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

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FGSS 1940

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2930HIST 1930LGBT 1940SHUM 1930

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17609 FGSS 1940   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17610 FGSS 1940   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17611 FGSS 1940   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17612 FGSS 1940   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17613 FGSS 1940   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17614 FGSS 1940   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17615 FGSS 1940   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3030 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Zurn, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2260

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2260PMA 2460SHUM 2460

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9766 FGSS 2260   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Wong, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19047 FGSS 2260   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Wong, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19048 FGSS 2260   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Wong, K

  • Instruction Mode: 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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4996 FGSS 2290   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2350

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 18642 FGSS 2350   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Cohn, E

  • Instruction Mode: 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 medical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468BSOC 2468STS 2468

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4902 FGSS 2468   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Langwick, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4903 FGSS 2468   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4904 FGSS 2468   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11661 FGSS 2468   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4905 FGSS 2468   DIS 204

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4906 FGSS 2468   DIS 205

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4907 FGSS 2468   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4908 FGSS 2468   DIS 207

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4909 FGSS 2468   DIS 209

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2555

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MEDVL 2555NES 2555RELST 2555

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18499 FGSS 2555   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lawrence, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2575

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

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: CAPS 2575HIST 2575

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5983 FGSS 2575   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9447 FGSS 2575   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 2652

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2652PMA 2652SHUM 2652

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11284 FGSS 2652   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lambert, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3040

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3041

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19481 FGSS 3040   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Newman, J

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4866 FGSS 3210   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Dietz, S

  • 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.

FGSS 3320

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 3320

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5199 FGSS 3320   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Korfine, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3334

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 19149 FGSS 3334   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3565

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3565ASRC 3565ENGL 3565

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18851 FGSS 3565   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Frazier, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3575

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3575GERST 3575LGBT 3575

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19489 FGSS 3575   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Schoppelrei, E

  • Instruction Mode: 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 and in ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 3580

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17793 FGSS 3588   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Migiel, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3977

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17862 FGSS 3977   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: 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
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3031 FGSS 3991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Juffer, J

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4439 FGSS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Hodzic, S

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4440 FGSS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ramberg, L

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4441 FGSS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McCullough, K

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4912 FGSS 3991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ghosh, D

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5746 FGSS 3991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Long, K

  • 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.

FGSS 4000

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4850 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10081 FGSS 4000   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4290

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4490LGBT 4290RELST 4240

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20456 FGSS 4290   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4292

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 4292

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 19014 FGSS 4292   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Sender, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4380

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4380ENGL 4380GERST 4380

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19509 FGSS 4380   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Jarris, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4441

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 6440STS 4440STS 6440

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20070 FGSS 4441   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Parrenas, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4509

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 19180 FGSS 4509   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4561

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4561HD 4560PSYCH 4560

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20386 FGSS 4561   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Inniss-Thompson, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Application required. See https://forms.gle/uECvEmNeCTnN82Km8 to apply.

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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Syllabi: none
  • 17867 FGSS 4701   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4845

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 6845ILRGL 4845ILRGL 6845

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18079 FGSS 4845   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bronfenbrenner, K

  • Instruction Mode: 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 Graded

  •  3032 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4438 FGSS 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5473 FGSS 4991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20535 FGSS 4991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6363

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 18139 FGSS 6363   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Jarris, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

FGSS 6440

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4441STS 4440STS 6440

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20071 FGSS 6440   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Parrenas, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6513

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 20412 FGSS 6513   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6845

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4845ILRGL 4845ILRGL 6845

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18081 FGSS 6845   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Bronfenbrenner, K

  • Instruction Mode: 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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5204 FGSS 6880   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Zurn, P

  • Instruction Mode: 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

  •  3018 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies