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V3111 Feminist Texts I: Wollstonecraft to Beauvoir.
L. Ciolkowski
Call#03365
R 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
4pts. Readings of texts produced before the Second Wave of 20th century feminism. Explores some sources of that feminism and some ways that women and men experienced gender as both theory and lived practice prior to development of a contemporary political language for articulating those experiences.
V3112 Feminist Texts II: Beauvoir to the Present.
E. Bernstein
Call#01545
R 11am-12:50pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. Contemporary issues in feminist thought. A review of theoretical debates on sex roles, feminism and socialims, psychoanalysis, language, and cultural representations. Authoris include Simone de Beauvoir, J.S. Mill, A. Kollantai, Zora Neale Hurston, and others.Prerequisite: the instructor's permission.
BC3117 Women and Film
J. Beller
Call#09389
M 7:10pm-9:30pm, W 4:10pm-5:30pm, TBA
3pts. Critical interpretation of film from a feminist perspective and exploration of the relationship of gender to the language of film.
BC3150 Gender & Civil Rights Movement
L. Collins
Call#07651
T 2:10pm-4:00pm, TBA
4pts. Check department website for course description.
V3311 Colloquium in Feminist Theory.
S. Hartman
Call#10900
W 11am-12:50pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. Contemporary issues in feminist thought. A review of the theoretical debates on sex roles, feminism and socialism, psychoanalysis, language, and cultural representations.
BC3515 Women and Israel: An Introduction
I. Klepfisz
Call#08742
T 4:10-6:00pm, TBA
4pts. Focuses primarily on the contemporary status and experiences of Jewish and non-Jewish women living in Israel, with sessions on: women and the law; Jewish minorities; Palestinian women; Jewish women and the military; violence against women; Israeli feminism; pre-State Israel and women and the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
BC3518 Studies in US Imperialism
N. Tadiar
Call#02095
T 11am-12:50pm, TBA
4pts. Historical, comparative study of the cultural effects and social experiences of U.S. Imperialism, with attention to race, gender and sexuality in practices of political, economic, and cultural domination and struggle. Material includes studies of US Imperialism in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, and Cuba and US foreign involvements in the developing world since World War II.
V3522 Senior Seminar II.
J. Crawford
Section 001
Call#91296
M 2:10-4pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. Seminar for the preparation of the senior thesis for Columbia’s Women’s and Gender Studies majors. Individual research in Women’s and Gender Studies conducted in consultation with the instructor.
T. Szell
Section 002
Call#01088
W 4:10-6pm
4pts. Second semester of a seminar for the preparation of the senior thesis for Barnard majors. Individual research in Women's Studies conducted in consultation with the instructor. The result of each research projects submitted in the form of the senior essay and presented to the seminar. Open to Columbia majors.
G4000 Genealogies of Feminism: Gender, Feminisms and Diaspora.
M. Dobie
Call#97747
W 2:10pm-4:00pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
3pts. These seminars are directed toward students with previous work in feminist scholarship but are open to all majors. Check back for a description.
W4300 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Black Feminism: Theory, Politics, Activism.
J. Nash
Section 001
Call#87529
T 2:10-4:00pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
4pts. Patricia Hill Collins described black feminism as a kind of “critical social theory.” This course is a rigorous examination of the kinds of theory-making, practice, and political activism that has constituted black feminist thought in the last fifty years. By studying black feminist approaches to identity, cultural production, sexuality, and the politics of representation, we will learn about the variety of ways that black feminists have staked out their own analytic terrain. Our approach will be marked by an understanding that black feminism is a contested, vibrant, shifting set of ideas, practices, and politics, not a static set of doctrines. As we trace black feminism's evolution from the Civil Rights era to an ostensibly post-Civil Rights era, we will learn about black feminisms, and we will analyze the panoply of ways that black feminist frameworks have been deployed to imagine a more egalitarian social world.
W4300 Advanced Topics in Women's and Gender Studies: Chinese Feminisms in a Global World.
