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

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FGSS 2010
Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5893 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

  • Online enrollment for this class is now closed. Please contact Professor Snorton (crs352) if you would like to enroll/ be added to the waitlist.

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FGSS 2230
Masculinities

This course begins with the hypothesis that there is not one version of masculinity but rather multiple masculinities, as influenced by  race, ethnicity, class, nationality, sexuality, disability and produced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2220, LGBT 2230

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17610 FGSS 2230   SEM 101

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FGSS 2267
Women and Society in China

This course offers a broad understanding of the active and dynamic cultural, economic, and social, and political roles played by Chinese women. By challenging the dominant stereotype of the passive and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2267, CAPS 2267

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8736 FGSS 2267   LEC 001

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  • No prior knowledge of China necessary.

FGSS 2350
Literature and Medicine

How does literary language depict the experience of physical suffering? Can a poem or a novel palliate pain, illness, even the possibility of death? From darkly comic narratives of black plague to the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 2350, ENGL 2350, LGBT 2350

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15905 FGSS 2350   LEC 001

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FGSS 2468
Medicine, Culture, and Society

Medicine has become the language and practice through which we address a broad range of both individual and societal complaints. Interest in this "medicalization of life" may be one of the reasons that ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468, BSOC 2468, STS 2468

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18538 FGSS 2468   LEC 001

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  • 18539 FGSS 2468   DIS 201

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  • 18540 FGSS 2468   DIS 202

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  • 18541 FGSS 2468   DIS 204

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  • 18542 FGSS 2468   DIS 205

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  • 18543 FGSS 2468   DIS 206

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  • 18544 FGSS 2468   DIS 207

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  • 18545 FGSS 2468   DIS 208

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  • 18546 FGSS 2468   DIS 209

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FGSS 2760
Desire

"Language is a skin," the critic Roland Barthes once wrote: "I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 15914 FGSS 2760   LEC 001

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FGSS 3206
Black Women and Political Leadership

This course studies the life experiences and political struggles of black women who have attained political leadership across the African Diaspora. It will study their rise to political power through an ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3206, ENGL 3606

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16443 FGSS 3206   SEM 101

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FGSS 3210
Gender and the Brain

In this course, we will delve into the neuroscience of gender difference. Reading the original scientific papers and related critical texts, we will ask whether we can find measureable physical differences ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIONB 3215, LGBT 3210

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17907 FGSS 3210   LEC 001

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  • Prerequisite: BIONB 2220, BIOMG 3320, FGSS 2010, LGBT 2290 or permission of instructor.

FGSS 3400
Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice

"We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something," writes Judith Butler in Precarious Life. Can our mutual vulnerability serve as the basis for political intervention and social justice? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3420, GOVT 3401, LSP 3401

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17153 FGSS 3400   LEC 001

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  • 18271 FGSS 3400   DIS 201

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  • 18272 FGSS 3400   DIS 202

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FGSS 3550
Decadence

"My existence is a scandal," Oscar Wilde once wrote, summing up in an epigram the effect of his carefully cultivated style of perversity and paradox. Through their celebration of "art for art's sake" and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3550, ENGL 3550, LGBT 3550

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15925 FGSS 3550   LEC 001

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FGSS 3581
Twentieth Century Women Writers of Color in the Americas

In this course, we'll be reading literature—primarily novels—produced by hemispheric American women writers of the mid- to late twentieth-century.  We will look at how these writings articulate concerns ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3580, AMST 3580, ENGL 3580

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15930 FGSS 3581   SEM 101

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FGSS 3591
Kids Rule! Children's Popular Culture

How is the figure of the child constructed in popular culture? When and to what degree do children participate in the construction of these representations? This course surveys a variety of contemporary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3591

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15932 FGSS 3591   LEC 001

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FGSS 3725
Femininity as Masquerade

"One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one" wrote Simone de Beauvoir. How does such an odd becoming happen? What can literature teach us about it? Does anyone ever achieve "being a woman" and how ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3725, LGBT 3725

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15945 FGSS 3725   SEM 101

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FGSS 3806
Uncanny Figures and Unsettled Places: Postcolonial and Transnational Drama

Postcolonialism and Transnationalism are significant fields of theory and criticism, and ones not currently the main focus of contemporary drama classes offered through PMA. This course is being created ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3806, PMA 3806

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17563 FGSS 3806   SEM 101

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FGSS 3820
The Gendered Workplace

This course will examine the range of issues surrounding the experience of gender in the modern workplace. Topics may include the historical role of women in the workplace; sex segregation in the workplace; ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 3820, ILRLR 5820

