Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
FGSS 1116
Course Description
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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Angierski, K
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Additional Information
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
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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Baker Laboratory 335
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 2290
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LGBT 2290
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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 White Hall 106
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
McCullough, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 2335
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2335, AMST 6335, FGSS 6335, HIST 2335, HIST 6335, LGBT 2335, LGBT 6335
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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 302
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Vider, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Langwick, S
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- R Uris Hall 302
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- R Uris Hall 369
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- R Morrill Hall 110
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- R Rockefeller Hall 185
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- F Uris Hall G24
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- F Morrill Hall 111
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- F Rockefeller Hall 110
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Staff
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Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 2620
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PMA 2620
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Judith Eissner Pavillion 201
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Stratford, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 2760
Course Description
"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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2760, ENGL 2760, LGBT 2760, PMA 2680
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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 G76-Lewis
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Hanson, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 2806
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2806, GOVT 2806, LAW 6803
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Giannella, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 2841
Course Description
This course explores what has been termed "the modern plague."Â 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: AMST 2841, ANTHR 2021, BSOC 2841, LGBT 2841, STS 2841
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Roebuck, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 3210
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BIONB 3215, LGBT 3210
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Corson-Mudd W364
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Dietz, S
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Additional Information
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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 3250
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 6755, LGBT 3250, LGBT 6755, PMA 3755, PMA 6755, VISST 3260
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Warner, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 3320
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 3320
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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
- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Korfine, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 3550
Course Description
"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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3550, ENGL 3550, LGBT 3550
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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
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Hanson, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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. 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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Section Topic
Topic: Boccaccio's Decameron
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Klarman Hall K111
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Migiel, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Prerequisites: ITAL 2203 or permission of instructor.
FGSS 3591
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3591
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 3692
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3006, GOVT 3696, ILRLR 3691, NES 3691
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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 White Hall 106
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 3725
Course Description
"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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3725, LGBT 3725
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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 102
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Raskolnikov, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 3740
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3745, LGBT 3740, PMA 3740
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 220
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Salvato, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 4000
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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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 Rockefeller Hall 190
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
This class is open to FGSS majors, minors, and with permission of the instructor.
Department Consent Required (Add)
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 498
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Chang, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 4035
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ILRLR 4035
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Ives Hall 103
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Cook, L
Heinemann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 4127
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4415, ASIAN 6615, BSOC 4127, CAPS 4127, FGSS 6127, HIST 4127, HIST 6127
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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 McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Roebuck, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4291
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4291, FGSS 6291, HIST 4291, HIST 6291
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Byfield, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4705, LGBT 4701, LSP 4701, LSP 6701, PMA 4701, PMA 6701
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Jaime, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 438
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 6127
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4415, ASIAN 6615, BSOC 4127, CAPS 4127, FGSS 4127, HIST 4127, HIST 6127
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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 McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Roebuck, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 6164
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6164, LGBT 6164
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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 Uris Hall 254
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Loos, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 6291
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4291, FGSS 4291, HIST 4291, HIST 6291
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Byfield, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 6335
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2335, AMST 6335, FGSS 2335, HIST 2335, HIST 6335, LGBT 2335, LGBT 6335
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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 302
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Vider, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 6755
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3250, LGBT 3250, LGBT 6755, PMA 3755, PMA 6755, VISST 3260
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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 Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Warner, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
FGSS 6880
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6880
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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 Uris Hall 394
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
Instructors
Ramberg, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)