Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Course List 2023–24
The major in gender, women’s, and sexuality studies requires the following:
- Introduction to Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 111)
- Theory and Methodology in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 249, offered fall only)
- Five courses (20 credits) from at least three of the four thematic rubrics listed below:
- sexuality and queer studies
- cross-cultural and transnational approaches
- literary criticism and visual culture
- political/philosophical/historical/social analyses
- At least two of these five courses (or 8 credits) must be at the 300-level
- Senior Seminar in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 495, offered spring only; only open to graduating majors)
Please consult the Course Schedule, available online at the Registrar’s page, for complete course information, including course descriptions and days and times of course offerings. Please note that each course can only be used to fulfill a single elective category (ABCD).
| Course # | Title | Professor | Major Category |
|---|---|---|---|
AMS-220-01
|
Racing Through Genetics | Gregg-Jolly, L Gibel Mevorach |
B |
ANT-254-01
|
Jews, Multiculturalism, Anti-Semitism | Gibel Mevorach | B/D |
|
ARH-213-01
|
ST: Gender and Sex in East Asian Art | Shea | A/C |
| EAS-295-01 | ST: Gender/Power Chinese History | Chen, X | B/D |
| EDU-295-01 | Mapping Racial Trauma | Jones, S | D |
| ENG-328 | Studies in American Poetry | Andrews | C/D |
| ENG-332-01 | The Victorians | Jacobson, C | C |
| FRN-395-01 | ST: Bodies, Memory, Identity | Galbraith | C |
| GWS-211-01 | Foundations of LGBTQ Studies | Allen | A |
|
GWS-243-01
|
Epistemic Injustices | Nyden | D |
| GWS-395-01 | ST: Gender-Based Violence | Yang, W | B/D |
| GWS-395-02 | ST: Black Feminist Thought | Johnson. L | B |
| HIS-212-01 | Democracy in America: 189-1848 | Purcell | D |
|
HIS-268-01
|
Islam and Gender | Saba | B/D |
| HIS-295-01 | ST: Gender/Power Chinese History | Chen, X | B/D |
| HIS-314-01 | U.S. Civil War: History & Memory | Purcell | D |
| MUS-208-01 | Music, Mind, and Brain | Cha | C |
| PHI-243-01 | Epistemic Injustices | Nyden | D |
| POL-219-01 | Constitutional Law and Politics | Hanson | D |
| REL-268-01 | Islam and Gender | Saba, E | B/D |
| SOC-240-01 | Social Movements | Haenfler | B/D |
| SOC-270-01 | Gender and Society | Janson | D |
| SOC-360-01 | Work in the “New” Economy | Erickson | D |
| SOC-395-01 | ST: Gender-Based Violence | Yang | B/D |
| SOC-395-02 | ST: Social Network Analysis | Francisco | D |
| SPN-320-01 | Cultures of Spanish-Speaking World | Benoist | B/D |
| Course # | Title | Professor | Major Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMS-215-01 | Foundations of U.S. Popular Culture | Purcell | C/D |
| ANT-225-01 | Biodeterminism and Myth of Race | Marshack | A |
| ANT-233-01 | Anthropology of Borderlands | Kulstad | B |
| CHI-230-01 | Chinese Women: Past and Present | Yang | B |
|
EDU-215-01
|
Reading and Writing Youth Culture | Jones, S | C/D |
| ENG-210-01 | Studies in Genre | Smith, P | C |
| ENG-231-01 | American Literary Traditions III | Staff | C |
| FRN-305-01 | Contemporary Francophone Cultures | Tricoire | C |
| FRN-312-01 | French Literature From Knights to Libertines | Harrison | C |
| FRN-350-01 | Adv Topics: Masculine/Feminine in French Literature and Film | Moisan, P | A/C |
|
GRM-295-01
|
ST: Jewish Life Central Europe | Poetzl | C/D |
| GWS-295-02 | ST: The Mermaid Imaginary | Beauboeuf | B/D |
| GWS-295-03 | ST: Chicana Feminist Thought | Johnson | B |
| GWS-324-01 | Critical Race Feminisms | Johnson, L | B |
| GWS-395-01 | ST: Feminist Geographies | Staff | B/D |
| HIS-214-01 | American Civil War and Reconstruction | Purcell | D |
| HIS-215-01 | Foundations of U.S. Popular Culture | Purcell | C/D |
| HIS-262-01 | Modern Africa: Sahara to Zambezi | Prevost | B/D |
| PHI-245-01 | Philosophy of Art | Dobe, J | D |
| POL-259-01 | Human Rights: Foundations, Challenges, and Choices | Moyer | D |
| POL-319-01 | Advanced Constitutional Law | Hanson | D |
| REL-295-02 | ST: Womanist Religious Thought | Hills | B/D |
| SOC-242-01 | Deviance and Social Control | Haenfler | D |
| SOC-255-01 | Sociology of Asian America | Quinsaat | B |
| SOC-260-01 | Human Sexuality U.S. | Erickson | A/D |
| SOC-330-01 | Regimes and Resistance | Quinsaat, S | D |