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Summer 2009 Courses
Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Women
Amanda Davis
WST 3015 – Section 0343
(Summer A) MTWRF 2; TUR 2336; 3 Credits
The life experiences of women through the study of materials
in the humanities, social and natural sciences and in the health
professions. This is a required course for the Women’s Studies major
and minor and it fulfills the general education requirement in
diversity. It can also be taken as an
elective. (Gen Ed: H, S, D; WST: Core)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Women
Tim Fogarty
WST 3015 – Section 4301
(Summer B) MTWRF 2; TUR 2322; 3 Credits
The life experiences of women through the study of materials
in the humanities, social and natural sciences and in the health
professions. This is a required course for the Women’s Studies major
and minor and it fulfills the general education requirement in
diversity. It can also be taken as an
elective. (Gen Ed: H, S, D; WST: Core)
Incarcerated Women
Amanda Davis
WST 3430 – Section 4520
Summer B; MTWRF 3; TUR 2333; 3 Credits
Nearly
one million women are currently under some form of correctional
supervision in the United States, the majority of whom are women of
color. Women now represent the fastest growing population group
entering America’s prisons (a seven fold increase since 1980 alone),
even though most continue to be incarcerated for non-violent offenses.
The use of detention, pretrial incarceration, and imprisonment has
risen dramatically in many regions of the country for juvenile girls as
well, with gender overlapping with race and class in especially
punitive ways for young African American and Latina girls in particular.
This class will discuss some of the contemporary shifts that have occurred within the last twenty years in our use of prisons as a response to crime and its perceived threat, and the effects these changes have had on the surge of women being imprisoned today. It will also draw attention to a number of autobiographical texts written by incarcerated women in the United States, a remarkable body of literature that encourages us to think persistently and progressively about many of our most complex social issues—poverty, racism, abuse and gender inequalities among them.
Internship
Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST
4940 – Section Department
Controlled
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair
This course is designed for students desiring practical
experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group
or business involved in women’s issues. An application can be found at http://www.wst.ufl.edu/Internships.htm.
UF in India: Rethinking Globalization: Gender, Communities, Representation
Location: Navdanya
Farm,
WST
Course Highlights:
•Live in an
organic farm community
•Daily yoga instruction
•Dormitory housing (double occupancy)
•3 locally grown, organic meals/day included
•Excursions to nearby pilgrimage sites
•Workshops on indigenous plants and traditional medicine
•Trekking in the Himalayan foothills
Instructors: Anita
Anantharam (UF Women’s Studies), Travis L. Smith (UF Religion) Visiting
Instructors: Vandana
Shiva (Navdanya), John Campbell (
Internship
Staff
1-3 Credits, Can be repeated up to 6 credits
WST
6946 – Section Department
Controlled
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program chair
This course is designed for students desiring practical experience in the community. Students intern with a local agency, group or business involved in women’s issues. An application can be found at http://www.wst.ufl.edu/Internships.htm.
