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Dedman College

DEDMAN COLLEGE
WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM

Professor Carolyn Sargent, Director

Lecturer: Josephine Caldwell-Ryan.

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 term hours, including WS 2322 (or an approved substitute) and 12 additional hours of courses approved for the program. At least nine hours must be advanced.

The Courses (WS)

2308. Revisions: Woman as Thinker, Artist, and Citizen. Designed to discover how an emphasis on the particular experiences of women can enhance and complicate traditionally conceived areas of scholarship and critical endeavor. Also explores areas of women's experience traditionally undervalued, such as friendship, sexuality, motherhood, and old age.

2309. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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 (ENGL 3364). 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 (ARHS 4371). 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.

3382. Women's Body Politics. A cross-cultural, interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and ideological work that women's bodies perform as reflected in literature, art, medicine, philosophy, and political discourses from the Classical era to today.

4209. Independent Studies. A supervised practicum and/or directed readings on specific problems or themes under faculty guidance. Approval of Coordinator is required.

4303 Women Studies Internship. 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. 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 Gender and Sex Roles: A Global Perspective

ANTH 3336 Gender and Globalization: Cultural and Ethical Issues

ARHS 3358/6389 Women in the Visual Arts: Both Sides of the Easel

ARHS 3357 Women Artists

ARHS 4371 (WS 3381) Modern Myth-Making

CTV 2332 American Popular Film

CTV 2362 Diversity and American Film

CTV 3310 Screen Artists (subject to approval)

ECO 4351 Labor Economics

ECO 5357 Economics of Human Resources

ENGL 1360 The American Heroine: Fiction and Fact

ENGL 3344 Victorian Gender

ENGL 3367 Ethical Implications of Children's Literature

ENGL 3371 (HIST 3357) Joan of Arc: Her Story in History, Literature, and Film

ENGL 3377 Literature and the Construction of Homosexuality

ENGL 3373 (FL 3359) Masculinities: Images and Perspectives

ENGL 3364 (WS 3370, CF 3370) Women and the Southwest

ENGL 3379 Literary and Cultural Contexts of Disability: Gender, Care, and Justice

ENGL 4341 Victorian Writers

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

FL 3312 Women in Modern China

FL 3348 Women in Japanese Culture and Society

FL 3349 (HIST 3392) The African Diaspora: Literature and History of Black Liberation

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

FL 3363 (WS 3347) Figuring the Feminine

HIST 3301 Human Rights: America's Dilemma

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 Class and Gender in Ancient Society

HIST 3357 (ENGL 3371) Joan of Arc: Her story, in History, Literature, and Film

HIST 3365 Problems in European History

HIST 3392 (FL 3349) The African Diaspora: Literature and History of 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 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 Wives, Mothers, Lovers, Queens: Expressions of the Feminine Divine in World Religions and Cultures

RELI 3376 Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South Asian Religions

RELI 3380 Women and Religion in America

SOCI 3351 Marriage and the Family

SOCI 3371 Sociology of Gender

ST 8375 Feminist and Womanist Theologies (instructor approval)

WS 2308 Revisions: Woman as Thinker, Artist, and Citizen

WS 2309 Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film: Minority Discourse and Social Power

WS 2322 Women: Images and Perspectives

WS 2380 Human Sexuality

WS 2315 Gender, Culture, and Society

WS 3347 (FL 3363) Figuring the Feminine

WS 3370 (ENGL 3370) Women and the Southwest

WS 3381 (ARHS 5381) Modern Myth-Making

WO 8308 Women and Worship (instructor approval)