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GLBT 1001 - Introduction to GLBT Studies (DSJ, SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 1001/GWSS 1007
Typically offered:	Every Fall

History of contemporary GLBT-identified communities. Terms of theoretical debates regarding sexual orientation, identity, and experience. Analyzes problems produced and insights gained by incorporating GLBT issues into specific academic, social, cultural, and political discourses.

GWSS 1002 - Politics of Sex (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introductory survey of historical, cultural, psychological, and sociopolitical dimensions of analyzing gender/sexuality. Norms/deviances pertaining to gender/sexuality as differently enacted/understood by social groups in different time-/place-specific locations. GWSS / Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies / Gender Studies

GWSS 1003W - Women Write the World (LITR, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 1003W/GWSS 1003W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Concepts in literary studies. Poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, letters by women from different parts of world. Focuses on lives, experiences, and literary expression of women, including basic concepts of women's studies.

GWSS 1004 - Screening Sex: Visual and Popular Culture (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even, Spring Odd Year

Film history and theory; feminist critique of popular culture.

GWSS 1005 - Engaging Justice (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

U.S./cross-cultural studies of social movements/political organizing around justice/equality.

GWSS 1006 - Skin, Sex, and Genes (SOCS, TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Interdisciplinary course that explores the tense relationships between science, medicine, and gender and sexuality.

GWSS 1007 - Introduction to GLBT Studies (DSJ, SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 1001/GWSS 1007
Typically offered:	Every Fall

History of contemporary GLBT-identified communities. Terms of theoretical debates regarding sexual orientation, identity, experience. Analyzes problems produced/insights gained by incorporating GLBT issues into specific academic, social, cultural, political discourses.

GWSS 3003 - Gender and Global Politics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Similarities/differences in women's experiences throughout world, from cross-cultural/historical perspective. Uses range of reading materials/media (feminist scholarship, fiction, film, news media, oral history, autobiography).

GWSS 3203W - Blood, Bodies and Science (TS, SOCS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

This course examines the contemporary politics of health and medicine from a critical race theory, disability-oriented, and feminist/queer/trans perspective. Who is understood to be deserving of health and medical care? Who should decide how to govern the provision of care? Who, if anyone should profit from life-saving medical treatment or medicines? How did we come to have the health system we have now? How have Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and people of color communities fought for access to equitable health care in the context of the racial history of medicine and health? Struggles for justice and equity in health and medicine are integrally related to the question of how society treats people who are in need of care. Topics include the history of DIY health movements; trans health care bans; the science and history of pandemics, including Covid and HIV; the history of health insurance; struggles for global equity in vaccines and pharmaceuticals; disability; reproductive justice movements; and the history of eugenics.

GWSS 3208 - Transgender Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Transgender Health is an online, 3 credit, 8-week course, in which we will learn how the social categories of sex and gender transform our understanding of health and medicine. This course offers feminist perspectives on transgender health care and considers how health care and social services professionals serve (or fail to serve) the diverse needs of transgender patients and clients. Students will engage with literature from feminist and queer studies, the media, public health, medicine, social work, and legal studies.

GWSS 3215 - Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

The COVID-19 pandemic has made questions of disability and ableism central and visible for all of us as never before. Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of power and privilege. Feminist approaches explore dis/ability as a vector of oppression intersecting and constituted through race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. The course examines ideologies of ableism and the material realities of such oppression, and works toward imagining and constructing a more just and equitable society. As health care is differentially distributed or limited for people who are sickened by COVID-19, we see that systems of social and economic power determine the life chances of those who claim, or are claimed by disability. Meanwhile, people with disabilities have developed many daily life strategies that can be models for everyone coping with the pandemic.

GWSS 3301W - Women Writers (LITR, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Complexities of women's roles and way women writers have used various genres of literature to articulate personal and social struggles. Fiction, poetry, drama, critical nonfiction texts. Fidelity/betrayal within relationships and societal perceptions. What images of femininity do these writers convey? How do formal and stylistic devices transform meaning?