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  •  7813 FGSS 3820   LEC 001

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FGSS 3991
Undergraduate Independent Study

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

  •  5895 FGSS 3991   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Juffer, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8409 FGSS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Hodzic, S

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8410 FGSS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Ramberg, L

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8411 FGSS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA

    • McCullough, K

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10161 FGSS 3991   IND 605

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18635 FGSS 3991   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Bezner Kerr, R

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FGSS 4000
Senior Seminar in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

In this seminar, we will focus on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and human rights. Although issues of gender and sexuality have always been integral to human rights, in the last 40 years, they ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17149 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

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FGSS 4035
Disability and Intersectionality

A recognition of the importance of intersectionality, or the understanding of how identities such as disability, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic class, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: ILRLR 4035

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18164 FGSS 4035   LEC 001

    • M Ives Hall 217
    • Mar 20 - May 10, 2017

    • Cook, L

      Heinemann, A

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FGSS 4127
Sex, Science, and Revolution in Asia, 1500-2000

Visions of bodily corruption have preoccupied ruler and ruled alike in Asia, and prompted campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution.  This seminar, designed ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4415, HIST 4127

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17323 FGSS 4127   SEM 101

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FGSS 4291
Marriage and Divorce in the African Context

Marriage was the widely expected norm within African societies. The institution was an important marker of adulthood, linking individuals and lineages in a network of mutual cooperation and support. Marriage ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17332 FGSS 4291   SEM 101

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FGSS 4339
Bodies at the Border

Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8349 FGSS 4339   SEM 101

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  • Limited to 15 students.

FGSS 4504
The City: Asia

This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16528 FGSS 4504   SEM 101

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FGSS 4521
Gender, Memory, and History in Twentieth Century Fiction

This seminar will investigate the narrative uses of history and memory in US fiction, focusing particularly on the impact of gender on these representations. How do US writers use history in their fiction, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4521, ENGL 4521

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16256 FGSS 4521   SEM 101

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FGSS 4601
Space, Gender, Body in Early Modern Art

The body is a universal. How we construct our understandings of it is not. In this class we will investigate conceptions and treatment of the early-modern body (1400-1700) mainly in Europe with excursions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16196 FGSS 4601   SEM 101

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FGSS 4608
Victorian Masculinities

This course will focus on Victorian genders with a special emphasis on masculinities. Additionally, we will spend time reading and thinking about secondary works which interrogate and historicize our principal ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4908, SHUM 4608

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16992 FGSS 4608   SEM 101

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FGSS 4640
Women in the Modern Middle East

The primary emphasis of this discussion seminar is the historical development of gendered identities and the fluid manner in which different Middle Eastern communities responded to shifting ideas of sexuality, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4642, NES 4642, NES 6643

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16561 FGSS 4640   SEM 101

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FGSS 4652
Bodies and Diseases in the Middle East (1500-2000)

Bodies and Diseases in the Middle East (1500-2000) will explore the history of medicine and science in the Middle East from early modern period to the present. It covers the main topics and questions regarding ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4651, NES 4652, NES 6652

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16644 FGSS 4652   SEM 101

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FGSS 4701
Nightlife

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18461 FGSS 4701   LEC 001

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FGSS 4947
Bio-Politics and Poetics of Nakedness

In this course, you will explore nakedness as a form of protest by various social movements and in compelling fictional texts. As you analyze nakedness from ancient Greece to 21th century Africa, Asia, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4947, SHUM 4605

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17883 FGSS 4947   SEM 101

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FGSS 4991
Senior Honors Thesis II

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 Graded

  •  5896 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Juffer, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8408 FGSS 4991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Long, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 6291
Marriage and Divorce in the African Context

Marriage was the widely expected norm within African societies.  The institution was an important marker of adulthood, linking individuals and lineages in a network of mutual cooperation and support.  ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17326 FGSS 6291   SEM 101

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FGSS 6339
Bodies at the Border

Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •  8352 FGSS 6339   SEM 101

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  • Limited to 15 students.

FGSS 6504
The City: Asia

This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 16532 FGSS 6504   SEM 101

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FGSS 6601
Space, Gender, Body in Early Modern Art

The body is a universal. How we construct our understandings of it is not. In this class we will investigate conceptions and treatment of the early-modern body (1400-1700) mainly in Europe with excursions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16199 FGSS 6601   SEM 101

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FGSS 6880
Colloquium in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

This course offers an introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of the interdisciplinary field of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, providing students with a range of disciplinary approaches ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17158 FGSS 6880   SEM 101

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FGSS 6990
Topics in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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

  •  5874 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)