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

  •  5317 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

  • To ensure that underclassmen are able to enroll, enrollment caps are placed on this course during pre-enroll. This is why you may be unable to enroll even if there seems to be space in the class. If this happens, please e-mail Professor Chang (jhc324) and she will add you to the waitlist.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 2290
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

This course offers an introduction to the questions, topics, approaches, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2290, LGBT 2290

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9097 FGSS 2290   LEC 001

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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

  • 16222 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

  •  8439 FGSS 2468   LEC 001

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  •  8440 FGSS 2468   DIS 201

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  •  8441 FGSS 2468   DIS 202

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  •  8442 FGSS 2468   DIS 204

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  •  8443 FGSS 2468   DIS 205

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  •  8444 FGSS 2468   DIS 206

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  •  8445 FGSS 2468   DIS 207

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  •  8446 FGSS 2468   DIS 208

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  •  8447 FGSS 2468   DIS 209

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FGSS 2512
Black Women in the 20th Century

This course focuses on African American women in the 20th century. The experiences of black women will be examined from a social, practical, communal, and gendered perspective. Topics include the Club ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2512, ASRC 2512, HIST 2512

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9161 FGSS 2512   LEC 001

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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

  • 16267 FGSS 2760   LEC 001

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FGSS 2806
Roman Law: Slavery, Crime, and Gender

This course investigates the rich body of Roman laws on slaves, crime, and women and children. Students will explore the evolution of power over marginalized groups and penalties for crimes at the beginnings ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2806

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16601 FGSS 2806   SEM 101

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FGSS 2841
Viruses- Humans-Viral Politics (Social History and Cultural Politics of HIV & AIDS)

This course explores what has been termed "the modern plague."  It investigates the social history, cultural politics, biological processes, and global impacts of the retrovirus, HIV, and the disease syndrome, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  9380 FGSS 2841   LEC 001

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 3210
Gender and the Brain

Why are boys more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism, and why are women more likely than men to be diagnosed with depression? Are there different "gay" and "straight" brains? And how does brain ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8355 FGSS 3210   LEC 001

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  • Prerequisite: BIONB 2220, BIOMG 3320, FGSS 2010, LGBT 2290 or permission of instructor. For NBB concentration: this course may be used toward the additional 7 credit requirement, but does not qualify as an advanced course.

FGSS 3320
Gender and Psychopathology

This course examines the ways in which sex and gender impact the expression of severe psychopathology. We will study biological, psychological, and cultural factors associated with sex and gender as they ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 3320

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17570 FGSS 3320   LEC 001

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FGSS 3376
Digital Asia

New media remain central to ongoing struggles over the constitution of the public sphere in Asia. In high measure, censorship affects the Internet and visual media (including digital, independent cinema), ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3376, ASIAN 6676, FGSS 6676

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8703 FGSS 3376   LEC 001

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

Topic Spring 2019: Child Refugees and Politics: Children comprised 52 percent of the worldwide refugee population of 68.5 million in 2017. Traveling with families as well as unaccompanied, they appear ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3420, GOVT 3401, LSP 3402

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17575 FGSS 3400   LEC 001

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FGSS 3520
(Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History

This course will offer an historical overview of responses to bodily and cognitive difference.  What was the status of the monster, the freak, the abnormal, the (dis)abled, and how are all of these concepts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3520

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8582 FGSS 3520   SEM 101

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FGSS 3651
Freud and the Invention of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17618 FGSS 3651   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

  •  5319 FGSS 3991   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Juffer, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7431 FGSS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7432 FGSS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Ramberg, L

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7433 FGSS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA

    • McCullough, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8058 FGSS 3991   IND 605

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8453 FGSS 3991   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Ghosh, D

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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

This course is a capstone seminar for FGSS majors and minors. It serves as an opportunity to synthesize various strands of feminist analysis and feminist theory gained during your undergraduate education ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8244 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

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  • This class is open to FGSS majors, minors, and with permission of the instructor.

FGSS 4035
Intersectionality in Disability Studies

A recognition of the importance of intersectionality has become increasingly key to not only understand the complexity of social identity and lived experience, but to combat discrimination and oppression. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 4035

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14637 FGSS 4035   LEC 001

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    • Cook, L

      Heinemann, A

FGSS 4145
Race and Gender in the Middle Ages

If "the past is a foreign country," is it a country full of oppressed women? We can, with some smugness, agree that it may have been dreadful to be a woman or sexual minority in the Middle Ages, but it's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17544 FGSS 4145   SEM 101

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FGSS 4292
Sexual Identities and the Media

What spaces are available for imagining non-normative sexualities and non-binary genders in mainstream and alternative media? This class moves beyond a simple consideration of how lesbians, gays, bisexuals, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 4292

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18233 FGSS 4292   LEC 001

  • Prerequisite: Must have junior or senior standing.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

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

  •  8690 FGSS 4504   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

  • 16842 FGSS 4601   SEM 101

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FGSS 4845
Labor, Race, and Gender

The majority of existing union members are women and workers of color, and, since the mid-1980s, the majority of newly organized workers have been women of color, particularly black women and recent immigrants ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 6845, ILRLR 4845, ILRLR 6845

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17902 FGSS 4845   LEC 001

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FGSS 4948
Pleasure and Neoliberalism

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4948, ROMS 4948

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17944 FGSS 4948   SEM 101

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FGSS 4950
Gender, Power, and Authority in England, 1600 to 1800

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4950, HIST 6905

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16979 FGSS 4950   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

  •  5320 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Juffer, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7430 FGSS 4991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Ghosh, D

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 6207
Black Feminist Theories: Sexuality, Creativity, and Power

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6207, COML 6465, ENGL 6207

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16942 FGSS 6207   SEM 101

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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

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Syllabi: none

  •  8145 FGSS 6504   SEM 101

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FGSS 6554
Modernist Fiction and the Erotics of Style

"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me," the critic Roland Barthes once wrote. How do we take pleasure in a text, even when it appears to betray us? How do we speak of the erotics ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6554, LGBT 6445

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16301 FGSS 6554   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

  • 16856 FGSS 6601   SEM 101

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FGSS 6676
Digital Asia

New media remain central to ongoing struggles over the constitution of the public sphere in Asia. In high measure, censorship affects the Internet and visual media (including digital, independent cinema), ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3376, ASIAN 6676, FGSS 3376

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8705 FGSS 6676   LEC 001

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FGSS 6845
Labor, Race, and Gender

The majority of existing union members are women and workers of color, and, since the mid-1980s, the majority of newly organized workers have been women of color, particularly black women and recent immigrants ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4845, ILRLR 4845, ILRLR 6845

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17903 FGSS 6845   LEC 001

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FGSS 6880
Proseminar 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 graduate students with a range of disciplinary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17998 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

  •  5301 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 7850
International Gender Rights Seminar

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 7850

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18018 FGSS 7850   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)