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2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • URPL 6730 - International Studies Preparation


    The course will prepare students to go to China, for 10-day International Summer School, 5-week China Summer Urban Design Joint Studio, 9-month Gensler Internship, and 1-year LA Dual Degree program. Topics include historic, geographic and cultural issues, and language lessons. Cross-listed with ARCH 6730, LDAR 6730, and URBN 6730. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • URPL 6800 - Special Topics: Urban and Regional Planning


    Various topical concerns are offered in urban and regional planning, theory, concepts, methods, case studies and practice. Max hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • URPL 6805 - Planning Internship


    Designed to provide professional practice experience in urban and regional planning. The emphasis is on actual work experience in settings with client groups as the students assist them in determining solutions to their problems. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • URPL 6810 - Independent Study: URPL


    Studies initiated by students or faculty and sponsored by a faculty member to investigate a special topic or problem related to urban and regional planning. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • URPL 6900 - Planning Capstone


    Planning Capstone A requires students to identify an independent study/small group project of their choosing and develop a detailed plan to complete the project. Prereq: URPL 6000 or instructor consent. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 6 to 6
  

  • URPL 6920 - Planning Thesis A


    Spanning two semesters, Planning Thesis requires students to plan and complete a research thesis of their choice. Part A provides instruction for proper thesis research, analysis, and writing while students develop a detailed work plan and begin their research. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • URPL 6925 - Planning Thesis B


    Spanning two semesters, Planning Thesis requires students to plan and complete a research thesis of their choice. Part B includes the completion of the research and the thesis document, and presentation of the project to the student’s thesis committee. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 1050 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies


    This course provides an introduction to key concepts, themes and approaches to the interdisciplinary field of women’s and gender studies. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 1111 - Freshman Seminar


    Restriction: Restricted to Freshman level students. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • WGST 2900 - Smart Girl Leadership Training and Practicum


    Provides leadership and mentoring training, and a practicum in which UCD students mentor teenagers in their community or school settings. Following completion of the training, students work as near-peer mentors and coaches with groups of teenage girls in the Denver community and apply the skills learned in their training. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 3010 - Sociology of Human Sexuality


    Increases the understanding of differences in views of sexuality, specifically the link between sex and reproduction and its role as the motivation for gender roles and sex acts. Explores the history of sexuality, cross-cultural studies and primate modeling. Cross-listed with SOCY 3010. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 3020 - Gender, Sexuality and Race in American Popular Culture


    This course explores the impact of popular culture on the lived experience of diverse women and men in America. Students will examine how cultural media (including film, television, print ads, music & digital games) can both reproduce and challenge existing structural inequalities. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 3080 - Sex and Gender


    Causes and consequences of sex role differentiation at the individual, group and societal levels. Current issues related to changing norms and values concerning gender in modern society are examined. Cross-listed with SOCY 3080. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 3343 - Women in U.S. History


    An analysis of women’s place in society, in the work place, and in the political arena over the last 300 years. Cross-listed with HIST 3343. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 3450 - Twentieth Century Women Writers


    Examines how women write about a specific theme, such as home, work, family, the “other,” as well as how women’s writing may differ from men’s. Theme and genre vary. Cross-listed with ENGL 3450. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 3700 - Sociology of the Family


    The family as a social institution. Historical development and contemporary cross-cultural analysis, with emphasis on the contemporary American family. Cross-listed with SOCY 3700. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 3840 - Independent Study: WGST


    Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • WGST 3939 - Internship


    Designed experiences involving application of specific, relevant concepts and skills in supervised employment situations. Junior standing and 2.75 GPA. Max hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • WGST 4215 - Women’s Rights, Human Rights: Global Perspectives


    Explores the global feminist movement’s campaign to “engender” human rights. Examination of women’s human-rights issues and the critique of this campaign as representing cultural imperialism. Prereq: 6 hours of political science or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with PSCI 4215. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4230 - Women in the West


    Focuses on ways in which women, from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century, of different races, classes, and ethnic background, have interacted and been active participants in the development of the western states. Cross-listed with HIST 4230, HIST 5230 and WGST 5230. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4248 - Gender, Globalization and Development


    Analyzes the effects of globalization on the gendered processes of international development and strategies to empower women to achieve gender justice across race, class and national divisions. Cross-listed with PSCI 4248/5245 and WGST 5248. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4303 - Sex and Gender in Modern Britain


    Examines modern British history by focusing on sex and gender as central aspects in people’s lives. Considers the ways gender shapes the realms of politics, economics, society and culture in Britain from the 18th century to the present. Cross-listed with HIST 4303/5303 and WGST 5303. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4306 - Survey of Feminist Thought


    Examines changes and continuities in feminist thought from the 18th century to the present, using historical and literary materials. Explores the ways that women’s characteristics, experiences, and capabilities have been understood and challenged. Cross-listed with ENGL 4306, 5306, HIST 4306, 5306, WGST 5306. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4307 - History of Sexuality


