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WMST 193 Introduction to Women's Studies: Women, Art, and Culture

This course develops effective oral and expressive communication skills and skill in art analysis, as it introduces the ideas and issues central to women’s studies and feminism with emphasis on women’s art and culture: how women have been represented in the visual arts; the values women have chosen for themselves in being the subjects of their own lives; and the innovative and risk-taking strategies women have created for navigating the paradigms in the dominant culture and developing an alternative women’s culture.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Eligible to enroll in ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

  1. Identify prescriptive paradigms for women and the creative strategies invented by women to navigate alternatives in social roles, image making, and artistic expression, and recognize the ethical implications of objectifying women.
  2. Consider and examine the values prescribed for women and the values women have chosen as their own in Mesoamerica, Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as in the United States, and identify and analyze one's own core beliefs and values.
  3. Analyze and evaluate works of art using the rubric woman-as-object vs. woman-as-subject to capture the subjectivity of women as agents of their own lives vs. assumptions about women as objects incapable of choice and lacking moral status.
  4. Apply the tools of analysis from this course by demonstrating the ability to write and speak persuasively about the subjectivity of women in order to increase the ethical treatment of women as persons with rights.

Course Objectives

  1. Identify prescriptive paradigms for women and the creative strategies invented by women to navigate alternatives in social roles, image making, and artistic expression, and recognize the ethical implications of objectifying women.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Weekly chapter responses

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

    Critical Thinking

    • CT1

    Ethics Goals

    • ET1
  2. Consider and examine the values prescribed for women and the values women have chosen as their own in Mesoamerica, Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as in the United States, and identify and analyze one's own core beliefs and values.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Weekly chapter responses; film analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

    Critical Thinking

    • CT2

    Ethics Goals

    • ET2
  3. Analyze and evaluate works of art using the rubric woman-as-object vs. woman-as-subject to capture the subjectivity of women as agents of their own lives vs. assumptions about women as objects incapable of choice and lacking moral status.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Written or spoken analysis of art fieldwork assignment

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

    Critical Thinking

    • CT3

    Ethics Goals

    • ET3
  4. Apply the tools of analysis from this course by demonstrating the ability to write and speak persuasively about the subjectivity of women in order to increase the ethical treatment of women as persons with rights.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Short speech; Written or spoken art analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

    Critical Thinking

    • CT4