Gender and Sexuality Studies: 2008-2009

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Description

The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary, bi-college program that can be integrated with a major or pursued independently. Students graduate from the program with a high level of fluency and rigor in their understanding of the different ways in which issues of gender and sexuality shape our lives as individuals and as members of larger communities, both local and global.

Students choosing a concentration, minor, or independent major in Gender and Sexuality plan their programs in consultation with the Gender and Sexuality Coordinator on their home campus. Members of the Gender and Sexuality steering committee serve as their individual mentors. All students take the core course, "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex and Gender." Other courses in the program allow them to explore a range of approaches to gender and sexual difference: critical feminist theory; women's studies; transnational and third-world feminisms; the theories and cultural productions of women of color; gender and science; the construction of masculinity; gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, and transsexual studies; the history and representation of gender and sexuality in different national contexts, cultural traditions, political movements, religious practices, and projects of social transformation.

Coordinators

Assistant Professor Theresa Tensuan, Coordinator at Haverford
Associate Professor Lazaro Lima, Coordinator at Bryn Mawr

Requirements

Six courses distributed as follows are required for the concentration:

An introductory course, such as Philosophy 115: Introduction to Feminist Theory; English 284: Sex, Gender, and Representation; Political Science 123: American Politics, Difference and Discrimination; Philosophy 106: The Philosophy of Consciousness and the Problem of Embodiment; or English 278: Contemporary Women Writers. Equivalent courses at Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, or the University of Pennsylvania are also acceptable. Students may petition to count other relevant introductory level courses toward this requirement.
The junior seminar, Independent College Programs 290: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex and Gender.
Four additional approved courses from at least two different departments, two of which are normally 300 level. Units of Independent Study (480a,b) may be used to fulfill this requirement.
Of the six courses, no fewer than two and no more than three will also form part of the student's major.

Minor Requirements

Requirements for the minor are identical to those of the concentration, with the stipulation that no courses in Gender and Sexuality will overlap with courses taken to fulfill requirements in the student's major.

Neither a senior seminar nor a senior thesis is required for the concentration; however, with the permission of the major department, a student may choose to count toward the concentration a senior thesis with significant feminist and gender studies content. Students wishing to construct an independent major in Gender and Sexuality Studies will have to make a proposal to the College Committee on Student Standing and Progress (CSSP).

Gender and Sexuality Studies at Haverford Include:

Fall 2008

Independent College Programs 290a: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality Studies
G.Stadler, S.Ullman

Economics 224a: Women in the Labor Market
A.Preston

English 254a: Pre-Raphaelites, Aesthetes, & Decadents; Gender and Sexuality in 19th Century Literature
D.Sherman

English 270a: Portraits in Black: The Influence of an Emergent African American Culture
T.Zwarg

English 286a: Arts of the Possible: Cultures of Social Justice Movements
T.Tensuan

English 363a: “The Awful Rehearsal”: Traumas of Freedom in US Literature
C.Zwarg

Independent College Programs 244a: Quaker Social Witness
K.Edwards

Philosophy 105a: Love, Friendship and the Ethical Life
K.Wright

Philosophy 332a: Topics in Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy: Foucault on Sex and Power
J.Miller

Political Science 242a: Women in War and Peace
S.Wing

Religion 221a: Women and Gender in Early Christianity
A.McGuire

Religion 301a: Religious Traditions in Cultural Context
A.McGuire

Spring 2009

Independent College Programs 190b: Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies: Inventing Gender
H.Schlipphacke

Anthropology 204b: Anthropology of Gender
N.Uygen

Anthropology 244b: Anthropology of China
M.Gillette

English 260b: Another Country: Queer Sexualities in the American Novel
G.Stadler

English 302b: Speaking in Tongues: The Poetics of Ecstacy
M.McInerney

English 347b: Spectacle and Spectatorship in 18th Century London
L.McGrane

Political Science 123b: American Politics: Difference and Discrimination
S.McGovern

Political Science 235b: African Politics
S.Wing

Religion 330b: Seminar in the Religious History of African-American Women
T.Hucks

Courses at Bryn Mawr

Fall 2008
Anthropology 101: Introduction to Anthropology
Comparative Literature/German 321: Advanced Topics in German Cultural Study
English 210: Renaissance Literature: Performances of Gender
English 263: Toni Morrison
English 269: Vile Bodies in Medieval Literature
English 293: Introduction to Critical Feminist Studies
History of Art 108: Women/Feminism/History of Art
Italian 235: Italian Women’s Movement
Political Science/Sociology 375: Women, Work, and Family

Spring 2009
Anthropology 102: Introduction to Anthropology
Archeology 303: Classical Bodies
English 360: Women and the Law in the Middle Ages
English 362: African American Literature
History of Art 348: Topics in German Art
Philosophy 221: Ethics
Political Science 282: Exotic Other: Gender in the Middle East
Sociology 201: The Study of Gender in Society
Spanish 331: TransNation: Queer Diasporas
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Other Gender and Sexuality Studies courses regularly offered at Haverford:

Anthropology 202: Among Men: Constructions of Masculinities
Anthropology 216: Women and Power
Anthropology 244: Anthropology of China
Anthropology 245: Love and the Market
Biology 247: Human Genetics, Ethics, and Public Policy
Biology 248: Disease and Discrimination
East Asian Studies 262: Chinese Social History
East Asian Studies 310: Religion and Gender in Pre-Modern Japan
Economics 224: Women in the Labor Market
English 263: 19th Century Women’s Narratives
English 277: Postcolonial Women Writers
English 281: Fictions of Empire
English 278: Contemporary Women Writers
English 284:Sex/Gender/Representation
English 301: The Hundred Years War and the Production of Literary Culture
English 362: Genius and Gender in 19th Century U.S. Culture
English 364: After Mastery
English 381: Textual Politics: Marxism, Feminism, and Deconstruction
English 383: American Autobiography: Life During Wartime
German 262: The Male Body in Contemporary Cinema
History 204: Women, Gender and American Society to 1870
History 229: Gender, Sex, and Power in Early Modern Europe
History 231: The Age of Enlightenment
History 354: Law, Crime, and the Police in Early Modern Europe
Philosophy 106: The Philosophy of Consciousness and the Problem of Embodiment
Philosophy 155: Introduction to Feminist Theory
Philosophy 229: Latino Politics in the U.S.
Philosophy 231: Continental Feminist Philosophy
Philosophy 258: Philosophy of the Body
Political Science 235: African Politics
Political Science 359: Feminist Political Theory
Religion 204: Women and Judaism
Religion 221: Women and Gender in Early Christianity
Religion 223: Body, Sexuality, and Christianity
Religion 301: Jerusalem: History and Representation
Religion 303: Evangelicalism, Anti-Slavery, and Feminism in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Religion 330: Seminar in the Religious History of African American Women
Spanish 334: Gender Dissidence in Hispanic Writing
Spanish 324: Sexual Minorities in the Spanish Speaking World
Spanish 352: Evita and her Sisters