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

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

FGSS 1116

Mass extinction, drought, toxic pollution: When the world's on fire, does gender really matter? In this course, we will examine the relationship between the degradation of the earth and the oppression ... view course details

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17458 FGSS 1116   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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 ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5246 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 2290

This course offers an introduction to central issues, debates, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Starting from the assumption that neither ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LGBT 2290

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8461 FGSS 2290   LEC 001

    • TR White Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 2335

In this course we will examine LGBTQ+ history in the United States with a focus on its recovery and public representation—what are the stakes of researching, preserving, and commemorating the LGBTQ+ past? ... view course details

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  • 17978 FGSS 2335   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Vider, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 2468

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468BSOC 2468STS 2468

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8126 FGSS 2468   LEC 001

    • TR Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Langwick, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8127 FGSS 2468   DIS 201

    • R Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8128 FGSS 2468   DIS 202

    • R Uris Hall 369
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8129 FGSS 2468   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8130 FGSS 2468   DIS 205

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8131 FGSS 2468   DIS 206

    • F Uris Hall G24
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8132 FGSS 2468   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8133 FGSS 2468   DIS 208

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8134 FGSS 2468   DIS 209

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 2620

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 2620

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16942 FGSS 2620   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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 ... view course details

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  •  8806 FGSS 2760   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 2806

This course presents a cultural and historical perspective on ideas of agency, responsibility, and punishment through foundational texts of western law. We will primarily focus on three main areas of law: ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2806GOVT 2806LAW 6803

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9002 FGSS 2806   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 2841

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

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  •  8565 FGSS 2841   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 3210

Why are boys more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism, and why are women more likely than men to be diagnosed with depression? Are there different "gay" and "straight" brains? And how does brain ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIONB 3215LGBT 3210

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8063 FGSS 3210   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    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 3250

How have movements for sexual liberation used performance as a means of self-expression and strategies for social justice? How have theatrical stages served as sites of queer sociality and crucibles of ... view course details

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  • 16554 FGSS 3250   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 3320

This course examines the ways in which sex and gender impact the expression of severe psychopathology. We will study biological, psychological, and cultural factors associated with sex and gender as they ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 3320

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9383 FGSS 3320   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 3550

"My existence is a scandal," Oscar Wilde once wrote, summing up in an epigram the effect of his carefully cultivated style of perversity and paradox. Through their celebration of "art for art's sake" and ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3550ENGL 3550LGBT 3550

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16593 FGSS 3550   LEC 001

    • MW White Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 3588

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. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 3580

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Boccaccio's Decameron

  • 16382 FGSS 3588   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: ITAL 2203 or permission of instructor.

FGSS 3591

How is the figure of the child constructed in popular culture? When and to what degree do children participate in the construction of these representations? This course surveys a variety of contemporary ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3591

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16596 FGSS 3591   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3651VISST 3651

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16433 FGSS 3655   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 3692

What does it mean to live in the aftermath of slavery? How has the human history of slavery contributed to the production of "natural" values that we take for granted—such as community, property, citizenship, ... view course details

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  • 17154 FGSS 3692   LEC 001

    • TR White Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 3725

"One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one" wrote Simone de Beauvoir. How does such an odd becoming happen? What can literature teach us about it? Does anyone ever achieve "being a woman" and how ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3725LGBT 3725

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16600 FGSS 3725   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & 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 ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3745LGBT 3740PMA 3740

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16663 FGSS 3740   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  5248 FGSS 3991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7293 FGSS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7294 FGSS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7295 FGSS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7865 FGSS 3991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8140 FGSS 3991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 4000

This course is a capstone seminar for FGSS majors and minors. It serves as an opportunity to synthesize various strands of feminist analysis and feminist theory gained during your undergraduate education ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7999 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    This class is open to FGSS majors, minors, and with permission of the instructor.

FGSS 4020

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SPAN 4020

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16391 FGSS 4020   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Chang, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 4035

A recognition of the importance of intersectionality has become increasingly key to not only understand the complexity of social identity and lived experience, but to combat discrimination and oppression. ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRLR 4035

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  8739 FGSS 4035   LEC 001

    • W Ives Hall 103
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Cook, L

      Heinemann, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 4127

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution.  This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

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  • 17177 FGSS 4127   SEM 101

    • M McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 4291

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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  • 17160 FGSS 4291   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 4701

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

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  • 16633 FGSS 4701   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 4945

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

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  • 18012 FGSS 4945   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 438
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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 Stdnt Opt

  •  5249 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7292 FGSS 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 6127

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution.  This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17186 FGSS 6127   SEM 101

    • M McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 6164

This course explores the changing historical relationship between the body's biological sex, individual subjectivity, and identity. It asks how culture shapes scientific understandings and possibilities ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6164LGBT 6164

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17257 FGSS 6164   SEM 101

    • W Uris Hall 254
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Loos, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 6291

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.  ... view course details

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  • 17162 FGSS 6291   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 6335

In this course we will examine LGBTQ+ history in the United States with a focus on its recovery and public representation—what are the stakes of researching, preserving, and commemorating the LGBTQ+ past? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17980 FGSS 6335   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall 302
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Vider, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 6755

How have movements for sexual liberation used performance as a means of self-expression and strategies for social justice? How have theatrical stages served as sites of queer sociality and crucibles of ... view course details

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  • 16558 FGSS 6755   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FGSS 6880

This course offers an introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of the interdisciplinary field of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, providing graduate students with a range of disciplinary ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 6880

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9453 FGSS 6880   SEM 101

    • M Uris Hall 394
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

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

  •  5230 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person