2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    May 02, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


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Violin

  
  • VLN 516 - Violin/Music Major

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For music students.
  
  • VLN 615 - Violin/Music Major

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • VLN 616 - Violin/Music Major

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • VLN 715 - Violin/Music Major

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • VLN 716 - Violin/Music Major

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.

Voice

  
  • VOC 510 - Voice/Non Music Majors

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For non-music students.
  
  • VOC 515 - Voice/Music Majors

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • VOC 516 - Voice/Music Majors

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • VOC 520 - Vocal Coaching

    1-2 credit(s) Every semester
    Private coaching of vocal repertoire for singers and pianists. Music majors only.
    Repeatable 7 time(s), 16 credits maximum
  
  • VOC 615 - Voice/Music Majors

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • VOC 616 - Voice/Music Major

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • VOC 625 - Grad Voc Prfrmnc Sem I

    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    Weekly seminar in studio and department-wide sessions on those aspects of being a professional singer not covered in normal coursework or lessons.
  
  • VOC 626 - Grad Voc Prfrmnc Sem II

    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    Weekly seminar in studio and department-wide sessions on those aspects of being a professional singer not covered in normal coursework or lessons.
  
  • VOC 627 - Grad Voc Prfrmnc Sem III

    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    Weekly seminar in studio and department-wide sessions on those aspects of being a professional singer not covered in normal coursework or lessons.
  
  • VOC 628 - Grad Voc Prfrmnc Sem IV

    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    Weekly seminar in studio and department-wide sessions on those aspects of being a professional singer not covered in normal coursework or lessons.
  
  • VOC 715 - Voice/Music Major

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • VOC 716 - Voice/Music Majors

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.

Women’s and Gender Studies

  
  • WGS 500 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • WGS 512 - African American Women’s History

    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: AAS 512 
    The intellectual, political, and social history of African American women from pre-colonial Africa to the re-emergence of black feminism in the late 20th-century United States.
  
  • WGS 513 - Toni Morrison: Black Book Seminar

    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: AAS 513 
    A multi-dimensional study of Morrison’s bookwork: fiction, non-fiction, and scholarship. Involves conceptual frameworks and ideas that link this project with broader understandings and interpretations of Blacks in the world. A wide range of questions (i.e., aesthetics, feminisms, knowing-politics, language, race) derives from Morrison’s literary witnessing of Black community life.
  
  • WGS 525 - Economics and Gender

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: ECN 525 
    Offered only in Strasbourg. European economy, with central focus on economic principles underlying decisions to create and extend scope of European Community and on economic policies EU has followed since creation.
  
  • WGS 553 - Women and Social Change

    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: ANT 553 
    Function of changes in women’s roles in sociocultural urbanization, revolution, and modernization. Women in Third World countries compared to women in industrialized countries.
  
  • WGS 555 - Food, Culture and Environment

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: NSD 555 
    Understand the environment in which nutrition education and communication occur. The broader environment includes cultural diversity, the food system from farm to table, as well as functionality of food components.
  
  • WGS 576 - Gender, Place, and Space

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: GEO 576 
    Contemporary debates in feminist geography on the gendered construction of space and the spatial construction of gender.
  
  • WGS 600 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • WGS 601 - Feminist Theory

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    How feminists have identified social problems, challenged dominant paradigms, and imagined change. Challenges the universalization of the category “women.” How “theory” takes many forms and how differences in positionality and experience shape theoretical goals and models.
  
  • WGS 605 - Religion and the Body in Late Antiquity

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: REL 605 
    History of the human body as history of its modes of construction in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Problems that arise when the body becomes a topic for religious inquiry. Readings in ancient texts and contemporary theory.
  
  • WGS 612 - French Women Writers

    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: FRE 612 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 412
    Trends in French feminine and feminist writing from the early modern period to the present. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WGS 614 - Introduction to Qualitative Research

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Crosslisted with: EDU 603 , SOC 614 
    Developing and using qualitative methods used by sociologists to conduct research. Underlying assumptions and limitations.
  
  • WGS 615 - Communication, Power & Gender

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: CRS 614 
    Consideration of the ways in which communication structures power and gender relations. Reviewing Continental and North American literature on power, and feminist literature on gender, students study how communication produces social identities and hierarchies.
  
  • WGS 625 - Feminist Organizations

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: SOC 625 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 425
    Women’s movement history in the United States and internationally. Successes and problems of organizations built by feminist activism. Implications for a new generation of feminist (and other) activism. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WGS 626 - Persons in Social Context

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: SWK 626 
    Assessment of behavior of diverse individuals, groups, and social systems. Applying concepts from the biological, behavioral, and social sciences in identifying and understanding forms and causes of behavior.
  
  • WGS 627 - New York City: Black Women Domestic Workers

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: AAS 627 , SOC 627 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 427
    Historical understanding of Black women’s engagement in paid domestic work in the United States, increasing need for domestic workers in the ever-changing economy and family, and the social construction of Black women as “ideal” domestic workers.
  
  • WGS 628 - Human Diversity in Social Contexts

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: SWK 628 
    Diversity, including race, gender, sexual orientation, and selected topics. Examines individual, group, and institutional identity formation. Theories of biopsychosocial development, reference group affiliation, social stratification, oppression, and institutional discrimination. Implications for social work practice.
  
  • WGS 635 - Readings in Feminist Psychological Theories

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: SWK 635 
    Feminist psychological theories will be identified and analyzed. The intersection of feminist theory and traditional psychological theory, with particular critique to mental health interventions and programs will be examined.
  
  • WGS 636 - Feminist Rhetoric(s)

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: CCR 636 , CRS 636 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 436
    Feminist rhetoric from both a historical and global context, utilizing both primary and secondary readings in order to gain a sense of breadth and depth in the field of feminist rhetoric. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WGS 640 - Psychology of Gender

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: PSY 640 
    Research and literature related to sex differences. Process of socialization of girls and boys, women and men in American society. Permission of Instructor.
    Repeatable
  
  • WGS 644 - Feminist Theology

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: REL 644 
    Feminist theology as a global religious movement from its roots in U.S. feminism to its current political and philosophical battles.
  
  • WGS 645 - The Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational Capital, and Tourism

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: AAS 645 , SOC 645 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 445
    A political economy approach to educating students about the human and capital costs of tourism to the Caribbean. The integral relationship between sex work and Caribbean tourism exposes the region’s development that has resulted in its current configuration.
  
  • WGS 649 - Seminar on Women in Art

    3-4 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: HOA 640 
    Women artists and images of women in the works of their contemporaries. Students conduct original research, relating topic to their specific areas of interest (interdisciplinary studies).
  
  • WGS 652 - Feminism and Postcolonial Studies

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: WGS 452
    Introduction to postcolonial studies and its engagement with feminism. Focus on cross-cultural feminist analysis of colonialism, neo-colonialism, decolonization, orientalism, and racism/racialization. Emphasis on questions of representation, agency, and subjectivity. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WGS 653 - Sinner and Saints in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Literature and Film

    3 credit(s)
    Crosslisted with: SPA 653 
    Representations of women in novel, poetry, theater, and film through diverse theoretical approaches. Issues of power, sex, hierarchy, and institution.
  
  • WGS 655 - Culture and AIDS

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 655 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 455
    Relationship between AIDS and cultures in which it spreads. Cultural practices and sexuality and social effects of widespread AIDS, including healthcare in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and USA. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WGS 661 - Self, Body, Transcendence

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: REL 661 
    Examines Continental and American feminist and gender theory for intersections between religion, subjectivity, and bodily practice.
  
  • WGS 662 - Youth, Schooling and Popular Culture

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CFE 662 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 362
    Positioned where school, media, and youth cultures intersect. How schools and media represent “good” and “bad” youth, and how youth negotiate schools and popular cultures. Includes theories of popular culture and adolescence. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WGS 664 - Aging and Society

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: SOC 664 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 364
    Current policy issues in an aging society. Health care, end-of-life, social security, productive aging, and generational equity. Special problems facing elderly women and minorities.
  
  • WGS 671 - Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: SPA 671 
    Includes reading and critical discussion of novels by 20th-century Latin American women writers and an introduction to feminist theory as it pertains to Latin America.
  
  • WGS 672 - Language, Culture, and Society

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: ANT 672 , LIN 672 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 472
    Cross-cultural survey of the role of language in culture and society, including cognition and language usage along the dimensions of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and social status.
  
  • WGS 673 - Women, Rap and Hip-Hop Feminism

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: WGS 473
    Links between feminism, rap music and hip-hop culture. We explore the work of actual women in hip-hop, images of women, and feminist critiques of the music and the culture. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WGS 674 - Culture and Folklore

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 674 
    Double Numbered with: WGS 474
    Ways in which folklore (oral and material traditions, including personal narratives), reflects key cultural ideas such as gender, ethnicity, and history. Analytical methods for examining folk traditions. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WGS 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • WGS 700 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s)
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • WGS 701 - Intersectionality

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Intersectionality (the concept that different identities, social structures, and systems interconnect) is pivotal to feminist inquiry. An overview of Intersectionality’s history, central ideas, and range of applications in terms of theory, methods, and politics.
  
