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2017-2018 Undergraduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy)
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2017-2018 Undergraduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) 
    
 
  May 04, 2024
 
2017-2018 Undergraduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) [Archived Catalog]

Course Descriptions


 
  
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    UNIV 201 - Fundamentals of Inquiry

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to the historical foundations, ethics, essential components, and methodologies of inquiry within specified academic disciplines.

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement (Internship Section)
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Research

  
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    UNIV 290 - Special Topics in the Residential College

    Credits: 3

    Interdisciplinary discussions for residential college students. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated three times as topics vary.

    Prerequisites: Residence hall students or permission of instructor.

  
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    UNIV 401 - Senior Capstone Experience

    Credits: 1-3

    Integration of major program of study and general education; issues of transition into graduate school and/or employment; group project, intensive writing/speaking.

    Prerequisites: junior or senior standing

  
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    WGST 112 - Women in Society

    Credits: 3

    A social science perspective of women in psychological, sociological, historical, anthropological, economic, and political contexts; the changing roles, images, and institutions.

    Note: Overlay Course
    Carolina Core: GSS, VSR

    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Community Service
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 113 - Women’s Health

    Credits: 3

    Basic functioning of the female body; effects of society on processes of health and disease. Not for natural sciences credit.

    Note: Carolina Core: GSS

    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 207 - Gender and Culture

    Credits: 3

    Anthropological study of gender, with emphasis on cross-cultural investigation of the interaction of biological, cultural, and environmental factors including intersections of race, social class, and sexuality as influences on gender behavior.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 207

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 210 - Human Life Cycles in Different Cultures

    Credits: 3

    Childhood, maturity, old age, and gender socialization within the family.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 210

    Note: Carolina Core: GSS

    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 298 - Issues in Women’s and Gender Studies

    Credits: 1-3

    Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by suffix and title. May be repeated as content varies by suffix.

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 300 - Sex and Gender

    Credits: 3

    Critical ways of thinking about sex and gender as social processes in everyday lives. Topics include how sex and gender shape and affect the experiences of women, men, girls, boys, and individuals who live in the spaces in-between (those who are intersex or transgender) across a wide range of social institutions (family, work, education, politics, etc.).

    Cross-listed Course: SOCY 301

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 301 - Psychology of Marriage

    Credits: 3

    The psychological, physiological, and social characteristics of marriage.

    Cross-listed Course: PSYC 301

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 304 - Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

    Credits: 3

    Historical and contemporary power relationships in race, social class, gender, and sexual orientation.

    Cross-listed Course: POLI 305, SOCY 304

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Community Service
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 305 - Sociology of Families

    Credits: 3

    Sociological perspectives related to various aspects of family behaviors, roles, and values.

    Cross-listed Course: SOCY 305

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 306 - Social Welfare Services for Women and Minorities

    Credits: 3

    Social welfare services available to women and minorities and the forces that shape these services.

    Cross-listed Course: SOWK 305

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Community Service
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 307 - Feminist Theory

    Credits: 3

    Historical development of feminist theory and contemporary debates within feminism.

    Cross-listed Course: POLI 307

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 308 - African-American Feminist Theory

    Credits: 3

    An interdisciplinary survey of the contributions of African-American women to feminist theory.

    Cross-listed Course: AFRO 308

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 309 - Sexual Diversities

    Credits: 3

    Introduction and overview of theories, history, literature, politics, legal, health and social issues within human sexual diversities, including the intersections of gender, race, and social class.

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 310 - Psychology of Women

    Credits: 3

    Women’s experiences: childhood and adolescence, work, family, cultural images, adjustment and social change.

    Cross-listed Course: PSYC 310

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 311 - Minorities, Women, and the Mass Media

    Credits: 3

    The study of the relationship among persons of color, women, and the mass media.

    Cross-listed Course: JOUR 311

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 320 - Sexuality and Gender in Ancient Greece

    Credits: 3

    Gender roles, standards of sexual behavior, evidence for women’s lives, as manifested in ancient Greek literary and archaeological evidence; attitudes toward homosexuality; the modern media’s representation of famous Greeks.

    Cross-listed Course: CLAS 320

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 321 - Sexuality, Gender, and Power in Ancient Rome

    Credits: 3

    Sexuality as a social construct exemplified in standards of sexual behavior in ancient Rome and their reinforcement of the ruling ideology; feminine virtue, definitions of manliness, attitudes toward homosexuality.

    Cross-listed Course: CLAS 321

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 333 - Sex, Gender, and Religion

    Credits: 3

    Gender and sexuality in the shaping of social and individual identity in religious contexts.

    Cross-listed Course: RELG 333

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 334 - Feminist Philosophy

    Credits: 3

    Introduces feminist philosophy and applications to philosophical problems.

