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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2010–2012 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Women's and Gender Studies 988 Graduate Cognate Courses  

Graduate Cognate Courses


Students enrolled in the women's and gender studies graduate program may take cognate courses offered by other graduate programs to enhance their area of concentration. Courses with a significant emphasis on gender, sexuality, and feminist thought are offered throughout the university.

Description for the courses listed below can be found elsewhere in this catalog or in that of one of the professional schools. Students should inquire at the office of the graduate program offering a particular course to determine the specific topic of the course that semester.

African Area Studies

16:016:501  Issues in African Studies (3)

Anthropology

16:070:506  Research Design and Methods Sociology/Culture (3)

16:070:510  Social Implications of Gender Differences (3)

16:070:511  Anthropology of Gender (3)

16:070:514  Language in Culture and Society (3)

                    Language as Social Action (3)

16:070:515  Theories of Agency (3)

16:070:516  Sexuality in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (3)

16:070:517  Anthropology of Violence (3)

16:070:518  Corporate and Personal Violence 93)

16:070:519  Political Anthropology (3)

16:070:520  Gender Bodies and State (3)

16:070:521  Anthropology of Industrial Society: Transnationalism (3)

16:070:522  Anthropology of Religion (3)

16:070:523  Culture and Aging (3)

16:070:525  Gender, Bodies, and the State (3)

16:070:526  Urban Ethnography (3)

16:070:527  The Ethnology of Inequality: Race, Class, and Ethnicity (3)

16:070:529  Racialization, Immigration, and Politics of Citizenship (3)

16:070:530  Problems in Social Anthropology (3)

16:070:532  Problems in Ethnography (3)

16:070:540  Theorizing and Writing Ethnography (3)

16:070:541  Anthropology and Cultural Studies (3)

16:070:545  Anthropology of Development (3)

16:070:546  Medical Anthropology: Women and Children's Health and Healing (3) 

16:070:547  Globalization and Neolibism (3)

16:070:548  Transnationalism and Globalization (3)

16:070:549  Culture and Capitalism (3)

16:070:550  Economic Anthropology: Culture and Capitalism (3)

16:070:603  Topics Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of Body (3)

Art History

16:082:506  Approaches to Art History (3)

16:082:509  African Art and Architecture (3)

16:082:592  Gender and African Art (3)

16:082:630  Problems in Italian Renaissance Painting (3)

16:082:653  Problems in 19th-Century Art: Gender and Orientalism (3)

16:082:655  Problems in 20th-Century Art: Constructions of the Female Body (3)

                    Art of the 60s: Pop and Performance

16:082:657  Problems in Modern Art (3)

Communication, Information and Library Science, and Media Studies

16:194:664  Media and Culture (3)

16:194:665  Media and Politics (3)

Comparative Literature

16:195:501  Introduction to Literary Theory (3)

16:195:502  Women and Writing: Public Women in Late 19th-Century Art, Literature, and

                      Social Commentary Images and Ideology  (3)

16:195515   Studies in Contemporary Literature: (3)

                       Postcolonial Writers and Postmodern Conditions

                       South Asian Disaporic Novel

16:195:516  Topics in Comparative Literature: (3)

                       Issues in Feminist Film Theory

                       Genre and Gender: The Body and Literature

                       Modernism and Modernity in Asian Literature

                       Dramatic Modernism

                       Passages from India: South Asian Migrant and Diasporic Literatures

16:195:521  Topics in Non-Western Literature: (3)

                      Japanese Literature and Queer Theory

                      Islam and African Women Writers

16:195:603  Drama: Dramatic Postmodernism and Performance (3)

16:195:607  Prostitute Literature (3)

16:195:608  German Feminist Writers: Inscribing Woman (3)

16:195:609  Women in the Surrealist Films (3)

                    Anthropology and Cultural Studies

16:195:611  Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature (3)

                    Self-Psychopathology and the Modern Age

16:195:612  Literature and the Social Order (3)

