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Summer 2024 Courses
 
[WST Offerings]
 
WST 102: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies - CER, DIV, SBS
Session I  - ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
Session II - ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
This course is an introductory and interdisciplinary survey that will familiarize students with gender and sexuality theories, histories of women’s and feminist movements, and current debates within Women’s and Gender Studies. We draw on sources from across the social sciences to understand how gender and sex is explained with respect to specific physical bodies; formulates identities within gendered institutions; and influences our everyday personal and political interactions. Critically thinking of these issues can only occur when we include the intersection of racial, class, age, ableist and national identities within our analysis. The overarching theme of power, hierarchy, and privilege in structured(ing) institutions will always guide our study.
 
WST 103: Women, Culture, Difference - CER, HUM, DIV
Session I  - ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
Session II - ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA 
Session II - ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA 
An introductory humanities survey focusing on women's traditional association with the home and men's association with public life and how writers, artists, philosophers, and religious thinkers have reflected upon those relationships over the past 150 years. Through lectures and critical analyses of novels, poetry, art, philosophy, and religious texts, the course explores how changing intellectual, artistic, and religious precepts have affected gender identity and different genres in the humanities.
 
WST 291: Introduction to Feminist Theory - DIV, ESI, HFA+
Session II - ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA 
An introductory survey of historical and contemporary interdisciplinary theories used in Women's and Gender Studies. Theoretical debates on sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, knowledge, discourse, representation are among the topics to be considered. The course will provide a strong theoretical foundation for further studies in Women's and Gender Studies.  
 
WST 301 - Histories of Feminism - SBS+, DIV
Session I  - ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
An historical study of the theoretical and practical developments that form contemporary feminism. Beginning with the 18th century critiques of women's rights, the course traces the expansion of feminist concerns to include a global perspective, as well as attention to race and class. Representative texts include Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, poems by Phyllis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas, and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.
 
 
Fall 2024 Courses
 
[WST Offerings]
 
WST 102: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies - CER, DIV, SBS
IN PERSON - Mon/Wed 11:00-12:20pm -TBA
ONLINE Asynchronous - Jenean McGee; TA's: TBA
ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
This course is an introductory and interdisciplinary survey that will familiarize students with gender and sexuality theories, histories of women’s and feminist movements, and current debates within Women’s and Gender Studies. We draw on sources from across the social sciences to understand how gender and sex is explained with respect to specific physical bodies; formulates identities within gendered institutions; and influences our everyday personal and political interactions. Critically thinking of these issues can only occur when we include the intersection of racial, class, age, ableist and national identities within our analysis. The overarching theme of power, hierarchy, and privilege in structured(ing) institutions will always guide our study.
 
WST 103: Women, Culture, Difference - CER, HUM, DIV
IN PERSON - Tu/Th 12:30-1:50pm - TBA
ONLINE Asynchronous -Liz Montegary; TA's: TBA
ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
An introductory humanities survey focusing on women's traditional association with the home and men's association with public life and how writers, artists, philosophers, and religious thinkers have reflected upon those relationships over the past 150 years. Through lectures and critical analyses of novels, poetry, art, philosophy, and religious texts, the course explores how changing intellectual, artistic, and religious precepts have affected gender identity and different genres in the humanities.
 
WST 111: Introduction to Queer Studies  - DIV, CER, HUM
IN PERSON - Tu/Th 11:00-12:20pm - TBA
ONLINE Asynchronous -  TBA
This course will provide students with a broad overview of queer studies and major theorists and thinkers within the field. Beginning with Foucault before turning to more contemporary theorists, this course will be an interdisciplinary approach to American queer studies. Through the examination of visual culture, literature, and theory, students will learn to read critically through the lenses of queer theory, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, and feminist theory.
  
