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2020-2021 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2020/Spring 2021) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 
  

  • THEA 333 - Actors’ Lab: Scenes II

    2 credits
    A course geared to the actor’s individual skills, to strengthen performance in scene study. Students will investigate material from the world repertoire, exploring periods and styles. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: THEA 233  or THEA 330 . Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered spring semester.
  

  • THEA 338 - Advanced Acting: Special Topics

    2-4 credits
    An emphasis on specific challenges an actor faces with advanced material. Topics covered from semester to semester include elements of characterization, period, language and style, voice and movement, and research. Students explore scenes, exercises, and rehearsal methods as dictated by the material. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: THEA 330  and permission of instructor (possibly by audition). Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester.
  

  • THEA 345 - Advanced Directing

    2 credits
    A study of the process of directing through the experience of directing a one-act or full-length play for public performance. Classroom discussion focuses on works in progress, with special emphasis on the problems of translating a text to the stage; working with actors, designers, playwrights; composition and creating stage business; style; rhythm. Looks at history of the art and some of its contemporary practitioners. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: THEA 245 , stage management of department production, and permission of instructor.  

     
  

  • THEA 355 - Advanced Playwriting

    4 credits
    A writer’s workshop with an emphasis on form, language, theatricality, and deep revision. Students complete a full-length play or two one-act plays. Class meetings focus on the reading and discussion of student work and selected published plays as well as preparing manuscripts for production and publication. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: THEA 255  or instructor approval. CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • THEA 362 - Black Theatre

    4 credits
    Charts African-American theatre from minstrelsy to contemporary performance. Investigates the relationship between African-American theatre and the American socio-political landscape: How does theatre both reflect and shape its time period? How is African-American theatre influenced by or a reaction against theatre created by White artists? Examines texts to explore some fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of theatre: How have various African-American artists opened up new terrain both socially and aesthetically? Is theatre a form of entertainment or social protest or ritual? How can these forms be combined? In addition, looks at the kinds of relationships explored in the plays: What types of racial or ethnic relationships are depicted? What about gender, sexual orientation, and class? Finally, examines the role of the African-American artist: How does one define African-American theatre-is. CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • THEA 365 - Selected Topics in Dramatic Literature

    2-4 credits
    A study of selected plays from one or more periods of dramatic achievement, emphasizing their theatrical qualities and staging. Periods studied and specific emphases vary when offered. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: THEA 100  or THEA 101 . Offered spring semester in even-numbered years. CLA-Breadth/Arts
  

  • THEA 366 - Dramaturgy

    2 credits
    This course is designed to expose students to various facets of dramaturgy including: research, collaboration with directors and actors, criticism and reviews, collaboration with playwrights in new play development, and adaptation and/or translation. This class should prove valuable both for those interested in working as dramaturgs, and for directors, writers, designers, and performers wishing to collaborate with professional dramaturgs in years to come. The course is divided into various units reflecting different facets of dramaturgy. Readings, discussion, and a hands-on project are assigned for each unit. Prerequisite: THEA 101 . CLA-Breadth/Arts
  

  • THEA 367 - Enter Laughing: On Women, Men and Comedy

    2-4 credits
    Aristotle didn’t care for it. Mae West got arrested for it. Great comedy engages the same life and death themes as tragedy, allowing artist and audience to go deeper into issues than convention and taboo ordinarily allow. From the pacifist cross-dressers of Lysistrata to the globe-trotting resistance fighters of Lisa Kron’s The Verizon Play, this course will examine how rules are made and broken, how gender is defined and bent, how hot topics are set ablaze, shedding light, cauterizing wounds and sometimes leveling the ground between the powerless and the powerful. Instructor approval required. CLA-Breadth/Arts
  

  • THEA 375 - Special Topics in Theatre

    1-4 credits
    In depth study in theatre related subjects at the Advanced level. Topics could focus on any area of the theatre. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: Student must have completed at least 8 credits in Theatre Arts. Signature of instructor required for registration.
  

  • THEA 380 - London Semester Interdisciplinary Colloquium

    4 credits
    The Colloquium, taught by the program director, offers both a collective interdisciplinary exploration of a London topic and an opportunity for each student to complete an individual research project. The project asks students to make use of the resources of London to explore a topic they have chosen in consultation with the program director and perhaps also a campus adviser. Students develop their topics through interviews, site visits, participant/observation, and the use of London libraries. Offered Fall semester. Offered in London program. Instructor permission required. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the London Semester program. Same as: PSCI 380 , ARTH 380 ,, HIST 380 , MCOM 380   Offered fall semester. CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Off Campus Experience, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  

