This seminar instructs students in the appropriate methodology for the research and writing of a graduate thesis. During the semester students will refresh and hone their understanding of the methods introduced in their core courses and receive guidance as they choose their thesis topic and develop research questions. The course will culminate in the elaboration of an outline and abstract in preparation for their research and/or fieldwork.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | G-113 |
Why do women have less power, make less money, and have fewer opportunities than men do? Why have women's bodies been controlled, stigmatized, and pathologized? This is the first half of a year-long investigation of the origins and impacts of gender inequality. We start with our pre-agricultural Sapiens ancestors up to the beginning of the early modern period, looking primarily but not exclusively at socio-cultural developments that shaped understandings of gender, patriarchy and the role of women in different early cultures around the world.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | PL-2 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | PL-2 |
Introduces the methodology of Gender Studies and the theory upon which it is based. Examines contemporary debates across a range of issues now felt to be of world-wide feminist interest: sexuality, reproduction, production, writing, representation, culture, race, and politics. Encourages responsible theorizing across disciplines and cultures.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | Q-704 |
Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 | Q-704 |
Surveys major issues concerning gender and the science of psychology in an attempt to answer the question: why is there such a gender gap when women and men share more psychological similarities than differences? Topics include: developmental processes and gender; gender roles and stereotypes, biology and gender; cross-cultural perspectives of gender; social-cultural theories of gender; language and gender, emotions and gender, health and gender.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 09:00 | 11:55 | PL-1 |
Studies the nature and causes of individual behavior and thought in social situations. Presents the basic fields of study that compose the science of social psychology, and how its theories impact on most aspects of people's lives. Topics of study include: conformity, persuasion, mass communication, propaganda, aggression, attraction, prejudice, and altruism.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-102 |
Friday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-102 |
This class is uniquely tailored to the interdisciplinary focus of students majoring in Psychology and/or Gender, Sexuality, and Society. Juxtaposing different forms of writing, evidence, and rhetorical practices in psychology, the social sciences, and the humanities, students will reflect on methods and writing practices in order to develop an authentic disciplinary voice. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, EN 1010, and PY 1000 or GS 2006
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | PL-1 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | PL-1 |
This class is uniquely tailored to the interdisciplinary focus of students majoring in Psychology and/or Gender, Sexuality, and Society. Juxtaposing different forms of writing, evidence, and rhetorical practices in psychology, the social sciences, and the humanities, students will reflect on methods and writing practices in order to develop an authentic disciplinary voice. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, EN 1010, and PY 1000 or GS 2006
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-3 |
Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-3 |
Explores what happens when dress and grooming become the basis for the modern phenomena of fashion. Studies the historical development of fashion: how fashion relates to the emergence of artistic, social, and economic forms and the ways fashion communicates ideas about status, gender, or culture. Investigates the role of media, advertising and marketing in the global fashion industry.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 09:00 | 10:20 | Q-704 |
Thursday | 09:00 | 10:20 | Q-704 |
This course is a quest for understanding of the conventions of medieval romance, a genre of predilection for establishing codified, recognizable normative femininities and masculinities through the lens of gender, sexuality and feminist and queer theory. We will explore medieval texts and the social contexts of their production and reception, the aspirations and contradictions of the idealized, and the heteronormative world of knighthood and courtly love.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | PL-3 |
Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 | PL-3 |
This course surveys the history of Europe from the era of New World "discovery" to the beginnings of the First World War. Students will consider the meaning of Europe as a geographical, political, religious, economic, and cultural space. They will examine how conquest and commerce on a global scale shaped the internal history of Europe . They will learn how Asia, Africa, and the Americas helped to remake the demography, epidemiology, landscape, technology, and consumer culture of European countries.
Students will learn how new technologies revolutionised European weaponry, transportation, and industrial production, with effects that reverberated abroad and helped to make European war into a global phenomenon. They will learn about internecine European religious conflicts and grapple with the rise of centralised states under divine-right monarchs. They will consider the meaning and moral limits of the Enlightenment as a European-wide development, at the apex of the slave trade.
The course draws to a close with the rise of scientific racism, the carving up of Africa and Asia by European powers, and ends as imperial rivalry, brinksmanship, nationalism, and the modernisation of war—all semester-long themes—trigger the Great War of 1914.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 09:00 | 10:20 | C-103 |
Friday | 09:00 | 10:20 | C-103 |