| WGSS 100-01 |
Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
This course offers an introduction to central concepts, questions and debates in gender and sexuality studies from US, Women of Color, queer and transnational perspectives. Throughout the semester we will explore the construction and maintenance of norms governing sex, gender, and sexuality, with an emphasis on how opportunity and inequality operate through categories of race, ethnicity, class, ability and nationality. After an introduction to some of the main concepts guiding scholarship in the field of feminist studies (the centrality of difference; social and political constructions of gender and sex; representation; privilege and power; intersectionality; globalization; transnationalism), we will consider how power inequalities attached to interlocking categories of difference shape key feminist areas of inquiry, including questions of: work, resource allocation, sexuality, queerness, reproduction, marriage, gendered violence, militarization, consumerism, resistance and community sustainability.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 103 |
| WGSS 200-01 |
Feminist Practices, Writing and Research
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Building upon the key concepts and modes of inquire introduced in the WGSS Introductory course, WGSS 200 deepens students understanding of how feminist perspectives on power, experience, and inequality uniquely shape how scholars approach research questions, writing practices, methods and knowledge production. Approaches may include feminist approaches to memoir, oral histories, grassroots and online activism, blogging, visual culture, ethnography, archival research, space, art, literary analysis, and policy studies.Prerequisite: 100 or 208, which can be taken concurrently.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 303 |
| WGSS 202-01 |
Gender, Sport, and American Society
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 101-02. From children tossing a ball in the backyard, to middle-aged weekend warriors on tennis and basketball courts, to athletes in their prime on quests for Olympic gold, sports affect our understandings of our bodies, relationships, and larger social groups. Gender, Sport, and American Society involves the applications of the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - to the field of sport cultures. Class readings and discussions will consider how sports institutions and cultures operate as interlocking systems of power shaping the shifting significance of bodies, differences, opportunity, and marginalization in the US, particularly along the lines of gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality. No WGSS or AMST experience necessary.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| WGSS 202-02 |
Feminist and Queer Disability Studies
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-04. This course offers an intersectional exploration of feminist and queer perspectives within disability studies, examining how disability intersects with gender, sexuality, and social justice. We will delve into the historical context of disability, tracing its representation and activism within feminist and LGBTQ+ movements. Through critical analysis of narratives and cultural texts, we will explore the lived experiences of disabled individuals, focusing on how these identities challenge and enrich our understanding of pride and resistance.Key topics include the history of disability activism, the role of allyship in fostering inclusive communities, and the narratives that shape public perceptions of disability. Students will engage with diverse voices and case studies, fostering a critical understanding of how disability intersects with other identities and movements. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to recognize and articulate the complexities of disability within feminist and queer frameworks, promoting a more inclusive and nuanced dialogue around these critical issues.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 212 |
| WGSS 236-01 |
Psychology of Women and Gender
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with PSYC 135-01. See course description with PSYC 135 listing.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 304 |
| WGSS 300-01 |
Feminist Perspectives and Theories
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
This course deepens students understandings of how feminist perspectives situate power and privilege in relationship to interlocking categories of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability and nation. Through foundational theoretical texts, it expands students understandings of significant theoretical frameworks that inform womens, gender, critical race and sexuality studies, as well as debates and tensions within them. Frameworks may include political activisms, materialist feminism, standpoint epistemologies, critiques of scientific objectivity, intersectionality, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, transnational critique and feminist legal theory. Helps students develop more nuanced understandings of the relationship between everyday experiences, political institutions, forms of resistance and theoretical meaning-making. Prerequisite: WGSS 100 or 208.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 211 |
| WGSS 301-01 |
Where is home for you?
