Carrie Scoresby
1063A JFSB
(801) 422-4605
carrie_scoresby@byu.edu

Course Description

The Women's Studies Colloquium is a scholarly forum for discussion, intellectual development, and scholarly collaboration among students, faculty, and others interested in participating in a community of Women's Studies scholars. It is a great opportunity for you to share ideas with other students and to interact with Women's Studies faculty.

Course Requirements

Attendance to every lecture is the only requirement for this course. We will meet a total of eight times during the semester, but you will only be required to attend seven of the eight colloquia. Since our meetings are so few, you are required to attend every session, for the entire fifty minutes, if you desire a passing grade.  The roll will be sent around the room at the beginning of each class.  If you do not see the roll during class, you must see me immediately after the lecture is over to ensure your name has been marked for attendance.  If your name is not recorded on the roll, it will be assumed that you were absent.  If you miss a session as the result of a serious emergency, you will be expected to make-up the work by listening to a recording of the lecture and writing a two-page, double spaced paper analyzing the presentation. Please contact me (422-4605) at the Women's Research Institute immediately prior to or following the missed lecture to arrange any make-up work.

Course Schedule

January 15	Cynthia Finlayson, PhD, Anthropology — Women, Status, and the Ethnographic Textiles of Syria
January 29	Joseph Price, PhD, Economics — The Impact of High School Sports on Female Outcomes
February 19	Ratna Kumari Bandila, PhD, Visiting Scholar from Andhra University, India — Women Empowerment in India
February 26	David L. Paulsen, PhD, Philosophy – The Divine Feminine
March 5*	Lynn Callister, RN, PhD, FAAN College of Nursing — The Voices of Women Giving Birth Throughout the World --- B037 JFSB
March 12*	Steven L. Reip, PhD, Asian and Near Eastern Studies — Religion and Women’s Emancipation in the Short Fiction of Xu Dishan --- 2110 JFSB
March 26	Niwako Yamawaki, PhD, Psychology — Development and Validation of Domestic Violence Myths Scale
April 9	Book Discussion — Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science by Renée Bergland — Danette Paul, PhD, English
On the alternating weeks of the Colloquiums, you have the option to attend the Women’s Studies Film Series.  You are only required to attend the films if you are absent; however, it is strongly encouraged.  All films will be shown in 1161 JFSB at 12:00 P.M.

Women Studies Film Series      Fall 2007 Schedule

January 22	Between the Lines: Asian American Women’s Poetry Yunah Hong — Filmmaker Co-Sponsored with Asian Studies, Held in B094 JFSB at 11:00 AM
February 5	The Strength to Resist: Media’s Impact on Women and Girls
February 12	Enemies of Happiness
March 19	Eleanor Roosevelt
April 2	Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion

Cell Phone Policy

Cell phones are not to be used during class. Please turn them off as you enter the classroom and keep them stored out of sight in your backpack or pocket. Text messaging is especially inappropriate and unacceptable. These speakers volunteer their time to contribute to your education and to share their experience and expertise from their field of research. We ask that our students show the utmost respect and gratitude to ensure that the speakers will continue to return as guest lecturers for our program.

Academic Honesty

The first injunction of the BYU Honor Code is the call to be honest. Students come to the university not only to improve their minds, gain knowledge, and develop skills that will assist them in their life’s work, but also to build character. President David O. McKay taught that "character is the highest aim of education" (The Aims of a BYU Education, p. 6). It is the purpose of the BYU Academic Honesty Policy to assist in fulfilling that aim. BYU students should seek to be totally honest in their dealings with others. They should complete their own work and be evaluated based upon that work. They should avoid academic dishonesty and misconduct in all its forms, including but not limited to plagiarism, fabrication or falsification, cheating, and other academic misconduct.

Honor Code

In keeping with the principles of the BYU Honor Code, students are expected to be honest in all of their academic work. Academic honesty means, most fundamentally, that any work you present as your own must in fact be your own work and not that of another. Violations of this principle may result in a failing grade in the course and additional disciplinary action by the university. Students are also expected to adhere to the Dress and Grooming Standards. Adherence demonstrates respect for yourself and others and ensures an effective learning and working environment. It is the university’s expectation, and my own expectation in class, that each student will abide by all Honor Code Standards. Please call the Honor Code Office at 422-2847 if you have questions about those standards.

Preventing Sexual Harassment

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination against any participant in an educational program or activity that receives federal funds. The act is intended to eliminate sex discrimination in education. Title IX covers discrimination in programs, admissions, activities, and student-to-student sexual harassment. BYU’s policy against sexual harassment extends not only to employees of the university, but to students as well. If you encounter unlawful sexual harassment or gender-based discrimination, please talk to your professor; contact the Equal Employment Office at 422-5895 or 367-5689 (24-hour); or contact the Honor Code Office at 422-2847.

Students with Disabilities

Brigham Young University is committed to providing a working and learning atmosphere that reasonably accommodates qualified persons with disabilities. If you have any disability which may impair your ability to complete this course successfully, please contact the Services for Students with Disabilities Office (422-2767). Reasonable academic accommodations are reviewed for all students who have qualified, documented disabilities. Services are coordinated with the student and instructor by the SSD Office. If you need assistance or if you feel you have been unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of disability, you may seek resolution through established grievance policy and procedures by contacting the Equal Employment Office at 422-5895, D-285 ASB.