Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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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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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 106
Instructors
Chang, J
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Additional Information
To ensure that underclassmen are able to enroll, enrollment caps are placed on this course during pre-enroll. This is why you may be unable to enroll even if there seems to be space in the class. If this happens, please e-mail Professor Chang (jhc324) and she will add you to the waitlist.
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FGSS 2290
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the questions, topics, approaches, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2290, LGBT 2290
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF White Hall 110
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Diabate, N
FGSS 2351
Course Description
This course introduces students to the study of Africa and its Diasporas, including the Americas and West Indies, as well as Europe. The course takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach to a range ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2351
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Africana Ctr B07
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Gaines, K
FGSS 2468
Course Description
Medicine has become the language and practice through which we address a broad range of both individual and societal complaints. Interest in this "medicalization of life" may be one of the reasons that ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468, BSOC 2468, STS 2468
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Klarman Hall KG70
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Langwick, S
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- R Rockefeller Hall 128
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Staff
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- R Uris Hall 498
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- R Morrill Hall 102
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- R McGraw Hall 365
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- F Rockefeller Hall 127
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- F Rockefeller Hall 110
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- F Rockefeller Hall 187
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- F Uris Hall G44
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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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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 115
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Washington, M
FGSS 2620
Course Description
Why are the undead so long-lived? This course hunts the dangerous and subversive figure of the vampire across a variety of pages, stages and screens. From campy melodramas and raucous stage comedies, to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 2620
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
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Stratford, A
FGSS 2621
Course Description
There are several "just-so stories" about science and religion: the world's religions are parallel systems of belief in the supernatural; science has a set method that produces universal truths; and religion ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2621, STS 2621
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 105
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Rock-Singer, C
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FGSS 2841
Course Description
This course explores what has been termed "the modern plague." It investigates the social history, cultural politics, biological processes, and global impacts of the retrovirus, HIV, and the disease syndrome, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2021, BSOC 2841, LGBT 2841, STS 2841
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 103
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Roebuck, C
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FGSS 3015
Course Description
This course examines the relationships between diasporic/transnational experiences and emerging forms, practices and technologies of literary production. We will analyze literary media, such as interactive ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 3015, ENGL 3915
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G20
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Wong, D
FGSS 3210
Course Description
In this course, we will delve into the neuroscience of gender difference. Reading the original scientific papers and related critical texts, we will ask whether we can find measureable physical differences ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BIONB 3215, LGBT 3210
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Corson-Mudd A106
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Dietz, S
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: BIONB 2220, BIOMG 3320, FGSS 2010, LGBT 2290 or permission of instructor. For NBB concentration: this course may be used toward the additional 7 credit requirement, but does not qualify as an advanced course.
FGSS 3376
Course Description
New media remain central to ongoing struggles over the constitution of the public sphere in Asia. In high measure, censorship affects the Internet and visual media (including digital, independent cinema), ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3376, ASIAN 6676, FGSS 6676
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Uris Hall 262
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Fuhrmann, A
FGSS 3520
Course Description
This course will offer an historical overview of responses to bodily and cognitive difference. What was the status of the monster, the freak, the abnormal, the (dis)abled, and how are all of these concepts ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3520
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 110
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Long, K
FGSS 3540
Course Description
This course explores written and visual biographies of African American and African women in the fashion industry as a launching point for thinking about beauty, race, gender and class. Some of the questions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3560, ASRC 3550
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Lincoln Hall B08
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Rooks, N
FGSS 3588
Course Description
This course is dedicated to studying important works of literature that address what it means, in the Renaissance, to strive for excellence as a man or as a woman, especially in the public sphere and in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ITAL 3580
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Klarman Hall KG42
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Migiel, M
FGSS 3655
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3651, VISST 3651
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Fernandez, M
FGSS 3691
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3690, ENGL 3690
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Stimson Hall 105
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Cheyfitz, E
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 4000
Course Description
For Spring 2018, this course will focus on The Complexities of Consent. The issue of consent is central to much feminism scholarship, yet its meaning is contested. It figures prominently in relation to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- M Rockefeller Hall 190
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
This class is open to FGSS majors, minors, and with permission of the instructor.
