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2021-2022 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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Theatre and Dance |
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THTD 45100 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER ONE The first semester of the Senior Independent Study project, in which each student produces a thesis and/or a project. The project can be in stage management, directing, acting, play writing, design, dance, or a devised production and must include a companion research paper that articulates and explores a critical question posed by the project. Prerequisite(s): THTD-40100 Annually.
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THTD 45200 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER TWO The second semester of the Senior Independent Study project, which culminates in the thesis and/or project. Prerequisite(s): THTD-45100 Annually.
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Urban Studies |
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URBN 10100 - Contemporary Urban Issues Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
CONTEMPORARY URBAN ISSUES An interdisciplinary approach to issues and institutions present in American cities. Contemporary urban problems related to growth, housing, poverty, race, social relations, etc., and public policies designed to alleviate them are analyzed from a social science perspective. Alternative ideological perspectives are presented. Annually. [HSS]
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URBN 20100 - Special Topics in Urban Studies Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
SPECIAL TOPICS IN URBAN STUDIES A seminar exploring the current theories and research regarding selected issues facing urban areas. Topics will be announced in advance by the faculty member teaching the course. Prerequisite(s): Take URBN-10100 or any course in ECON, PSCI, or SOCI Annually. [HSS]
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URBN 20103 - Urban Revitalization & Sustainability Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
URBAN REVITALIZATION & SUSTAINABILITY A seminar exploring the current theories and research regarding urban revitalization and sustainability. Prerequisite(s): Take URBN-10100 or any course in Economics, Political Science or Sociology [HSS]
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URBN 20104 - World Cities Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
World Cities This course introduces students from a variety of disciplines to some of the major cities and urban areas in the developing and developed world, how and why they developed, what makes them unique, what are the physical and non-physical characteristics of them, what it might be like to live there, and what issues they may face in achieving a sustainable future. This course provides a global perspective for students to think about cities, explore the ways that connect/disconnect them, and interpret both differences and similarities between cities around the world.
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URBN 20105 - Cities in Cinema Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
Cities in Cinema “Cities in cinema” examines the complex and longstanding interrelationship and exchange between cinema and city. Urban theory constitutes the theoretical basis necessary for a dynamic interpretation of movies in this course. “Cities in Cinema” interprets a series of films that represent some of the central hopes, aspirations, and anxieties that characterize urban life throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. Prerequisite(s): URBN-10100, SOCI-20700, or SOCI-299xx; or Permission of instructor
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URBN 30100 - Urban Studio Course Credit: 1.0
URBN 30100. URBAN STUDIO
This course uses the city of Wooster as a real-world laboratory to provide an applied context for looking at issues related to the design and planning of the city. Based on the teachings of “Contemporary Urban Issues,” “Social Justice and the City,” and “Urban Theory,” using GIS as a complex of spatial tools, students learn how to investigate urban form, read urban spaces and their design elements, analyze the city as a complex system of physical and non-physical factors, review its comprehensive plan, and conduct basic planning and policymaking.
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URBN 40000 - Tutorial Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 1
TUTORIAL May be repeated.
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URBN 40100 - Junior Independent Study Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
JUNIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY This course will introduce Urban Studies majors to the process of conducting social scientific research in an urban context. Students will be exposed to the practical techniques for accomplishing an urban research project. This includes providing the appropriate theoretical framework and specification of methodology that will be used to test hypotheses on urban phenomena. Annually.
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URBN 43000 - Experience in the Discipline Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 0
Experience in the Discipline A structured learning activity in which students use their academic knowledge to engage in an experience that has real-world implications. Incorporates best practices in experiential learning. Typically includes an off-campus component. May be repeated. S/NC
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URBN 45100 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER ONE The first semester of the Senior Independent Study project, in which each student undertakes a significant, independent, interdisciplinary analysis of an urban-related topic, and which culminates in a thesis and an oral examination in the second semester. Prerequisite(s): URBN-40100
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URBN 45200 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER TWO The second semester of the Senior Independent Study project, which culminates in the thesis and an oral examination. Prerequisite(s): URBN-45100 Annually.
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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
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WGSS 12000 - Intro to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality, Studies Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES This course is an overview of WGSS as a discipline and an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, introducing the many issues, theories, and feminist approaches that constitute it. We will examine how gender intersects with nation, religion, race, class and sexuality in order to produce systematic structures of power. Course materials include theoretical, analytical and creative texts. Students will gain the critical tools to analyze a range of historical, political, social and cultural issues from a WGSS perspective, across local and global contexts. Annually. [AH, D, HSS]
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WGSS 19901 - Race, Gender and Tourism Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
Race, Gender, and Tourism This course examines the politics of tourism in a globalizing world. Using interdisciplinary perspective, we will explore the relationship between colonialism and tourism and the development of international tourism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Focusing in on the gendered and racialized dimensions of the practice, we will discuss the impacts of guests on host cultures and the relations of power that are reproduced and resisted in tourist encounters. Throughout the course we will delve into such topics as the tourist gaze, the politics of representation, authenticity, sexuality, desire, commodification, and embodiment.
