02/08/2023
Registration starts on Friday! Don't forget to pick from the most awesome classes on campus:
Discovery core for GWSS Students/Students interested in GWSS:
BCORE 118 (C) Discovery Core III: Individuals And Society Portfolio And Experiential Learning - Women’s Empowerment; A Critical Media Justice Approach (5), (50% Hybrid) T 3:30pm – 5:30 pm, SLN 10869. Professor Maureen P. West
This course will explore media justice work through a feminist lens that seeks women’s empowerment through communication strategies and media tools to subvert media representation and marginalization. Through community-based research/community service -learning projects, students will work with community partners on digital media empowerment and/or promote media advocacy for policy/social change.
BCORE 118 (D) Discovery Core III: Individuals And Society Portfolio And Experiential Learning – Revolution and Feminism in the Americas (5), MW 11:00am – 1:00pm, SLN 10870. Professor Julie Shayne
Why do people organize revolutions? What are revolutions? Do all revolutionary movements need to be armed? What role do women play in revolutions? What is feminism? Why do women and non-binary/trans people organize as feminists? Can men be feminists? (Yes!) What sorts of issues are important to feminists? This class will address these and other timely questions, focusing on cases from throughout the Americas, including Latinx communities outside of their homelands. We will look at all sorts of ways that people articulate their revolutionary demands, including as muralists, union activists, guerrilla soldiers, and more. We will also look at a variety of feminist movements, including those related to reproductive rights, and LGBTQ+ & disabled folks.
GWSS Core Courses:
BISGWS 303 (A) - Approaches to Feminist Inquiry (5), MW 8:45am – 10:45am, SLN 11712. Professor Raissa DeSmet
Explores approaches to knowledge (epistemologies) and investigative practices (methodologies). Analyzes how feminist theories are translated into cultural practices. Addresses the intersections and tensions within and between feminist theories, including how and where feminist scholars understand and problematize power relations.
GWSS Electives:
BIS 222 (A) – Introduction To Human Sexuality (5), (100% Asynchronous Online), SLN 11642. Professor Lauren Lichty
Explores biological, psychological, and sociological theory and research on human sexuality and diversity. Also, examines social institutions that shape cultural norms and influence sexual health and well-being with attention to power, policies, and distribution of resources.
BIS 227 (A) - Rad Women In The Global South (5), MW 3:30pm – 5:30pm, SLN 11644. Professor Julie Shayne
In this course we will use an intersectional lens to learn about the different ways women experience and resist misogyny in the Global South. We will analyze the role of gender norms as related to women’s experiences with misogyny and their creative ways of resisting and challenging it. The class is divided into five sections: Embodied resistance; gender and resistance; motherhood and resistance; resisting violence; and feminist resistance. Our cases span Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
BIS 293 (A) - Special Topics: Economics of Gender (5), MW 11:00am – 1:00pm, SLN 11655. Professor S. Charusheela
Gender differences in social role, and gender inequality in terms of income, wealth, and work, have emerged as a core issue in the field of economics. Within the United States, questions of workplace equity and support for gendered labor remain hotly debated issues of economic policy. On a global scale, the World Bank has made gender empowerment a key plank for development policy, and gender equity remains one of the main areas of concern in the millennial development goals.
BIS 310 (A) - Women, Culture, & Development (5), MW 1:15pm – 3:15pm, SLN 11660. Professor Julie Shayne
The purpose of this course is to facilitate a critical understanding of the multiple social, cultural, political, and economic positions of women in the Global South. We will look at a variety of topics including: colonialism, post-colonialism, poverty, feminist theories of development, paid and unpaid labor, globalization, women’s embodied experiences of politics, economy & cultural ideologies, and feminism. We will study the way structures and institutions, largely construed, intersect socially, politically, and economically to marginalize girls and women. Similarly, we will study some of the ways women collectively challenge systematic injustices brought on by patriarchy, poverty, neo-colonialism, and globalization.
BIS 324 (A) - Gender, Human Rights, and Global Cinema (5), Th 5:45pm – 7:45pm, SLN 11668. Professor Alka Kurian
Examines cinematic narratives of human rights violations across the world, with a special focus on gender. Students will examine films in major filmmaking centers globally. Central to our discussions will be an application of interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on gender, human rights, social justice, post coloniality, migrancy, borders, and race.
