Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
FGSS 1109
Course Description
The goal of this seminar is to introduce the student to an understanding of the convergence of contemporary art and new technologies and use this understanding to focus on issues of sex, sexuality, and ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 331
Instructors
Hatipoglu, O
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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 1110
Course Description
Most of us have had our own intimate moments shared with our friends, our lovers and our pets, but what does it mean when we no longer perceive ourselves as human in our entanglement with nonhuman beings ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Tam, B
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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 1940
Course Description
By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 1193, HIST 1930, LGBT 1940
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Ghosh, D
Loos, T
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(Letter grades only)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
McCullough, K
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Additional Information
Online enrollment for this class is now closed. Please contact Professor McCullough (mkm23) if you would like to enroll/ be added to the waitlist.
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Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 104
Instructors
Chang, J
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Additional Information
Online enrollment for this class is now closed. Please contact Professor Chang (jhc324) if you would like to enroll/ be added to the waitlist.
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FGSS 2140
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Stimson Hall G01
Instructors
Fortune, J
FGSS 2160
Course Description
In this introductory course, participants will study the economic and technological history of the television industry, with a particular emphasis on its manifestations in the United States and the United ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2160, ENGL 2160, PMA 2660, VISST 2160
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts B21
Instructors
Salvato, N
FGSS 2290
Course Description
Since roughly the middle of the nineteenth century, it has become important for some of us, in some parts of the world, to identify ourselves according to categories such as gender and sexuality, categories ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 2280, ITAL 2280, LGBT 2290
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 110
Instructors
Howie, C
FGSS 2330
Course Description
Remarkable works written BY women and images OF women shape literature, art, music, and personal experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This seminar will develop skills in discussion and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2305, ENGL 2330
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR A D White House 109
Instructors
Chase, C
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 106
Instructors
Sangren, P
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- F McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Staff
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- F McGraw Hall 215
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Staff
FGSS 2516
Course Description
This course introduces students to basic themes and topics in the history of women and gender in Middle Eastern societies by exploring the forces of social change that influenced the lives of women (and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 2516
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Yilmaz, S
FGSS 2780
Course Description
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: BSOC 2781, ENGL 2780, LGBT 2780
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Raskolnikov, M
FGSS 3000
Course Description
This course will work across and between the disciplines to consider what it might mean to think 'as a feminist' about many things including, but not limited to 'gender', 'women' and 'sexuality'. We will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 110
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: FGSS 2010: Intro to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Warren Hall 173
Instructors
Leonard, L
FGSS 3235
Course Description
Idealized representations of women proliferated in the Enlightenment and Romantic philosophy, visual arts, dramaturgy, and literature. In this course we will interrogate how and why Goethe, Schiller and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 3235
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Solanki, T
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Additional Information
Taught in German. Satisfies Option 1. Prerequisite: one course at the 3000-3209 level in German or placement exam.
FGSS 3250
Course Description
What constitutes queer performance? Is queer who you are or what you do? Is sexuality all we mean by queer? Has queer performance enhanced or eclipsed gay and lesbian theater? This course investigates ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 6755, LGBT 3250, LGBT 6755, PMA 3755, PMA 6755, VISST 3260
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
Instructors
Warner, S
FGSS 3585
Course Description
To what extent are there specific forms or themes that characterize women's literature? How have women writers both extended and revised each other's work? What issues have been most pressing for feminist ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3585
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 283
Instructors
McCullough, K
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. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 3781, COML 6783, FREN 3560, FREN 6561, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560, STS 3651
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 202
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall 262
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
McNulty, T
FGSS 3691
Course Description
Poverty is an ongoing issue in the United States, and has intensified since the recession of 2008. As such, poverty has disproportionately affected women and underrepresented racial and ethnic communities. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3690, ENGL 3690
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Cheyfitz, E
FGSS 3700
Course Description
In recent years, feminist theory has begun to have an impact on archaeological thought. It is now recognized that gender is likely to have been a relevant dimension of social organization in past societies. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3269, ANTHR 6269, ARKEO 3269, ARKEO 6269, FGSS 6700
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW McGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Russell, N
FGSS 3702
Course Description
"You didn't see anything," a woman in a movie says to her dubious lover. "No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don't understand." What is desire in the cinema? How do we know it when we see ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3702, ENGL 3702, LGBT 3702, PMA 3702, VISST 3702
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Hanson, E
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
FGSS 3950
Course Description
A set of francophone feminist theorists has often been referred to as representative of "French Feminism." These theorists have systematically been a crucial reference in the making of American feminism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3950
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Tissot, D
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 4241
Course Description
In this course, students will read and engage how "man," as a concept, has come to be understood in certain areas of philosophy and critical theory. The class will engage how "man" has been socially constructed ... view course details
FGSS 4402
Course Description
From its inception in the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip hop has been dependent on women's contributions, yet female artists have had to work hard to contest their marginalization and objectification in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4402, ANTHR 4102, ASRC 4402, LGBT 4402
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr B01
Instructors
LaBennett, O
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(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Ives Hall 219
Instructors
Blau, F
FGSS 4507
Course Description
An exploration of writing by representative black women writers. We will examine specific texts as well as necessary critical and theoretical ideas which have been generated through, or with which this ... view course details
FGSS 4602
Course Description
Exploring questions of narrative perspective in relation to embodied desire, this seminar will weave together four different areas of study: theories of perspective, focalization, narrative voice, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4902, LGBT 4602, SHUM 4602
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 110
Instructors
Ohi, K
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 4806
Course Description
This course will consider how Latina/o artists explore new approaches to texts, spaces, performers, and audiences. In addition, students will be asked to focus on the connections that were and are being ... view course details
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 6241
Course Description
In this course, students will read and engage how "man," as a concept, has come to be understood in certain areas of philosophy and critical theory. The class will engage how "man" has been socially constructed ... view course details
FGSS 6507
Course Description
An exploration of writing by representative black women writers. We will examine specific texts as well as necessary critical and theoretical ideas which have been generated through, or with which this ... view course details
FGSS 6510
Course Description
This course examines the particular theoretical intersections of panafricanism and feminism through a study of works which address the lives of activist women and men who lived political lives which demanded ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6510, COML 6460
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Boyce Davies, C
FGSS 6610
Course Description
"The pleasure of the text," Roland Barthes writes, "is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas – for my body does not have the same ideas I do." What is this erotics of the text, and what has it ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6601, ENGL 6600, LGBT 6600, PMA 6670
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Hanson, E
FGSS 6700
Course Description
In recent years, feminist theory has begun to have an impact on archaeological thought. It is now recognized that gender is likely to have been a relevant dimension of social organization in past societies. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3269, ANTHR 6269, ARKEO 3269, ARKEO 6269, FGSS 3700
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW McGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Russell, N
FGSS 6755
Course Description
What constitutes queer performance? Is queer who you are or what you do? Is sexuality all we mean by queer? Has queer performance enhanced or eclipsed gay and lesbian theater? This course investigates ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3250, LGBT 3250, LGBT 6755, PMA 3755, PMA 6755, VISST 3260
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
Instructors
Warner, S
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 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