Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023. Courses of Study 2022-2023 is scheduled to publish mid-June.
Last Updated
- Schedule of Classes - August 2, 2023 12:50PM EDT
- Course Catalog - April 3, 2023 12:59PM EDT
Classes
FGSS 1120
Course Description
This course brings together students, faculty, and invited guests to discuss the art of leadership and the opportunities and challenges women in leadership roles have encountered in their careers and how ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COMM 1120, GDEV 1120, UNILWYL 1120
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
FGSS 1122
Course Description
What does a ghost story have in common with a political manifesto? In this seminar, students will investigate the intersections between gothic texts and feminist politics. In course readings we will pay ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Richmond, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FGSS 1123
Course Description
If you have a prosthetic arm, are you a human or a machine? When are you human or/and a machine? The enterprise of sciences and engineering depend on the pursuit of the truth and objectivity, but that ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Vaghela, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FGSS 2010
Course Description
Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program focused on understanding the impact of gender and sexuality on the world around us and on the power hierarchies that structure ... view course details
FGSS 2421
Course Description
An introduction to the anthropology of sex, sexuality and gender, this course uses case studies from around the world to explore how the worlds of the sexes become gendered. In ethnographic, ethnohistorical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2421, LGBT 2421
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 3000
Course Description
This course will work across and between the disciplines to consider what it might mean to think 'as a feminist' about many things including, but not limited to 'gender', 'women' and 'sexuality'. We will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 3230
Course Description
The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 5 states that countries should "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls" by 2030. In this course, we unpack the different and often competing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GDEV 3230
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Sidle, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Please contact Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Lynn Morris (lm747), if you are interested in being added to the waitlist.
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FGSS 3250
Course Description
How have movements for sexual liberation used performance as a means of self-expression and strategies for social justice? How have theatrical stages served as sites of queer sociality and crucibles of ... view course details
FGSS 3701
Course Description
This course focuses on the study of race, class, gender, sexuality and popular culture through the examination of scholarly works and creative writings by one of the most compelling and legendary voices ... view course details
FGSS 3708
Course Description
Popular consciousness of The Thousand and One Nights tends to focus on the female protagonist's inexhaustible oratory talents. Less frequently marveled at is the way in which the text's frame story and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3708, NES 3707, NES 6706, SHUM 3707, VISST 3707
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
What does the representation of sexual encounter in the Arabian Nights ('Alf layla-wa layla) have to do with a politics of race and gender? This course explores the millenia-long history of mediations and translations of this ancient Perso-Arabic text across literature, film, and popular culture, in the Middle East and in Europe. We will pay attention to the transmission of phobic tropes about female sexuality and miscegenation, or "interracial" sex as they manifest in various versions of 1001 Nights across time and space.
FGSS 3740
Course Description
In A Theory of Parody, Linda Hutcheon defines parody broadly as "repetition with critical difference, which marks difference rather than similarity." Taking a cue from Hutcheon, we will consider parody ... view course details
FGSS 3990
Course Description
Individual study program intended for juniors and seniors working on special topics with selected reading or research projects not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 4153
Course Description
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 6153, VISST 4153
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
FGSS 4371
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to the theoretical and empirical literature on the sociology of sex and gender. The readings cover theory and methods, feminism, masculinity, intersectionality, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 4370
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 4432
Course Description
As a symbolic system and field of practice, kinship produces configurations of sexuality, gender, race and power embodied by persons. This recognition is indebted to critical race, feminist, postcolonial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4432, ANTHR 7432, FGSS 7432, LGBT 4432, LGBT 7432
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 4451
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4451, ASIAN 6631, COML 4451, COML 6651, FGSS 6331, LGBT 4451, LGBT 6331, PMA 4451, RELST 4451, RELST 6631
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 4460
Course Description
Examines the changing economic roles of women and men in the labor market and in the family. Topics include a historical overview of changing gender roles, the determinants of the gender division of labor ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ECON 3440, ILRLE 4450
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
FGSS 4673
Course Description
Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4673, AAS 6673, ARTH 4673, ARTH 6673, ASIAN 4467, ASIAN 6667, FGSS 6673, SHUM 4673, SHUM 6673, VISST 4673, VISST 6673
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 4675
Course Description
How have epidemics and pandemics changed social worlds and created new futures? How is colonization political and microbial? What will it take to repair human-animal-environmental relations when they can ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4472, ANTHR 7472, FGSS 6675, SHUM 4675, SHUM 6675, STS 4675, STS 6675
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
FGSS 4676
Course Description
This hybrid course in health humanities and creative nonfiction explores the theme of repair by approaching illness narratives as encounters for deep listening. As both art and advocacy, creative essays ... view course details
FGSS 4950
Course Description
It is a truism that early modern society was a 'patriarchal' one in which men had authority -- but how did that authority operate and what were its limits? How did the exercise of power between men and ... view course details
FGSS 4990
Course Description
To graduate with honors, FGSS majors must complete a senior thesis under the supervision of an FGSS faculty member and defend that thesis orally before an honors committee. To be eligible for honors, students ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
FGSS 6153
Course Description
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 4153, VISST 4153
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
FGSS 6207
Course Description
This course examines black feminist theories as they are articulated in the cross-cultural experiences of women across the African Diaspora. We will explore a variety of theories, texts and creative encounters ... view course details
FGSS 6301
Course Description
This course investigates how sexuality, broadly conceived, is produced, represented, and enacted through a variety of media. We will consider how groups of people collectively produce their erotic ... view course details
FGSS 6331
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4451, ASIAN 6631, COML 4451, COML 6651, FGSS 4451, LGBT 4451, LGBT 6331, PMA 4451, RELST 4451, RELST 6631
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 6673
Course Description
Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4673, AAS 6673, ARTH 4673, ARTH 6673, ASIAN 4467, ASIAN 6667, FGSS 4673, SHUM 4673, SHUM 6673, VISST 4673, VISST 6673
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 6675
Course Description
How have epidemics and pandemics changed social worlds and created new futures? How is colonization political and microbial? What will it take to repair human-animal-environmental relations when they can ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4472, ANTHR 7472, FGSS 4675, SHUM 4675, SHUM 6675, STS 4675, STS 6675
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
FGSS 6677
Course Description
This hybrid course in health humanities and creative nonfiction explores the theme of repair by approaching illness narratives as encounters for deep listening. As both art and advocacy, creative essays ... view course details
FGSS 6755
Course Description
How have movements for sexual liberation used performance as a means of self-expression and strategies for social justice? How have theatrical stages served as sites of queer sociality and crucibles of ... view course details
FGSS 6990
Course Description
Independent reading course for graduate students on topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students develop a course of readings in consultation with a faculty member in the field of Feminist, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 7432
Course Description
As a symbolic system and field of practice, kinship produces configurations of sexuality, gender, race and power embodied by persons. This recognition is indebted to critical race, feminist, postcolonial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4432, ANTHR 7432, FGSS 4432, LGBT 4432, LGBT 7432
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)