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WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (L77)  (Dept. Info) Arts & Sciences  (Policies) FL2024 L77 WGSS 100B Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course will provide an introduction to the major and concepts in the interdisciplinary field of women, gender and sexuality studies. We will examine the meanings attached to terms such as "man," "woman," "gay," and "sex." Topics discussed may include the history of feminist movements, masculinity, biological frameworks for understanding gender, intimate violence, sexual identities, and intersectionality. Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in each section. Section 09 is reserved for freshman and sophomore students only. Section 05 has a particular focus on race and ethnicity. ATTENDANCE MANDATORY FIRST DAY IN ORDER TO RESERVE YOUR CLASS ENROLLMENT. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 8:30A-9:50A TBA Cislo Paper/Project/TakeHome 10 5 0 Desc: Section 01 is for Freshmen and Sophomores only. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 02 M-W---- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Esparza Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 11 0 Desc: Section 02 has a particular focus on race and ethnicity. Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in each section. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 03 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Barounis Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 17 0 Desc: Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in each section. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 04 -T-R--- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Barounis Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 9 0 Desc: Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in each section. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 05 M-W---- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Sangrey Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 20 2 Desc: Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in each section. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 06 -T-R--- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Windle Dec 16 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM 19 13 0 Desc: Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in each section. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 07 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Reed Paper/Project/TakeHome 10 3 0 Desc: Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in each section. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 08 M-W---- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Kimberly M. Soriano Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 3 0 Desc: Section 08 is for Freshmen only. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 104 First Year Seminar: Gender, Sexuality and Settler Colonialism 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines settler colonial societies through the lens of gender and sexuality. Central questions of the course include: How is colonialism a fundamentally gendered process? What is settler colonialism and how is it different from/similar to "extractive" or "franchise" colonialism? How does the political, legal and social construction of indigeneity intersect with other social categories such as race, gender, class and sexuality? How have social movements mobilized against land dispossession globally in ways that incorporate diverse understandings of gender? Looking at various global case studies, we will examine how indigenous feminist scholars and organizers think about and respond to resource extraction, economic exploitation, gender violence, and land theft. Drawing on anti-colonial, queer, indigenous feminist, two-spirit, transnational feminist and anti-capitalist traditions, we will compare settler colonial regimes and modes of organizing across economic, cultural, political, and environmental spheres. This course is for first-year, non-transfer students only. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S: FYSA&S IQ: LCD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: BA, ETHEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L61 1041 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Brown Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 0 0 Desc: Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 106 First-Year Seminar: Feminist and Queer Science and Technology Studies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course will introduce students to key concepts and ideas emerging from the fields of feminist and queer science and technology studies. Science and scientific practice are commonly understood to proceed from a neutral, objective perspective aimed at producing universal truths. Similarly, technological innovation is understood to be an unquestioned good for human development. Feminist and queer thinkers have critiqued these views along epistemological, methodological, and socio-political lines. They have consistently pointed to both the gaps in scientific knowledge production and the risks of uncritical technological development for reproducing marginalization and oppression. At the same time, feminist and queer thinks have critically imagined the possibilities of both science and technology as potential forces for addressing social injustice. We will survey a number of these interventions while considering how this work might inform our present contexts. Course is for first-year, non-transfer students only. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S: FYSA&S IQ: HUM, SCEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L61 1061 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Tamsin Kimoto Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 0 0 Desc: Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 206 Sexuality and the State: Introduction to Sexuality Studies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Taking Michel Foucault's idea of biopolitics as a starting point. This course examines the ways in which sexuality has been produced and regulated by the state. Drawing on history, theory, and literature, we will look at contemporary examples of the relationship between the state and sexuality. What assumptions lie behind our ideas of sexuality? How are bodies linked by the prevailing logic of sexuality? How does sexuality inform the way that we see bodies as gendered, raced, or able-bodied. In addition to looking at the relationship between sexuality and capitalism, religion, and nation, this course asks how these ideas are embodied in particular raced and gendered ideologies. