Winter Course – GWSS 577: Women of Color in Academia

GWSS 577: Women of Color in Academia

Winter 2017; TuTh 1:30-3:20 p.m. / Parrington 112 SLN 15320 – 5 credits

Instructor: Angela B. Ginorio

In this reading, writing, and discussion course, we will explore how “women of color” in academia (both members of the faculty and graduate students) are positioned–through field of scholarship and socially-defined identities–to question and redefine academia, education, and the established boundaries between academia and other communities.  The discussion will focus on four contexts: institutional, departmental, disciplinary, classroom.  In addition, interpersonal relations and intrapersonal issues will be considered.

The goals for this class are to actively, through reading, writing, and discussion:

–Gain working knowledge of the experiences of “women of color” in academia in the U.S.

–Understand the institutional sites and forms of knowledge production and validation in academia in the U.S. – from classrooms to departments, from journals to professional organizations –Use these understandings of knowledge production to generate insurgent knowledge in our own work and practice –Gain in-depth knowledge about how power is exerted in one of contexts examined in the course, as it pertains to “women of color” in academia –Create and participate in a community of critical learners

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