    Explores the relationships between gender and norms, sexual practice, and ideas about sexuality in Europe and the United States. Examines how sex and sexuality have changed over time and how those changes relate to social, cultural, political and economic history. Cross-listed with HIST 4307/5307 and WGST 5307. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4345 - Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present


    Examines the ways science and medicine have both shaped and been shaped by ideas about gender. Pays particular attention to the relationship between scientific/medical ideas about the sexes and the social organization of gender. Cross-listed with HIST 4345/5345 and WGST 5345. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4420 - Goddess Traditions


    Explores the many forms which goddesses have assumed through history, including the Neolithic Great Mother and her heiresses in the ancient Mediterranean cultures, such as: Isis, Ishtar, Demeter, Hecate, Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena and others, and their parallels in India. Goddess traditions have encompassed a full spectrum from virgins to Great Mothers to dark underworld goddesses of death and destruction. Cross-listed with RLST 4420/5420 and WGST 5420. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4500 - Feminist Philosophy


    Seminar on key debates & figures in historical & contemporary feminist philosophy. Topics may include: rights, embodiment, gender, sexuality, race, reason, & violence. Figures may include: Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Beauvoir, Judith Butler, and bell hooks. Crosslisted with WGST 5500, PHIL 4500 & 5500. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4510 - Whores and Saints: Medieval Women


    Studies how women are presented in texts, as well as works by women. Investigates the roles open to women and societal attitudes toward women, who were considered seductresses, saints, scholars and warriors in the middle ages. Prereq: Nine hours of literature courses or instructor permission. Cross-listed with ENGL 4510/5510, RLST 4730/5730 and WGST 5510. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4511 - French Women Writers


    Designed to explore writings by French and Francophone women from the Middle Ages to the present. Addresses the question of what it means to be a woman and want to write. The selections include a wide variety of genres: autobiographical writings, stories, poems, manifestos, letters, political and historical documents. Prereq: FREN 3112 or FREN 3122 plus one other 3000-level French course or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with FREN 4510/5510 and WGST 5511. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4540 - Race, Class, and Gender in Spanish Golden Age Literature


    Explores works of various genres in relation to their social and political contexts in 16th and 17th century Spain, emphasizing the cultural attitudes toward race, class, and gender that inform them. Prereq: junior standing or higher. Cross-listed with SPAN 4340/5340 and WGST 5540. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4555 - International Women’s Resistance


    Examines local and international struggles of women to build peace and justice by resisting systems of inequality such as colonialism, racism, patriarchy, globalization, and religious intolerance. Cross-listed with PSCI 4555/5555, ETST 4555 and WGST 5555. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4564 - Gender and Politics


    Analysis of the political experience of women and of strategies for change. Emphasis on the U.S. Cross-listed with PSCI 4564. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4610 - Communication and Sexuality


    Developing tools to think critically about representations of sexuality and to understand the social construction of sexuality, the role of sexual representations in mass media and society and the complex relationship between sexual acts, identities and desires. Cross-listed with COMM 4610. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4710 - Women and Religion


    A sociological exploration of the contemporary roles of women in religion. Course examines American and world religious groups with an eye to women’s involvement. Considers how women have changed these traditions as they take on leadership roles and discusses the tensions that arise within these traditions as a result of their expanded participation. Cross-listed with HUMN 5710, SSCI 4710/5710, WGST 5710, RLST 4710/5710. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4827 - Women and the Law


    Examines the role of the courts in the development of public policy toward women; how the legal system affects the economic power, family roles, safety and political participation of women. Cross-listed with PSCI 4827 and ETST 4827. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 4840 - Independent Study


    Prereq: permission of instructor. Max hours: 12 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • WGST 4880 - Directed Research


    Students will engage in original research projects supervised and mentored by faculty. Students must work with faculty prior to registration to develop a proposal for their project and receive permission to take this course. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • WGST 4933 - Philosophy of Eros


    What does it mean to understand philosophy as an erotic activity? This question will be examined, first by studying Plato’s dialogues-such as Lysis, Symposium and Republic-and then by reading texts from Sigmund Freud, Michael Foucault and others. Cross-listed with PHIL 4933/5933, WGST 5933, SSCI 5933 and HUMN 5933. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5230 - Women in the West


    Focuses on ways in which women, from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century, of different races, classes, and ethnic background, have interacted and been active participants in the development of the Western states. Cross-listed with WGST 4230 and HIST 4230/5230. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5248 - Gender, Globalization and Development


    Analyzes the effects of globalization on the gendered processes of international development and strategies to empower women to achieve gender justice across race, class and national divisions. Cross-listed with WGST 4248 and PSCI 4248/5245. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5303 - Sex and Gender in Modern Britain


    Examines modern British history by focusing on sex and gender as central aspects in people’s lives. Considers the ways gender shapes the realms of politics, economics, society and culture in Britain from the 18th century to present. Cross-listed with WGST 4303 and HIST 4303/5303. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5306 - Survey of Feminist Thought


