WGST 5050: Topics in Women's Studies: Sexual Violence on Film

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Special topics in Women's Studies. Section information text: In order to respond effectively and meaningfully to sexual violence, we must critically examine our assumptions about, perspectives on, and understandings of sexual violence. And, even more importantly, what has shaped them. Mainstream media has had a profound effect on how we think about the nature, experience, motivations, and aftermath of sexual violence as well as its relation to race, gender, class, sexual identity, trauma, and social organization generally. In this course, we will engage a number of films that place representations of sexual violence at their narrative heart to think carefully about how we think about sexual violence. Films to be viewed and discussed may include Birth of a Nation, Last Year at Marienbad, Act of Vengeance, The Accused, I Spit on Your Grave, Descent, Deliverance, Straw Dogs, Irreversible, Hard Candy, Teeth and Promising Young Woman.

Average GPA: 3.81

Grade distribution records: 141 students across 26 terms.

Grade distribution

Based on 141 student grade records across 26 terms and 17 professors.

Instructors

• Sonya Ramsey 34 students, Average GPA 3.76
• Janaka Lewis 28 students, Average GPA 3.89
• Elisabeth Paquette 19 students, Average GPA 3.65
• Susan Cloninger 13 students, Average GPA 3.92
• Kent Brintnall 10 students, Average GPA 3.89
• Kathleen Hogan 7 students, Average GPA 3.86
• Andrea Pitts 4 students, Average GPA 3.75
• Barbara Thiede 4 students, Average GPA 3.50
• Ingrid Bartsch 4 students, Average GPA 4.00
• Aaron Toscano 3 students, Average GPA 3.67
• Candace Brown 3 students, Average GPA 3.67
• Robin James 3 students, Average GPA 4.00
• Daniel Shealy 2 students, Average GPA 4.00
• Stephanie Galloway 2 students, Average GPA 3.50
• Janet Levy 1 students, Average GPA 4.00
• Maryrica Lottman 1 students
• Shannon Sullivan 1 students, Average GPA 4.00