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Corequisites

A corequisite identifies another course or courses that should be taken concurrently with the listed course. A student who enrolls in a listed course with corequisites must also enroll in those corequisite courses. A student who has previously completed a corequisite course may not need to repeat it; he or she should consult with an academic adviser before registering to determine specific requirements.

Course Credit Hours

The total semester hours of credit for each course are shown in parentheses immediately following the course title.

Prerequisites

A prerequisite identifies a course or other requirements that a student must have completed successfully before enrolling in the listed course. Any student who has not met prerequisites for a course may be administratively withdrawn from that course at the discretion of the instructor. It is the policy of some university departments to withdraw automatically any student who enrolls in a course without first meeting its prerequisites.
 

Taxation
  

  • TX 8320 - Accounting for Income Taxes

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: TX 8020  and TX 8030 .
    Description
    This course is a study of the fundamental principles of Accounting for Income Tax (ASC 740). It emphasizes the income tax provision and financial statement analysis for tax planning.

  

  • TX 8389 - Directed Readings in Taxation

    1 to 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: TX 8020  and TX 8030  and consent of instructor, good academic standing.
    Description
    This course allows the supervised study of a specialized area not provided in the regular curriculum or provides a supervised study of a topical area of varied length, i.e., one to three semester hours. An arrangement must be made with a full-time faculty member to sponsor a student’s research.

  

  • TX 8391 - Field Study in Taxation

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: TX 8020  and TX 8030  both with minimum grade of B; consent of instructor.
    Description
    This field study is a supervised, employer-site learning experience. In this experience, students have the opportunity to apply tax-related skills in a professional setting. Students must consult with the instructor or the MTx program coordinator before registering to determine whether the internship experiences will qualify for credit. Current/existing employment responsibilities do not qualify for field study credit. Field studies from other programs do not qualify for TX 8391.

  

  • TX 8510 - Issues in Individual Taxation

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: TX 8020  and TX 8030 .
    Description
    This course focuses on identification of individual tax issues, analysis of court opinions, and provides students with a conceptual framework for decision-making.

  

  • TX 8670 - Tax Crimes and Forensics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: TX 8020  and TX 8030 .
    Description
    This course is a study of tax crimes under Title 26 and related crimes under Titles 18 and 31 of the United States Code. Topics include tax evasion and fraud, money laundering, currency transaction crimes, and related civil procedures.

  

  • TX 8800 - Tax Analytics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: TX 8020 , TX 8030 , and TX 8120 .
    Description
    This course should be taken in the last semester of the program. It introduces students to tax analytics using a variety of data analytics and visualization tools.


Teaching ESL/College ED
  

  • TSLE 7250 - Applied Linguistics for the Bilingual/English as a Second Language Teacher

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Students receive an overview of the principles of language structure, the processes of first and second acquisition, and the issues involved in assessing language proficiency with special attention paid to the application of linguistic knowledge to the multilingual and multicultural school setting.

  

  • TSLE 7260 - Cultural Issues for the Bilingual/English as a Second Language Teacher

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Students examine the concept of culture and study cultural influences and the uses of culture in the education of children. Special attention is paid to the application of linguistic and cultural knowledge to the multilingual and multicultural school setting.

  

  • TSLE 7440 - Methods and Materials for the Bilingual/English as a Second Language Teacher

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course familiarizes students with current second language classroom research and with effective methods and materials with an emphasis on adapting these methods and materials to a specific classroom setting.


Textiles
  

  • TEXT 6050 - Textiles

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    For graduate students not majoring in Textiles. Textile techniques either in loom, non-loom, or surface design explored from design principles and technical application. May be repeated for a maximum of fifteen credit hours.

  

  • TEXT 6910 - Historic Textiles

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Historical survey of textiles, textile technology, and design on both woven and dyed/printed/painted textiles worldwide. Interrelationship of textile technology and design in a historical and cultural context.

  

  • TEXT 6980 - Directed Study

    3 to 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor.
    For students not majoring in Textiles.

    Description
    Individual research. May be repeated for a maximum of twelve hours.

