Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.
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Classes
FGSS 1115
Course Description
With the success of Hannah Gadsby's 2018 stand-up special "Nanette," connections among gender, sexuality, feminism, and stand-up comedy (once again) came to the fore of public discourse. In this class, ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Pozsonyi, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
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 White Hall 106
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Juffer, J
FGSS 2082
Course Description
The Middle Ages are usually imagined as a time of manly men and feminine women: no room for gender ambiguity in Conan the Barbarian! Yet gender, then as now, was in fact unstable, multiple, and above all, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2082, MEDVL 2082
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 187
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Falk, O
FGSS 2267
Course Description
This course offers a broad understanding of the active and dynamic cultural, economic, and social, and political roles played by Chinese women. By challenging the dominant stereotype of the passive and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2267, CAPS 2267
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
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Son, S
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Additional Information
No prior knowledge of Chinese necessary.
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, ... 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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Morrill Hall 106
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Ramberg, L
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 160
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Staff
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- F White Hall B04
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Staff
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- F White Hall B04
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Staff
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- R Morrill Hall 111
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Staff
FGSS 2633
Course Description
How did the ancient Greeks and Romans understand differences in gender and sexuality? And how did their gendered identities intersect with other identity categories, like race, class, and citizenship status? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: CLASS 2633
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Haselswerdt, E
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
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Haselswerdt, E
FGSS 2701
Course Description
What does the representation of sexual encounter in the Arabian Nights ('Alf layla-wa layla) have to do with a politics of race and gender? This course explores the millenia-long history of mediations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2700, ENGL 2917, NES 2700, VISST 2701
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall 348
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Vaziri, P
- W Uris Hall 260
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Vaziri, P
FGSS 2770
Course Description
This course explores the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the lives of Muslims past and present. Through a close examination of ethnographies, intellectual histories, and religious treatises, we ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2470, LGBT 2770, MEDVL 2770, NES 2770, RELST 2770
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR White Hall 110
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Golestaneh, 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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- MWF Ives Hall 105
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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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- TR White Hall 106
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Ghosh, D
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: FGSS 2010: Intro to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies OR instructor permission
FGSS 3206
Course Description
This course studies the life experiences and political struggles of black women who have attained political leadership. It will study their rise to political power through an examination of the autobiographies ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3206, ASRC 6326, ENGL 3606
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Africana Ctr B07
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Boyce Davies, C
FGSS 3310
Course Description
This course explores cultural representations of Afro-Asian intimacies and coalition in novels, songs, films, paintings, and poems. What affinities, loves and thefts, and tensions are present in cultural ... view course details
FGSS 3540
Course Description
This course explores written and visual biographies of African American and African women in the fashion industry as a launching point for thinking about beauty, race, gender and class. Some of the questions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3560, ASRC 3550
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Morrill Hall 107
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Rooks, N
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 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 4261
Course Description
Topic:Â Simone de Beauvoir & Moral Philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 4261, PHIL 6260, ROMS 4261, ROMS 6261
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Simone de Beauvoir & Moral Philosophy
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- M Uris Hall 498
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Kosch, M
FGSS 4312
Course Description
From Switched-On Bach to Synthpop and EDM, since the late 1960s electronic synthesizers have expanded the sonic palette and identity formation of popular musicians, leading to new concepts of sound and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 6312, LGBT 4312, LGBT 6312, MUSIC 4312, MUSIC 6312, STS 4312, STS 6312
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- M Lincoln Hall 316
Instructors
Moseley, R
Peraino, J
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4331
Course Description
In this course we will trace how the wider participation of women in the public sphere affected media, gender roles, and sexuality in early nineteenth-century England. Women, as well as men, responded ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4330
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 124
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Chase, C
FGSS 4371
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to the theoretical and empirical literature on the sociology of sex and gender. The readings cover theory and methods, feminism, masculinity, intersectionality, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 4370
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall G20
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Maralani, V
FGSS 4451
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 4451, ASIAN 6631, FGSS 6331, LGBT 4451, LGBT 6331, PMA 4451, RELST 4451
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Uris Hall 369
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Fuhrmann, A
FGSS 4509
Course Description
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955. To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details
FGSS 4641
Course Description
This course examines contemporary literary and cultural memory work that mediates the emergence of nuclear energy in Asia and the Pacific after World War Two as a transpacific settler colonial and racial ... view course details
FGSS 4645
Course Description
Why might a novelist choose to focus on food (or a chef) in order to tell a particular tale? How do writers use the language of food to explore issues such as gender, sexuality, race and nation? What ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4645
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
McCullough, K
FGSS 4841
Course Description
The term "epidemic" travels widely and wildly in contemporary worlds. But, what, when and where is "the epidemic"? How and why does epidemic unfold? This senior seminar offers an interdisciplinary exploration ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4041, BSOC 4841, STS 4841
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- R Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Roebuck, C
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4944
Course Description
This course explores the philosophical concept of biopolitics and its diverse translations and/or adaptations across multiple disciplines and across the globe (Africa, Far East, South East Asia, and the ... 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 6312
Course Description
From Switched-On Bach to Synthpop and EDM, since the late 1960s electronic synthesizers have expanded the sonic palette and identity formation of popular musicians, leading to new concepts of sound and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4312, LGBT 4312, LGBT 6312, MUSIC 4312, MUSIC 6312, STS 4312, STS 6312
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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
- M Lincoln Hall 316
Instructors
Moseley, R
Peraino, J
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 4451, ASIAN 6631, FGSS 4451, LGBT 4451, LGBT 6331, PMA 4451, RELST 4451
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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 Uris Hall 369
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
FGSS 6513
Course Description
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955. To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details
FGSS 6641
Course Description
This course examines contemporary literary and cultural memory work that mediates the emergence of nuclear energy in Asia and the Pacific after World War Two as a transpacific settler colonial and racial ... view course details
FGSS 6944
Course Description
This course explores the philosophical concept of biopolitics and its diverse translations and/or adaptations across multiple disciplines and across the globe (Africa, Far East, South East Asia, and the ... 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