Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Contacts

Departmental Chair
Ethel Brooks

Undergraduate Director
Dana Luciano (Interim UGD Fall 2022)
Kyla Schuller

Undergraduate

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General Course Descriptions

For a full list of all available WGSS classes, please see the Undergraduate Course Schedule

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Critical Sexualities Courses (888)

01:888:215 Introduction to Transgender Studies (3)

01:888:285 Lesbians and Gay Men and Society (3)

01:888:290 Introduction to Critical Sexualities (4)

01:888:291 Francophilia: Literature and Sexuality in Modern France (3)

01:888:321 Queer Contexts: Same-Sex Desire, Culture, and Representation (3)

01:888:338 Transnational Sexualities (3)

01:888:339 Research on Sexualities (3)

Social Justice Courses (904)

01:904:201 Introduction to Social Justice (3)

01:904:202 Practicing Social Justice (3)

01:904:391,392 Topics in Social Justice (1.5,1.5)

01:904:401,402 Social Justice Capstone Seminar (3,3)

01:904:493,494 Social Justice Independent Study (3,3)

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Courses (988)

01:988:101 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality (3) (formerly Women, Culture, and Society)

01:988:101:01 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality - Love, Sex, & Desire in the Digital Age (3)

01:988:101:02 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality (3)

01:988:101:03 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality (3)

01:988:101:04; 05; 08 Introduction to Gender, Race and Sexuality (3)

01:988:130 Knowledge and Power: Issues in Women's Leadership (3)

01:988:160 Women Working in the Global Economy: Feminist Perspectives (3)

01:988:200 Gender, Digital Media, and Social Curation (3)

01:988:201 Feminist Practices (3)

01:988:201:02 Feminist Practices (3)

01:988:202 Gender, Culture, and Representation (3)

01:988:206 The Black Woman (3)

01:988:220:01 Religion and Reproduction: Jewish and Christian Experiences (3)

01:988:232 Women Writer's of South Asia (3)

01:988:235 Dynamics of Class, Race, and Sex (3)

01:988:240 Gender and Science (3)

01:988:250 Feminist Perspectives (3)

01:988:250:01 Feminist Perspectives - Feminism in a Time of Environmental Crisis (3)

01:988:252 Mentoring, Leadership, and Young Women's Lives (3)

01:988:255 Gender, Art, and Society (3)

01:988:257 Gender and the Body: Representation and Pornography (3)

01:988:258 Gender, Race, and Contemporary Art (3)

01:988:259 Homosexuality and Visual Culture (3)

01:988:260 The Modern Girl (3)

01:988:270 War: Critical Perspectives (3)

01:988:271 Immigrant States (3)

01:988:280 Introduction to Critical Study of Masculinities (3)

01:988:284 Feminist Knowledge Production (3)

01:988:285 Lesbians and Gay Men and Society (3)

01:988:290 Introduction to Critical Sexualities (3) 

01:988:294 Topics in Women's and Gender Studies (1.5)

01:988:296 Topics in Women's and Gender Studies (1.5)

01:988:296:01 Topics in Women and Gender Studies - Gender and the Black Diaspora (1.5)

01:988:296:02 Topics in Women and Gender Studies - Arts as Activism (1.5)

01:988:296:03 Topics in Women and Gender Studies - Global Cuisine (1.5)

01:988:296:04 Topics in Women and Gender Studies - Human Rights (1.5)

01:988:296:05 Topics in Women and Gender Studies - La Casa Hispanica (1.5)

01:988:296:06 Topics in Women and Gender Studies - Environmental Sustainability (1.5)

01:988:296:07;08 Topics in Women and Gender Studies - Global Health and Medicine (1.5)

01:988:296:09 Topics in Women and Gender Studies - Global Leaders (1.5)

01:988:299 Mentoring Leadership and Practice (3)

01:988:301 Feminist Theory: Historical Perspectives (3)

01:988:302 Feminist Theory: Contemporary Engagements

01:988:302:01 Feminist Theory: Contemporary Engagements (3)

