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Gender and Women'southward Studies Courses Spring 2022

Courses Offered by the GWS Department

(Includes Required Courses and Additional Electives for Majors and Minors. Get to page 4 for other GWS courses)

GWS 100: Intro to Gender Women's Studies

Same equally HDFS 140 and SOC 130 - This course satisfies the Full general Education Criteria in spring 2022 for: Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci

TBD                                    AD1	CRN 52480	R	four-four:fifty p.m.
TBD                                    AD2	CRN 52485	R	5-5:50 p.yard.
TBD                                    AD3	CRN 52489	F	ten-10:50 a.m.
TBD                                    AD4	CRN 52493	F	11-11:50 a.m.
Velez, E.                             AL1	CRN 52469	MW	11-eleven:50 a.m.

Addresses bug such as everyday experience, media and popular civilisation, femininities and masculinities, family unit, education, employment, economic science, literature and the arts, religion, history, scientific discipline, and technology. Explores interrelationships of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, ability, and age from a transnational perspective.

GWS 201: Race, Gender and Power

Aforementioned equally SOC 201 - This course satisfies the General Instruction Criteria in bound 2022 for a: Western Comparative Cultures course.

Vergara, D.                        DVB       CRN 71805                                       T/R                       3:30-4:50 p.thou.

Race offers a framework for thinking about gender, sexuality, ability, form, identity, and civilization, and their multiple intersections. This course explores "race" to examine the relations betwixt self and society, community and culture, and imperial subjects and colonial institutions. Past focusing on race and ability in the context of film and media, science and technology, religion, colonialism, militarism, indigeneity, sports, museums, and other political, social, and cultural forces, this class offers nuanced understandings of the way gender systems are formed, patrolled, and maintained.

GWS 202: Sexualities

Same as SOC 202, Encounter SOC 202 ("Priority registration bachelor for GWS majors and minors. This form will exist open to all students following initial registration period". Restricted to Gender & Women's Studies majors. – This grade satisfies the General Education Criteria in spring 2022 or a Cultural Studies – Western

TBD	AD1	CRN 61621	W	v-five:50 p.m.
TBD	AD2	CRN 61628	W	iv-iv:fifty p.m.
TBD	AD3	CRN 61631	R	iii:xxx-4:xx p.one thousand.
TBD	AD4	CRN 61633	R	4:30-v:20 p.m.
TBD	AD5	CRN 71815	F	three:30–iv:20 p.m.
TBD	AD6	CRN 71816	F	4:xxx-5:twenty p.thousand.
Mousssawi, G.	AL1	CRN 61611	MW	12-12:l p.chiliad. (Taught remotely)

Surveys sexualities from multiple perspectives, standpoints, disciplines, and theories. How take different cultures, different people, and dissimilar viewpoints understood, shaped, and interpreted sex, sexualities and genders? Course places the concept of sexuality at its core to examine citizenship, education, reproduction, science, tourism, urban/rural space, and politics. Topics may include; gender, race, identities, ability, transformation, reproduction.

GWS 250: Gender and Representation
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in spring 2022: Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci

S. Cate                           SC          CRN 73467                                     W/F                         x-11:20 a.1000.

Focusing primarily on gender, race, sexuality, and their intersections, this introductory course analyzes the politics of representation fatigued from popular culture, painting, television and motion picture, literature, music, religion, and new media.

More specifically this class will be focusing on gender representations in U.S. sex education for teens. This class explores the triumphs, perils, and pitfalls of U.S. American sex didactics. We will await at various models of sex teaching both throughout U.S. history, and within recent years. We will analyze how each model constructs norms of ideal versus demonized gender and sex. We will examine the assumptions backside various sex teaching strategies and explore questions that are raised both outside of and inside their own
rhetorical frameworks, request these and other questions:
What is sex didactics's history?
What has been the intended purpose of sex education throughout its Us history?
How has sexual practice education succeeded/failed at its stated goals?
In what ways has sexual activity education drawn on, versus dictated, gender and sex norms in US civilization?
In what ways have the gender and sex norms of sex education centered certain identities (gender, sexuality, class, racialized, religious, immigrant status, etc.) and marginalized others?
What are some alternative means young people take learned well-nigh sexual activity in the United States?
What have been some of the goals of these alternative routes to sex education?
How do these alternatives to formal sex educational activity compare in their effectiveness to formal sexual practice education?
What are some unintended effects of formal sex pedagogy?

