SUMMER AND FALL 2013 COURSE OFFERINGS
Full Summer * Summer I * Summer II * Fall * Fall Graduate Courses
G St 201: Women, Gender and Society
Instructor: T. Starkey
Web-based
This class examines women’s identities, roles, and statuses, with an accompanying awareness of how “manhood” is socially constructed in different cultures and historical periods. The class will also analyze how markers of one’s identity besides gender, such as race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, and ability, influence one’s experiences in culture. We will focus on different dimensions of women’s (and men’s) lives, including socialization, images in the media, education, intimate relationships, the workplace, violence against women, and religion. This class will have a discussion format with films and guest speakers. Fulfills Humanities Requirement
G St 360 – Women in Literature
Instructor: M Hipp
Web Based
Cross-listed as ENGL 360
A study of the images of women in British and American literature. Content will vary.
G St 360 – Women in Literature
Instructor: T. Starkey
M-F, 12 – 1:50 PM
Location: Hume Room 106
Cross-listed as ENGL 360
A study of the images of women in British and American literature. Content will vary.
G ST 460 – Psychology of Human Sexuality
Instructor: L. Johnson
M-F, 1 – 2:50 PM
Location: Peabody Room 206
Cross-listed as PSY 460
A survey of behavioral, psychological, and physiological research on human sexuality.
G St 301: Gender and Culture
Instructor: T. Starkey
M-F, 10 – 11:50 PM
Location: Lott Room 213
A study of gender roles within traditional and popular culture. The specific content of the course may vary in different semesters. Possible emphases might include women in the arts, women in film, women in the media, and women in popular culture. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director. Fulfills Humanities Requirement
G St 360 – Women in Literature
Instructor: A. Fisher-Wirth
M-F, 2 – 3:50 PM
Location: Bishop Room 324
Cross-listed as ENGL 360
A study of the images of women in British and American literature. Content will vary.
G ST 465 – Psychology of Human Sexuality
Instructor: C. Smith
M-F, 8 – 9:50 PM
Location: Peabody Room 202
Cross-listed as PSY 460
A survey of behavioral, psychological, and physiological research on human sexuality.
G ST 460 – Psychology of Gender
Instructor: C. Smith
M-F, 1 – 2:50 PM
Location: Peabody Room 202
Cross-listed as PSY 465
A survey of behavioral, psychological, and physiological research on human sexuality.
G St 201, Women, Gender, Society, Sect. 1
Instructor: T. Starkey
TTh, 11 – 12:15
Location: Bishop Room 106
G St 201, Women, Gender, Society, Sect. 2 (Honors)
Instructor: T. Starkey
TTh, 1 – 2:15
Location: South Residential College Room 123
Introduction to the growing body of research available from many disciplines for the study of women. Comparison of traditional and feminist interpretations of the nature of women, their capabilities, and their roles in society. Fulfills Humanities Requirement
G St 303 – The Family
Instructor: E. Lake
MW, 4 – 5:15 PM
Location: Lamar Room 129
Cross-listed as SOC 301
G St 303 – The Family
Instructor: J. Hill
Web Based
Cross-listed as SOC 301
The American family as an institution and a group of interacting persons; the nature and problems of courtship, husband-wife, and parent-child relationships. Prerequisite: SOC 101, or junior or senior standing.
G St 322 – Race, Gender, and Science in Early America
Instructor: D. Cooper Owens
TTh 11 – 12:15
Location: Bishop Room 101
Cross-listed as HIS/AAS 312
This course examines conceptions and experiences of “genered racial health” from the colonial period through Reconstruction. Fulfills Humanities Requirement
G St 350 – Gender on Film
Instructor: T. Starkey
T 6 – 8:30
Location: Farley Room 10
Issues of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality within racial and national identity as represented in mainstream or independent films.
G St 360 – Women in Literature
Instructor: H. Rigby
MWF 12 – 12:50
Location: Bishop Room 324
Cross-listed as ENGL 360
G St 360 – Women in Literature
Instructor: M Hipp
Web Based
Cross-listed as ENGL 360
A study of the images of women in British and American literature. Content will vary. Fulfills Humanities Requirement
G St 438 – Language and Gender
Instructor: T. Warhol
TTh 1 – 2:15
Location: Hume Room 112
Cross-listed as LING 438
A comparative view of gender differences in language forms, using both American English research and sociocultural studies from other language groups.
G St 497 – Internship
Approved work settings under professional supervision. May be repeated once for a cumulative total of 3 credit hours. Prerequisite: 6 hours GST coursework and consent of director required
G St 499 – Directed Readings in Gender Studies
Individual research into selected issues in Gender Studies; content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ENGL 676 – The Queer South
Instructor: J. Harker
M 6 – 8:30
Location: Bondurant Room 112W
The South has been depicted as a site of deviant and prolific sexual expression in the American literary imagination. This course examines one aspect of that legacy by investigating the South’s gay and lesbian literary heritage in the 20th century. The course will begin with early manifestations of the queer South in William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Hal Thomas Phillips, and Tennessee Williams, discuss the feminist queer South through Rita Mae Brown, June Arnold, Alice Walker, Mab Segrest, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Blanche McCrary Boyd, and Dorothy Allison, and conclude with more recent manifestations by Randall Kenan and Suzan
Lori-Parks. We will also read secondary material by John Howard, Gary Richards, and Michael Bibler.
HIS 652 – The Body in Question: Exploring the History of the Body in Modern Europe and its Colonial Empires
Instructor: S. Grayzel
M 1 – 3:30
Location: TBD
Over the last thirty years or so, scholars in a number of disciplines, including history, have attempted to see the body as an archive and to analyze what bodies and their various meanings can reveal about culture, society, and politics in the past. Over the course of this semester, we will engage with theoretical and empirical studies exploring how the body has been understood in the modern European past. The relationship between Europe and its colonial empires will inform our discussions on a regular basis.
Readings may be drawn from: Butler, Bodies That Matter; Bourke, Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain and the Great War; Canning, Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship; Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body; Foucault, The History of Sexuality and Discipline and Punish; Gallagher & Laqueur (eds), The Making of the Modern Body; Gilman, The Jew’s Body; Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud; Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World; Schiebinger, Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
SOC 625 – Current Debates in Gender
Instructor: K. Dellinger
W 2 – 4:30
Location: Leavell Room 212
Examines the social and cultural construction of gender differences in contemporary U.S. society, focusing on the social history of gender roles and gender inequality in current cultural and institutional practices.
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