Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 14, 2015 6:16PM EST
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Classes
FGSS 1103
Course Description
We enact gender. For the past quarter century, feminist thought has called into question the biological and cultural determinations of gender by thinking about gender through the lens of performance. This ... view course details
FWS Session.
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3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
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Kruer, M
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FGSS 1104
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"Women don't fit well into a trench coat and slouch hat," Marilyn Stasio has observed, yet female detectives can be found solving crimes and busting bad guys across media. Drawing from TV, film, fiction ... view course details
FWS Session.
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3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Uris Hall 382
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Stratford, A
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FGSS 2010
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Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program focused on understanding the impart of gender and sexuality on the world around us and on the power hierarchies that structure ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Uris Hall 262
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Juffer, J
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FGSS 2140
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Examines the structural and functional differences between the sexes. Emphasizes mechanisms of mammalian reproduction; where possible, special attention is given to studies of humans. Current evidence ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BIOAP 2140, BIOMS 2140, BSOC 2141
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Stimson Hall G01
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Fortune, J
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FGSS 2350
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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 and accounts ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 2350, ENGL 2350, LGBT 2350
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Malott Hall 228-Bache Aud
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Cohn, E
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FGSS 2421
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An introduction to the anthropology of sex, sexuality and gender, this course uses case studies from around the world to explore how the worlds of the sexes become gendered. In ethnographic, ethnohistorical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2421
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Uris Hall 262
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March, K
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- F Morrill Hall 107
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Staff
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- F Morrill Hall 107
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Staff
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- F McGraw Hall B65
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Staff
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- F Uris Hall G22
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Staff
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FGSS 2780
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We experience our bodies as so much a part of who we are that we take them for granted. Yet the way we think about the body has a history of its own. This class looks at how the idea of "the body" gets ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2780, LGBT 2780
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Morrill Hall 106
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Raskolnikov, M
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FGSS 3331
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Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3331, ASIAN 6631, FGSS 6331, LGBT 3331, LGBT 6331, PMA 3431, RELST 3331
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Uris Hall G88
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Fuhrmann, A
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FGSS 3470
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This course examines the experiences and representations of Asian American women from the mid-19th century to the present. It explores the lives and contexts of immigrant women and of women born in the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3470, AMST 3470, HIST 3470
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 189
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Lau, C
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FGSS 3505
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Blaxploitation films of the 1970s are remembered for their gigantic Afros, enormous guns, slammin' soundtracks, sex, drugs, nudity, and violence. Never before or since have so many African American performers ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3515, ARTH 3505, ASRC 3505, PMA 3505, VISST 3505
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Finley, C
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FGSS 3540
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Using written and visual biographies as a starting point, this class follows African and African American women in the fashion industry to explore perceptions of beauty, race, gender and class. Contemporary ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3560, ASRC 3550
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Africana Ctr B07
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Rooks, N
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FGSS 3550
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"My existence is a scandal," Oscar Wilde once wrote, summing up in an epigram the effect of his carefully cultivated style of perversity and paradox. Through their celebration of "art for art's sake" and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3550, ENGL 3550, LGBT 3550
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 132
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Hanson, E
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FGSS 3990
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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
FGSS 4000
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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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- W Uris Hall 391
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Snorton, C
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Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4040
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This seminar examines both feminist art criticism and the work of women artists from antiquity to the present. We consider the works of the most prominent women artists from each period in relation to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4610
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T Stimson Hall 206
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Bernstock, J
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4220
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Over the centuries New York State has been the site of activity for a great many women of consequence. This course is a one-semester survey of the past and present activities and contributions of rural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 4221
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall 181
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Rossiter, M
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FGSS 4270
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In A Theory of Parody, Linda Hutcheon defines parody broadly as "repetition with critical difference, which marks difference rather than similarity." Taking a cue from Hutcheon, we will consider parody ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4805, LGBT 4270, PMA 4805
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 434
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Salvato, N
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FGSS 4460
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Examines the changing economic roles of women and men in the labor market and in the family. Topics include a historical overview of changing gender roles, the determinants of the gender division of labor ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ECON 3440, ILRLE 4450
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Ives Hall 217
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Blau, F
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FGSS 4491
Course Description
Feminist approaches to questions in metaphysics, epistemology, language, and value theory. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 4490
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- W Uris Hall G88
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Kosch, M
Manne, K
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FGSS 4640
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The primary emphasis of this discussion seminar is the historical development of gendered identities and the fluid manner in which different Middle Eastern communities responded to shifting ideas of sexuality, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4642, NES 4642
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- W Lincoln Hall B08
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Fahmy, Z
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FGSS 4740
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In this seminar students will investigate the emergence of feminism in art and theory and subsequent reactions of relevant artists and theorists to that movement. These developments will be discussed in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4154, ARTH 6154, FGSS 6740, VISST 4154
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
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Fernandez, M
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FGSS 4801
Course Description
This course traces the genealogies and animating debates in black queer studies. Attentive to the relationship between black feminist criticism and black queer theory, this class proceeds with an understanding ... view course details
FGSS 4876
Course Description
Liberal feminists and political theorists argue that sentiments such as compassion and empathy have the capacity to alert us to suffering, injustice, and oppression, and thus incite transformative political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4176, GOVT 4745, SHUM 4876
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- R A D White House 110
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Hodzic, S
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FGSS 4945
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The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality-genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4995, ASRC 6945, COML 4945, COML 6945, ENGL 4741, FGSS 6945, LGBT 4945, LGBT 6945, VISST 4945, VISST 6945
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T Rockefeller Hall B16
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Diabate, N
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Limited to 15 students.
FGSS 4990
Course Description
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
FGSS 4992
Course Description
This seminar considers the points of intersection between theories of affect, emotion, and sexuality in recent queer and feminist thought, and the set of critical and cultural developments that has come ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4026, ENGL 4992, LGBT 4992, SHUM 4992
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- W A D White House 109
Instructors
Luciano, D
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FGSS 4994
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This course will address the 2014-15 Society for Humanities theme of "sensation" through questions of method, focusing in particular on the interdisciplinary challenges of documenting and archiving sensation. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4027, ENGL 4994, LGBT 4994, SHUM 4994
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T A D White House 201
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Cvetkovich, A
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Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 6331
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3331, ASIAN 6631, FGSS 3331, LGBT 3331, LGBT 6331, PMA 3431, RELST 3331
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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FGSS 6740
Course Description
In this seminar students will investigate the emergence of feminism in art and theory and subsequent reactions of relevant artists and theorists to that movement. These developments will be discussed in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4154, ARTH 6154, FGSS 4740, VISST 4154
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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FGSS 6801
Course Description
This course traces the genealogies and animating debates in black queer studies. Attentive to the relationship between black feminist criticism and black queer theory, this class proceeds with an understanding ... view course details
FGSS 6945
Course Description
The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality-genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4995, ASRC 6945, COML 4945, COML 6945, ENGL 4741, FGSS 4945, LGBT 4945, LGBT 6945, VISST 4945, VISST 6945
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- T Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Limited to 15 students.
FGSS 6990
Course Description
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