Summer Courses 2008

1 st 5-Week Session (June 9-July 11)

WMNS 101 - Intro to Women's and Gender Studies (3 cr)

Introduction to basic concepts of the study of women and gender in America by examining historical connections and major historical figures, contemporary topics and debates, selected international writings, and future issues.

WMNS 385 - Women, Gender, and Science (3 cr)

How science and its components - theory, questions, hypotheses, data collection, data analysis and interpretation - are intimately bound to and influenced by social constructs, especially those related to gender.

WMNS 498/898 - Women, Gender, and Medicine in the U.S. (3 cr)

History of women, gender and medicine in the United States , focusing primarily on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course will examine women, sexuality, and gender as medical categories and as subjects of medical study, as well as the medical and social labels of health and normality. The course will also explore medical relationships such as the ways patients and doctors negotiated illness.

WGS Summer Course Booklets Can Be Linked to Below: