Gen&WS 315: Gender, Race, and Colonialism
Investigates how gender and race were socially constructed in cultural encounters between Europeans and "other" peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
File: GWS315Fall2011Ipsen.pdfDocuments Page
Gen&WS 320: Special Topics in Gender, Women, and Society
Investigation of some specific topic in gender and women's studies related to gender, women and society.
File: 320_Phelps_Food-for-Thought_Spring-2022.pdfGen&WS 333: Black Feminisms
Uses an interdisciplinary framework to examine the key assumptions, debates, and silences in contemporary black feminist thought.
File: GWS-333_2020_Spring_Lindsay.pdfGen&WS 340: Topics in LGBTQ+ Sexuality
Topics in feminist study of LGBTQ sexualities, considering race, nationality, and time.
File: 340_Waggoner_GEN-WS-Queer-Locations-Syllabus-Spring-2022.pdfGen&WS 343: Queer Bodies
This course centralizes the intersection of LGBTQ identities and dis/ability through various queer bodies which are also inflected by race, class, geographical and national locations. Approaches may include critical theory about queer bodies and personal narratives.
File: GWS343Fall2017Samuels.pdfGen&WS 350: Special Topics in Gender and Literature – Gender, Health & Waiting Rooms
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.pdfGen&WS 359: Visionary & Speculative Fiction
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.pdfGen&WS 370: Special Topics in Gender and Disability
Examines the social, cultural, political, and symbolic constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability.
File: GenWS-370_GenDisSex_Schalk_Fall-2020.pdfGen&WS 371: Disability and Gender in Film
Interdisciplinary analysis of the films about disability, stigmatized bodies, and their gendered constructions using feminist and disability studies methods.
File: GWS371Fall2016Loutensock.pdfGen&WS 374: Disability, Gender, and Sexuality
Explores gender identity and sexuality among disabled people using historical and theoretical articles to discuss and analyze films, memoirs, and poetry by people with disabilities. Provides a brief introduction to disability studies and intersectionality before delving into academic discussions and artistic representations of the intersections of disability, gender, and sexuality.
File: GenWS-374_Schalk_Fall-2021.pdf