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WGSS 20200 - History of Feminist Thought Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
HISTORY OF FEMINIST THOUGHT This course is a broad introduction to the histories of feminist thought, including major influences in Indigenous and women of color (WoC) feminist thought, as well as Euro-American feminist thought with its roots in early modern Europe, the women’s suffrage movement (often characterized as the First Wave) through the Second and Third Waves of the women’s movement and beyond. This course rejects a singular Eurocentric, Global North “history of feminism” in favor of addressing the intersections and controversies that have emerged among Euro-American feminists, WoC and postcolonial feminist critiques, and within queer studies and queer theory. Prerequisite(s): WGSS 12000; or permission of instructor. [AH, D, HSS]
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WGSS 20400 - Transnational Feminisms Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
(COMS, LAST, RELS)
TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS This course explores how feminism is understood throughout the world and examines struggles for women’s equality in both a historical and transnational perspective. It examines the relationship between feminisms in the Global North and the Global South, especially as efforts to empower women are impacted by nationalism, race, class and caste, religion, sexuality, and immigration. It also interrogates the complex process of globalization to understand why it is experienced differently based on gender as well as geographical location. Theoretical developments in transnational feminist and postcolonial theory and case studies of transnational feminist activism allow students to critically explore political movements to address intersecting inequities throughout the world. Prerequisite(s): WGSS 12000 [C, GE, HSS]
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WGSS 20600 - Queer Lives Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
(COMS)
QUEER LIVES This course addresses a broad range of “queer” issues and the lived experiences of sexual minorities throughout the world. It explores major events in the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and queer political movements in the United States and transnationally to understand the social construction of identities and movements and how they have changed in different times and places–often as a result of race-, class-, and gender-based inequities. The course also considers the categories used to describe same-sex desire. How do the Western terms used above help (or hinder) our understandings of the experiences of Indian hijras, Thai “Toms” & “Dees,” Native American two-spirit people, drag queens and kings, and others who do not fit “neatly” within single categories of gender, sex, and sexuality? Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000 [C, D, GE, HSS, SJ]
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WGSS 29900 - Special Topics in WGSS Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
SPECIAL TOPICS IN WGSS
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WGSS 29901 - Race, Gender and Popular Music Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
RACE, GENDER AND POPULAR MUSIC This course provides the history of popular music since the 1970s, focusing primarily on the concepts of race, gender and to a lesser degree sexuality, to understand the emergence of sound cultures from the US, Caribbean, and Western Europe. We will begin the course by studying Funk, Soul, and R&B of the 1970s; the mixing techniques and sound system culture developed in Reggae (dub), and Disco. We will also discuss various aspects Hip-Hop culture, especially the DJ techniques of scratching and sampling to explore how Hip-Hop has shaped popular music since the 1970s. We will ask, for example: how has popular music functioned as one of the main channels of communication among the cultures of the Black/African diaspora? Overall, this course investigates the aesthetic, political, cultural, and economic dimensions of popular music, paying particular attention to questions of gender, sexuality, class, nation, language, and technology. Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000
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WGSS 29902 - Seeing Through Gender & Sexuality Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
SEEING THROUGH GENDER & SEXUALITY This course investigates artists, art objects, and visual culture more broadly that perpetuate, contest, and undermine the roles gender and sexuality play in images. How do images produce feminist, queer, or transgender formations, and how might such gazes incite another way of seeing; in other words, how do images help us see differently? How is this visual logic in conversation with and modified by postcolonial, decolonial, and critical race theories? Through formal analysis and in-depth discussion of readings by key thinkers in this interdisciplinary field, this course explores, historical, political, and social developments around sexuality, gender, desire, social change, self-expression, the body, and hetero/homo/cisnormativity. This course does not adhere to a particular chronology but instead approaches the material thematically. Overall, this course draws on contemporary examples (1980s onwards) and some historical sources to shed light on transnational approaches to queer, feminist, and transgender perspectives and aesthetics. Select artists: ACT-UP, David Wojnarowicz, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lola Flash, Felix-Gonzalez Torres, Nan Goldin, Yayoi Kusama, Laura Aguilar, Lyle Ashton Harris, Catherine Opie, De LaGrace Volcano, Cindy Sherman, Ana Mendieta, Kent Monkman, Richard Fung, JJ Levine, Kara Walker, Lorna Simpson, Tina Takemoto, Nao Bustamante, Renee Cox, Nina Arsenault, Xandra Ibarra, Sunil Gupta, Tejal Shah, Isaac Julien, Rotimi Fani Kayode, Zanele Muholi, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Chitra Ganesh, AB Soto, ETC Content warning: Given the subject matter of the course, at times we will be looking at sexually explicit material and graphic visuals. We will be discussing topics like racism, colonialism, gender and sexual violence, BDSM, AIDS/HIV, suicide, mental illness, grief, etc.
