Women and Gender Studies (ISOM)
ISOM 1030: Women In Antiquity
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
An introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece and Rome through a consideration of the role and status of women in the classical world. Lectures with slides will be supplemented by readings of ancient texts in translation, in addition to textbook assignments.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 1070: Intro to Gndr. & Sex in the So
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course will explore the history and meanings of Southern masculinities and femininities, manhood and womanhood, that appear in popular culture, media, and historical memory. Students will critically look at the history of these images and the purposes they have served across time and in the present.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 1120: Women and Power in Anc. Times
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Women’s power in the ancient world was compromised from the outset, and we explore the root causes and consequences of this social inequality. How did women negotiate their limited leadership roles? Were they able to rule "behind the throne" so to speak? How are we to find a woman’s power when it was so habitually cloaked by a man’s dominance? This class will use bioarchaeological evidence to address those questions and examine the breadth of women’s roles and agency in past societies.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 2010: Introduction to Gender Studies
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Exploration of the growing body of research available from many disciplines (humanities, social sciences, sciences) for the study of women and men in the United States and abroad. Investigation of femininity and masculinity and the intersection of gender with other categories of identity.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 2020: Introduction to Queer Studies
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This introductory class will examine and complicate gender and sexuality as categories of identity.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3030: The Family
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
The American family as an institution and a group of interacting persons; the nature and problems of courtship, husband-wife, and parent-child relationships.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3100: Topics in Gender and Culture
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
A study of gender roles within traditional and popular culture. The specific content of the course may vary in different semesters. Possible emphases might include women in the arts, women in film, women in the media, and women in popular culture. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3110: Women, Gndr. & the Environment
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This class examines environmental issues through the lens of gender and its intersections with race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3130: Theories in Gender
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This interdisciplinary course analyzes theories in gender studies. The specific content of the course may vary. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3140: Men, Women, and Greek Life
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course considers how issues of gender play out in the unique cultural institutions of fraternities and sororities, including the history and current nature of the Greek system, and considers how how these institutions address sexual orientation, hazing, body image, and sexual assault.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3150: Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines films across a variety of popular genres, such as horror, comedy, melodrama, science fiction, exploitation cinema, and documentary with specific attention to how depictions of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality intersect with categories such as race, ethnicity, and class. Students will learn key concepts used by scholars in gender and sexuality studies as well as interdisciplinary strategies drawn from fields across the humanities, in order to analyze films from a variety of contexts and, on a broader level, strengthen their abilities to synthesize information and apply learned concepts to their work as critical thinkers and writers.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3153: Gender and Sex in the Media
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course teaches students to examine and analyze how representations of gender and sexuality have changed over time. This exploration will include theoretical readings and analysis of a variety of media forms.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3160: Exploring the Fem. Nonprofit
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course serves as an introduction to how nonprofits work with a specific focus on community and campus organizations; their structure, management, types of outreach or service provided, and roles performed by staff. On-site research/service, interviewing, and content analysis of brand awareness including organizational websites, social media, and donor relationship management are active-learning components that provide students with the opportunity to develop new knowledge and apply it to real-world situations in the nonprofit sector.
3 credits
Prerequisites
ISOM 2010.
ISOM 2010.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3170: Top. in Gndr. St. on Location
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Students complete approved course work at a foreign university or through Study USA. May be repeated once with permission of the director.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3180: Topics in Gender and the South
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Students will study the diverse ways in which gender has been understood, constructed, and subverted in the South. The specific content of the course will vary in different semesters.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3190: Spec. Topics in Gender Studies
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3240: Men and Masculinities
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines the social meanings of masculinity and men's lives. Students will study men's movements as well as the "crisis of masculinity" and the costs and benefits of patriarchy for men.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3250: Sociology of Gender
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Examines the social and cultural construction of gender differences in contemporary U.S. society, focusing on the social history of gender roles and gender inequality in current cultural and institutional practices.
3 credits
Prerequisites
SOCY 1010.
SOCY 1010.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3260: Saints and Sexuality
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
A survey of holy figures within Christianity and Islam with an emphasis on gender and the body.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3270: Genocide and Women
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Exploration of the roles of women as victims of gender abuse and sexual violence and as perpetrators of violence in modern ethnic genocides.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 3280: Black Feminist Thought
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Exploration of the micro-level and institutional intersections
of race, class, gender, and sexuality as articulated by
Black women intellectuals from the 19th century to
present with particular emphasis on social scientific theory
and methodology. Topics include early Black feminist thought;
comparisons of Black and white women's feminisms; third-wave
Black feminist thought; sexuality, the body, and hip-hop.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 3290: Queer Playwriting & Amer Cult.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
An exploration of LGBTQ-related plays and their influence on American culture.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3300: Queer Rhetorics
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course explores and analyzes the rhetorical strategies of queer communities in the United States.
