School of Liberal Arts: Women's Studies
2008-2009 Academic Year
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knowledge of leadership strategies for women, and apply the ideas and research
presented to their own pursuits of leadership.
WMST 290 Introduction to Women's Studies (3)
Staff. This course is an introduction to key concepts, theoretical frameworks, and
interdisciplinary research in the field of women's studies. Its primary focus is on
the diverse experiences of women in the contemporary United States.
WMST 350 African-American Womanhood (3)
Staff. Prerequisite: WMST 290 or approval of instructor. Through a variety of
written and visual texts, this course surveys the intellectual tradition developed
and elaborated by U.S. African-American women in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Course materials and lectures trace African-American women's legacy
of struggle and resistance against economic limitations and stereotypic
representations, define their contributions to African-American communities and
the larger U.S. American culture, explore the sexual politics of African-American
relationships, and delineate the dimensions of a black feminist epistemology.
WMST 351 Feminist Ideas and Praxis (3)
Staff. Prerequisite: WMST 290 or approval of instructor. An interdisciplinary
course in which students are introduced to a choice of feminist theories in their
relationship to the artistic representations, political movements, and/or social
change activism with which they are associated. Subjects of this class will vary
according to the interests of the responsible faculty members.
WMST 388 Writing Practicum (1)
Staff. Corequisite: three-credit departmental course. Prerequisite: successful
completion of the First-Year Writing Requirement. Fulfills the college intensive-
writing requirement. Students will write one or more papers exploring major
topics in feminist theory.
WMST 389 Service Learning (1)
Staff. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Students complete a service activity in
the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit corequisite
course.
WMST 390 Research in the History of the Higher Education of Women (4)
Staff. Prerequisite: WMST 290 or approval of instructor. This course introduces
the history of women's education through readings and archival research.
Students will be required to analyze documents in archives, respond to the
findings of historians, and write about their own research. Additionally, the course
explores theories concerned with the educational development of women in the
United States. Fulfills the college intensive-writing requirement.
WMST 457 Internship Studies (1-3)
Staff. Prerequisites: approval of instructor and program director prior to the
semester in which the internship is to be conducted; open to upper level majors
and minors. A 3.0 grade-point average in women's studies courses is normally
required. An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course
work. Registration is completed in the academic department sponsoring the
internship on TUTOR. Credit hours earned are dependent on the requirements of