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104 Courses of Study Gender and Women’s Studies Scripps College Catalog
GWS 187. Advanced Topics in Feminist Studies. This course explores a current topic in feminist
studies. Topics may include: gender and autobiography; feminism and the cultural politics of
privacy; human rights and women’s human rights; race and reproductive freedom; feminist film
theory and mass media; science, gender, and technology; transnational feminism; studies in
sexualities; testimonial narratives and trauma studies. P. Chaterjee.
GWS 187J. Women and the Writing of Science. This seminar course will consider the role
of women in early modern and Enlightenment science as the objects of scientific inquiry and
women as scientists or natural philosophers. Reading topics will include: anatomy, astronomy,
mathematics, and physical sciences, along with contemporary theory on gender, science, and
cultures of pre-1800 Europe. J. Wernimont.
GWS 188. Advanced Topics in Queer Studies. This course explores a current topic in queer
studies and the history and cultural politics of sexualities. Topics of study include: queer histories/
historicizing queerness, queer of color critique, law and sexualities, queer popular culture, cinema,
and media, queer nationalisms and transnationalisms. GWS 26 or 36 required. C. Guzaitis.
GWS 189. Doing Feminist Research. This course explores a range of feminist methodologies and
offers students practical guidance in doing feminist research. Guest speakers will demonstrate and
reflect on feminist research within their disciplines and in relation to the inter-discipline of Gender
and Women’s Studies. Quantitative, qualitative, and hybrid methods will be explored in academic
and activist projects. C. Guzaitis, Staff.
GWS 190. Senior Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies. (PO) An overview and intergration
of work in Gender and Women’s Studies through readings, student-led discussion and analysis of
interdisciplinary issues. Guidance on research and writing the thesis. E. Runions.
GWS 191. Senior Thesis. Thesis is an original investigation on a topic in Gender and Women’s
Studies within the discipline of concentration, completed under the guidance of the reader in the
department of concentration and a reader in the Scripps Department of Gender and Women’s
Studies. Offered annually. Staff.
GWS 193. Field Work Experience. Some fieldwork or internship experience involving women’s
issues is required. In consultation with the adviser, students will select the most appropriate means
by which to fulfill this requirement. It might be fulfilled during the school year or summer as an
internship, independent study, volunteer work, fieldwork as part of a senior thesis, or as part of
another course. Pass/Fail. Noncredit course. Offered annually. Staff.
GWS List of Courses
The following courses are a sample of the range offered in Gender and Women’s Studies at Scripps
and the other Claremont Colleges.
Anthropology
50. Sex, Body, Reproduction. (PI) E. Chao.
87. Contemporary Issues in Gender and Islam. (SC) L. Deeb.
88. China: Gender, Cosmology and State. (PI) E. Chao.
107. Medical Anthropology and Global Health. (SC) Staff.
108. Kinship, Family, Sexuality. (SC) L. Deeb.
151. Gender in Prehistory. (PO) J. Perry.
Art
181G. From Beauty to the Abject: Whiteness, Race and Modernism. (SC)
K. Gonzales-Day.
183. Feminist Concepts and Practices in Studio Art and Media Studies. (SC) N. Macko.
Art History
186P. Women, Art and Ideology. (PO) F. Pohl.
186W. Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation. (PO) P. Jackson.
189. Modernism 1840 – 1940. (SC) J. Koss.