  

  • TEXT 8000 - Advanced Studio Problems

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    For M.F.A. Textiles major. Conceptual development in textile design explored from design principles and technical applications. May be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.

  

  • TEXT 8400 - Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar

    3 to 9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: M.F.A. status.
    Description
    For M.F.A. students from all Art and Design majors. Readings, discussions, and engagement with advanced studio topics, led by studio faculty, to improve studio practice.

  

  • TEXT 8500 - Studio Practice

    3 to 9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
    For MFA Textiles students.

    Description
    Discipline specific graduate course driven by studio production and critiques. May be repeated for a maximum of twenty-four credit hours.

  

  • TEXT 8930 - Internship in Textiles

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor.
    Description
    Supervised field research experiences in appropriate professional environments. May be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.

  

  • TEXT 8980 - Special Problems

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor and School director.
    Description
    Independent study. Contract outlining course content is required. May be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.

  

  • TEXT 8999 - Thesis Research

    3 to 12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of thesis advisor.
    Description
    Research and preparation of thesis and graduate exhibition.


Urban Studies Institute
  

  • URB 8010 - Urban Theory and Praxis

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    The purpose of this course is to understand the conceptual dilemmas presented when analyzing ‘the urban’, and to explore insights (and blind spots) offered by a variety of contemporary urban theoretical perspectives. Students will gain a strong grounding debates over how we understand and research the city, and will develop the critical thinking skills necessary to creatively assess and interpret uneven geographic development, processes of urbanization, and the experience of global urbanism as a way of life.

  

  • URB 8020 - Global Urban Trajectories

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course compares and debates the main trajectories or pathways of cities, from past to present and future, and from a global perspective. In understanding the evolution of cities, historical and comparative global perspectives must be considered. The course will move between empirical observation and theory.

  

  • URB 8030 - Urban Statistics and Social Justice

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course offers an introduction to statistical reasoning and analysis with applications in the study of social justice in the city. We will learn methods of descriptive and inferential statistics, and we will explore their use by urban scholars examining inequalities in key dimensions of city life: shelter, health, environment, safety, work, and mobility. Besides presenting fundamental methods of statistical description and inference, this course offers tools to assess the practical and ethical implications of statistically informed approaches to social justice in the city. Course topics include measures of central tendency and variability, probability distributions, significance tests, analysis of variance, bivariate and multivariate regression, bias in predictive analytics, and the politics of data.

  

  • URB 8040 - Urban Policy Analytics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: PMAP 8121  or SOCI 8010  and PMAP 8561  or GEOS 6532  or consent of instructor.
    Description
    This is a hands-on course that provides future urban planners and policy analysts with a toolkit to collect, analyze, interpret, and visualize urban data. We will use multiple software packages and platforms including R, ArcGIS, CartoDB, Octoparse, and Tableau. Students will acquire data analytical skills through a series of mini projects on problems relevant to urban planning practice, research, and policymaking. The course will also introduce students to various applications of data science and smart technologies in urban management and governance, as well as the associated social, economic, and ethical implications.

  

  • URB 8097 - Urban Special Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    A seminar designed to explore in depth the most recent issues and/or research results in a particular area of urban studies. The course can be repeated when topic vary.

  

  • URB 8110 - Capstone Paper Research

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Capstone Paper is for students to undertake original research in a particular substantive area of Urban Studies. Students will demonstrate their capacity for critical thinking and apply the data collection and analytical skills developed through the MIS program to evaluate existing, and generate new knowledge regarding a key challenge facing cities.

  

  • URB 8120 - Capstone Research Paper Advanced

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Capstone Paper is for students to undertake original research in a particular substantive area of Urban Studies. Students will demonstrate their capacity for critical thinking and apply the data collection and analytical skills developed through the MIS program to evaluate existing, and generate new knowledge regarding a key challenge facing cities.

  

  • URB 8130 - MIS Urban Studies Internship

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    The purpose of the MIS Internship is to expose students to a professional workplace where urban issues are being addressed and to provide the student with some experience in addressing such issues in a professional environment, which might be in the public, nonprofit, or private sector.

