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Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Urban Studies (URBN)
  

  • URBN 2999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • URBN 3010 Metropolitan Los Angeles

    4 semester hours

    An introduction of the social, economic, political, environmental, and spatial characteristics and dynamics of metropolitan Los Angeles in the context of postmodern urbanization in the United States.
  

  • URBN 3045 Urban Planning

    4 semester hours

    An introduction to the problems, principles, and practices of contemporary urban planning, especially in California and the United States.
  

  • URBN 3046 Sustainable Cities

    4 semester hours

    An examination of the challenges of and potential solutions to the sustainability of socioeconomic, environmental, and ecological systems associated with historic, contemporary, and future urbanization. Course topics include an analysis of the sustainability of historic and contemporary cities, the consideration of sustainable alternatives associated with such trends as New Urbanism, and the potential for alternative urban policies and practices designed to foster sustainability.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.
  

  • URBN 3047 Community Development

    4 semester hours

    An exploration of the meanings and methodologies of community development, especially in contemporary urban America.
  

  • URBN 3998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • URBN 3999 Independent Studies

    0 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • URBN 4000 Senior Project

    4 semester hours

    A supervised internship and directed research on a specific urban topic incorporating appropriate primary and secondary research methodologies and/or participant observation.

    Senior standing or approval of the Program Director required.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Engaged Learning, Writing.
  

  • URBN 4998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • URBN 4999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours


Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST)
  

  • WGST 1000 Gender and Social Movements

    4 semester hours

    An interdisciplinary study of women in society through overview of the major issues, innovations, and debates that have characterized the field of Women’s and Gender Studies. Course introduces history of feminist activism and discourse in the U.S.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
  

  • WGST 1100 Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Contemporary Society

    4 semester hours

    An introduction to critical thinking skills about concepts such as gender, race, class, and sexuality, how these intersect in lives of women of color together with women’s strategies of surviving, resisting, and overcoming barriers.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
  

  • WGST 1998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • WGST 1999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • WGST 2000 Women in Global Communities

    4 semester hours

    This course introduces students to the cultural, social, political, and economic contexts in which non-Western women live. It addresses the impact of globalization, colonialization, and post-coloniality, and women’s responses to these processes.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
  

  • WGST 2200 Women’s Bodies, Health, and Sexuality

    4 semester hours

    This course addresses women’s health and sexuality from a feminist perspective. It also deals with body images not only from the perspective of health but also in terms of their relationship to structures of power.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Understanding Human Behavior.
  

  • WGST 2300 Mathematics: Contributions by Women

    3 semester hours

    (See MATH 261 ).
  

  • WGST 2998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • WGST 2999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • WGST 3000 Feminist Theories

    4 semester hours

    Focuses on the historical roots of feminist political thought in relation to other social movements. Examines the intellectual traditions within feminist theory today such as postmodernism, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, queer theory, and the intersectional analyses produced by women of color.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Information Literacy, Writing.

    Junior or senior standing required.
  

  • WGST 3100 Feminist Research Methods

    4 semester hours

    Examines feminist methodologies through hands-on research and considers the complex relationships between researchers and their subjects, the impact of social location on our field of vision, ethical issues in the research process, as well as research that facilitates social and gender justice.

    Normally offered in the Fall semester.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Engaged Learning, Quantitative Literacy.

    Junior or senior standing required.
  

  • WGST 3200 Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice

    4 semester hours

    This course explores the relationships between peoples and environments, focusing on the roles and resources, identity, power relations, and geography. The course explores the theoretical and material implications of the different ways in which environmental injustice leads to the degradation of gendered environments and bodies. The course will provide multiple interdisciplinary perspectives on the state of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and the environment.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flags: Engaged Learning, Writing.
  

  • WGST 3300 Gender, Race, and the Graphic Novel

    4 semester hours

    This course explores how the space of the graphic novel can serve as a cultural space for critical engagement with ideologies of race, gender, nation, class, and sexuality. Critically examining visual language that is presented in the graphic novel, students will examine the ways it challenges iconographic images of ethnic and gendered representation.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Creative Experience.
  