3 credits
ISOM 3370: The South and Sexuality
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Students will study the ways in which the South has been constructed through depictions of sexuality, especially forms of sexuality deemed marginal, perverse, and dangerous.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3440: Women and Politics
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
An analysis of women's political roles. May be taught with focus on United States or with comparative focus.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3480: Women Who Ruled in Eur Hist.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course will provide a history of female rulers in Europe, 900-1600.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3490: Soc. and the Sexes in Mod. Eur
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is an exploration of the changing roles of European women and men since the French Revolution in 1789.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3520: Hemispheric Voices: Wom Writer
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Study of the development of feminist thought in the Americas through translations of works by women writers from North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3560: Women in the Rabbinic Trad.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course will examine the development of Rabbinic Judaism with particular emphasis on how it has shaped the lives of women.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3570: Women in the South
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is a study of the experience of women in the South as revealed primarily through their writings and other expressions.
3 credits
Prerequisites
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3602: Psychology of Human Sexuality
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
A survey of behavioral, psychological, and physiological research on human sexuality.
3 credits
Prerequisites
(PSYC 3748 or PSYC 3768 or PSYC 3708 or PSYC 3758) and 12 hours in PSYC or ISOM courses.
(PSYC 3748 or PSYC 3768 or PSYC 3708 or PSYC 3758) and 12 hours in PSYC or ISOM courses.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3630: Gender in Latin America
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Historical and ethnographic examination of gender in Latin America, with an emphasis on kinship, family structure, and identity.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3640: Gender/Sex in East Asian Hist.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course explores East Asian history by examining constructions and transformations in ideas and practices related to gender and sexuality.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3660: Sex, Gender, and the Bible
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines sexuality in the biblical corpus, analyzes the biblical writers’ construction of gender, and explores feminist-critical and masculinist-critical readings of biblical texts.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3680: Feminism, Women, and Religion
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
An exploration of the commonalitities and differences in feminist issues, strategies and methodologies across a number of religious traditions. Readings from a variety of contemporary feminist religious scholars.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3820: Intro to Gender and Sex St.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is an introduction to the theory, scholarship, and critical approaches to the study of gender and sexuality studies.
3 credits
Prerequisites
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3830: Studies in Gender and Feminism
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
May be repeated once for credit if topic varies.
3 credits
Prerequisites
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3840: St. in Gay & Lesbian Lit/Thry
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course studies gay and lesbian representations in literature and other media. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
3 credits
Prerequisites
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3850: Women in Literature
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is a study of the images of women in British and American literature. Content will vary.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3860: Gender on Film
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Students examine issues of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality within racial and national identity as represented in mainstream or independent films.
3 credits
Prerequisites
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3870: Queer YA
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is an analysis of selected gay and lesbian literature and films especially suitable for young adults of high school age with an emphasis on approaches and methods for teaching literature and addressing the needs of LGBTQ+ students. This course will also include trans/nonbinary representation as well as discussions of intersections of race/ethnicity with sexualities and gender identities.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3900: Feminist Philosophy
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is a survey of contemporary theories and philosophical issues centering on women and feminism.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 3970: Global Female Prophecy
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course explores the topics of gender, spirituality, and history by considering the experiences of prophetic women around the globe.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4120: Advanced Queer Studies
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course investigates ongoing theoretical and cultural issues in queer studies. Focuses of the course may include theories of embodiment, the relationship of gender to sexuality, the politics of transgender identity, and issues of normativity as they relate to gay and lesbian assimilation. Students will apply these theories to cultural phenomena in the culture at large.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4140: Race, Place, and Space
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course explores the significance of race, place, and space to modern identity formation. Through a multiple-disciplinary exploration, we will analyze the influence of social, political, cultural, and historical factors on the development of real and perceived "racialized places and spaces," identities, and experiences in America, with special emphasis on gender and the American South.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4160: Internship in Gender Studies
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Internship in approved work settings under professional supervision. May be repeated once for a cumulative total of 3 hours of credit. Z grade
1 - 3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4180: Directed Readings in Gndr. St.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Individual research into selected issues in gender studies; content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study
Independent Study
ISOM 4190: African American Women's Hist.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is an introduction to African American women's history, exploring the epistemology and the scholarship of the field.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4210: Readings in Black Feminism
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Students will study the development, expression, ideology, and praxis of the politics African American women have developed to simultaneously counter both racism and sexism.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4230: Black Women's Ent & Activism
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This class broadens offerings in U.S., African-American, and gender history by exploring the narrative of entrepreneurial black women and their political and social activism from the antebellum period through the 1990s.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4240: Women and Avant-garde Perf.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines the history and practice of avant-garde and experimental theatre and performance by centering the women artists who were central to its development.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4250: Religion, Gender, and Sex
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course uses a sociological approach to study how religion is used to organize, control, and change gender and sexual norms.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 4260: Masculinity in American Drama
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines the representation of masculinity within American dramas of the 20th and 21st centuries, primarily by writers native to or working in the United States.
