society that is just, non-violent and sustainable.
WMST 304.001 #37401 Feminist Theories: Identity, Knowledge and Power 3 Credits
T 1700 – 2000 MVH 2131 *[ Previously WMST 224 ]
Offered with AMST 330.001 and PHIL 341.002
Mays amays@unm.edu
What is feminist theory? How does it go about depicting and rearranging the meanings of the world in order to reveal something new about the inconsistencies and injustices we live with? How does it not only interpret the needs and desires of the world but bring them into being? Through an examination of a variety of feminist theories from global and radical to social, cultural and third-wave, we will see how feminist theory opens up a breathing space between the everyday world and other possible worlds, a space in which intellectual tools for building knowledge of women’s oppression can be acquired and political strategies for resisting subordination and domination can be developed. In so doing, we will discover the crucial part that feminist theory plays in the construction of a more just and democratic world.
WMST 314.001 #26980 Women’s Contemporary Legal Issues 3 Credits T 1730-2000 DSH 329
Crossed Listed with POLS 314.001
Ramirez de Arellano arap@unm.edu
A survey of legal issues affecting women. Examines the historical development and current law of equal opportunity, sexual harassment, pay equity, sports, family, reproduction and sexual violence.
WMST 325.003 # 31600 Race Class and Feminism 3 Credits M W F 1000-1050 MVH 2131
Offered with AFST 397.003, AMST 350.003, SOC 398.003 and POLS 300.008
Mazumdar rinita_mazumdar@yahoo.com
In this course we shall critically analyze the paradigms that have been used since ancient times to divide populations into different genders, classes and races in order to privilege some of these categories at the cost of others. We shall study how these categories have been created via several socio-cultural paradigms like division of labor, nationalism, state formation, and religion. As the semester progresses we shall focus on globalization as the central paradigm in creating gender, class and race divisions in modern times. In the course of the semester we shall also study the various forms of power as well as the various types of resistances of the oppressed groups.
WMST 332.021 #29255 Intro to Chicana Studies 3 Credits T R 1200-1345 SARAR 107
Cross listed with CHMS 332.021; and Offered with AMST 330.021 & SPAN 301.021.
Aviles eaviles@unm.edu
This course is an interdisciplinary approach to Chicana studies that focuses on literature, art, and film. The class begins with a set of critical essays to introduce students to the field. We then turn to early literature to understand historically the emergence of Chicana cultural production and the two Chicana novels we read. The class incorporates art and film to supplement the readings and to stimulate class discussion. Students will grasp issues and concepts central to Chicana studies and learn to utilize them in the analysis of Chicana cultural production.
WMST 339.001 # 37396 Women & Cultural Violence 3 Credits R 1730 – 2000 MITCH 219
Offered with ANTH 340.001 and SOC 398.002.
Johnson leighj@unm.edu
Violence in women’s lives is not simply linked to male domination, but is intricately connected with racial, colonial, postcolonial, heterosexual, and class domination. Structural inequality of gender, race, class, and nation and their attending ideological justifications shape the incidence of violence, its personal and social effects, and the ways in which social, medical, cultural, and legal systems and institutions respond to violence. Dominant sociocultural stories, mythologies, and ideological constructions continue to reproduce the structural inequalities in these practices, responses, and institutions. This course is designed to examine the multifaceted phenomenon of violence against women, with an emphasis on cultural, political, and institutional factors and an examination of how they support and tolerate violent behavior within the context of rape, intimate violence, pornography, and prostitution.
WMST 375.002 #39555 Psychology of Women 3 Credits W 1730-2000 DSH 329
Brown emmy@unm.edu
Survey of research and theory on gender-role stereotypes and gender differences in such contexts as interpersonal relations, the family, the work force, mass media, mental and physical health.
WMST 379.001 #35658 Globalization, Identities & Politics 3 credits M W 1300 – 1415 MVH 2131
Offered with WMST 579.001, POLS 300.001, ECON 395.001, AMST 310.003, CRP 470.001 & SOC 398.005.
