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2010-2011 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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SPAN 5900 - Advanced Conversation and Composition
Goals: To teach students advanced aspects of oral and written expression in Spanish.
Content: Oral expression, expository and creative writing, syntax, stylistics and idiomatic usage. Some introduction to advanced translation into Spanish.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5910 - Spanish for the Professional
Goals: To provide the student with a working knowledge of the Spanish language and Latino culture as related to the bilingual workplace of the United States and its counterpart abroad.
Content: Work in such technical fields as health care and medicine, education and communication, law enforcement, social services and, in particular, business. Social and cultural issues are also emphasized. Pursuit of individual interests in specific career areas is encouraged. Strong emphasis is placed on relevant cultural issues.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1010 - Production Experience (Category I)
Goals: To engage the student in a range of production activities to develop communication abilities and technical skills required in the performing arts.
Content: Stage management, board operation, and running crew for a mainstage show.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore status.
Credits: 0.5 credits
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THTR 1120 - Introduction to Theatre Arts: Stage and Screen
Goals: To introduce students to the appreciation of theatre, film, and television as unique forms of dramatic art. To gain an understanding of the production process by participating in limited crew work for the Hamline University Theatre. To develop critical skills in analysis of dramatic text and performance review.
Content: Examination of the work of each artist in the creative process (writer, actor, director, designer). Exploration of dramatic aesthetics and theory applicable to theatre, film, and television. An overview of theatre arts which includes historical survey of audience relationships to stage and screen. Intended for the general student and required of all majors and minors.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1130 - Dance I
Goals: To demonstrate an understanding of basic modern and jazz dance techniques through proper warm-up, the performance of across-the-floor combinations, a sensibility to music and/or rhythmic structures, and proper use and alignment of the body in terms of mechanical functioning. To acquire an awareness of movement relative to the use of space, time, and weight. To participate in structured improvisation as a vehicle for individual movement expression. To develop an understanding and awareness of modern and jazz dance as a performance art. To acquire an understanding of dance relative to its historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Content: An introduction to modern and jazz dance technique. Performance of fundamental elements which comprise warm-ups, center floor sequences and combinations, and across-the-floor combinations. Basic elements of dance composition and improvisation.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1140 - Dance II
Goals: To provide an introduction to the principles and processes involved in making dances. Explore concepts fundamental to creativity and the choreographic process. To develop a deeper understanding of the various motivations for movement in relationship to the elements of space, time, weight, and breath.
Content: This course is a continuation of Dance I. Participants will gain greater self-awareness of the body, explore with greater depth the rhythms and dynamics underlaying movement, and explore the orientation of the body moving through space. More emphasis will be placed on longer movement phrases and more in-depth improvisations and creative choreography.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: THTR 1130 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1150 - Yoga
Goals: To improve body mechanics; develop mental focus and control; reinforce positive body image and language; and introduce yoga philosophy and experiential anatomy.
Content: Work with structural alignment, flexibility and strength technique to improve body mechanics and injury prevention through yoga poses; examination of how yoga philosophy relates to day-to-day living through written material and written reflections.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1230 - Acting I
Goals: To introduce the student to the basic principles of the actor’s craft: physical discipline, vocal control, individual expression, and intellectual/emotional exploration of the role.
Content: Beginning with theatre games and improvisations, the course moves beyond exercises to the exploration of intention, action, and characterization in extensive scene and monologue work, including significant time spent in preparing students for a range of audition situations.
Taught: Each semester.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1420 - Stagecraft
Goals: To introduce the theories and practical skills of technical production in theatre. To develop a basis for further work in theatrical design and to qualify the student for theatrical production work.
Content: Materials, methods, and planning skills used in scenery, lighting, costumes, and properties. Projects in basic drafting, computer-aided design, construction, electricity, and electronics.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 1700 - Creative Dramatics in the Elementary Classroom
Goals: To introduce students to the idea of using creative dramatics and theatre in the elementary classroom, using it to teach a variety of subject areas and how it can be a vehicle through which children can enhance their creativity, problem-solving skills, communication skills, literacy, cross-cultural understanding, as well as develop selfesteem. This theoretical understanding will be supported by practical, experiential learning.
