Courses Offered in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

01:988:200 Gender, Digital Media, and Social Curation (3)
This course investigates the relationship between the construction of gender and technologies of digital media. Students will engage with theories of new media, as well as critical intersectional scholarship on gender, race, sexuality, and ability. Central to the course are questions of materiality and embodiment in the digital age; the impact of digital interactivity on the construction and production of gender, race, and sexuality; and the digital distribution of power relations, discipline, and surveillance. While this course does not focus on the acquisition of technical skills for the making and curation of digital media, students will complete a digital media project developed over a large portion of the semester.
Prerequisite: 01:988:202 or 04:567:215.

01:988:202 Gender, Culture, and Representation (3)
Examines how gender is represented in cultural texts and artifacts; introduces students to theories of representation.

01:988:255 Gender, Art, and Society (3)
Women artists, their achievements, and impact. Social and cultural reasons for their neglect in the visual arts and how that neglect is being remedied today. Different ways in which men and women are depicted in art and how those differences relate to culture and society.
Please note that this is an online course.

01:988:257 Gender and the Body: Representation and Pornography (3)
Examination of representations of gendered bodies in art, sexuality, gender, politics, and pornography. Examines how to understand who defines what is obscene and why some work is called pornography.

01:988:258 Gender, Race, and Contemporary Art (3)
Intersection of gender and race in contemporary American art. Black and white racial politics in relation to gender and contemporary art in the United States. Special focus on African-American artists.

01:988:259 Homosexuality and Visual Culture (3)
Central role of homosexuality and homoeroticism in visual culture in the distant and recent past as well as the present. Marginalization of homosexual artists, critics, and patrons despite direct participation in cultural production of art and popular culture.

01:988:317 Gender and Consumption (3)
Introduces feminist approaches to consumption through readings that examine the relation of consumption to body, race, nation, and sex work.
Prerequisite: 01:988:101 or 201 or 235 or permission of instructor.

01:988:385 Theories of Women and Film (3)
Basic concepts in feminist film theory; the female voice in cinema; representations of women in classical Hollywood film; films made by women.

01:988:396 Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Gender, Race, and Technoscience (3)
Selected topics in women's and gender studies. Topics vary each semester. Consult department or the course schedule for each semester's offering.

01:988:499 Capstone in Gender and Media (3)
In this capstone to the Gender and Media minor, students will develop, discuss, produce, and critique a project related to gender, media, and technology. Students will articulate and present the project in written and oral formats and will have the option to also (1) create an in-depth multimedia component to the project; 2) complete an internship; or 3) complete a service learning experience.
Note: students in the minor, especially those who are not otherwise SC&I majors, may choose to enroll in the capstone through the program in Women's and Gender Studies, course number 01:988:499.
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Prerequisite: 12 or more credits in the minor Corequisite: none

Gender and Media 438 (SAS)

GENDER AND MEDIA 438