GWS 282: Feminist and Queer Activisms

Aforementioned as AAS 282 and LLS 282. - This form satisfies the General Didactics Criteria in spring 2022: Cultural Studies - US Minority

TBD                                    MN                       CRN 71812                        One thousand/West                     1-2:xx p.1000. (Taught remotely)

From anti-lynching campaigns to Blackness Lives Thing, Wages for Housework to domestic worker organizing, Human action Up to queer migration politics, this form examines the history of feminist, queer, and anti-racist movements. Nosotros will pay particular attention to women of color theorists and activists, and the ways in which they develop interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to activism and advocacy .

GWS 295: Beginning Topics in GWS Topic: Race, Gender, Music

Meets with LLS 296, AFRO 298 and AAS 299. See GWS 295.

Ngo, F.                               FN                        CRN 55398                         MW                     4-5:xx p.thou.

This course examines the relationship between music, social germination, and politics. We will consider how musical cultures shape relations of race, gender, sexuality and nation, past exploring the dynamic processes of musical production, consumption, and substitution. The course will develop a critical analysis of the politics of musical and cultural practice through music history, cultural studies, musicology, and sound studies.

GWS 350: Feminist & Gender Theory

Ngo, F.                               FN                        CRN 50084                        MW                      1-ii:20 p.1000

Interdisciplinary survey of feminist and gender theory. Traces developments in feminist theory and LGBT/Q approaches and explores gimmicky debates.

GWS 378: Fairy Tales and Gender Germination Same as ENGL 378.  Encounter ENGL 378

Mahaffey, V.                      VM                       CRN 56852                         MW                     2:30-3:l p.m. (Taught remotely)

Discusses how femininity and gender formation are related through fairy tales. As children abound they are taught the difference between male and female roles. Ane of the main ways this educational activity takes place is through the pleasurable media of fairy tales in books, poems, and more recently, films. Sleeping Dazzler, Snowfall White, Beauty and the Best, and the Little Mermaid, among others, volition exist examined to understand how sexual identity is constructed differently in different cultures, and how issues such as rape and incest are addressed within the narratives. The readings explore the ways that fairy tales work to limited psychological reactions to maturation while workout both characters and readers to prefer specific social roles in adulthood.

GWS 387: History of Sexuality in U.S. Meets w/HIST 387

Vergara, D.                      DV                                    CRN 63265                            TR                     11-12:20 p.m.

Explores a wide variety of sources to sympathize how notions of sexuality take emerged and been contested at key moments in U.Southward. history. Our guiding questions include: How have "official" or governing discourses of sexuality (in police force, medicine, religions, scientific discipline) been formulated? In turn, how take "ordinary" people understood and skilful their sexuality? How has the meaning of particular sexual practices changed over time? How take ideas about race, gender, and/or class been embedded within the soapbox of sexuality at dissimilar moments in U.South. history? What methods of reading and interpretation are most useful for the historical study of sexuality? As well emphasizes skills such every bit critically analyzing main sources within their historical context; interpreting different types of primary sources; locating, understanding, and evaluating scholarly secondary sources; and presenting historical arguments, based on both main and secondary sources.

GWS 399: GWS Internship

Students must accept consent of the Internship Coordinator. Approved for Letter and S/U grading. Prerequisite: GWS major or minor; junior or senior standing and completion of six hours of coursework in GWS, or consent of the instructor.

Flynn, M.                        KF                                    CRN 68616                               Arranged

Directed internship feel for GWS students. Students volition complete course requirements in addition to holding a semester long internship

GWS 462: Hip Hop Feminism

Flynn, K.	RNG	CRN: 64901 (Grad)	TR	ix:30-10:50 a.m.
	JBU	CRN: 64902 (Undergrad)	TR	9:thirty-10:fifty a.m.

