Women's Studies 2050
Spring 2003, Pratt and MacKay  

    
Schedule and Topics

Weeks 1-2    Introductions
                Women of the World

Week 3       What is Women's Studies?

Weeks 4-6    The Body Project 

   formal paper in response to The Body Project, draft: Feb. 20; final: Feb. 25

Weeks 7-8    Health Issues

     The Pill will be shown on PBS February 24

     Resource guide topics and teams to be chosen by February 27

Weeks 9-10    Race, Class, Gender

   Spring Break: week of March 17

Dean June Philips will be presenting "Simone de Beauvoir, French Philosopher"  10:00 am March 25 in Special Collections, Stewart Library

The list of response topics: (2 points each = 20 points)

#1 report on conditions for women in the world
#2 report on conditions for women in the U.S.
#3 explain women's studies
#4 advertisements
#5 power relationships in ads
#6 guide a chapter of The Body Project *
#7 page 266 #2
#8 guide an assigned text*
# 9 film analysis
#10 page 353 #5
#11 guide an assigned text*

* everyone should have guided 2 texts by week 13

Weeks 11-12 Women and Work

Week 13    Women and Religion

Week 14    Women's Legal Status in the U.S. (women and the military as case study)

Generations paper due: April 24

Week 15    "Ah Ha" presentations : May 1--in SU 325
                no class: April 29

Participation statement due: May 1

Resource guides will be presented: May 7, 9:30-11:30--with Pizza served for lunch!