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Berg Paper/Project/TakeHome 23 9 0 Desc: Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 2118 First Year Seminar: Angels, Prostitutes and Chicas Modernas: Women in Latin American History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Women have been active players in the construction of Latin American nations. In the last two decades, leading scholars in the field have taken up the challenge of documenting women's participation. This research explosion has produced fruitful results to allow for the development of specialized courses. This course looks at the nation building process through the lens of Latin American women. Students will examine the expectations, responsibilities and limitations women confronted in their varied roles from the Wars of Independence to the social revolutions and dictatorial regimes of the twentieth century. Besides looking at their political and economic lives, students will explore the changing gender roles and relations within marriage and the family, as well as the changing sexual and maternal mores. Attributes: A&S: FYSA&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 2118  L45 2118  L61 2118  L98 2118 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M------ 3:00P-5:50P TBA Montano Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 0 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 299 Independent Study: Internships Var. Units (max = 3.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: THIS COURSE NUMBER IS TO BE USED FOR INTERNSHIPS ONLY Attributes: Instruction Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Options: P Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Wanzo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Chandra No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Brown No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Cislo No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Barounis No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Esparza No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA Berg No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 08 TBA TBA Sangrey No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 09 TBA (None) / Ake No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L77 WGSS 2991 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Var. Units (max = 3.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In this course an advanced undergraduate can assist a faculty member in the teaching of an introductory level Women and Gender Studies course. Students can enroll in one course only after having obtained permission from a faculty member who is willing to supervise. Students will not engage in any grading but may serve in a variety of other capacities - as discussion leaders, in providing logistical support, or in otherwise assisting with the transmission of course material. Attributes: Instruction Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Options: P Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Wanzo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Chandra No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Brown No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Berg No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Esparza No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Cislo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA Barounis No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 08 TBA TBA Sangrey No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 09 TBA TBA Windle No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L77 WGSS 3101 Intellectual History of Sex and Gender: Text &Traditions 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: When did sexuality begin? Is it safe to assume that gender constructions are universal and timeless? In this course, we will engage with a broad range of readings that serve as primary texts in the 'history of sexuality and gender.' Our aims are threefold: to analyze the literary evidence we have for sexuality and gender identity in Western culture, to survey modern scholarly approaches to those same texts and to consider the ways in which these modern theoretical frameworks have become the most recent set of 'primary' texts on sexuality and gender. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L93 310 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Ake Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 19 5 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3121 Topics in American Literature: Girls' Fiction 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Little Goody Two Shoes taught morality and the alphabet to the poor children of her village and eventually rode in a coach and six; Nancy Drew drove a blue roadster (later a convertible and still later a hybrid) while solving crimes and bringing justice to the town of River Heights. Between these two landmark characters lie the two and a half centuries of rich and diverse fiction for girls that will be at the center of this writing-intensive course. After grounding our studies by reading selected works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we will concentrate on twentieth-century productions, beginning with the surprisingly progressive serial fiction produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and others in the early 1900s. (Titles such as The Motor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, and The Outdoor Girls advertise the series´ departure from domestic settings.) Throughout our study of both popular and classic texts, we will investigate the social, political and familial roles for girls that the texts imagine. Major genres will include mysteries, frontier fiction, career fiction, domestic fiction, school stories, and fantasy. Authors will include Newbery, Alcott, Montgomery, Wilder, Lindgren, L'Engle, and "Carolyn Keene." Writing Intensive. