Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 19, 2016 6:14PM EST
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Classes
FGSS 1107
Course Description
This class will track how queer cinema intervenes into public debates around issues of gender and sexuality. Reading feminist and queer theorists, we will discuss the stakes of seeing and being seen: how ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Dani, V
Price, Z
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FGSS 1108
Course Description
We all know that "a woman's work is never done," but what exactly is that work? Tracing a literary history of women's work and women workers, this course takes a circuitous route from the kitchen to the ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Blake, E
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FGSS 2010
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 262
Instructors
McCullough, K
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 2090
Course Description
The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Even though a myriad of books have been written about this endlessly fascinating episode in American history, many aspects of it remain unexplored. After reading some ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2090, HIST 2090
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW McGraw Hall 1M01F
Instructors
Norton, M
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 2290
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the questions, topics, approaches, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2290, LGBT 2290
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Warren Hall B02
Instructors
Diabate, N
FGSS 2421
Course Description
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, LGBT 2421
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 115
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Malott Hall 230
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Malott Hall 206
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Malott Hall 230
Instructors
Staff
FGSS 2511
Course Description
This course explores the social, cultural and communal lives of black women in North America, beginning with the transatlantic slave trade, and ending in 1900. Topics include Northern and Southern enslavement, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2511, ASRC 2511, HIST 2511
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Washington, M
FGSS 3230
Course Description
This course examines men's and women's lives and the impacts on them of incorporation into global economic and political systems. It asks how inequalities within and across gender categories are created ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DSOC 3230
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Warren Hall 173
Instructors
Leonard, L
FGSS 3400
Course Description
In 2014, 60,000 children and mothers fled Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, seeking refuge in the U.S. because of gang threats, domestic violence, and child abuse. The Obama administration responded ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3420, GOVT 3401, LGBT 3400, LSP 3401
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Statler Hall 351
Instructors
Juffer, J
FGSS 3470
Course Description
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Lau, C
FGSS 3581
Course Description
In this course, we'll be reading literature—primarily novels—produced by hemispheric American women writers of the mid- to late twentieth-century. We will look at how these writings articulate concerns ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3580, AMST 3580, ENGL 3580
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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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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Wong, S
FGSS 3651
Course Description
Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3781, FREN 3560, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560, STS 3651
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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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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Morrill Hall 107
Instructors
McNulty, T
FGSS 3754
Course Description
In this course, we will critically examine the production and performance of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender through literature and contemporary performance genres such as spoken word, slam poetry, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3754, ENGL 3954, LSP 3754, PMA 3754
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
Instructors
Jaime, K
FGSS 3990
Course Description
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
Course Description
In this seminar, we will focus on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and human rights. Although issues of gender and sexuality have always been integral to human rights, in the last 40 years, they ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall 391
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4121
Course Description
The course explores contemporary Korean society and culture through the issues of gender and sexuality. In the 1980s the notion of gender and sexuality began to use to problematize women's position and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4021, ASIAN 4421
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Stimson Hall G01
Instructors
Kim, E
FGSS 4153
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 6153, VISST 4153
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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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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Fernandez, M
FGSS 4231
Course Description
Why are some technologies such as cars and computers associated with men and masculinity? How did vacuums and sewing machines become gendered female? How do technological artifacts and systems constitute, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4231, STS 4231
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4252
Course Description
As a result of various dynastic accidents, in the 16th century women held power in England, Scotland, France, and the Netherlands. In this course we will interrogate the rich literature and art of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4252
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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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Meeting Pattern
- MW Stimson Hall 119
Instructors
Quilligan, M
FGSS 4290
Course Description
Drawing on feminist and queer theory and ethnographic studies of ritual and devotional practices around the world this course will consider the relationships among the social organization of sexuality, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4490, ANTHR 7490, FGSS 6290, LGBT 4290, LGBT 6290, RELST 4240, RELST 6290
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Ramberg, L
FGSS 4412
Course Description
The importance of sports to American society and popular culture cannot be denied, and this seminar will study sports films' vital significance in representing the intersection of sports, history, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4412, PMA 4412, VISST 4412
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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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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Sheppard, S
FGSS 4460
Course Description
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 GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Ives Hall 217
Instructors
Blau, F
FGSS 4504
Course Description
This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4423, PMA 4504, SHUM 4504
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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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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 109
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
FGSS 4945
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 4995, FGSS 6945, 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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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited: 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 6153
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 4153, VISST 4153
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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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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Fernandez, M
FGSS 6290
Course Description
Drawing on feminist and queer theory and ethnographic studies of ritual and devotional practices around the world this course will consider the relationships among the social organization of sexuality, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4490, ANTHR 7490, FGSS 4290, LGBT 4290, LGBT 6290, RELST 4240, RELST 6290
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Ramberg, L
FGSS 6751
Course Description
How might we define feminist theory at this moment? This course will analyze some of the key concepts and controversies that have shaped contemporary articulations of feminist discourse. These concepts ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6751
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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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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 391
Instructors
Juffer, J
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 4995, 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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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited: 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
FGSS 7312
Course Description
The voice occupies a peculiar phenomenological position, on one hand emanating from material bodies and conveying that materiality with register, mannerism, grain, and break; on the other hand existing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 7312, PMA 7312
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Lincoln Hall 316
Instructors
Peraino, J