Women’s Studies | Summer 2010 Undergraduate Credit Courses

Cat. No./Title	Instructor	Dates	Location	Days	Time	Cr	Class No.	Fee	Register
Summer 2010 registration is closed.
WOST100 Women and Society SB	K McHenry	Jun 1 - Jul 15	W-2-125 Wheatley Bldg - 2nd Floor - Room 125	TuTh	1:30p - 4:30p	3	1432	$960	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST100: This interdisciplinary course examines how gender interacts with social institutions such as the family, education, the media, organized religion, law and government, and how that interaction shapes human behavior. Students will learn to address controversial issues raised by the feminist movement, and to relate these to their own lived experiences in meaningful and productive ways. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences. Diversity: United States. Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960
WOST100 Women and Society SB	K McHenry	Jul 20 - Aug 26	S-2-062 Science Bldg - 2nd Floor - Room 062	TuTh	10a - 1p	3	1768	$960	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST100: This interdisciplinary course examines how gender interacts with social institutions such as the family, education, the media, organized religion, law and government, and how that interaction shapes human behavior. Students will learn to address controversial issues raised by the feminist movement, and to relate these to their own lived experiences in meaningful and productive ways. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences. Diversity: United States. Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960
WOST110 Women in Global Perspectives SB	A El Jack	Jun 1 - Jul 15	W-2-123 Wheatley Bldg - 2nd Floor - Room 123	TuTh	10a - 1p	3	1345	$960	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST110: This interdisciplinary course explores multiple meanings of gender in a transnational world. Topics include: contradictory meanings of traditional femininity across cultures; global media representations of the female body, beauty, sexuality; impacts of colonialism, nationalism, patriarchy, and the global economy on women’s work and family lives; women’s rights as human rights; and local and transnational feminist activisms. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences. Diversity: International. Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960
WOST150 Women, Culture and Identity HU	P Stuelke	Jul 20 - Aug 26	W-2-125 Wheatley Bldg - 2nd Floor - Room 125	TuTh	6p - 9p	3	1433	$960	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST150: This course explores cultural beliefs about women’s "nature" and role at different times and places, drawing on materials from literature, including fiction and autobiography, and from history and feminist analysis. Using a thematic rather than a chronological approach, the course will focus on the ways in which intersection of race, class and gender affects the lives and self-concepts of women, in the U.S. and in other societies in the world. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution Area: Humanities. Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960
WOST200 Twentieth Century Women Writers: A Feminist Perspective AR	C Maley	Jun 2 - Jul 14	W-2-124 Wheatley Bldg - 2nd Floor - Room 124	MW	6p - 9p	3	1769	$960	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST200: An intermediate-level course which examines the ways women writers in this century have dealt with some important themes of contemporary feminism. Novels, short stories, some analytical essays and autobiographies are used. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution Area: Arts. Diversity: United States. Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960
WOST220 Women and the Media	K Lindsey	Jul 20 - Aug 26	W-2-126 Wheatley Bldg - 2nd Floor - Room 126	TuTh	1:30p - 4:30p	3	1211	$960	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST220: This course explores how the historical evolution and commercial orientation of mass communications media have helped shape the depiction of women and gender in advertising, entertainment, and news. Students learn to analyze visual imagery for its conceptual and emotional messages; to distinguish stereotypes from more complex characterizations in TV fictions; and to monitor the representations of women and gender in the print and broadcast news. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960
WOST260 Women’s Health Care	M Cordill	Jun 1 - Aug 26	Online	-	-	3	1212	$960	Registration for this session has been closed. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST260: This course focuses on women’s concerns in relation to health. Topics include health issues unique to women (such as birth control, pregnancy, childbearing); nutrition; occupational health; health and aging; women as health workers; and the history, activities, and influence of the women’s health movement. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960
WOST300L Women in African Cultures	A El Jack	Jun 1 - Jul 15	M-1-213 McCormack Bldg - 1st Floor - Room 213	TuTh	1:30p - 4:30p	3	1770	$960	Course has been cancelled. For more information, contact 617 287 6200 or read more about our Cancellation Policy.
Description for WOST300L: This course challenges stereotypical constructions of Africa and African woman in mainstream media by considering internal and external historical relationships that have shaped and redefined the cultures, ideas, institutions, politics, and social relations of several specific groups of African women. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, the course addresses issues and challenges of contemporary Africa, and explores many of the themes and concerns that have run throughout Africas gendered, complex, and changing history. Popular culture sources, as well as scholarly studies and activist writing, will be employed to help illuminate the lived experiences and perspectives of contemporary women living in various African societies. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Diversity: International. Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960
WOST359L Women in Modern China WC	J Babbitts	Jun 1 - Jul 15	Online	-	-	3	1761	$960	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more information, contact 617 287 6200.
Description for WOST359L: This course examines the social and cultural roles of Chinese women, and their changes over time. Emphasis is given to twentieth-century China, especially the People’s Republic period. Cross Listed: ASIAN 359L, HIST 359L. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information. Academic Information: Credits: 3 Distribution Area: World Cultures. Diversity: International. Fee: Course Fee: $960 Lab Fee: $0 Total: $960