GWSS 3302 - Women and the Arts (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Study of women in the arts, as represented and as participants (creators, audiences). Discussion of at least two different art forms and works from at least two different U.S. ethnic or cultural communities.

GWSS 3306 - Pop Culture Women (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Contemporary U.S. feminism as political/intellectual movement. Ways in which movement has been represented in popular culture.

GWSS 3307 - Feminist Film Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Construction of different notions of gender in film, social uses of these portrayals. Lectures on film criticism, film viewings, class discussions.

GWSS 3415 - Feminist Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

History of and contemporary thinking about public policies and legal remedies directed toward domestic violence and sexual assault. How notions of public/private spheres and social constructions of gender roles, agency, and bodies contribute to attitudes/responses.

GWSS 3490 - Topics in Political Economy and Global Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GWSS 3502 - Transgender Studies Now (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3502/GWSS 3502
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Transgender studies transforms ideas about gender, sexuality, identity, and biology. We look at knowledge is made about transgender life across disciplines and media: film, fiction, and the internet, as well as medicine, history, anthropology, and gender studies. Also asks how transgender social practices and community politics are embedded in dynamics of race, class, sexuality, nationality and ability.

GWSS 3590 - Topics: Social Change, Activism, Law, and Policy Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GWSS 3993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -12.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

TBD Prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

GWSS 3994 - Directed Research

Credits:	1.0 -12.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

TBD Prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

GWSS 4001 - Nations, Empires, Feminisms

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Feminist critiques of the nation-state and citizenship, political economy and development, globalization, and/or empire and colonialism. Overview of the broader literature and an interrogation of specific attendant questions (such as how do feminists theorize state violence; what are feminist and queer critiques of U.S. empire; and how do feminists theorize globalization from above and below).

GWSS 4002 - Politics of Engagement and Social Justice (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Ways in which feminist scholars have thought about and worked to complicate the opposition between theory and praxis. Diverse efforts by intellectuals situated within the Western academy to produce scholarship that is committed to deinstitutionalizing knowledge production and relevant to political struggles confronted by their own material and institutional inequalities.

GWSS 4003 - Science, Bodies, Technologies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Feminist approaches to scientific methods and practices. Relationship between scientific practices and social relations, emphasizing the larger social, political, and economic context in which scientific knowledge production takes place. How scientific knowledge structures relationships of power and inequality, and constructs understandings of bodies and identities. Ways in which science shapes meanings of sex, race, gender and sexuality.

GWSS 4108 - Senior Capstone: Writing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The GWSS 4108 is the capstone of a GWSS major?s education in GWSS and an opportunity for them to produce a thorough and significant research project. While the final version of the project can take several different forms, each one requires the student to do a deep examination of your topic. GWSS 4108 is a 3-credit class that allows students the opportunity to be surrounded by other GWSS majors as you work through their projects collaboratively. This class allows students to keep organized and on track with their projects, be a part of a writing and research community, and have their work read and critiqued by others so their end results are nuanced, polished pieces of writing and research.

GWSS 4980 - Directed Instruction

Credits:	1.0 -8.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Guided individual reading or study.

GWSS 4993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

TBD prereq: Filled out student/faculty contract, instr consent, dept consent, college consent

GWSS 4994 - Directed Research

Credits:	1.0 -8.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Guided individual reading or study.

GWSS 5190 - Topics: Theory, Knowledge, and Power

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GWSS 5290 - Topics: Biology, Health, and Environmental Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics specified in class schedule.

GWSS 5390 - Topics: Visual, Cultural, and Literary Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GWSS 5490 - Topics: Political Economy and Global Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GWSS 5993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -12.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

TBD

GWSS 5994 - Directed Instruction

Credits:	1.0 -12.0 [max 36.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

TBD

GWSS 5995 - Directed Research

Credits:	1.0 -8.0 [max 36.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

TBD

GWSS 3002W - Gender, Race, and Class in the U.S. (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3002W/GWSS 3002V
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative study of women, gender, race, class, sexuality in two or more ethnic cultures throughout U.S.