Content: Reading and theoretical discussion of why use theatre with children. A great deal of the work is experiential learning and trying out various exercises, games, and programs. These will initially be presented by the professor, then each student will practice leading games and exercises in our college classroom. The last part of the month will include five days of practice teaching in a local elementary classroom.
Taught: Periodically in winter term.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3010 - Production Experience (Category II)
Goals: To engage the student in a range of production activities to develop communication abilities and technical skills required in the performing arts.
Content: Directing, designing, and performing in a mainstage show.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore status.
Credits: 0.5 credits
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THTR 3120 - Analyzing the Dramatic Text
Goals: To develop a strong foundation in script analysis with an emphasis on practical application through assignments geared to exercise the student’s ability to engage the dramatic text from a performance, a design, and a historiographic perspective.
Content: Seven plays covering major historical periods and genres—including a focus on a variety of dramaturgical approaches—will be analyzed through close reading and experiential activities.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: THTR 1120 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3140 - Theatre and Culture: Ancient to Renaissance
Goals: To become familiar with the broad and diverse history and literature of the theatre; the practical theories of acting, design, and directing; the latest research in dramatic criticism, performance theory and cultural studies; and the ways in which the study of theatre encourages cross-disciplinary thinking. To develop strong critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and writing skills.
Content: Representative texts from ancient Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; medieval Europe; feudal Japan; and the European Renaissance will be studied.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisites: THTR 1120 and THTR 3120 recommended. Theatre majors and minors should take THTR 3140 and THTR 3160 in sequence.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3160 - Theatre and Culture: Modern to Postmodern
Goals: To become familiar with the broad and diverse history and literature of the theatre; the practical theories of acting, design, and directing; the latest research in dramatic criticism, performance theory and cultural studies; and the ways in which the study of theatre encourages cross-disciplinary thinking. To develop strong critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and writing skills.
Content: Representative texts from the 17th century through the contemporary age, including non-Western approaches as well as post-colonial theatre in Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, Ireland, and Australia.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisites: THTR 1120 and THTR 3140 recommended. Theatre majors and minors should take THTR 3140 and THTR 3160 in sequence.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3180 - Film Studies
Goals: To study prominent film artists and theorists through a close examination of their work.
Content: Landmark films and major film theories will be discussed along with significant trends in technology, aesthetics, and production.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: COMM 3320 or THTR 1120 is recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3210 - Movement for Actors
Goals: To improve physical communication through gesture, body language, and movement. Students will also develop critical analysis skills.
Content: Physical training in different somatic modalities including Feldenkrais, Laban Movement Analysis, dance, and yoga, which will explore the unique relationship between physical movement and text.
Taught: Periodically.
Prerequisite: THTR 1230.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3230 - Acting II
Goals: Building on Acting I, this class is designed to further deepen understanding and mastery of the techniques of acting and to help prepare students for working in the field.
Content: The class focuses on the following areas: auditions, improvisation, character development, resumes, and commercial work. This class includes lab components of voice and speech and make up.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: THTR 1230 and THTR 3210.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3410 - Stage Makeup
Goals: To learn the techniques, theory, and application of theatrical makeup. To develop a working knowledge of materials and methods essential to use of principal types of theatrical makeup.
Content: Makeup design and application in relation to character development and the overall production concept. The course focuses on advanced paint techniques and prosthetics.
Taught: Alternate Years.
Prerequisite: THTR 1420 or permission of instructor
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3440 - Scenic Design
Goals: To develop an awareness of the principles and techniques of the scene designer’s art. To qualify the student as a beginning scenic designer.
Content: Script analysis, concept development, visual research, and the use of design elements in the service of coherent and unified production. An exploration of the variety of design styles and the development of rendering, drafting, collage, and model making skills.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: THTR 1420 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3450 - Costume Design
Goals: To introduce principles and practices in the design and execution of costumes for the stage. To prepare the beginning costume designer.