  

  • URB 8140 - Directed Studies

    1 to 3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course allows the supervised study of a specialized area not provided in the regular curriculum or provides a supervised study of a topical area of varied length, i.e. An arrangement must be made with a full-time faculty member to sponsor a student’s research or study. one to three semester credit hours.

  

  • URB 8620 - Advanced Seminar in Research Design and Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course provides doctoral students and research-track Master’s students with essential skills for developing a research proposal. It introduces students to the fundamentals of research design in social sciences, covering topics such as theories of knowledge, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, causality and validity, and ethical and practical considerations. We will contextualize the design and implementation of social research in urban studies and practice reading and critiquing empirical urban research.

  

  • URB 8660 - Urban Environments

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examines the physical environmental processes relating to soil, climate, water, and ecosystems that characterize urban environments as opposed to more natural or rural ones. Explores the human-environmental interface in urban areas as reflected in issues such as environmental justice, sustainability, resilience, population growth, unequal distribution of resources, and public health. Sustainability will be particularly emphasized. The City of Atlanta is used as a living laboratory for the course.

  

  • URB 8661 - Housing Markets and Housing Policy

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    In-depth examination of housing market dynamics and processes, including racial and economic segregation, gentrification, affordability, housing finance, and other phenomena. Study of alternative local, state, and federal policies, both historical and contemporary, aimed at reducing housing problems and providing for fair and affordable housing and sustainable community development.

  

  • URB 8670 - The Interdisciplinary City

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Drawing from the expertise of the Urban Studies Institute and Georgia State faculty, students will be trained as ‘boundary agents’. Each week, students will examine a particular urban lens, or compare and contrast across multiple disciplinary perspectives, through a combination of assigned readings, discussions with external speakers, and field-based research. They will assess and apply multiple disciplinary perspectives, including their own background and training, to a key theme throughout the course. Examples include: equitable urban development; sustainable suburbanization; sharing the city at night; fostering regional mobility; towards the carbon-neutral city; and creating resilient communities.

  

  • URB 8680 - Community Development & Affordable Housing Finance

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Interested in community development and affordable housing? This course will teach the fundamentals of project finance, methods for financing projects that benefit communities and provide critical affordable housing, and the essentials of development finance tools such as the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and New Markets Tax. It will also give students the skills needed to assess the financial viability of development projects of all kinds.

  

  • URB 8999 - Graduate Research in Urban Studies

    3 to 18 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course is designed for graduate research and teaching assistant seeking to conduct supervised research on topics related to project duties or instructional technologies. May be repeated for credit; does not count towards degree requirements.

  

  • URB 9010 - Advanced Seminar in Urban Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Must be a PhD student.
    Description
    Addressing the urban question - or, what is analytically distinct about urban social processes - lies at the core of urban studies. In this advanced doctoral seminar, students will examine the foundations and frontiers of urban theory and research.

  

  • URB 9011 - Urban Environmental Sustainability

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Enrolled PhD student.
    Description
    Masters students require instructor approval. This course is designed to increase the understanding of systems dynamics, cascading effects, and scale, and to develop expertise in transdisciplinary research to address urban environmental sustainability challenges using a systems approach.

  

  • URB 9012 - Urban Economic Resilience

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course will focus on the economic capacity (e.g., productivity, employment, investment) of cities and their ability to absorb shocks and disturbances while retaining functionality; mitigation policies, and adaptation strategies to cope with changing economic fortunes.

  

  • URB 9020 - Advanced Urban Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: PhD Student.
    Description
    This course will introduce students to the key concepts, considerations, and debates of research design in urban studies. This would likely include theories of knowledge, ethical issues, exploration of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, and practical guidelines for developing a successful and feasible dissertation research project.

  

  • URB 9300 - Comprehensive Exam Development

    6 Credit Hours
    Description
    The coverage of the written comprehensive exam will be described in a Field Description, developed by the student in conjunction with the Committee under direction of the Committee Chair. This course will develop the Field Description expected to include a description of both theoretical and empirical work and including a detailed bibliography for each section.

