Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
FGSS 1100
Course Description
This course offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBT critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Lost Bodies
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 104
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Anspach, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 106
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Newman, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Regular Academic Session.
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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
- MW White Hall 106
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 2024
Course Description
This course is an in-depth study of ecological justice from feminist, queer, and trans perspectives. Historically, people marginalized by race, gender, sexuality, disability, and poverty have borne the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 2965
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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
- TR McGraw Hall 365
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Zurn, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 2806
Course Description
This course presents a cultural and historical perspective on ideas of agency, responsibility, and punishment through foundational texts of western law. We will primarily focus on three main areas of law: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2806, GOVT 2806, LAW 6803
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Giannella, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Parrenas, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Prerequisite: FGSS 2010 or permission of instructor.
FGSS 3316
Course Description
What can we hear or see in a sound? Can the sound of a voice conjure traces of a body? How does sound, musical or otherwise, construct gender and race? In this course, we will consider how listening, speaking, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 3316
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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
- TR Uris Hall G28
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Moura, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 3322
Course Description
In her pathbreaking text Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman writes that "young Black women were radical thinkers who tirelessly imagined other ways ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3322, MUSIC 3322, RELST 3322
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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
- TR Uris Hall 498
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Dromgoole, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 3400
Course Description
Social Justice highlights refugee-led organizing and its intersections with un/documented and Indigenous beyond borders activism. We will work with and learn from refugee and asylum seekers led organizations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 3420, ANTHR 3402, GOVT 3401
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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 Morrill Hall 404
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 3464
Course Description
This course is designed to explore the varied ways that race and gender intersect with the media industry. While common industrial logic suggests these descriptors of identity are not a factor in terms ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3464, PMA 3464, VISST 3464
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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
- M Judith Eissner Pavillion 201
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Warner, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 3591
Course Description
How is the figure of the child constructed in popular culture? When and to what degree do children participate in the construction of these representations? This course surveys a variety of contemporary ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3591
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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
- MW Sibley Hall 101
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 3636
Course Description
This course engages classical antiquity and its reception through the prism of queer studies. Cruising Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Plato, Ovid and more, we will explore how queer theoretical frameworks help ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3635, LGBT 3635, SHUM 3635
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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
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Lambert, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Please contact Ryan Belle (rtb95) to be added to the wait list.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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
3 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 145
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 3686
Course Description
The course is a survey of Feminist Islamic thinkers from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt, and their diaspora, featuring both French and Arabic texts in English translation. The purpose of the course ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3685, FREN 3685, NES 3686
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Terhmina, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 3721
Course Description
This course focuses on how Biblical texts represent women in ancient Israel, and how the Bible's representations constitute both a fabrication and a manifestation of social life on the ground. We will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 6721, JWST 3720, JWST 6720, NES 3720, NES 6720, RELST 3720, RELST 6720
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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
- MW Rockefeller Hall B15
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Monroe, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 3740
Course Description
In A Theory of Parody, Linda Hutcheon defines parody broadly as "repetition with critical difference, which marks difference rather than similarity." Taking a cue from Hutcheon, we will consider parody ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3745, LGBT 3740, PMA 3740
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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
- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Salvato, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Ghosh, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Ramberg, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
McCullough, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Devault, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4100
Course Description
Topics vary by instructor. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one project. Combined with: GERST 4100, LGBT 4100
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: Queer and Trans Germany—Media, Histories, Cultures
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Kennedy Hall 105
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Schoppelrei, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Taught in German. Prerequisite: any German course at the 3210-3499-level or equivalent.
FGSS 4124
Course Description
The question "What is gender?" is an increasingly thorny and political one. This course provides students with an advanced introduction to debates about the nature and function of gender in contemporary ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 4495
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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
- R Uris Hall 204
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Zurn, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 4153
Course Description
Fall 2024 Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts. While feminist art in new media address traditional feminist concerns such as the female body, identity, representation, feminist history, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 6153, VISST 4153
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 4212
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4212, ASRC 4212, ENGL 4912, SHUM 4212
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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
- TR Africana Ctr B01
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Richardson, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 4260
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COMM 4260
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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
- MW Kennedy Hall 213
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Duffy, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 302
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Maralani, V
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 4491
Course Description
Feminist approaches to questions in metaphysics, epistemology, language, and value theory. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 4490, PHIL 6490
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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
- M Uris Hall 204
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Manne, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 4695
Course Description
This course contemplates challenges associated with researching and representing LGBTQ+ pasts. We approach this topic from several angles: 1) by asking what constitutes "queer" and "trans" in different ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4695, AMST 6695, LGBT 4695, PMA 4695, PMA 6695, SHUM 4695, SHUM 6695
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Warner, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4835
Course Description
An understanding of performance as object and lens, modality and method, is integral to scholarship and research across the humanities and social sciences. Charting the advent and defining principles of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 6835, LGBT 4835, PMA 4835, PMA 6835, VISST 4835
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Jaime, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
FGSS 6153
Course Description
Fall 24 Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts. While feminist art in new media address traditional feminist concerns such as the female body, identity, representation, feminist history, and consumerism, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 4153, VISST 4153
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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: LGBT 6312, MUSIC 6312, STS 6312
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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
- R Lincoln Hall 316
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Moseley, R
Peraino, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 6554
Course Description
"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me," the critic Roland Barthes once wrote. How do we take pleasure in a text, even when it appears to betray us? How do we speak of the erotics ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6554, LGBT 6445
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 283
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Hanson, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 6561
Course Description
This course will look at how Black women writers negotiated enslavement, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow era segregation while also managing to find avenues of joy, escapism, and a certain kind of freedom ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6560
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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
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 283
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Warren, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 6721
Course Description
This course focuses on how Biblical texts represent women in ancient Israel, and how the Bible's representations constitute both a fabrication and a manifestation of social life on the ground. We will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3721, JWST 3720, JWST 6720, NES 3720, NES 6720, RELST 3720, RELST 6720
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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 Rockefeller Hall B15
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Monroe, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 6835
Course Description
An understanding of performance as object and lens, modality and method, is integral to scholarship and research across the humanities and social sciences. Charting the advent and defining principles of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4835, LGBT 4835, PMA 4835, PMA 6835, VISST 4835
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Jaime, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)