Women's Studies (Minor)
Women’s Studies explores the nature and creations of women often neglected in traditional academic offerings. The multidisciplinary curriculum draws faculty from many departments, including economics, art history, religion, history, English, political science, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and other disciplines.
Women’s Studies minors learn to evaluate cultural forces that have formed contemporary perceptions and expectations of women. Students investigate biological sexual differences, culturally assigned gender roles, theories about female consciousness and behavior, and restraints imposed by law and social conventions. The field covers an exciting range of topics, from the history of feminism to women’s art and literature.
Core Courses for the Minor
WMS 205 Introduction to Women’s Studies
PHI 314A Topics in Philosophy: Feminist Theory
Four Women’s Studies electives (at least two at 300+ level)
Course Descriptions:
WMS 205 Introduction to Women's Studies
Presents feminist theory and origins of women's studies. Discusses classic texts of the contemporary feminist movement. Raises consciousness about sexual stereotypes, anger, female friendships, lesbianism, mothering, violence against women, and economic power.
WMS 350 Feminist Methodology
Explores questions debated within academy. Examines feminist critique of and innovations in methodology in many fields, from the humanities to the social sciences.
PHI 103 Introduction to Philosophy
Presents the aims, methods, and content of philosophy through important figures and perennial problems. Asks questions such as: How do we know ideas are true? What is reality? Does God exist? Why is there evil? Is mind distinct from body? Are we free or determined? What is our highest good? How do we know right from wrong? What distinguishes beauty? What is the place of the individual in society?
PHI 108 Ethics
Introduces moral philosophy (defining value) and metaethics (justifying ethical beliefs) and applies them to common problems. Ponders what actions are morally good--and what makes them that way.
PHI 120 Theories of Human Nature
Each of us has ideas about human nature -- ideas which affect the way in which we think about ourselves and the way in which we deal with others. In this course we will study the views of several thinkers who have offered systematic theories of human nature. We will discuss ways in which our attitudes toward ourselves and others might be changed if we were to accept one or another of these theories as true. Readings will be taken from the works of such thinkers as Plato, Hobbes, Freud, Marx, Skinner and selected authors of the Christian and Oriental religious traditions.
PHI 212 Philosophy of the Arts
Covers both the theory of art and the theory of aesthetics. Addresses 2,400 years of writings on imitation, significant form, expression, death of art, taste, psychic distance, beauty, and the aesthetic.
PHI 214 Philosophy in Literature
Investigates perennial philosophical issues in conflicts of literary characters and ideas. Considers works from such figures as Voltaire, Dostoevsky, Barth, Ellison, Camus, and Flannery O'Connor.
PHI 215 Social and Political Philosophy
Explores moral grounds for state, place and value of freedom, nature and justification of property, and rights of individual to classical and contemporary thinkers.
PHI 222 Symbolic Logic
An introduction to the principles of valid deductive reasoning, as expressed in symbolic form. Beginning with Aristotelian categorical syllogisms, we will proceed to a consideration of the truth-functional propositional logic developed in the nineteenth century. Formerly Practical Logic.
PHI 240 Topics in Philosophy
Delves into a specific philosopher's work, an issue or concept, or a specific tradition. Varies. May be repeated for credit. Suitable for freshmen and sophomores.
PHI 308 Topics in Ethics
Takes on varied topics in moral philosophy. Seminar. Prerequisite: PHI 108 or consent.
PHI 309 Environmental Ethics
Explores our duties to and the value of animals, plants, entire species, ecosystems, and the earth as a whole. Also connects environmental ethics to the way we do business and live our lives. Prerequisite: ENV 189.
PHI 314 Topics in Philosophy
Probes a specific philosopher's work, an issue or a concept, or philosophical tradition. Varies. Suitable for juniors and seniors. Prerequisite: one PHI course.
PHI 316 Human Potentials
Students will engage in the practice of some of the exercises discussed in the human potential literature, including traditional meditation techniques such as Yoga and Zazen, in addition to more modern techniques such as TM and Silva Mind Control. Readings will discuss the human potential movement and the physiology, psychology and metaphysics which underlie it. This course offered CR/NC only.
PHI 319 Evil and the Search for Meaning after the Holocaust
Highlights philosophical, theological, and fictional works about the Holocaust by Sartre, Camus, Buber, Arendt, Frankel, and Wiesel--from 1945 to the present. Prerequisite: one PHI or REL course.
Last Update: September 11, 2008
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