Ecological spaces and nonhuman beings play a key role in human politics, the human imagination, and in constructing this idea of “the human.” Animals have long played a key role (not voluntarily) in distinguishing a hierarchy among humans, but plants also play a key role in the Western Enlightenment ideal that sets humans as “apart from” rather than “part of” an ecology of beings. Bringing environmental studies, indigenous studies, and critical race theory perspectives to bear on gender and sexuality studies, this course takes feminism as an identity, an object of analysis, a methodological approach and social justice practice.
File: GenWS-950_Gender-Race-Ecology_Spring-2025_Goldstein.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
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: Lindsay-REV-4-810-Fall-2024-Syllabus-.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
Orients students to key dimensions of scholarly life as well as professional options outside of academia. Explores issues both broad (e.g., professional development) and specific (e.g., obtaining research grants) that are important to those building professional careers with a Gender and Women's Studies Ph.D. Enables students to hear about and learn from individual GWS faculty members’ professional experiences within and beyond the academy.
File: GWS-860-Fall-2024-REV3.pdf
Focuses on how specific schools of feminist thought redefine the political, spanning historical and contemporary feminist political theory.
File: GenWS-933_Lindsay_Fall-2021.pdf
Advanced level investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies.
File: GenWS-720-002_Shalaby_Gender-and-Islam_Fall-2022_Syllabus.pdf
Transdisciplinary approaches to women's studies/gender studies. Emphasizes theoretical and methodological issues, the nature of interdisciplinary work, and the relationship to traditional disciplines, with an international and multicultural focus.
File: GWS-800-Spring-2022E-Syllabus.docx