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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Theatre |
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THEA 305 - Topics in Theatre History: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An in-depth study of a variety of specific topics in theatre history. Topics to be offered on a rotating basis include Greek Tragedy; Contemporary European Theatre, Feminist Theory and Theatre, Dance and Film; Beckett, Pinter, and Mamet; Political Theatre from Brecht to the Present; Holocaust Drama; Asian Puppetry. Attendance at on-campus theatrical performances will be required.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 202 and THEA 203 .
Offered: Every spring
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THEA 310 - Playwriting
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
Development of a working approach to the craft of playwriting that is both formal and personal; the writing of a one-act play.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 140 .
Offered: Fall, odd years
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THEA 311 - Directing I
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
A study of basic elements of directing a play with practical experience in the direction of scenes and one-act plays in class and studio workshops. Attendance at on-campus theatrical performances will be required.
Prerequisite(s): 18 credits of theatre, including THEA 130 , THEA 140 and THEA 221 .
Offered: Every fall
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THEA 320 - Acting II
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
Approaches to building characterizations, interaction of actors, and concentration on the American approach to realistic acting. Attendance at on-campus theatrical performances will be required.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 140 and THEA 221 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every spring
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THEA 321 - Directing II
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
A study of script analysis and the theories and practices of contemporary play direction; direction of a workshop production.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 241 and THEA 311 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring, odd years
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THEA 330 - Monologue Workshop: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
Approaches to building characterizations, interactions of actors, and the development of scenes in performance, with concentration on contemporary styles other than realism such as Epic Theatre, Theatre of Cruelty, Absurdism, Performance Art, and Asian Styles. May be repeated once for credit under different subtitles. Attendance at on-campus theatrical performances will be required.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 221 , THEA 320 , or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall, even years
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THEA 333 - Technical Direction
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
A study of advanced staging and building techniques, in both theory and practice. Participation in productions is an integral part of the course.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 140 , THEA 130 , and THEA 241 .
Offered: Fall, odd years
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THEA 340 - Acting IV Period Styles: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
This course trains actors in the performance of plays in period styles. The course will include one or more period styles such as: Greek, Elizabethan, Commedia dell’arte, Restoration comedy, early Modern drama. Coursework will be scenework, creation of characters, and short research projects. Attendance at on-campus theatrical performances will be required.
Offered: Fall, odd years
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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THEA 342 - Scene Design I
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
A study of scene design as an integral part of theatre production. Attention is given to the function of the designer, with special emphasis upon practical experience to develop skills and understanding of design theories and techniques.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 140 , THEA 130 , and THEA 241 .
Offered: Spring, even years
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THEA 343 - Scene Design II
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
Advanced study in scene design in the contemporary theatre. Consideration is given to the limitations placed upon the designer by the various forms of contemporary theatres and the requirements of various periods and types of plays. Special emphasis is placed upon new materials available to the designer.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 342 .
Offered: Spring, even years
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THEA 344 - Stage Lighting Design I
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
A study of the aesthetic, technical, and practical production aspects of stage lighting.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 140 , THEA 130 , and THEA 241 .
Offered: Fall, even years
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THEA 345 - Stage Lighting Design II
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
Advanced study in the theory and technique of stage lighting. Consideration is given to the history of stage lighting and to the technical and practical problems presented by modern lighting equipment.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 344 .
Offered: Spring, odd years
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THEA 346 - Costume Design
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
The translation of specific design problems into finished design renderings for the contemporary theatre. Special emphasis is placed on the relationship between the text of the play and the design concept.
Offered: Spring, odd years
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THEA 347 - Sound Design
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
A study of the aesthetic, technical, and practical production aspects of stage sound.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 130 , THEA 140 , and THEA 241 .