WST 210 : Contemporary Issues in Women's and Gender Studies: "Topic TBA" - CER, DIV, SBS
IN PERSON - Mon/Wed 2:00-3:20pm - TBA
Description TBA
 
WST 291: Introduction to Feminist Theory - DIV, ESI, HFA+
IN PERSON -  Mon/Wed 11:00-12:20pm - TBA
ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
An introductory survey of historical and contemporary interdisciplinary theories used in Women's and Gender Studies. Theoretical debates on sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, knowledge, discourse, representation are among the topics to be considered. The course will provide a strong theoretical foundation for further studies in Women's and Gender Studies.  
 
WST 301 - Histories of Feminism - SBS+, DIV
IN PERSON - Tu/Th 3:30-4:50pm  - Victoria Hesford
ONLINE Asynchronous - TBA
An historical study of the theoretical and practical developments that form contemporary feminism. Beginning with the 18th century critiques of women's rights, the course traces the expansion of feminist concerns to include a global perspective, as well as attention to race and class. Representative texts include Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, poems by Phyllis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas, and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.
   
WST 305: Feminist Theories in Context  - HFA+
IN PERSON - Tu/Th 12:30-1:50pm  - Victoria Hesford
This course offers students an introduction to major traditions in critical and cultural theory while focusing specifically on how feminist scholars have pushed these theories in new directions. The aim of this class is not to provide a comprehensive survey of modern theoretical traditions; instead, we will examine several key theoretical terms that have become central to feminist thought during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In addition to unpacking the ways in which liberalism and neoliberalism have shaped contemporary debates about sex, gender, and sexuality, we will also look at how feminist perspectives have challenged and complicated theories of nationalism and citizenship, labor and consumption, and representation and circulation. In doing so, we will gain insight into how feminist theories inform and are informed by other interdisciplinary fields, such as queer studies, disability studies, transgender studies, postcolonial studies, and critical race and ethnic studies. 
 
WST 390: Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies in the Humanities: "Graphic Cultures" - DIV, GLO, SBS+
IN PERSON - Tu/Th 2:00-3:30pm - Lisa Diedrich
Description TBA
 
WST 395: Topics in Global Feminism: "Topic TBA"  - DIV, GLO, SBS+
IN PERSON - Tu/Th 9:30-10:50am - TBA
Description TBA
 
WST 398: Topics, in Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: "Topic TBA"  - DIV, SBS+
IN PERSON - Mon/Wed 3:30-4:50pm - TBA
Description TBA
 
WST 399: Topics in Gender and Sexuality: "Topic TBA" - HFA+, DIV -
IN PERSON Tu/Th  11:00-12:20pm - Ritch Calvin
Description TBA
 
WST 407/WST 408: Senior Research Seminar for Women's & Gender Studies Majors & Minors - EXP+, SPK, WRTD
IN PERSON - Mondays 2:00-4:50pm - Jenean McGee 
The senior research seminar is the capstone course for the interdisciplinary major & minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Utilizing research skills, concepts, methods, and materials generated from their coursework in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, students conduct interdisciplinary research to produce a research paper and formal presentation on their topic of choice formulated and developed in seminar activities.
 
 
 
[Fall 2024 WST-Related Electives]
(course still being added)
(If you see a course not listed here that you think might qualify as a WST elective, email Professor Hiemstra: nancy.hiemstra@stonybrook.edu)
 
AFH /WST 382 -Black Women's Literature of the African Diaspora
T/Th 9:30-10:50pm - Tracey Walters
Black women's literature presents students with the opportunity to examine through literature the political, social, and historical experiences of Black women from the African Diaspora.  The course is structured around five major themes commonly addressed in Black women's writing:  Black female oppression, sexual politics of Black womanhood, Black female sexuality, Black male/female relationships, and Black women and defining self.
 
AFS 308 - Women, Islam, and Political Change in Africa
Mon/Wed 6:30-7:50pm - Adryan Wallace
Explores the impact of Islam on political institutions and representation in Africa. Using the example of how Muslim women in West, North, Southern, and East Africa are mobilizing to address gender inequality, explores variations in the formation of Islamist movements and examine the influence of moderate, progressive, and more radical forms of political Islam on the experiences of women.  In order to provide students with a comprehensive picture, Islam and politics is contextualized by focusing on the experiences of selected countries from East and West Africa including Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.