D. Ko, L. Liu, and R. Karl
Section 002
Call#98448
T 4:10-6pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
4pts. This seminar examines the entanglements between discourses of feminism and modernity in China. In the Post-Mao or Reform period in the PRC (1979-present), Chinese scholars and activists have been engaging in vigorous debates about the roots of female oppression, the nature of femininity, the definitions of “woman” and “human,” the proper relationship between the state and feminism, as well as the role of “the West” in “Chinese” articulations.
W4311 Feminism & Science Studies.
R. Young
Call#03461
W 11am-12:50pm, TBA
4pts. Investigates socially and historically informed critiques of theoretical methods and practices of the sciences. It asks if/how feminist theoretical and political concerns make a critical contribution to science studies.
V4320 Thinking Sexuality: Queer Theories & Histories.
G. Pflugfelder
Call#13779
M 11am-12:50pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
4pts. The course will cover a range of (mostly U.S. and mostly 20th-Century) materials that thematize gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender experience and identity. We will study fiction and autobiographical texts, historical, psychoanalytic, and sociological materials, queer theory, and films, focusing on modes of representing sexuality and on the intersections between sexuality and race, ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality. We will also investigate connections between the history of LGBT activism and current events. Authors will include Foucault, Freud, Butler, Sedgwick, Anzaldua, Moraga, Smith. Students will present, and then write up, research projects of their own choosing. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
G8001 Feminist Pedagogy.
L. Abu-Lughod
Call#88442
January 29, February 19, March 5, and April 9, 12-2pm, 754 Schermerhorn Ext.
1pts. The goals of this course are to develop a community in which to discuss issues of feminist pedagogy: to ask what it means to teach as a feminist, to think about the gender dynamics of the classroom, and to think about feminist course content. This is a one-credit course so the demands are light: do the reading and assignments, and come to class prepared to discuss them.
Crosslisted Courses
82110 Philosophy and Feminism.
C. Mercer
Call#86746
TR 10:35-11:50am, TBA
3pts. Same as PHIL V2110. Is there an essential difference between women and men? How do questions about race conflict or overlap with those about gender? Is there a "normal" way of being "queer"? Introduction to philosophy and feminism through a critical discussion of these and other questions using historical and contemporary texts, art, and public lectures. Focus includes essentialism, difference, identity, knowledge, objectivity, and queerness.
83225 Virginia Woolf and Modernism.
S. Cole
Call#81596
MW 1:10-2:25pm, TBA
3pts. Same as ENGL W3225. In this course, we will approach the literary culture of British modernism through the prism of Virginia Woolf's works. We will read a range of Woolf's writings, fiction and non-fiction, interspersed with a small number of other modernist texts, creating a sense of dialogue and interaction. Other writers include Conrad, Eliot, Lawrence, Wells, and Mansfield.
83456 Women & Gender in the Muslim World.
L. Abu-Lughod
Call#22047
TR 2:40pm-3:55pm, 503 Hamilton Hall
3pts. Same as ANTH V3465. Practices like veiling that are central to WEstern images of women and Islam are also contested issues throughout the Muslim world. Examines debates about Islam and gender and explores the interplay of cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping women's lives in teh Muslim world, from teh Middle East to Southeast Asia.
83900 Introduction to Comparative Literature and Society: Translating C. P. Cavafy.
K. Van Dyck
Call#60998
T 4:10-6pm, TBA
3pts. Same as CPLS V3900. C. P. Cavafy, a poet of the Greek Diaspora in Alexandria, had a profound influence on writers such as E.M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, W.H. Auden, Marguerite Yourcenar, James Merrill and Joseph Brodsky as well as artists such David Hockney and Duane Michaels. By examining Cavafy's work in all its permutations (as criticism, translation, adaptions, music, prints, photography, film), this course introduces students to a wide range of critical approaches used in the comparative study of literature and society. The Cavafy case becomes an experimental ground for different kinds of comparative literature methods, those that engage social-historical issues such as postcoloniality, sexuality, diaspora, as well as linguistic issues such as multilingualism, typography and translation. How does this poet "at a slight angle to the universe" challenge contemporary theories of gender and literature as national institution? Though this course presupposes no knowledge of Greek, students wanting to read Cavafy in the original are encouraged to take the 1-credit tutorial offered simultaneously through the Program in Hellenic Studies.