    Examines changes and continuities in feminist thought from the 18th century to the present, using historical and literary materials. Explores the ways that women’s characteristics, experiences, and capabilities have been understood and challenged. Cross-listed with ENGL 4306, 5306, HIST 4306, 5306, WGST 4306. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5307 - History of Sexuality


    Explores the relationships between gender and norms, sexual practice, and ideas about sexuality in Europe and the United States. Examines how sex and sexuality have changed over time and how those changes relate to social, cultural, political and economic history. Cross-listed with WGST 4307 and HIST 4307/5307. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5345 - Gender, Science and Medicine: 1600 to the Present


    Examines the ways science and medicine have both shaped and been shaped by ideas about gender. Pays particular attention to the relationship between scientific/medical ideas about the sexes and the social organization of gender. Cross-listed with WGST 4345 and HIST 4345/5345. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5420 - Goddess Traditions


    Explores the many forms which goddesses have assumed through history, including the Neolithic Great Mother and her heiresses in the ancient Mediterranean cultures, such as: Isis, Ishtar, Demeter, Hecate, Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena and others, and their parallels in India. Goddess traditions have encompassed a full spectrum from virgins to Great Mothers to dark underworld goddesses of death and destruction. Cross-listed with WGST 4420 and RLST 4420/5420. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5500 - Feminist Philosophy


    Seminar on key debates & figures in historical & contemporary feminist philosophy. Topics may include: rights, embodiment, gender, sexuality, race, reason, & violence. Figures may include: Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Beauvoir, Judith Butler, and bell hooks. Crosslisted with WGST 4500, PHIL 4500 & 5500. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5510 - Whores and Saints: Medieval Women


    Studies how women are presented in texts, as well as works by women. Investigates the roles open to women and societal attitudes toward women, who were considered seductresses, saints, scholars and warriors in the middle ages. Prereq: Nine hours of literature courses or instructor permission. Cross-listed with WGST 4510, ENGL 4510/5510 and RLST 4730/5730. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5511 - French Women Writers


    Designed to explore writings by French and Francophone women from the Middle Ages to the present. Addresses the question of what it means to be a woman and want to write. The selections include a wide variety of genres: autobiographical writings, stories, poems, manifestos, letters, political and historical documents. Prereq: FREN 3112 or 3122 plus one other 3000-level French course or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with WGST 4511 and FREN 4510/5510. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5540 - Race, Class and Gender in Spanish Golden Age Literature


    Explores works of various genres in relation to their social and political contexts in 16th and 17th century Spain, emphasizing the cultural attitudes toward race, class, and gender that inform them. Prereq: graduate standing. Cross-listed with WGST 4540 and SPAN 4340/5340. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5555 - International Women’s Resistance


    Examines local and international struggles of women to build peace and justice by resisting systems of inequality such as colonialism, racism, patriarchy, globalization, and religious intolerance. Cross-listed with WGST 4555, ETST 4555 and PSCI 4555/5555. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5710 - Women and Religion


    A sociological exploration of the contemporary roles of women in religion. Course examines American and world religious groups with an eye to women’s involvement. Considers how women have changed these traditions as they take on leadership roles and discusses the tensions that arise within these traditions as a result of their expanded participation. Cross-listed with HUMN 5710, SSCI 4710/5710, WGST 4710, RLST 4710/5710. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5720 - Sexuality, Gender and Their Visual Representations


    Studies sexuality, gender and identity representation from classical antiquity through the present in the visual arts. Uses the literature of visuality, feminism, race and queer theory. Explores representations of femininity, masculinity and androgyny and their reinforcement and challenge to gender-identity norms. Cross-listed with HUMN 5720 and SSCI 5720. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5840 - Independent Study


    Prereq: permission of instructor. Max hours: 12 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • WGST 5880 - Directed Research


    Students will engage in original research projects supervised and mentored by faculty. Students must work with faculty prior to registration to develop a proposal for their project and receive permission to take this course. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • WGST 5900 - Smart Girl Coaching Training and Practicum


    Course provides training (lecture and role-playing) in coaching and mentoring which will be applied to support near-peer guides in delivering the Smart Girl curriculum in school settings. Following the completion of the training, students work as coaches for teams of near-peer mentors and groups of teenage girls in the Denver Community, and apply the skills learned in their training. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 5933 - Philosophy of Eros


    What does it mean to understand philosophy as an erotic activity? This question will be examined, first by studying Plato’s dialogues-such as Lysis, Symposium and Republic-and then by reading texts from Sigmund Freud, Michael Foucault and others. Cross-listed with PHIL 4933/5933, WGST 4933, SSCI 5933 and HUMN 5933. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • WGST 6010 - Methods and Theories of Feminism and Gender Studies


    Provides graduate-level interdisciplinary study in historiography, methodologies and theories of women’s, gender and sexuality studies and considers how culture is constructed around these categories. Cross-listed with SSCI 6010 and HUMN 6010. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
 

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