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

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FGSS 1103

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

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17542 FGSS 1103   SEM 101

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FGSS 1104

"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

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17624 FGSS 1104   SEM 101

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FGSS 2010

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6268 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

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FGSS 2140

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIOAP 2140BIOMS 2140BSOC 2141

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16801 FGSS 2140   LEC 001

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FGSS 2350

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

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  •  9330 FGSS 2350   LEC 001

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FGSS 2421

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2421

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6464 FGSS 2421   LEC 001

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  •  6465 FGSS 2421   DIS 201

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  •  6466 FGSS 2421   DIS 202

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  • 18448 FGSS 2421   DIS 203

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  • 18449 FGSS 2421   DIS 204

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FGSS 2780

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2780LGBT 2780

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15916 FGSS 2780   LEC 001

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FGSS 3331

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

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  •  9355 FGSS 3331   LEC 001

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FGSS 3470

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3470AMST 3470HIST 3470

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17798 FGSS 3470   LEC 001

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FGSS 3505

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

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  • 16349 FGSS 3505   LEC 001

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FGSS 3540

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3560ASRC 3550

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16821 FGSS 3540   SEM 101

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FGSS 3550

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

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  • 15952 FGSS 3550   LEC 001

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FGSS 3990

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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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6269 FGSS 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Juffer, J

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FGSS 4000

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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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6744 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

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FGSS 4040

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4610

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7158 FGSS 4040   SEM 101

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FGSS 4220

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: STS 4221

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15649 FGSS 4220   SEM 101

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FGSS 4270

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4805LGBT 4270PMA 4805

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15852 FGSS 4270   SEM 101

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FGSS 4460

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECON 3440ILRLE 4450

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16224 FGSS 4460   LEC 001

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FGSS 4491

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4490

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16805 FGSS 4491   SEM 101

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FGSS 4640

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

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15608 FGSS 4640   SEM 101

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FGSS 4740

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

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  • 16396 FGSS 4740   SEM 101

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FGSS 4801

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

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  • 17351 FGSS 4801   SEM 101

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FGSS 4876

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4176GOVT 4745SHUM 4876

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16943 FGSS 4876   SEM 101

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FGSS 4945

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

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  • 17063 FGSS 4945   SEM 101

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    Limited to 15 students.

FGSS 4990

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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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6462 FGSS 4990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Juffer, J

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18598 FGSS 4990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Warner, S

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FGSS 4992

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

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  • 16949 FGSS 4992   SEM 101

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FGSS 4994

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

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  • 16939 FGSS 4994   SEM 101

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FGSS 6331

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

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  • 15843 FGSS 6331   LEC 001

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FGSS 6740

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

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  • 16399 FGSS 6740   SEM 101

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FGSS 6801

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

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  • 17353 FGSS 6801   SEM 101

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FGSS 6945

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

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  • 17067 FGSS 6945   SEM 101

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    Limited to 15 students.

FGSS 6990

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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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7155 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

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