Winter 2024 gender, sexuality and women's studies courses
The following courses are being offered for the winter 2024 semester.
GSW 2100: Introduction to Queer Studies
This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary academic field of Queer Studies. The course begins with an overview of queer terminology and identities and includes units on topics including queer history, queer theory, contemporary queer issues and queer art.
- Offered: Offered every term
- Credits: 3
- Satisfies general education requirement: Diversity Equity Incl Inquiry
GSW 2360: Feminist Philosophy
An examination of work by feminist philosophers.
- Equivalent: PHI 2360
- Offered: Offered intermittently
- Credits: 3
- Satisfies general education requirements: Cultural Inquiry, Diversity Equity Incl Inquiry
GSW 2500: Humanities Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality and Women
Focusing on literature, art, and other media from different historical periods and geographical locations, students will examine strategies and artistic forms used to represent diverse lived experiences of gender and sexuality.
- Offered: Offered every term
- Credits: 3
- Satisfies general education requirements: Cultural Inquiry, Diversity Equity Incl Inquiry, Philosophy Letters
GSW 2570: Writing about Literature: Women Writers
Introduction to the major themes and issues of writing by and about women. Reading and writing about representative fictional and non-fictional works.
- Equivalent: ENG 2570
- Offered: Offered every term
- Credits: 3
- Satisfies general education requirement: Cultural Inquiry, Diversity Equity Incl Inquiry, Intermediate Comp Pre-2018
GSW 2600: History of Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Modern World
Examination of change over time, using different historical approaches to try to account for change as specifically applicable from a comparative perspective to the experiences of women and constructions of gender and sexual identity.
- Equivalent: HIS 2605
- Offered: Offered every term
- Credits: 3
- Satisfies general education requirement: Diversity Equity Incl Inquiry, Global Learning Inquiry, Historical Studies
GSW 2650: Gender and Crime
Critical examination of gender-related issues in criminal justice; impact on defendants, inmates, victims, and criminal justice personnel; relation to policy issues.
- Equivalent: CRJ 2650
- Offered: Offered every term
- Credits: 3
- Satisfies general education requirement: Diversity Equity Incl Inquiry
GSW 2700: Social Science Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Women
Students will explore the ways political, social, and cultural institutions shape gender, sexuality, and women's experiences within a local and global context.
- Offered: Offered every term
- Credits: 3
- Satisfies general education requirements: Diversity Equity Incl Inquiry, Social Inquiry, Social Sciences
GSW 2750: Diversity Issues in Criminal Justice
Critical examination of gender, race, class, and ethnicity issues in criminal justice; impact on defendants, inmates, victims and criminal justice personnel; relation to policy issues. No credit after CRJ/GSW 3750.
- Equivalent: CRJ 2750
- Offered: Offered yearly
- Credits: 3
- Satisfies general education requirement: Diversity Equity Incl Inquiry
GSW 3200: Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
This course is an introduction to key themes and methodologies within the interdisciplinary and overlapping fields of feminism, gender studies, and queer theory, with a focus on both foundational readings and contemporary experiences. In addition to exploring and evaluating diverse methods of inquiry into the intersectional experiences of gender and sexuality, the course will help develop critical reading and writing strategies in gender, sexuality and women's studies.
- Offered: Offered yearly
- Credits: 3
GSW 3990: Directed Studies
Individually-designed research projects, developed with a supervising professor and approved by the program director.
- Offered: Offered every term
- Credits: 1-3
GSW 5030: Pop Divas
Pop Divas studies iconic women in music to better understand the society in which they found fame. Using popular artists as case studies, we will analyze issues of gender, race, sex, class, disability, and identity. Women of study range from classic divas such as Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston to contemporary queer and trans women in music such as Janelle Monáe and Kim Petras. Students will also be able to self-select a diva of study for class assignments, including an in-class "Know Your Diva" presentation and final research project.
- Offered: Offered intermittently
- Credits: 3
GSW 5035: AIDS, Activism, Culture
This class will consider a range of activist and cultural responses to the AIDS crisis, focusing mostly on the first fifteen years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, prior to the advent of antiretroviral therapy. Throughout, we will explore the various means that writers and artists use to portray an illness that was widely stigmatized and to respond to the overwhelming loss that so many experienced. We will also take the opportunity to consider how art and literature, in general, can or should respond to social crises.
- Offered: Offered intermittently
- Credits: 3
GSW 5110: Black Women in America
Social, cultural, artistic and economic development of Black women in America; topics include: racism, sexism, marriage, motherhood, feminism and the welfare system.
- Equivalent: AFS 5110
- Offered: Offered yearly
- Credits: 3
GSW 5200: Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
This course evaluates foundational texts within feminism, trans studies, and queer theory, focusing on the overlapping and distinct facets of these critical frameworks, with emphasis on how they shape and are shaped by other modes of social difference, such as race, class, nationality, conceptions of the body, capitalism, imperialism and colonialism.
- Prerequisites: GSW 3200 with a minimum grade of C
- Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate level students
- Offered: Offered fall and winter
- Credits: 3
GSW 5300: Queer Performance
This course examines the political impact and social legibility of performances created by queer artists in the US. We’ll explore theories of gender and sexuality that expand the possibilities of queer performance, while drawing from examples in theatre, dance, film, daily life, and more.
- Equivalent: THR 5995; HON 4280
- Offered: Offered intermittently
- Credits: 3
GSW 5400: Queer American History
This course will offer a comprehensive examination of US history from a queer theoretical framework, introducing students to core concepts in intersectional queer/LGBTQ+ historical analysis.
- Equivalent: HIS 5205
- Offered: Offered intermittently
- Credits: 3
GSW 5500: Internship in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Internship in a public or private organization related to gender, sexuality, or women's studies.
- Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate level students
- Offered: Offered every term
- Credits: 4
GSW 5990: Senior Project Seminar
Scholarly research project or internship combined with scholarship, resulting in a substantial paper. Students meet with the instructor several times during the semester.
- Prerequisite: GSW 5200
- Offered: Offered yearly
- Credits: 4
GSW 7200: Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
This course evaluates foundational texts within feminism, trans studies, and queer theory, focusing on the overlapping and distinct facets of these critical frameworks, with emphasis on how they shape and are shaped by other modes of social difference, such as race, class, nationality, conceptions of the body, capitalism, imperialism and colonialism.
- Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to graduate-level students
- Offered: Offered fall and winter
- Credits: 3