                    19th-Century Literature and Class

                    Approaches to Transnationalism

16:195:613  Minority Literatures (3)

16:195:615  East-West Literary Relations: The Writings of Muraskaki Shikibu (3)

16:195:617  Topics in Advanced Literary Theory: (3)

                       Postmodernism and The Millenium

                       Incorporating Theory

16:195:621  Advanced Topics in Non-Western Literature: Islamic Narrative and  North                          Africa Literature (3)

Education

16:300:595  The Psychology of Sex Differences (3)

English

16:350:508  Critical Theory: Introduction to Feminist Theory (3) 

16:350:509  Studies in Critical Methodologies (3)

16:350:510  Studies in American Literature  3)

                    Ethnicity/Gender/Myth in 19th-Century American Literature

16:350:514  Body/Discourse/Power: Foucault and The Subject of Theory (3)

                     Literature and Politics

                     Literature and Politics: the 20th Century: Modern and Postmodern

16:350:515  Myth, Religion, and Literature (3)

16:350:516  Texts and Critical Issues in Modernism:

                      The Sixties and Postmodernism

                      Women Writers of Modernism         

16:350:520  Studies in Film (3)

16:350:524  Perspectives on Globalization: Literature and Theory (3)

16:350:526  Feminist Texts: Race, Nation, Class, and the Gendered Subject (3)

16:350:527  Psychoanalytic Criticism: (3)

                      Issues in Feminist Film Theory

                      Modernity and Consciousness

                      Psychoanalysis and Politics

16:350:529  African-American Writers and American Literature (3)

                    Black Women Writers

16:350:532  Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature and Culture (3)

16:350:533  Medieval Drama (3)

16:350:535  Texts and Critical Issues in Medieval Literature: (3)

                      Text and Taboo, 1050-1610

                      Theorizing Gender Before 1500

                      Medieval Drama: Performing Society

                      Late Medieval Literature/History

16:350:539  Renaissance Drama (3)

16:350:545  Shakespeare across Cultures (3)

16:350:551  Gender and Sexuality in 18th-Century Literature: Sex and the

                       Modern World in Transatlantic 18th Century (3)

16:350:559  Women Writers to 1800 (3)

16:350:565  Women Writers and the Rise of the Novel (3)

16:305:566  English Fiction 1800-1900: Literature and Class (3)

16:350:570  Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Literature and Culture (3)

16:350:571  Texts and Critical Issues in Victorian Literature: Gender, Class, and Power in

                        19th- Century England (3)

                    Victorian Poetry and Poetics: 19th Century

16:350:572  Gender, Class, and Power in 19th-Century England (3)

16:350:574  Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Race, Nation, and Empire (3)

16:350:579  Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: (3)

                    Lesbian and Gay Writing 1880-1910

16:350:581  Minority Place in Literature: (3)

                      Post-Colonial Literature and Theory

                      Colonialism and Post-Colonialism II

                      Spiritually and/as Ideology in Black Women's Literature and Film

                      Race Is/After Identity

16:350:583  Major Fiction 20th Century: Contemporary Fiction (3)

16:350:584  Foundational Figures of Modernism (3)

16:350:585  Dramatic Modernism (3)

16:350:586  Early 20th-Century Poetry (3)

16:350:587  The Sixties and Postmodernism (3)

16:350:588  20th -Century African-American Literature and Culture (3)

                    The African-American Essay

16:350:589  Studies in African-American Literature and Culture (3)

                    African American Black History and Fictive Imagination

16:350:592  Drama: Feminist Theory and Performance (3)

16:350:593  Studies in Ethnic American Literatures and Cultures (3)

16:350:594  Modern and Postmodern (3)

                    Twentieth-Century American Women Poets

16:350:596  Women Writers of Modernism (3)

                    Twentieth-Century Survey: Modernism

16:350:597  Studies Postmodern: The Sixties and Postmodernism (3)

16:350:602  Readings in British and American Literature (3)