Instructor: Marina Dikosso
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FREN 364-01.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 110 |
| WGSS 301-02 |
The Gender of Science: Masculinity and the Mind
Instructor: Katie Ellis
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FREN 363-01. Despite how important science and medicine are to our everyday lives, we tend to imagine these fields as somehow essentially neutralexisting outside the identities, experiences, and limitations of the human beings who study, advance, and make use of them. With a strong focus on the foundational work of French thinkers and scientists, this course examines the historical nature and origins of the neutral or disembodied scientific mind. This course introduces students to the fundamental tools necessary to the study of science and medicine as cultural spaces and practices with distinctly embodied histories. Students will engage with scholarship ranging from the Enlightenment through World War I, identifying and deconstructing cultural themes that give the appearance of identity neutrality in discourse on intelligence, education, and cognitive labor. Taught in English. Flic option for FREN section.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 211 |
| WGSS 310-01 |
Immigration Politics: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Contemporary Migration
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
Cross-listed with SOCI 310-01. Why do global controversies over immigration so often center on migrant womens fertility and their childrens access to government benefits? Why do some countries accept LGBTQ migrants but deny them the right to adopt, use assisted reproductive technologies, or extend citizenship to their children? How are efforts to limit marriage-and-family based migration racialized and classed? What are the gendered implications when nurses are a countrys central export? Could building a border wall or sending refugees back stop unwanted immigration? This course examines how intersecting gender, sexual and ethnic hierarchies shape and are shaped by immigration. Applying insights from feminist and queer theories of migration, students will explore how the gendered processes surrounding immigration craft concepts of nation, borders and citizenship. Readings and films examine how racial and sexual norms are renegotiated through the selection and regulation of immigrants. Central to our investigation is how transnational and economic forces compel migration, reshaping understandings of national belonging, workplaces, and family in the process. We will particularly consider how migrants negotiate multiple marginalizations, and in turn refashion understandings of community, identities, culture, and politics. An interdisciplinary framework combines sociological, historical, legal, activist, media, literary and artistic accounts.Prerequisite: One WGSS or SOCI course, or permission of instructor; not appropriate for first-year students. Cross-listed as SOCI 310.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 211 |
| WGSS 331-01 |
African American Women Writers
Instructor: Lynn Johnson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 330-01. This course spans the African American literary tradition to examine the historical, political, and social forces that facilitated the evolution of Black women's identities, voices, and roles within and outside of the Black community. Utilizing the intellectual premises of Black feminist, womanist/Africana womanist, and Black queer thoughts, we will analyze these writers' ideologies and representations of self-sovereignty, womanhood, sexuality, activism, race, class, and communalism. Moreover, we will consider their choice of genre to convey their perspectives and cultural commentaries. Pre-requisite: One AFST, US Diversity or WGSS course. Cross-listed as AFST 330.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |
| WGSS 350-01 |
Gender and Development
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ECON 351-01 and INST 351-01. This course examines the gender dimensions of economic development and globalization from the perspective of feminist economics. This perspective implies foregrounding labor, broadly defined to include paid and unpaid work, and examining gender differences in work, access to resources, and wellbeing outcomes, and how these are affected by macroeconomic policies and how gender inequalities are relevant for societal wellbeing. Since the early 1980s economic globalization has been achieved on the basis of a common set of macroeconomic policies pursued in industrial and developing countries alike. These policies frame both the gender-differentiated impacts of policy and the initiatives that are implemented to reduce inequalities between men and women. The main objective of the course is to examine the impact of these policies on men and women in the global South (a.k.a. developing countries/Third World) on gender inequalities and to evaluate the policies/strategies for reducing gender inequalities and promoting the well-being of all people. The pursuit of these objectives will entail first a brief examination of the central tenets of feminist economics and an historical overview of the policy-oriented field of gender and development. Gender-differentiated statistics will be reviewed as they pertain to the topics under discussion.Prerequisite: For ECON 351: ECON 288; For INST 351: ECON 288 or ECON 226/INST 200 or INBM 200; For WGSS 350: at least one WGSS course or ECON 288. This course is cross-listed as ECON 351 & WGSS 350.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
ALTHSE 109 |
| Courses Offered in AFST |
| AFST 330-01 |
African American Women Writers
Instructor: Lynn Johnson