Mazumdar rinita_mazumdar@yahoo.com
In this course we shall examine how and why identity categories such as gender, ethnicity, race, class, religion, and being “native” or indigenous to a place are important organizing concepts in global and local economy. We shall also explore how these concepts are important in the globalizing force of the market, based on the philosophy of neo-liberalism, within nations and in international politics. In the course of the semester, we shall see how globalization is affecting different groups differently due to differential power of groups within nations and internationally. We shall also discuss how these identities interact with colonial history, nation formation and culture in understanding the practices, institutions and structures of the global world order as they are played out in various levels, particularly the micro and the local. Finally, we shall explore the different ways local communities are negotiating the global market forces and reinventing the meanings of wealth and poverty; in this context we shall explore how new identities and communities are emerging locally and globally.
WMST 379.004 # 34049 Aging, Sex, & Popular Culture 3 Credits T R 0930 - 1045 MVH 2131
Offered with AMST 340.004, ENGL 315.004 & CJ 393.004,
Gravagne pgravagn@unm.edu’
What stories are being told about aging in popular culture today? How do these stories both reinforce and resist the multiple and often invisible practices of ageism, the process of systematic stereotyping of and discrimination against people because they are perceived as old? What might be the consequences of telling these stories differently? In this course, we attempt to answer these questions by exploring cultural representations of aging in contemporary movies such as “Gran Torino,” “Up,” “Something’s Gotta Give,” and “Young@ Heart,” literature such as Endnotes and To Love What Is, and TV programs such as “The Simpsons” and “30 Rock,” as a means of examining both the theoretical and practical ways in which a realm of human experience has been transformed into a political, economic, and cultural crisis.
By seeing that age, like race and gender, is a dualistic marker of social difference and categorical identity that is shaped more by culture than by biology, more by belief and custom than by bodily change, we can discover how we “learn” to be old. We will also discover that early in life we become complicit in the stereotypical thinking that defines the old or aging (20’s, 40’s, 60’s, 80’s?) as medicalized, frightening, genderless, asexual beings who deserve to be marginalized and viewed as less than fully human. Once we understand that meanings attributed to and representations of aging exert a direct material force on our lives, even though they are neither natural nor essential, we will explore examples, theories, and methods of rewriting this cultural narrative of decline and deterioration to reflect the gains as well as the losses occasioned by growing older. By telling stories differently, we will find other ways to age.
WMST 379.005 #32836 Women Artist of the American West 3 Credits M W 1900-2000 Arranged
Offered with AMST 310.021
Ressler sressler@unm.edu
Required online chat: Monday and Wednesday evenings, 7-8pm
This course is taught entirely on the Internet. It presents the vital contributions that women have made to the visual art and history of the American West and focuses on women artists who are living or have lived west of the Mississippi River during the 19th and 20th centuries. Students will study a broad range of subjects that include Native American Potters, Women on the Pacific Rim, Lesbian Photography, and Quilt making in New Mexico. Additional historical readings introduce the four course themes: Community, Identity, Spirituality, and Locality. Designed to develop a learning community, students will learn how to extend discussion outside (Internet) chat rooms and other discussion forums. Projects include weekly writings and independent written or visual research. Highlights include guest lectures, an optional field trip, and CD-ROM.
Attendance is online chat twice per week is required. Chat is scheduled on Monday & Wednesday evenings from
7 – 8 PM. This course is offered through the Extended University. For more information, special technology fees and computer requirements, please go to the EU website at eu.unm.edu. Once there, be sure to take the quick quiz to find out if an Internet course is right for you. Then click on online courses to read both the short and expanded course descriptions. This is a very interactive class based on chat and written discussion. It is stimulating and lots of fun. Hope you will join us!
WMST 379.011 #39085 Nonviolent Alternatives 3 Credits T R 0930 – 1045 DSH 334
Offered with SOC 398.011, PSY 450.011 & ANTH 340.011
Rack rack@unm.edu
This course studies the dynamics of violence and nonviolence at the interpersonal, institutional, cultural, and global level. We will consider evidence and theory from a variety of disciplines including neuroscience, cognitive psychology, anthropology, sociology, communications and criminology. We will pay particular attention to traumatic effect of violence on individuals, collectivities, and generations and consider various alternative strategies for conflict resolution and healing. This course will consider the ways that media and gender roles influence the symbolic creation and reproduction of nonviolent and violent cultural norms, individual behaviors, and societal actions. This interdisciplinary course satisfies the Seminar requirement for the Peace Studies Minor in the College of Arts & Sciences.
WMST379.017 #39638 US Latina Writers 3 Credits M 1600 – 1830 MITCH 214
Offered with CHMS 393.017 and AMST 358.017.