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FGSS 4020
Course Description
This course examines how modern Spanish writers and doctors represented the human body as they grappled with disease and disability. Reading fiction alongside medical and anthropological texts we will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SPAN 4020
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 348
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Chang, J
FGSS 4035
Course Description
A recognition of the importance of intersectionality, or the understanding of how identities such as disability, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic class, ... view course details
Seven Week - Second. Combined with: ILRLR 4035
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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- W Ives Hall 217
- Mar 19 - May 9, 2018
Instructors
Cook, L
Heinemann, A
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FGSS 4114
Course Description
In this course we will consider the production of the human body as an artifact of race, sex and gender through the discourses, practices, and technologies of bio-science and bio-medicine. We will read ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4114, ANTHR 7114, BSOC 4741, BSOC 7741, FGSS 7114, STS 4741, STS 7741
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T White Hall B02
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Ramberg, L
FGSS 4160
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4416, ASIAN 6618, FGSS 6160, HIST 4160, HIST 6160, LGBT 4160, LGBT 6160
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- W Uris Hall 498
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Loos, T
FGSS 4501
Course Description
This course reads and discusses representative literature from 20th century continental African writers with particular attention to the ways that African women examine the nature of the post-colonial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4501, ASRC 6105, ENGL 4501
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 122
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Boyce Davies, C
Ngugi, M
FGSS 4504
Course Description
This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4423, ASIAN 6623, FGSS 6504, PMA 4504
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Uris Hall 302
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Fuhrmann, A
FGSS 4509
Course Description
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955. To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details
FGSS 4620
Course Description
In this seminar we will sustain a particular reading of post-1984 Mexico-US border cultural production as "undocumentation." Specifically, we will focus on performance, conceptual, and cinematic practices ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4620, COML 4616, LATA 4620, LSP 4621, ROMS 4625, SHUM 4620, VISST 4620
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- R A D White House 110
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Carroll, A
FGSS 4652
Course Description
Bodies and Diseases in the Middle East (1500-2000) will explore the history of medicine and science in the Middle East from early modern period to the present. It covers the main topics and questions regarding ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4651, NES 4652, NES 6652
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- R Rockefeller Hall 110
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Yilmaz, S
FGSS 4701
Course Description
This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks. Focusing on queer communities ... view course details
FGSS 4711
Course Description
This seminar explores theoretical work in which lateness figures as the signal condition, gesture, problem, or method. We begin with two topics prominent in twentieth-century criticism: late style and ... view course details
FGSS 4841
Course Description
The term "epidemic" travels widely and wildly in contemporary worlds. But, what, when and where is "the epidemic"? How and why does epidemic unfold? This senior seminar offers an interdisciplinary exploration ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4041, BSOC 4841, STS 4841
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- R Rockefeller Hall 127
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Roebuck, C
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4945
Course Description
The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality--genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4995, COML 4945, ENGL 4995, LGBT 4945, VISST 4945
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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Diabate, N
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 6160
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4416, ASIAN 6618, FGSS 4160, HIST 4160, HIST 6160, LGBT 4160, LGBT 6160
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Uris Hall 498
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Loos, T
FGSS 6504
Course Description
This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4423, ASIAN 6623, FGSS 4504, PMA 4504
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Uris Hall 302
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Fuhrmann, A
FGSS 6513
Course Description
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955. To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details
FGSS 6676
Course Description
New media remain central to ongoing struggles over the constitution of the public sphere in Asia. In high measure, censorship affects the Internet and visual media (including digital, independent cinema), ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3376, ASIAN 6676, FGSS 3376
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Uris Hall 262
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Fuhrmann, A
FGSS 6711
Course Description
This seminar explores theoretical work in which lateness figures as the signal condition, gesture, problem, or method. We begin with two topics prominent in twentieth-century criticism: late style and ... view course details
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 7114
Course Description
In this course we will consider the production of the human body as an artifact of race, sex and gender through the discourses, practices, and technologies of bio-science and bio-medicine. We will read ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4114, ANTHR 7114, BSOC 4741, BSOC 7741, FGSS 4114, STS 4741, STS 7741
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T White Hall B02
Instructors
Ramberg, L