2002-2003 - The University of Scranton

WOMEN’S STUDIES CONCENTRATION
DR. JEAN HARRIS, Director
The Women’s Studies Concentration consists of courses which examine women’s experiences
and the ways gender-related issues affect human lives and cultures. Faculty and students
analyze the ways gender roles and images, and assumptions about gender, are reflected in art,
business, literature, law, philosophy, public policy, religion, language, history, the sciences,
and their own lives. At the same time many Women’s Studies courses will address issues of
race, class, ethnicity, and age which intersect with gender-related issues.
Women’s Studies courses focus on women’s experiences in history, society, and culture,
and examine their reactions to such experiences; examine institutional structure/modes of
authority/analysis of power, especially considering their implications for women; and incorporate
one or more feminist analyses/scholarly works (recognizing that there are multiple, and
even conflicting, feminist perspectives).
Women’s Studies seek to promote critical thinking, intellectual growth, and a self-awareness
useful to all students. It is an attractive academic supplement to the programs of students
planning careers in government, law, business, human services, ministry, and teaching––to
name but a few.
Courses for the Women’s Studies Concentration are drawn from all the colleges at the
university and are open to students in all majors. (To enroll, students must see the Director of
Women’s Studies.) The concentration consists of six courses including one required core
course. The student may take PHIL 218 or SOC 215 as the required core course. The remaining
five courses are chosen across several departments by the student from cross-listed courses
approved by the Women’s Studies Committee. Many of the cross-listed Women’s Studies
courses also fulfill major, minor, cognate, and/or general-education requirements.
Students may seek permission from the Women’s Studies Committee to take no more than
one reader for Women’s Studies credit, subject to the usual rules governing readers. Students
may also petition to substitute no more than one course not cross-listed with Women’s Studies,
if the course has sufficient Women’s Studies content and the student is able to do a signficant
project/assignment on a Women’s Studies topic.
WOMEN’S STUDIES COURSES
ARTH 210 Women in the Visual Arts (CA,D)
COMM 229 Gender and Communication (D)
ENLT 225 Writing Women (CL,D,W)
ENLT 227 Frankenstein’s Forebears (CL,D,W)
ENLT 226 Novels by Women (CL,D)
ENLT 228 Race in Anglo-American Culture
1600-1860 (CL,D,W)
*FREN 430 French Women Writers
HIST 213 Gender and Family in Latin
America (CH,D)
HIST 238 History of American Women I (CH,D)
HIST 239 History of American Women II
(CH,D)
ITAL 207 Italian Women’s Writing in
Translation (CL,D,W)
HS 337 Counseling Girls and Women (D)
LIT 207 Literature of American Minorities
(CL,D,W)
NURS 111 Women’s Health (D)
PHIL 218 Feminism: Theory and Practice (D)
PHIL 326 Advanced Topics in Feminist
Theory (P,D)
PHIL 331 Feminist Philosophy of Science (P)
PS 216 Women’s Rights and Status (D)
PS 227 Women, Authority and Power (D)
*SPAN 430 Hispanic Women Writers
SOC 215 Feminisim and Social Change
SOC 217 Family Issues and Social Policies (D)
T/RS 315 Women in Christianity (P,D)
T/RS 319 Women’s Spiritual/
Autobiographical Writings (P,D)
WOMN 380-81 Women’s Studies Internship
WOMN 429 Special Topics
*Taught in the original language
Some of the listed courses have prerequisites;
please consult departmental description
WOMN 380-81
Women’s Studies Internship
(prerequisites PHIL 218, or SOC 215, or permission of Women’s Studies Committee)
Designed to broaden the educational experience of students by providing practical experience
for them in various non-profit and other organizations that deal primarily with
women’s issues or women clients. Students will ordinarily be expected to write a reflection
paper. Supervision by faculty members and agency supervisor.
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