Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar Collegeas applied to a common theme each semester.The course will combine creative projects, groupactivities, and assigned readings to examine a varietyof problem-solving methods, integrating thesethemes with various artistic disciplines. Sessionswill be led by SBC faculty and visiting artists.Prerequisite: Acceptance into fine arts programand permission of the major advisor. Studentswill complete a large-scale project addressing acommon problem from the combined perspectivesof the principal arts forms studied by thestudent throughout her program of study. Thisindependent project will be executed under theguidance of each department represented.See Department of Modern Languages andLiteratures on page 148.Gender Studies is an multidisciplinary fieldof knowledge and inquiry whose purposeis to study the significance of gender and otherprimary categories of identity (e.g., ethnicity,class, sexual orientation, religion) for the socialconstruction of reality and everyday life. TheGender Studies Program at Sweet Briar consistsof an introductory course, a discipline-basedcore, and auxiliary courses. This approachfamiliarizes students with a variety of avenuesthrough which to examine and explore genderissues and provides them with the opportunityto become practiced at studying genderthrough the particular modes of inquiry, theoreticalframeworks, and methodologies of onediscipline. Relevant topics of interest in alldisciplines tend to include: sex, gender, identityformation, and the implications of genderedsystems of power. A Gender Studies minor isan excellent supplement to any major withinwhich students want to explore the implicationsof gender more deeply. The Gender Studiescurriculum fosters an understanding of howgender affects everyday experiences and is particularlysuited for students preparing for graduatestudy and careers in social and communitywork, government and international relations,the arts and humanities, law, medicine, counseling,business, public relations, and manyother professional and human-service fields.(18 semester hours)GNDR 102 (3) -Introduction to GenderStudies History of ArtARTH 116 (3) -Survey of Art History IIARTH 303 (3) -Seminar on Women ArtistsOne ARTH course chosen from the auxiliarycourse list below.Choose 3 of the following courses, at leastone of which must be at the 300-level and nomore than one can be at the 100-level:ENGL 108 (3) -Women and LiteratureENGL 124 (3) -Forbidden LoveENGL 221 (3) -Loveliness Extreme: WomenPoets as Visionary InheritorsENGL 315 (3) -Swords and Shield-maidens:Gender Politics in MedievalHeroic EpicENGL 332 (3) -Modern and ContemporaryWomen WritersENGL 344 (3) -Women in the RenaissanceChoose 2 of the following:HIST 228HIST 234HIST 240(3) -Women in America(3) -Masculinity and Power inAmerica(3) -Gender, Sexuality, andFamily in Pre-modernEurope