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'''WMST 250''' is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies with special focus on the arts and humanities. The course aims to develop your skills in analysing and critiquing cultural texts, particularly their representations of women and their assumptions about gender, race, class, sexuality, and other categories of identity. It also introduces you to the cultural production of a range of women artists from different backgrounds, working in many different mediums and genres. It explores some of the differences among women, as well as connections and affiliations among them as creative workers in the arts.
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This graduate-level course offers an introduction to the discipline of American Studies through a close reading of four texts, several films, and critical articles and chapters representing different approaches within the discipline. We will focus on the issues of identity, race, and shared spaces in North America. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with dynamic approaches to interpreting American history, literature, and art through active seminar discussions, film viewings, fieldtrips to commemorative sites, and four distinct written assignments.
 
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This assignment in particular will familiarize students with knowledge production and sharing online, placed in context with the historical erasure of women cultural producers.
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Latest revision as of 14:54, 11 December 2018

Course description

WMST 250 is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women’s studies with special focus on the arts and humanities. The course aims to develop your skills in analysing and critiquing cultural texts, particularly their representations of women and their assumptions about gender, race, class, sexuality, and other categories of identity. It also introduces you to the cultural production of a range of women artists from different backgrounds, working in many different mediums and genres. It explores some of the differences among women, as well as connections and affiliations among them as creative workers in the arts.

This assignment in particular will familiarize students with knowledge production and sharing online, placed in context with the historical erasure of women cultural producers.