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, WIArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: HUColl: ENL Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L14 316W  L66 316W  L98 3121 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Pawl No final 14 14 30 Actions: Books 02 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Pawl No final 15 15 16 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3153 The Women of Greek Tragedy 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines the role of women in Athenian drama. You will read English translations of the works of the three major tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and their near contemporary, the comedian Aristophanes. Direct engagement with ancient texts will encourage you to develop your own interpretations of, and written responses to, the political, social, and ethical manipulation that these mythological women were compelled to endure, and the subtle ways in which they appear to exercise power themselves. Selected scholarly articles and book chapters will help you contextualize these ancient dramas in their culture of origin. Because such issues continue to preoccupy both sexes today, you will see how Greek tragedy addresses perennial historical and cultural concerns through the examination of adaptations of Greek tragedies ranging from Seneca in ancient Rome to Spike Lee's Chi-raq. Your final research paper will encourage you to consider how a specific female character from antiquity is transformed for a 'modern' dramatic audience. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, WIArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L08 3153  L15 3153 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Sears Dec 13 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM 15 15 10 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 316 Feminist Health Studies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In this class, we will identify and study a broad range of health issues and experiences within the context of gender and sexuality. The course will focus both on the health care system and lived, lay experiences of health and wellbeing. Topics will include discussions on mental health, reproductive issues, caregiving, and survivorship, as well as the politics of health and gender, the role of health and care in activism, gender differences in health status, and the impact of race and socioeconomic status on health. If you have taken L77 316 Contemporary Women's Health, you may not register for this course. Waitlists controlled by Department; priority given to WGSS majors. Enrollment capped at 20. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: BACFH: MHEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L85 316 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Reed Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 20 0 Desc: 19 seats available. Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3203 Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: For many, "disability" seems like a concept with a relatively stable definition and a fairly straightforward relationship to questions of health and well-being. But in the past few decades, scholars and activists have begun to challenge the notion that disability is a tragedy to be medically prevented or inspirationally "overcome." These scholars have instead focused their attention on the social aspects of disability: how it came to be constructed as a category of identity, the physical and institutional barriers that have excluded disabled people from public life, and the distortion of disabled lives within the mainstream representation. More recently, writers have turned their attention to the way disability had been defined though norms of race, gender, and sexuality. These intersections will be the focus of this course. From the diagnoses of hysteria, to debates over selective abortion, the recent proliferation of breast cancer memoirs, we will consider how the politics of disability has both complemented and complicated the usual goals of feminism. We will also explore some of the ways that disability studies as a discipline has redefined, and in turn been shaped by, the fields of queer theory, masculinity studies, and critical race theory. We will consider how deviant genders have been the target of medicalization, the relationship between "corrective surgery" and compulsory gendering, the desexualization and hypersexualization of disabled bodies, and the role that medicine has played in justifying colonial conquest and perpetuating racial inequalities. Pre: Any 100 or -200 level Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course. Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L85 3203 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Barounis Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 17 0 Desc: 19 seats available. Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 3416 War, Genocide and Gender in Modern Europe 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course explores the way in which gender and gender relations shaped and were shaped by war and genocide in 20th century Europe. The course approaches the subject from various vantage points, including economic, social and cultural history, and draws on comparisons between different regions. Topics covered will include: new wartime tasks for women; soldier's treatment of civilians under occupation, including sexual violence; how combatants dealt with fear, injury and the loss of comrades; masculilne attributes of soldiers and officers of different nations and in different wartime roles; survival strategies and the relation to expectations with regard to people's (perceived) gender identity; the meanings of patriotism for women and men during war; and gender specific experiences of genocide. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 3416 Frequency: Every 2-3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 8:30A-9:50A TBA Walke Paper/Project/TakeHome 20 5 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3561 Law, Gender, and Justice 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course explores how social constructions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have shaped traditional legal reasoning and American legal concepts, including women's legal rights. We will begin by placing our current legal framework, and its gender, race, sexuality, and other societal assumptions, in an historical and Constitutional context. We will then examine many of the questions raised by feminist theory, feminist jurisprudence, and other critical perspectives. For example, is the legal subject gendered male, and, if so, how can advocates (for women and men) use the law to gain greater equality? What paradoxes have emerged in areas such as employment discrimination, family law, or reproductive rights, as women and others have sought liberal equality? What is the equality/difference debate about and why is it important for feminists? How do intersectionality and various schools of feminist thought affect our concepts of discrimination, equality, and justice? The course is thematic, but we will spend time on key cases that have influenced law and policy, examining how they affect the everyday lives of women. Over the years, this course has attracted WGSS students and pre-law students. This course is taught by law students under the supervision of a member of the School of Law faculty. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: BAEN: SUColl: ML, SSC Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L84 3561  L98 3561 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 --W---- 4:00P-6:50P AB Law Bldg / 404 Tokarz Paper/Project/TakeHome 22 22 5 Desc: Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 361 Women and Social Movements: Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Social Movements 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines the history of grassroots activism and political engagement of women in the United States. Looking at social movements organized by women or around issues of gender and sexuality, class texts interrogate women's participation in, and exclusion from, political life. Key movements organizing the course units include, among others: the Temperance Movement, Abolitionist Movements, the Women's Suffrage Movements, Women's Labor Movements, Women's Global Peace Movements, and Recent Immigration Movements. Readings and discussion will pay particular attention to the movements of women of color, as well as the critiques of women of color of dominant women's movements. Course materials will analyze how methods of organizing reflect traditional forms of "doing politics," and we will also examine strategies and tactics for defining problems and posing solutions particular to women. Prerequisites: any 100- or 200-level Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course or permission from the instructor. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L22 3613 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Sangrey Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 13 0 Desc: Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 362A Islam, Gender, Sexuality 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In this course, we examine discourses of gender and sexuality across historical period and geographical region. We analyze encounters with Western imperialism, investigating how gender informs social, political, religious, and family life in Islamic cultures. Our course materials include histories, ethnographies, graphic novels, and films, and we examine how these sources approach the study of Islam, gender, and sexuality through the lens of various topics: from women in the earliest years of Islam in 7th century Arabia to revolutionary Iran and American Muslim women in the 21st century. Throughout the course, we examine how notions of gender and sexuality have changed over time and played various roles in the political and social life of Muslim nations, societies, and communities. By the end of the course, students will be able to critically assess scholarly and non-scholarly (media) discussions of gender in Islam. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L57 362  L23 3620  L75 362A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Ali Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 12 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 371 Confronting Capitalism: Feminism, Work and Solidarity 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course explores the relationship between gender, the ideological construction of work and workers, and feminist and queer mobilizations against labor exploitation. To examine how notions of the "ideal worker" shape and are shaped by gender, sexuality, and race, we will study various forms of work, including care work and reproductive labor; affective and emotional labor; migrant labor; service work; and sex work. Considering what is "new" and old about late (or neoliberal) capitalism, we will explore how the relationship between citizenship, the state and political economy has shifted over the last four decades. Across each of these registers, we will engage thinkers spanning Marxist feminist, radical feminist, liberal feminist, indigenous feminist, Black feminist, and disability justice traditions. We will ask how these interwoven genealogies grapple with U.S. imperialism and the relationship between race, class, and patriarchy, while mapping out various visions of solidarity economies, internationalism, and anti-work politics. Prerequisite: Intro to WGSS or permission of instructor. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SCBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L40 3711 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Brown Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 19 2 Desc: 19 seats available. Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 383 Topics in Women,Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Spectacular Blackness, Race, Gender, & Visual Culture 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Topic varies. See semester course listings for current offering. