13th Annual Colloquium
Faculty Highlight
Barrett Emerick presented at the UK-SWIP (Society for Women in Philosophy) conference, "Feminist Epistemology and Philosophical Traditions," in November. The title of his paper was "A Defense of Doxastic and Affective Voluntarism."
WGSX 210 Introduction to Gender Studies
As stated in the 2010–2011 college catalog:
This team-taught course studies gender theory from interdisciplinary perspectives, involving the participation of faculty from the arts, the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. Readings, presentations and discussions contribute to students' understanding of competing definitions of gender in different cultures and at different points in history, especially as they shed light on the emergence of gender studies as a contemporary field of study. Students learn arguments for the importance or irrelevance of gender to issues such as personal identity and political power, and develop their own positions on the meaning, worth and practice of gender, and its intersection with such related concepts as sex and sexuality. The course explores constructions of masculinity and femininity, and recent work in feminist theory, masculinity studies, and queer theory. A group of 10-15 faculty collaborate in the teaching of this course. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Humanistic Foundations.
To get a sense of what this class might be like, please take the opportunity to look at previous syllabi:
