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GWS400, Internship/Practicum in Gender
Studies: Designed to give students the
opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge
to everyday experience through a volunteer
position, internship or employment in a setting
where they can explore gender issues. The
student will work in conjunction with a faculty
member; the Gender Studies Director must
pprove the project. Prerequisite: GS100, GS300
or 301, junior or senior standing and completion
of six hours of electives. (U)(3) Annually.
GWS401, 02, 03, Independent Study:
Offers the qualified student of gender studies
the opportunity to pursue a topic of individual
interest. Open only to seniors, by permission
of the instructor. (U)(1, 2, 3) Annually.
Electives
A separate list of GWSS-approved electives
will be published each semester, but examples
of courses students have taken for GWSS credit
in the past include the following:
GWS300/PL348 Philosophy of Feminism
GWS303 Special Topics: Love for Sale:
Intimate Labor and the Commodification
of Love
GWS303 Special Topics: Ransom Notes
and Radical Chic
GWS303 Special Topics: sexandthecity.org
GWS303 Special Topics: Written Out of
Wedlock: Living in Sin, Dancing on the
Altar
GWS303 Special Topics: Health Disparities
AN320 Gender and Sexuality in
Globalization
AN322 Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Japan
AN380 Special Topics: Gender and
Colonial: Past and Present
ART315 Postmodernism in the Arts
ART382 Special Topics: Gender in Art
EN343 The American Renaissance and
Its Others
EN393 Special Topics: Fin-de-Siecle
Literature
EN393 Special Topics: Gender, Language
and Globalization
EN493 Special Topics: Sex, Suffrage and
Empire: Modernism and the New Woman
HST314 Hidden History of Sex, Gender
and Sexuality in Latin America
HST338 The Era of Jim and Jane Crow
HST341 US Women’s History
HST342 US Workingwomen and the City
Butler University
JR418 Gender and Media: Global Views
MRC354 Gender and Communication
MRC420 Queering Film
MRC465 Communication and Cultural
Criticism
MRC468 Women and Rock
MRC470 Sports, Media and Culture
MRC482 Voices of Dissent and Social
Change
PO372 Role of Protest in US Politics
PO380 Special Topics: Gender and
Generation in War and Peace
PO380 Special Topics: Politics of Gender
and Sexuality in Africa
PO386 Black Political Thought
PS305 Psychology of Gender
PS333 Human Sexuality
RL377 Religion, Gender and the Goddess
in Asia
SO317 Gender and Society
SO380 Gender, Race and Crime
History and Anthropology
Department — Including
Geography
Administration
Scott Swanson, Ph.D., department chair
Professors
Bruce Bigelow, Ph.D.; George Geib, Ph.D.;
Paul Hanson, Ph.D.
Associate Professors
John Cornell, Ph.D.; Vivian Deno, Ph.D.; Elise
Edwards, Ph.D.; Xiaorong Han, Ph.D.; Scott
Swanson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors
Sholeh Shahrokhi, Ph.D.; Ageeth Sluis, Ph.D.
The disciplines of History, Anthropology and
Geography share the same home because they
address the same fundamental questions about
life from different perspectives, the interplay
amongst which enlarges our students’ minds
and lives. Butler is singular amongst American
universities in knitting these three disciplines
into a working organism. Prospective majors in
both History and Anthropology take together
a freshman course, introducing them to each
other and to the disciplines in their departments,
thus offering all the advantages of
self-standing disciplines and inter-disciplinary
work and becoming themselves a community.
Members of the department offer expertise in
wide-ranging areas of the world: United States,
Latin America, East Asian, the Middle East and