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

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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 impart 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

  •  5599 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

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FGSS 2267
Women and Society in China

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2267

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16764 FGSS 2267   LEC 001

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FGSS 2760
Desire

"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 ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 15529 FGSS 2760   LEC 001

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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

  •  5580 FGSS 3000   LEC 001

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FGSS 3580
Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 15929 FGSS 3580   LEC 001

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FGSS 3691
The Race and Gender of Poverty in Literature and Film

Poverty is an ongoing issue in the United States, and has intensified since the recession of 2008. As such, poverty has disproportionately affected women and underrepresented racial and ethnic communities. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3690, ENGL 3690

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17916 FGSS 3691   SEM 101

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FGSS 3820
Gendered Workplace

This course will examine the range of issues surrounding the experience of gender in the modern workplace. Topics may include the historical role of women in the workplace; sex segregation in the workplace; ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 3820

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  •  7881 FGSS 3820   LEC 001

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FGSS 3991
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

  •  5601 FGSS 3991   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Juffer, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9295 FGSS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9296 FGSS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Ramberg, L

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9297 FGSS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA

    • McCullough, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 4160
Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia

Students consider the relationships among colonialism and gender and sexual identity formation in Southeast Asia. Using material from a wide range of fields including anthropology and literature, the course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16734 FGSS 4160   SEM 101

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FGSS 4291
Marriage and Divorce in Africa

Marriage was the widely expected norm within African societies. The institution was an important marker of adulthood, linking individuals and lineages in a network of mutual cooperation and support. Marriage ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4291, HIST 4291

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17462 FGSS 4291   SEM 101

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FGSS 4339
Bodies at the Border

Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8979 FGSS 4339   SEM 101

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    • W Uris Hall 204

    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Limited to 15 students.

FGSS 4402
Women in Hip Hop

This course will explore how women are portrayed in hip hop music and culture, addressing women both as consumers and producers. We will draw on texts that analyze misogyny in hip hop music and music videos, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17203 FGSS 4402   SEM 101

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FGSS 4403
Black Women Writers of the South

This course considers the new generation of writers of black women that has emerged in the U.S. South in more recent years, whose writings have increasingly impacted the development of contemporary African ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17219 FGSS 4403   SEM 101

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FGSS 4411
Performance After the Internet

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4784, PMA 4411, VISST 4411

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18184 FGSS 4411   SEM 101

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FGSS 4415
Sexuality, Power, Belief: Thailand in Contrast

This course takes as its main cases narrative and visual representations of sexuality and desire in Thailand—as well as in the global imaginary of the country— and investigates these in regional ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 15912 FGSS 4415   SEM 101

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FGSS 4440
Historical Issues of Gender and Science

A one-semester survey of women's role in science and engineering from antiquity to the present, with special emphasis on the United States in the 20th century. Readings include biographies and autobiographies ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: STS 4441

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8117 FGSS 4440   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

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: none

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

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  9149 FGSS 4460   LEC 001

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 4991
Senior Honors Thesis II

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 Graded

  •  5602 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Warner, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9292 FGSS 4991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9293 FGSS 4991   IND 603

    • TBA

    • McCullough, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9294 FGSS 4991   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Ramberg, L

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9470 FGSS 4991   IND 605

    • TBA

    • Woubshet, D

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17092 FGSS 4991   IND 606

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    • TBA

    • Warner, S

FGSS 6160
Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia

Students consider the relationships among colonialism and gender and sexual identity formation in Southeast Asia. Using material from a wide range of fields including anthropology and literature, the course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16910 FGSS 6160   SEM 101

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FGSS 6339
Bodies at the Border

Although the wounded, often feminine, body is the most powerful way of imagining border space in both the Indian subcontinent and the Americas, it is seldom coupled with the embodied practices and performances ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •  8982 FGSS 6339   SEM 101

  •  
    • W Uris Hall 204

    • Banerjee, A

      Castillo, D

  • Limited to 15 students.

FGSS 6403
Black Women Writers of the South

This course considers the new generation of writers of black women that has emerged in the U.S. South in more recent years, whose writings have increasingly impacted the development of contemporary African ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17643 FGSS 6403   SEM 101

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FGSS 6472
The Problem with Rights

In June 2013, in the space of a week, the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action, the legacy of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While the first two decisions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16804 FGSS 6472   SEM 101

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FGSS 6580
Theorizing Gender and Race in Asian Histories and Literatures

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

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Syllabi: none

  • 15937 FGSS 6580   LEC 001

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FGSS 6625
Sexuality, Power, Belief: Thailand in Contrast

This course takes as its main cases narrative and visual representations of sexuality and desire in Thailand—as well as in the global imaginary of the country— and investigates these in regional ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8635 FGSS 6625   SEM 101

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  • Interested, upper level undergrads may join.

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

  •  5579 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)