Content: Script and visual research and use of design principles to create costumes appropriate to both individual character and the production as a whole. Summary of development of western dress, figure drawing, rendering skills, and research methods together with the nature and decoration of materials, pattern development, draping, assembly, and finishing methods.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: THTR 1420 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3460 - Lighting Design
Goals: To introduce the student to the basics in design of lighting for theatre and television. To prepare students to attain minimum competencies as lighting technicians and designers.
Content: Basic electricity, wiring and optics, study of current and historic equipment and methods, the nature of color, graphic analysis, and drafting. Script and ground-plan analysis and selection of design elements to reinforce the intentions of specific productions.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: THTR 1420 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3700 - Children’s Theatre
Goals: To provide a combined study of the theories and practical processes involved in creating and presenting theatre for children.
Content: Participants for the course are selected by audition to prepare and tour a participation theatre play for children. In addition to the rehearsal and performance components of the course, there are units of study in script analysis, the development of theatre for children, types of theatre for children, performing for and with children, and an introduction to the roles that theatre can play in an educational setting.
Taught: Annually, winter term.
Prerequisite: Course participants must be cast in the touring children’s play.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 3800 - Dance Ensemble
Goal: To provide performance experience in contemporary concert dance. To learn modern and jazz technique and repertoire work from professional choreographers in the Twin Cities area and explore the choreographic process. Students will perform two concerts during the academic year.
Content: Intermediate and advanced modern and jazz technique will be taught which will be comprised of warm ups; strength training; yoga; center floor sequences; across floor combinations; and partnering techniques. Emphasis will be placed on rehearsals for development of professional and student dance works.
Taught: Annually. This is a two credit class that may be repeated.
Prerequisite: Fall audition.
Credits: 2 credits
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THTR 3960 - Field Experience Seminar
Crosslisted
Listed under Communication Studies as COMM 3960.
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THTR 5160 - Special Topics in Theatre Studies
Goals: The critical study of a specific historical movement, theatre company, and/or theatre artist.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts (both written, performance, and historical texts) in their cultural context. Topics will vary.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5230 - Acting III
Goals: To provide the acting student with the technical means to assume roles in various historic dramatic styles.
Content: Significant representative examples of various theatrical modes are explored through work in exercises, monologues, and scenes. Voice and movement are studied in relation to historic styles. An introductory approach to acting for the camera is included. This course includes lab components in stage combat and period movement.
Taught: Periodically.
Prerequisites: THTR 1130 and THTR 3230, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5400 - Managing the Performing Arts
Goals: To introduce the student to the economic and administrative issues that confront a performing arts organization. To explore the methods, materials, and policies used by successful managers in preserving their organizations.
Content: Units of study on organizational development, staffing procedures, fundraising systems, accounting methods, publicity techniques, and audience development.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and M&E 1650, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5520 - Stage Direction
Goals: To train the student in the essential principles of directing through play analysis, practical exercises, and scene staging.
Content: Emphasis on practical application through the staging of selected scenes from the modern theatre and exercises in composition, interpretation, and movement. Serious and comic texts, staging for traditional and open-stage forms, and working with script, actors, and designers.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: Junior standing, THTR 1230, THTR 1420, THTR 3120, and consent of instructor.
Note: This course is restricted to major students. Enrollment is limited.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5700 - Teaching Theatre and Dance K-12
Goals: To prepare the prospective teacher seeking a license in theatre/dance for the professional work.
Content: Techniques and content ideas for addressing the State of Minnesota Rules Chapter 8710.4300 subpart 3, curriculum and season planning considerations for the teacher, methods of evaluating creative work in an academic setting, best practices for the drama classroom, portfolio development, and the uses of drama techniques in teaching other content areas.
Taught: By arrangement. See instructor to make arrangements for the course.
Prerequisites: Substantial completion of the theatre arts major, EDU 3150 and EDU 3250.
This is a tutorial class that involves both online learning and seminar sessions.
Credits: 4 credits
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THTR 5910 - Senior Theatre Project and Seminar
Goals: To provide senior theatre majors with the opportunity to demonstrate their professional abilities through the creation of a substantial research or production project and to prepare students for the transition to careers and/or graduate school.