  • WGST 3301 Literature by Women of Color

    4 semester hours

    The course explores contemporary literature by women of color in the United States and their immigrant experiences. It attends to the ways that authors imaginatively use genres to represent and challenge gender and race construction.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.
  

  • WGST 3302 The Image of Woman in Nineteenth-Century England

    4 semester hours

    (See ENGL 3342 .)
  

  • WGST 3303 Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing

    4 semester hours

    (See ENGL 3343 .)
  

  • WGST 3304 Italian Women Writers

    4 semester hours

    (See ITAL 3580 .)
  

  • WGST 3305 Angels and Demons: Women and Literary Stereotypes

    4 semester hours

    (See MDGK 3343 .)
  

  • WGST 3306 Out of Control: Women, Madness, and the Cultural Imagination

    4 semester hours

    (See MDGK 3346 .)
  

  • WGST 3307 Gender Communication

    4 semester hours

    (See CMST 3110 .)
  

  • WGST 3308 Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S.

    4 semester hours

    (See CLST 3302 .)
  

  • WGST 3400 Women in the Middle East

    4 semester hours

    This course explores the themes and variations in women’s lives in the Middle East. Particular attention will be paid to family structures, rural-urban, social class and ethnic differences, social and political movements, religion, work, and education.
  

  • WGST 3401 Black Identities, Families, and Cultures

    4 semester hours

    (See AFAM 3432 .)
  

  • WGST 3403 Hip Hop Culture

    4 semester hours

    (See AFAM 4422 .)
  

  • WGST 3500 Genders and Sexualities

    4 semester hours

    This course explores the relationship between sexuality and gender as well as a diversity of sexual identities. It focuses on issues of the body, sex, nature, and power within the context of history, culture, and public policy.
  

  • WGST 3501 Gender and Society

    4 semester hours

    (See SOCL 3210 .)
  

  • WGST 3502 Sociology of Marriage and Families

    4 semester hours

    (See SOCL 3160 .)
  

  • WGST 3503 Men and Masculinities

    4 semester hours

    (See SOCL 3211 .)
  

  • WGST 3600 History of Women in California

    4 semester hours

    This course explores California history from the perspective of the women who have lived, worked, and migrated here from the period of Spanish exploration to the present. Designed around experiential learning, this course takes students to important sites in and around Los Angeles to witness sites of history for themselves, visit some of LA’s world-class museums, and contextualize our studies in terms of what California looks like today, and how the women’s history of the state shapes its role in the larger world.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
  

  • WGST 3601 Women in Christian History

    4 semester hours

    (See THST 3022 .)

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
  

  • WGST 3602 Gender in European History

    4 semester hours

    (See HIST 4225 .)
  

  • WGST 3603 Women in American History

    3 semester hours

    (See HIST 4430 .)
  

  • WGST 3605 History of Childhood and the Family

    4 semester hours

    (See HIST 4431 .)
  

  • WGST 3700 Images of Women in Philosophy

    4 semester hours

    (See PHIL 4175 .)
  

  • WGST 3701 Guadalupe, Queen of the Américas

    4 semester hours

    (See CLST 3310 .)

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Faith and Reason; Flag: Writing.
  

  • WGST 3702 Women and Religion

    4 semester hours

    (See THST 3285 .)

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Faith and Reason; Flags: Information Literacy, Oral Skills.
  

  • WGST 3703 Christian Marriage and Sexuality

    4 semester hours

    (See THST 3561 .)

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Ethics and Justice; Flag: Writing.
  

  • WGST 3704 Sex and the City of God

    4 semester hours

    (See THST 3237 .)

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Faith and Reason; Flag: Writing.
  

  • WGST 3800 Gender and Urban Geographies

    4 semester hours

    This course uses the discipline of critical urban geography and feminist theory to explore the following questions: 1) What is a city? 2) Why do humans live in cities? 3) How does living in a city shape who humans are? We explore the phenomena of racial and gender segregation in cities, investigate the spatialization of race, the construction of vice and crime in the city, and discuss the gender of the division between the public and the private in urban geographies.
  

