Professor Griffin's Classes

Women's Studies 102: Women in Contemporary Society

GE credit:   An introduction to some of the basic questions raised by the contemporary feminist movement  relating to the social, political and economic status of women. Required for Majors.

Women's Studies 300: Principles of Feminism

An introduction to principles of feminist history, thought, theory, methodology, and current issues that emphasizes but is not limited to the United States.  Prerequisites: ENGL 100 and upper division status or by consent of instructor.  Required for Majors, and students who take W/ST 415 Feminist Theory.

Women's Studies 307:  Women and the Economy: Money, Sex and Power

HD credit:  This course is an interdisciplinary examination of assumptions about the economic roles of women; analysis of the sexual division of labor, domestic work, and its ideology; women as wage workers; women and development; U.S. women and the economy.  Special focus will be on the origin, migration, settlement, and economic patterns of, problems facing, and attitudes about women from major ethnic and racial groups in the United States.   Major disciplines are sociology and history.

Women's Studies 392:  Feminist Pedagogy

This class provides training and experience in peer facilitation of small group discussion, teaching assistance and other assignments directed by a supervising faculty member, supplemented by seminar, reading, and journal writing.  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units.  Prerequisites:  Permission of instructor.

Women's Studies 410: Women, Religion & Spirituality

This newly revamped course is a cross-cultural exploration of women's experience of and response to religious systems.  We will look at a rich body of material, including sacred texts, creations myths, oral traditions, historical, anthropological and sociological studies, and feminist theological reflections in a variety of religions.  The course focuses in particular in three areas:  the religious construction of women, women's religious experience, and feminist transformations of religious traditions.

Women's Studies 424:  Women and Environmental Justice (was Ecofeminism)

Soon to be Global Credit.  This newly designed course will examine the ways in which women and nature have been linked and treated, the relationship between patterns of consumption and environmental damage, and current ecoactivism by women around the world.

Women's Studies 425:  Women and Power

This class offers an examination of the ways power has been defined, obtained, shaped and maintained, and the effect this has historically had on women.  It applies theory to contemporary issues affecting women and explores strategies for empowerment. There is a class action project.

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