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

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FGSS 1114
FWS: Queer Identity and Popular Music

Why did disco music emerge in gay, black communities? How did Riot Grrrls bring "girls to the front" of punk shows? From hip-hop to musical theater, from Dolly Parton to Prince, we will listen to a wide ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19373 FGSS 1114   SEM 101

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    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Tyson, L

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

FGSS 1117
FWS: Feminist Praxis, Representation, and Migration

How are migrants and refugees typically depicted in film and news media accounts of their lives and journeys? How can an intersectional feminist analysis of gender, sexuality, race, and class help us to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18857 FGSS 1117   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Nesvaderani, N

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

FGSS 2010
Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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

  •  4547 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Chang, J

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 2160
Television

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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  • 16560 FGSS 2160   LEC 001

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    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 2421
Worlding Sex and Gender

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 2421, LGBT 2421

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4731 FGSS 2421   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Jordan, M

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  •  4732 FGSS 2421   DIS 201

  •  
    • F Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  •  4733 FGSS 2421   DIS 202

  •  
    • F Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 2701
Race and Sex: Arabian Nights

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

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  •  8525 FGSS 2701   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 2722
LGBTQ History in the United States

This lecture traces the history of LGBTQ+ identities, relationships, and politics in the United States from the early 19th century to the present. We will consider, in particular, the shifting meanings ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2723, HIST 2722, LGBT 2722

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18334 FGSS 2722   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Vider, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 18337 FGSS 2722   DIS 201

  •  
    • R Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 18340 FGSS 2722   DIS 202

    • R Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  • 18343 FGSS 2722   DIS 203

  •  
    • R Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 18346 FGSS 2722   DIS 204

    • R Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 3000
Feminist Theory

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

  •  6953 FGSS 3000   LEC 001

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    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    Prerequisite: FGSS 2010: Intro to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies OR instructor permission

FGSS 3130
Medieval Women Writers

This course will study medieval women writers and some of the contexts and methodologies that might help us assess their works and lives. There will be some attention to writings to women, and we'll sample ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3130, MEDVL 3130

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18019 FGSS 3130   SEM 101

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person Transition to Online
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3130, MEDVL 3130

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20380 FGSS 3130   SEM 103

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3206
Black Women and Political Leadership

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

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Syllabi: none

  •  7738 FGSS 3206   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Boyce Davies, C

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3310
Afro-Asia: Futurism and Feminism

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

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Syllabi: none

  •  8292 FGSS 3310   SEM 101

  •  
    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3400
Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice

Topic Fall 2020: The Time and Space of Immigrant Detention in the U.S.: Migration is about movement, yet the journey often ends in the denial of movement, especially if one migrates to the U.S. This country ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3420, GOVT 3401

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Time and Space of Immigrant Detention in the U.S.

  • 17550 FGSS 3400   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person Transition to Online
    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 3505
Blaxploitation Film and Photography

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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Syllabi: none

  • 16824 FGSS 3505   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Finley, C

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3520
(Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History

This course will offer an overview of theoretical and historical responses to bodily and cognitive difference.  What was the status of people with (dis)abilities in the past, when they were called monsters, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3520, SHUM 3520

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16964 FGSS 3520   SEM 101

  •  
    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Long, K

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3550
Decadence

"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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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3550, ENGL 3550, LGBT 3550

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16690 FGSS 3550   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3580
Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures

For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16521 FGSS 3580   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Sakai, N

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3700
Gender and Age in Archaeology

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

  • 18708 FGSS 3700   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Russell, N

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3707
Hidden Identities Onscreen

From White Chicks to Blackkklansman, American film has often depicted characters who conceal their race or gender, like black male cops "passing" as wealthy white women. This class will examine how Hollywood ... view course details

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  • 18678 FGSS 3707   SEM 101

  •  
    • MWF Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Branfman, J

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3720
Food, Gender, and Culture

In addition to nourishing the body, food operates as a cultural system that produces and reflects group and individual identities. In this class we will examine foodways-the behaviors and beliefs attached ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3720, ENGL 3721, SHUM 3720

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17568 FGSS 3720   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3754
Spoken Word, Hip-Hop Theater, and the Politics of Performance

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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Syllabi: none

  •  7842 FGSS 3754   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 3990
Undergraduate Independent Study

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

  •  4548 FGSS 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7484 FGSS 3990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7485 FGSS 3990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7486 FGSS 3990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17738 FGSS 3990   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 4123
Archipelagoes: Cartographies of Race, Sound, and Sexuality

Considering the archipelagic turn, this course takes a transnational approach to geographies, ecologies, literatures, and cultures of island chains. How are archipelagoes understood in relations of power ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17957 FGSS 4123   SEM 101

  •  
    • M Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 4212
Black Women's Autobiography in the 21st Century WritingHerStory

Black women first began to shape the genre of autobiography during antebellum era slavery. They were prolific in developing the genre of autobiography throughout the twentieth century, to the point of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16802 FGSS 4212   SEM 101

  •  
    • R Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 4260
Gender and Media

This seminar addresses the intersection of communication, culture, and identity through an examination of gender and the U.S. media system. After introducing students to key approaches to studying gender ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 4260

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18090 FGSS 4260   LEC 001

  •  
    • W Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Duffy, B

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 4460
Women in the Economy

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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Syllabi:

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

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 16979 FGSS 4460   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Blau, F

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 4654
Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Voice

Having a voice is often seen as a central metaphor for a person's agency. Having a voice allows a person to be heard as well as to speak. Yet, how we speak or sing, and how our voices are heard is socially ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17868 FGSS 4654   SEM 101

  •  
    • M Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Pennington, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 4990
Senior Honors Thesis I

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

  •  4729 FGSS 4990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6759 FGSS 4990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6896 FGSS 4990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7487 FGSS 4990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 17733 FGSS 4990   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 18473 FGSS 4990   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 6123
Archipelagoes: Cartographies of Race, Sound, and Sexuality

Considering the archipelagic turn, this course takes a transnational approach to geographies, ecologies, literatures, and cultures of island chains. How are archipelagoes understood in relations of power ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17963 FGSS 6123   SEM 101

    • M Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online

    Department Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 6301
Media and Sexuality

This course investigates how sexuality, broadly conceived, is produced, represented, and enacted through a variety of media. We will consider how groups of people collectively produce their erotic ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 6300, LGBT 6301

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17580 FGSS 6301   SEM 101

    • M Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Sender, K

  • Instruction Mode: Online

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 6551
Decadence and the Modern Novel

As Théophile Gautier said of Decadent writing, "It is an ingenious, complex, learned style, full of shades and refinements of meaning, ever extending the bounds of language, borrowing from every technical ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6551, ENGL 6551

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17976 FGSS 6551   SEM 101

  •  
    • W Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 6580
Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures

For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 16525 FGSS 6580   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Sakai, N

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 6700
Gender and Age in Archaeology

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

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 18711 FGSS 6700   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Russell, N

  • Instruction Mode: Online

FGSS 6990
Topics in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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

  •  5239 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)