16:350:604  The Bible and Feminist Imagination (3)

                    Women in Renaissance Literature

16:350:605  Seminar: Feminist Theories and Controversies (3)

16:350:619  Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Literature (3)

16:350:625  Seminar: Medieval Literature: Medieval Women's Literature (3)

16:350:636  Seminar: Jane Austen in Context (3)

16:350:648  Seminar: American Women Writers (3)

16:350:655  Seminar: Topics in African-American Literature and Culture (3)

16:350:656  Seminar: Performance and Post-Modern Theory (3)

16:350:659  Seminar: Trauma and Witnessing in Modern China (3)

16:350:629  Spenser and His Contemporaries (3)

                    Early Modern Women in Poetry and Prose

16:350:639  Seminar: Autobiography/Genre Theory (3)

16:350:648  Seminar: American Women Writer (3)

16:350:652  Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Fiction (3)

                    Narratives of Gender and Race in the 1720s

16:350:653  Seminar: Freud and His Commentators (3)

                    Cultural Studies in Asia

16:350:656  Seminar: Postmodern Drama (3)

                    Performance and Post Modern History

16:350:657  Seminar: Twentieth-Century Poetry (3)

16:350:658  Seminar: Gender, Sexuality, and Modernism (3)

                    Stein and Woolf

16:350:660  Seminar:  (3)

                      Colonial/Post-Colonial Literature and Culture

                      Postcolonial Texts and the Critique of Historicism

16:350:681  American Literary Women: Black Literature and Migration (3)

16:350:684  Victorian Poetry Gender and Genre (3)

16:350:687  Seminar: Modern English Fiction (3)

                      Modernism, Feminism, Postmodernism

16:352:692  American Writers (3)

                    Culture of New York

                    Postmodernism and Spirituality

                    Postmodernism/Postsecular

16:350:693  Seminar: Fiction and Narrative Theory: (3)

                      Black History and the Fictive Imagination

                      Life Narrative

                      Narrative of Upward Mobility

16:352:695  Seminar: Modern American Poetry: (3)

                      The Poetry of Witness

        Twentieth-Century American Women Poets

16: 350:697  Literary Criticism and Social Critique: (3)

                       Sex in Public

                       Incorporating Theory

                       Feminist Theory, Science, and Epistemology

16: 350:698  Seminar: Contemporary Criticism and its Forerunners: (3)

                       Advanced Feminist Theory: Feminist Texts-Race, Empire, and Class

French

16:420:651  French Literature of the 19th Century (3)

16:420:652  French Literature 19th Century (3)

16:420:659  Studies in 19th-Century French Literature (3)

16:420:663  French Theater 20th Century: 1950-2000: Helen Cixous (3)

16:420:664  Twentieth-Century French Poetry (3)

16:420:668  Studies in French Literature of the 20th Century: Gender and Genre (3)

16:420:669  Studies in French Literature of the 20th Century (3)

16:420:671  Studies in Francophone Literature (3)

                    Temoignage and Caribbean Women Writers

16:420:679  Studies in Film and Film Theory (3)

16:420:682  Perspectives of Contemporary Criticism (3)

16:420:684  Deleuzian Cent. Desire and Post-Aesth. (3)

16:420:685  Literature and Gender (3)

Geography

16:450:515  Population Migration: Population Migration and Mobility (3)

16:450:519  Problems in Political Geography (3)

16:450:522  Tourism Geography (3)

16:450:606  Geography Seminar: (3)

                      Environment and Culture

                      Advanced Geographical Techniques

                      Economic Globalization

                      Biogeography

                      Geographic Art and Imagery Culture and Environment

                      Tourism Planning

                      Development and Underdevelopment

                      Emerging Issues in Resource Balm

                      Diasporic Geographies

                      Geography, Space, and Social Theory

16:450:520  Women in the Urban Environment (3)

16:450:525  Restructuring of Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 (3)

