Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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FGSS 1940
Course Description
By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2930, HIST 1930, LGBT 1940, SHUM 1930
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Ghosh, D
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Staff
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- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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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
FGSS 2260
Course Description
Japanese pop culture—anime, manga, video games, music and more—has been a major phenomenon with massive worldwide popularity for the last three decades. In this course, we will explore a wide range of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2260, PMA 2460, SHUM 2460
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Wong, K
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Wong, K
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Instruction Mode: 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
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 2350
Course Description
How does literary language depict the experience of physical suffering? Can a poem or a novel palliate pain, illness, even the possibility of death? From darkly comic narratives of black plague to the ... view course details
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 medical ... 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
- MW
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Langwick, S
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Staff
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- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Staff
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- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Staff
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Staff
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- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Staff
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- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Staff
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- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
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Staff
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FGSS 2555
Course Description
This course will introduce students to the study of sex and sexuality in the medieval and early modern Islamic World, ending at the dawn of the twentieth century; we will begin with the study of desire ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 2555, NES 2555, RELST 2555
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 2575
Course Description
This course focuses on the human condition of Chinese women after 1949. In the name of the Women's liberation movement since the early 1900s, do Chinese women eventually hold up the half sky? From the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: CAPS 2575, HIST 2575
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Sun, P
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Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 2652
Course Description
This course introduces students to ancient Greek drama, with a particular focus on the genre of tragedy and its relation to the cultural, political, and performance context of Athens in the 5th century ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2652, PMA 2652, SHUM 2652
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 3040
Course Description
This course is organized around the central theme of reproductive justice. It interrogates the connections between reproductive politics and policy, engaged research, and public health. By approaching ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3041
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Dietz, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Prerequisite: BIONB 2220, BIOMG 3320, FGSS 2010, LGBT 2290 or permission of instructor. For Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) concentration: this course may be used toward the additional 7 credit requirement, but does not qualify as an advanced course. If a student enrolls in a non-College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) section of a cross-listed course, it will not automatically be counted as CALS credits in their degree progress. However, we can still give them CALS credit for the class, they just need to ask us to code it.
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FGSS 3320
Course Description
This course will examine the ways in which sex and gender impact the expression of severe psychopathology. We will try to understand these relationships using different levels of analysis. This will involve ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HD 3320
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 3334
Course Description
The body has been crucially important to Black liberation politics. Not only has it been a site of contestation and control, but it has also served as a productive site of protest, alliance, and collective ... view course details
FGSS 3565
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Mainstream media would have us believe that driving a new Toyota Prius, recycling, and shopping "clean" at Whole Foods would make us all food environmentalists, right? Additionally, climate change and ... view course details
FGSS 3575
Course Description
During her time in Germany, the U.S. poet Audre Lorde (who described herself as "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet") sought out community and encouraged Black Germans to speak up and make themselves ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3575, GERST 3575, LGBT 3575
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 3977
Course Description
This course examines how writers, filmmakers, and content creators from Africa engage with and revise public images of bodies—specifically pleasure, queerness, sex strikes, etc. Our inquiry also ... view course details
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
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
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Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Ramberg, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
McCullough, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Ghosh, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Long, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4000
Course Description
This senior seminar constitutes the culmination of the FGSS major-it provides a unique opportunity to come together with all the other FGSS seniors to both put to use what has been learned and explore ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study.
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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
- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4290
Course Description
Drawing on feminist and queer theory and ethnographic studies of ritual and devotional practices around the world this course will consider the relationships among the social organization of sexuality, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4490, LGBT 4290, RELST 4240
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 4292
Course Description
This class moves beyond a simple consideration of how lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and queer people have been represented in the mainstream media. We will explore both how dominant media forms ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COMM 4292
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
FGSS 4380
Course Description
Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? At a time when reality appears dystopian, many are quick to dismiss utopian visions as naïve or irresponsible. In this seminar, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4380, ENGL 4380, GERST 4380
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 4441
Course Description
How does gender, sexuality, race, and class matter in natural, medical, and technical sciences? How might orangutans, surgery, and digital imaging all be feminist subjects of interest? This seminar will ... view course details
FGSS 4509
Course Description
In this course, we will engage in close and reflective critical readings of Toni Morrison's eleven novels. Morrison's writing style is characterized by highly distinctive strategies in the development ... view course details
FGSS 4561
Course Description
How has history shaped our notion of Black girlhood? What is our collective understanding of Black girlhood? How do we see and understand Black girls? Black Girlhood Studies is a multidisciplinary field ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4561, HD 4560, PSYCH 4560
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Inniss-Thompson, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Application required. See https://forms.gle/uECvEmNeCTnN82Km8 to apply.
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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 4845
Course Description
The majority of existing union members are women and workers of color, and, since the mid-1980s, the majority of newly organized workers have been women of color, particularly black women and recent immigrants ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 6845, ILRGL 4845, ILRGL 6845
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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 Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 6363
Course Description
Are queer theory and Marxism truly irreconcilable? While queer studies emerged in part as a rejection of Marxism's totalizing approach and Marxists have criticized the queer emphasis on individuals, this ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6303, GERST 6363, LGBT 6363, PHIL 6963
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 6440
Course Description
How does gender, sexuality, race, and class matter in natural, medical, and technical sciences? How might orangutans, surgery, and digital imaging all be feminist subjects of interest? This seminar will ... view course details
FGSS 6513
Course Description
In this course, we will engage in close and reflective critical readings of Toni Morrison's eleven novels. Morrison's writing style is characterized by highly distinctive strategies in the development ... view course details
FGSS 6845
Course Description
The majority of existing union members are women and workers of color, and, since the mid-1980s, the majority of newly organized workers have been women of color, particularly black women and recent immigrants ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4845, ILRGL 4845, ILRGL 6845
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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
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)