Humanities & Teacher Education

Course Descriptions: Women's Studies

The following abbreviations denote a course that satisfies or partially satisfies a particular general education requirement: GE (General Education), PS (Presentation Skills), RM (Research Methods), and WI (Writing Intensive).

WMST 300. Introduction to Women's Studies (4)
This course provides an introduction to and overview of the issues, ideas, and texts important in the discipline of women's studies by considering how women's contributions have shaped academic, cultural, political, and historical institutions. It also theorizes relationships among gender and social roles, faith and religion, diversity, institutions, and activism.

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WMST 301. Women's Studies—Service Learning (1-4)
A supervised fieldwork experience for women's studies minors. Students will be placed in women-focused, nonprofit agencies in the Los Angeles area where they can observe and test hypotheses generated from course readings and theoretical class discussions. Students will develop a regular schedule of hours and report bi-weekly to the WMST 300 course instructor. For each unit of credit, the student is expected to work 20 to 25 hours. The student will keep a weekly journal of experiences and reflections and then submit a narrative analysis of the fieldwork. This course can be repeated for a maximum of four units. Cr/NC grading only.

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WMST 441. Women and Film (4)
A study of film from the perspective of the issues, ideas, and concepts associated with the discipline of women's studies. The interdisciplinary study will concern itself with how films portray such issues as gender, sexuality, sex, and femininity and masculinity. (WMST 441 is equivalent to FILM 441.)

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WMST 592. Selected Topics (1-4)

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Although the above are excerpted from the 2011-2012 Seaver catalog this is not an official binding document. To view the actual catalog visit: http://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/catalog/