Explores how hip hop has shaped the civilisation, aesthetics, experiences, and perspectives of an emergent generation of artists, scholars, and writers with several aims: 1) To challenge systemic social inequalities. two) To articulate new visions of justice that depend on the power young people possess. To better sympathize how and why the relationship between hip hop and feminism is coherent, meaningful, and compelling, students will become familiar with artists working inside and beyond diverse elements of hip hop (rap, graffiti, emceeing, dee-jaying, etc.), social critics concerned with documenting hip hop's cultural practices, and critical educator (broadly defined).

GWS 495: Blackness Girlhood Studies

Smith, Blair	BSG	CRN: 70121 (Grad)	TR	2-three:20 p.one thousand.
	BSU	CRN 70122 (Undergrad)	TR	2-3:twenty p.1000.

This course is designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Black Girls' Studies/Black Girlhood Studies. Importantly, Black feminist theory, poetics and practice have e'er remembered and valued the experiences of Blackness girls and informs the design of this course and related lectures. Together, nosotros volition address various topics within the field, including foundations, lived experiences, sexuality, pop civilisation, arts, representation, policy, and digital humanities (broadly defined).

GWS 498: Senior Seminar

No graduate credit - Prerequisite: Senior standing and enrollment as a major in Gender and Women'south Studies, or consent of teacher. For consent, please contact gws-email@illinois.edu This grade satisfies the Full general Teaching Criteria in Spring 2022 for: Advanced Composition.

Velez, E.                             EV                                 CRN 48439                       F                   eleven-1:50 p.m.

Considers the relationship betwixt theory and research in gender and women'due south Studies. Reviews and examines the key issues of feminist scholarship. Provides students with the methodological knowledge and opportunity to carry out a research projection.

GWS 580: Queer Theories and Methods

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing (Not intended for undergrad students)

Moussawi, Yard.                    GM                                CRN 52453                       R           3:thirty-vi:20 p.m. (Taught remotely)

Interdisciplinary study in queer theories and methods produced in and across various disciplines. Contemporary philosophical and theoretical developments in queer studies specific to histories of class, race, ethnicity, nation and sexuality.

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GWS Crosslisted/Area Elective Courses

GWS 103: Black Women in the Diaspora

Same as AFRO 103 and AFST 103 – Meet AFRO 103

This Course satisfies the General Educational activity Criteria in Bound 2022 for a: UIUC Cultural Studies—Usa Minority

McDuffie, Due east.        A                                  CRN 44763                                    TR                    ix:30-10:50 a.m.

Explores the historical, social, economic, cultural and political realities of black women in the African diaspora with an
accent on the U.S., Canada, United kingdom, Africa and the English speaking Caribbean area. How macro structures such as slavery,
imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and globalization shaped and proceed to circumscribe the lives of black women across various geographic regions. Discussion of the multiple strategies/efforts that blackness women employ both in the past and present to ensure the survival of the self and the customs.

GWS 215: U.s.a. Citizenship Comparatively

Same as AAS 215, AIS 295, AFRO 215, and LLS 215. Run across AAS215

This class satisfies the General Education Criteria in Leap 2022 for a: UIUC Historical and Philosophical Perspectives and US Minority Cultures.

Park, D.                              A                          CRN 52320                                       MW                      one-2:00 p.grand.

Examines the racial, gendered, and sexualized aspects of Us citizenship historically and comparatively. Interdisciplinary grade taught from a humanities perspective. Readings draw from disquisitional legal studies, history, literature, literary criticism, and ethnography.

GWS 218: Intro to Social Bug Theatre Same as THEA 218. Come across THEA 218

Enslin, One thousand.                          A                          CRN 48020                                       MW                      one-2:50 p.m.

An introductory exploration/survey of the rich histories, theories, and practices of customs-based and social issues theatre. Through word, participation, lecture, and performance, representative works, movement, and artists volition be explored. Lively connections will be made to an array of social issues in today's world.

GWS 226: Blackness Women Contemp U.s. Social club Same as AFRO 226 and SOC 223. See AFRO 226

TBD                                    DMC                     CRN 63816                                       W                         2-4:l p.m.

Sociological perspective of the experience of African American women in the contemporary Usa. Specifically, an exam of relationships between the economy, state policy, culture, work and motherhood for this demographic grouping.