BIS 341 (B) – Topics In the Study of Culture: Girls on Film (5), (50% Hybrid) W 5:45pm – 7:45pm, SLN 11673. Professor Kari Lerum
Films reflect and create central cultural assumptions about gender across the life course. The study of film—its images, ideals, narratives, and thematic emphasis therefore creates an opportunity to understand shifting cultural norms about gender and its intersecting relations (e.g. race, class, sexuality) in both historical and contemporary terms. This course enters the scholarly conversation about film by exploring the cultural and institutional implications of “coming of age” narrative films about girl-identified individuals up to the age of 18.
BIS 490 (A) - Advanced Seminar: Memory Work and Cultural Production in Diaspora (5), (50% Hybrid) W 1:15pm – 3:15pm, SLN 11693. Professor Raissa DeSmet
This is a critical/creative reading and making seminar. Together we will explore theoretical questions related to memory, history, and the formation of archives and engage memory work texts by diverse cultural producers. Within this critical framework, each of you will pursue your own memory work project, tracing your and/or your families’ or communities’ histories across time and space, around the silences of trauma and forgetting, and in relation to a complex, contingent present. This work will culminate in a three-dimensional Memory Box. Primary course texts range from memoir and autoethnography to poetry, installation, and performance.
BIS 490 (C) - Advanced Seminar: Art, Cultural Work, and Social Change (5), (50% Hybrid) M 11:00am – 1:00pm, SLN 11695. Professor Jed Murr
This advanced interdisciplinary seminar focuses on relationships between art and social and political change. What does “art” have to do with movements to make the world around us a more just, equitable, and sustainable place? What can art and artists possibly DO in the face of massive social and political problems such as systemic racism and police violence, climate change and environmental destruction, neocolonialism and xenophobia, labor exploitation, and rampant transphobia and gender and sexual violence? Together we will investigate a range of answers to these questions by taking a critical interdisciplinary approach to thinking and writing about art (or "cultural work") as a key site of social struggle and intervention.
BIS 498 (B) – Undergraduate Research: Southeast Asian Past and Futures (5), Th 8:45am – 10:45am, SLN 11699. Professor Raissa DeSmet
SEAPF brings together AAPI and first-gen students with diasporic communities to celebrate cultural strength and resilience. With the support of UW faculty and Burke Museum staff, students will design their own projects and curriculum, work directly with objects in the Southeast Asian Collections, and build relationships with AAPI knowledge holders in the Puget Sound. Each quarter, students will participate in critical conversations and community-building activities while exploring the field of museum studies and practicing indigenous research methods. They will build important skills in networking, advocacy, and utilizing the resources of an R1-university to help prepare them for graduate studies and to support their own communities. At its heart, this program is about decolonization: of knowledge, institutions, and ourselves. It centers the voices and experiences of students with links to Southeast Asia and re-examines the museum and the university as spaces we may claim and transform.
Sections of BIS499 taught by GWSS professors:
BIS 499 (B) - Portfolio Capstone (5), (50% Hybrid) M 3:30pm – 5:30pm, SLN 11701. Professor Jed Murr; BIS 499 (G) – Portfolio Capstone (5), (50% Hybrid) W 11:00am – 1:00pm, SLN 11706. Professor Yolanda Padilla
Focuses on developing a learning and professional portfolio, advancing skills of critical thinking and interdisciplinary synthesis, and honing writing and presentation capacities for appropriate audiences. Stresses collaboration with other graduating students.
Of Special Interest to GWSS Students:
BIS 495 (A) – Internship (2-6), (50% Hybrid) T 100% Online 11:00am – 1:00pm, F in-person 11:00am – 1:00pm, SLN 11697. Professor Loren Redwood
The IAS Internship course (BIS 495) is a credit/no-credit course designed for students interested in linking their classroom education to practice-based learning in local for-profit, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations. It satisfies the Interdisciplinary Practice and Reflection (IPS) graduation requirement. Note: BIS495 will not go toward your GWSS elective credits but we highly encourage our students to do internships!
Questions?
Contact GWSS Faculty Co-coordinator, Dr. Julie Shayne at [email protected].
Contact GWSS IAS advisor Jason Angeles via email: [email protected]. Or, set up an appointment online through Navigate: https://uwb.campus.eab.com/