  • THEA 383 - British Political Drama

    4 credits
    Under the premise that all theatre has a political dimension and works its influence on audiences both overtly and subversively, this course is designed to take advantage of the huge variety of productions available in London venues (not necessarily conventional theatre spaces), with a focus on the political questions they raise for twenty-first century audiences. Because the 1960s saw big changes on the theatrical scene in Britain it is taken as a starting point, and we see what we can of the playwrights who helped form our present day theatre through the twentieth century. Because it does not operate in a vacuum, appropriate plays may be chosen from other periods and cultures that address crucial global, social and political issues. Instructor permission required Prerequisite: Acceptance into the London Semester program Same as:. Offered fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • THEA 385 - Applied Performance: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Violence, and Discrimination through Interactive Performance

    4 credits
    Exposes students to the field of Applied Theatre and Dance. Coursework includes the creation and implementation of workshops for the purposes of education and advocacy around the topics of sexual consent, diversity and discrimination. Students spend a substantial amount of time working with community organizations (such as Morris Cares) and conducting workshops in area schools and/or community centers. A substantial percentage of the class grade is based on quality of students’ community work both in and outside of Drew and their ability to connect that work to the course’s academic content. May be repeated twice. Permission of instructor required. CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Breadth/Arts
  

  • THEA 386 - Theatre in The Community: The Newark Collaboration

    4 credits
    This course is a collaborative theatre-making enterprise in which Drew students will team with high school students from the Newark inner city schools to create original work that will be presented both on Drew’s campus and at the Marion Bolden Student Center in Newark. Classes will likewise meet at both locations, with Drew students and Newark students traveling to the two sites by turn. Drew participants will both mentor and share in the process of original play development and performance. In addition to the weekly play development workshops and rehearsals with the Newark students, Drew participants will meet frequently on their own, to assess and develop strategies for facilitating the work of the full group and keeping it on track. A research component studying the historical impact of community-based theaters around the globe, together with a final paper, will also be required of Drew students. Course may be repeated. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment priority: Priority given to theatre majors, theatre minors, and seniors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: At least 8 prior credits of theatre classes required. CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Off Campus Experience, CLA-Community Based Learning
  

  • THEA 387 - Theatre Semester: Internship

    9 credits
    A full-time internship with an established professional theatre in New York New Jersey metropolitan area, including the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey on campus or Playwrights Theatre of N.J. Specifics of each assignment are determined by the theatre arts department, the theatre involved, and the individual student. Most internships are entry-level positions with a variety of tasks, allowing the student to gain a working knowledge of and experience in the professional theatre as both a business and an art. Increased responsibilities during the course of the internship depend upon a student’s performance and the needs of the theatre. All interns meet regularly with the faculty supervisor to examine various topics relating to the professional theatre. A detailed written summary of the internship is due at the end of the semester. Internships in New York City or at a distance from campus usually require students to live, at their own expense, off campus, suitably convenient to their work. Open only to qualified Drew theatre arts majors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offering to be determined.
  

  • THEA 388 - Theatre Semester: Independent Study

    3 credits
    Several research papers, the topics of which to be chosen in consultation with faculty adviser, undertaken as part of the Theatre Semester program. Open only to qualified Drew theatre arts majors Signature of instructor required for registration. Offering to be determined.
  

  • THEA 389 - Special Topics in Applied Performance

    2 or 4 credits
    This course is a collaborative dance-making workshop in which Drew students will collaborate with high school students from the Newark inner city schools to create original work.  Drew participants will both mentor and share in the process of original choreography and dance.  The class will also include visual media explorations of dance and movement.  Course may be repeated. Enrollment restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Enrollment priority: Priority given to dance minors, theatre majors, theatre minors, and seniors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: At least 8 prior credits of theatre and/or dance classes required. Prerequisite: At least 8 prior credits of theatre and/or dance classes required. Instructor permission required CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • THEA 399 - ShortTrec Program at the Upper Level

    1-8 credits
    The course will focus on selected topics offered as shorTrecs through the Center for Global Education.  Topics and location of the course will vary in accordance with student interest and faculty expertise. May be repeated as topics vary. Instructor Approval Required. Offering to be determined. CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • THEA 400 - Theatre Arts Fall: New York City Colloquium +

    4 credits
    Research the major American theatre organizations and institutions.  Attend cutting-edge live performances.  Hear from notable theatre guest speakers.  Attend intensive workshops with professional theatre company.  reflect on these experiences to create your personal theatre manifesto and work with your peers to develop a concept for an original ensemble piece that will be produced in the spring. Enrollment limited to approved juniors and seniors only, with priority given to seniors.  Students must have completed a minimum of eight credits in the Department of Theatre and Dance. Instructor permission required. CLA-Capstone, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • THEA 401 - Theatre Arts Spring: New York City Performance and Residency

    4 credits
    Learn the play development process working with mentors from a professional theatre company.  Attend professional performances and rehearsals that will inform the writing, staging and rehearsing leading up to a New York City premiere of an ensemble work you created with your class.  Then, take feedback and make adjustments to bring the production back to share with the Drew community. Graded Pass/Fail Enrollment limited to approved juniors and seniors only, with priority given to seniors.  Students must have completed a minimum of eight credits in the Department of Theatre and Dance. Prerequisite: THEA 400 . Instructor permission required. CLA-Off Campus Experience, CLA-Capstone
  