  

  • URB 9400 - Dissertation Proposal and Research Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course will enable students to develop their dissertation proposal and methods. Upon completion students will have to defend this proposal successfully in order to continue to dissertation research.

  

  • URB 9500 - Dissertation Research

    3 to 18 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course provides space for students to work on their dissertation research in preparation for oral defense. The dissertation allows the Ph.D. candidate to demonstrate his or her ability to conduct a research program leading to a significant contribution to the candidate’s discipline. At least 15 hours of research must be completed, though a student may also register for more should the circumstance call for it.


Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
  

  • WGSS 4110 - Black Women and Health

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as AAS 4110.) Black Women and Health examines the intersections of race, gender, and health with a critical focus on the health experiences of women in the United States with some discussion of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Global Scholars course.

  

  • WGSS 6010 - Feminist Praxis

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course questions how structures and cultures influence our praxis in formal organizations as well as can our daily choices be feminist praxis. Using feminist concepts this course challenges us to explore ways that feminist understandings shape and ground organizing, praxis and everyday life. Students will be introduced to works targeting the six main aspects of a feminist ‘s life: relationships, family, work, friends, spirituality and intellect, and personal well being.

  

  • WGSS 6040 - Gender/Race/Class in Complex Societies

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as ANTH 6060). Experiential learning in the urban setting through direct exposure to and experience in an ethnic community. Informed awareness of the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of ethnic communities within the community and larger society.

  

  • WGSS 6052 - Africana Women and Socio Political Change

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An examination of gender and power relationships in the Africana World. Crosslisted as AAS 6052.

  

  • WGSS 6110 - Black Women and Health

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course examines the intersections of race, gender, and health with a critical focus on the health experiences of women in the United States with some discussion of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. (Same as AAS 6110.)

  

  • WGSS 6111 - Anthropology of Self and Emotion

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course draws upon readings in anthropological theory and ethnography to consider the cultural construction of self-hood, identity, and feelings, with an emphasis on the historical specificity of particular experiences, how they may be influenced by factors such as capitalism, how they may change over time, and the significance of gender. (Same as ANTH 6111.)

  

  • WGSS 6210 - Gender and Power in Ethnographic Perspective

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as ANTH 6420.) Ethnographic and theoretical examination of the role of gender in human societies, including role differences and inequalities between women and men cross-culturally; the cultural significance and social institutions associated with public and domestic spheres; power, ideology, and the production of historically specific gender identities and sexualities; global perspectives on feminism and approaches to women’s empowerment.

  

  • WGSS 6240 - Sexuality and Gender in Asia

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Students will be exposed to studies of sexuality and gender in Asia from the perspective of feminist theory, queer theory, LGBT studies, and women’s gender, and sexuality studies. Materials explored include academic texts, memoir, fiction, and film. No prior course on Asian Studies is required. The course will be particularly useful for majors/minors in Women’s Studies and anthropology. (Same as ANTH 6241.)

  

  • WGSS 6310 - Girls

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as ANTH 6320 and SOCI 6315.) Feminist analyses of who girls are and how they are socialized in our society. Girls’ experiences with social institutions, growth and development issues, self-esteem and body image, sexuality, culture and media, third-wave feminism, and girls’ movements.

  

  • WGSS 6470 - Visual Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Study of the visual politics of social organization with emphasis on the images and the arenas of everyday life in North American culture. Includes explorations of the fashion system, the medical body, the cosmetic and fitness industry, visual colonialism, museum displays, and high and popular art. (Same as ANTH 6470.)

  

  • WGSS 6510 - Feminist Political Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as POLS 6510.) This course is divided into three sections. The first is an overview of the treatment of women in Western political thought. The second is an analysis of five strands of feminist thinking: liberal, Marxist, socialist, radical, and postmodern. The third is a more detailed look at a few particular authors, including de Beauvoir, Gilligan, hooks, and MacKinnon.

  

  • WGSS 6580 - Thinking the Body

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course considers different threads of feminist and social body theory as they consider the idealization and representation of the body, the input of biopolitical and scientifico-medical discourses on notions of the body, and interrogate the perceived materiality of the body. The course also addresses interventions in normalizing body discourses, specifically in genres of performance art, memoir, and personal essay. Crosslisted with WGSS 4580.

