Cluster: Women's Studies

The field of Women's Studies originated as an interdisciplinary effort to uncover women's experience past and present. Today, the field focuses on gender as a category of analysis and explores the impact of gender on all areas of social life. Although feminist scholarship is diverse in terms of methods and theoretical frameworks, its common basis lies in this focus on gender difference and issues of inequality organized around gender. This focus is central to all courses in this cluster.

Cluster Coordinator: Sally McWilliams
Office: NH 469
Phone: 503-725-8476
E-mail: s.mcwilliams@pdx.edu

Sophomore Inquiry: Introduction to Women's Studies

(UNST 280)

In this course students analyze the varieties of women's experience in contemporary American society, consider how gender relations may be changing, and investigate the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape our lives as women and men. Feminist thinking within and across academic disciplines frames the exploration of these topics. Attention is paid to relations of inequality organized along lines of race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation as well as gender.

This SINQ leads to the Women's Studies Cluster.

Approved Cluster Courses:

Academic Year 09-10

AJ 370U    Women, Crime and Justice
ArH 429U    Women in the Visual Arts I
ArH 430U    Women in the Visual Arts II
ArH 431U    Women in the Visual Arts III
ArH 432U    Issues in Gender and Art
BI 343U    Genes and Society
BST 410U    Women in African History
BST 419U    African American Women in the US
CHLA 303U    Chicana/Latina Experience
EC 417U    Women in the Economy
EC 419U    Economics of Race and Ethnicity (Course Proposal)
ENG 308U    Topics in Gender, Literature & Popular Culture
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature (when content is appropriate)
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Diva's in Drama
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Native American Women's  Literature/ Writers
ENG 308U    Cultural Studies in Literature: Gay and Lesbian Fiction
ENG 387U    Women Writers
ENG 399U    Contemporary Women Writers
ENG 443U    British Women Writers
ENG 449U    Women Warriors
EPFA 455U    Gender and Education
FL 331U    Women in the Middle East
HST 340U    Women and Gender in America (to 1865)
HST 341U    Women and Gender in America (1865 to present)
HST 342U    Women and Gender in America (1920 to present)
HST 343U    American Family History
HST 352U    European Women's History to 1700
HST 410U    Women in African History
INTL 331U    Women in the Middle East
PHE 452U    Gender, Race, Class and Health (Course Proposal)
PHL 312U    Feminist Philosophy
PS 380U    Women and Politics
PS 425U     Women and the Law
PSY 310U    Psychology of Women
PSY 381U      Psychology of Men and Masculinity
PSY 410U      Women in Contemporary Film
PSY 479U    Women and Organizational Psychology
SCI 347U    Science, Gender & Social Context I
SCI 348U    Science, Gender & Social Context II
SCI 359U    Biopolitics
SCI 365U    The Science of Women's Bodies
SP 337U    Communication and Gender
SP 410U    Gender and Difference in Popular Media
SP 410U    Women in Contemporary Film
SP 452U    Gender and Race in the Media
SP 457U    The Language of Violence
TA 410U    Gender and Difference in Popular Media
TA 457U    The Language of Violence
WS 306U    Global Gender Issues
WS 308U    Top: Lesbian Literature
WS 308U    Top: Dance and Literature
WS 308U    Top: Diva's in Drama
WS 308U    Top: Belle Hooks
WS 308U    Topics in Gender, Literature & Popular Culture
WS 310U    Psychology of Women
WS 312U    Feminist Philosophy
WS 330U     Women of Color in the U.S.
WS 331U     Women in the Middle East
WS 337U    Communication and Gender
WS 340U    Women and Gender in America (US to 1865)
WS 341U    Women and Gender in America (1865 to present)
WS 342U    Women and Gender in America (1920 to present)
WS 343U    American Family History
WS 347U    Science, Gender and Social Context I
WS 348U    Science, Gender and Social Context II
WS 360U    Introduction to Queer Studies
WS 365U    The Science of Women's Bodies
WS 380U    Women and Politics
WS 399U    Contemporary Women Writers
WS 399U    Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in United States Culture
WS 399U    Lesbian Space in the US
WS 407U    Family/Sex/Marriage
WS 410U    Gender and Difference in Popular Media
WS 410U    Women in East Asia
WS 410U    Psychology of Men and Masculinity
WS 410U    Women in African History
WS 410U    Women in Contemporary Film
WS 410U    Women, Creativity & Healing
WS 417U    Women in the Economy
WS 424U    Women and the Law
WS 428U    Lesbian History in the United States
WS 429U    Women in Visual Arts I
WS 430U    Women in Visual Arts II
WS 431U    Women in the Visual Arts III
WS 432U    Issues in Gender and Art
WS 443U    British Women Writers
WS 452U    Gender and Race in the Media
WS 455U    Gender and Education
WS 457U    The Language of Violence
WS 470U    Asian American Women’s Studies
WS 479U    Women and Organizational Psychology