The following are graduate level (500-800) Women's Studies courses. Departmental Courses (see combined listing) automatically count towards the Women's Studies major or minor. For component courses (see combined listing), students must focus their papers or projects on Women's Studies. For a listing of the courses that count towards the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Certificate Studies, click here. For general information on the Graduate Certificate, click here.

COMM 693C

Feminist Film Theory: Dress and Desire Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:15 p.m.

Anne Ciecko

This course will examine critical issues in feminist theory, gender students, and cultural studies as they relate to visual representation, especially in film and video. We will study the emergence and continuing development of feminist film theory by foregrounding central cinematic and theoretical tropes associated with cultural construction of screen images. Topics to be considered include the following: the gendered gaze, theories of spectatorship, and audience/reception studies; the relationship between gender and genre (e.g., the women's film, the costume drama, the femme fatale in film noir); female authorship (auteur theory, ecriture feminine); elements of mise en scene and cinematography (lighting, makeup, costume design, the close-up shot, etc.) which compose the screen image of the star; exposure and concealing of the body (nudity, the use of veiling and striptease); the "makeover" and other transformations (both diegetic and in terms of "grooming" for stardom), "passing" (racial, ethnic, class, gender), cross-dressing, transgender subversions, and "camp" excess.

SOC 722

The Family By arrangement

Naomi Gerstel

See Department for description.

SOC 791A

Sociology of Gender Wednesday 7:00-9:30 p.m.

Joya Misra

See Department for description.

WOST Program Departmental Component

Women of Color Winter 2000 Amherst College

Hampshire College Mount Holyoke Smith College