GWS 490

Fall 2007 All Classes

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Seminar in Women's Studies

Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Interdisciplinary seminar on special topics in women's studies.

3 undergraduate hours. 2 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated one time if topic varies. Prerequisite: GWS 250 or GWS 260, and two courses in Gender and Women's Studies at the 200-300 levels; junior standing; or consent of instructor.

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GWS 490 class schedule data for fall 2007
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10361	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
50460	Lecture-Discussion	KD3	4:30PM -5:50PM	MTW	G48 Foreign Languages Building	Dorr, K	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/15/07-12/07/07 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Gender, Race & Nation - Meets with GWS 50461. This section for Undergrads only. This seminar offers a comparative, interdisciplinary survey of theory, film and fiction concerned with nation-building and state formation processes in the 19th and 20th century Americas. Course readings and class discussion will be guided by specific attention to how socially constructed categories of difference�particularly gender, race and sexuality�shape how claims of national belonging are materially and ideologically structured. Employing a feminist, anti-racist theoretical framework, we will grapple with the following questions: How might we theorize the relationship between structures of white supremacy and patriarchy and the (re)production of the imperial and/or postcolonial nation? How are the boundaries of the modern nation-state shaped, transformed, and contested by competing raced and gendered claims of nationalist, transnationalist, and diasporic claims of belonging? If, as many pundits argue, we are currently experiencing a �decline of the nation-state,� then what ghosts of nationalism continue to haunt the raced and gendered structures, states, and citizens of late capitalist globalization?
50461	Lecture-Discussion	KD4	4:30PM -5:50PM	MTW	G48 Foreign Languages Building	Dorr, K	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/15/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Gender , Race & Nation - meets with GWS 50460. This section is for Grad Students only. This seminar offers a comparative, interdisciplinary survey of theory, film and fiction concerned with nation-building and state formation processes in the 19th and 20th century Americas. Course readings and class discussion will be guided by specific attention to how socially constructed categories of difference�particularly gender, race and sexuality�shape how claims of national belonging are materially and ideologically structured. Employing a feminist, anti-racist theoretical framework, we will grapple with the following questions: How might we theorize the relationship between structures of white supremacy and patriarchy and the (re)production of the imperial and/or postcolonial nation? How are the boundaries of the modern nation-state shaped, transformed, and contested by competing raced and gendered claims of nationalist, transnationalist, and diasporic claims of belonging? If, as many pundits argue, we are currently experiencing a �decline of the nation-state,� then what ghosts of nationalism continue to haunt the raced and gendered structures, states, and citizens of late capitalist globalization?
33110	Lecture-Discussion	LF3	1:00PM -3:20PM	T	102 911 S Sixth	Fitzgerald, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Violence Against Women- Undergraduates only. Meets with Psych 496 LF3 & LF4 This section is for undergrads only. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
33107	Lecture-Discussion	LF4	1:00PM -3:20PM	T	102 911 S Sixth	Fitzgerald, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Violence Against Women. Graduates Only. Meets with Psych 496 LF3 & LF4 This section is for grad students only. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
29149	Lecture-Discussion	RB4	1:00PM -3:50PM	T	126 Wohlers Hall	Brown, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Black Girls' Studies - meets with AFRO 498 & EPS 590 - GRADUATE STUDENTS SIGN UP FOR THIS SECTION. This course is designed to introduce students to Black Girls� Studies. Black feminist theory and practice have always remembered and valued the experiences of Black girls. In this course, we will address the social, political, and cultural construction of African American girlhood in the United States and well as the lived experiences of Black girls. In this course you will have the opportunity to work with African American girls in the community. In this way, we will extend our learning beyond the university boundaries to learn what it means to identify as an African American girl growing up in Urbana-Champaign, IL. This unique opportunity will give urgency to the significance of Black Girls' Studies as a sub-field of academic inquiry as well as provide you with the opportunity to make a positive difference in your own life.
29204	Lecture-Discussion	RNB	1:00PM -3:50PM	T	126 Wohlers Hall	Brown, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Black Girls' Studies - meets with AFRO 498 & EPS 590 - UNDERGRADS SIGN UP FOR THIS SECTION. This course is designed to introduce students to Black Girls� Studies. Black feminist theory and practice have always remembered and valued the experiences of Black girls. In this course, we will address the social, political, and cultural construction of African American girlhood in the United States and well as the lived experiences of Black girls. In this course you will have the opportunity to work with African American girls in the community. In this way, we will extend our learning beyond the university boundaries to learn what it means to identify as an African American girl growing up in Urbana-Champaign, IL. This unique opportunity will give urgency to the significance of Black Girls' Studies as a sub-field of academic inquiry as well as provide you with the opportunity to make a positive difference in your own life.
29158	Lecture-Discussion	SKG	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	36 English Building	Koshy, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Gender & Sexuality in Asian American Literature Meets with AAS 490 This section for Graduate students only.
29160	Lecture-Discussion	SKU	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	36 English Building	Koshy, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Gender & Sexuality in Asian American Literature Meets with AAS 490 This section for Undergraduate students only.