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 331-01. This course spans the African American literary tradition to examine the historical, political, and social forces that facilitated the evolution of Black women's identities, voices, and roles within and outside of the Black community. Utilizing the intellectual premises of Black feminist, womanist/Africana womanist, and Black queer thoughts, we will analyze these writers' ideologies and representations of self-sovereignty, womanhood, sexuality, activism, race, class, and communalism. Moreover, we will consider their choice of genre to convey their perspectives and cultural commentaries. Pre-requisite: One AFST, US Diversity or WGSS course. Cross-listed as WGSS 331.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 109 |
| Courses Offered in AMST |
| AMST 101-02 |
Gender, Sport, and American Society
Instructor: Katie Schweighofer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-01. From children tossing a ball in the backyard, to middle-aged weekend warriors on tennis and basketball courts, to athletes in their prime on quests for Olympic gold, sports affect our understandings of our bodies, relationships, and larger social groups. Gender, Sport, and American Society involves the applications of the interdisciplinary study of gender - the social creation and cultural representation of femininity and masculinity - to the field of sport cultures. Class readings and discussions will consider how sports institutions and cultures operate as interlocking systems of power shaping the shifting significance of bodies, differences, opportunity, and marginalization in the US, particularly along the lines of gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality. No WGSS or AMST experience necessary.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 104 |
| AMST 200-04 |
Feminist and Queer Disability Studies
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-02. This course offers an intersectional exploration of feminist and queer perspectives within disability studies, examining how disability intersects with gender, sexuality, and social justice. We will delve into the historical context of disability, tracing its representation and activism within feminist and LGBTQ+ movements. Through critical analysis of narratives and cultural texts, we will explore the lived experiences of disabled individuals, focusing on how these identities challenge and enrich our understanding of pride and resistance.Key topics include the history of disability activism, the role of allyship in fostering inclusive communities, and the narratives that shape public perceptions of disability. Students will engage with diverse voices and case studies, fostering a critical understanding of how disability intersects with other identities and movements. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to recognize and articulate the complexities of disability within feminist and queer frameworks, promoting a more inclusive and nuanced dialogue around these critical issues.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 212 |
| Courses Offered in ECON |
| ECON 351-01 |
Gender and Development
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with INST 351-01 and WGSS 350-01. This course examines the gender dimensions of economic development and globalization from the perspective of feminist economics. This perspective implies foregrounding labor, broadly defined to include paid and unpaid work, and examining gender differences in work, access to resources, and wellbeing outcomes, and how these are affected by macroeconomic policies and how gender inequalities are relevant for societal wellbeing. Since the early 1980s economic globalization has been achieved on the basis of a common set of macroeconomic policies pursued in industrial and developing countries alike. These policies frame both the gender-differentiated impacts of policy and the initiatives that are implemented to reduce inequalities between men and women. The main objective of the course is to examine the impact of these policies on men and women in the global South (a.k.a. developing countries/Third World) on gender inequalities and to evaluate the policies/strategies for reducing gender inequalities and promoting the well-being of all people. The pursuit of these objectives will entail first a brief examination of the central tenets of feminist economics and an historical overview of the policy-oriented field of gender and development. Gender-differentiated statistics will be reviewed as they pertain to the topics under discussion.
Prerequisite: For ECON 351: ECON 288; For INST 351: ECON 288 or ECON 226/INST 200 or INBM 200; For WGSS 350: at least one WGSS course or ECON 288. This course is cross-listed as INST 351 & WGSS 350.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
ALTHSE 109 |
| Courses Offered in FREN |
| FREN 363-01 |
The Gender of Science: Masculinity and the Mind
Instructor: Katie Ellis
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-02. Despite how important science and medicine are to our everyday lives, we tend to imagine these fields as somehow essentially neutralexisting outside the identities, experiences, and limitations of the human beings who study, advance, and make use of them. With a strong focus on the foundational work of French thinkers and scientists, this course examines the historical nature and origins of the neutral or disembodied scientific mind. This course introduces students to the fundamental tools necessary to the study of science and medicine as cultural spaces and practices with distinctly embodied histories. Students will engage with scholarship ranging from the Enlightenment through World War I, identifying and deconstructing cultural themes that give the appearance of identity neutrality in discourse on intelligence, education, and cognitive labor. Taught in English. Flic option for FREN section.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 211 |
| FREN 364-01 |
Where is home for you?