  • THEA 402 - Independent Capstone Project

    2 credits
    Independent work in a specific area of the theatre. Work can be completed in either a production, and internship, or academic research which formally synthesizes and connects a student’s training in the major with the broader liberal arts curriculum. Written work to be reflective of the student’s time in the major imagining how that work might be incorporated into future planning goals. This course is intended to take the place of THEA 401  or  THEA 410 /THEA 411 . Senior class standing. CLA-Capstone
  

  • THEA 410 - Specialized Honors I

    0-8 credits
    CLA-Capstone
  

  • THEA 411 - Specialized Honors II

    0-8 credits
    CLA-Capstone
  

  • TREC 399 - LocalTREC: Your World, Your Major, and You

    1 credits
    Travel is about the journey, not the destination. And the richest form of travel involves wandering, exploring, making connections, and understanding one’s place in the world in new and different ways. While quarantine and physical distancing have seemingly limited the possibilities for wandering and exploring, the expert traveler can make any place newly meaningful by transforming their ordinary surroundings into lively and profound landscapes. We invite students to TREC (Travel/Rethink/Explore/Connect) wherever they are through physical, virtual, or imaginative immersion in their community. Participants will have an opportunity to record their explorations via photography, writing, sound, and other means, and then, in consultation with faculty experts, apply economic, environmental, psychological, historical, and other frameworks to develop projects that convey their newfound knowledge about their communities with others. Junior or Senior Class Standing. CLA-Immersive Experience, CLA-Off Campus
  

  • UNIV 101 - University 101

    0 credits
    An introduction to living and studying in the United States for international students. The course focuses on academic and social life at the university, as well as American culture and values and how knowledge of these can contribute to success in the U.S. and at Drew University.  Designed for students in their first semester of study at Drew. Pass/Fail.
  

  • WGST 101 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies

    4 credits
    An interdisciplinary course designed to lay the groundwork for the women’s and gender studies major and minor. Also appropriate as a first course for any student interested in pursuing the study of gender within their major field. This U.S. focused course considers questions fundamental to the field: What is a woman? What is gender? What is sex? How does culture construct gender and gender difference? How do gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect and interact?; the course, also, lays the groundwork for further work in the field by introducing students to analytical and critical concepts and approaches for understanding the lives of women and the construction of gender within larger social, political, and cultural structures; and it considers how we think about individual lives using these questions. Required for women’s and gender studies majors and minors. Offered spring semester annually. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • WGST 103 - Gender and Literature

    2 credits
    An introduction to questions of how gender, as it intersects with race, class, and sexuality, shapes literary texts, authorship, readership, and representation. Most often organized thematically, the course may focus on such issues as creativity, subjectivity, politics, work, sexuality, masculinity, or community in works chosen from a variety of periods, genres, and areas. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Offered fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • WGST 104 - Sexuality and Literature

    2 credits
    This course examines how sexuality is articulated and mediated through literature and such modes of cultural production as film and two-dimensional art. Attention will be paid to specific iterations of sexuality and the labels that attend them (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual). We will address theories of sexuality and study such authors as Jeanette Winterson, Mark Doty, Edmund White, Hart Crane, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Michael Cunningham. The course may additionally encompass how sexuality intersects with ethnicity, science and politics. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  

  • WGST 201 - Transnational Feminisms

    4 credits
    Examines women’s movements internationally and globally. Explores the variations in constructions of sex, gender and gender difference as well as the range of feminisms and women’s movements that have emerged from these differing cultural, economic and political situations. Such topics as women and development, the sexual division of labor, health, the environment, the international traffic in women and human rights may be among those explored in the course. Same as: PSCI 241 .  

     
    CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International
  

  • WGST 207 - Women and Religion

    4 credits
    A cross-cultural consideration of images of women in myth and scripture as related to women’s actual roles in religious institutions and in societies at large. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • WGST 211 - Interdisciplinary Topics in Women’s Studies

    4 credits
    Special interdisciplinary topics in women’s and gender studnes, most often offered on a one-time basis. Topic determined by instructor at time of offering. Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • WGST 212 - Anthropology of Gender

    4 credits
    A study of gender across cultures and of the key perspectives produced by anthropologists to analyze it. The course explores how gender is produced, lived, contested, and intertwined with other social categories through ethnographic research of the everyday, livelihoods, labor, kinship, and ritual. Equivalent: ANTH 212   CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary Studies, CLA-Breadth/Social Sciences, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • WGST 223 - Policing and the Rule of Law: Gender, Race, and Citizenship