German

16:470:662  German Feminist Writers (3)

History

16:510:519  Colloquium in Intellectual History (3)

16:510:523  Colloquium in Migration, Community, and Identity (3)

16:510:525  Colloquium in Political History: History of Women (3)

16:510:527  Topics in the History of Religion: (3)

                      Colloquium in Social History: Childhood and Family Structures

16:510:529  Topics in the History of Sexuality (3)

16:510:535  Colloquium: History of Technology (3)

16:510:539  Colloquium: (3)

                      History of Women

        Women and Gender History

        Women and Gender

        Women and Gender History: Race and Reproduction

                       History of the Body

16:510:541  Colloquium in World History of Women (3)

16:510:549  Seminars: (3)

                      History of Women   

                      Women and Gender History

16:510:550  Seminars: (3)

                      History of Women

                      Women and Gender

16:510:552  American Intellect and Culture History: Gender, Society, and Politics (3)

16:510:553  Problems and Directed Readings in African-American History (3)                

16:510:555  Problems and Directed Readings in American History I (3)

16:510:559  Problems and Directed Readings in American History III (3)

16:510:560  Problems and Directed Readings in Women's and Gender History (3)

16:510:561  Colloquium in American History (3)

16:510:563  Colloquium in African American History: (3)

                      Race, Place, and Space and African American History

16:510:573  Seminar in African-American and American History (3)

16:510:574  Seminar African American History I (3)

16:510:597  Problems and Directed Readings in Early Modern Europe (3)

16:510:601  Colloquium European History (3)

16:510:607  Race, Gender, and Class Under Colonialism (3)

16:510:616  Seminar: European History (3)

16:510:631  Colloquium: Latin American History (19th Century) (3)

16:510:680, 681  Seminar in Women's History (3,3)

Labor Studies

16:578:541  Women and Work (3)

16:578:551  Seminar in Minorities and Work (3)

16:578:560  Foundations of Collective Bargaining (3)

16:578:562  Seminar in Comparative Labor Movements  (3)

16:578:566  Work and Alienation (3)

Literature and Language

16:617:514  Introduction to Film Theory and Analysis (3)

Planning and Public Policy

34:970:581  Gender and International Development (3)

34:970:701  Seminar in Urban Planning (3)

Political Science

16:790:512  Political Thought (3)

16:790:531  Problems in American Politics: (3)

                      Race, Politics, and the News Media, 1964-1995

                      Immigration, Citizenship, and American Democracy

16:790:578  Feminism in Postmodernity (3)

16:790:579  Enlightenment: Philosophers and Their Critics: Kant (3)

16:790:584  Themes in Feminist Theory in Politics (3)

16:790:586  Advanced Topics: Women and Politics (3)

16:790:587  Proseminar in Women and Politics (3)

16:790:588  Gender and Mass Politics (3)

16:790:589  Women and Political Leadership (3)

16:790:590  Gender and Political Theory (3)

16:790:591  Gender and Public Policy (3)

16:790:592  Politics, Development, and Women (3)

16:790:593  Gender and Comparative Politics (3)

16:790:594  Women's Movements in Comparative Perspective (3)

16:790:596  Advanced Topics in Women and Politics: (3)

                      Feminist Jurisprudence

        Gender and Comparative Theory

                       Public

                       Public Policy and Political Theory

                       Research Design

                       Gender, Race, and Representation

                       Gender, Race, and the American Party System

16:790:635  French Feminist Theory (3)

16:790:672  Independent Study in Women and Politics (3)

16: 820:579  Psychotherapy with Women (3)

Public Health

16:832:514  Culture and Health (3)

16:832:516  Women and Health (3)

16:832:547  Immigration Policy and Health Care (3)

Public Administration

16:834:586  Violence in the United States (3)

Public Policy

16:833:531  Policy Analysis and Evaluation (3)

16:833:572  Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (3)

16:833:581  American Social Policy(3)

16:833:592  Public Policy Formation: Mass Media Public Opinion (3)