Instructor: Marina Dikosso
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 301-01. In an increasingly globalized world shaped by mobility and displacement, the question of what constitutes home has taken on renewed urgency. This course centers women migrants' experiences, which are often overlooked despite their growing percentage of the migrant population. Focusing on Francophone African and Afro-diasporic literatures and media, the course explores how home is imagined, lost, and reconfigured across spaces and experiences. Through critical engagement with themes of displacement, identity, and belonging, this course invites reflection on how women writers articulate the complexities of migration and the ongoing search for home, revealing its multiple, fluid, and contested meanings. As such, the class will focus on how their gender, race, and nationality affect the way the women perceive home. The course includes Francophone African and Caribbean literary and media works from both the 20th and the 21st centuries, with a focus on Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Guadeloupe. Taught in French.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
ALTHSE 110 |
| Courses Offered in INST |
| INST 351-01 |
Gender and Development
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ECON 351-01 and WGSS 350-01. This course examines the gender dimensions of economic development and globalization from the perspective of feminist economics. This perspective implies foregrounding labor, broadly defined to include paid and unpaid work, and examining gender differences in work, access to resources, and wellbeing outcomes, and how these are affected by macroeconomic policies and how gender inequalities are relevant for societal wellbeing. Since the early 1980s economic globalization has been achieved on the basis of a common set of macroeconomic policies pursued in industrial and developing countries alike. These policies frame both the gender-differentiated impacts of policy and the initiatives that are implemented to reduce inequalities between men and women. The main objective of the course is to examine the impact of these policies on men and women in the global South (a.k.a. developing countries/Third World) on gender inequalities and to evaluate the policies/strategies for reducing gender inequalities and promoting the well-being of all people. The pursuit of these objectives will entail first a brief examination of the central tenets of feminist economics and an historical overview of the policy-oriented field of gender and development. Gender-differentiated statistics will be reviewed as they pertain to the topics under discussion.Prerequisite: For ECON 351: ECON 288; For INST 351: ECON 288 or ECON 226/INST 200 or INBM 200; For WGSS 350: at least one WGSS course or ECON 288. This course is cross-listed as ECON 351 & WGSS 350.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
ALTHSE 109 |
| Courses Offered in PSYC |
| PSYC 135-01 |
Psychology of Women and Gender
Instructor: Megan Yost
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 236-01. Using a feminist social psychological framework, we will examine theory and research related to the psychology of women and the psychology of gender. We will analyze gender as a system that influences men's and women's lives, and consider the ongoing significance of gender role socialization across the lifespan. Throughout the semester, we will consider the social and political implications of putting women at the center of psychological analysis. In addition, we will develop tools to critically analyze traditional psychological theory and research to expose sexist bias, and we will examine alternative research methodologies that provide ways to study the richness of women's lives in context. This course is cross-listed as WGSS 236.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 304 |
| Courses Offered in SOCI |
| SOCI 310-01 |
Immigration Politics: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Contemporary Migration
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 310-01. Why do global controversies over immigration so often center on migrant womens fertility and their childrens access to government benefits? Why do some countries accept LGBTQ migrants but deny them the right to adopt, use assisted reproductive technologies, or extend citizenship to their children? How are efforts to limit marriage-and-family based migration racialized and classed? What are the gendered implications when nurses are a countrys central export? Could building a border wall or sending refugees back stop unwanted immigration? This course examines how intersecting gender, sexual and ethnic hierarchies shape and are shaped by immigration. Applying insights from feminist and queer theories of migration, students will explore how the gendered processes surrounding immigration craft concepts of nation, borders and citizenship. Readings and films examine how racial and sexual norms are renegotiated through the selection and regulation of immigrants. Central to our investigation is how transnational and economic forces compel migration, reshaping understandings of national belonging, workplaces, and family in the process. We will particularly consider how migrants negotiate multiple marginalizations, and in turn refashion understandings of community, identities, culture, and politics. An interdisciplinary framework combines sociological, historical, legal, activist, media, literary and artistic accounts.Prerequisite: One WGSS or SOCI course, or permission of instructor; not appropriate for first-year students. Cross-listed as WGSS 310.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 211 |