    4 credits
    The relation between policing and the rule of law has been a source of much interest in democracies. How does one define the police and their role in ensuring security? In the course, we will first discuss conceptions of the state, the rule of law and their critiques. Next, we discuss policing as a site of state power- including the history of policing, global trends from Argentina, India, and Egypt, and the role policing plays in societies. U.S. debates on policing emerging out of Ferguson, MO and Charlotte, North Carolina will also be analyzed in this context. Finally, we relate state and policing to the use of science. From the high number of crime shows such as CSI, Law and Order and Dexter impacting jury trials and the increasing use of DNA evidence, neuromapping technologies and even truth serums (in some contexts) have made police and the legal system extremely dependent on the ability of scientific evidence to get to the truth. Drawing from Political Theory, films, TV shows and stories, we will trace the way in which law and policing interacts with science. Whether we discuss state, rule of law, policing, or science, the experience of any of these institutions is mediated centrally by particular identities such as race, gender, and class, which will be discussed throughout the course. Same as PSCI 223 .  CLA - Diversity US
  

  • WGST 225 - Sociology of Gender

    4 credits
    An analysis of contemporary gender roles from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Focuses on the social construction of gender and how gender affects our most intimate relationships. An examination of the implications of gender stratification for family and workplace. Explores historical and cross-cultural variations in gender roles, as well as variations by race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. Prerequisite: SOC 101 or permission of instructor. Offered annually. Fulfills: DUS CLA-Diversity US
  

  • WGST 233 - Policing and the Rule of Law: Gender, Race, and Citizenship

    4 credits
    The relation between policing and the rule of law has been a source of much interest in democracies. How does one define the police and their role in ensuring security? In the course, we will first discuss conceptions of the state, the rule of law and their critiques. Next, we discuss policing as a site of state power- including the history of policing, global trends from Argentina, India, and Egypt, and the role policing plays in societies. U.S. debates on policing emerging out of Ferguson, MO and Charlotte, North Carolina will also be analyzed in this context. Finally, we relate state and policing to the use of science. From the high number of crime shows such as CSI, Law and Order and Dexter impacting jury trials and the increasing use of DNA evidence, neuromapping technologies and even truth serums (in some contexts) have made police and the legal system extremely dependent on the ability of scientific evidence to get to the truth. Drawing from Political Theory, films, TV shows and stories, we will trace the way in which law and policing interacts with science. Whether we discuss state, rule of law, policing, or science, the experience of any of these institutions is mediated centrally by particular identities such as race, gender, and class, which will be discussed throughout the course. Same as PSCI 233 .  CLA-Diversity/US, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  

  • WGST 235 - Gender, Sexuality, and the Power of Language in French Texts (in English)

    4 credits
    Discusses prose narratives and critical texts written in French from the late 17th through the 21st centuries analyzing among others, the representation of gender, masculinity, femininity, gender fluidity and sexuality. Examines different waves of French feminism, and the study of 20th and 21st century authors includes writers from Quebec, Francophone Africa, and the French Caribbean. Cultural and historical contexts as well as the study of a few theoretical concepts provide the tools to develop critical readings and oral presentations on the material covered in class. Instructor signature required for registration.  Equivalent to FREN 235 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity International,
  

  • WGST 236 - Women in Music

    4 credits
    A study of women composers/performers through the ages emphasizing their changing roles and society’s changing attitudes. The seminar focuses on selected works of Hildegard von Bingen, Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Maria Grandval, Ellen Taafe Zwilich, and Laurie Anderson, among others.
    4.000 Credit hours CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • WGST 242 - Gender and Communication

    4 credits
    This course explores the relationship between gender and communication, including gendered communication behaviors in single and mixed gender groups in both familiar and professional relationships; the impact of cultural expectations and socialization in the development of gendered communication, and the role of language itself in this process; and the complicating impact of race, nationality, and class on expectations for gendered communication. Students will be introduced to theories of gender and communication and to feminist rhetorics. Equivalent: ENGH 242  
  

  • WGST 253 - Gender, Sexuality and Performance in Spanish Theater

    4 credits
    Offers an overview of Spanish theatre through representative works from the seventeenth century Golden Age to the early 20th century. Through an analysis of different dramatic genres, students are asked to explore the background and the historical, social, and aesthetic development of the Spanish theatre, as well as its principal themes. Particular attention is paid to these plays not just as literary artifacts, but also as texts for performance. In particular, students have the opportunity to examine gender and sexuality both in performance and as performance - analyzing the meanings produced by gendered and sexualized bodies on stage and in audiences, as well as the constructions and manifestations of gender and sexuality through performance itself across different contexts and time periods. Taught in English.  Equivalent: SPAN 253   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • WGST 265 - Women in Theater

    4 credits
    A selected study of the contributions of women in the theatre, with special focus on plays by women. Course may be organized by historical period(s) or appropriate theme. Also could include study of other women theatrical artists and practitioners: actors, directors, designers, artistic directors, producers. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offered spring semester in odd-numbered years. Same as: THEA 265  
  

  • WGST 281 - Spirituality, Gender and the Media

    4 credits
    Examines the intersections of gender analysis, alternative spirituality movements and mass media in late Western modernity (1960s-present), focusing on the historical context of their rise to prominence and the ways they influenced and continue to shape contemporary ideas of identity. Of particular focus is the multiplicity of alternatives towards the ethical construction of self and society promoted by groups connecting gender awareness, spirituality and new avenues of media. Same as REL 281 . BHUM - CLA-Breadth/Humanities, DVUS - CLA-Diversity US
  

  • WGST 300 - Independent Study in Women’s and Gender Studies

    1-4 credits
    Individualized instruction, topic chosen by student and faculty member. Requires an approved individualized instruction request form Course is repeatable. Prerequisite: WGST 101 . Signature of instructor required for registration. offered every semester.
  

