Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

FGSS 1100

This course offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBT critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Science and Society—Can Science be Feminist

  • 20217 FGSS 1100   SEM 101

    • MW Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Domingues, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Sensation-al Feminisms

  • 20218 FGSS 1100   SEM 102

    • TR White Hall B02
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Turner, L

  • 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

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3594 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

    • TR Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18080 FGSS 2010   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18097 FGSS 2010   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10133 FGSS 2010   LEC 002

    • MW Ives Hall 108
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18206 FGSS 2010   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2160

In this introductory course, participants will study the economic and technological history of the television industry, with a particular emphasis on its manifestations in the United States and the United ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18309 FGSS 2160   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18311 FGSS 2160   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  • 18312 FGSS 2160   LEC 002

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2281

This course offers a broad understanding of the crucial roles East Asian women played in culture, the economy, and society from antiquity to the early twentieth century. By rethinking the pervasive stereotype ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2281CAPS 2281HIST 2981

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 18729 FGSS 2281   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    No knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean necessary.

FGSS 2421

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 2421LGBT 2421

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10656 FGSS 2421   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall 204
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2665

MacArthur "Genius" grant winner Octavia Butler is famously known as a science fiction writer, but her novels, short stories and essays both adhere to and disrupt expectations in the genre. Throughout her ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2667ASRC 2665ENGL 2665

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18921 FGSS 2665   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3000

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5489 FGSS 3000   LEC 001

    • MW White Hall 106
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Prerequisite: FGSS 2010: Intro to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies OR instructor permission

FGSS 3160

The course will explore gender inequality from a social structural framework, connecting it with inequality in other intersecting areas of social life such as race, class, and sexuality. It fits with the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 3160

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18668 FGSS 3160   SEM 101

    • T Statler Hall 441
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Schnabel, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3230

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GDEV 3230GDEV 5230

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 10702 FGSS 3230   LEC 001

    • TR Warren Hall 173
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Sidle, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Please contact Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Lynn Morris (lm747), if you are interested in being added to the waitlist.

FGSS 3334

The body has been crucially important to Black liberation politics. Not only has it been a site of contestation and control, but it has also served as a productive site of protest, alliance, and collective ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3334ASRC 3334SHUM 3334

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 20582 FGSS 3334   LEC 001

    • MW Uris Hall 262
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3400

Topic Fall 2023: Learning from Movements: Refuge, Asylum, & Activism. Learning from Movements highlights refugee-led organizing and its intersections with un/documented and Indigenous beyond borders ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 3420ANTHR 3402GOVT 3401

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Learning from Movements:Refuge, Asylum & Activism

  • 20231 FGSS 3400   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • Topic: Learning from Movements:Refuge, Asylum & Activism

  • 20233 FGSS 3400   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 3520

This course will offer an overview of theoretical and historical responses to bodily and cognitive difference. What was the status of people with (dis)abilities in the past, when they were called monsters, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one practicum. Combined with: FREN 3520SHUM 3520

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17459 FGSS 3520   SEM 101

    • MWF Uris Hall 312
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Long, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Additional 1 hour meeting with instructor each week and plus time spent at the Alternatives school. Conducted in English.

  • 19924 FGSS 3520   PRA 401

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3588

This course is dedicated to studying important works of literature that address what it means, in the Renaissance, to strive for excellence as a man or as a woman, especially in the public sphere and in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 3580

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Women Writers

  • 18448 FGSS 3588   SEM 101

    • TR White Hall 110
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Migiel, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3636

This course engages classical antiquity and its reception through the prism of queer studies. Cruising Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Plato, Ovid and more, we will explore how queer theoretical frameworks help ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3635LGBT 3635SHUM 3635

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19253 FGSS 3636   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3686

The course is a survey of Feminist Islamic thinkers from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt, and their diaspora, featuring both French and Arabic texts in English translation. The purpose of the course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3685FREN 3685NES 3686

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19982 FGSS 3686   SEM 101

    • MW White Hall B14
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3990

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3595 FGSS 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5846 FGSS 3990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5847 FGSS 3990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5848 FGSS 3990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6550 FGSS 3990   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 21359 FGSS 3990   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Devault, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4153

