WMST - Women's Studies

WMST601 Theoretical Foundations in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 Credits)

Examines fundamental concepts in the interdisciplinary field of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Engages intersectionality as a critical analytic and set of responses to structural power and domination. Provides students with a theoretical foundation for understanding gender, race, and sexuality as analytic categories operating in transnational and global contexts and intersecting with other categories of difference.

Prerequisite: WMST400 or WGSS302; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.

Restriction: Must be in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies doctoral or graduate certificate program.

Credit Only Granted for: WMST601 or WGSS601.

Formerly: WMST601.

WMST602 Methodologies and Epistemologies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 Credits)

Examines the politics and practice of knowledge production in the interdisciplinary field of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Explores how theory is connected to the formation of raced/gendered/sexed bodies, subjectivities, and existences that unsettle Eurocentric genealogies of disciplinary knowledge formation. Introduces students to methodological and epistemological frameworks for attending to the impact of relations of power and domination on how research and scholarship are created and defined within and across disciplinary boundaries, cultures, and paradigms.

Prerequisite: WMST400 or WGSS302; or permission of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Restriction: Must be in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies doctoral or graduate certificate programs.

Credit Only Granted for: WMST602 or WGSS602.

Formerly: WMST602.

WMST618 Feminist Pedagogy (3 Credits)

Examines the higher education classroom from a feminist perspective through theory and analysis. Students are graduate teaching assistants with the Women's Studies department.

Restriction: Permission of ARHU-Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Repeatable to: 9 credits.

Formerly: WMST618.

WMST619 Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Teaching Practicum (1 Credit)

Provides WGSS graduate teaching assistants with ongoing regular faculty supervision during the semesters the students are teaching courses in the department.

Restriction: Must have permission of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and must be a current WGSS teaching assistant.

Repeatable to: 8 credits if content differs.

Formerly: WMST619.

WMST621 Feminist Theories and Women's Movements: Genealogies (3 Credits)

Examines theories to explain the matrix of domination from the nineteenth century to the present. Students learn the key debates that produceed new insights and shifted the ground of subsequent feminist theorizing within multi-racial feminisms. Examines those debates within global perspectives. Examines how dominant theoretical frameworks have been developed at specific historical moments.

Prerequisite: WMST400; or permission of ARHU-Women's Studies department.

WMST628 Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium (1 Credit)

An intensive advanced exploration of current problems and issues in women, gender, and sexuality studies.

Repeatable to: 12 credits if content differs.

Formerly: WMST628.

WMST698 Special Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1-3 Credits)

Advanced work in selected topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Prerequisite: WMST400 or WGSS302; or permission of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Restriction: Must be in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies doctoral or graduate certificate program; or permission of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Repeatable to: 12 credits if content differs.

Formerly: WMST698.

WMST699 Independent Study (1-3 Credits)

Research and writing on specific readings on a topic selected by the student which is approved and supervised by a faculty member of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Restriction: Permission of instructor.

Repeatable to: 9 credits.

Formerly: WMST699.

WMST708 Research Seminar in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 Credits)

Guides students through the process of developing a research article in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from idea to completed draft, with a view to future publication. Students will work to build research skills and develop their individual projects within the structure, accountability, and collaboration of a seminar format. The work of the class will include arranging individual meetings with core and affiliate Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty who can advise the student on their specific research area.

Restriction: Permission of instructor.

Repeatable to: 9 credits if content differs.

Formerly: WMST708.

WMST709 Directed Independent Reading for Major Field Exam (1-6 Credits)

Directed reading in preparation for Major Field Exam. In consultation with their advisors, students identify, analyze, critique and synthesize material relevant to their major fields of inquiry. Grading will be based on combinations of oral performance in the bi-weekly meetings, production of annotated bibliographies and synthetic papers.

Restriction: Permission of Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Repeatable to: 12 credits.

Formerly: WMST709.

WMST799 Masters Thesis Research (1-6 Credits)

Master's Thesis Research

Repeatable to: 9 credits.

Formerly: WMST799.

WMST898 Pre-Candidacy Research (1-8 Credits)

Pre-Candidacy Research

Repeatable to: 12 credits.

Formerly: WMST898.

WMST899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8 Credits)

Doctoral Dissertation Research

Repeatable to: 36 credits.

Formerly: WMST899 .