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Courses - Spring 2023
WMST
Women's Studies Department Site
WMST602
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Methodologies and Epistemologies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: WMST400 or WGSS302; or permission of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Restriction: Must be in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies doctoral or graduate certificate programs.
Credit only granted for: WMST602 or WGSS602.
Formerly: WMST602.
Examines the politics and practice of knowledge production in the interdisciplinary field of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Explores how theory is connected to the formation of raced/gendered/sexed bodies, subjectivities, and existences that unsettle Eurocentric genealogies of disciplinary knowledge formation. Introduces students to methodological and epistemological frameworks for attending to the impact of relations of power and domination on how research and scholarship are created and defined within and across disciplinary boundaries, cultures, and paradigms.
WMST619
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Teaching Practicum
Credits: 1
Grad Meth: S-F
WMST621
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Feminist Theories and Women's Movements: Genealogies
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud, S-F
Prerequisite: WMST400; or permission of ARHU-Women's Studies department.
Examines theories to explain the matrix of domination from the nineteenth century to the present. Students learn the key debates that produceed new insights and shifted the ground of subsequent feminist theorizing within multi-racial feminisms. Examines those debates within global perspectives. Examines how dominant theoretical frameworks have been developed at specific historical moments.
Restriction: Permission of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
WMST628
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium
Credits: 1
Grad Meth: S-F
For WMST students only.
WMST698R
Special Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Race and Reproduction
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud, S-F
Cross-listed with AASP499C, AMST498E, SOCY498F, SOCY699B, and WGSS498R. Credit only granted for AASP499C, AMST498E, SOCY498F, SOCY699B, WGSS498R, and WMST698R.

This course extends abortion rights and its connection to gender, class and racial politics in which trace from institutionalized racism, colonialism, religion, and gender/racial inequality. Students will develop a historical, contemporary, and comparative understanding of race and reproductive policy. They will connect policing and survelliance within policy formation to witness the power behind bodily and population control on a national and global scale. Students will use data and methodology to examine these issues in policy and practice.
WMST698Z
Special Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Black Women's Arts and Culture
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
WMST699
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Credits: 1 - 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
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WMST709
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Directed Independent Reading for Major Field Exam
Credits: 1 - 4
Grad Meth: S-F
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WMST799
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Masters Thesis Research
Credits: 1 - 6
Grad Meth: S-F
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WMST898
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Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits: 1 - 8
Grad Meth: Reg, S-F
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WMST899
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Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits: 6
Grad Meth: S-F
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