Content: This seminar course focuses on the development of the performing arts professional. Topics include issues in ethics, union and professional association membership, career planning strategies, graduate schools and advanced training opportunities, parallel industry careers, and analyzing growth and change in the performing arts. Parallel to these seminars participants will also be developing their senior project. Techniques for the written and visual documentation of a performance will be examined as well as individual meetings with the project advisor.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: This is a two semester, two credits per semester course sequence. Seniors must complete both semesters. Only theatre arts majors are eligible to enroll for the senior project seminar. An approved project is required prior to enrolling. Approval of department chair is required.
Credits: 2 credits fall; 2 credits spring
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WRIT 3000 - Creating Across Genres
Goals: This course is open to all students interested in creative writing. It is a prerequisite for students wishing to pursue a major (and a BFA) in creative writing.
Content: In this course students are introduced to the practice of reading as creative writers in three genre: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. There will be four primary texts, one each dedicated to a single genre, and a fourth text that gives guidance in creative process and writing skills that are useful across all genres. Students engage creatively with texts as writers, participate in class discussions, and begin to develop a writing practice. Emphasis is on developing an awareness of the diverse social contexts in which writers write and readers read. The course combines lecture, discussion, readings in and across genres, weekly writing exercises, and other assignments. Students who successfully complete this course may apply for acceptance into the BFA program.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110
Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270)
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3110 - Forms of Poetry
Goals: In this course students study the history of poetic forms, such as the sonnet, the sestina, the villanelle, the haiku, the triolet, the pantoum, and the ghazal.
Content: Students examine the structure of poems and experiment with a wide variety of forms that will help them to discern the choices they have as writers in creating their own work. Readings include classic and contemporary poetry from various cultures, as well as one or more texts about the forms of poetry. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110
Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270)
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3120 - Forms of Fiction
Goals: In this course students study select fictional forms, which may include the short story, the novella, the novel, the graphic novel, the fantastical tale, flash fiction, the fable, and the fairy tale.
Content: Readings include classic and contemporary fiction. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110
Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270)
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3130 - Forms of Creative Nonfiction
Goals: In this course students study the diverse subgenres co-existing under the creative nonfiction umbrella, such as the literary memoir, the personal essay, the lyric essay, literary reportage, the nonfiction short, and blended forms.
Content: Readings include classic and contemporary creative nonfiction as well as writings about nonfiction form and other issues related to this hard-to-pin-down and still-developing genre. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
Prerequsiste: ENG 1110
Recommended: ENG 3010 or one survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, 1270)
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3210 - Elements of Poetry
Goals: In this course students explore some of the fundamental elements of poetry, including image, metaphor, simile, rhythm, rhyme, voice, tone, syntactical structures of the line, the sentence, the stanza, ideas of unity and fracture, and fragment and wholeness in the body of a poem.
Content: Attention is paid to the ways in which poets integrate these elements into the form of the poem. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3220 - Elements of Fiction
Goals: In this course students explore the fundamental elements of fiction, including character development, scene building, plot, point of view, structure, time, setting, and dialogue.
Content: Students explore the connections between form and content, the difference between narrative summary and scene, the possibilities and limitations of point of view, and more. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 3230 - Elements of Creative Nonfiction
Goals: In this course students explore the fundamental elements of creative nonfiction, including showing and telling, character and portraiture, figurative language, point of view and narrative distance, setting and place, and variations in literary structure.
Content: Students develop their ability to create portraits of actual people, recreate themselves as characters on the page, manage time and event, construct narrative or lyric structures, and identify deep subject. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 5110 - Advanced Poetry: Workshop
Goals: In this course students write and revise a small collection of poems and respond to peer work. Special attention is paid to use of poetic techniques and forms.
Content: Participants provide oral and written feedback that reflects an advanced understanding of craft. Respectful and constructive workshop methods are practiced. Students are introduced to the work of organizing, arranging, and balancing a manuscript of their own. The class may include student presentations and reading of selected poetry as creative writers.
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000, 3110, 3210.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 5120 - Advanced Fiction: Workshop
Goals: In this workshop-centered course, students write and revise their own fiction and respond to peer work for successful application of fictional techniques such as plot, character, setting, dialogue, point of view, unity and subtext.