  • WGST 3998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • WGST 3999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • WGST 4000 Feminist Political Theory

    4 semester hours

    This course familiarizes students with the major themes and movements in the history of feminist political thought and uses gender as a lens through which to view political life. The course also takes up gender as an object of inquiry for politics.
  

  • WGST 4001 Queer Theory

    4 semester hours

    This course explores the emergence, conceptual frameworks, themes, and critical tools of queer theory. This course critically analyzes sex, gender, and sexuality and the gaps between them and their interactions, as well as how these concepts are implicated in or frame many other discourses, such as the war on terror, aesthetics, death, history, race, ethics, monstrosity, nationalism, affect, punk rock, colonialism, temporality, and gentrification.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Information Literacy, Writing.
  

  • WGST 4100 Sex, Trade, Trafficking

    4 semester hours

    The course will address issues of racism, sexism, classism, and violence against women who are trafficked and those who also work as sex workers. We will discuss the relationship between ethics and human trafficking as well as who benefits from such approaches.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Writing.
  

  • WGST 4101 Queer Migration and Diaspora

    4 semester hours

    Examines how gender and sexuality are experienced in global contexts through neoliberal globalization, the feminization of labor and migration, environmental degradation, diaspora, sexuality, cultural displacement, and militarization. Explores the ways queer people have confronted these conditions as well as the possibilities and challenges of cross-border coalitions.
  

  • WGST 4200 Sex, Race, and Violence

    4 semester hours

    (See AFAM 4642 .)
  

  • WGST 4300 Women in Film

    3 semester hours

    (See FTVS 3300 .)
  

  • WGST 4400 Women and Politics

    4 semester hours

    (See POLS 4330 .)
  

  • WGST 4404 Latina Feminist Theory

    4 semester hours

    (See CLST 4404 .)

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.
  

  • WGST 4900 Senior Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies

    4 semester hours

    Designed as a last course for students obtaining the Women’s and Gender Studies major or minor. Stress is on the organization and integration of knowledge gained regarding women in society.

    Offered only during the Spring semester.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Oral Skills, Writing.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    Majors or minors only.
  

  • WGST 4901 Service Learning in Women’s and Gender Studies

    4 semester hours

    The internship in Women’s and Gender Studies combines practical experience and feminist theory through the theme of women’s empowerment. Students work in selected placements while reading through a sequenced bibliography. They discuss their experiences and readings in seminars and papers.
  

  • WGST 4998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • WGST 4999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours


Yoga Studies (YGST)
  

  • YGST 6005 Introduction to Sanskrit

    3 semester hours

    This introduction is intended to provide students with a foundational understanding of the legacy and unique qualities of the Sanskrit language. Students will be introduced to translation work and conversation practice, including the rules of sandhi and the basic grammatical principles underlying the conjugation of verbs and the declension of nouns.
  

  • YGST 6010 Health Science and Yoga I

    3 semester hours

    An overview of anatomy and physiology from the Western perspective and Ayurvedic theories of the subtle body, health, and wholeness.
  

  • YGST 6015 Foundations of Yoga Studies

    3 semester hours

    This course will investigate basic methodological approaches to the academic study of Yoga, with an emphasis on the place of Yoga within theological discourse. It will include a bibliographic survey of primary and secondary sources and engagement with key select resources. Sikh and Christian approaches to Yoga will be included.
  

  • YGST 6020 Yoga Philosophy: Text and Practice

    3 semester hours

    A close study and discussion of the Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gītā, select Upanishads, the Sāmkhya Kārikā, the Yogavāsistha, and other classical literature.
  

  • YGST 6025 Sanskrit: The Yoga Sutra

    3 semester hours

    In this course students will translate the sutras from Patanjali’s seminal text the Yoga Sūtra.
  