  

  • WGSS 6590 - Cultural Studies of Gender

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Introduces students to cultural studies as methodological approach to studying gender and culture. The topics vary each year; however, the course will consistently examine how popular culture provides a means for understanding social negotiation, politics and identity construction that people enact in everyday activities with a special focus on the role of gender.

  

  • WGSS 6720 - Feminist Issues in Contemporary Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Crosslisted with AH 4720, AH 6720, and WGSS 4720 Emphasis on feminist analyses of contemporary art and visual culture.

  

  • WGSS 6740 - Women Artists

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as AH 6750). A survey of women artists from prehistory to the present.

  

  • WGSS 6750 - Black Feminist Thought

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as AAS 6007.) Explores the tradition of Black feminism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will critically read, discuss, and respond in writing to a series of texts representing Black feminist thought and its relationship to other feminisms. Students will be expected to demonstrate their knowledge of the Black feminist tradition and to demonstrate their ability to query, compare, and extend Black feminist theories.

  

  • WGSS 6760 - Activism: History and Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Theoretical and historical perspectives on activism, focusing on how various types of activism are intertwined, the emergence of second-wave feminism within the context of civil rights and anti-war movements, and current feminist activisms within broader social justice frameworks. Students are required to spend a specified number of hours per week working on an activist project. This course is required for students following the Activist Track of the M.A. in Women’s Studies.

  

  • WGSS 6770 - Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 with a grade of C or better.
    Description
    This course thinks about the kinds of conceptual tools: questions, methods, theories, histories, geographies, time periods, and social/cultural movements needed in order to understand the dynamic and shifting terrain of gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora. Colonialism, slavery, social movements as well as transnational circuits of music, self-expression, desire and consumption/production will frame our approach to theorizing gender and sexuality in the actual and imagined spaces of the African Diaspora. Crosslisted with WGSS 4770.

  

  • WGSS 6780 - African-American Lesbian and Gay Activism

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examines the speeches, writings, and other public communication of African-American lesbians and gay men who promote democratic ideals. Surveys historical and contemporary issues confronting this marginalized population. Emphasis on thematic and cultural critical approaches.

  

  • WGSS 6791 - Sexuality, Space, and Global Cities

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Considers the ways that space/geography, particularly the “global city,” informs how we approach studying sexuality, gender and globalization. Examines how attending to the production of space and bodies can expand the ways we think about gender formation, sexual practices, behaviors, desires and identities.

  

  • WGSS 6810 - Feminism and Foucault

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Provides a broad overview of the works of the French philosopher, Michel Foucault, and emphasizes feminist/womanist use of his theories and methods to analyze domination and resistance.

  

  • WGSS 6820 - Feminism and Queer Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Analyzes the relations of sexuality and gender identity, as well as the interrelationships among these identities and other institutions, such as capitalism, globalization, art and performance, the law, media, and academia.

  

  • WGSS 6830 - Class Matters

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Investigates the complexities of class in the U.S., where it is elusive because we often imagine ourselves free from the fixed hierarchies of other societies or, at the very least, overestimate our class mobility. Connects issues of social stratification to other systemic oppressions, such as race and gender, in the context of increasing globalization.

  

  • WGSS 6842 - Sexuality and Nationalism

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course explores the relationship between modern forms of identity, sexuality, gender and political regimes. We will explore the deployment of sexuality in various political systems and discuss the specific relations between nationalism and sexuality.

  

  • WGSS 6844 - Youth and Sexualities

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This class takes up the intersections of youth and sexuality. Readings, discussion, and analysis focus on the ways adults seek to govern the sexual subjectivities of young people and the ways young people respond to their surroundings as they create identities and social practices related to sexuality. Focuses of the course include practices of governing others and the self relating to sex education, the creation of “LGBT” and “queer” youth, social scientific “expertise,” and popular culture.

