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

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FGSS 1100
FWS: Topics in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Lost Bodies

  • 20218 FGSS 1100   SEM 101

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    • TR White Hall 104
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Anspach, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
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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. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3392 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

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    • TR White Hall 106
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8972 FGSS 2010   LEC 002

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    • MW White Hall 106
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2024
Ecological Justice: Feminist, Queer, and Trans Perspectives

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 2965

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19956 FGSS 2024   SEM 101

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    • TR McGraw Hall 365
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Zurn, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2806
Roman Law

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2806, GOVT 2806, LAW 6803

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19247 FGSS 2806   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5220 FGSS 3000   LEC 001

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    • MW White Hall 110
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Parrenas, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Prerequisite: FGSS 2010 or permission of instructor.

FGSS 3316
What's in a Sound? Gender and Race in Sound Cultures

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3316

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19413 FGSS 3316   LEC 001

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    • TR Uris Hall G28
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Moura, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3322
Gospel and The Blues: A Black Women's History I, 1900-1973

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3322, MUSIC 3322, RELST 3322

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20250 FGSS 3322   SEM 101

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    • TR Uris Hall 498
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Dromgoole, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3400
Social Justice: Special Topics

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 3420, ANTHR 3402, GOVT 3401

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11997 FGSS 3400   LEC 001

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    • MW Morrill Hall 404
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11998 FGSS 3400   IND 601

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    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 3464
Representational Ethics in Film and Television

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3464, PMA 3464, VISST 3464

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20403 FGSS 3464   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3591
Kids Rule! Children's Popular Culture

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3591

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19019 FGSS 3591   LEC 001

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    • MW Sibley Hall 101
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3636
Queer Classics

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3635, LGBT 3635, SHUM 3635

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11450 FGSS 3636   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Please contact Ryan Belle (rtb95) to be added to the wait list.

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FGSS 3651
Freud and Psychoanalysis

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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Syllabi: none

  • 18642 FGSS 3651   LEC 001

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    • MW McGraw Hall 145
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3686
Feminism and Islam in North Africa

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

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3685, FREN 3685, NES 3686

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11946 FGSS 3686   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3721
Women and Gender in Biblical Israel

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 18628 FGSS 3721   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3740
Parody

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3745, LGBT 3740, PMA 3740

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18200 FGSS 3740   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3393 FGSS 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Ghosh, D

  • 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.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5511 FGSS 3990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Ramberg, L

  • 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.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5512 FGSS 3990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Juffer, J

  • 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.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5513 FGSS 3990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Hodzic, S

  • 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.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6104 FGSS 3990   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • McCullough, K

  • 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.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12614 FGSS 3990   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Devault, I

  • 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.

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FGSS 4100
The Seminar

Topics vary by instructor. view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one project. Combined with: GERST 4100, LGBT 4100

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Queer and Trans Germany—Media, Histories, Cultures

  • 19182 FGSS 4100   SEM 101

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    • MW Kennedy Hall 105
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Schoppelrei, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Taught in German. Prerequisite: any German course at the 3210-3499-level or equivalent.

  • Topic: Queer and Trans Germany—Media, Histories, Cultures

  • 19188 FGSS 4100   PRJ 601

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    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Schoppelrei, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4124
Trans Theory and the Question of Gender

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4495

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19958 FGSS 4124   SEM 101

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    • R Uris Hall 204
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Zurn, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4153
Topics in Feminist Media Arts

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

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts

  • 10285 FGSS 4153   SEM 102

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  • 19186 FGSS 4212   SEM 101

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    • TR Africana Ctr B01
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  • 19824 FGSS 4260   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4371
Sociology of Sex and Gender

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

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 4370

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18265 FGSS 4371   SEM 101

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    • R Uris Hall 302
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4491
Feminism and Philosophy

Feminist approaches to questions in metaphysics, epistemology, language, and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4490, PHIL 6490

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18482 FGSS 4491   SEM 101

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    • M Uris Hall 204
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Manne, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4695
Queer Archives and Archiving Queerness

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 20330 FGSS 4695   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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FGSS 4835
Performance Studies: Theories and Methods

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 18225 FGSS 4835   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  3516 FGSS 4990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5090 FGSS 4990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5185 FGSS 4990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5514 FGSS 4990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 21577 FGSS 4990   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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FGSS 6153
Topics in Feminist Media Arts

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

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts

  • 10288 FGSS 6153   SEM 102

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6312
Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LGBT 6312, MUSIC 6312, STS 6312

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19611 FGSS 6312   SEM 101

    • R Lincoln Hall 316
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Moseley, R

      Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 6554
Modernist Fiction and the Erotics of Style

"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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6554, LGBT 6445

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19009 FGSS 6554   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6561
Politics and Joy in Black Women's Writing

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6560

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19178 FGSS 6561   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6721
Women and Gender in Biblical Israel

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 18632 FGSS 6721   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6835
Performance Studies: Theories and Methods

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 18228 FGSS 6835   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  3939 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Zurn, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)