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• WOS 366: Gender, Labor and Globalization

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course uses sociological and women's and gender studies theories to understand, analyze, and present on domestic work, care work, sex work, and reproductive work as invisible and gendered labor that contributes to global economies. Through critical reading, writing, discussion, and speaking assignments, students will learn how to analyze and speak about how the experiences of international women workers change mainstream definitions of gender, labor, family, immigration, and globalization.
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• WOS 368: Violence, Systems, and Resistance (VSR)

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will teach students how to recognize, understand, and resist three primary forms of power-based violence that are interrelated: (1) those perpetrated by individuals, e.g. sexual assault, partner violence, mass shootings; (2) those perpetrated by hate groups, e.g. lynching, bombing, violence against trans and non-binary people; and (3) those perpetrated by the state, e.g. war, police violence. Students will study multiple forms of violence to understand the root causes and dynamics of violence (how it happens); the effects on people, families, and communities (what is the cost); and personal, community, and national resistance methodologies (what can be done about it).
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• WOS 381: The Forgotten Queens of Islam

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students will learn about prominent women in Islamic history, with a focus on the medieval period. Students will learn to read historical texts "against the grain" through the lens of feminist history.
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• WOS 399: Women of Color and Material Culture

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways that gender and race shape the histories of cultural production and material culture, aiming to problematize the historical sidelining of the contributions of women of color in global history, recognizing their deep impacts on their respective communities, on racial identity, and cultural authenticity. By centering the lived experiences and the labor of women of color, we are able to perceive of a more just and equitable world, where traditional histories have commonly elided, appropriated, or violated these contributions in historical and cultural accounts. The course will interrogate the concept of labor and production from a number of disciplinary vantage points, focusing primarily on foodways and commodity culture, all while situating women of color as the core category of analysis.
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• WOS 400: Internship

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to allow students the opportunity to put into practice, outside the academic setting, the knowledge regarding women's experiences gained in other courses. Some possible sites might be a women's health clinic, a business, a newspaper, a social service agency, or an electoral campaign. There will be both an on-site and a faculty supervisor. Prerequisite:    WOS 400 requires prerequisite of WOS 225 and two other women's studies courses.
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• WOS 405: Feminist Theory

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course focuses on the development of contemporary feminist theoretical constructs, beginning in the 1970s. Students will study classic feminist theories and ideas from this period. They will use a feminist pedagogy which emphasizes learning that is collaborative and student-centered. We value participatory, experiential, diverse, and student-centered knowledge production. Because we believe that students serve as sources of knowledge for themselves and each other, we encourage students to take initiative in and responsibility for the learning process. Prerequisite:    WOS 405 requires a prerequisite of two other WOS courses.
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• WOS 407: Queer Theory

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is an introduction to the study of Queer Theory, as both a discipline and a form of political resistance. Queer theory is, in a very basic nutshell, the study of identities that exist outside of rigid binary categories. For this reason, we must understand queer theory as separate from, even if closely aligned with, GLBT or sexuality studies. Queerness, in this context, does not refer to sexuality and gender, but to any identity rejected by or resistant to normative, binary categories. Thus, this course utilizes a "queer" approach (drawing on feminist, race, sexuality, psychoanalytic, literary, etc.) to ask fundamental questions about our identities (whether sexuality, gender, race, class, nationality, etc.) and how our identities are determined by and resistant to social regulation. Prerequisite:    WOS 407 requires a prerequisite of one WOS course.
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• WOS 410: Feminist Research Methodologies

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines feminist critiques of and approaches to various research methodologies. Students will focus on how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of knowledge and the major methodologies employed in the social sciences and humanities, such as interview, ethnography, grounded theory, participatory research, archival research, and oral history. Students will discuss how research is shaped by the kinds of research questions they ask and the types of materials they use. The course also gives them the opportunity to develop a research proposal, including selecting method(s) of their own interest. The following questions are central to the course: Do feminist methods exist What counts as evidence How does feminist research approach issues of objectivity and subjectivity What is the relationship between the researcher and subject What key questions guide feminist research, and how can they apply those questions to a variety of research topics Prerequisite:    WOS 410 requires a prerequisite of WOS 405.
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• WOS 415: Senior Project

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Preparation of research in any area of women's studies, to be decided by student and adviser. Supervision includes exercises in method and bibliography. Usually, a lengthy research paper will be the final result. Prerequisite:    WOS 415 requires prerequisite of WOS 225 and two other women's studies courses
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• WRH 197: Becoming a Peer Writing Mentor

  1.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A training course for "peer writing mentors" who are working with students in WRT 123. Concurrent with taking this training course, peer writing mentors will be paired with a faculty member who is teaching WRT 123 and will mentor writers in that professor's course. This course is open only to students who have taken WRT 120 or 123 within two semesters prior and who also have a professor's recommendation to become a peer writing mentor. Prerequisite:    WRH 197 requires prerequisites of WRT 120 or WRT 123 (taken within two semesters prior) and a professor's recommendation to become a peer writing mentor.
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