  • WGST 301 - Filming American Feminisms

    4 credits
    Through examination of documentary and fiction films, this course will explore the development of thinking about women, gender, and feminism in the United States after 1900.  We’ll think simultaneously about the evolution of feminist thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and about how film has engaged with, represented, supported, disseminated, and critiqued those developing ideas.  Readings in feminist theory of the period will be put in dialogue with a wide range of films from silents to Hollywood blockbusters to independents and documentaries made with explicitly feminist purposes. Equivalent Course:ENGH 324   Offered fall semester in alternate years. CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Breadth Interdisciplinary
  

  • WGST 303 - Gender and Contemporary Anglophone Literature

    4 credits
    This course examines late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century Anglophone fiction that theorizes the relationship between gender and the social and economic processes that have come to be known as ‘globalization.’ How do writers like Tsitsi Dangarembga, Arundhati Roy, Hanif Kureishi, and Mohsin Hamid depict the production of masculinities and femininities in the context of growing economic inequality within and between nations? How are their literary explorations in conversation with the philosophical perspectives offered by Immanuel Wallerstein, Anne McClintock, Joan Acker, Barbara Ehrenreich and others? Finally, what does contemporary Anglophone fiction—primarily literature, but also film— bring to current debates about social inequality as well as to longstanding questions about the relationship between aesthetics and politics? Prerequisite: ENGH 150  , WGST 101   Equivalent: ENGH 303   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Diversity International
  

  • WGST 304 - Sexuality and Gender in 19th Century Literature and Culture

    4 credits
    Through reading of nineteenth-century novels, poetry, prose, theoretical texts, and visual images, this course will explore the complex and shifting understandings of gender and sexuality in the period. Among the topics considered will be the construction of heterosexuality and heterosexual marriage; marriage resistance and the ‘new women’; constructions of dominant and deviant masculinities and femininities; homosocial and homosexual love and homosexual panics; prostitution and the disciplining of female sexuality, suffrage and the campaigns for women’s autonomy; as well as the codes, narratives, and images through which these are represented. The course will also ask how gender and sexuality have been deployed by 20th/ 21st century critics as lenses for reading the literature and culture of this period and how those approaches have shifted over time in dialogue with other critical approaches. Equivalent to  CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity International
  

  • WGST 310 - Contemporary Feminist Theory and Methodology

    4 credits
    An interdisciplinary course focused on contemporary feminist theory. The objectives of the course are first, to explore the broad range of theories that make up the body of contemporary scholarship referred to as “feminist theory”; second, to examine feminist critiques and innovations in methodologies in many fields; and third, to consider some of the fundamental questions these theories raise about the origins of gender difference, the nature and origins of patriarchy, the intersections between gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality as categories of analysis and bases of oppression or empowerment. Prerequisite: (WMST+12 or WGST 101 ). Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester in alternate years. CLA-Writing in the Major
  

  • WGST 311 - Advanced Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies

    2-4 credits
    Advanced women’s and gender studies topics within the arts or humanities, most often offered on a one-time basis.  Topic determined by instructor at time of offering. Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Prerequisite: WGST 101  or permission of instructor. Offering to be determined.
  

  • WGST 313 - Gender and US Politics

    4 credits
    An analysis of the relationship between gender and politics from various theoretical perspectives. Focuses on the multiple ways that gender, race, and class have influenced political participation and political institutions at the at the grass roots, state, and national levels. Explores the construction of women’s political interests and how those interests are, and have been, represented in political life in the United States. Offered spring semester. CLA-Breadth/Social Science, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • WGST 314 - Engendering Prisons

    4 credits
    This course engages students in a critical analysis of the causes and consequences of the recent growth in the prison-industrial complex in the United States. We will use readings, assignments and lectures to explore the role of social systems of stratification (particularly race, class, and gender) in shaping the U.S. prison industry. One of the most valuable resources we will have to explore these issues is our partnership with a local prison. The course will use readings, lectures, assignments and class discussions to explore the following themes: the rise of mass incarceration in the U.S.; gendered pathways to prison; gendered experiences of incarceration; gendered risks of entry. Most of the classes will be held at the Edna Mahn Correctional Facility for Women, the only women’s prison in NJ. This course uses the Inside-Out model which is dialogue-based and highly interactive. Enrollment priority: Priority given to sociology majors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: SOC 101 or permission of the instructor. Offered Annually.
  