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArt: AH, GFAHBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L01 3830  L90 393  L98 3832 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Wanzo Paper/Project/TakeHome 25 13 0 Desc: Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3861 Psychology of Black Women 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is designed to provide a critical analysis of the distinctive experiences of Black women through a psychological lens. We will explore topics relating to Black women's experiences in home, school, and community contexts, such as identity development, socialization experiences, and misogynoir. The class will also consider how Black women draw on individual strengths and cultural assets to support their personal wellbeing. This course will heavily center the narratives of Black women, and focus on mixed methods and qualitative research approaches. We will draw upon interdisciplinary frameworks (e.g., intersectionality, Black feminist thought, and liberation psychology) to help us understand Black women's experiences. PREREQ: L33 Psych 100B Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L33 386  L90 3861 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Leath Paper/Project/TakeHome 40 40 11 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 3942 Community-Engaged Learning: Projects in Domestic Violence 4.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In this course, students explore the links between the theories and practices of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies through a combination of research and direct community engagement. Course readings focus on the ways that poverty and violence -- along with race and gender expectations -- shape the lives of women. A required community service project for this course asks students to examine the relationship between the course readings and the lives of actual women in St. Louis. Over the course of the semester, students design and execute programming for women at a local community agency. This is a writing-intensive course. Prereq: Intro to Women and Gender Studies or Intro to Sexuality Studies and Gender Violence (L77 393) or by permission of instructor. Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, SSC, WIArch: SSCArt: SSCEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Ake Paper/Project/TakeHome 12 10 6 Desc: Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Strongly recommended previous coursework or work experience in gender violence. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 399 Independent Study: Undergraduate Work in Women's Studies Var. Units (max = 3.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Directed readings and research in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or undergraduates. Prereq: permission of instructor. Credit variable:maximum 3 credits. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Berg No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Brown No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Chandra No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Cislo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Barounis No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Esparza No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA Sangrey No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 08 TBA TBA Ake No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L77 WGSS 4006 Advanced Topics in Trans Theories: Femme 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In the current moment, "femme" is used to index a variety of gender and sexual expressions. This course explores the aesthetics and politics of femme through the lens of trans theories. A quick search for "femme" in relation to gender and sexuality will show that one of its origin stories is within lesbian communities often in relation to the butch/femme relationship. The lipstick lesbian is the figure who emerges here as exemplifying a kind of adherence to "traditional" forms of femininity even while being queer. Trans women are often criticized for attachments to similar forms of gender expression. Femininity is often derided as unserious or, worse, hopelessly entangled in the dynamics of heteropatriarchy. To be feminine, then, is often taken as a sign of a retrograde politics or submission to normative ideals of gender. This course will take up this problem as a way of beginning to think through what interventions femme might make into our ordinary ways of understanding gender and sexuality. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SCEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L77 5006 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T----- 3:00P-5:50P TBA Kimoto Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 5 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 4013 Queer of Color Critique 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course focuses on the contributions of the interdisciplinary subfield of Queer of Color Critique. Queer of Color Critique consists of theories, analytics, knowledge, and activism that emerge from LGBTQ people of color who examine the intersections of, primarily, race, class, gender, sexuality, culture, and other vectors of power and categories of social life. The scholarship produced by these LGBTQ scholars of color, and allies, inform, or are informed by, theories and analyses of gender, culture, colonialism/postcolonialism, nationalisms, indigeneity, migration, diaspora, space and place, political economies, and HIV/AIDS. Albeit not exhaustive, in this course, we willexamine some genealogies ofthis expanding interdisciplinary body of work. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L77 5013  L90 4013 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Bailey Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 10 0 Desc: Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 4018 Seminar in Video Games: Video Games, Gender and Sexuality 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This seminar considers different topics that illuminate the relationship of video games to culture. Topics vary by semester. The course may have a variety of analytical frames: gender and sexuality, interactivity and reception, narrative and aesthetic theory, industrial or technological history. Prerequisite is graduate status or completion of a 300-level FMS or WGSS course and permission of the instructor. Credit 3 units. REQUIRED LAB/SCREENING TIME: Tuesdays @ 4pm Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L53 425  L53 5425 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Hilu Dec 16 2024 3:30PM - 