83950 British Drama: Plays of Caryl Churchill.
J. Howard
Call#77447
W 11am-12:50pm, TBA
4pts. Same as ENGL W3950. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. (Seminar). This seminar will explore the full range of plays by Caryl Churchill, arguably the most inventive English playwright of the late 20th and early 21st century. A consistently political writer, Churchill has written over twenty-five theater pieces exploring such topics as the English Revolution of the seventeenth-century, the feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s, the politics of cloning, Margaret Thatcher's destruction of the British post-war social contract, the relationship of the United States and Britain at the turn of the twentieth century, modern totalitarianism, environmental apocalypse, and the relations between Israel and Palestine. Among the first to employ cross-race and cross-gender casting, Churchill is an indefatigable experimentalist when it comes to theatrical form. In this seminar we will be reading approximately 15 or her plays, exploring both her dramaturgy and her ideas. I hope that productions of some of her plays will be on in the city during the course of the semester, and if so we will attend them. Participants will be expected to work in groups to explore aspects of Churchill's dramaturgy, the performance history of her plays, and the cultural contexts from which she drew inspiration when writing them. The class will culminate with a final ten to fifteen-page seminar paper.
84631 Brazilian Feminism, National Politics and International Propositions.
L. Machado
Call#62853
T 11am-12:50pm, TBA
Same as ANTH G4631. This course is a contribution for an anthropological study of the historical, social and cultural context of the development of feminism in Brazil since the seventies. At the same time, it is a contribution for a comparative study of feminist movements as women's movements centered on "women's issues" and "gender issues". The focus is on a Brazilian feminist movement that can be considered, depending on the perspective, as a feminism movement in a "Third World" society, a "south" society, a society in development or, as a Western feminist women's movement.
86285 Islam, Women and the State.
S. Altorki
Call#97450
T 4:10-6pm, TBA
Same as ANTH G6285. This graduate seminar deals with issues in the politics of gender in Muslim societies. Taking an anthropological perspective, it will explore the relationship among women, religion and society, including its political institutions. More specifically, it stresses how actors deploy culture and religion to construct “new” realities in the political contexts of these societies. Focusing on gender as a system, we will examine how women confirm, contest and/or redefine their participation in society.
86550 Cultural Studies: Trauma, Terror, and Performance.
M. Hirsch
Call#10796
W 4:10-6pm, TBA
Same as ENGL G6550. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructors. (Seminar). This course explores the interconnections between trauma, terror, memory, and performance through three major 20th and 21st c. events - the Holocaust, Argentina's 'Dirty War,' and the United States's post 9/11 "war on terror " - and the theoretical questions they raise. Do they each have their own unique structure and idiom, or can we think about individual and collective trauma through a trans-local, cosmopolitan lens? Topics include: the performance of state power and state sponsored terror; the individual and collective nature of trauma; the effects of gender, race and power on trauma and memory; embodied practices such as testimony and witnessing, their use in literature, museums, pedagogy, and performance, and their archivization; the relation of torture and truth; the social role of sites of memory and memorialization (Auschwitz, Club Atlético, Ground Zero, Guantanamo, etc.); theaters of justice such as trials, tribunals and truth commissions; performances of protest and resistance. This course draws from classic and recent readings at the juncture of trauma, memory, and performance studies. To build on the paradigms suggested by the Holocaust, Argentina's 'Dirty War,' and the U.S. after 9/11, students will be encouraged to extend the topics explored in class to other sites. Please note that this is a consortium course which will alternate meetings at Columbia and NYU. Students need to figure travel time into their plans. We plan to meet on Wednesdays from 4 -6:30. During the semester, several evening talks and seminars will be organized in conjunction with the course, both at Columbia and NYU.
Application Instructions: To apply for the seminar, please send a paragraph stating your interest and preparation to Professor Hirsch (mh2349@columbia.edu) by November 15.
