2124. Gender and Globalization
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Alejandra Gutiérrez
Construction and reproduction of gender inequality and the gendered nature of global structures and processes. Key topics include women’s rights as human rights; women’s work; gender, development, and the global economy; migration; religious fundamentalism; reproduction, health, and HIV/AIDS; education; violence against women; and gender, war, and peace advocacy. CA 2. CA 4-INT.
2204. Feminism & the Arts
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Ariana Codr
Interdisciplinary exploration of drama, the visual arts, music, literature, social action art, and/or film through feminist, queer, and trans theory and criticism. Formerly offered as WGSS 1104. CA 1. CA 4.
2217. Women, Gender and Film
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Jiyoun Suk, Davina Barbee
Examines intersectional identities of gender, race, and sexuality depicted in film through feminist analysis. CA 1. CA 4.
2250. Critical Approaches to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Ariana Codr
Theories, practice, and methodologies of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies interdiscipline.
2263. Women, Gender and Violence
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to sophomores or higher. Recommended preparation: Any 1000 or 2000 level WGSS course.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Ayanna Spencer
Discussion of various forms of gendered violence in the United States and in a global context. Physical, sexual, emotional and structural violence; social, political and personal meanings of gendered violence; special emphasis on women.
2680W. Sociology of Sexualities
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Nancy Naples
Explores the social organization, construction, and politics of sexualities, particular focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer experiences and the intersection of sexualities, gender, race, and class. Formerly offered as SOCI/WGSS 3621W. CA 4.
3247. Gender and War
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to juniors or higher.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Sherry Zane
Gender aspects of war. Masculinities and militaries; gender-based war violence; laws of war and post-war conditions for male and female soldiers and civilians.
3252. Genders and Sexualities
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Intersectional examination of diverse constructions of gender and sexuality. Focused exploration of selected topics.
3253W. Gender Representations in U.S. Popular Culture
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Barbara Gurr
Forces in the U.S. that shape and reshape gender in popular culture. CA 2.
3256. Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theories
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: WGSS 2250. Not open to students who have passed WGSS 3995 when offered as “Introduction to Queer Studies.”
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Ariana Codr
Exploration of foundational and current critical theory in feminist, queer, and trans studies. Emphasis on the shared historical development of, transnational and intersectional approaches in, as well as controversies within and between these theoretical perspectives. Among diverse approaches to be considered are major feminist, queer, and trans revisions of critical race, psychoanalytic, Marxist, Foucauldian, indigenous and postcolonial theories. Formerly offered as WGSS 2253.
3257. Feminist Disability Studies
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to juniors or higher; sophomores by consent of instructor. Recommended preparation: Any 1000 or 2000-level WGSS course
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Laura Malden
Social, historical, cultural, and political constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability. Through a wide variety of texts and cultural examples, exploration of how disability is gendered, gender is disabled, and both are interwoven by race, ethnicity, class, nationality, sexuality, and subcultures.
3257W. Feminist Disability Studies
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011; open to juniors or higher; sophomores by consent of instructor. Recommended preparation: any 1000 or 2000-level WGSS course.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Laura Malden
Social, historical, cultural, and political constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability. Through a wide variety of texts and cultural examples, exploration of how disability is gendered, gender is disabled, and both are interwoven by race, ethnicity, class, nationality, sexuality, and subcultures.
3260. Latinas and Media
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to juniors or higher.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Diana Rios
The role of ethnicity and race in women’s lives. Special attention to communication research on ethnic and racial minority women. CA 4.
3265W. Producing Critical Feminist Scholarship
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: WGSS 2250; ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Briona Jones
Exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of diverse critical scholarship used by WGSS researchers and the significance of praxis for fostering knowledge production in this interdisciplinary and transnational field. Ethical dilemmas faced by feminist, critical race, queer and trans scholars and other critical scholars, activists, artists, and policy makers. Experiential opportunities in designing and producing WGSS scholarship.
3416. Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Elizabeth Della Zazzera
The construction of gender difference and ideas about sexuality in western Europe since 1789. Masculinity and femininity; sexuality, identity and the state; European power and personhood in global context.
3453. Women and Health
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to sophomores or higher.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Jane Pryma
Social factors shaping women’s health, health care, and their roles as health-care providers.
3560. Constructions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Not open for credit to students who have passed HIST 3095 when taught as Constructions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Michele McElya
Examination of historical development, interconnections, and complexities of conceptions of race, gender, and sexuality in U.S. from European conquest to the present.
3613. LGBTQ+ Literature
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Margaret Breen
Literature focusing on gender and sexual diversity across cultural contexts. Experiences of, for example, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, hijra, and two-spirit people. CA 4.
3652. Black Feminist Politics
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to juniors or higher.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Evelyn Simien
An introduction to major philosophical and theoretical debates at the core of Black feminist thought, emphasizing the ways in which interlocking systems of oppression uphold and sustain each other.
3675. Latina History and Biography
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Instructor(s): Emma Amador
Examination of the history of Latinas in the US with a focus on women, gender, and sexuality. Students will consider how historians use oral histories, life histories, memoirs, biographies, and testimonials as sources to restore Latinas to histories from which they were previously omitted. CA 1. CA 4.