Offered: Spring, even years
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THEA 390 - Theatre Seminar
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
Designed to synthesize concepts of playwriting, acting, architecture, and design.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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THEA 393 - Honors Project in Theatre: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 9
Independent study on a Theatrical project mutually agreed upon by the student and a mentor from the Theatre Faculty. Enrollment by invitation of the Theatre Faculty. To be eligible, students will normally have completed 75 credits with at least a 3.00 cumulative grade point average overall and a 3.50 grade point average in Theatre courses.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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THEA 399 - Directed Study
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Selected areas of study under the direct supervision of an assigned departmental faculty member. (1 to 6 credits.)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGST 100 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An introduction to historical and contemporary feminist issues and to problems of special importance to Women’s and Gender Studies, which students may go on to pursue in further depth. Examples include the nature of gender in the US and cross-culturally; how gender functions within a system of privilege and oppression; how gender intersects with other forms of oppression such as race, class, and LGBTQ status; and feminist activism across the three feminist “waves.” In the course of examining these topics, students will be introduced to a wide array of feminist theoretical frameworks, Liberal Feminism, Radical Feminism, Black Feminism, and Postmodern Feminism. Students will then explore applications of these theories to various topics of historical and contemporary interest to women, such as pornography, sexuality, violence, and sexual assault, among other topics.
Offered: Every semester
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WGST 201 - Historical and Political Topics: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This is a slot course that focuses on an historical and/or political aspect of Women’s and Gender Studies. Each section will incorporate recent feminist scholarship, methodologies, concepts, and analyses. In addition, each section will utilize feminist pedagogy to foster a climate of mutual inquiry and exchange of ideas between faculty and students.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: This course may be taken for credit multiple times with different subtitles.
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WGST 202 - Topics in Representation in the Humanities and Arts: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This is a slot course that focuses on representation of women and/or gender in the arts and humanities. Each section will incorporate recent feminist scholarship, methodologies, concepts, and analyses. In addition, each section will utilize feminist pedagogy to foster a climate of mutual inquiry and exchange of ideas between faculty and students.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be taken for credit multiple times with different subtitles.
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WGST 203 - Topics in Gender in the Social World: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This is a slot course that focuses on representation of women and/or gender in the social world, generally employing methodologies from one or more social sciences. Each section will incorporate recent feminist scholarship, methodologies, concepts, and analyses. In addition, each section will utilize feminist pedagogy to foster a climate of mutual inquiry and exchange of ideas between faculty and students.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: This course may be taken for credit multiple times with different subtitles.
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WGST 204 - Global Issues of Sex and Gender: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This is a slot course that focuses on global issues regarding sex and gender, which may be comparative or focusing on one location outside the United States. Each section will incorporate recent feminist scholarship, methodologies, concepts, and analyses. In addition, each section will utilize feminist pedagogy to foster a climate of mutual inquiry and exchange of ideas between faculty and students.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be taken for credit multiple times with different subtitles
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WGST 205 - Topics in Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies: (subtitle)
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This is a slot course that focuses on one or several related topics in gender, sexuality, and/or queer studies. Each section will incorporate recent feminist scholarship, methodologies, concepts, and analyses. In addition, each section will utilize feminist pedagogy to foster a climate of mutual inquiry and exchange of ideas between faculty and students.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be taken for credit multiple times with different subtitles
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WGST 230 - Introduction to Queer Studies
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This introductory course will explore both lgbtq studies as well as queer studies (and will pay considerable attention to the difference- if there is one-between these two types of studies). The course is interdisciplinary in nature, taking up feminist, historical, philosophical, and sociological approaches to gender and sexuality, as well as other axes of social difference including race, ethnicity, class, disability, religion.
Offered: Fall, even years
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WGST 232 - Safe Zone Train-the-Trainer
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 0
This course, which trains students to become facilitators in Geneseo’s Safe Zone program, covers LGBTQ history and identities in addition to more contemporary issues and problems. It also emphasizes: developing an effective public speaking style; learning how to facilitate discussions; developing activities that require active learning; critically evaluating and revising Safe Zone program curriculum; and marketing and outreach to the campus community. Students who demonstrate mastery of skills in this course will be eligible to become Safe Zone Trainers the following semester; in addition, they also have the option to apply to the Safe Zone Leadership Program in subsequent semesters for which they can earn internship credit.Enrollment in the course is selective: students must complete an application to the course during the spring semester preceding the semester they wish to enroll.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or higher; completion of two full-time semesters at Geneseo; permission of instructor. Enrollment in the course is selective: students must complete an application to the course during the spring semester preceding the semester they wish to enroll
Offered: Every fall
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WGST 240 - Arab Women, Islam, and Feminism
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course is a critical feminist approach to understanding interpretations and effects of both Islam and secularism in the Arab world. Islamic Sharia constructs the private and public lives of Muslim women based on the Qu’ran. Secularism constructs Arab civil society based on international human rights and gender equality. Within and across these approaches, Arabs confront each other from conflicting readings of Islam, secularism, and feminism. This course examines the social and political consequences for girls and women resulting from these different visions for Arab society. Women’s rights are in tension with traditional cultural customs, rising extremist religious movements, and regional poverty. Students will examine the complex nature of Arab women being caught within local and global forces as they struggle to construct an identity of their own and a feminism of their own.