Topic: Cyberfeminism in the Visual Arts; What was/is cyberfeminism? In this seminar, we will investigate the emergence of cyberfeminism in theory and art in the context of the accelerated technological ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Cyberfeminism in the Visual Arts

  • 17706 FGSS 4153   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4265

This seminar explores the intertwined histories of sex, sexuality, and gender at the intersection of major themes in American transnational and global history: race, labour, empire, and the state. What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18363 FGSS 4265   SEM 101

    • R Sibley Hall 211
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18364 FGSS 4265   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4333

The Velvet Underground remains one of the most acclaimed and influential rock groups to emerge within the culturally turbulent era of the late 1960s. From their association with Andy Warhol beginning in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17904 FGSS 4333   SEM 101

    • M Lincoln Hall 316
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Permission of instructor required.

FGSS 4338

In this course, we will explore the history of queer lives and activism in Northern Africa. Today in most North African counties same-sex sexual activities are illegal and many LGBTQ+ people choose to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4338

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 21231 FGSS 4338   SEM 101

    • T McGraw Hall B65
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Tolan-Szkilnik, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 21232 FGSS 4338   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Tolan-Szkilnik, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4451

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  5573 FGSS 4451   LEC 001

    • MW Malott Hall 207
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4460

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECON 3440ILRLE 4450

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  6228 FGSS 4460   LEC 001

    • MW Ives Hall 219
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Blau, F

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4685

This course studies how radical movements mobilize both aesthetic and affect in their political organizing. Broadly, the study of aesthetics concerns how we experience beauty in the world. Affect studies ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18877 FGSS 4685   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4686

We all have friends and value the company of others, but what does it mean to be in a friendship? Against the backdrop of our contemporary moment characterized by borders, oppression, and injustice, this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18910 FGSS 4686   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4687

This richly interdisciplinary course examines trans issues in the transnational context of North and South America. Focusing on the tensions and cross-pollinations of (especially US and Canadian) trans ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18916 FGSS 4687   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4948

The comparative seminar explores pleasure and its relationship with neoliberalism. We will adopt an interdisciplinary approach and a historical trajectory, starting with the Ancient world through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17775 FGSS 4948   SEM 101

    • R Uris Hall 438
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4990

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  3720 FGSS 4990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5346 FGSS 4990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5450 FGSS 4990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5849 FGSS 4990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6153

Topic: Cyberfeminism in the Visual Arts; What was/is cyberfeminism? In this seminar, we will investigate the emergence of cyberfeminism in theory and art in the context of the accelerated technological ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17709 FGSS 6153   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6265

This seminar explores the intertwined histories of sex, sexuality, and gender at the intersection of major themes in American transnational and global history: race, labour, empire, and the state. What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18395 FGSS 6265   SEM 101

    • R Sibley Hall 211
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18396 FGSS 6265   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6331

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

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Syllabi: none
  •  5578 FGSS 6331   LEC 001

    • MW Malott Hall 207
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6333

The Velvet Underground remains one of the most acclaimed and influential rock groups to emerge within the culturally turbulent era of the late 1960s. From their association with Andy Warhol beginning in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17908 FGSS 6333   SEM 101

    • M Lincoln Hall 316
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Permission of instructor required.

FGSS 6685

This course studies how radical movements mobilize both aesthetic and affect in their political organizing. Broadly, the study of aesthetics concerns how we experience beauty in the world. Affect studies ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18879 FGSS 6685   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6686

We all have friends and value the company of others, but what does it mean to be in a friendship? Against the backdrop of our contemporary moment characterized by borders, oppression, and injustice, this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18913 FGSS 6686   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6687

This richly interdisciplinary course examines trans issues in the transnational context of North and South America. Focusing on the tensions and cross-pollinations of (especially US and Canadian) trans ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18905 FGSS 6687   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6741

This seminar explores the nexus of Frankfurt School Critical Theory and American Black and queer thought. While the legacy of the Frankfurt school (Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse) is often traced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6740COML 6740GERST 6740

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18719 FGSS 6741   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to graduate students.

FGSS 6948

The comparative seminar explores pleasure and its relationship with neoliberalism. We will adopt an interdisciplinary approach and a historical trajectory, starting with the Ancient world through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17784 FGSS 6948   SEM 101

    • R Uris Hall 438
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6990

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4164 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies