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

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

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 ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5088 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

FGSS 2220

Drugs can heal you or poison you, set you free or land you in prison, depending on who you are and your place in the world. The course sheds light on structural inequalities that result from the production, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2230ANTHR 2920LGBT 2220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17367 FGSS 2220   LEC 001

FGSS 2267

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 2267CAPS 2267

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8705 FGSS 2267   LEC 001

  • No prior knowledge of China necessary.

FGSS 2512

This course focuses on African American women in the 20th century. The experiences of black women will be examined from a social, practical, communal, and gendered perspective. Topics include the Club ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2512ASRC 2512HIST 2512

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17086 FGSS 2512   LEC 001

FGSS 2806

This course investigates the rich body of Roman laws on slaves, crime, and women and children. Students will explore the evolution of power over marginalized groups and penalties for crimes at the beginnings ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2806

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16111 FGSS 2806   SEM 101

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. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5069 FGSS 3000   LEC 001

FGSS 3530

This course will explore the classical, medieval, and early modern sources for our notions of monsters, including strange beasts, wild men, demons, witches, and cyborgs.  What do these figures tell us ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3530FREN 3530

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16168 FGSS 3530   LEC 001

  • Conducted in English.

FGSS 3685

Spy Kids, Dora the Explorer, Jane the Virgin give us Hollywood visions of what it is like to grow up Latin@ in this country. Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Sonia Sotomayor and DREAMers provide another set ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3685ENGL 3685LSP 3685

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18185 FGSS 3685   SEM 101

FGSS 3720

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 3720ENGL 3721

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17308 FGSS 3720   SEM 101

FGSS 3820

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 3820ILRLR 5820

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  •  7146 FGSS 3820   LEC 001

FGSS 3991

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

  •  5090 FGSS 3991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Juffer, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7873 FGSS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Hodzic, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7874 FGSS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Ramberg, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7875 FGSS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McCullough, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19056 FGSS 3991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Castillo, D

FGSS 4201

In this course, we will delve into the neuroscience of gender difference. Reading the original scientific papers, we will ask whether we can find measureable physical differences in male and female brains, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIONB 4200LGBT 4200

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18168 FGSS 4201   LEC 001

FGSS 4339

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
  •  7779 FGSS 4339   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

FGSS 4402

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
  •  8887 FGSS 4402   SEM 101

FGSS 4427

This seminar reads pivotal theoretical works in feminist anthropology critically. We will follow the development of anthropological theory with specific reference to sex, sexuality and gender, beginning ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4427ANTHR 7427FGSS 7427

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16838 FGSS 4427   SEM 101

FGSS 4440

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

  • 17306 FGSS 4440   SEM 101

FGSS 4455

Women have from the beginning been integral members of Buddhist traditions. But their voices have often been silenced by male clergy. This course will explore ways in which images of women and the feminine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18143 FGSS 4455   SEM 101

FGSS 4491

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16640 FGSS 4491   SEM 101

FGSS 4509

Toni Morrison is best known for her body of novels that began with publication of The Bluest Eye in 1970. We will focus on reading novels by Morrison, including The Bluest Eye, Sula (1973), Song of Solomon ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17125 FGSS 4509   SEM 101

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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Syllabi: none
  • 17923 FGSS 4835   SEM 101

FGSS 4991

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

  •  5091 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Juffer, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7870 FGSS 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Castillo, D

FGSS 6339

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
  •  7782 FGSS 6339   SEM 101

  • Limited to 15 students.

FGSS 6513

Toni Morrison is best known for her body of novels that began with publication of The Bluest Eye in 1970. We will focus on reading novels by Morrison, including The Bluest Eye, Sula (1973), Song of Solomon ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17888 FGSS 6513   SEM 101

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
  • 17937 FGSS 6835   SEM 101

FGSS 6990

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

  •  5068 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

FGSS 7427

This seminar reads pivotal theoretical works in feminist anthropology critically. We will follow the development of anthropological theory with specific reference to sex, sexuality and gender, beginning ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4427ANTHR 7427FGSS 4427

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16840 FGSS 7427   SEM 101