5:30PM 19 7 0 Actions: Books A -T----- 4:00P-6:50P TBA Hilu No final 19 7 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 408A Nuns 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Nuns -- women vowed to a shared life of poverty, chastity, and obedience in a cloistered community -- were central figures in medieval and early modern religion and society. This course explores life in the convent, with the distinctive culture that developed among communities of women, and the complex relations between the world of the cloister and the world outside the cloister. We look at how female celibacy served social and political, as well as religious, interests. We read works by nuns: both willing and unwilling; and works about nuns: nuns behaving well, and nuns behaving scandalously badly; nuns embracing their heavenly spouse, and nuns putting on plays; nuns possessed by the devil, and nuns managing their possessions; nuns as enraptured visionaries, and nuns grappling with the mundane realities of life in a cloistered community. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L23 408  L22 4080  L22 5080 Frequency: Every 3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Bornstein Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 15 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 4134 The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In the year 2000, HIV became the world's leading infectious cause of adult death. In the next 10 years, AIDS killed more people than all wars of the 20th century combined. As the global epidemic rages on, our greatest enemy in combating HIV/AIDS is not knowledge or resources but rather global inequalities and the conceptual frameworks with which we understand health, human interaction, and sexuality. This course emphasizes the ethnographic approach for the cultural analysis of responses to HIV/AIDS. Students will explore the relationships among local communities, wider historical and economic processes, and theoretical approaches to disease, the body, ethnicity/race, gender, sexuality, risk, addiction, power, and culture. Other topics covered include the cultural construction of AIDS and risk, government responses to HIV/AIDS, origin and transmission debates, ethics and responsibilities, drug testing and marketing, the making of the AIDS industry and "risk" categories, prevention and education strategies, interactions between biomedicine and alternative healing systems, and medical advances and hopes. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, SC, SD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: ISEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L48 4134  L18 4134  L90 4134  L97 4134  L98 4134 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Parikh Dec 16 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM 200 135 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 414 Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Have you ever wondered why some topics are argued using religion as a guide, while others may approach the topic from what is perceived as a strictly scientific point of view? This course explores how and why gender and sexuality tend to be at the center of debates that pit Medicine and Science against Religion. Using feminist and queer scholarship, this course explores five hundred years of rhetorical strategies related to defining, or regulating, gender and sexuality. We will consider how much debates have changed from sixteenth-century Europe to 21st century United States by asking when, why and how either Medicine & Science or Religion influenced social thought and laws. Finally, we will consider how, and if, contemporary debates on vaccines are either part of the long history of debating bodily autonomy (as is the case with the other topics addressed in class), or if the conflict between religion, medicine and science in the modern era is new and distinctly different from past rhetorical strategies. Prerequisite: Introduction to Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L23 4141  L77 5115  L85 414 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Cislo Paper/Project/TakeHome 20 20 1 Desc: 19 seats available. Majors and minors in WGSS receive first priority. Other students will be admitted as course enrollment allows. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 417W Feminist and Queer Research Methodologies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: What does it mean to do research through the lens of feminist and queer politics? This course surveys key methodological approaches to feminist and queer research. Interdisciplinary at its core, it draws from methodological traditions across the humanities and social sciences while focusing on forms of inquiry that resist these boundaries. We explore how feminist and queer politics inform the work of knowledge production. We ask how scholars, organizers and artists engage and repurpose various research methodologies and how they reflect on the politics of power, experience, domination, and resistance in the research encounter. We ask who research is for, parsing the political stakes of scholarship that archives the stories of collective resistance, survival, collaboration, and domination, at the same time as it authorizes hierarchies of expertise, builds institutional power, and (too often) extracts from those studied. What might a redistributive approach to feminist and queer research look like? Prerequisite: At least 2 courses in WGSS, including Introduction to WGSS or Sexuality Studies at the 100 or 200-levels and one 300-level WGSS course, preferably in feminist or queer theory. This class is a writing intensive course. Waitlists controlled by Department; priority given to WGSS majors. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, WI Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L77 5140 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M------ 3:00P-5:50P TBA Berg Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 19 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L77 WGSS 4350 Queer and Feminist Geographies 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: There is a tendency to see space and place as backdrops, mere stages where human social interactions simply play out. Yet when we fail to interrogate the processes behind the social production of space, we run the risk of naturalizing space as heteronormative and obfuscating its inherent exclusions. This upper-level seminar seeks to challenge such assumptions by treating space and place as dynamic formations that actively influence our identities, behaviors, and politics. Using queer and feminist perspectives within the realm of geography, we will explore how spaces, places, and boundaries are shaped, experienced, and contested through diverse gender identities and sexual formations. Questions driving our inquiry include: How do queer and feminist geographies intersect to shape landscapes- both urban and rural in the United States and abroad? What role do geographic spaces play in the construction of LGBTQ identities across different social milieus? And in what ways can queer and feminist perspectives contribute to decolonial and environmental justice movements? In addition to queer and feminist spatial theories, topics will include sexuality and place-making, transnational queer migrations, queer ecologies and environmental justice, and the queering of the "public" and "private" divide at the heart of spatial taxonomies in the West. By mobilizing queer and feminist forms of spatial analysis, this seminar will equip you with tools to identify the ways in which spaces, places, and boundaries can further social inequalities and the opportunity to theorize alternative geographies that promote inclusion and more just worlds. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SCArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L77 5350 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 --W---- 3:00P-5:50P TBA Esparza Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 9 0 Desc: Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books L77 WGSS 441A Gender Analysis for International Affairs 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In this transdisciplinary course, gender is not a synonym for women, as Terrell Carver reminds us; rather, students take gender seriously as both an analytical category and a lived experience, examining how masculinities, femininities, gender identities, and sexualities shape international affairs. Traversing from the macro to the micro level, the course functions as a learning community in which students are exposed to diverse voices from around the world, and students conduct gender analyses in case studies and simulations. Throughout, the class will be mindful of 1) how gender functions in tandem with other aspects of identity, such as race, religion, class, sexuality, and more (intersectionality) and 2) how multidimensional identities morph historically, regionally, and culturally. Students build a gender analysis toolkit and practice what Cynthia Enloe describes as "feminist curiosity," exploring the relationship between gender and power in international affairs. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, SC, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: BA, ISEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L97 4414 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A McDonnell / 361 Heath-Carpentier Paper 18 18 11 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 4720 Race, Reproduction, and Justice 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Reproduction is biological, economic, political, and social. Of course, individuals reproduce, but when, how, why, and with whom we do (or do not) is also a matter of public policy and social concern. Drawing on readings from sociology, law and other fields we engage continually with these key questions: Why is reproduction an important site through which to understand sociology? How do statuses such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability influence people's reproductive possibilities? How have communities supported or resisted efforts at reproductive control? Why is reproductive justice central to these answers? We review theoretical pieces, empirical research, media and more to explore the answers. This course primarily focuses on the US but will expose students to global reproductive concerns. Class sessions include lecture, in-class discussion and online discussion, media analysis and other activities. This upper-level seminar presumes an understanding of the basic concepts in sociology such as sociological imagination and social construction. Graduate students should enroll in the 500-level offering. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SSCEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L40 4720  L40 5720  L77 5720 Frequency: Every 2-3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T----- 3:00P-5:50P TBA Luna See instructor 15 5 0 Actions: Books L77 WGSS 498 Supervised Reading and Research 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is designed for students who are pursuing an independent study project as part of the Department Honors Program. Students must apply to the Department. May be repeated once. Prerequisite: Senior Standing and permission of the department. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA [TBA] No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L77 WGSS 499 Honors Thesis: Research and Writing 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Enrollment in this course is limited to students accepted into the Honor's Program. Petition for permission to enroll is available in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Office, 210 McMillan Hall Attributes: EN: H Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Wanzo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Ake No final 0 2 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Chandra No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Barounis No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Berg No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Brown No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA Esparza No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 08 TBA TBA Cislo No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 09 TBA TBA Sangrey No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 10 TBA (None) / Griffith No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 11 TBA (None) / Bailey No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept.