Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses

Last updated: July 15, 2006

Women's Studies/Gender Studies syllabi

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 +.


1950s America: Appearance and Reality
Wini Breines and Alice Jardine (Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, Radcliffe College)

Conflict and Gender (CONF 723)
Sandra Cheldelin (George Mason Univ.)

++ Contemporary Feminist Theories (WS 554)
Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)

Contemporary Gender Studies: Issues and Problems
Nancy Leys Stepan et al. (Central European Univ., Hungary)

+ Epistemological and Methodological Approaches to Women's Studies (WSTD6100)
Diana L. Gustafson (Memorial Univ. [Canada])

+ European Feminisms (EURST 316f)
Nicole Vaget (Mount Holyoke College)

+ Feminist Methodologies (WMNS 331)
Laurie Finke (Kenyon College)

Feminist Perspectives on Women and Society (WS 10)
Sharon Bays (UCLA)

+ Feminist Research Methodologies (WS 584)
Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)

+ Feminist Research Methodologies (WS5320)
Karen Keifer-Boyd (Pennsylvania State Univ)

+ Feminist Studies (FS 101)
Estelle B. Freedman (Stanford University)

Feminist Theories (WST 600) Sanjam Ahluwalia (Northern Arizona Univ.)

++ Feminist Theories (WMST 390)
Anne McCall (Tulane Univ.)

++ Feminist Theories (WS 305)
Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)

Feminist Theories in Social Sciences (WS 110A)
Sondra Hale (UCLA)

++ Feminist Theory (WMNS 331)
Laurie Finke (Kenyon College)

Feminist Theory (WOMS 520)
Diana Swanson (Northern Illinois Univ.)

+ Feminist Theory (Sociology 5006)
Martha E. Gimenez (Univ. of Colorado)

Feminist Theory (Gender Studies 560)
Judith Grant (Ohio University)

Feminist Theory (WNST 280)
Rebecca Hogan (Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater)

+ Foundations of Feminist Scholarship (WS 601)
Pat Huckle (San Diego State Univ.)

++ Fundamentals of Feminist Theory (WSTU 220)
Cynthia Deitch (George Washington Univ.)

Gender and Performance
Lisa Anderson (Arizona State Univ.)

Gender and Popular Culture (WGST 201)
Ann Marie Nicolosi (The College of New Jersey)

Gender, Culture, and Representation (WS 604)
Bonnie Zimmerman (San Diego State Univ.)

Gendering Area Studies: Arts and the Boundaries of Identity (FAA/LAS 492)
Charles Capwell (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign)

++ Gender, Race, and Class (WST 260)
Lee Sharkey (Univ. of Maine, Farmington)

Gender, War, and Peace (WS 541)
Elaine Martin (Univ. of Alabama)

Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women (WOMN 555-700/750)
Jane Olmsted (Western Kentucky Univ.)

++ History of Feminist Theories and Movements (WS 539)
Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)

I Like Ike But I Love Lucy: Women, Popular Culture, and the 1950s (WS 1154)
Alice A. Jardine (Harvard Univ.)

Introduction to Feminist Studies (FS 101/HIST 173C)
Estelle Friedman (Stanford Univ.)

++ Introduction to Feminist Theories (WS 221)
Elisabeth Gruner (Univ. of Richmond)

++ Introduction to Feminist Theories (PHIL 258/WS 221)
Ladelle McWhorter (Univ. of Richmond)

++ Introduction to Feminist Theory (Women's Studies 210)
Donna M. Hughes (Univ. of Rhode Island)

Introduction to Gender Studies (WGSX 210)
Samuel A. Chambers (St. Mary's College of Maryland)

++ Introduction to Studies in Women and Gender (WS 102)
Cora Agatucci (Central Oregon Community College)

++ Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (WS 101)
Cora Agatucci (Central Oregon Community College)

++ Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (WMNS 111)
Laurie Finke (Kenyon College)

+ Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (SP.401/WMN.401)
Kim Surkan (M.I.T.)
+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 100)
Amelia Carr (Allegheny College)

++ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 301)
Elisa Kay Sparks (Clemson Univ.)

Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 110)
Margaret Duncombe (Colorado College)

+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WSTU120DE: A Distance Education Course)
Diane Bell and Cayo Gamber (George Washington Univ.)

Introduction to Women's Studies (WSTU 120)
Susanne Beechey (George Washington Univ.)

Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 120)
Jean L. Potuchek (Gettysburg College)

++ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 201)
Mumbi Mwangi (Iowa State Univ.)

