BA MA Track
Activism
Women in Leadership
Naomi Klein
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Activism
Women in Leadership
Naomi Klein
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Welcome to the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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

    Introductory survey examining key concepts and themes in women's and gender studies, including these twelve: body image and media; class; feminisms; gender/sex; globalization and neoliberalism; intersectionality; patriarchy and privilege; race; reproductive justice; sexuality and queer theory; social justice and human rights; and violence, conflict, and terrorism.

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

    This course traces the entanglements of race, gender and sexuality that animate critical discourse of the United States as an ongoing heteropatriarchal, imperial and settler colonial project. With an eye for the contexts which produce them, we will look at the emergence of political coalitions like ‘Third World,’ ‘women of color,’ ‘Indigenous,’ and ‘Asian American Pacific Islander’ and the different tactics they use to address systems of power. How does the past inform us in the present? Can thinking about the U.S. as an empire or a settler colony help us understand how we came to believe that assimilation and belonging to the nation are modes of equality and justice?

  • 01:988:101:11 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    • Instructor: Taida Wolfe

    In this introductory course, we will learn about the ways that gender, race, and sexuality interact, intersect and contribute to the social construction of identity. Using mediums such as film, mainstream and social media, literature, and scholarly texts, this course will explore the following themes: history of feminisms, feminisms of color, masculinities, queer theory, body and reproductive politics, systems of oppression and privilege, gender/work, and gendered violence. By the end of the semester, students will be better poised to address questions of difference and diversity outside of the classroom as critical thinkers and contributors towards a more inclusive society.

  • 01:988:101:13,17,18 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    • Instructor: Heather Lewis

    Intro to Race, Gender, & Sexuality is a course that explores identities, intersectional perspectives, and structural powers in relation to gender, race, and sexuality. Students will investigate the mechanisms through which these ideas are produced and reproduced. Meaningful connections will be made between the concepts offered in this course with the dynamic world around us. Students will have opportunities to consider how these concepts structure our social worlds and intimate lives through individual, collaborative, and multi-modal projects driven by their own personal experiences and knowledge. Each student will also engage with a wide variety of content including current videos, movies, podcasts, music, scholarly texts, mainstreams news outlets, and social media threads. By the end of the course, students will have clearer understanding of how their lived experiences relate to broader culture and society in all of its diversity.

  • 01:988:101:15,16 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    • Instructor: Tiffany Marra

    In this introductory course, you will learn about the ways gender, race, and sexuality come to have meaning in the world as social categories. We will interrogate these terms through a range of conceptual frameworks that emerge from the field of Women’s and Gender Studies. Lessons will give particular attention to the meaning, purpose, and applications of feminist thought. This section will have a narrower focus on sexuality, how race and gender relate to it, and the way sexuality is informed by our experiences and social environment.

    This course is highly collaborative – both at the levels of class discussion and practical application. The goal is to encourage and challenge students to be prepared to hold conversations regarding sensitive issues related to gender, race, and sexuality.

  • 01:988:101:90 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    • Instructor: FREEHA RIAZ

    This online, interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the concepts, discussions, debates and intersections related to gender, race and sexualities. We will consider a variety of readings, media resources, and film to consider and understand how gender, race and sexuality have come to have meaning in the world as social categories. We will build and expand our knowledge about these social categories by examining various strands of feminist theories—Black, liberal, radical, socialist, queer, post-structural, post-colonial, Islamic feminism and Womanism(s). We will interrogate these strands of conceptual frameworks to unravel how they intersect with Women’s and Gender Studies to create hierarchies.

  • 01:988:101:91 Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    • Instructor: Jillian Salazar

    Introductory survey examining key concepts and themes in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, including: body image and media; class; feminisms; gender/sex; globalization and neoliberalism; intersectionality; patriarchy and privilege; race; reproductive justice; sexuality and queer theory; social justice and human rights; and violence, conflict, and terrorism.

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


    Study of gender, in the construction of knowledge in different fields, and the factors that encourage women to achieve agency and leadership.

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

    This course examines issues related to women's paid and unpaid work as world markets integrate. Analyzes actions of governments, unions, women's movements, employers, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to promote equality and women's well-being.

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

    This course brings together analytic frameworks in feminist theory and gender studies with emerging bodies of theory about digital media, social media, and digital humanities.

    **FALL 2020 COURSE DESCRIPTION**

  • 01:988:201 Feminist Practices (3)

    Examines development of women's and gender studies as interdisciplinary field of study; explores relationship of feminist scholarship to activism; introduces students to basic research techniques.Required for major.

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

    Examines how gender is represented in cultural texts and artifacts; introduces students to theories of representation.

  • 01:988:206 The Black Woman (3)

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

    This course explores the intersection of religion and reproduction in the United States. During the semester we will focus primarily on pronatalism and abortion as two key aspects of reproduction. For each of these issues we will focus on how Jews and Christians, as well as Judaism and Christianity, in the US understand these issues, and wrestle with them internally. A few themes will continually arise: how religious ideas about kinship, women’s sexuality, and concern for demographic continuance are applied through forms of reproduction and reproductive interruption. Gender and religion will form the two primary modes of analysis for the study of reproduction. At the end of the semester we will also consider how class and race shape reproductive ideas and practices in the US.

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

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

    Examination of dynamics of, and connections among, classism, racism, and sexism in contemporary American society; ways they influence and are influenced by the structure of society at large; their effect on individuals; and strategies for personal and social change.

  • 01:988:240 Gender and Science (3)

    Role of gender, race, and class in production and use of scientific and medical knowledge. Impact of gender bias on research in the life, physical, and social sciences.

    **FALL 2020 COURSE DESCRIPTION**

  • 01:988:250 Feminist Perspectives (3)

    Feminist examination of significant contemporary issues. The issue chosen will vary each year. Students should check the department's website for information. Issues to be considered include war, trafficking, poverty, environment, migration, globalization, and religion.

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

    Feminist theory, model, and practice of mentoring. Topics include definitions and history of mentoring; personal narratives and mentoring practices; and mentoring women's leadership for social change.

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

    Women artists, their achievements, and impact. Social and cultural reasons for their neglect in the visual arts and how that neglect is being remedied today. Different ways in which men and women are depicted in art and how those differences relate to culture and society.Please note that this is an online course.

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