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WGSS 33000 - Doing Feminist Research: Theory & Practi Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
DOING FEMINIST RESEARCH: THEORY & PRACTICE This course addresses the question of what makes a research methodology feminist. Through advanced interdisciplinary readings and short writing assignments, students are introduced to feminist research methods as well as distinctive feminist critical approaches to issues in the social sciences, natural sciences, and the humanities. This course is the equivalent of WGSS 401 and is required of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors and minors, but it is designed for other students planning to incorporate feminist perspectives into their senior research. Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000 and 1 200-level WGSS course; or permission of instructor. Annually.
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WGSS 35000 - Sr. Seminar:Feminist Pedagogy in Action Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
SENIOR SEMINAR: FEMINIST PEDAGOGY IN ACTION This course is a rethinking of students’ previous work in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies through an in-depth immersion in advanced theoretical readings, literature, and personal writings pertaining to women, gender, and sexuality. The course is taught through feminist pedagogy and collaborative learning. The seminar is required of majors and minors but open to other interested students. S/NC Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000, WGSS-33000, and 1 200-level WGSS course; or permission of instructor Annually. [D, SJ]
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WGSS 39900 - Special Topics in WGSS Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 1
SPECIAL TOPICS IN WGSS. Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000; or permission of instructor
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WGSS 39901 - Musc Cult & the Int Gndr Race & Sxuality Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
MUSIC, CULTURE & THE INTERNATIONAL RACE AND SEXUALITY This course is an advanced seminar exploring current theory and research on selected interdisciplinary issues in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Topics will be announced in advance by the chair of the WGSS Program and the faculty member teaching the course. Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000
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WGSS 40000 - Tutorial Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
TUTORIAL IN WGSS This course is independent research on a topic in consultation with a supervising faculty member. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000, and at least one other WGSS course or cross-listed course in WGSS
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WGSS 40500 - WGSS Practicum Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
WGSS PRACTICUM This course involves mentored participation in a student-defined project in feminist praxis. The student will engage in practical efforts toward understanding and/or working for gender justice, and the course will culminate in written analysis of the practicum experience in relation to coursework in WGSS. Practicum could include: organizing events on campus around feminist issues, publishing a feminist newsletter, or staging a theatre production, in conjunction with academic work on the topic. Students interested in a practicum experience are also urged to explore the Antioch Women’s Students Semester in Europe (Fall), the GLCA Philadelphia Center Urban Program, and make prior arrangements with a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty member to count their off-campus work as a practicum upon submission of a reflective paper or journal entries. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000 and at least 1 other WGSS course; Permission of the Chairperson is required before registration. Annually.
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WGSS 41000 - WGSS Internship Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 0
This course can only be added to your schedule by visiting the Registrar’s Office. If you do not visit the Registrar’s office, you cannot add this course to your schedule. A structured, usually off-campus experience, in which a student extends classroom knowledge to a work position within a community, business, or government organization. Student interns work and learn under the joint guidance of a host organization supervisor and a College of Wooster mentor. The student must arrange the internship in advance and develop an Internship Learning Plan (forms available on the Registrar’s website) in consultation with a WGSS-affiliated faculty member. May be repeated. S/NC Prerequisite(s): WGSS-12000 and at least 1 other WGSS course; Permission of the mentor, department chair, faculty advisor, and the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning is required. Annually.
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WGSS 43000 - Experience in the Discipline Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 0
EXPERIENCE IN THE DISCIPLINE A structured learning activity in which students use their academic knowledge to engage in an experience that has real-world implications. Incorporates best practices in experiential learning. Typically includes an off-campus component. May be repeated. S/NC
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WGSS 45100 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
INDEPENDENT STUDY THESIS The first semester of the Senior Independent Study project, in which students use the methods and perspectives of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship to pursue questions of their own design, developed within the context of their prior course work and their interests within the major, and which culminates in a thesis and an oral examination in the second semester. Prerequisite(s): WGSS-33000 Annually.
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WGSS 45200 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
INDPENDENT STUDY THESIS The second semester of the Senior Independent Study project, which culminates in the thesis and an oral examination. Prerequisite(s): WGSS-45100
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