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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Credit designation at right of title is expressed in (c) class hours per week, (l) lab or (d) discussion section hours per week, and (cr) number of credits per semester.
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Vocational Education |
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VOED 405 - Professional Seminar in Career and Technical Education
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of course work for Vocational I certificate
Description: A history of career and technical education; the impact of the educational reform on career and technical education and workforce development and career and technical education’s importance within our society. Topics include leaders in vocational education; societal influences on vocational curriculum design; and professional responsibilities, legislative initiatives, social issues, and organizations involved in and affecting career and technical and workforce development education. A capstone course focusing on the professional growth of the career and technical teacher intern.
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGS 200 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural survey of the ways in which gender interacts with race, age, class, ethnicity, nationality, and other dimensions of identities to shape human consciousness and determine the social, political, and cultural organizations of human institutions and societies.
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WGS 301 - Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women’s Literature
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Introduces more than 100 years of the unique, diverse, and dynamic literary tradition of the 20th and 21st century Asian American and Asian diasporic women’s literature in a wide range of Asian cultural, historical, national, global, and American multiethnic contexts. Intersects and is enriched by gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, language, immigration, global migrant labor, citizenship, decolonization, as well as Asian indigenous and ethnic women’s histories.
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WGS 400 - Feminist Theories
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Introduces the vigorous, interdisciplinary, complex, and diverse intellectual history of feminist theories, methodologies, and politics. Includes classical feminist advocacy from early centuries to feminist theories in early 21st century, from Euro-American feminist philosophical traditions to the more global, multicultural, intersectional, and continuously multidisciplinary feminist criticisms, with rich dialogues crossing periods and borders. Intersects and is enriched by multiple critical categories of gender, sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, nation, culture, knowledge, and power. Stimulates, engages with, and empowers students. Encourages students to actively apply feminist knowledge to their own cross-disciplinary learning, personal growth, empowerment, and activist social transformation.
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WGS 482 - Independent Study
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite: Prior approval through advisor, faculty member, department chairperson, dean, and Office of the Provost
Description: An opportunity to engage in an in-depth analysis of some topic through consultation with a faculty member. A semester project ordinarily expected. Approval is based on academic appropriateness and availability of resources.
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