GWS 230: Black Women Contemp US Society

Same as LLS 230. Run into LLS 230. - This class satisfies the Full general Pedagogy Criteria in Jump 2022 for: Cultural Studies - US Minority

Caraves, J.                        A                          CRN 63776                                       TR                        9:xxx-x:l a.m.

Survey of major theories and debates surrounding the gendered and sexualized dimensions of the Latina/o experience in the United States. The class is comprised of three major units: Gender, Sexuality, and Sex. In these units, students will read about and discuss issues pertaining to femininity/marianismo, masculinity/adulthood, family/familism, desire, sexual behavior, sex piece of work, sexual and gendered violence, and gendered and sexualized representations in pop culture.

GWS 280: Women Writers

Aforementioned every bit ENGL 280. See ENGL 280

TBD                                      Q                          CRN 49540                                        TR                       12:30-1:45 p.m.

Study of British and American Women Writers

GWS 305:Theories of Race, Gender and Sexualty

Aforementioned as AAS 300 and LLS 305. Encounter AAS 300 - This grade satisfies the Full general Pedagogy Criteria in Spring 2022 for: Advanced Composition

Sabherwal, S                        A                          CRN 69049                                       TR                        10-xi:20 a.m

Explores theories for performing interdisciplinary, intersectional and comparative studies within the field of Asian American studies. Follows multiple genealogies of critical piece of work in ethnic and American studies.

GWS 320: Gender & Latino Migration

Same every bit LLS 320 and SOC 321. Meet LLS 320

Velasquez East.R.                       A                          CRN 52855                                       TR                        12:thirty-1:50 p.thou.

Study of the gendered social process of international clearing, focusing on Latin American migration to the United States. Established theories of migration, the history of international clearing to the U.S., and historical and contemporary Mexico, Caribbean and Primal American migration flows will be discussed in great detail. Primary focus on how gender shapes the migration experiences of immigrants and the gendered impact of migration on the economic, political, and social status of individuals.

GWS 343: Criminalization and Punishment

Same as AAS 343, AFRO 343, AIS 343, and LLS 343. See LLS 343 .

Velasquez, E.R.                       A                      CRN 69449                               TR                    3:30-4:fifty pm.

Examines how populations are criminalized due to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, form, and immigration status. Readings analyze how laws are created and normalized. In order to effectively engage in critical research, students volition be asked to suspend moral judgments so that they can analytically arroyo the written report of crime, criminals, and criminal activity.

GWS 356: Sex & Gender in Popular Media

Same equally MACS 356. See MACS 356 - This course satisfies the General Instruction Criteria in Spring 2022 for: Cultural Studies - Western

TBD	B	CRN 57064	T	2-3:xx p.one thousand.
ONLINE	B	CRN 57064	R	two:3:20 p.m.

Examines the notion that the mass media influence our development equally gendered individuals, looking at those who argue for and against this notion. Considers different forms of feminist theory practical to the report of mass media, the history and scholarly criticisms of the media and their portrayal of women, and feminist attempts to create alternatives to mainstream media images. Throughout the class, considers representation of minorities in the dominant media and examines newly created alternative representations.

GWS 403: Women in Muslim Societies

Same as ANTH 403, GLBL 403, HIST 434, REL 403. Meet REL 403

Prerequisite: A course in Islam or the Middle Eastward, or consent of instructor.

Erten, H.	G4	CRN 70418	F	9-11:50 a.g.
	U3	CRN 70412	F	ix-11:l a.thousand.

Examination of gender ideologies and social realities affecting the lives of women in various Muslim countries.

GWS 409: Women'south Health

Same as CHLH 409 – See CHLH 409 - Prerequisite: CHLH 100 or equivalent; or consent of instructor.

Note: Most seats held for Community Health and GWS majors until kickoff day of classes

Bernsken, J.                          A                          CRN 31276                                       TR                        12:30-1:fifty p.thou.

Examines the culture of women in relationship to their health. Study is devoted to selected health care issues, developmental and physiological changes in the life bike, health problems that affect women, and the maintenance of wellness.

GWS 417: Leading Post-Perform Dialog Same as THEA 417 – See THEA 417.

