WOMEN'S STUDIES 988

WOMEN, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY. (CR.3.)
01:988:101: SEC. B1:80756
N.B. DAY 5/30-7/6
MTWTH 10:15-12:00
BOWLAN
SCOTT HALL 202

01:988:101: SEC. B6:81362
N.B. EVE. 5/31-7/5
MW 6:15-9:45
DOMJAIN
RUTH J. CROCKET BLDG. 011

01:988:101: SEC. H6:80755
N.B. EVE. 7/11-8/15
TTH 6:15-9:45
KELLER
MURRAY 212

Study of women's lives as they vary within a culture and across cultures. Differences according to sex, gender, class, ethnicity, and age examined.

INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY AND METHODS. (CR.3.)
01:988:201: SEC. B6:83604
N.B. EVE. 5/31-7/5
MW 6:15-9:45
FULD
HICKMAN 113

Please Note: This course is required for the Women's Studies major.

History and development of women's studies with an introductory survey of methodological issues in the interdisciplinary study of women and gender.

THE BLACK WOMAN. (CR.3.)
01:988:206: SEC. B1:82549
N.B. DAY 5/30-7/6
MTWTH 10:15-12:00
JACKSON-BREWER
HICKMAN 214

Role of Black women in survival and evolution of the Black race as presented in fictional and non-fictional literature.

WOMEN IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1800. (CR.3.)
01:988:212: SEC. H1:83715
N.B. DAY 7/10-8/16
MTWTH 12:15-2:00
KAZMIER
MURRAY 212

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and Women in Europe and the United States since 1800, 506:212.

Survey of women's roles in western society and culture covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

SOCIOLOGY OF WOMEN. (CR.3.)
01:988:216: SEC. B6:82547
N.B. EVE. 5/30-7/6
TTH 6:15-9:45
STAFF
SCOTT HALL 119

01:988:216: SEC. H1:82548
N.B. DAY 7/10-8/16
MTWTH 10:15-12:00
STAFF
SCOTT HALL 202

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and Sociology of Women, 920:216.

Overview of contemporary issues affecting women's lives: family, health, employment, discrimination, poverty. The women's movement and the anti-movement backlash.

DYNAMICS OF CLASS, RACE, AND SEX. (CR.3.)
01:988:235: SEC. B1:80258
N.B. DAY 5/30-7/6
MTWTH 12:15-2:00
JACKSON-BREWER
HICKMAN 214

01:988:235: SEC. H6:81751
N.B. EVE. 7/10-8/16
MW 6:15-9:45
LIU
HARDENBERGH A1

Examination of dynamics of, and connections among classism, racism, and sexism in contemporary American society; ways they influence and are influenced by the structure of society at large; their effect on the individuals; strategies for personal and social change.

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF WOMEN WRITERS. (CR.3.)
01:988:265: SEC. H6:83605
N.B. EVE. 7/10-8/16
MW 6:15-9:45
WETTERSTEN
SCOTT HALL 116

PREREQUISITE: Expository Writing, 355:101, or equivalent.

A range of literature in English by women writers, analyzed in relation to the impact of authorial gender.

SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY. (CR.3.)
01:988:272: SEC. B1:82543
N.B. DAY 5/30-7/6
MTWTH 10:15-12:00
STAFF
BECK HALL 221

01:988:272: SEC. H6:82544
N.B. EVE. 7/10-8/16
MW 6:15-9:45
STAFF
SCOTT HALL 221

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and Sociology of the Family, 920:272.

The family as a social institution: family formation and dissolution, life in families, varieties of family experiences, the future of the family.

LESBIANS/GAY MEN AND SOCIETY. (CR.3.)
01:988:285: SEC. H6:81478
N.B. EVE. 7/11-8/15 
TTH 6:15-9:45
QUIRK
HICKMAN 131

Introduction to various disciplines' contributions to understanding the relationship of homosexuality, particularly lesbianism, to society. Includes a section on the political organization and recent theory coming out of the gay movement.

THEORIES OF FEMINISM. (CR.3.)
01:988:301: SEC. H6:82546
N.B. EVE. 7/10-8/16
MW 6:15-9:45
WORLEY
HICKMAN 205

PREREQUISITE: Women, Culture, and Society, 988:101 or Dynamics of Class, Race, and Sex, 988:235.

Theoretical approach to the social implications of gender. Conservative, liberal, radical-feminist, Marxist, and socialist-feminist theories, with their application to family, work, sexuality, and ideology.

THE GENDERED BODY: DOMESTIC SPACE AND THE CINEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF GENDER. (CR.3.)
01:988:318: SEC.B6:83606
N.B. EVE. 5/30-7/6
TTH 6:15-9:45
GELLER
MURRAY 301

This course will look at a range of films in order to understand better how domestic space is used in cinema to construct and contest norms of femininity. We will examine films across cultures and from different historical eras in order to understand better how an interrogation of gender cannot be separated from questions of class, race, sexuality as well as cultural and historical context. We will address why domesticity has played such an important role in various genres of cinema; and, indeed, how the narrative of the family has significantly shaped the history of film, especially in the U.S. This class will directly engage with issues fundamental to the understanding of gender-marriage, family, and other social arrangements that are evoked in the cinema of domestic space. Some of the films we will be screening include Rebecca, Imitation of Life, Safe, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Jeanne Dielman, Craig's Wife, Sister My Sister, Black Girl, and Dreaming Rivers.

