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

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Course descriptions provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

FGSS 1100

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 social justice. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Black Feminist Imaginings of Technology

  •  2442 FGSS 1100   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Jallow, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Feminist Fabulations and Queer Alter-Worlds

  •  2443 FGSS 1100   SEM 102

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Chakraborty, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

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 it. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8565 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2023

This course centers Black women who have often described their reproductive health experiences as fighting for our lives. While grounded in an exploration of Black women 's experiences in the US, this ... view course details

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  •  8168 FGSS 2023   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2750

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2050SHUM 2750

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: 9/11 and Its Afterlives

  •  9667 FGSS 2750   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2760

Language is a skin, the critic Roland Barthes once wrote: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8410 FGSS 2760   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2932

In contemporary China, as in many other places of the world, the ideology and social reality of gender relations is highly paradoxical. Women are flattered for their power as consumers and commitment to ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 2291CAPS 2932HIST 2932

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 12233 FGSS 2932   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Du, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 12234 FGSS 2932   IND 601

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Du, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8566 FGSS 3000   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3334

The body has been crucially important to Black liberation politics. Not only has it been a site of contestation and control, but it has also served as a productive site of protest, alliance, and collective ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8165 FGSS 3334   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3655

The work of women artists has been central to the development of new media art. These rich and varied practices include installation, virtual reality environments, net art, digital video, networked performance, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3651SHUM 3651VISST 3651

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  7233 FGSS 3655   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3740

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 as ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3745LGBT 3740PMA 3740

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9604 FGSS 3740   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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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Syllabi: none
  •  9615 FGSS 3754   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8567 FGSS 3990   IND 601

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Staff

  • 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.

FGSS 4153

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
  •  7219 FGSS 4153   SEM 101

    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4292

This class moves beyond a simple consideration of how lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and queer people have been represented in the mainstream media. We will explore both how dominant media forms ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 4292

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  7862 FGSS 4292   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Sender, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4371

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: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 6371SOC 4370SOC 6370

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 10741 FGSS 4371   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4458

This seminar explores the educational lives and schooling experiences of girls and women, broadly inclusive, through ethnographic studies conducted in the U.S. and various regions of the world. Drawing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7578 FGSS 4458   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Villenas, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECON 3440ILRLE 4450

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14194 FGSS 4460   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Patacchini, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4509

In this course, we will engage in close and reflective critical readings of Toni Morrison's eleven novels. Morrison's writing style is characterized by highly distinctive strategies in the development ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4519ASRC 4509ENGL 4509

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8142 FGSS 4509   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4695

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 historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9635 FGSS 4695   SEM 101

    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Warner, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4835

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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  •  9600 FGSS 4835   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Balance, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  8568 FGSS 4990   IND 601

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Ghosh, D

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Ghosh, D

      Parrenas, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8569 FGSS 4990   IND 602

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8570 FGSS 4990   IND 603

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8571 FGSS 4990   IND 604

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8572 FGSS 4990   IND 605

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8573 FGSS 4990   IND 606

    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Parrenas, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6153

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
  •  7222 FGSS 6153   SEM 101

    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6371

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4371SOC 4370SOC 6370

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 10736 FGSS 6371   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6835

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
  •  9608 FGSS 6835   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Balance, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 7335

This course explores the intersections of critical disability studies and ethnography, the latter understood both as method and as mode(s) of writing. We will consider ethnography’s potential to intervene ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 7434MUSIC 7335

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18364 FGSS 7335   SEM 101

    • W
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Appert, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 7458

This seminar explores the educational lives and schooling experiences of girls and women, broadly inclusive, through ethnographic studies conducted in the U.S. and various regions of the world. Drawing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7575 FGSS 7458   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
    • Villenas, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person