Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 15, 2016 6:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 9, 2016 6:15PM EDT
Classes
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
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 106
Instructors
Ramberg, L
FGSS 2220
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2230, ANTHR 2920, LGBT 2220
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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 White Hall 106
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 2267
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2267, CAPS 2267
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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
- TR Stimson Hall 206
Instructors
Son, S
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Additional Information
No prior knowledge of China necessary.
FGSS 2512
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2512, ASRC 2512, HIST 2512
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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
- TR Rockefeller Hall 230
Instructors
Washington, M
FGSS 2806
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2806
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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
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Giannella, N
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
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 262
Instructors
Juffer, J
FGSS 3530
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3530, FREN 3530
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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
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Long, K
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
FGSS 3685
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3685, ENGL 3685, LSP 3685
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Brady, M
FGSS 3720
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3720, ENGL 3721
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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
- TR Uris Hall 202
Instructors
McCullough, K
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 3820
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ILRLR 3820, ILRLR 5820
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits S/U NoAud(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Ives Hall 115
Instructors
Devault, I
FGSS 3991
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
FGSS 4201
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BIONB 4200, LGBT 4200
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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 Corson-Mudd W358
Instructors
Dietz, S
FGSS 4339
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4440, ASIAN 6640, COML 4339, COML 6339, FGSS 6339, LSP 4339, LSP 6339
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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
- W Morrill Hall 102
Instructors
Banerjee, A
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Limited to 15 students.
FGSS 4402
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4402, ANTHR 4102, ASRC 4402, LGBT 4402
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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 Africana Ctr B01
Instructors
LaBennett, O
FGSS 4427
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4427, ANTHR 7427, FGSS 7427
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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
- W McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
March, K
FGSS 4440
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 4441
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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
- M Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Rossiter, M
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4455
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4455, ASIAN 6655, RELST 4455
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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
- T Rockefeller Hall 382
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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
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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
- R Rockefeller Hall 112
Instructors
Manne, K
FGSS 4509
Course Description
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
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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
Instructors
Warner, S
FGSS 4991
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
FGSS 6339
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4440, ASIAN 6640, COML 4339, COML 6339, FGSS 4339, LSP 4339, LSP 6339
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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
- W Morrill Hall 102
Instructors
Banerjee, A
Castillo, D
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Additional Information
Limited to 15 students.
FGSS 6513
Course Description
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
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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
Instructors
Warner, S
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
FGSS 7427
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4427, ANTHR 7427, FGSS 4427
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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
- W McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
March, K