  • WGS 705 - Negotiating Difference:Coming of Age Narratives

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Using a range or genres, seminar; explores influence of place, family, and social expectations on self-definition; examines politics of everyday life, including trauma; and considers how authors craft stories in ways that resist marginalization.
  
  • WGS 710 - Feminist Inquiries

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Advanced critical inquiry of interdisciplinary approaches to feminist theories, methods methodologies, and epistemologies. Examines how feminism is defined, understood, practiced, and researched. Interrogates what it means to ask feminist questions.
  
  • WGS 725 - Gender and Race in Higher Education

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CFE 725 , HED 725 
    Examines the influence of gender and race in historical and contemporary higher education from interdisciplinary perspective; considers dynamics of power, privilege, and oppression; includes topics related to student and faculty experiences, and curricular issues.
  
  • WGS 740 - Feminist Theories of Knowing

    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Key debates raised by feminist theorists about the knowledge/power nexus. Explores what typically counts as knowledge; issues of power and the politics of difference; marginalized knowledge models; and interdisciplinary inquiry.
  
  • WGS 746 - Queer Rhetorics

    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: CCR 746 , CRS 746 , QSX 746 
    Explores contemporary queer scholarship and activism from a rhetorical perspective. Analyzes purposes, arguments, tropes, figures, exigencies, modes of delivery, and audiences in historical and transnational contexts
  
  • WGS 757 - Black Feminist Theories

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: AAS 757 
    Explores historical backgrounds and contemporary expressions of Black feminist thought around the globe to broaden our knowledge of feminist theory. We take an interdisciplinary approach to Black feminist theory that crosses genres and disciplines.
  
  • WGS 764 - Gender and Globalization

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 764 , GEO 764 
    The impact of the increasing hypermobility of capital and culture flows across borders on gender relations.
  
  • WGS 776 - Gender, Education & Culture

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: CFE 776 , DSP 776 
    How gender is culturally constructed in American society with particular reference to education broadly conceived; how race and social class influence gender analysis.
  
  • WGS 795 - Practice of Transnational Feminism

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Advanced seminar on issues of central concern for transnational feminist praxis and working space for discussion of ongoing student research. Anti-capitalist struggles; hegemonic feminisms; racialization; politics of knowledge; nationalism and sexual politics; anti-imperialist projects.
  
  • WGS 812 - Advanced Seminar in Qualitative Research I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: EDU 810 , SOC 811 
    Expand fieldwork skills and increase theoretical understanding: emphasis on “thinking qualitatively;” intensive fieldwork.
  
  • WGS 821 - Feminist Methodologies

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: SOC 821 
    The feminist critique and its implications for planning, conducting, and reporting on empirical studies.
  
  • WGS 833 - Race, Class and Gender

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: SOC 833 
    Intersecting dimensions of inequality that structure social life in contemporary societies. Multiple effects of cross cutting oppressions and privileges, including sexuality and ability/disability.
  
  • WGS 876 - Feminist Geography

    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: GEO 876 
    The relationships between gender, space, and place. Topics include the gendered spaces of everyday life, identity and spatial metaphor, geographies of the body and the border, human migration, gender and the city.

Writing Program

  
  • WRT 617 - Technical Documentation & Usability

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: WRT 417
    Builds on technical writing fundamentals, focusing on practical techniques and extensive practice designing and writing technical product/process documents. Includes audience assessment, task analyses, use-case scenarios, usability testing, and end-use documentation. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WRT 619 - Advanced Technical Writing Workshop

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: WRT 419
    Intensive experience in writing technical texts. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WRT 627 - Emerging Technologies in Professional & Technical Writing

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: WRT 427
    An advanced technical writing course focusing on project management and writing that development teams perform regularly, with emphasis on digital writing, site architecture, and assessment/implementation of emerging technologies. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WRT 637 - Rhetoric and Information Design

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: WRT 437
    Focuses on visual presentation of scientific and technical information, with emphasis on rhetorical approaches, design technologies, and digital presentation of finished work. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • WRT 647 - Professional & Technical Writing in Global Contexts

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: WRT 447
    Complexities arising in writing technical documents for a wide range of audiences, including other cultures and workplaces both domestically and internationally. Addresses ways that systems of knowledge, interfaces, design processes, and instructional mechanisms affect users.
  
  • WRT 670 - Practicum: Teaching College Writing

    0-3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Presentation and discussion of classroom, conference, and paper grading techniques. Planning and evaluating the student’s own teaching.
    Repeatable
 

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