16:833:593  Policy Analysis and Evaluation (3)

16:833:680  Seminar in Public Policy: Race, Politics, and the Media (3)

16:833:682  Seminar Public Policy: Planning Policy and Race (3)

Social Work

16:910:542  Women, Work, and Single Parent Families (3)

16:910:564  Women's Issues (3)

16:910:585  Issues in Social Policy: Children and Family (3)

16:910:692  Topics in Social Work: Family Culture (3)

Sociology

16:920:503  Selected Social Problems Feminist Theory (3)

16:920:511  Gender and the Self (3)

                    Proseminar: Globalization and International Development

16:920:512  Proseminar in Sociology: Social Psychology of Gender (3)

16:920:528  Marriage and the Family (3)

16:920:570  Race, Class, and Gender (3)

                    Special Topics in Sociology: Sexuality

                    Gender, Sexuality, and Social Movements

                    Time, History, and Memory

                    Sociological Theories of Power

16:920:571  Seminar in Gender and Sexuality (3)

                    Sociology of Culture

16:920:572  Special Topics in Sociology: (3)

                      Race, Class, and Gender

                      Sociology of the Family

                      Time, History, and Memory

                      Sociology of Identity

                      Gender and Health

                      Space, Place, Community

                      Sociology of Sexuality

16:920:572  Sociology of Identity: (3)

                      The Social Construction of Whiteness

                       Labor and Globalization

                       Sociology of Sexuality

16:920:573  Special Topics in Sociology: (3)

                      Gender and the Self

                      Sociology of the Life Course
                   
                      The Self

                      Inequalities

16:920:614  Seminar: Race and Ethnic Relations (3)

16:920:615  Seminar in Qualitative Research Methods (3)

16:920:618  Sociology of Gender (3)

16:920:625  Women and Development (3)

16:920:632  Sociology of Work (3)

16:920:640  Sociological Perspectives on Feminist Theory (3)

16:920:646  Cognitive Sociology (3)

16:920:660  Passion and Madness in Contemporary Spanish-American Literature (3)

Spanish

16:940:539  Spanish Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries (3)

16:940:547  Modernism in Spanish America (3)

16:940:590  Current Portuguese Literature (3)

Paternity in Portuguese Language and Literature

16:940:597  Seminar in Hispanic Literature (3)

16:940:598  Seminar in Hispanic Literature (3)

16:940:612  Seminar: Literary Theory (3)

16:940:620  Seminar: Nonfiction in the Golden Age (3)

16:940:637  Seminar: Theater of the 20th Century: (3)

                      Spanish, Spanish-American, Latina Playwrights

16:940:655  Seminar: Contemporary Spanish-American Theater: (3)

                       From Rural and Urban Roots to Queer and Feminist Border Mappings

16:940:659  Contemporary Spanish-American Women Writers (3)

16:40:660    Seminar: Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature: (3)

                      Contemporary Spanish-American Women Writers

                      Nationalism(s) in Late 19th/20th Century Spanish and African/European

                          Question

                      Passion and Madness in Contemporary Spanish-American Literature

Urban Planning and Policy Development

16:970:501  Development and Theory of Urban Planning (3)

16:970:581  Gender and International Development (3)

                    Planning and Gender Development

16:970:583  Gender in Policy and Planning (3)

16:970:585  Tourism Planning (3)

16:970:651  Gender Planning and Public Policy (3)

16:970:652  Seminar in Urban Planning: Community Development (3)

16:970:657  Seminar in Urban Planning: Third-World Social Policy (3)

16:970:658  Human Rights, Health, and Violence (3)

16:970:660  Seminar in Urban Planning: Women and Health (3)

16:970:670  Seminar in Urban Planning: Urban Poverty, Theory, and Policy (3)

Women's and Gender Studies-Newark

16:988:532  Feminist Theory (3)

16:988:570  Feminist Research and Methods (3)

 
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