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2009 Summer Session Course Listings
Note: Northwestern day school students need permission from the dean of their school to enroll in School of Continuing Studies courses. SCS courses are indicated by a -CN after the course number (example: ACCOUNT 204-CN Sec. 28). The majority of Summer Session courses do not need dean approval.
Gender Studies
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
GNDR ST 373-0 Sec. 26
Closed
Gender, Sexuality and Film: Teen Sexuality in Recent Hollywood Film (1970-2000)
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 7/30
TuTh 1 - 3:30pm
Jillana Enteen
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2359.
In this course, we will examine the depiction of emerging sexuality in select Hollywood Films between 1970 and 2000. We will focus on one or two films a week such as Little Darlings (1980), Heathers (1988), Breakfast Club (1985), and Mean Girls (2004). All films will be available for screening online, but viewing on video is highly encouraged. The readings will include texts that teach filmic techniques and their affects. We will also survey theories of the construction of gender, sexuality, and normalcy--particularly in terms of the loss of virginity and heterosexual interactions among American teenagers. Our main class project will be to reveal the embedded messages within these popular, influential films. Two essays and a class presentation that close reads a short scene from a class film will be required. No experience in Gender Studies or Film Studies is necessary.
GNDR ST 390-0 Sec. 26
From Here To Maternity: The Motherhood Debate
CAESAR Class Number: 42743
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 7/29
MW 1 - 3:30pm
Kate Baldwin
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2359.
Positioning the current debate about women, motherhood, and career alongside its earlier waves, this course will examine what some have called the mommy wars. Paying close attention to the rhetoric of choice as it has informed feminist work engaged with this debate, our course will trace the genealogy of motherhood debates from their 1950s instantiation to the present. Reading such classic second-wave authors as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Susan Brownmiller, Germaine Greer, Sylvia Plath, and Kate Millet, our course will offer an historical, sociological, literary, and economic background for the resurfacing of motherhood as an unmediated ideal. Key to our discussions will be the peripheralization of race and sexuality in these debates, and the correctives offered to this by the intervening years of 1970s black feminist scholarship by bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, and others. Our examination will of necessity include an investigation of masculinity and its corresponding invisibility in these discussions of female parenting, for example pairing Whyte's The Organization Man with Yates's Revolutionary Road alongside episodes of Mad Men. In addition to texts previously mentioned, we will read a selection of essays and articles that stage the debate, including Perfect Madness: Motherhood in an Age of Anxiety; To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife; and Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families. The course will conclude with a roundtable discussion / colloquium.
Indicates an Evening Course.
Indicates a Study Abroad Course.
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