Smith, South.                            LTD                      CRN 47194                                       TR                        4-5:50 p.m.

Report of the history, processes, and methods of leading discussions with social bug theatre audiences. This course emphasizes on the skills and techniques of facilitators/peer educators; creative considerations; role and application of the dramaturgy; and practical feel through facilitation of social issues theatre dialog.

GWS 418: Devising Social Bug Theatre Aforementioned as THEA 418 – See THEA 418.

Fay, L.	A3	CRN 37113	MW	11:30-12:l p.m.
	A4	CRN 37114	MW	11:thirty-12:fifty p.m.

Focuses on the part of the artist as 'cultural worker' through devising theatre in a customs-based context that is explicitly concerned with social and/or health-related bug. While there is substantial research, reading and critique involved, the overall experience will exist that of rigorously composing theatrical work vital to the community.

GWS 442: Devising Social Problems Theatre – (1 st 8 Weeks Simply) Online Only

Aforementioned as KIN 442– Run into KIN 442 - 1ST 8 WEEKS: Registration for this course volition close at ix AM on the start day of instruction. No overrides volition exist given after that fourth dimension. It takes 24 hours after registering for your name to show up on Compass merely this will non happen until i week prior to the first mean solar day of pedagogy.

Haugen, Yard	ONG	CRN 71641	Bundled
	ONU	CRN 71643	ARRANGED

Analysis of the significant social aspects of the human body including anthropological, historical, psychological and sociological perspectives. Places accent on cross-culture and cantankerous-national studies of actual behavior with particular stress on do, health and sport practices.

GWS 454: Social Work with Women Same equally SOCW 455. See SOCW 455

Not intended for students with Freshman and Sophomore class standing

Kingery, L.                         A                          CRN 63567                                       MW                      4-5:15 p.thou.

Focuses on women and at present cultural conventionalities systems related to gender are instantiated through the differential treatment of females and males in our instruction, mental health, social welfare and health care systems; and the consequences of such practices through the lifespan. Includes consideration of policies and practices that support women emphasizing issues of special concern to women of colour, lesbians, older women, impoverished women and disabled women.

GWS 465: Race, Sex and Deviance

Same as AAS 465, AFRO 465 and LLS 465. Come across LLS 465

Flores, N.	G	CRN 48492	TR	12:30-one:50 p.thou.
	U	CRN 48491	TR	12:30 – 1:fifty p.one thousand.

Explores how racial stereotypes rely on sexual stereotypes by examining the intersections of ethnic studies, gender and women's studies, and queer studies. Interdisciplinary course that draws from critial legal studies, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and history.

GWS 501: Prob in Comp Women's Hist.

Aforementioned equally HIST 503. See HIST 503 – RESTRICED TO GRAD STUDENTS Merely!

Chettiar, T                         A                          CRN 40143                                       R                          one-2:50 P.M.

Examines major works in global women'due south history from near 1700 to 1950. Introduces students to major themes in women'south history as well as major historiographical debates. Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://world wide web.history.illinois.edu.

GWS 512: Gender Relations & Intl Dev

Same every bit SOCW 581 and WGGP 581. See WGGP 581 RESTRICTED TO GRADUATE STUDENTS Just

Fogelman, C.                     A                          CRN 54826                                       R                          2-4:fifty p.g.

Interdisciplinary seminar examining theoretical and empirical research on gender and the transformation of social and economic structures. Students will develop a comparative perspective on issues of women and public policy by contrasting and comparison such policies in N and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, and Africa.

GWS 561: Race and Cultural Critique

Same as AAS 561, AFRO 531, ANTH 565 and LLS 561. Run into AAS 561

Sharif, Fifty.                            A                          CRN 52842                                       W                         2-four:50 p.m.

Introduction to graduate level theoretical and methodological approaches in Comparative Race Studies. As a survey of theories of race and racism and the methodology of critique, this course offers an interdisciplinary approach that draws from anthropology, sociology, history, literature, cultural studies, and gender/sexuality studies. In addition, the written report of racial and cultural germination is examined from a comparative perspective in the scholarship of racialized and Gender and Women's Studies.

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Source: https://gws.illinois.edu/spring-22-course-guide

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