  

  • WGSS 6846 - Gender, War, and Militarism in/and the Middle East

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Crosslisted with WGSS 4846. This course explores the interrelationships of war and militarism with gender and sexuality, with a focus on the geopolitical context of the Middle East. Students will engage with a variety of feminist and queer perspectives and disciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies, including history, anthropology, literature, international relations, and cultural studies.

  

  • WGSS 6860 - Feminist Philosophy

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as PHIL 6870). Classical and contemporary issues concerning women, such as discrimination on the basis of gender, class, race, or sexuality, whether gender is natural or constructed, and historical roots of feminist and anti-feminist perspectives.

  

  • WGSS 6910 - Special Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Intensive treatment of specified topics in women’s studies.

  

  • WGSS 8001 - Feminist Theories

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Students will be exposed to feminist intersectional approaches to gender, race, class and sexuality. This course serves as an introduction to the spectrum of feminist theories and their intellectual contexts. Students will be exposed to theoretical projects such as liberalism/neoliberalism, marxism, post-structuralism/post-modernism, psychoanalytic theory, and post-colonial studies. Engagements and critiques of these theories may include but are not limited to womanism, black feminist thought, queer theory, ecofeminism, transnational feminism, marxist/socialist feminism, and psychoanalytic feminism.

  

  • WGSS 8002 - Globalization and Gender

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An exploration of the social, political, and economic impacts of globalization aimed toward understanding the gendered dynamics of global economic restructuring. The course will include a consideration of the relationship between globalization on the one hand and imperialism, national security, and imprisonment on the other. Students will survey a range of feminist theories and responses to globalization, including, but not limited to, transnational feminisms, postcolonial theory, and postmodern theories.

  

  • WGSS 8003 - New Directions in Feminism

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Emerging perspectives in feminist theory, feminist activism, and the field of women’s studies. May examine how feminism and women’s studies intersect with other critical theories and social movements. Specific topics vary by instructor.

  

  • WGSS 8004 - Feminist Methodologies

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This interdisciplinary course critiques masculinist and other hegemonic knowledge practices by moving between epistemology, theory, methods and ethics. Rather than training students in particular research methods, this course engages students with feminist epistemological and methodological critiques and theories applicable to their research methods and design.

  

  • WGSS 8005 - Proseminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    1 to 2 Credit Hours
    Description
    Introduction to discipline-specific research skills and socialization experiences in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Required for all first-year WGSS M.A. students. Students take Part A of this year-long course in Fall for 1 credit hour, and Part B in the Spring for 2 credit hours. Students are required to attend certain departmental events in addition to class sessions.

  

  • WGSS 8006 - Feminist Pedagogy

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Introduction to both theoretical and practical components of feminist pedagogy. The phrase €œfeminist pedagogy € refers to pedagogical practices that work to be anti-oppressive and liberatory. It develops within a tradition of critical pedagogy, which involves both a critique of the university as a place that acts as a €œgatekeeper € for class privilege and €œappropriate € subject-formation as well as a vision of the university where we can contest power relations and imagine new possibilities for expanding the intelligible. In other words, feminist pedagogy imagines the classroom as a space to encourage deep exploration of social problems in order to critically evaluate and explore social justice frameworks. In the class, students will utilize these theoretical frameworks in order to develop their own specific goals and evaluate specific teaching strategies for use in their own classrooms.

  

  • WGSS 8007 - Advanced Black Feminisms

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Advanced graduate seminar exploring the various traditions that contribute to the field of Black Feminist Thought.

  

  • WGSS 8010 - Affect and Cultural Politics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course evaluates how interdisciplinary conceptualizations of affect inform analysis of contemporary theoretical, cultural, social, and political problems and issues. Objects of analysis include mass and popular culture, literature, visual art and aesthetics, scenes of activism, the body, modernity, neoliberalism and globalization.

  

  • WGSS 8075 - Feminist Literary Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as ENGL 8075.) Survey of contemporary ideas, issues, and concepts in feminist literary theory.

  

  • WGSS 8152 - Birth and Parenthood

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as SOCI 8152.) Pregnancy, birth, and parenting; fatherhood and motherhood in a social and historical context.

