Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses
Last updated: July 15, 2006
 
Women's Studies/Gender Studies
The following are syllabi for interdisciplinary Women's Studies and Gender Studies courses.  Syllabi for women- and gender-related courses in specific disciplines (e.g., history, psychology) will be found in discipline-specific listings. Courses that make substantial use of the Internet carry the designation ++; those making at least some use carry the designation +.
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1950s America: Appearance and Reality
- Wini Breines and Alice Jardine (Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, Radcliffe College)
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Conflict and Gender (CONF 723)
- Sandra Cheldelin (George Mason Univ.)
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++ Contemporary Feminist Theories (WS 554)
- Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)
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Contemporary Gender Studies: Issues and Problems
- Nancy Leys Stepan et al. (Central European Univ., Hungary)
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+ Epistemological and Methodological Approaches to Women's Studies
(WSTD6100)
- Diana L. Gustafson (Memorial Univ. [Canada])
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+ European Feminisms (EURST 316f)
- Nicole Vaget (Mount Holyoke College)
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+ Feminist Methodologies (WMNS 331)
- Laurie Finke (Kenyon College)
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Feminist Perspectives on Women and Society (WS 10)
- Sharon Bays (UCLA)
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+ Feminist Research Methodologies (WS 584)
- Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)
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+ Feminist Research Methodologies (WS5320)
- Karen Keifer-Boyd (Pennsylvania State Univ)
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+ Feminist Studies (FS 101)
- Estelle B. Freedman (Stanford University)
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Feminist Theories (WST 600)
Sanjam Ahluwalia (Northern Arizona Univ.)
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++ Feminist Theories (WMST 390)
- Anne McCall (Tulane Univ.)
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++ Feminist Theories (WS 305)
- Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)
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Feminist Theories in Social Sciences (WS 110A)
- Sondra Hale (UCLA)
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++ Feminist Theory (WMNS 331)
- Laurie Finke (Kenyon College)
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Feminist Theory (WOMS 520)
- Diana Swanson (Northern Illinois Univ.)
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+ Feminist Theory (Sociology 5006)
- Martha E. Gimenez (Univ. of Colorado)
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Feminist Theory (Gender Studies 560)
- Judith Grant (Ohio University)
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Feminist Theory (WNST 280)
- Rebecca Hogan (Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater)
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+ Foundations of Feminist Scholarship (WS 601)
- Pat Huckle (San Diego State Univ.)
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++ Fundamentals of Feminist Theory (WSTU 220)
- Cynthia Deitch (George Washington Univ.)
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Gender and Performance
- Lisa Anderson (Arizona State Univ.)
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Gender and Popular Culture (WGST 201)
- Ann Marie Nicolosi (The College of New Jersey)
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Gender, Culture, and Representation (WS 604)
- Bonnie Zimmerman (San Diego State Univ.)
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Gendering Area Studies: Arts and the Boundaries of Identity (FAA/LAS 492)
- Charles Capwell (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign)
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++ Gender, Race, and Class (WST 260)
- Lee Sharkey (Univ. of Maine, Farmington)
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Gender, War, and Peace (WS 541)
- Elaine Martin (Univ. of Alabama)
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Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women (WOMN 555-700/750)
- Jane Olmsted (Western Kentucky Univ.)
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++ History of Feminist Theories and Movements (WS 539)
- Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)
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I Like Ike But I Love Lucy: Women, Popular Culture, and the 1950s (WS 1154)
- Alice A. Jardine (Harvard Univ.)
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Introduction to Feminist Studies (FS 101/HIST 173C)
- Estelle Friedman (Stanford Univ.)
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++ Introduction to Feminist Theories (WS 221)
- Elisabeth Gruner (Univ. of Richmond)
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++ Introduction to Feminist Theories (PHIL 258/WS 221)
- Ladelle McWhorter (Univ. of Richmond)
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++ Introduction to Feminist Theory (Women's Studies 210)
- Donna M. Hughes (Univ. of Rhode Island)
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Introduction to Gender Studies (WGSX 210)
- Samuel A. Chambers (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
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++ Introduction to Studies in Women and Gender (WS 102)
- Cora Agatucci (Central Oregon Community College)
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++ Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (WS 101)
- Cora Agatucci (Central Oregon Community College)
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++ Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (WMNS 111)
- Laurie Finke (Kenyon College)
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+ Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (SP.401/WMN.401)
- Kim Surkan (M.I.T.)
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+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 100)
- Amelia Carr (Allegheny College)
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++ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 301)
- Elisa Kay Sparks (Clemson Univ.)
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Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 110)
- Margaret Duncombe (Colorado College)
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+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WSTU120DE: A Distance Education Course)
- Diane Bell and Cayo Gamber (George Washington Univ.)
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Introduction to Women's Studies (WSTU 120)
- Susanne Beechey (George Washington Univ.)
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Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 120)
- Jean L. Potuchek (Gettysburg College)
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++ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 201)
- Mumbi Mwangi (Iowa State Univ.)
