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Dedman College

DEDMAN COLLEGE

WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM

Professor Carolyn Sargent, Director

Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that explores historical and contemporary achievements of women, including their intellectual, artistic, political, and social contributions. Women's studies core and departmentally based courses introduce students to the dynamic and rapidly increasing scholarship on gender, the status of women, and the interrelations of women and men. Through participation in Women's Studies courses, SMU students, both male and female, are exposed to new ways of thinking about life choices and occupational opportunities and are better prepared for future challenges.

A minor in Women's Studies effectively complements a variety of majors and minors. The minor requires a minimum of 15 semester hours, including WS 2322 (or an approved substitute) and 12 additional hours of courses approved for the program. At least 9 hours must be advanced.

The Courses (WS)

2308 (CFA 3308) Revisions: Woman as Thinker, Artist, and Citizen. This course is designed to discover how an emphasis on the particular experiences of women can enhance and complicate traditionally conceived areas of scholarship and critical endeavor. It also explores areas of women's experience traditionally undervalued, such as friendship, sexuality, motherhood, and old age.

2309 (CFA 3309) Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film: Minority Discourse and Social Power. The exploration, through literature and lm, of the struggles by gay men and lesbians to create social identities and achieve human rights. Study of key cultures and pivotal historical periods in the West from ancient Greece to contemporary America.

2315 (CFA 3315) Gender, Culture, and Society. An interdisciplinary study of gender ideology stressing anthropological and literary perspectives, this course analyzes gender difference as a structuring principle in all societies and explores some of its representations in literature, lm, and contemporary discourse.

2322 (CFA 3302) Women: Images and Perspectives. An examination of the constant and changing understanding of women reected in myths, research, and theories of biology, history, religion, the social sciences, literature, and language.

2380 (CFA 3303) Human Sexuality. This course explores the biosocial aspects of human sexuality and sex behaviors. A multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective will be used to address a wide range of theoretical and pragmatic sexual issues.

3300 The Two-Career Couple. This course investigates economic, sociological, and psychological implications arising from the increasing incidence of two-career couples in modern society.

3347 (CF 3347, FL 3363) Figuring The Feminine. This course introduces students to a large body of French literary texts (in translation) by and about women, which bear witness to women's struggle for civil, social, and political adulthood. They span the period from the 14th century to the present.

3370 (CF 3370, ENGL 3370). Women in the Southwest. A study and exploration of women writers, artists, and thinkers in the American Southwest and their vision of this region as singularly hospitable to women's culture.

3381 (CF 3381, ARHS 5381). Modern Myth-Making. The quest for enduring cultural heroes and the projection of changing social messages as reected in art from past epochs to modern times.

4303 Women Studies Internship. This course offers students experience with organizations serving women or addressing women's and gender issues, as well as with varied potential careers or volunteer opportunities in the community.

4309. Independent Studies. A supervised practicum and/or directed readings on special problems or themes formulated by the student with faculty guidance and the approval of the director of Women's Studies.

6300 (TC 8375) Advanced Feminist Theory. This course explores feminist theories that seek to explain women's subordination historically and cross-culturally, examines gender as a principle of social organization, and addresses the linkages among gender, ethnicity, and class from the vantage of multiple disciplines.

ANTH 3310 (CF 3301) Gender and Sex Roles: A Global Perspective

ANTH 3336 (CFA 3336) Gender and Globalization.

ARHS 3389/6389 Both Sides of the Easel: Women in the Visual Arts

ARHS 4385 Women Artists

ARHS 5330 Women and Renaissance Art

ARHS 5381 (WS 3381, CF 3381) Modern Myth-Making

CCCN 2332 American Popular Cinema: Action Cinema

CCCN 3302/5302 Topics: Images of Women in Television

CCCN 3310 Screen Artists (subject to approval)

CCCN 3360 (CF 3371) Gender and Representation in World Cinema

CCJN 4360 Women and Minorities in Mass Media

CF 3301 (ANTH 3310) Gender and Sex Roles: A Global Perspective

CF 3317 (HIST 3301) Human Rights: America's Dilemma

CF 3323 (THEA 4380) Topics in Theater History: Staging Gender in Contemporary Performance

CF 3325 (HIST 3355) Class and Gender in Ancient Society

CFA 3336 (ANTH 3336) gender and globalization

CF 3343 (RELI 3375) Wives, Mothers, Lovers, Queens: Expressions of the Feminine Divine in World Religions and Cultures

CF 3344 (RELI 3376) Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South Asian Religions

CF 3347 (FL 3363, WS 3347) Figuring the Feminine

CF 3348 (FL 3348, SOCI 3348) Women in Japanese Culture and Society

CF 3349 (FL 3349, HIST 3392) The Literature of Negritude and the Struggle for Black Liberation

CF 3352 (MDVL 3352) Ideas and Ideals of Gender in the Middle Ages

CF 3363 (ENGL 3357/HIST 3357) Joan of arc: her story in history, literature and film

CF 3364 (ENGL 3349) Ethical Implications of Children's Literature

CF 3370 (WS 3370, ENGL 3370) Women in the Southwest

CF 3371 (CCCN 3360) Gender and Representation in World Cinema

CF 3381 (WS 3381, ARHS 5381) Modern Myth-Making

CFA 3302 (WS 2322) Women: Images and Perspectives

CFA 3303 (WS 2380) Human Sexuality

CFA 3308 (WS 2308) Revisions: Woman as Thinker, Artist, and Citizen

CFA 3309 (WS 2309) Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film: Minority Discourse and Social Power

CFA 3315 (WS 2315) Gender, Culture, and Society

ECO 4351 Labor Economics

ECO 5357 Economics of Human Resources

ENGL 2355 The American Heroine: Fiction and Fact

ENGL 3331 Gender, Race, and Class: Non-Western Culture and Literature

ENGL 3332 American Workers, Citizens, Men

ENGL 3341 Victorian Gender

ENGL 3349 (CF 3364) Ethical Implications of Children's Literature

ENGL 3359 (FL 3359) Masculinities: Literary Images and Perspectives

ENGL 3357 (CF 3363, HIST 3357) Joan of Arc: Her story, in History, Literature, and Film

ENGL 3358 Literature and the Construction of Homosexuality

ENGL 3359 (FL 3359) Masculinities: Literary Images and Perspectives

ENGL 3360 The Writer and Her Work

ENGL 3361 Literature and Society: Women's Lives in Women's Novels

ENGL 3370 (WS 3370, CF 3370) Women in the Southwest

ENGL 4341 Earlier Victorian Literature

ENGL 4361, 4362, 4363 Writers (subject to approval)

ENGL 4371, 4372, 4373 Special Topics (subject to approval)

ENGL 6391, 6392, 6393, 6394, 6395 Seminars (subject to approval)

FL 3307 Women in Middle East Literature

FL 3312 Women, Writing, and Identity in 20th-Century Chinese Literature

FL 3348 (CF 3348, SOCI 3348) Women in Japanese Culture and Society

FL 3349 (CF 3349, HIST 3392) The Literature of Negritude and the Struggle for Black Liberation

FL 3359 (ENGL 3359) Masculinities: Literary Images and Perspectives

FL 3363 (WS 3347, CF 3347) Figuring the Feminine

FL 3376 Representations of Women in Modern Literature

FREN 5321 Women Writers of the French Renaissance

FREN 5350 Women in Francophone Literature and Film, 1950 to Present

HIST 3301 (CF 3317) Human Rights: America's Dilemma

HIST 3310 Problems in American History: The American Family

HIST 3312 Women in American History

HIST 3317 Women in Latin American Societies

HIST 3329 Women in Early Modern Europe

HIST 3330 Women in Modern European History

HIST 3355 (CF 3325) Class and Gender in Ancient Society

HIST 3357 (CF 3363, ENGL 3357) Joan of Arc: Her story, in History, Literature, and Film

HIST 3365 Problems in European History: The Education of Women in England and America

HIST 3379 African Women in History

HIST 3388 Women in Modern East Asia

HIST 3392 (CF 3349, FL 3349) The Literature of Negritude and the Struggle for Black Liberation

HIST 3394 The New Woman: The Emergence of Modern Womanhood in the U.S., 1890 to 1930

HIST 3398 Women in Chinese History

HIST 5320 The American Family: A Gender Approach

HIST 5341 Seminar (subject to approval)

HR 8331 Women in World Religions (instructor approval)

HX 7327 Women in the History of Christianity (instructor approval)

HX 8329 Mary and Christian Tradition (instructor approval)

MDVL 3352 Ideals and Ideals of Gender in the Middle Ages

MUHI 3341 Women and Music "Like a Virgin": From Hildegard to Madonna

MUHI 4341 Women Composers and Performers in the 19th and 20th Centuries (majors only)

PHIL 3305 Philosophy and Gender

PLSC 3370 Women and Politics

PLSC 4339 Women and the Law

PS 8360 Women's Spiritual Quest (instructor approval)

PSYC 3350 Psychology of Women

RELI 3375 (CF 3343) Wives, Mothers, Lovers, Queens: Expressions of the Feminine Divine in World Religions and Cultures

RELI 3376 (CF 3344) Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South Asian Religions

RELI 3380 Women and Religion in America

SOCI 3348 (CF 3348, FL 3348) Women in Japanese Culture and Society

SOCI 3351 Marriage and the Family

SOCI 3371 Changing Sex Roles

ST 8375 Feminist and Womanist Theologies (instructor approval)

THEA 4380 Topics in Theatre History: Staging Gender in Contemporary Performance

WO 8308 Women and Worship (instructor approval)