This seminar is designed to promote communication of research activities among students in the department and to encourage students to share knowledge and resources in the solution of problems encountered in all stages of research. Graduate students and students engaged in independent research (Psychology/Neuroscience and Behavior 395) are encouraged to participate.

This course is designed to introduce students to social, cultural, historical, and political perspectives on gender and its construction. Through discussion and writing, we will explore the intersections among gender, race, class, and sexuality in multiple settings and contexts. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of questions, we will consider the distinctions between sex and gender, women's economic status, the making of masculinity, sexual violence, queer movements, racism, and the challenges of feminist activism across nations, and possibilities for change.

This course is designed to introduce students to social, cultural, historical, and political perspectives on gender and its construction. Through discussion and writing, we will explore the intersections among gender, race, class, and sexuality in multiple settings and contexts. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of questions, we will consider the distinctions between sex and gender, women's economic status, the making of masculinity, sexual violence, queer movements, racism, and the challenges of feminist activism across nations, and possibilities for change.

This course introduces students to global perspectives on gender and its construction. Specifically in this FYS we will consider gender and sexuality from international vantage points by drawing concretely on students' own experiences with gendered power dynamics. Through discussion and writing, we will explore diverse and at times clashing paradigms around the intersections among gender, race, class, embodiment, and sexuality.

During the Spanish Empire (16th-18th centuries), witches, prostitutes, transvestite warriors, and daring noblewomen and nuns violated the social order by failing to uphold the expected qualities of the ideal good woman and/or the expected sexual morality of the time. They were criticized, punished, and even burned at the stake. Students will study contradictory discourses of good and evil and beauty and ugliness in relation to women and their place in history.

As women perform gender, so too do they perform culture. In this course we will explore the links between gender and modern Latin American culture through a study of nineteenth through twenty-first century feminist critical theories and self-representations. We will look at the construction of the female subject and her double, or 'other,' through travel writing, political writing, revolutionary testimonies, plays, and letters alongside the plastic arts.

This course introduces students to the major themes of U.S. women's history from the 1880s to the present. We will look both at the experiences of a diverse group of women in the U.S. as well as the ideological meaning of gender as it evolved and changed over the twentieth century. We will chart the various meanings of womanhood (for example, motherhood, work, the domestic sphere, and sexuality) along racial, ethnic, and class lines and in different regions, and will trace the impact multiple identities have had on women's social and cultural activism.

A multicultural feminist analysis of women's lives around the world. Emphasizing the diversity of women's experience across ethnicity, social class, and sexuality, this course examines existing psychological theory and research on women. In the fall, the course will have a strong international emphasis.

This course will provide an overview of psychological disorders and research on the etiology and treatment of these disorders. The course will consider and evaluate the concept of 'abnormality' with particular emphasis on intersections of mental health and disorders with culture, race, class, and gender.

This course is designed to introduce students to important political questions in the field of feminist theory. We will begin the course by attending to the distinction between sex and gender and its relevance to feminism yesterday and today, exploring ways that the intersex movement, queer theory, and other gender politics complicate feminist concerns. In addition, we will explore the development of popular feminist ideas, such as women's rights, reproductive freedom, and agency.