Women's Gender&Sexuality
Courses
WGSS 203: Women & Literature
Credits 4WGSS 212: Literature and Medicine
Credits 4This course offers students the chance to engage with texts that raise some of the largest existential questions of human life, including the nature of health and disease, the doctor-patient relationship, the social aspects of illness, and the dimensions of a well-lived life. Through the works of authors like Mary Shelley, Lev Tolstoy, Michael Ondaatje, Atul Gawande, Eula Biss, and Anne Boyer, we will explore questions of sickness and health beyond the biomedical paradigm to consider these questions through a humanistic lens. Fulfills the humanities elective requirement for the applied minor in Medical Humanities.
WGSS 216: Introduction to Manga & Graphic Narrative
Credits 4WGSS 241: Japanese Popular Culture
Credits 4WGSS 246: European Women's & Gender History
Credits 4An examination of women's and gender history in the 19th and 20th centuries across a range of European countries with particular focus on politics, gender roles, sexuality, and culture. Allows students to question narrow (national, disciplinary, epistemological) boundaries, think critically about the gendered constructions of European society, and reflect upon the distinctive contributions of women's history.
WGSS 246: History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Europe
Credits 3WGSS 253: Citizenship & Minority Issues in East Asia
Credits 3WGSS 290: Cuban History
Credits 3WGSS 305: Radical Queries
Credits 4An advanced introductory examination of women's and men’s lives, attending to commonalities and differences of experience in terms of gender, race, class, age, culture, nation, sex, sexuality dis/ability, etc. People live at the intersections of these categories, and so we will examine what scholars talk about as: Intersectionality, The Prism of Difference, and Borderlands. The course focuses on “Socially Lived Theorizing,” “a theoretical framework/methodology that allows us to see the diversity of women’s [and men’s] lives and the structures of power, inequality, and opportunity that shape our experiences” (Kirk and Rey, 55).
WGSS 309: Sociology of Social Media
Credits 4WGSS 310: Contemporary Japanese Literature
Credits 3WGSS 320: East Asian Migration & Diasporas
Credits 3Introduces migration in East Asia within the global context of imperialism and colonialism, forced labor, refuge, and gender, from the 19th century to present. Topics include colonial migration, settler migration, forced migration, repatriation movements, and identity formation, domestically and internationally. Emphasis on Japan, China, and North and South Korea.
WGSS 333: Gender & Sexuality in the Muslim Middle East & North Africa
Credits 4WGSS 343: Modern Japanese Literature
Credits 3WGSS 347: The Body in Modern & Contemporary Art
Credits 4WGSS 351: Workplace Justice: Readings in U.S. Labor History
Credits 3WGSS 352: Interracial in America
Credits 3WGSS 355: Reading in African American Women History
Credits 4WGSS 357: Gender & Sexuality in the Ancient World
Credits 3WGSS 358: Gender & Sexuality in Literature
Credits 4WGSS 365: Women, Gender & Sexuality
Credits 4WGSS 367: Subjects of Desire
Credits 3A survey of U.S. social history from 1607 to the present, focusing on the historical contours of female/male sex roles and the family. Topics include marriage, the family, child rearing, work, education, sexuality and gynecology, and reproduction. Analyzes the effects of war, racism, slavery, immigration, industrialization and consumerism, along with abolitionism, temperance, feminism, civil rights and other social protest movements.
WGSS 368: Human Sexuality
Credits 3WGSS 373: Topics in Literary Theory
Credits 4WGSS 382: Feminist Art & Theory
Credits 3WGSS 481: Internship
Credits 1 3An internship or practicum organized by the student in consultation with the adviser. Credits for the experience must be negotiated between the adviser and the on-site supervisor. The experience involves one of the following: (a) teaching or tutoring a second language, (b) a special research project or (c) interpreting / translation. Depending on the experience, students enhance their communicative skills, develop a critical understanding of linguistic and cultural differences, connect to other disciplines through languages, come to a deeper understanding of the role of translation in cross-cultural communication, and/or reflect on career and life goals.