  • WGST 315 - Political Economy of Race, Class, and Gender

    4 credits
    A study of race, class, and gender using the political economic approach to the study of economics. The course will investigate the impact of introducing the categories of race, class, and gender into political economic theory and will also undertake some empirical analyses of the roles of race, class, and gender in producing economic outcomes for minorities and majorities in the U.S. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered alternate years. Same as: ECON 315 .  CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • WGST 318 - Gender and Globalization

    4 credits
    In this class we will examine how scholars have understood and made sense of how gender issues intersect with economic globalization. Two ways in which economic globalization is manifest is through changes in trade in goods and services, and migration. We will focus on these two aspects of economic globalization. As we will discover through the readings and our discussions, scholars from a range of disciplines/theoretical frameworks, (eg economics, history, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, feminist, post-colonial theory), have contributed to our understanding of economic globalization and the way in which gender and globalization intersect. Prerequisite: ECON 101  or WGST 101 . Signature of instructor required for registration. Offering to be determined. CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Writing in the Major
  

  • WGST 321 - American Women’s History

    4 credits
    A survey of the social, economic, political, and intellectual history of women in America from the colonial period to the present, with a special emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Considers the diversity of women’s experience as a result of race, class, ethnicity, and geographic location. Emphasizes developing skills in the use of primary sources-written, artifactual, and oral. Topics vary annually. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offered fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • WGST 324 - Sociology of Reproduction

    4 credits
    This course explores the social and cultural constructions of sexuality, infertility, pregnancy, and parenting with a specific focus on the social control of women and general emphasis on how various groups’ experiences differ based on sexual orientation, class, race, and cultural background.  Topics include sex education in schools, sex in high school and college, birth control and sterilization, infertility, adoption, assisted reproductive technologies, pregnancy, surrogacy, miscarriage, fetal surgery, abortion, and childbirth.  In addition to readings about these topics in non-Western countries and international surrogacy and adoption arrangements, we will also discuss how bearing children and mothering are used to “reproduce” the nation in various contexts. Same as SOC 324   Pre-requisites: WGST 101, SOC 101 or Instructor permission CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • WGST 331 - Advanced Topics in Gender and Culture

    4 credits
    This course engages in cultural analyses of contemporary gender issues. Topics vary in accordance with student and faculty interest. May be repeated for credit as topic changes.  Prerequisite: ANTH 104  or ANTH /WGST 212 . Same as: ANTH 303 . Offering to be determined. CLA-Breadth/Social Science.
  

  • WGST 332 - Reading Nation, Gender, and Ethnicity in Latin American Culture

    4 credits
    A multidisciplinary study of the discourses of gender and ethnicity during shifting moments of nation construction in Latin America after independence, revolution and modernization projects. Discourse analysis, gender and postcolonial theories will be applied to selected literary text as well as to films, art movements, political manifestos, and national myths. Prerequisite: Gateway course or permission of the instructor. CLA-Diversity International
  

  • WGST 338 - Women in Modern European History

    4 credits
    A topical survey of the social, economic, and political history of women in Europe from the 15th century to the present, emphasizing work, family, religion, sexuality, feminism, politics, and the state. Examines geographical and cultural variations in women’s roles in history. The focus of the course varies annually and may include such topics as class and gender, work and family, women and politics, institutions and power, or rural and urban experiences. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Offering to be determined. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • WGST 349 - Global Discourse on Human Rights

    4 credits
    Introduces critical debates on human rights. Beginning with a study of founding of human rights: ideas and institutions, students will have the opportunity to study critiques of the (western) origins of human rights and the alternate approaches to rights emerging from the nonwestern world. Focuses on multiple conceptions of rights emerging from liberalism and its critics, from scholarship on colonization and decolonization, and feminist and critical theories from the global south. After understanding some of the prominent debates on human rights, emphasis will be on the implications of the approaches to conceptions and practices of human rights, for example on gender rights as human rights; dissent and free speech; migration; and social and economic inequality. Same as PSCI 349 . DVIT-CLA-Diversity International
  

  • WGST 354 - Gender in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction and Film

    4 credits
    Provides a broad understanding of how gender and sexuality are articulated in fiction, film, and other images in the Spanish-speaking world today. Using multidisciplinary approaches to these texts, students are asked to examine their intersection with race, class and Hispanic cultural values and traditions. Organized thematically and by region to better understand the diversity of the Hispanic world. Using recent theoretical approaches (feminist, post-feminist, queer), students have the opportunity to study various gender representations (male, female, performative) as they elaborate on issues of authorship, representation and reception. Same as FILM 354  and SPAN 354 . Taught in English. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • WGST 361 - Seminar in Gender Violence and Women’s Resistance

