Below are listed the courses that count toward the gender & sexuality studies major and concentration between 2020 and 2025

*Indicates the courses that count toward the diversity and globalization requirement for the major.

Fall 2024

  • GSS 111.00 Intro to Gender & Sexuality Studies, (Pruett)
  • *GSS121 Intro to Queer Studies, (Herold)
  • GSS 291.00 ST: Pending CPC Approval, (Herold)
  • GSS 330 Feminist Theory, (Pruett)
  • GSS 480 Senior Colloquium Planning, (Pruett)
  • AMST 391 Angela Davis: Black Feminism & International Communism (Rufo)
  • *ENGL 103.01 Translation, Transition, Tran, (Brostoff)
  • ENGL 103.09 What's Love Got to Do With it? (O'Neill)
  • *ENGL 291.01 ST: Queer Flora, Fauna & Fungi (Cannon)
  • *ENGL 266 Decolonization and Violence (Fernando)
  • *ENGL 390 Black Women Writers (Schoenfeld)
  • ENGL 103.06 Bodily Matters (Lau)
  • ENGL 267 Lit, Medicine, and Culture ( Lau)
  • FREN 291 ST: The Experimental French Women's Novel (Curtis)
  • HIST 208 U.S. Women's History (Coulibaly)
  • *HIST 341 African Women in Fiction & Film (Volz)
  • *HIST 370 Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East (Kilic-Schubel)
  • PSCI 291 ST: Politics of Marriage (Rodriguez)
  • *PSYC 391 ST: Multicultural Identities (Aggarwal)
  • SOCY 231 Issues of Gender & Power (Kohlman)
  • SOCY 277 Sociology of Sexualities (Johnson) 
  • SOCY 225 Notions of the Family (Kohlman)
  • SPAN 353 Lit of Natl Exper in Argentina (Sierra)
  • *SPAN 391 ST: Racialized Bodies on Display (Couso)

Spring 2025

  • GSS 111 Intro to Gender & Sexuality Studies (Herold)
  • *GSS 121 Intro to Queer Studies, (Herold)
  • GSS  331 Gender, Power, & Knowledge, (Herold)
  • GSS 481 Senior Colloquium, (Pruett)
  • GSS 491 ST: Pending CPC Approval (Pruett)
  • ARTS 291.03 ST: Pending CPC Approval; Design, Sustainability & Culture (Staff)
  • *ENGL 104.01/.02 Translation, Transition, Trans (Brostoff)
  • ENGL 227 Love, Sex and Desire (O'Neill)
  • ENGL 368 Departures and Arrivals (Fernando)
  • ENGL 369 Canadian Literature & Culture (Fernando)
  • ENGL 371 Whitman and Dickinson (Suazo)
  • ENGL 391 Topics in Theory (Brostoff)
  • HIST 100 Fannie Lou Hamer and the Black Freedom Movement (Gourrier) 
  • HIST 291 Gender and Women's History of East Asia (Li)
  • PSCI 315 Gender & Politics in the US (Elliott-Dorans)
  • PHIL 291.01 The Bioethics of Birth, Illness, Sex and Death (Bradner)
  • PHIL 291.02 Philosophy of Love (Bradner)
  • *PSYC 227 Cross-Cultural Psychology (Lopez)
  • *SOCY 391 ST: Queer & Trans Social Thought (Johnson)
  • *SOCY 463 Intersectional Theory (Kohlman)
  • SPAN 347 Sex, Science, & Realist Novel (Landry)

WGS 111 Intro to WGS, Bradner

*WGS 121 Intro to Queer Studies, Herold

WGS 330 Gender, Power, and Knowledge, Herold

*WGS 391 ST: LGBTQ Media, Herold 

WGS 481 Senior Colloquium, Rodríguez

ANTH 291 ST: The Evolution of Sex, Iyer

ARTS 391.02 ST: Gender & Body Contemp Art, Woolf

CLAS 191  ST: Women in Greece & Rome, Caliva Smart

ECON 378 Economics of Women and Work, Krynski

*ENGL 267 Literature, Medicine, and Culture, Lau

*ENGL 291 ST: Fictions and Figures of Empire, Fleming

ENGL 359 Middlemarch, Heidt

*ENGL 366 African Fiction, Murthy

*ENGL 378 Race in the Nineteenth Century Imagination, Casey

*ENGL 391.06 ST: Queer Literature of the Nineteenth Century, Thompson

*ENGL 391.07 ST: Amigovixis/Friends w/Benefits, Casey

*ENGL 421 Black Shakespeares, Lobanov-Rostovsky

*HIST 391 ST: Gender & Sexuality in Latinx America, Franco

*LGLS 410 Queer Resistance to Criminalization, Bender-Baird 

PSCI 391.02 ST: Gender, Sex, and the Law, Rodríguez

PSYC 246 Psychology of Women and Gender, Murnen

SOCY 241 Sociology of Gender, Klainot-Hess

*SOCY 491 ST: Beauty, Bodies, Embodiment, Miles

WGS 111 Intro to WGS, Herold

*WGS 121 Intro to Queer Studies, Herold

WGS 330 Feminist Theory, Rodríguez

WGS 480 Senior Colloquium Planning, Rodríguez

​​*ARBC 191 Contemporary Arab Women’s Narratives, Sadek

ARTS 291.03 Design, Sustainability & Culture, Ferber

*ENGL 103.01 Translation, Transition, Transcreation, Brostoff

ENGL 214  Gender and Sexuality, Thompson

ENGL 227  Love, Sex, and Desire, Finke

ENGL 373 19th C US Women Writers, Thompson

*ENGL 390 Black Women Writers, Casey

*ENGL 391 ST: Transing Queer/Queering Trans, Brostoff

*HIST 272 Global History of HIV/AIDS, Franco

*HIST 371 Colonial Body Politics, Buxton

HIST 391 ST: Sex and Family in Cold War Europe, Ablovatski

*JAPN 352  Gender Work Education Japan, Xie

LGLS 191.01 ST: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law, Bender-Baird

