Fall 2022

WGS 111 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
This course provide students with critical frameworks for thinking about the social construction of gender at the personal and institutional levels. Emphasis will be placed on diverse women’s significant contributions to knowledge and culture; to other areas of gender studies, including men’s studies, family studies and the study of sexuality; and to the intersections of various forms of oppression both within and outside of the U.S. The course will include both scholarly as well as personal texts, visual as well as written text. This counts toward the introductory requirement for the major. This course paired with any other .50 unit WGS course counts toward the social science diversification requirement. Offered every semester.

WGS 121: Introduction to Queer Studies
This course is designed to help students develop a critical framework for thinking and writing about intersectional issues related to sexuality, sex, gender identity and gender expression. The course will take a broad view of examining queer and transgender issues from sociopolitical, legal, psychological, biological, cultural, ethical, philosophical and historical frameworks. We will look at the fields of queer theory and LGBTQ+ studies out of which some of the most innovative and challenging developments in modern cultural studies are arising. Additionally, we will examine the ways in which society interacts with queer and transgender identities in a number of spheres, including politics, healthcare, the arts, the sciences and more. This counts towards the introductory and diversity and globalization requirements for the major. This course paired with any other .50 unit WGS course counts toward the social science diversification requirement. No prerequisite.

WGS 330: Feminist Theory: 
In this course, we will read both historical and contemporary feminist theory with the goal of understanding the multiplicity of feminist approaches to women’s experiences, the representation of women and women’s relative positions in societies. Theoretical positions that will be represented include liberal, cultural, psychoanalytic, socialist and poststructuralist feminism. We will explore the relationship of these theories to issues of race, class, sexual preference and ethnicity through an examination of the theoretical writings of women of color and non-Western women. This counts towards the concentration and the mid-level requirement for the major. This course paired with any other .50 unit WGS course counts toward the social science diversification requirement. Prerequisite: any WGS course, approved departmental course or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.

WGS 480 Senior Colloquium Planning: 
This course will provide the opportunity for those students taking WGS 481 in the spring to plan the course. Students will select a topic, order books, plan the syllabus and design a project. In addition, they will read about course design and pedagogy so that they are prepared to take responsibility for collaboratively teaching the course in the spring. Offered only on a credit/no credit basis. This course is required for the major. This interdisciplinary course does not count toward the completion of any diversification requirement. Prerequisite: senior standing.

Departmental Courses for Fall 2022

*ARBC 191 Contemporary Arab Women’s Narratives, Sadek

ARTS 291.03 Design, Sustainability & Culture, Ferber

*ENGL 103 Translation, Transition, Transcreation, Brostoff

*ENGL 390 Black Women Writers, Casey

*ENGL 391 Transing Queer/Queering Trans, Brostoff

*HIST 272 Global History of HIV/AIDS, Franco

*HIST 371 Colonial Body Politics, Buxton

HIST 391 Sex and Family in Cold War Europe, Ablovatski

LGLS 191.01 Gender, Sexuality, and the Law (first year seminar), Bender-Baird

LGLS 191.02  The Supreme Court and Reproductive Justice, Erler

PHIL 209 Feminist Philosophy, R. Waller

RLST 103.00 Religion, Gender & Sexuality, Dalton

* Indicates course satisfies diversity requirement for majors


Spring 2023

WGS 111 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
This course provide students with critical frameworks for thinking about the social construction of gender at the personal and institutional levels. Emphasis will be placed on diverse women’s significant contributions to knowledge and culture; to other areas of gender studies, including men’s studies, family studies and the study of sexuality; and to the intersections of various forms of oppression both within and outside of the U.S. The course will include both scholarly as well as personal texts, visual as well as written text. This counts toward the introductory requirement for the major .This course paired with any other .50 unit WGS course counts toward the social science diversification requirement. Offered every semester.

WGS 481 Senior Colloquium
The senior colloquium is organized around a theme determined by senior majors and concentrators in consultation with the instructor during the semester prior to the beginning of the course. Previous topics include "Women and Madness," "The Politics of the Bathroom" and "Gender and Tourism." This course is required for the major. Prerequisite: WGS 480 or permission of instructor. Offered every spring.

Departmental Courses for Spring 2023

ARTS x91 Art and the Body, Woolf

ECON 375 The Economics of Women and Work, Krynski

*ENGL 291 Latinx Literature, Casey

*ENGL 291 Fictions and Figures of Empire, Fleming

*ENGL 378 Race in the Nineteenth Century Imagination, Casey

ENGL 359 Middlemarch, Heidt

*ENGL 366 African Fiction, Murthy

*ENGL 391 Queer Literature of the Nineteenth Century, Thompson

*ENGL 421 Black Shakespeare, Lovanov-Rostovsky

*HIST 391 Gender & Sexuality in Latinx America, Franco

*LGLS 410 Queer Resistance to Criminalization (senior sem.), Bender-Baird 

PSYC 246 Psychology of Women and Gender, Murnen

SOCY 291 Sociology of Gender, Klainot-Hess

*Indicates course satisfies diversity requirement for majors