    Cross-listed Course: PHIL 334

  
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    WGST 335 - Women in China

    Credits: 3

    Introduces the connection between gender and the Chinese national imagination Readings include cultural and historical documents that purport to explain the experience of women in China.

    Cross-listed Course: CHIN 335

    Note: Readings in English. Taught in English.

    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 351 - The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Credits: 3

    Kinship, systems of descent, marriage, and domestic organization in different cultures. Variations in childrearing practices, gender, and other aspects of social relations in kin groups.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 351

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Global Learning
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 352 - Gender and Politics

    Credits: 3

    Impact of gender on the distribution of power in society; foundations for intersections of gender, race, social class, and sexuality and their economic, social, and political concomitants.

    Cross-listed Course: POLI 352

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 376 - Holy Women

    Credits: 3

    Holy women from various periods and religious traditions, and how they demonstrate the different ways communities understand ideas of holiness, from piety, martyrdom, monasticism and mysticism to social action.

    Cross-listed Course: RELG 376

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 379 - Women in Modern Europe

    Credits: 3

    Survey of women in European history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Focus on women’s citizenship beginning with Enlightenment idea of rights through developments in modern feminism.

    Cross-listed Course: HIST 379

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Global Learning
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 381 - Gender and Globalization

    Credits: 3

    Examines the dialectic between globalization and the social construction of gender. Topics include the global assembly line, transnational markets for domestic labor and sex workers, and global feminist alliances.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 381

    Prerequisites: WGST 111 or 112 or ANTH 102

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 388 - Cultures, Pregnancy, and Birth

    Credits: 3

    Anthropological study of pregnancy and birth with a cross-cultural focus comparing the United States to other nations. Examination of cultural factors such as prenatal care, dietary practices, taboos, birth location, practitioners, and birthing styles.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 388

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 399 - Independent Study

    Credits: 3

    Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and director of women’s studies

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Research

  
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    WGST 404 - Community Activism

    Credits: 3

    Historical and current contexts of women’s participation in community activism; principles, practices, and advocacy building from a feminist perspective.

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Community Service
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 430 - Topics in Women’s Studies

    Credits: 1-3

    Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by suffix and title.

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 431 - Women’s Studies Workshop

    Credits: 1

    Selected small action-research project on selected issue(s) in women’s studies.

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Research

  
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    WGST 437 - Women Writers

    Credits: 3

    Representative works written by women.

    Cross-listed Course: ENGL 437

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 454 - Women and the Law

    Credits: 3

    Constitutional and statutory case law dealing with gender equality issues. Topics include abortion, affirmative action, pornography, sexual harassment, fetal protection policies, employment discrimination, and women in the military.

    Cross-listed Course: POLI 454

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 464 - History of American Women

    Credits: 3

    The social, political, and economic roles and changing status of women in America.

    Cross-listed Course: HIST 464

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 485 - Women’s Rhetoric

    Credits: 3

    Study of rhetoric by and about women as manifested in speeches, essays, and other rhetorical artifacts.

    Cross-listed Course: ENGL 485, SPCH 485

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 499 - Community Service Internship

    Credits: 3

    Supervised experience addressing a community organization’s needs and allowing the student to explore an aspect of the community related to women’s studies issues. Contract approval by advisor required.

    Note: Carolina Core Integrative Course, Women’s & Gender Studies, BA

    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 515 - Race, Gender, and Graphic Novels

    Credits: 3

    Representations of race and gender in comics with a special emphasis on the experiences of African Americans.

    Cross-listed Course: AFAM 515

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 525 - The Psychology of the Midlife Woman

    Credits: 3

    Biological, social, and psychological aspects of the midlife woman.

    Cross-listed Course: PSYC 525

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 535 - Ecofeminism

    Credits: 3

    An exploration of the connections between oppression of women and oppression of nature.

    Cross-listed Course: PHIL 535

    Prerequisites: 3 hours in philosophy beyond the 100 level or instructor’s consent

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 541 - Issues in Women’s Health

    Credits: 3

    An exploration of women’s health and health care concerns from multiple perspectives.

    Cross-listed Course: NURS 541

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 554 - Women and Crime

    Credits: 3

    Impact of gender-based relations on crime and the criminal justice system.

    Cross-listed Course: CRJU 554

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 555 - Language and Gender

    Credits: 3

    Approaches to gender and language emphasizing the social grounding of both; how language reflects sociocultural values and is a tool for constructing different types of social organization.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 555, LING 541

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Diversity and Social Advocacy
    Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 598 - Special Topics in Women’s & Gender Studies

    Credits: 3

    Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by suffix and title. May be repeated as content varies by suffix.

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

  
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    WGST 621 - Maternal and Child Health

    Credits: 3

    Public health issues, social and behavioral science, policies, programs, and services related to maternal and child health in the United States and other countries.

    Cross-listed Course: HPEB 621

    Note: Graduation with Leadership Distinction: Professional and Civic Engagement

 

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