Session I
WGS 3340 Transnational Feminism
Laura Ornee
This course places women, feminism, and activism in a transnational perspective, and offers students the opportunity to examine how issues considered critical to the field of gender studies are impacting women’s lives globally in contemporary national contexts. We will look closely at how violence, economic marginality, intersections of race and gender, and varied strategies for development are affecting women in specific geographical locations.
Course Category: Gender Concentration, Global Requirement
WGS 3612 Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1865-Present
Bonnie Hagerman
This course will explore the significance of gender in United States from the Civil War to the present. We will ask how people’s ideas about gender structured society and how social relations defined what it meant to be a man or a woman. Readings and discussion will focus on three particular areas of inquiry: the rights and obligations of citizenship; the value and division of labor; and the configuration of emotional life (including familial relationships, erotic desires, and individual aspirations). Resisting any transhistorical definition of womanhood, we will investigate how understandings of gender developed in relation to racial, ethnic, class, and regional differences. The goal of this course is to become adept at generating your own historical analysis through the study of primary documents. This course fulfills the second writing requirement.
Course Category: Sexuality Concentration, Gender Concentration
WGS 3810 Feminist Theory
Brittany Leach
This course provides an overview of the historical bases and contemporary developments in feminist theorizing and analyze a range of theories on gender, including liberal, Marxist, radical, difference, and postmodernist feminist theories. We will explore how feminist theories apply to contemporary debates on the body, sexuality, colonialism, globalization and transnationalism. Throughout the course we will incorporate analysis of race, class, and national differences as well as cross-cultural perspectives.
Special Note: This, or Queer Theory, required for all WGS majors and minors.
Course Category: Gender Concentration
Session II
WGS 2100 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
Lisa Speidel
An introduction to gender and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) studies, including the fields of women’s studies, feminist studies, & masculinity studies. Students will examine historical movements, theoretical issues, & contemporary debates, especially as they pertain to issues of inequality & to the intersection of gender, race, class, sexuality, & nationalism. Emphasis will vary according to the interdisciplinary expertise & research focus of the instructor.
Special Note: Required for all WGS majors and minors, Intro courses do not count toward concentrations.
WGS 3559 New Courses in WGS: Gender and Health
Emma Potter
TBD
Course Category: Gender Concentration
Session III
WGS 2700 Men and Masculinities
Lisa Speidel
Typically, men are dealt with in a way that casually presents them as representative of humanity. This course addresses the various ways that men are also “gendered,” and can be the subject of inquiries of gender, sexuality, inequality, and privilege in their own right.
Course Category: Gender Concentration
WGS 3105 Issues in LGBTQ Studies
Bailey Troia
Typically, men are dealt with in a way that casually presents them as representative of humanity. This course addresses the various ways that men are also “gendered,” and can be the subject of inquiries of gender, sexuality, inequality, and privilege in their own right.
Course Category: Gender Concentration