GWSS 3002V - Honors: Gender, Race and Class in the U.S. (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3002W/GWSS 3002V
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative study of women, gender, race, class, sexuality in two or more ethnic cultures in U.S. prereq: Honors

GWSS 3303W - Writing Differences: Literature by U.S. Women of Color (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3303W/ENGL 3303W/GWSS 3303
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Interpret/analyze poetry, fiction, and drama of U.S. women minority writers. Relationship of writer's history, ethnicity, race, class, and gender to her writings.

AAS 3303W - Writing Differences: Literature by U.S. Women of Color (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3303W/ENGL 3303W/GWSS 3303
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Interpret/analyze poetry, fiction, drama of U.S. women minority writers. Relationship of writer's history, ethnicity, race, class, gender to her writings.

GWSS 4303W - Writing Differences: Literature by U.S. Women of Color (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3303W/ENGL 3303W/GWSS 3303
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Interpret/analyze poetry, fiction, drama of U.S. women minority writers. Relationship of writer's history, ethnicity, race, class, gender to writings.

ENGL 3303W - Writing Differences: Literature by U.S. Women of Color (LITR, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3303W/ENGL 3303W/GWSS 3303
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Interpret/analyze poetry, fiction, and drama of U.S. women minority writers. Relationship of writer's history, ethnicity, race, class, and gender to her writings.

GWSS 3402 - Pleasure, Intimacy and Violence

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3402/GWSS 3402
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

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AFRO 3402 - Pleasure, Intimacy and Violence

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3402/GWSS 3402
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Gender/sexual violence to poststructural, anti-racist theories and debates about social construction of sexuality. How intimacy and violence are co-constituted within normative frameworks of U.S. governmentality. Writings by black feminist criminologists who have linked incarceration, welfare reform, and other forms of state regulation to deeply systemic forms of violence against people of color.

GWSS 3404 - Transnational Sexualities (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3404/GWSS 3404
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Lesbian/gay lives throughout world. Culturally-specific/transcultural aspects of lesbian/gay identity formation, political struggles, community involvement, and global networking. Lesbian/gay life in areas other than Europe and the United States.

GLBT 3404 - Transnational Sexualities (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3404/GWSS 3404
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Lesbian/gay lives throughout world. Culturally-specific/transcultural aspects of lesbian/gay identity formation, political struggles, community involvement, and global networking. Lesbian/gay life in areas other than Europe and the United States.

GWSS 3406 - Gender, Labor, and Politics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3406/GWSS 3406H
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical developments/contemporary manifestations of women's participation in labor force/global economy. Gender as condition for creation/maintenance of exploitable category of workers. How women's choices are shaped in various locations. Women's labor organizing. GWSS / Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies / Gender Studies

GWSS 3406H - Honors: Gender, Work, Labor (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3406/GWSS 3406H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical developments/contemporary manifestations of women's participation in labor force/global economy. Gender as condition for creation/maintenance of exploitable category of workers. How women's choices are shaped in various locations. Women's labor organizing.

HIST 3348 - Women and Gender in Modern America

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3408/Hist 3348
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course covers how gender and gender inequality have mattered to the US economy, politics, and cultural life. Themes include: femininity and masculinity as disciplining people, the intersection of gender with whiteness and race, the significance of paid and unpaid labor in women?s lives, and diversity within the category of women.

GWSS 3409W - Asian American Women's Cultural Production (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3409W/GWSS 3409W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analysis of media, art, literature, performance, on artistic contributions. History, politics, culture of Asian American women. Interpret cultural production to better understand role of race, gender, nation within American society/citizenship.

AAS 3409W - Asian American Women's Cultural Production (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3409W/GWSS 3409W
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Diversity of cultures designated "Asian American." Understanding women's lives in historical, cultural, economic, and racial contexts.

CHIC 3212 - Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3212/GWSS 3212/GWSS 3410
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.

