Idaho State University Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014

Women Studies Program

Program Director and Associate Professor:  Kuhlman (History)
Emerita:  Ruckman
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Advisory Committee

Members of the Advisory Board meet to review curricula, advise the Director on program content, consider issues facing the field or program, and formulate strategy for the future of Women’s Studies at Idaho State University. Students may consult with any of the faculty in the program or on this committee:

Minor in Women Studies

The program in Women Studies promotes an interdisciplinary approach to learning that emphasizes gender as an essential component to understanding our past, present, and future. Grounded in contemporary scholarship, Women Studies provides students with innovative perspectives from which to analyze and assess familiar subjects. Critical and analytical skills are developed and honed as students identify and contextualize profound connections between gender and one's place in history, one's assigned roles and statuses, and one's access to social, economic, and political power.

Women Studies supports ISU's mission to create an effective and efficient learning environment that serves students of various ages, abilities, needs, and backgrounds. It enhances intellectual growth and complements the degree major by broadening academic knowledge bases and by developing a wide range of skills applicable in a variety of post-graduation settings.

The Women Studies office is located in the Department of History, Liberal Arts Room 348 (208-282-2379).

An undergraduate interdisciplinary minor in Women Studies consists of 18 credits of courses in gender topics offered by various departments and approved by the directors of Women Studies.

Required Course: 

WS 2201		Introduction to Women Studies		3 cr
HIST/WS 4439	Feminism and Equality in World History	3 cr
Choose 12 credits from: 
ART 4423	Nineteenth-Century Art			3 cr
COMM 4440	Gender and Communication		3 cr
ENGL 3328	Gender in Literature			3 cr
HE 4445		Human Sexuality and Health Education	2 cr
HIST 4437	Families in Former Times		3 cr
PSYC 2205	Human Sexuality				3 cr
PSYC 2250	Female and Male Roles			3 cr
SOC 2250	Women, Crime and Corrections		3 cr
SOC 3321	Families in American Society		3 cr
WS 1160		Rape Aggression Defense			1 cr
WS 4459		Internship*				1-6 cr
WS 4461		Independent Study*			1-3 cr
	OR
Choose from courses listed as approved for this component in semester-by-semester course listings in the Class Schedule.

*Students may take up to 6 credits of WS 4459 Internship and up to 6 credits of WS 4461 Independent Study. A maximum of nine credits from any combination of WS 4459 and WS 4461 are applicable to the Women Studies minor.


  


  

  
Women Studies Courses

  WS 1160 Women’s Rape Aggression Defense
1 credit. Realistic
self-defense tactics and techniques designed for women. Awareness,
prevention, risk reduction, risk avoidance, and basic hands-on defense
training. R.A.D.
is not a Martial Arts program. Equvalent to HE 1160
and PE 1160. PREREQ: Permission of Public Safety office or sponsoring
program. F, S
  
WS 2201 Introduction to Women Studies 3
credits. Interdisciplinary survey of the ways that various academic
disciplines examine
women's roles and women's issues past, present , and in various
cultures,
with
a focus on American culture. Satisfies Objective 9 of the General
Education Requirements. F 

  
WS 2205 Topics in Women Studies 1-3
credits. Examination of topics related to Women Studies. D

  

  
WS 3311 U.S. Women's Activism 3
credits.
Social, historical, and political
examination of the 19th
century Women Suffrage Movement,
the 20th century Women's Rights Movement,
and
the current status of women's rights
activism. D

  

  
WS 4405 Topics in Women Studies 1-3
credits. In-depth examination of topics relating to Women
studies, especially from
a comparative or theoretical perspective. D 

  
WS 4439 Feminism and
Equality in
World History 3 credits. Interdisciplinary study of the history
of
feminism and
women’s rights in different world regions, involving the social
constructs of
gender, race, and class. Women Studies minors must take WS 2201
before
taking
HIST/WS 4439.  Equivalent to HIST 4439.  S 

  
WS 4459 Internship 1-6 credits.
Directed student internship in organization related to Women Studies.
The student will be placed in a supervised position approved by faculty
in the program. May be repeated for up to 6 credits. PREREQ: WS 2201. D
  

  
WS 4461 Independent Study 1-3 credits. Selected
readings and research in areas of Women Studies not covered by the
regular curricular offerings. May be repeated for up to 6 credits.
PREREQ: 3.0 cumulative GPA and WS 2201 or equivalent; permission of
instructor. D









  
    

       
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