Content: Participants provide oral and written feedback which reflects an advanced understanding of craft. Respectful and constructive workshop methods are practiced. The class may also include reading of selected contemporary fiction, encouraging students to read as creative writers.
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000, 3120, 3220.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 5130 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction: Workshop
Goals: Students in this course focus on generating new creative nonfiction writing for peer workshop review. The primary work of the course is the development of respectful and constructive workshop methods, and the application of craft-based critique to significant revision.
Content: Students analyze their classmates’ drafts and come to workshop prepared to contribute to a supportive, yet rigorous, discussion of work-in-progress. Students may also read selected contemporary texts, to further explore the diversity of CNF forms and study ways to apply an advanced understanding of craft to their drafts.
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000, 3130, 3230.
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 5960 - Senior Seminar in Creative Writing
Prerequisites: WRIT 3000 and one course from each of the following: WRIT 3110, 3120, 3130; WRIT 3210, 3220, 3230; and WRIT 5110, 5120, 5130.
Credits: 4 credits
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WSTD 1010 - Foundations of Women’s Studies
Goals: This multidisciplinary course is designed to raise awareness of women’s status and women’s diversity; to critically examine disciplines and social practices through the lens of feminist theory; to recover past achievements of women and survey the work women now do; to expand perspectives; and to provide a basis for critical evaluation of future learning.
Content: An overview of women’s status in contemporary and historical periods, various disciplines’ theories about women, and women as agents of social transformation.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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WSTD 1500 - Topics in Women’s Studies
Goals: to provide introductory study of one or more subject areas relating to women’s studies.
Content: Focus varies. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Topics have included courses such as “Women and Popular Culture.”
Credits: 4 credits
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WSTD 3500 - Topics in Women’s Studies
Goals: To study in depth one or more subject areas relating to women’s studies.
Content: Focus varies. Previous topics have included courses such as “The Politics of Sisterhood, 1960-1980,” “Women of the Prairies and Plains,” and “Women, Conflict, and Social Change.”
Prerequisite: WSTD 1010 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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WSTD 3650 - Global Feminisms
Goals: This course has two goals: (1) to explore how economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization shape women’s lived experience and women’s concerns around the world; and (2) to understand how feminist ideas circulate globally, and how they engage local women’s concerns for social justice, human rights and equality through institutional practice as well as through revolutionary imaginaries.
Content: An exploration of the relationships between women, feminism, and globalization to discover and understand how economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization affect women and men differently in different places, and help to constitute gender difference. Additionally, this course will explore how women’s issues and activism around the world develop in the context of globalization.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: WSTD 1010 or equivalent or GLOB 1910, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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WSTD 3750 - Feminist Scholarship in Action
Goals: Build on foundational knowledge about gender inequality; understand ways specific aspects of women’s lives shape and are shaped by cultural contexts; draw upon feminist theory to identify implications and propose courses of action; recognize and explore connections among disciplinary perspectives on particular aspects of women’s lives.
Content: This middle-level course closely examines the dynamics of gender inequality through theoretical perspectives drawn from disciplines with a focus on one particular area of inquiry or one specific aspect of women’s lives. Focus of the course varies with instructor. Past topics have included courses such as “Transforming a Rape Culture,” and “History of Women Organizing for Social Change.”
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: WSTD 1010 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4 credits
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WSTD 3850 - Feminist Theory
Goals: This multidisciplinary course is designed to introduce students to the major areas of feminist theory.
Content: This course is designed to examine the major areas of feminist theory across the disciplines. Focus may vary, and may include feminist theorists from the fine arts, history, literary studies, philosophy, psychology, the sciences, and sociology.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: WSTD 1010 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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WSTD 5900 - Senior Seminar
Goals: To examine significant developments in feminist/womanist theory and to provide a synthesis of what women’s studies majors have learned and an opportunity for them to share their research.
Content: Student-generated research topics and presentations, with an emphasis on the application of feminist theories.
Taught: Annually within ACTC.
Prerequisite: WSTD 1010 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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