  • YGST 6026 Sanskrit: The Bhagavad Gita

    3 semester hours

    The Bhagavad Gītā sets forth the primary practices of philosophical and meditational Yoga, including the ways of Knowledge, Action, and Devotion. We will read select passages, completing the study of various aspects of Sanskrit grammar.
  

  • YGST 6030 Hatha Yoga Texts

    3 semester hours

    This course in movement and breathing (Āsana and Prānāyāma) will draw from classical texts such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipikā, the Gherhanda Samhitā, and the Yoga Sāstra, with particular attention to practice applications. Requires demonstration of student teaching skills.
  

  • YGST 6040 Buddhism and Yoga

    3 semester hours

    Yoga’s relationship with Buddhism will be explored with an emphasis on Vipassana, Tibetan Buddhism, and Zen.
  

  • YGST 6041 Jaina Yoga

    3 semester hours

    This course, conducted in India, will immerse students in the study of Jainism, known for its emphasis on nonviolence, through philosophy, ethics, cosmology, and art. They will study the Jain traditions of Yoga including Preksha meditation. This course is generously subsidized by the International School for Jain Studies.
  

  • YGST 6050 History of Modern Yoga

    3 semester hours

    Yoga entered European and North American consciousness through the Romantic poets, the New England Transcendentalists, and the world lecture tour of Swami Vivekananda following the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1893. In the 20th century, Paramahamsa Yogananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Sivananda, Swami Krishnamacharya and many others introduced large groups of people to the principles and practices of Yoga. The course will explore this legacy. Students will be required to demonstrate teaching ability from select traditions.
  

  • YGST 6060 Health Science and Yoga II

    3 semester hours

    This course will expand upon YGST 6010 Health Science and Yoga I  including integration of concepts of both western and Yoga anatomy as they pertain to illness. The potential therapeutic benefits of yoga practices including asana, pranayama, meditation, Bhavana, mantra, Mudra, nyasa as well as vihara (lifestyle modification) and application of yamas and niyamas will be discussed. Students will obtain skills in critically evaluating scientific Yoga research.
  

  • YGST 6070 Yoga Therapy Applications

    3 semester hours

    Through both western and Yoga/Ayurveda lenses this course will cover Yoga therapy application for specific common diseases both western and Yoga/Ayurveda. Yoga as a lifestyle management tool will be addressed through the pancamaya model. Students will learn how to categorize illness through the lens of Yoga and recommend appropriate and safe practices for healing and well-being. Students will explore the indications contraindications of various Yoga practices as they apply to specific conditions and circumstances as well as ethics and scope of practice for a Yoga Therapist. Basic principles of the therapeutic relationship will be covered including communication skills and personal well-being. Client intake, evaluation, and assessment will be covered, and students will obtain supervised practice in these skills.
  

  • YGST 6080 Yoga Therapy Practicum

    3 semester hours

    In addition to classroom education, students will participate in mentored Yoga therapy practicum. Through internships students will obtain experience and skills in working both one on one with clients and in small therapeutic groups. Students will meet regularly with the instructor to discuss client assessment, therapy plans, and personal and professional development as a Yoga therapist. Offering Yoga Therapy training to work with specific populations, including but not limited to persons with the following conditions: cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addictions, athletic injury, pregnancy, chronic pain, etc.
  

  • YGST 6082 Comparative Mysticism

    3 semester hours

    This course will explore the inner or mystical life as articulated in the life and practice of various religious traditions. It will begin with a study of a modern classic: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, the pre-eminent American philosopher and psychologist as well as the key ideas of Carl Jung. The course will include the study of Jewish and Islamic mystical traditions, as well as key writers in the emerging field of contemplative Christian ecology. Yoga and mysticism will be examined through the writings of 20th century philosopher Sri Aurobindo.
  

  • YGST 6096 Writing and Research Seminar

    3 semester hours

    This course will guide the students as they write their final thesis. The course will aid them through the process by introducing research methods and writing techniques in order to complete a clear final thesis or research project. Students will be able to help one another as different phases of their given projects will be shared in class.
  

  • YGST 6998 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • YGST 6999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

 

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