WGST 360: Women and Science

The role of women and gender in the construction of western science from historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives.

WGST 379: Women in Modern Europe 

Survey of women in European history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Focus on women’s citizenship beginning with Enlightenment idea of rights through developments in modern feminism.  

WGST 398: Gender and Labor 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to a breadth of historical, anthropological, and feminist perspectives on gendered divisions of labor post industrialization and ongoing global technological innovations.

WGST 398: Tech Justice, Tech Oppression

Relationships between technology, oppression, and justice. Discusses cyber ethics, policy, and technology development as they relate to sexism, racism, ableism, and additional forms of oppression.

WGST 425: Community Participatory Feminist Research Methods 

This course provides an overview of feminist research methods, critiques traditional methods, ethical issues, crosscultural research, and community-engaged research, focusing on social change and empowering participants.

WGST 437: Women Writers: Family, Nation, History and Self 

Representative works written by women.

WGST 541: Issues in Women's Health: Reproductive Controversies

This course explores issues in women’s health focused on reproductive controversies. Students will think critically through the lens of feminist medical anthropology about social controversies in the development of the birth control pill, the development of American gynecology, the insider and outside perspectives on the practice of female genital cutting, and the frontiers of human technology co-evolution for the future of reproduction.

WGST 796: Service Learning and Social Justice: The Art of Grant Writing

This course provides anintroduction to grant writing and grant administration. It is designed for students in various disciplines who want to understand the grantprocess from the introductory stages to the final stages of implementing the grant.