1000 Level Courses

WMST 1500 6.00A WOMEN IN TODAY'S WORLD

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Thursday, 2:30-4:30pm
Tutorials: 5

To investigate women today, this course introduces students to a range of historical and contemporary questions and ideas that surround women's bodies, agency, freedoms, and subjectivities in the world. It examines various constructs and representations of women that occur in, or are produced by, dominant systems of knowledge that impact science, art, popular culture, the law, sport, and work. It takes a feminist and interdisciplinary approach that considers how discourses about class, race, ability, age, and sexuality contour the lives and experiences of different women in different ways.

Course Director: F. Latchford
(206A Founders, x20460)

Evaluation:
Fall Mid Term Test - 20%
Fall Journal - Critical Reflections -15%
Fall Tutorial Participation/Attendance -10%
Winter Semester Essay: - 25%
Winter Semester Final Test - 20%
Winter Tutorial Participation/Attendance - 10%

Course Texts: TBA
Course Kit (all kits and books are available at the York University Bookstore):
Course Kit (contains all photocopied readings for Fall/Winter—it is in the bookstore).
All films viewed in this course are required texts. Films can also be viewed in the York Sound
and Moving Image Library located in the Scott Library.
Other course texts - TBA
Projected Enrolment: 125

WMST 1510 6.00A SEX, GENDER AND POPUPLAR CULTURE

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Thursday, 2:30-4:30pm
Tutorials: 8

This course examines the construction of gender - both femininity and masculinity - and sexuality in popular culture with a consideration of how social, political and historical forces influence media practices as well as audience consumption preferences. This is an interdisciplinary introduction to sex, gender and popular culture that works with feminist, anti-racist and anti-homophobia methods.

Goals of the course include the development of critical, feminist and theoretical skills for reading the representation and construction of sex and gender in popular culture; analysis of the relationship between media and ideology; and introduction to the practices, goals, and strategies of feminist cultural production.

Course Director: A. Mitchell
(206E Founders, x44086)
Evaluation:
Two short reviews 15%
Fall exam 20%
Term Paper proposal 5%
Term paper 20%
Winter exam 20%
Participation 10%
Attendance 10%
Course Texts: Fall and Winter Semester Course Kits (available at the York Bookstore)
Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler. Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. 2006.
Guerilla Girls. Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to
Female Stereotypes. 2003.
Alice Walker. The Color Purple. 1983.
Marjane Satrapi. The Complete Persepolis. 2007.
Zoe Whittal. Holding Still As Long As Possible. 2009.
Projected Enrolment: 198