88011 Gender, Feminism and Cultural Diversity.
L. Machado
Call#88052
R 11am-12:50pm, TBA
Same as ANTH G8011. This research seminar will prepare students to conduct research and write a paper on the intersections of feminism, social movements, human rights, social-science research on gender, and studies of cultural diversity. The discussion on human rights in implying regulation has developed strongly not only in social sciences as well as in juridical and judicial debates and are always requiring new research and analysis.
Gender Related Courses in Other DepartmentsFor more information about these courses, including day/time, professor, and description, please look in our course guide.
Anthropology
V3525 Introduction to South Asian History and Culture.
V3939 Millennial Futures: Mass Culture and Japan.
V3978 Dialogic Imagination in Opera.
W4015 Textual Analysis: Vernacular Paleography.
W4289 Women in Post-Socialist Transformations: Ukraine, Russia, and Poland in Focus.
Architecture
A4391 Gender & Modern Architecture.
Art History
BC3948 The Visual Culture of the Harlem Renaissance.
G6687 Dada and Surrealism.
Asian American Studies
W1010 Introduction to Asian American Studies.
Athena Center for Leadership Studies
BC3450 Women and Leadership.
Classic Civilization
V3400 Greek American Culture - Diaspora, Translation, Greek-American Experience.
W4390 The Politics of Poiein: Greek Poets and Their Interlocuters.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
W3370 Social Change in East Asia.
W3881 History of Modern China II.
G9861 Gender & Writing in China-Korea.
Economics
BC2010 Economics of Gender.
English & Comparative Literature
BC3177 Victorian Age in Literature: Novel in Victorian England.
BC3180. American Literature 1800-1870.
W3220 Modern Poetry II.
W3244 Chivalry and Love.
W3401 African American Literature II.
W3716 American Literary Traditions: American Humor.
W3922 Studies in the Novel: Modern Odysseys.
W3985 Film Noir.
BC3998 Sec. 004 Senior Seminar: Sexuality and Spirituality.
BC3998 Sec. 006 Senior Seminar: Late Shakespeare: Visions and Revisions.
W4405 The Fin de Siecle, 1880-1990:Sensation & Denegration.
W4822 The Novel in Europe II: 19th c. European Fiction: Country and City in the 19th c. European Novel.
G6740 Early 20th c. British Drama.
First-Year Seminar
BC1130 Myths of Maternity.
BC1181 The American Supernatural.
BC1284 Staging American Identity.
BC1329 Women and Culture II.
BC1333 Women and Culture II.
French and Romance Philology
W3421 Introduction to French and Francophone Studies II.
History
BC3567 American Women in the 20thc.
W3640 Jewish Women & Family 1000-1800.
BC4870 Gender & Migration: A Global Perspective.
W3901 History of Sexuality.
G8547 History of Women & Gender.
G8767 Key Readings in Women, Gender, and Sexuality in African History.
International Affairs
U6370 Women and Global Leadership.
U8785 Gender, Politics, & Development.
U8792 Women & Non-Profit Management.
Italian
G4391 Italian Women Writers 1945-1990.
Law
L6214 Civil Rights.
L6252 Family Law.
L8006 Domestic Violence and the Law.
L9149 Sexual Harassment in Employment: Policy and Practice.
L9153 Topics in Law and Sexuality.
L9169 Abortion: Law in Context.
L9551 Feminist Legal Theory Workshop.
Middle East and Asian Languages and Culture
V2008 Contemporary Islamic Civilization.
G8280 Study of Gender and Sexuality in the Arab World.
Music
V2500 Women and Music.
Political Science
BC3303 Colloquium on Race, Gender and American Political Development.
BC3507 Colloquium on Gender, Politics, and Markets.
Psychology
BC2154 Hormones and Reproductive Behavior.
BC3152 Psychological Aspects of Human Sexuality.
Social Work
T6133 Social Work Practice with Women.
T7311 Social Work Practice with Battered Women.
T7312 Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients.
T7820 International Social Development Practice.
Sociology
W3302 Sociology of Gender Roles.
Urban Studies
V3460 Race, Gender, and Urban Violence.
Writing
R6225 Nonfiction Seminar: Family Matters.
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