  

  • WGSS 8156 - Sexuality and Society

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as SOCI 8156.) Social construction of sexuality, examining the ways human groups attach meaning to emotions, desires, and relationships. Sexuality across the life course, including dating, varieties of relationships, birth control and procreative technologies, sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, and sex and law.

  

  • WGSS 8216 - Gender and Society

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as SOCI 8216.) Social construction of gender, gender-based stratification, and power dynamics.

  

  • WGSS 8300 - Feminist Media Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as COMM 8000). A seminar providing a transdisciplinary, transnational exploration of the various feminist theoretical and methodological approaches to the field of media studies, with attention to its historical, cultural, social, political and economic dimensions.

  

  • WGSS 8500 - Activism Practicum

    5 Credit Hours
    Corequisites: WGSS 8510.
    Description
    Supervised, field-based work in a social-change oriented organizational setting.

  

  • WGSS 8510 - Activism Proseminar

    1 Credit Hours
    Corequisites: WGSS 8500.
    Description
    Provides an arena for discussion of relevant scholarship and issues, presentations, and evaluation of practicum experience.

  

  • WGSS 8750 - Seminar in Feminist Philosophy

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as PHIL 8870.) Selected topics in feminist philosophy.

  

  • WGSS 8810 - Seminar in the History of Gender

    4 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as HIST 8810.) Relationship between the ideology of gender and social or cultural practices; special attention to race, religion, work, politics, or empire. Topics vary according to instructor;

  

  • WGSS 8920 - Special Topics in Women’s Studies

    3 to 4 Credit Hours
    Description
    Critical analysis of a selected topic in Women’s Studies.

  

  • WGSS 8930 - Directed Readings

    1 to 3 Credit Hours
    Description
  

  • WGSS 8990 - Directed Research

    1 to 9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of institute director.
    Description
    Not applicable to degree requirements. May be repeated as necessary.

  

  • WGSS 8999 - Thesis Research

    1 to 9 Credit Hours
    Description

World Languages and Cultures
  

  • WLC 6128 - Teaching World Languages at the College Level

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course presents theories of second language acquisition and practical methods of world language instruction at the college level, engaging students with current issues in the area of second language learning within these frameworks, and helping them consider what teachers they want to become, with a focus on a communicative language approach.

  

  • WLC 8300 - Critical Approaches in Linguistics and Cultural Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Focus  on  theoretical  frameworks  and  methods  employed  in  the  study  of  linguistics.

  

  • WLC 8310 - Critical Approaches to Methods and Research

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This is a core course for graduate students in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. It uses approaches to methods and research to explore the field of translingual and transnational theories that intervene in the construction of identity and may result in linguistically inclusive pedagogical approaches. This course is taught in English.

  

  • WLC 8320 - Cultural and Literary Analysis and Production

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This is a core course for graduate students in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. It centers on cultural and literary analysis and is designed to familiarize the student with competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. This course is taught in English.

  

  • WLC 8330 - The Media, the Arts, and Popular Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This is a core course for graduate students in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. It centers on Francophone or Spanish-language media in translation. It explores various historical periods, media forms and theories of reception. This course is taught in English.

  

  • WLC 8340 - Learning a World Language

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This is a core course for graduate students in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. Students will study the different aspects and mechanisms that intervene in learning a world language. The content of this course will vary whether the language of focus studied is French or Spanish. This course is taught in English.

  

  • WLC 8350 - Identities, Borders, and Social Justice in Language Teaching and Learning

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course aims to explore the connection between identities, (psychological and physical) borders, and social justice issues as contextualized in language/culture learning and teaching. This is a core course for WLC’s graduate students. Taught in English.

  

  • WLC 8360 - The Profession, Career and Intercultural Experiences

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This is a core course for graduate students in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. It features a series of hands-on activities designed to facilitate students’ individualized College to Career pathways. This course is taught in English.

  

  • WLC 8998 - MA Capstone

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Open only to WLC Graduate students in their third or fourth semester of study.
    Description
    This is a core course for graduate students in the Department of WLC. In preparation for their MA Exit Exam, in this course, students progress on their written portfolio’s main sections and their capstone project. This course is taught in English.

 

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