Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

WNST 351
Genders and Sexualities
3 Semester Hours
This course explores the relationship between sexuality
and gender as well as a diversity of sexual identities. It
focuses on issues of the body, sex, nature, and power
within the context of history, culture, and public policy.
WNST 361
Women in Christian History
(See THST 324)
WNST 362
Women in European History
(See HIST 335)
WNST 363
American Reform Movements
(See HIST 351)
WNST 364
Women in Early American History
(See HIST 354)
WNST 365
Women in Modern American History
(See HIST 355)
WNST 366
The American Family
(See HIST 356)
WNST 370
Feminist Theory
(See PHIL 333)
WNST 371
Images of Women in Philosophy
(See PHIL 334)
WNST 398
Special Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
WNST 399
Independent Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
WNST 411
Women in Film
(See FILM 473)
WNST 430
French/Francophone Women Writers
(See FREN 432)
WNST 431
Latin American Women Writers
(See SPAN 443)
WNST 434
Women in Asian Literature
(See ASPA 489)
WNST 435
Asian Women Writers
(See ASPA 490)
WOMEN’S STUDIES
/ 241
WNST 440
Asian Pacific American Women’s Experience
(See APAM 435)
WNST 445
Sex, Race, and Violence
(See AFAM 435)
WNST 451
Women and Politics
(See POLS 438)
WNST 452
Gender in Comparative Perspective
3 Semester Hours
Within a cross-cultural and cross-societal framework,
gender roles are examined in relation to a central
question: Why does patriarchy exist? Case studies from
the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania are
examined in light of theories addressing the course’s
central question. Work, kinship, values, religion, and
politics are among the topics examined.
WNST 453
Chicana and Third World Feminisms
(See CHST 404)
WNST 454
Gender and Globalization
3 Semester Hours
Examines how gender is shaped by globalization through
the feminization of labor and migration, environmental
degradation, diaspora, sexuality, cultural displacement,
and militarization. Explores the ways women have
confronted these conditions as well as the possibilities
and challenges of cross-border feminist coalitions.
WNST 461
Women in Classical Antiquity
(See CLAS 452)