COURSES
You can view the Moravian University Course Catalog for the latest course offerings.
Here are the courses available for Spring 2025:
WGSS 101 PM | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Study |
WGSS 252 A | Literature and Medical Humanities |
WGSS 362 PM | Narrative and Film |
100-Level Courses
WGSS 101 PM: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Study
Introduction to issues, topics, and methodologies of women's studies in a global context. Examines the lives of women around the globe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with particular attention to the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the West, focusing on gender inequality, feminist ethics, gender as a category of analysis, and social construction of gender. (M5) Gauthier
200-Level Courses
WGSS 252 A: Literature and Medical Humanities
Lucille Clifton states, "I don't write because I have a mission to heal the world. My mission is to heal Lucille if I can, as much as I can." Writing offers Clifton a medium through which she can enact a form of healing and self-preservation. Similarly, illness narratives communicate the embodied and disembodied experiences of people living with sickness, disease, and illness in an effort to make sense of their changing bodies, lives, and identities. This reading intensive course explores health, wellness, and illness narratives through a sustained engagement with non-fiction and imaginary literature. Prerequisite: LinC 101 or equivalent plus junior or senior class standing. (U1) Open to juniors and seniors only. Waller-Peterson
300-Level Courses
WGSS 362 A: Narrative and Film
Through close analyses of contemporary imaginative films, this course examines the relationship between narrative and cinema. Addressing the medium's relationship with more traditional narrative forms (e.g., novels, short stories, etc.) and these forms' contributions to the constructions of categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and (inter)nationality, we will explore the questions, "How do films narrate? and "What do they narrate?" By the end of the course, we should have a more complex understanding of how narratives are constructed, how the medium of film challenges us to reimagine the shape and limits of what a text might be, and what the narratives offered tell us about the state of our societies and/or cultures. Prereq: None. LaRue
Courses that are offered on a periodic basis:
WGSS 136 (REL 136) | Seeing and Believing: Women, Religion, and Film |
WGSS 188 (MUS 188) | Women and Music |
WGSS 222 | Women and Health |
WGSS 232 (IDIS 232) | Ethical Issues in Reproductive Technology |
WGSS 238 (HIST 238) | Women in Europe 500-1700 |
WGSS 239 (HIST 239) | Victorian Ladies and Other Women: England and America 1837-1914 |
WGSS 240 (REL 240) | Jewish and Christian Feminism |
WGSS 257 (POSC 257) | Politics of Women's Rights in East Asia |
WGSS 260 (POSC 260) | Critical Gender Studies |
WGSS 265 (PHIL 265) | Feminist Philosophy |
WGSS 29X (ENG 29X) | Narrating Blackness: Film & Fiction |
WGSS 310 (SOC 310) | The Family and the Law |
WGSS 341 (GERM 341) | Women in German Literature and Culture |
WGSS 345 (PSYC 345) | Psychology of Women |
WGSS 355 (SOC 355) | Sociology of Gender |
WGSS 286, 381-384 | Independent Study |
WGSS 288, 386-388 | Internship |
WGSS 400-401 | Honors |