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER. (CR.3.)
01:988:324: SEC. B1:82134
N.B. DAY 5/30-7/6
MTWTH 10:15-12:00
STAFF
FRELINGHUYSEN B1

01:988:324: SEC. B6:83716
FREEHOLD 5/30-7/6
TTH 6:15-9:45
STAFF
FREEHOLD COLONIAL CAMPUS
ROOM 208
ROUTE 9
FREEHOLD, NJ

PREREQUISITE: One of the following courses: Introduction to Social Research, 920:311; Computer Analysis of Social Science Data, 920:312; Development of Sociological Theory, 920:313; Contemporary Sociological Theory, 920:314.

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and Sociology of Gender, 920:324.

Study of sources, maintenance, consequences, and change of men's and women's roles in society. Cultural, social, political, economic, and psychological perspectives.

THEORIES OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY. (CR.3.)
01:988:346: SEC. B1:83590
N.B. DAY 5/30-7/6
MTWTH 10:15-12:00
LEE
MURRAY 305

PREREQUISITE: Expository Writing, 355:101, or equivalent.

History and critique of gender and sexuality as discursive categories. May include nonliterary as well as literary texts and involve various theoretical perspectives.

FICTION BY WOMEN. (CR.3.)
01:988:353: SEC. B6:83591
N.B. EVE. 5/30-7/6
TTH 6:15-9:45
AGATHOCLEOUS
SCOTT HALL 204

PREREQUISITE: Expository Writing, 355:101, or equivalent.

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and Fiction by Women, 351:356.

Selected works of fiction in English by women writers, with emphasis on the study of forms, conventions, and cultural contexts.

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER. (CR.3.)
01:988:362: SEC. H6:82133
N.B. EVE. 7/11-8/15
TTH 6:15-9:45
RHINES
LUCY STONE HALL B115

PREREQUISITE: General Psychology, 830:101, or equivalent.

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and Psychology of Women, 830:381 or Psychology of Sex and Gender, 830:362, or Psychology of Women, 988:381.

Biological, psychological, and cultural determinants in sex differences in behavior with emphasis on humans. Sexual behavior, aggression, personality, intelligence, and social roles.

RACE, CLASS GENDER, AND SCHOOLING. (CR.3.)
01:988:363: SEC H1:83592
N.B. DAY 7/10-8/16
MTWTH 10:15-12:00
MCBRIDE
HICKMAN 214

PREREQUISITE: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, 070:101 or permission of instructor.

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and the same course offered by Africana Studies (014:363) or Anthropology (070:363).

Examines racial and gender differences in adolescent's school performance. Structural, historical, and cultural foci. Ethnographic and autobiographical cases of black students and other students of color.

BLACK WOMEN WRITERS. (CR.3.)
01:988:371: SEC. B6:83594
N.B. EVE. 5/31-7/5
MW 6:15-9:45
LEMOTHE
HARDENBERGH B5

PREREQUISITE: Expository Writing, 355:101, or equivalent.

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and Black Women Writers, 350:371.

Fiction and poetry by African-American women such as Brooks, Hurston, Marshall, Morrison, and Alice Walker; discussion of issues of literary influence and comparable traditions.

CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORY. (CR.3.)
01:988:423: SEC. B6:83593
N.B. EVE. 5/30-7/6
MW 6:15-9:45
STAFF
HICKMAN 131

Please Note: Credit not given for both this course and Contemporary Feminist theory, 790:423.

Survey of both classic and contemporary texts in feminist theory emphasizing their relevance for modern political thought and social praxis.

SEXUALITY AND SOCIETY. (CR.3.)
01:988:440: SEC. B1:82135
N.B. DAY 5/30-7/6
MTWTH 12:15-2:00
STAFF
MURRAY 113

PREREQUISITES: Two of the following courses: Introduction to Social Research, 920:311; Computer Analysis of Social Science Data, 920:312; Development of Sociological Theory, 920:313; Contemporary Sociological Theory, 920:314.

Please Note: Credit not given for this course and Sexuality and Society, 920:440.

Description of sexual conduct and variation; patterns of sexual behavior and attitudes analyzed in terms of social, historical, and cross-cultural antecedents and consequences.

INDEPENDENT STUDY. (CR. BY ARR.)
01:988:493: SEC. B1:81300
01:988:494: SEC. B1:82886
N.B. DAY 5/30-7/6
TIME TO BE ARRANGED
BALLIET

Permission of associate director required.

An independent study project under the guidance of a faculty supervisor.