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

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FGSS 1940
A Global History of Love

By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 1193, HIST 1930, LGBT 1940, SHUM 1930

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17150 FGSS 1940   LEC 001

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    • MW Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Ghosh, D

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  • 17151 FGSS 1940   DIS 201

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  • 17152 FGSS 1940   DIS 202

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    • F Uris Hall 494
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

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  • 17153 FGSS 1940   DIS 203

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    • F White Hall B06
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

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  • 17154 FGSS 1940   DIS 204

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    • F White Hall 114
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

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  • 17155 FGSS 1940   DIS 205

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  • 17156 FGSS 1940   DIS 206

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    • F White Hall B02
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Staff

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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 Stdnt Opt

  •  3392 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

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    • TR Uris Hall 202
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2260
Japanese Pop Culture

Japanese pop culture—anime, manga, video games, music and more—has been a major phenomenon with massive worldwide popularity for the last three decades. In this course, we will explore a wide range of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2260, PMA 2460, SHUM 2460

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18421 FGSS 2260   LEC 001

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  • 18422 FGSS 2260   DIS 201

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  • 18423 FGSS 2260   DIS 202

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    • F Malott Hall 207
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Campana, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

This course offers an introduction to central issues, debates, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Starting from the assumption that neither ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LGBT 2290

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5763 FGSS 2290   LEC 001

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    • MW Uris Hall 202
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Warner, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  • 17007 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 medical ... 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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5511 FGSS 2468   LEC 001

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    • TR Malott Hall 251
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Nading, A

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  •  5512 FGSS 2468   DIS 201

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  •  5513 FGSS 2468   DIS 202

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  •  5514 FGSS 2468   DIS 204

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    • F Sibley Hall 208
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Staff

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  •  5515 FGSS 2468   DIS 205

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    • F McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Staff

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  •  5516 FGSS 2468   DIS 206

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    • F McGraw Hall B65
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Staff

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  •  5517 FGSS 2468   DIS 207

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  •  5518 FGSS 2468   DIS 208

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    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Staff

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  •  5519 FGSS 2468   DIS 209

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    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

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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.  Choose one lecture. Discussion optional. Combined with: AMST 2512, ASRC 2512, HIST 2512, SHUM 2512

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6957 FGSS 2512   LEC 001

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    • TR Uris Hall 202
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Nunley, T

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  •  6958 FGSS 2512   DIS 201

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  •  6959 FGSS 2512   DIS 202

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FGSS 2560
Black Queer Writing and Media

This course will introduce students to Black Queer literatures and media. Since these materials decenter whiteness and patriarchal heterosexism, they often seem illegible to those approaching them from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17020 FGSS 2560   LEC 001

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FGSS 2575
Tyranny and Dignity: Chinese Women from the Cultural Revolution to the White Paper Revolution

This course focuses on the human condition of Chinese women after 1949. In the name of the Women's liberation movement since the early 1900s, do Chinese women eventually hold up the half sky? From the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 2575, HIST 2575

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18731 FGSS 2575   LEC 001

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FGSS 2770
Islam and Gender

This course explores the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the lives of Muslims past and present. Through a close examination of ethnographies, intellectual histories, and religious treatises, we ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17069 FGSS 2770   LEC 001

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FGSS 2806
Roman Law

This course presents a cultural and historical perspective on ideas of agency, responsibility, and punishment through foundational texts of western law. We will primarily focus on three main areas of law: ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2806, GOVT 2806, LAW 6803

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16745 FGSS 2806   SEM 101

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    • MWF Morrill Hall 106
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Giannella, N

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FGSS 2932
Engendering China

In contemporary China, as in many other places of the world, the ideology and social reality of gender relations is highly paradoxical. Women are flattered for their power as consumers and commitment to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2291, CAPS 2932, HIST 2932

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7244 FGSS 2932   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. It will study their rise to political power through an examination of the autobiographies ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17330 FGSS 3206   SEM 101

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    • TR Africana Ctr B01
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Boyce Davies, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  5472 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. If a student enrolls in a non-CALS section of a cross-listed course, it will not automatically be counted as CALS credits in their degree progress. However, we can still give them CALS credit for the class, they just need to ask us to code it.

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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

  •  5991 FGSS 3320   LEC 001

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FGSS 3565
Black Ecoliterature

Mainstream media would have us believe that driving a new Toyota Prius, recycling, and shopping "clean" at Whole Foods would make us all food environmentalists, right? Additionally, climate change and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3565, ASRC 3565, ENGL 3565

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17024 FGSS 3565   LEC 001

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FGSS 3693
Race and Slavery, Old and Modern

What does it mean to live in the aftermath of slavery? How has the human history of slavery contributed to the production of "natural" values that we take for granted—such as community, property, citizenship, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3006, ILRLR 3691, NES 3691

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17206 FGSS 3693   SEM 101

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FGSS 3702
Desire and Cinema

"The pleasure of the text," Roland Barthes writes, "is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas I do." What is this erotics of the text, and what has it been ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17012 FGSS 3702   SEM 101

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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

  •  3393 FGSS 3991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4983 FGSS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4984 FGSS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4985 FGSS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5413 FGSS 3991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5522 FGSS 3991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7705 FGSS 3991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Long, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

This senior seminar constitutes the culmination of the FGSS major-it provides a unique opportunity to come together with all the other FGSS seniors to both put to use what has been learned and explore ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5453 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This class is open to FGSS majors, minors, and with permission of the instructor.

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FGSS 4023
Black and Indigenous Histories

What does it mean to be Black and Indigenous? For much of United States history, at least, to be Black and Indigenous was a legal if not social impossibility. Even as societies around the world have embraced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4023, ASRC 4023

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18863 FGSS 4023   SEM 101

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    • MW Uris Library 2B02
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4035
Intersectional 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

  •  5930 FGSS 4035   LEC 001

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    • TR Ives Hall 108
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Cook, L

      Heinemann, A

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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

  • 17842 FGSS 4292   LEC 001

    • TR Malott Hall 224
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Sender, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 4491
Feminism and Philosophy

Feminist approaches to questions in metaphysics, epistemology, language, and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4490, PHIL 6490

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6377 FGSS 4491   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    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

  •  6688 FGSS 4504   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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  •  6067 FGSS 4701   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

  • 17747 FGSS 4845   LEC 001

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    • MW Ives Hall 215
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Bronfenbrenner, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  3394 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4982 FGSS 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6530 FGSS 4991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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

  •  6693 FGSS 6504   SEM 101

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FGSS 6561
Politics and Joy in Black Women's Writing

This course will look at how Black women writers negotiated enslavement, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow era segregation while also managing to find avenues of joy, escapism, and a certain kind of freedom ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6560

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18411 FGSS 6561   SEM 101

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FGSS 6610
Erotics of Visuality

"You didn't see anything," a woman in a movie says to her dubious lover. "No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don't understand."  What is desire in a movie, and how do we know it when we see ... view course details

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  • 17054 FGSS 6610   SEM 101

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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

  • 17750 FGSS 6845   LEC 001

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    • MW Ives Hall 215
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Bronfenbrenner, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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 Graded

  •  6000 FGSS 6880   SEM 101

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    • R Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  3380 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 23 - May 9, 2023

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)