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The following courses have previously been listed in the Study of Women and Gender. Courses listed here are NOT offered during the current academic year. If you would like to know when a course will be offered next, please check with the home department. As always, the Smith College catalog is the official source for this information
SWG/WST 100 Issues in/Introduction to Queer Studies (2 and 4-credit)
SWG/WST 101 Women of Color: Defining the Issues
SWG/WST 110 Colloquium: Feminist Public Culture
SWG 214 Migration, Gender and Transculturation
SWG/WST 225 Women and the Law
SWG/WST 235 Youth Culture and Gender
SWG/WST 240 Global Women, Feminized Work
SWG/WST 245 Poverty Law and Social Policy in the U.S.
SWG/WST 252 Colloquium: Debates in Feminist Theory: Topic: “The Subject”
SWG/WST 290 Colloquium: Queer Looks: Gender, Sexuality and Film
SWG/WST 300 Special Topics in Women's Studies: Redefining Community Within and Across Nations: South Asian Women’s Cultural Production in India, Britain, and the United States
SWG/WST 311 Mothers in Law and Policy
SWG 315 Sexual Histories, Lesbian Stories
SWG/WST 316 Seminar: Feminist Theories of Cross-Border Organizing
SWG/WST 317 Seminar: Feminist Legal and Policy Theory
SWG/WST 318 Seminar: Feminism and Crime
SWG 319 Reading Woolf Reading Proust
SWG/WST 320 Women of Color in Feminist Movements in the U.S.
AAS 211 Black Cultural Theory
AAS 220 Women of the African Diaspora
AAS 248 Gender in the Afro-American Literary Tradition
AAS 300 Writing Race, Writing Gender
AAS 326 The Socio-Cultural Development of the Afro-American Woman
AAS 348 Black Women Writers
AAS 366 Seminar: Contemporary Topics in Afro-American Studies:
Topics:
- Readings in Black and QueerWomanist/Feminist Thought
- Black Gay Intellectuals: James Baldwin, Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill
- Stress and Coping of Black Women in the United States
- Toni Morrison
AMS 120 Scribbling Women (now FYS 168)
AMS 221 Colloquium: Women’s History through Documentary
AMS 230 Colloquium: The Asian American Experience.Topic: Asian Women Living in the Americas
ANT 244 Colloquium: Gender, Science, and Culture
ANT 254 Gender, Media and Culture in India
ANT 342 Seminar: Topics in Anthropology: Motherhood
ARH 101 Approaches to Visual Representation: Women in the Arts
ARH 260 Art Historical Studies: Representing Queerness in 20th-Century American Art
ARH 289/LAS 202 Talking Back to Icons: Latino/Artistic Expression
ARH 360 Studies in American Art: Women and Art at the Turn of the Century
BIO 110 Introductory Colloquia: Life Sciences for the 21st Century: Topic: The Biology and Policy of Breast Cancer
CLS 233 Gender and Sexuality in Greco-Roman Culture
CLT 223 Forms of Autobiography: Women's Autobiographies in Context
CLT 230 “Unnatural” Women: Mothers Who Kill Their Children
CLT 234 The Adventure Novel: No Place for a Woman?