01:988:303 Global Feminisms (3)

01:988:307 Women and the Law (3)

01:988:308 Women and Society in the Islamic Middle East (3)

01:988:310 South Asian Feminism (3)

01:988:311 Gender, Race, and Visual Media (3)

01:988:312 African Feminism (3)

01:988:315 Women Writers of the Arab World (3)

01:988:317 Gender and Consumption (3)

01:988:318 The Gendered Body (3)

01:988:321 Queer Contexts: Same-Sex Desire, Culture, and Representation (3)

01:988:325 Women on the Fringe (3)

01:988:326 Psychology of Women (3)

01:988:329 History of Race and Sex in America (3)

01:988:330 Memoir and Autobiography (3)

01:988:331 Theorizing Sexuality and Gender (3)

01:988:332 The Color of AIDS: The Politics of Race During the AIDS Crisis (3)

01:988:333 Power, Subjectivity, and Resistance (3)

01:988:336 Women and American Politics (3)

01:988:337 Globalization, Sex, and Families (3)

01:988:341 Gender and Popular Culture (3)

01:988:344 Women and Leadership (3)

01:988:350 Gender and Spirituality (3)

01:988:368 Producing Identities: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexualities (3)

01:988:369 Feminism, Space, and Visuality (3)

01:988:370 Critical Feminist Investigation (3)

01:988:371 Making Change (3)

01:988:372 Contemporary Feminist Activism (3)

01:988:387 Feminism, Signs, and Representation (3)

01:988:392 Thinking Bodies (3)

01:988:394 Black Women in the United States (3)

01:988:395 Race, Gender, Media, and the Law (3)

01:988:396 Topics in Women's and Gender Studies (3)

01:988:396:01 Topics in Women's and Gender Studies - Philosophical Issues in Feminism (3)

01:988:396:02 Topics in Women's and Gender Studies - Writing for Social Change (3)

01:988:397 Freud and Feminism I--Sexuality (3)

01:988:398 Freud and Feminism II--The Unconscious (3)

01:988:399 CESEP (1)

01:988:405 Gender and Human Rights (3)

01:988:406 Women, Work, and Social Change (3)

01:988:407 Women’s Global Health Movements (3)

01:988:408 Gender, Economic Inequality & Health (3)

01:988:409 Gender, Environmental Justice & Health (3)

01:988:410 Debt, Crisis, and Women's Health (3)

01:988:412 Global Food Politics: Health Consequences (3)

01:988:413 The Global Pharmaceutical Economy & Health (3)

01:988:414 Care Work (3)

01:988:416 Women's Global Health: Special Topics (3)

01:988:420,421 Women's Global Health Internship (3,3)

01:988:422 Internship in Women's and Gender Studies (3)

01:988:425 Internship in Women's and Gender Studies (6)

01:988:426 Internship for IWL Scholars (BA)

01:988:429 Engendering Development (3)

01:988:430 IWL Social Action Project (BA)

01:988:445 Feminist Advocacy for Women's Rights through the United Nations

01:988:465 The Queering of Theory (3)

01:988:480 Ethics and Leadership (3)

01:988:481 Feminism and Visual Culture (3)

01:988:482 Feminism, Policy, and the Poor (3)

01:988:485 Motherhood: Nature and Culture, Policy, and Politics (3)

01:988:486 Gender, Development, Environment: Policies, Politics, Perspectives (3)

01:988:487 Language of Women's Health and Health Policy (3)

01:988:490 Seminar: Women and Contemporary Issues (3)

01:988:490:01 Senior Seminar in WGSS Motherhood: Nature and Culture, Policy and Politics

01:988:491 Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies (3)

01:988:492 Seminar: Special Topics in Women's and Gender Studies (3)

01:988:493,494 Independent Study (3,3)

01:988:497-498 Honors Research in Women's and Gender Studies (3,3)

01:988:498:01 Honors Research in Women’s and Gender Studies (3)

01:988:499 Capstone in Gender and Media (3)

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