    4 credits
    The goal of this course is to integrate the theory, research and practice of women’s resistance to gender violence. Although we will focus on psychological and feminist perspectives on resistance to gender violence, we will also incorporate theory and research from sociology, public health and policy, and law, and explore the cultural assumptions that contirbute to the gender violence. In addition, a comprehensive self defense program, IMPACT Basics (www.prepareinc.com) allows for reflection on the theories and research in the context of direct experience with resistance. IMPACT is a comprehensive personal safety program, and includes physical, verbal, and psychological skills and strategies. Techniques are taught in the context of realistic scenarios. Furthermore, the use of trained instructors in full padding allows for the learning and practicing of full contact, full force physical defense skills. Cross-listed with PSYC 361   Offering in Fall in alternate years Pre-req: PSCI 101  or WGST 101  and permission of instructor CLA-Breadth/Social Science
  

  • WGST 362 - Seminar in the Psych of Women

    4 credits
    A review of research focusing on women. Draws upon findings from the various subfields of psychology, including stereotyping, the social construction of gender, female personality development, women and mental health, gender differences in brain lateralization, hormonal influences on behavior, the psychology of women’s health, and coping with victimization. Considers how psychological methodology enhances (or obfuscates) our knowledge about women’s lives and experiences. The interface between psychology of women as a subfield of psychology and mainstream psychology is explored. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: PSYC+101. Offered spring semester in even-numbered years.
  

  • WGST 363 - Women in Asian Traditions

    4 credits

    This course critically examines traditional definitions of gender and the ways women both enact and challenge such definitions in the present day in Asia, through our reading of contemporary ethnographic (field research) studies on women and religion.  The methodology of the course is to examine ways in which cultural history is both affirmed and changed in the present, through study of scholarly theories of intersections between the academic disciplines of history, ethnography and history of religions.  We perform gender analysis to contrast women’s social agency in past present in order to situate the opportunities they have to participate in the shaping of tradition today, and to examine ways in which contemporary women are actively and authoritatively redefining tradition to shape their every day lives in social and political context, engaging traditional cultural values in new definitions of rights and ways of acting in society.  The world region/s of focus - South Asia, Southeast Asia, and/or East Asia - will vary by offering. Same as HIST 362   CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive

  

  • WGST 367 - Seminar on Gender and International Politics

    4 credits
    An analysis and examination of gender issues in international politics with either a regional or thematic focus. The central goal of the course will be to explore how gender, race, class, nation and sexuality are core components of the discourse and practice of international politics. Such topics as gender and Latin American politics, gender and international political economy, international women’s organizing, and gender and postcolonial theory will be among those regularly presented. Offered annually. Fulfills: DIT CLA-Diversity International
  

  • WGST 370 - History of Sexuality

    4 credits
    This research seminar explores some of the major themes and milestones in the modern history of sexuality in the United States and Europe, focusing special attention on the role of medicine in these developments. Following a theoretical introduction to the field, the seminar will address, among other topics, the “invention” of homosexuality and the regulation of prostitution; the impact of thinkers like Krafft-Ebbing, Freud, and Kinsey; and such recent controversies as the new diagnosis of sex addiction and the search for a gay gene. Special emphasis will be placed on evaluating the role of class, race, gender, and ethnicity upon constructions of sexuality. In addition to a substantial research paper, students will be required to write three shorter response papers and deliver class presentations based upon their readings. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • WGST 372 - Global Women’s History

    4 credits
    Considers global patterns in women’s history, prioritizing Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to explore women’s experiences as they are both distinctively cultural and resonant across cultures. A topical framework will enable comparative analysis, and will always include gender as a central mode of analysis, analysis of historiographical issues in constructing global women’s history and analysis of religion’s role in generating, maintaining and critiquing cultural definitions of gender. Specific topics within this framework may include women’s participation in revolutions, religious movements, feminism, politics and the workforce, among other possibilities. A focus of the study is a variety of primary sources, films and field research studies. Same as REL 372 . Same as HIST 372 . CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive.
  

  • WGST 385 - Applied Performance: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Violence, and Discrimination through Interactive Performance

    4 credits
    Exposes students to the field of Applied Theatre and Dance. Coursework includes the creation and implementation of workshops for the purposes of education and advocacy around the topics of sexual consent, diversity and discrimination. Students spend a substantial amount of time working with community organizations (such as Morris Cares) and conducting workshops in area schools and/or community centers. A substantial percentage of the class grade is based on quality of students’ community work both in and outside of Drew and their ability to connect that work to the course’s academic content. Cross-listed with THEA 385  and THEA 386   May be repeated twice  

     
    Permission of Instructor required CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Breadth/Arts
  

  • WGST 390 - Advanced Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies

    4 credits
    Graduate courses being taken for undergraduate credit will be cross-listed under this course number. Possible courses include CHSOC+444: Ethically Responding to Violence Against Women; BIBST+731: Gender and Sexuality in the Bible and the Fathers; ENGLG+826: Feminist Criticism.
  

  • WGST 400 - Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Capstone

    4 credits
    Capstone course for the major completed by all students who are not doing an honors thesis. An independent investigation at an advanced level of a topic, preferably interdisciplinary, chosen in consultation with the instructor and the director of women’s and gender studies. The student designs the capstone project so that it draws on the work they have completed for the major both in core and cross-listed courses. Regular meetings by arrangement with the instructor. Oral and written work. Prerequisite: WGST 101 , WGST 201 , and either WGST 301  or WGST 310 . Signature of instructor required for registration. CLA-Capstone
  

  • WGST 410 - Specialized Honors I

    0-8 credits
    CLA-Capstone
  

  • WGST 411 - Specialized Honors II

    4 credits
    CLA-Capstone
  

  • WLIT 101 - Introduction to World Literature

    4 credits
    This course introduces students to the comparative study of works of literature from various cultures, read in English translation. We consider diversity of place, social context, politics, history, genre, tradition, and literary movements. We look at literature in relation to its original cultural context and also at the way books travel between cultures through translation. Works, cultures, and thematic emphasis will vary from year to year. Team-taught with instructors from different departments. Students may with permission read works in the original language. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • WLIT 260 - Literary Translation

    4 credits
    In this course, we will study, and practice, the art of translation. If you have fulfilled Drew’s language requirement (a language through the intermediate level), then you are eligible to take this course. Students will explore classic essays that have formed the foundation of translation theory and examine them in practice by comparing multiple translations of a text. Students will apply these theories as they attempt to translate a short work of fiction or poetry that they will share with the class in a workshop format. Students may work from any language into contemporary English; that language can also be a dialect, or historical variety, of English. Prerequisite: Signature of instructor required for registration. Equivalent: ENGH 260 .  CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • WRTG 101 - College Writing: ESOL

    4 credits
    College Writing 101 is a writing class for speakers of other languages. In this course, students explore and practice the advanced literacy skills necessary for a liberal arts education. They read and respond to texts written for a variety of audiences and analyze the style, vocabulary, and structure of those texts, along with the impact of audience and purpose. This course pays special attention to the distinct needs of ESOL learners. This course is intended for students matriculating into Drew through the Pathway program, and for some other cases where special attention to English language development is needed.
  

  • WRTG 111 - Writing Studio I

    2 credits

    A course focused on the development of academic literacies, the two-credit Writing Studio enhances the experience of students who are co-enrolled in the Drew Seminar. WRTG 111 presents students with opportunities to revise and reflect on the work they do in DSEM, while also offering assignments that enrich students’ fluency with academic writing conventions, deepen students’ understanding of their own writing process, and strengthen students’ critical and analytical thinking skills. Class activities may involve instructor-led peer review of student writing; reading and discussion of texts about the writing process; exercises focused on syntax and grammar; practice with citing sources and avoiding plagiarism; and direct instruction in using library resources to conduct research. Placement into WRTG 111 will take place during the registration and advising period.

      Offered in Fall term. For first year students only.

  

  • WRTG 112 - Writing Studio II

    4 credits
    A course focused on the development of academic literacies, the four-credit Writing Studio enhances the experience of students who are co-enrolled in the Drew Seminar and need additional support in developing their writing, reading, and study skills. WRTG 112 presents students with opportunities to revise and reflect on the work they do in DSEM, while also offering assignments that enrich students’ fluency with academic writing conventions, deepen students’ understanding of their own writing process, and strengthen students’ critical and analytical thinking skills. Class activities may involve instructor-led peer review of student writing; reading and discussion of texts about the writing process; exercises focused on syntax and grammar; practice with citing sources and avoiding plagiarism; and direct instruction in using library resources to conduct research. Placement into WRTG 112 will take place during the registration and advising period. Offered in Fall term. For first year students only.
  

  • WRTG 120 - Academic Writing

    4 credits
    Devoted to writing as a practice, craft, and skill, Academic Writing is for students who have not fulfilled their first-year writing requirement through the Drew Seminar, and those who completed the seminar but want to continue to strengthen their writing skills. The assignments in this course engage students in an intensive study of scholarly communication. From scrutinizing how arguments are constructed and organized to understanding how writers establish their ethos and use sources effectively, students have an opportunity to learn about and practice the conventions of academic writing. Content and assignments vary by instructor, but students can expect to read and write in a range of genres. Regular reflective writing help students develop a metacognitive awareness of their own writing practices and how they intersect with the expectations of an academic readership, a chief learning goal for all WRTG courses.
      For first year students or by permission of the instructor. Offered in Spring term.
  

  • WRTG 220 - Writing for Wikipedia: Sources, Sentences, & Style

    4 credits
    Trains students, in partnership with the nonprofit WikiEdu, to be Wikipedia editors and identifies entries that need to be written to help to correct Wikipedia’s race and gender imbalance, or revised to include reliable citations. Students consider the responsibility of those who have access to information, and learn to evaluate crowd-sourced information, pay attention to what is missing, and conduct research to correct it. The public writing in this course develops information literacy, summary, synthesis, and sentence-level writing skills necessary for success in college and the workplace. Feedback from Wikipedia editors provides a real-world editing experience. The goal of this Community-based learning course is to provide accurate and reliable information that people may be unable to find if they do not have access to academic databases or college libraries. Sophomore standing or higher.  WRIT-CLA-Writing Intensive
 

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