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 seven times during the semester. Since our meetings are so few, you will be 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

September 10	Martha Peacock, PhD, English — Early Modern Dutch Women in the City: The Imaging of Economic Agency and Power
September 24	George Ryskamp, PhD, History — Mentored Research on Women in a Spanish Village of the 1700s
October 8	Cassandra Christensen Barney, MFA, Visiting Artist — Self Determination: A Blessing and a Burden
October 22	WRI Distinguished Research Lecture — Brandie Siegfried, PhD, English — "That Guilty Woman of England": Elizabeth Tudor in the Mind and Memory of Renaissance Writers
November 5	Amy Harris, PhD, History — Share and Share Alike: Anne Travell and Sibling Relationships in Georgian England
November 19	Rachel Cope, PhD, BYU Studies — Women and Conversion
December 11	Book Discussion — So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ — Chantal Thompson, PhD, French and Italian Languages
On the alternating weeks of the Colloquiums, you have the option to attend the WRI 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.

Women Studies Film Series      Fall 2009 Schedule

September 17	Kau Faito'o: Traditional Healers of Tonga Presenter: Melinda Ostraff, PhD, Biology, Filmmaker and Adjunct Faculty
October 1	Women's Bank of Bangladesh Discussant: Joan Dixon, EdD, Center for Economic Self-Reliance
October 15	He Said, She Said Discussant: Susan Balcom Walton, MA, APR, Communcations
October 29	Missing Women: Female Selective Abortion and Infanticide Discussant: Valerie Hudson, PhD, Political Science
November 12	Who Does She Think She Is? Discussant: Von Allen, PhD, Visual Arts
December 3	Iron Ladies of Liberia Discussant: Gloria Cronin, PhD, English

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 plagiarism, fabrication or falsification, cheating, and other academic misconduct. Students are responsible not only to adhere to the Honor Code requirement to be honest but also to assist other students in fulfilling their commitment to be honest. (Complete version of the Academic Honesty Policy available at honorcode.byu.edu)

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 and pertains to admissions, academic and athletic programs, and university-sponsored activities. Title IX also prohibits sexual harassment of students by university employees, other students, and visitors to campus. If you encounter sexual harassment or gender-based discrimination, please talk to your professor; contact the Equal Employment Office at 801-422-5895 or 1-888-238-1062 (24-hours), or http://www.ethicspoint.com; or contact the Honor Code Office at 801-422-2847.

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.