CLT 235 Fairy Tales and Gender
CLT 267 African Women's Drama
CLT 272 Women Writing: 20th and 21st Century Fiction
CLT 278 Gender and Madness in African and Caribbean Prose
CLT 279 Women Writers of the Middle Ages
CLT 315 Feminist Novel in Africa
EAL 244 Construction of Gender in Modern Japanese Women’s Writing
EAL 261 Major Themes in Literature: East-West Perspectives Gendered Fate
EAL 360 Seminar: Topics in East Asian Literatures: Topics:
- Contemporary Chinese Women’s Fiction; The Tale of the Genji and its Legacy
- Intimacy: Dreams, Disappointments and Practices of Desire
EAS 230 Women of Korea from the Three Kingdoms Period to the Present
EAS 280 Modern Girls and Marxist Boys: Consumerism, Colonialism, and Gender in East Asia
ENG 120 Fiction: Section: American Women Writers
ENG 120 Fiction: Section: Women Coming of Age
ENG 238 What Jane Austen Read: The 18th-Century Novel
ENG 287 Early Modern Women Writers: Writing the Self
ENG 280 Advanced Essay Writing: Essays by Women
ENG 292 Crafting the Memoir
ENG 300 Seminar: Willa Cather’s Fiction
ENG 302 Seminar: American Literature
ENG 365 Seminar: Studies in 19th Century Literature: Topic: The Brontës
ENG 376 Contemporary British Women Writers
ENG 379 Seminar: Women and Literature
ENG 292 Reading and Writing Autobiography (now offered as "Crafting the Memoir")
FLS 241 Women and American Cinema: Representation, Spectatorship, Authorship
FRN 230 Readings in Modern Literature: Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean
FRN 340 Topics in Seventeenth/Eighteenth Century Literature: Topics:
- Women Writers and Images of Women in 17th Century French Literature
- “Family Values” in the Enlightenment
FRN 360 Topics in Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Literature: Images of the ‘Other’: Female Domestic Servants in French Fiction
FYS 114 Turning Points
FYS 149 An Even Playing Field? Women, Sport and Equity
GOV 205 Colloquium: Law, Family and State
GOV 311 Seminar in Urban Politics: Politics of Urban Social Movements
GOV 232 Women and Politics in Africa
GOV 364 Seminar in Political Theory: Topic: Feminist Theory
GOV 367 Seminar in Political Theory Topic: Gay and Lesbian Politics and Theory (now "Queer Theory")
HST 101 Introduction to Historical Inquiry: Topic: Geisha, Wise Mothers, and Working Women
HST 178 Women in the United States since 1865
HST 263 Continuity and Change in Spanish America and Brazil
HST 280 Problems of Inquiry: Women Writing Resistance
HST 289 Colloquium: Aspects of Women’s History: The History of Sexuality from the Victorians to the Kinsey Report
HST 299 Medieval Queens
HST 325 Early European History to 1300: Topic: Heloise: Scholar, Writer, Abbess
LAS 301 Topics in Latin American Studies: Topic: Contemporary Latina Playwrights
MUS 100 Colloquium: Music and Gender in the World
MUS 220 Topics in World Music: Women in Sub-Saharan African Music
PHI 240 Gender and Philosophical Tradition
PHI 305 Topics in Feminist Theory. Topic: Dependency, Autonomy and Motherhood
POR 221 Topics in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature and Culture: The Brazilian Body: Representing Women in Brazil’s Literature and Culture
POR 381 Seminar in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies: Topic: Multiple Lenses of Marginality: New Brazilian Filmmaking by Women
PSY 268 Lesbian Identity and Experience
PSY 340 Seminar in Gender and the Life Course
PSY 366 Seminar: Topics in the Psychology of Women: Issues in Adolescent Gender Role Development
REL 110 Women Mystics’ Theology of Love
REL 227 Judaism/Feminism/Women’s Spirituality
REL 277 South Asian Masculinities
REL 320 Seminar: Jewish Religion and Culture: Topic: Tying and Untying the Knot: Women, Marriage and Divorce in Judaism
REL 320 Seminar: Jewish Religion and Culture: Jewish Women’s History
RUS 238 Russian Cinema: Topic: Women in Russian Cinema
RUS 239 Major Russian Writers: Women’s Memoirs and Autobiographical
Writings in Russia
SOC 222 Blackness in the Americas
SOC 224 Family and Society
SOC 228 Women, Gender, and Globalization
SOC 310 The Sociology of Courageous Behavior: Gender, Community and the Individual
SOC 315 Seminar: The Body in Society
SPN 230 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular Literature: Latin American Women’s Poetry
SPN 332 The Middle Ages Today: Queer Iberia
THE 214 Black Theatre
THE 314 Masters and Movement in Drama. Topic: Women and War
All courses offer 4 credits unless otherwise noted (click on course name for full description). Please verify with home departments for any prerequisites/changes to all cross-listed courses. The official Smith College Catalog should be considered the definitive source for up-to-date information prior to registering for the course.