This course situates sexual health education in historical and contemporary context by tracing its discursive production and envisioning a queering of both content and practice. What might it mean to queer sex education and what would a queer sex education look like? In addition to utilizing theoretical interventions from critical education studies, queer theory, and transgender studies, we will engage in action based course projects such as policy analysis or curricula design and implementation.
File: GENWS-536_Spring-2024_Jewell.pdf
Examines the contemporary global health project in historical and cultural context, highlighting some of the greatest sources of tension and struggle. Uses a feminist lens and focuses on gender as key analytic category to course explore the ways that the distribution of global wealth and power impacts health and well-being around the world.
File: GWS-525_Critical-Persepctives-on-Gender-and-Global-Health_V2.pdf
This course examines the different ways Asian American feminists and queers have used cultural production to speak up against issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, identity, diaspora, nation, justice, art, and activism. Asian American feminist and queer critiques can bring to light the ways that structures of domination uphold and further perpetuate Asian American marginalization within the U.S.
File: GWS-330.-Asian-American-Feminist-and-Queer-Cultural-Productions.pdf
Provides an introduction to feminist pedagogy in Gender and Women’s Studies, Focuses upon: (1) the historical importance of an explicit feminist pedagogy in the foundation of GWS, (2) the development of feminist pedagogical theory and (3) a hands-on experience with developing feminist pedagogical materials, classroom strategies and a teaching portfolio.
File: GenWS-840_Syllabus_2023.pdf
This seminar will explore both the emergence of and recent work within the field of feminist disability studies. As an interdisciplinary field, feminist disability studies uses the critical lenses of feminist theory and disability studies to interrogate bodyminds norms at the intersections of (dis)ability and gender as well as race and sexuality.
File: GWS-737-Syllabus-Fall-2023.pdf
This course will focus on how visionary and speculative fiction serve as a compliment to social justice activism. Students will have the opportunity to read, respond to, and produce visionary and speculative fiction.
File: GWS-359-Syllabus-Fall-2023.pdf
Examines assumptions and debates in contemporary theorizing about gender and women including what constitutes "good" gender and women studies' theorizing, how to recognize gender-based oppression when we see it, how gender, race, sexuality, and other hierarchies of power intersect, as well as the merits of transnational theorizing about gender and women.
File: 830_Schalk_Syllabus_Spring-2022.pdf
Provides an overview of the field of gender and women’s studies. Surveys the origin of the field and traces its major transformations. Explores and analyzes historical and contemporary debates that have shaped and continue to shape the field.
File: GenWS-810-Syllabus_2020_Final.pdf
Introduces gender and women’s studies as an interdisciplinary area of study and a profession. Reviews the profession, both academic and non-academic. Explores issues both broad (e.g., professional development) and narrow (e.g., obtaining research grants) that are of interest to those building professional careers with a Gender and Women’s Studies Ph.D.
File: GenWS-861_Syllabus_2020_Final.pdf
Provides an introduction to theory, as well as hands on experience with pedagogical practices in Gender and Women’s Studies. Offers opportunities to synthesize and deepen understandings of gender-related issues through intensive reading, writing and discussion.
File: GenWS-840_Syllabus_2023.pdf