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Introduction to Women's Studies (SP.401)
- Sally Haslanger (MIT)
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Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 200)
- Patricia Donat (Mississippi Univ. for Women)
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Introduction to Women's Studies (IDIS 200)
- Alyson Buckman (Purdue Univ.)
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+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WGSX 200)
- Ruth Feingold (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
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+ Introduction to Women's Studies (SOC 120)
- John Kellermeier (Tacoma Community College)
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+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WOST 187H)
- Alexandrina Deschamps (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 240)
- Anne Hermann (Univ. of Michigan)
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++ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 1824)
- Bernice Hausman (Virginia Tech)
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+ Introduction to Women's Studies: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Society (WS 10)
- Esha De (UCLA)
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++ Introduction to Women's Studies in the Arts and Humanities (WS201)
- Randolph Hollingsworth (Lexington Comm. College)
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++ Introduction to Women's Studies in the Social Sciences (WS 103)
- Marita McComiskey (Univ. of Connecticut)
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Issues in Feminist Research (WOST 691b)
- Ann Ferguson (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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+ Issues in Feminist Theory and Methods: Women as Mothers (WS 400)
- Jean Potuchek (Gettysburg College)
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Mexico's Women Icons (WST 410/510)
- Stephanie Wood (Univ. of Oregon)
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++ Mothers and Daughters (WST 370)
- Lee Sharkey (Univ. of Maine at Farmington)
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+ Perspectives on Women (GAH 2358-001)
- Deborah Gussman (Richard Stockton College)
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++ Popular Culture/Feminist Culture (Women's Studies 320)
- Janice Williamson (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
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+ Practicum in Women's Studies (WSTU 183/283)- Cynthia Deitch (George Washington Univ.)
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Race and Gender at the Turn of the [20th] Century
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Univ. of Texas at Austin & CEPACS)
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Race, Class and Gender (WS 210)
- Margaret Duncombe (Colorado College)
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Realities of Women (WS 3377/5377)
- Ana M. Juárez (Southwest Texas State Univ.)
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Research in Women's Studies (ILAS 530)
- Kristen Myers (Northern Illinois Univ.)
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+ Research Issues in Women's Studies: Applied Feminist Theory (WSTU 221)
- Cynthia Deitch (George Washington Univ.)
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+ Rhetoric of Feminist Spaces (RHE309K)
- Kristen Hogan (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
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++ A Sample 16th and 17th Century Women's Studies Syllabus
- Karen Nelson, (Univ. of Maryland, College Park)
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+ Senior Capstone: Writing Women (WS 498)
- Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)
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Senior Seminar (WST 407.02)
- Mary Rawlinson (SUNY, Stony Brook)
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Sex, Gender, and Society (Sociology 118)
- Rebecca Bach (Duke Univ.)
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Sex, Power, and Politics (WMNST 375)
- Pat Washington (San Diego State Univ.)
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++ Suffragists, Sistahs, and Riot Grrrls: An Introduction to Women's Studies (Women's Studies 240)
- Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)
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Theories of Gender, Race, and Class (WOMN 545)
- Jane Olmsted (Western Kentucky Univ.)
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Theorizing Feminisms (24.237J, SP 413)
- Sally Haslanger (MIT)
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Theory and Method in Contemporary Gender Studies
- Nancy Leys Stepan (Central European Univ., Hungary)
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++ Varieties of Feminist Theory (WSTU 125)
- Cynthia Deitch (George Washington Univ.)
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++ Women and Poverty (WS 267)
- Marita McComiskey (Univ. of Connecticut)
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Women and Violence (WS 496)
- Pat Washington (San Diego State Univ.)
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++ Women and Violence (WS 263)
- Marita McComiskey (Univ. of Connecticut)
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++ Women, Culture and Society (988:101)
- Betsy Keller (Rutgers Univ.)
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++ Women, Gender, and Power (WMS 148)
- Barbara F. McManus and Nancy Gonchar (College of New Rochelle)
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Women, Gender, and Society (WS 120)
- V. M. Moghadam (Illinois State Univ.)
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Women in American Society (AMST 450)
- Karen Kidd (California State Univ., Fullerton)
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++ Women in Culture (WOST J111)
- Lisa Hammond Rashley (Univ. of South Carolina)
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++ Women in Perspective (WMST 231)
- Dawnelle Loiselle (Towson Univ.)
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++ Women, Social Institutions, and Social Change (WS 102)
- Virginia Sapiro (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
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++ Women's Studies Internship (WS 261/262)
- Marita McComiskey (Univ. of Connecticut)
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+ Women's Studies Research Seminar (WS 900)
- Virginia Sapiro (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
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+ Women Through Cultures and Centuries (GENDER 2000-01)
- Kimberly M. Radek (Illinois Valley Community College)
See also Feminist and Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Feminist Pedagogy in EDUCATION; Women and Western Culture in HISTORY; and Black Feminisms in WOMEN OF COLOR.
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