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

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FGSS 2010
Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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 it. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1160 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2281
Gender, Family, and Confucianism in East Asia

This course offers a broad understanding of the crucial roles East Asian women played in culture, the economy, and society from antiquity to the early twentieth century. By rethinking the pervasive stereotype ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2281, CAPS 2281, HIST 2981

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  1778 FGSS 2281   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Son, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10347 FGSS 2281   DIS 201

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    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Son, S

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  • 10348 FGSS 2281   DIS 202

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    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Son, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2290
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

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

  •  1015 FGSS 2290   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2310
Sociology of Sexualities

This course introduces the field of sexuality studies to advanced undergraduates by examining the social, cultural, political, and historical dimensions of sexuality. We will read theoretical and empirical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LGBT 2310, SOC 2310

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 15599 FGSS 2310   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Budnick, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2352
How Do You Know? The Ethics and Politics of Knowledge

This course critically examines the politics and ethics of knowledge production across the humanities and social sciences. It poses an expansive and complex question: how, by whom, and for whom is knowledge ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 2352, MUSIC 2352, SHUM 2352

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18124 FGSS 2352   LEC 001

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    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Appert, C

      Bize, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2468
Medicine, Culture, and Society

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 2468, BSOC 2468, STS 2468

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 14754 FGSS 2468   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Nading, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 14755 FGSS 2468   DIS 201

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    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 14756 FGSS 2468   DIS 202

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    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 14757 FGSS 2468   DIS 203

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    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 14758 FGSS 2468   DIS 204

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    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 14759 FGSS 2468   DIS 205

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    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 14760 FGSS 2468   DIS 206

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    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 14761 FGSS 2468   DIS 207

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    • Staff

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  • 14762 FGSS 2468   DIS 209

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    • Staff

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FGSS 2575
Tyranny and Dignity: Chinese Women from the Cultural Revolution to the White Paper Revolution

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: none

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10022 FGSS 2575   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Sun, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10023 FGSS 2575   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 2652
Ancient Greek Drama

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 2652, PMA 2652, SHUM 2652

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8575 FGSS 2652   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Lambert, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2750
Introduction to Humanities

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Women, Textiles, and Texts in Feminist Thought

  • 18378 FGSS 2750   SEM 102

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Danisi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment preference given to: students accepted into the Humanities Scholars Program. For course description, see https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses

FGSS 2806
Roman Law

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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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 2806, GOVT 2806

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8531 FGSS 2806   SEM 101

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    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Giannella, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3210
Gender and the Brain

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 3215, LGBT 3210

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3055 FGSS 3210   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Dietz, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: any one of the following: 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 3212
Germanophone Science and Speculative Fiction

A humanoid robot, an attic portal to another world, a haunted small town, an instance of time travel gone wrong—we will encounter all of these (and more) in this course on science and speculative fiction. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3212, LGBT 3212, SHUM 3212

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18045 FGSS 3212   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Schoppelrei, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: one course at the GERST 3000-3209 level or equivalent, or placement by examination. This course may be counted towards the requirement for 3210-3499 level language in the major.

FGSS 3320
Gender and Psychopathology

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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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HD 3320

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 14107 FGSS 3320   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Korfine, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3322
Gospel and The Blues: A Black Women's History I, 1900-1973

In her pathbreaking text Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman writes that young Black women were radical thinkers who tirelessly imagined other ways ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  4321 FGSS 3322   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Dromgoole, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3400
Social Justice: Special Topics

Social Justice: Special Topics explores feminist, anthropological, and interdisciplinary perspectives on social justice. It connects domestic and international concerns and fosters active and engaged learning, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3420, ANTHR 3402, GOVT 3401

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17864 FGSS 3400   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3520
(Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History

This course will offer an overview of theoretical and historical responses to bodily and cognitive difference. What was the status of people with (dis)abilities in the past, when they were called monsters, ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3520, SHUM 3520

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3706 FGSS 3520   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Long, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3550
Decadence

“My existence is a scandal,” Oscar Wilde once wrote, summing up in an epigram his carefully cultivated style of perversity and paradox. Through their celebration of “art for art’s sake” and all that was ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6269 FGSS 3550   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3634
Feminist Retellings from Sappho to Circe

In this seminar, we will study feminist retellings of myths, figures, and tropes from ancient Greek and Roman literature. Situating contemporary retellings alongside ancient sources, we will ask: what ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3634

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18405 FGSS 3634   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Lambert, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3651
Freud and Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18032 FGSS 3651   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3693
Race, Slavery, and Cinema

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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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3006, ILRGL 3691, NES 3691

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1424 FGSS 3693   SEM 101

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    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Vaziri, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4000
Senior Seminar in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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

  •  1009 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  1010 FGSS 4000   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Department Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 4035
Intersectional Disability Studies

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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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ILRGL 4035

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  9244 FGSS 4035   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Heinemann, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4116
Inventing Women in the Middle Ages

How was the category "woman" constituted in the Middle Ages? Not assuming that women were the same then as now, this course, in dialogue with contemporary trans and genderqueer theory, will look at medieval ... view course details

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Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4116, ENGL 6116

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18375 FGSS 4116   SEM 101

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    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Raskolnikov, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18376 FGSS 4116   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4127
The Body Politic in Asia

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

  • 17932 FGSS 4127   SEM 101

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    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17939 FGSS 4127   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4491
Feminism and Philosophy

Feminist approaches to questions in metaphysics, epistemology, language, and value theory. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 4490, PHIL 6490

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4473 FGSS 4491   SEM 101

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    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Manne, K

      Starr, W

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4561
Black Girlhood Studies: Rememory, Representation, and Re-Imagination

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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  • 14118 FGSS 4561   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Ailsworth, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Application required. See https://forms.gle/n3ogcekWoHJkuh7F6 to apply.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 4701
Nightlife

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

  •  5473 FGSS 4701   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4944
Digital Biopolitics

This course is a theoretical exploration of digital biopolitics, a convergence of how digital technologies mediate, govern, and regulate life, particularly within frameworks of power and control. Extending ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  1233 FGSS 4944   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4950
Witches, Whores and Wives: Patriarchy and Resistance in Renaissance England

It is a truism that early modern society was a 'patriarchal' one in which men had authority -- but how did that authority operate and what were its limits? How did the exercise of power between men and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4950

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9779 FGSS 4950   SEM 101

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    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weil, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9780 FGSS 4950   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6127
The Body Politic in Asia

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

  • 17948 FGSS 6127   SEM 101

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    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17953 FGSS 6127   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6301
Queer Media Studies

This course investigates how sexuality, broadly conceived, is produced, represented, and enacted through a variety of media. We will consider how groups of people collectively produce their erotic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 6300, LGBT 6301

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 11568 FGSS 6301   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Sender, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6551
Decadence and the Modern Novel

As Théophile Gautier said of Decadent aesthetics, “It is an ingenious, complex, learned style, full of shades and refinements of meaning, ever extending the bounds of language, borrowing from every technical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6551, ENGL 6551

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6316 FGSS 6551   SEM 101

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    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6944
Digital Biopolitics

This course is a theoretical exploration of digital biopolitics, a convergence of how digital technologies mediate, govern, and regulate life, particularly within frameworks of power and control. Extending ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  1238 FGSS 6944   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person