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

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

FGSS 1109

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

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17947 FGSS 1109   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

FGSS 1110

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17899 FGSS 1110   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

FGSS 1940

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 1193HIST 1930LGBT 1940

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16361 FGSS 1940   LEC 001

FGSS 2010

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6221 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

  • Online enrollment for this class is now closed. Please contact Professor McCullough (mkm23) if you would like to enroll/ be added to the waitlist.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16664 FGSS 2010   LEC 002

  • Online enrollment for this class is now closed. Please contact Professor Chang (jhc324) if you would like to enroll/ be added to the waitlist.

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

  • 17076 FGSS 2140   LEC 001

FGSS 2160

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

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  • 16902 FGSS 2160   LEC 001

FGSS 2290

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 2280ITAL 2280LGBT 2290

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10079 FGSS 2290   LEC 001

FGSS 2330

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2305ENGL 2330

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16134 FGSS 2330   SEM 101

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2421LGBT 2421

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6416 FGSS 2421   LEC 001

  •  6417 FGSS 2421   DIS 201

  •  6418 FGSS 2421   DIS 202

FGSS 2516

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 2516

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16658 FGSS 2516   LEC 001

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: BSOC 2781ENGL 2780LGBT 2780

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16137 FGSS 2780   LEC 001

FGSS 3000

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16612 FGSS 3000   LEC 001

  • Prerequisite: FGSS 2010: Intro to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

FGSS 3230

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DSOC 3230

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9107 FGSS 3230   LEC 001

FGSS 3235

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3235

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17615 FGSS 3235   SEM 101

  • Taught in German. Satisfies Option 1. Prerequisite: one course at the 3000-3209 level in German or placement exam.

FGSS 3250

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

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  • 17515 FGSS 3250   SEM 101

FGSS 3585

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3585

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16449 FGSS 3585   SEM 101

FGSS 3651

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

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  •  9947 FGSS 3651   LEC 001

  • 16955 FGSS 3651   DIS 201

  • 16956 FGSS 3651   DIS 202

FGSS 3691

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3690ENGL 3690

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16370 FGSS 3691   SEM 101

FGSS 3700

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

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  • 16558 FGSS 3700   LEC 001

FGSS 3702

"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

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  • 16351 FGSS 3702   LEC 001

FGSS 3754

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

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  •  9876 FGSS 3754   LEC 001

FGSS 3950

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3950

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16425 FGSS 3950   LEC 001

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6222 FGSS 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Juffer, J

FGSS 4241

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

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  • 16648 FGSS 4241   SEM 101

FGSS 4402

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

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  • 16578 FGSS 4402   SEM 101

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 GradeNoAud

  •  8740 FGSS 4460   LEC 001

FGSS 4507

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

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  • 16600 FGSS 4507   SEM 101

FGSS 4602

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4902LGBT 4602SHUM 4602

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17644 FGSS 4602   SEM 101

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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  • 16635 FGSS 4801   SEM 101

FGSS 4806

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

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  • 17637 FGSS 4806   SEM 101

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6414 FGSS 4990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Juffer, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9102 FGSS 4990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • McCullough, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 10135 FGSS 4990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Snorton, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 17583 FGSS 4990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Diabate, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18552 FGSS 4990   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Long, K

FGSS 6241

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16651 FGSS 6241   SEM 101

FGSS 6507

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16602 FGSS 6507   SEM 101

FGSS 6510

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6510COML 6460

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16585 FGSS 6510   SEM 101

FGSS 6610

"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

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  • 16865 FGSS 6610   SEM 101

FGSS 6700

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16561 FGSS 6700   LEC 001

FGSS 6755

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 18194 FGSS 6755   SEM 101

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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Syllabi: none
  • 16638 FGSS 6801   SEM 101

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7041 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff