G603: Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory (3 credits) The course analyzes current feminist debates within and sometimes against numerous intellectual movements, including but not limited to poststructuralism, ethnic studies, critical race theory, and cultural studies.  Most assuredly NOT a review of  “2nd wave feminism,” this course instead assumes prior study of the major schools of feminist thought and pushes students to wrestle with critical issues that have emerged out of that earlier scholarship.    
        

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G695: Graduate Readings and Research in Gender Studies (1-3 credits per semester) Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu).

This course provides for graduate students’ intensive independent study of specific topics.  Study is supervised by an appropriate core or affiliated faculty member whose research expertise matches the student’s area of interest.  These student projects are developed in consultation with this faculty member and the Director of Graduate Studies.  Obtain permission form from the Gender Studies Office and have it signed by the faculty member agreeing to work with you. (section: 7639) 

G696: Research Colloquium in Gender Studies (1-3 credits per semester) Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu). 
Introduces students to the problems, interpretations, theories, and research trends in all areas related to gender and sexuality studies.  Colloquia also cover themes in Gender Studies professional development (identification of funding sources, resume and job interview preparation, etc).  Topics vary throughout the semester.  Course may be repeated more than once for credit.

G701/498: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Gender, Art & Psychology
How does gender interact with art and psychology?  To what degree does art reflect specific psychological phenomena, and how is this further altered and refined by gender?  How do these relate to the interface of photography and psychology?  Our course will examine issues like these by focusing in depth on selected artists, works, and photographic collections.  

G701: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Food, Sex & Gender A headline asks “Is Food the New Sex?” Marketers decide to sell bottled water with pink labels for women and blue labels for men. An artist carves a nude male torso out of butter and then lets it melt in the sun.  What is going on here? Why is food such a deeply moral and political issue in so many cultures? This course will range from cave dwellers to reality TV, New Guinea to New York seeking answers to these questions, exploring the way food is used to reflect and create gender and to promote and express sexuality. Expect some eclectic readings from many disciplines, and maybe some new tastes.

G701: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Gender & Sexuality in Alfred Hitchcock Films This course explores the intersection of sex, gender and sexuality, film theory and criticism, and director Alfred Hitchcock and his films.  Contemporary film scholarship, sexual politics, and Hitchcock films have been a consistent and compelling threesome.  While not the earliest reading of Hitchcock through the lens of sexual politics,  Laura Mulvey’s 1975 “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” has certainly had the greatest impact on film scholarship, as it laid the groundwork for feminist psychoanalytic film theory (or theories), with reference to Rear Window, Vertigo, and Marnie.  Responses to Mulvey’s essay often seek to modify her work through re-readings of these, and other, Hitchcock films. Even biographers were influenced by feminist critiques of the director’s work, as attested to by the psychosexual bent of Donald Spoto’s controversial bestseller The Dark Side of Genius.  Post-Mulvey and post-Spoto in its interests, Tania Modleski’s The Women Who Knew Too Much discusses both the director and selected films from Blackmail (1929) to Frenzy (1971).  Then, in 1989, and again in 2002, Robin Wood returns to his 1965 book Hitchcock’s Films and adds new chapters that combine feminist  and gay approaches. But perhaps the seminal piece of gay criticism on Hitchcock is John Hepworth’s “Hitchcock’s Homophobia,” which appeared in Christopher Street in 1982.  In contrast to feminist film theory and criticism, it was a number of years before film scholars felt they could work on Hitchcock and homosexuality.  Since the 1990s, however, Hitchcock and his films have proven invaluable in the development of gay, lesbian, and queer film theory and criticism. Besides the works mentioned above, this course will discuss a number of other important pieces of film theory and criticism that view Hitchcock and his films in relation to sexual politics.  The course also requires a weekly film viewing, two short essays, one class presentation, and one longer final paper.

   

G701: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (3 credits)
Topic: Gender in Transition This course is intended for upper-division students who have a strong foundation in feminist theory, LGBT history, and human sexuality (it is also appropriate for concurrent enrollment by graduate students who will be required to do some additional work). It is designed to offer a thorough grounding in transgender studies: the evolution of the field; key theoretical frameworks; a survey of gender-variant practices, identities, and communities; and focused attention to selected special topics of current interest.

G701: Graduate Topics in Gender Studies (4 credits)
Topic:  Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Modern European Culture
 
Course Description:  To Be Announced

G899: PhD Thesis (3 credits)
Requires course authorization from Gender Studies (for authorization e-mail: gender@indiana.edu).

This course exists to enable Ph.D. Major and Minor students to undertake intensive independent study of topics not usually covered in existing courses. An appropriate faculty member who does research in the student's area of interest supervises study. Students interested in independent study should develop a topic prior to registration and in consultation with a faculty member and the Chair of Gender Studies. (section: 25595)                                                                        Arr.

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