Undergraduate Course Catalog 2013-2014
College of Liberal Arts
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Women's Studies (WS)
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Coordinator: Marla A. Brettschneider
Professor: Marla A. Brettschneider
Affiliate Professor: Sarah Redfield
Associate Professor: Carol B. Conaway
Affiliate Associate Professor: Sarra Lev, Mary M. Moynihan
Assistant Professor: Courtney Marshall
Affiliate Assistant Professor: Sharon Gershoni, Nancy Nield
Affiliate Faculty: Jane Stapleton
Lecturer: Joelle Ryan, Tamsin Whitehead
Core Faculty: Amy Boylan, Holly R. Cashman, Katie Edwards, Diane P. Freedman, Robin Hackett, Marc W. Herold, Lori Hopkins, Delia C. Konzett, Janet L. Polasky, Mary E. Rhiel, Judy Sharkey, Reginald A. Wilburn
The UNH Women’s Studies Program provides students with an understanding of the status of women and gender roles in various cultures and historical eras. Students learn the use of gender as a category of analysis, and increase their knowledge of women’s contributions to many fields and the roles gender plays in them. Women’s studies courses offer students critical perspectives on such basic questions of the social order as assumptions about gender roles and gender identity and the ways cross-cutting phenomena such as racism, heterosexim, religion, ablism, and ageism are a part of them.
A major or minor in women’s studies prepares students for careers where the changing roles of women, and gender more broadly, have a perceptible impact. Many women’s studies graduates go on to law school and graduate school in a variety of disciplines. With a women's studies degree, students often take positions with social change or family service agencies, and in fields such as politics, communications, community organizing, education, affirmative action, healthcare, and human resources.
Women’s Studies Major
For the women’s studies major, students must complete 40 credits of women’s studies courses (or 32 in the case of a second major) with grades of C- (1.67) or better and an overall grade-point average of 2.0 or better. These courses must include the following three: 1) WS 401, Introduction to Women’s Studies, or WS 405, Gender, Power, and Privilege, normally taken at the beginning of the course sequence; 2) WS 632, Feminist Thought; and 3) a 700-level WS-designated course (for instance, WS 795, 796, 797, 798, or 799). Electives are chosen, in consultation with a faculty adviser, principally from other women’s studies courses, including WS 505 (Survey in Women’s Studies) and cross-counted departmental offerings. Students must take at least half of their courses at the 600 level and above to complete the major and at least half of their courses must be WS-designated (not cross-counted) classes. A maximum of two 400-level courses may count toward the major. The Discovery Program capstone requirement may be fulfilled by completing one of the following: WS 796, WS 797, or WS 798.
WS topic courses include WS 444s, WS 505s, and WS 798s:
444 Inquiry Courses
WS 444, Trans/forming Gender
WS 444a, Race Matters
WS 444b, Score: Gender & Diversity in Sports
WS 444c, On the Roads to Equality
WS 444d Cyborgs, Avatars, and Feminists: Gender in the Virtual World
505 Surveys
How Do We Look? Gender, Race & Sexuality in Visual Culture
Sustainability & Spirituality
Feminist Activism
Race, Class, and Gender in the Media
19th Century Black Women in New England
Fashion This!
Global Sex Industry
Race, Gender and Environmental Justice
798 Colloquiums
Feminist Studies in Film
Women’s Fiber Arts Traditions
Feminism and Queer Theory
Conflicts within Feminism
The Body
Jewish Feminism, Politics & Culture
Feminist Autobiography
Global Feminist Issues
Women, Work, and Policy
Black Women in America
Black Feminist Thought
Queers & Kin
Women in Prison
Contemporary American Memoir: Autobiography/Theory
Dreamgirls: Dancing on the Pages of Diva (Auto)biographies
Transgender Feminism
Theater as a Provocative Act
Departmental offerings include the following courses offered by other UNH departments:
ANTH 697, Women in the Middle East
ANTH 740, Teaching Race
ARTS 690, Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
CMN 567, Gender, Race, and Class in the Media
CMN 583, Gender and Expression
CMN 616, Women and Film
ECON 698, Women in Economic Development
ECON 698, Consumption
EDUC 507, Mentoring Adolescents
ENGL 585, Introduction to Women in Literature
ENGL 685, Women’s Literary Traditions
ENGL 785, Major Women Writers
ENGL 798, LGBT Writing, Queer Reading
FREN 525, French Women: Subject and Object
FS 545, Family Relations
FS 757, Race, Class, Gender, and Families
GERM 520, Women in German Literature and Society
GERM 524, Topics in German Film
HIST 565, Women in Modern Europe
HIST 566, Women in American History
HIST 600, Advanced Explorations: The History of Childhood
HIST 665, Themes in Women’s History
HUMA 401, Sex and Love in Literature and Philosophy
NURS 595, Women’s Health
POLT 525, Multicultural Theory
POLT 721, Feminist Political Philosophy
POLT 797, Queer Gender Theory
PHIL 510, Philosophy and Women
PSYC 571, Pioneers of Psychology
PSYC 711, Psychology in 20th Century Thought and Society
PSYC 763, Community Psychology
SOC 630, Sociology of Gender
SW 697, Practice with GLBT People
No more than two courses can be cross-counted with another major or minor or Discovery. No more than four electives may be from the same department. Strongly recommended is a practicum, internship course, or research with faculty.
Candidates for a degree must satisfy all of the University Discovery Program requirements in addition to satisfying the requirements of each individual major program. Bachelor of Arts candidates must also satisfy the foreign language proficiency requirement. ASL: COMM 401 AND COMM 402 may be used to satisfy the language competency requirement.
Women’s Studies Minor
For the women’s studies minor, students must complete 20 credits of women’s studies courses with a grade of C- or better. Courses taken pass/fail may not be used toward the minor. No more than eight credits used to satisfy the requirements for another major or minor may be used for the women’s studies minor. Students electing the women’s studies minor must complete WS 401, Introduction to Women’s Studies, or WS 405, Gender, Power, and Privilege, and WS 798, Colloquium in Women’s Studies, normally taken at the beginning and end of the course sequence, respectively. It may be possible to substitute WS 795, WS 797, Internships, or WS 796 and WS 799, Capstone Experiences, for WS 798, Colloquium, with permission from a women's studies adviser. Additionally, students must complete three other women’s studies courses, either program courses or those that are cross-counted with other departments. (For a more complete description of the women’s studies minor, see COLA/Interdisciplinary Programs.)
Students who wish to major or minor in women’s studies should consult with the coordinator or academic/student services assistant, 203 Huddleston Hall, (603) 862-2194.