3 credits
ISOM 4270: US Sexuality History
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course explores changing conceptions of sexuality in the United States and investigates how sexuality differed according to class, gender, race, geographic location, and age from the mid-1800s to the present.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4280: U.S. Women's History
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines the history of the struggle for equality in U.S. politics and culture.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4290: U.S. Gender History
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is an analysis of changing views of the masculine and the feminine in American culture since 1607. Class, racial, and ethnic differences will be emphasized.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.
24 Earned Credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4330: Theories of Gender and Sex
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course surveys how liberal, black, post-colonial, and queer feminist theorists conceptualize gender oppression and resistance and problematizes taken-for-granted beliefs about the naturalness of sex and sexuality.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4380: Lang., Gender, and Sexuality
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Students will study the relationship among language, gender, and sexuality from local and global perspectives.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 earned credits.
24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 4442: Feminist Rhetorics
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Through writing and discussion, students will analyze feminist rhetorics. Students will learn rhetorical theory and criticism and explore historical moments of resistance to patriarchal discourses.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4540: Women in Southern History
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is a historical survey of Southern women with emphasis on research through documentary sources and oral history.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 earned credits.
24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4820: Renaissance Women Writers
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Study of works from the 16th and 17th centuries.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 earned credits.
24 earned credits.
ISOM 4880: Spec. Topics Gender/Sex St.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
May be repeated once for credit if topic varies.
3 credits
Prerequisites
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4890: Power, Knowledge, and Gender
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course is a critical, interdisciplinary examination of identity as related to sex, race, and class and as imbricated in knowledge and power, through a study of literary, cultural, and intellectual history.
3 credits
Prerequisites
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2222 or ENGL 2223 or ENGL 2224 or ENGL 2225 or ENGL 2226 or ENGL 2990 and 24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 4996A: Gender Studies Capstone
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Through readings, discussions, and writing workshops, students will focus on the methodology of gender studies, the specificity of language, and the structure of an academic essay in a variety of disciplines.
1 credit
Prerequisites
24 earned credits.
24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 4999A: Special Topics in Queer Theory
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
May be repeated for credit if topic varies
3 credits
ISOM 4999B: Spec. Topics in Gndr. and Lit.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
May be repeated for credit if topic varies
3 credits
ISOM 4999C: Spec. Topics in Gender Studies
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director.
3 credits
Prerequisites
24 earned credits.
24 earned credits.
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 5150: Psychology of Gender
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines the psychological determinants of sex/gender differences and similarities in behaviors and experiences in multiple areas, including cognition, social psychology, mental health, and well- being.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 5460: Queer Mississippi
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This interdisciplinary course focuses on Queer Mississippi lives, communities, and movements from a historical and sociological perspective. It trains students how to conduct qualitative research on LGBTQ+ individuals, analyze materials from the Queer Mississippi archive, and execute public-facing scholarship.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 5480: Directed Readings in Gndr. St.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Individual research into selected issues in gender studies; content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study
Independent Study
ISOM 5650: Psychology of Gender
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines the psychological determinants of sex/gender differences and similarities in behaviors and experiences in multiple areas, including cognition, social psychology, mental health, and well- being.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 5960: Queer Mississippi
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This interdisciplinary course focuses on Queer Mississippi lives, communities, and movements from a historical and sociological perspective. It trains students how to conduct qualitative research on LGBTQ+ individuals, analyze materials from the Queer Mississippi archive, and execute public-facing scholarship.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 5980: Directed Readings in Gndr. St.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Individual research into selected issues in gender studies; content varies. May be repeated once for credit with permission of director.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study
Independent Study
ISOM 6000: Gender Studies Methodology
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of gender studies, including the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods in order to understand gender in a transnational perspective.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 6110: Gender Theory
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course will trace major movements in the development of gender theory from the 1970s to the present.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 6150: Rdgs-Sex in Modern US Hist.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course explores sexual categories, concepts, rules, laws, identities, and behaviors over several centuries of U.S. history.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 6160: Feminist Pedagogy
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
In this seminar, we will further our knowledge of feminist pedagogies through rigorous reading, writing responses, guest speakers, co-teaching experiences, and class discussion. We will explore feminist and interrelated critical pedagogies and their application in different kinds of classrooms, with a focus on the gender studies classroom.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 6190: Directed Readings in Gndr. St.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Individual research into selected issues in gender studies; content varies. May be repeated once for credit with a change in topic.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture
ISOM 6410: Rdgs in Global Hist.: Gndr.
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
This course examines mid-century feminist movements from a transnational perspective. It complicates both our understanding of second-wave feminism in an American context and examines feminist movements through case studies around the world. We will question what kinds of activist work count as feminist and consider new paradigms for understanding feminist work.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar
Seminar
ISOM 6999: Spec. Topics in Gender Studies
Isom Ctr Women Gender Stud
Topics vary.
3 credits
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture
Lecture