AMIN 3409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

AMIN 5409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

GWSS 3501 - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Social Movements in the United States

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3301/GWSS 3501
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interdisciplinary course. Development of GLBT social movements using social movement theory/service learning.

GLBT 3301 - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Social Movements in the United States

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3301/GWSS 3501
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interdisciplinary course. Development of GLBT social movements using social movement theory/service learning.

GWSS 3549 - U.S. Women's Legal History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3549/Hist 3349
Prerequisites:	Soph or jr or sr
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Women's legal status, from colonial era through 20th century. Women's citizenship, civil rights. Marriage, divorce, and child custody. Reproductive/physical autonomy/integrity. Economic/educational equality. prereq: Soph or jr or sr

HIST 3349 - U.S. Women's Legal History (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3549/Hist 3349
Prerequisites:	Soph or jr or sr
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Women's legal status, from colonial era through 20th century. Women's citizenship, civil rights. Marriage, divorce, and child custody. Reproductive/physical autonomy/integrity. Economic/educational equality. prereq: Soph or jr or sr

HIST 3615W - Women in European History: 1500 to the Present (HIS, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 3615W/Hist 3615W
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

History of women in Western Europe from early modern period to present. Changes crucial to women's lives. Family/kinship structure, control over property, organization of work, religious ideas/practices, education, politics, beliefs/attitudes about female body.

GWSS 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates. prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended

GLOS 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates. prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended

RELS 3716 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates. prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended

SOC 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates. prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended

GWSS 4103 - Transnational Feminist Theory (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 4103/GWSS 5104
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.

GWSS 5104 - Transnational Feminist Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.

GWSS 4401 - Chicana/Latina Cultural Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 4401/GWSS 4401
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Readings in Chicana/Latina cultural studies. TV, film, art, music, dance, theatre, literature. Identity/sexuality. Production of culture/theory.

CHIC 4401 - Chicana/Latina Cultural Studies (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 4401/GWSS 4401
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Readings in Chicana/Latina cultural studies. TV, film, art, music, dance, theatre, literature. Identity/sexuality. Production of culture/theory.

AFRO 5406 - Black Feminist Thought

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examine spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

GWSS 4406 - Black Feminist Thought in the American and African Diasporas

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examine spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

GWSS 5406 - Black Feminist Thought in the American and African Diasporas

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examines spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

GWSS 3305 - Queer Cinema (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3305/GWSS 3305
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

What "queer" and "queering" signify in relation to cinema. Directors, films, styles, genres of queer cinema. Ways in which traditional narrative codes are challenged/repackaged. Ideological dimensions. Impact of political climate. Readings, screenings, discussions, assignments.

GLBT 3305 - Queer Cinema (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 3305/GWSS 3305
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

What "queer" and "queering" signify in relation to cinema. Directors, films, styles, genres of queer cinema. Ways in which traditional narrative codes are challenged/repackaged. Ideological dimensions. Impact of political climate. Readings, screenings, discussions, assignments.

GWSS 4403 - Queering Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 4403/GWSS 5503/GLBT 4403
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will give you a solid theoretical foundation in the field of queer studies in addition to explaining its relation to other scholarly traditions, including (but not limited to) feminist theory, GLBT studies, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. Over the course of the semester you will examine the historical forces that birthed queer politics and theory, become conversant in its conceptual basis, interrogate and analyze its various uses and applications, and finally apply it in your own arguments. prereq: Any GWSS or GLBT course

GLBT 4403 - Queering Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 4403/GWSS 5503/GLBT 4403
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will give you a solid theoretical foundation in the field of queer studies in addition to explaining its relation to other scholarly traditions, including (but not limited to) feminist theory, GLBT studies, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. Over the course of the semester you will examine the historical forces that birthed queer politics and theory, become conversant in its conceptual basis, interrogate and analyze its various uses and applications, and finally apply it in your own arguments. prereq: Any GWSS or GLBT course

University Catalogs

Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Minor