Offered: Fall, even years
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WGST 310 - Race, Class, and Gender
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course uses multiple disciplines to explore how identity categories of gender, race, and class intersect. Students will explore and critique relations of power in families, societies, and cultures. In class discussion and in writing, students will reflect on their own ideas and thought processes, and they will engage respectfully with differing ideas.
Offered: Every fall
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WGST 320 - Gender and Sexualities
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will involve a multi-disciplinary, feminist exploration of the intersections of gender, culture, and sexuality. The experiences of historically devalued groups, including girls and women, sexual minorities, and people of color will be emphasized. Students will investigate the limitations of binary classification systems as pertaining to gender roles, gendered behavior, sexual behaviors, and sexual orientation. Topics to be covered may include, but are not limited to, sexuality as depicted in Western media, variations in biological sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socialization and sexual and reproductive freedoms.
Offered: Every spring
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WGST 330 - Feminist Theories
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This interdisciplinary course will familiarize students with diverse theories of feminism through close reading of classic and contemporary texts. Theoretical approaches covered might include: liberal, radical, cultural, socialist, womanist/multiracial, standpoint, lesbian, queer, poststructural, and postcolonial feminism. Particular emphasis will be placed on debates over gender as a category of analysis, sameness/difference, essentialism, deconstruction, epistemology, and intersectionality.
Prerequisite(s): WGST 201 or WGST 202 or WGST 203 or WGST 204 or WGST 205 or WGST 230 or WGST 240
Offered: Every fall
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WGST 340 - Gender and Global Education
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course examines the state of girls and women’s education in the context of contemporary globalization and development. The course is a feminist analysis of global education that uses gender equity as the measure of progress. It will introduce students to global and local forces impacting gender and schooling, and the struggles for girls’ education. Formal education is a major social/cultural institution that produces knowledge and skills needed for participation in all spheres of society. Education is an internationally recognized right for all, and one that is foundational for gender equity. The level of girls and women’s access to education enables or denies them participation in civic and economic life. The course is an analysis of how current processes of globalization are transforming education across the world, and how girls and women fit into the changing picture.
Offered: Fall, odd years
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WGST 490 - Senior Capstone Seminar
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will have two parts. The first is a seminar in which students read advanced academic articles on a subject chosen by the instructor and write a short article of their own engaging with other scholars’ ideas. Students will also engage in their own capstone research project, producing an annotated bibliography, a public presentation, and a final written presentation.
Offered: Every spring
Restricted to: Senior status and Women’s and Gender Studies majors, minors and concentrators
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WGST 493 - Honors Research
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
Two semesters of individual research or creative work and writing, of an undergraduate thesis, directed by a faculty member affiliated with Women’s and Gender Studies. Available for majors with a 3.0 cumulative grade point average and who have taken at least 24 credits of toward the major with at least a 3.5 average in the major. Students may present a proposal with or without a faculty mentor; invitation to participate will be by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Successful completion of three credits of WGST 493, including a public presentation, can count for the Women’s and Gender Studies capstone requirement; successful completion of 6 credits with a grade of A- or A is required for graduation honors in the major.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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WGST 495 - Internship
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Internship experiences related to the Women’s and Gender Studies major can be arranged. Interns are required to fulfill a set of objectives related to their major, mutually agreed upon by the student, the faculty supervisor, and the participating agency. Notes: See also Internship section of this bulletin.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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WGST 499 - Directed Study
2018-2019 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1-6
Individual study and research under the supervision of a faculty member. Successful completion of three credits of WGST 499, including a public presentation, can count for the Women’s and Gender Studies capstone requirement.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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