Vizcaino mviz@unm.edu
WMST 379.030 #36463 African American Women Writers 3 Credits W 1000 – 1500 UNM WEST TBA
Offered with AFST 397.030, AMST 350.030, ENGL 315.030.
Keefe rkeefe@unm.edu
2nd Half of Semester
WMST 379.040 # 37373 Caribbean Women Writers 3 Credits M W F 1400 – 1450 MVH 4022
Offered with ENGL 315.040 and AFST 397.040
Instructor: TBA
WMST 379.041 # 38463 History of Harlem Renaissance 3 Credits M W F 1500 – 1550 MVH 4022
Offered with AFST 397.041, AMST 350.041 and ENGL 466.041.
Instructor: TBA
WMST 469.001 #35810 Multiculturalism Gender Media 3 Credits W 1600 – 1830 C & J 156
Cross listed with CJ 469.001
Pant pant@unm.edu
WMST 492.002 #33027 Senior Seminar 3 Credits W 1900-2130 MVH 2131
Wichelns wichelns@unm.edu
WMST 498.001 #14170 Field Experience 3 Credits W 1600 – 1830 SSC-B92
Instructor: TBA
Planned and supervised work experience in a community agency serving women.
WMST 499.004 #14172 Independent Study 1-3 Credits Arranged
Cramer jcramer@unm.edu
* Restriction: Permission of instructor
Student is expected to present a topic for study. May be repeated for credit three times.
WMST 512.001 #37386 Feminist Research Methodology 3 Credits T R 1230-1345 MVH 2131
Wichelns wichelns@unm.edu
This research and writing seminar presents students with the opportunity to develop greater fluency in discipline-specific skills necessary for success at the graduate level. During the first eight weeks of the course, we will engage in an intensive overview of foundational texts that continue to frame contemporary feminist
research in the humanities and social sciences. By mid-term, each student will have collaborated with the instructor in developing his or her own trajectory for the class, consisting of an annotated reading list or bibliography and a detailed project proposal. While we will not meet as a group in the second half of the semester, students will work individually with the instructor in bi-weekly sessions, fine-tuning writing skills as they progress towards completion of their research projects. By May, members of the class will submit a draft
version of a chapter, a prospectus, or a publishable article for final evaluation. This course is a required component of the WMST Graduate Certificate Program; however, all A & S graduate students are welcome.
Readings will be available in Feminist Approaches to Research and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Hesse-Biber et al (New York: Oxford UP, 1999; 0195125223), and online through Zimmerman’s
course reserve system.
WMST 579.001 #37380 Globalization, Identities & Politics 3 credits M W 1300 – 1415 MVH 2131
Offered with WMST 379.001, POLS 300.001, ECON 395.001, AMST 310.003, CRP 470.001 & SOC 398.005.
Mazumdar rinita_mazumdar@yahoo.com
In this course we shall examine how and why identity categories such as gender, ethnicity, race, class, religion, and being “native” or indigenous to a place are important organizing concepts in global and local economy. We shall also explore how these concepts are important in the globalizing force of the market, based on the philosophy of neo-liberalism, within nations and in international politics. In the course of the semester, we shall see how globalization is affecting different groups differently due to differential power of groups within nations and internationally. We shall also discuss how these identities interact with colonial history, nation formation and culture in understanding the practices, institutions and structures of the global world order as they are played out in various levels, particularly the micro and the local. Finally, we shall explore the different ways local communities are negotiating the global market forces and reinventing the meanings of wealth and poverty; in this context we shall explore how new identities and communities are emerging locally and globally.
WMST 579.002 #37381 Post Colonial Queer Theories 3 Credits W 1600-1830 MVH 2131
Offered with AMST 530.001
Brandzel brandzel@unm.edu
This course examines the emerging field of postcolonial queer studies while being attentive to the ways in which this field has been responsive to, and quite critical of, previous disciplinary articulations of sexuality via colonialist and imperialist tropes. By merging insights and tensions between queer studies and postcolonial theory, we will examine how race has been historically as well as contemporaneously sexualized, and how sexuality has been racialized, within discourses on colonialism, nationalism, human rights, citizenship, migration, tourism, performance, and diaspora. Some of the scholars we will be reading include Gayatri Gopinath, Jasbir Puar, Lisa Rofel, Jennifer Robertson, Martin Manalansan, Joseph Masad, Alicia Arrizón, Ann Laura Stoler, Rod Ferguson, and Cherríe Moraga.