What happens to the bodymind kept in waiting? This course pursues questions of the “in- between” through the lenses of health and disability justice. Considering the concept of “patient,” with connotations of compliance and medicalization, students will explore how race, gender, class, sexuality and citizenship impact how long one waits for care.
File: Waggoner_350_Lit-and-Gender-Waiting-Room-Syllabus_Fall-2023.pdf
Using a reproductive justice framework, analyze contexts, experiences, practices, ideologies, and historiographies of childbirth in the United States from roughly the 17th century to the present, with the heaviest emphasis on the 20th and 21st century.
File: GWS-537_Spring_2019_Menzel.pdf
This course is a mode of critical inquiry that emerges from intersecting theorizations of race, gender, sexuality, nation, class, and other sites of lived experience. While queer theory and activism have previously faced charges of insufficiently reckoning with race, activism and scholarship that take up race as their primary focus have a similar history of presumed heteronormativity. Queer of color critique, a term often credited to Roderick Ferguson, resists this divide and centers the intellectual traditions of queer thinkers of color to interrogate the mutual constitution of race, gender, and sexualities.
File: GenWS_446_SP25_Syllabus_Cannell.pdf
This course explores several theoretical lenses, disciplinary approaches, and substantive topical areas relating to reproductive and sexual health.
File: GenWS_534_Senderowicz_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdf
The internship program is designed to provide students with opportunities for learning and working in organizations in ways that connect their coursework in Gender and Women's Studies and/or LGBTQ+ Studies to specific issues in community settings.
File: GenWS-660_Spring-2025_Syllabus.pdf
The aim of this course is to critically examine important issues, questions, and debates regarding intersectionality or the notion that race, gender, and sexuality, and other terrains of difference gain meaning from each other.
File: GenWS-547_Lindsay_Syllabus_Spring-2023.pdf
Examination of theories and research on the psychology of women and gender.
File: GenWS-522_Hyde_Fall-2021.pdf
Where have we come from and where are we going? Designed to take us on a journey and tell stories of knowledge building over time, we will explore feminist theories from a broad array of disciplines and perspectives.
File: GenWS-449-Fall-2024-Syllabus.pdf
Global, interdisciplinary, social science-oriented analysis of gender, race, class and sexuality in relationship to social institutions and movements for social change. Focus on gender and women in institutions such as education, the economy, the family, law, media, medicine, and politics.
File: GenWS-102-Fall-2024-Syllabus.pdf