Introduction to Women's Studies (SP.401)
Sally Haslanger (MIT)

Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 200)
Patricia Donat (Mississippi Univ. for Women)

Introduction to Women's Studies (IDIS 200)
Alyson Buckman (Purdue Univ.)

+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WGSX 200)
Ruth Feingold (St. Mary's College of Maryland)

+ Introduction to Women's Studies (SOC 120)
John Kellermeier (Tacoma Community College)

+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WOST 187H)
Alexandrina Deschamps (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

+ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 240)
Anne Hermann (Univ. of Michigan)

++ Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 1824)
Bernice Hausman (Virginia Tech)

+ Introduction to Women's Studies: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Society (WS 10)
Esha De (UCLA)

++ Introduction to Women's Studies in the Arts and Humanities (WS201)
Randolph Hollingsworth (Lexington Comm. College)

++ Introduction to Women's Studies in the Social Sciences (WS 103)
Marita McComiskey (Univ. of Connecticut)

Issues in Feminist Research (WOST 691b)
Ann Ferguson (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

+ Issues in Feminist Theory and Methods: Women as Mothers (WS 400)
Jean Potuchek (Gettysburg College)

Mexico's Women Icons (WST 410/510)
Stephanie Wood (Univ. of Oregon)

++ Mothers and Daughters (WST 370)
Lee Sharkey (Univ. of Maine at Farmington)

+ Perspectives on Women (GAH 2358-001)
Deborah Gussman (Richard Stockton College)

++ Popular Culture/Feminist Culture (Women's Studies 320)
Janice Williamson (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)

+ Practicum in Women's Studies (WSTU 183/283)
Cynthia Deitch (George Washington Univ.)

Race and Gender at the Turn of the [20th] Century
Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Univ. of Texas at Austin & CEPACS)

Race, Class and Gender (WS 210)
Margaret Duncombe (Colorado College)

Realities of Women (WS 3377/5377)
Ana M. Juárez (Southwest Texas State Univ.)

Research in Women's Studies (ILAS 530)
Kristen Myers (Northern Illinois Univ.)

+ Research Issues in Women's Studies: Applied Feminist Theory (WSTU 221)
Cynthia Deitch (George Washington Univ.)

+ Rhetoric of Feminist Spaces (RHE309K)
Kristen Hogan (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

++ A Sample 16th and 17th Century Women's Studies Syllabus
Karen Nelson, (Univ. of Maryland, College Park)

+ Senior Capstone: Writing Women (WS 498)
Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)

Senior Seminar (WST 407.02)
Mary Rawlinson (SUNY, Stony Brook)

Sex, Gender, and Society (Sociology 118)
Rebecca Bach (Duke Univ.)

Sex, Power, and Politics (WMNST 375)
Pat Washington (San Diego State Univ.)

++ Suffragists, Sistahs, and Riot Grrrls: An Introduction to Women's Studies (Women's Studies 240)
Kari McBride (Univ. of Arizona)

Theories of Gender, Race, and Class (WOMN 545)
Jane Olmsted (Western Kentucky Univ.)

Theorizing Feminisms (24.237J, SP 413)
Sally Haslanger (MIT)

Theory and Method in Contemporary Gender Studies
Nancy Leys Stepan (Central European Univ., Hungary)

++ Varieties of Feminist Theory (WSTU 125)
Cynthia Deitch (George Washington Univ.)

++ Women and Poverty (WS 267)
Marita McComiskey (Univ. of Connecticut)

Women and Violence (WS 496)
Pat Washington (San Diego State Univ.)

++ Women and Violence (WS 263)
Marita McComiskey (Univ. of Connecticut)

++ Women, Culture and Society (988:101)
Betsy Keller (Rutgers Univ.)

< ++ Women, Gender, and Power (WMS 148)
Barbara F. McManus and Nancy Gonchar (College of New Rochelle)

Women, Gender, and Society (WS 120)
V. M. Moghadam (Illinois State Univ.)

Women in American Society (AMST 450)
Karen Kidd (California State Univ., Fullerton)

++ Women in Culture (WOST J111)
Lisa Hammond Rashley (Univ. of South Carolina)

++ Women in Perspective (WMST 231)
Dawnelle Loiselle (Towson Univ.)

++ Women, Social Institutions, and Social Change (WS 102)
Virginia Sapiro (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

++ Women's Studies Internship (WS 261/262)
Marita McComiskey (Univ. of Connecticut)

+ Women's Studies Research Seminar (WS 900)
Virginia Sapiro (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

+ 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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