LGLS 191.02  ST: The Supreme Court and Reproductive Justice, Erler

PHIL 209 Feminist Philosophy, Waller

PSCI 291 ST: Politics of Marriage, Rodríguez

RLST 103 Religion, Gender & Sexuality, Dalton

*SOCY 277  Sociology of Sexualities, Johnson

SOCY 291.01  ST: Sociology of Girlhood, Miles

*SPAN 353 Lit of Nat’l Experience in Argentina, Sierra

ANTH 291D ST: Music, Gender, & Sexuality

ARTS 391 Soft Sculpture

DRAM 256 Contemporary Women Playwrights

ENGL 223 Writing Medieval Women

*ENGL 267 Literature, Medicine, and Culture

*ENGL 291 ST: Intro to Caribbean Literature

*ENGL 370 Transnational South Asia

*ENGL 386 Toni Morrison

*ENGL 391.03 ST: Queer Lit 19C America

*FREN 340 Identity in the Francophone Novel

GERM 366 Cinema Sexuality in German Film

HIST 347: Love & Learn 12th-Century Renaissance

HIST 391.02 ST: The History of Sexuality

SOCY 491 The Stalled Revolution: Gender Equality in the 21st Century

WGS 111 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

*WGS 242 Transnational Feminisms

WGS 291 ST: Witches in Comparative Perspective

WGS 331 Gender, Power, and Knowledge

WGS 480 Senior Colloquium Planning

ANTH 291 Tales from the Crypt

*ANTH 350 Human Sexuality and Culture

*CHNS 222 Women of the Inner Chambers

ENGL 103 Bodily Matters

ENGL 214 Gender Benders: The (de)Construction of Gender in North American Literature

*ENGL 266 Decolonization and Violence

*ENGL 286 Toni Morrison

ENGL 373 Literary Amazons: 19th c. U.S. Women's Literature and Agency

ENGL 453 Jane Austen

*HIST 291.01 ST: The Global History of HIV/AIDS

HIST 291.03 ST: LGBTQ American History

*HIST 341 African Women in Film and Fiction

*HIST 391 ST: The Body Politics of Colonialism

IPHS 200 Programming Humanity

LATN 301 Advanced Latin: Women in the Roman World

LGLS 191 ST: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law

SOCY 241: Sociology of Gender

*SPAN 353 The Literature of National Experience, Argentina

WGS 111 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

WGS 121 Introduction to Queer Studies

WGS 291 ST: Tales from the Crypt

WGS 330: Feminist Theory

WGS 480 Senior Colloquium Planning

*AMST 291 Soul Culture

*ANTH 350 Human Sexuality and Culture

ARHS 291 ST: Women in the Studio

*DANC 391 Queer Performance

ECON 378 Economics of Women and Work

ENGL 104.03 What’s Love Got to Do With It?

*ENGL 386 Toni Morrison

*HIST 352 Family and State in East Asia

*HIST 370 Women, Gender in Mod Mid East

RLST 375 Religion for Robots

SOCY 421 Gender Stratification

SPAN 347 Sex, Science, and Realist Novel

WGS 111 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

*WGS 242 Transnational Feminisms

WGS 291 ST: Witches Comparative Perspective

WGS 331 Gender, Power, and Knowledge

WGS 391 ST: Literature and Law: Consent, Transgression, Resistance

*WGS 391 ST: Disability in America: History, Theory, Activism

WGS 481 Senior Colloquium

*WGS 491 ST: Transgender Movements: History, Theory, and Praxis

ENGL 103.16 What’s Love Got to Do With It

ENGL 210 Proper Ladies & Women Writers

*ENGL 266 Decolonization and Violence

*ENGL 361 Pacific Literature

ENGL 362 Twentieth-Century Irish Literature

*ENGL 368 Departures and Arrivals

*ENGL 388 20th Century African American Lit

*ENGL 389 Gender & Sexuality in Native North American Literature

HIST 208 US Women’s History

HIST 236 Modern Germany: Gender, Race and Class

PSCI 291 ST: Politics of Marriage

PSYC 221 Abnormal Psychology

*PSYC 227 Cross-Cultural Psychology

*PSYC 228 Latino Psychology

PSYC 246 Psychology of Women and Gender

RLST 103 Religion, Gender, Sexuality

*SOCY 491 Transgender Sociology

*SOCY 463 Intersectional Theory

WGS 111 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

WGS 121 Introduction to Queer Studies

WGS 232 Topics in Masculinity: Fraternity

WGS 480 Senior Colloquium Planning