Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Minor

Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Courses

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• GSFS 100 - Introduction to Comparative American Studies
• GSFS 101 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
• GSFS 202 - Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality
• GSFS 203 - Sociology of Sexuality
• GSFS 208 - Queer Beginnings: 1990
• GSFS 217 - Transgender Literature: Transition, Narrative, and Desire

•      ⇒ cross-listed with ENGL 217 

• GSFS 261 - Gender Theory and the Study of Religion
• GSFS 301 - Feminist Theory
• GSFS 335 - Queering Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice
• GSFS 353 - Radical “I”: Feminisms and the First Person Voice in Performance
• GSFS 428 - Virginia Woolf & Zadie Smith

Africana Studies Courses

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• AAST 285 - African American Women’s History

Anthropology Courses

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• ANTH 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Comparative American Studies Courses

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• CAST 100 - Introduction to Comparative American Studies
• CAST 202 - Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality
• CAST 211 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Identities
• CAST 319 - Sexual “Absences”

Comparative Literature Courses

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• CMPL 208 - Queer Beginnings: 1990

English Courses

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• ENGL 217 - Transgender Literature: Transition, Narrative, and Desire

•      ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 217 

• ENGL 261 - Constructing the Subject: African American Women and Auto/Biography
• ENGL 379 - Welfare Queens and Tiger Moms: Narratives of the Maternal
• ENGL 428 - Seminar: Virginia Woolf & Zadie Smith

First-Year Seminar Program Courses

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• FYSP 146 - Pilgrimage in Global History

History Courses

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Philosophy Courses

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• PHIL 240 - Feminist Epistemology

Politics Courses

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• POLT 217 - Queer Comparative Politics
• POLT 276 - American Political Economy

Sociology Courses

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• SOCI 203 - Sociology of Sexuality

Theater Courses

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• THEA 245 - Queer and Trans Performance Practice
• THEA 371 - Consent and Sexuality in Theater

Writing and Communication Courses

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• WRCM 210 - Rhetoric and Social Protest

Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Courses

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• GSFS 100 - Introduction to Comparative American Studies
• GSFS 101 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
• GSFS 108 - Introduction to Religion: Women and the Western Traditions
• GSFS 135 - Introduction to Religion: Devotion and Performance in South Asia
• GSFS 201 - Latinas/os in Comparative Perspective
• GSFS 202 - Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality
• GSFS 203 - Sociology of Sexuality
• GSFS 204 - Rhetorics of Gender Non-Conformity
• GSFS 207 - Introduction to Queer Studies
• GSFS 208 - Queer Beginnings: 1990
• GSFS 209 - American Identities and Popular Culture
• GSFS 214 - Friends, Foes, and Feminism: Relationships in Contemporary U.S. Novels
• GSFS 217 - Transgender Literature: Transition, Narrative, and Desire

•      ⇒ cross-listed with ENGL 217 

• GSFS 220 - Religion and Transnational Feminism
• GSFS 229 - Bodies in Japanese Literature & Culture 1945 to 2020
• GSFS 232 - Religion and Culture in Indian Epics
• GSFS 253 - Pens and Needles: Gender and Media in Early America
• GSFS 258 - Abortion Before and After Dobbs: The Rise of the Right and the Failures of Feminism
• GSFS 261 - Gender Theory and the Study of Religion
• GSFS 270 - Queer Gestures - Dance & Performance
• GSFS 278 - Ideal vs. Practice of U.S. Democracy: Gender, Race, and the War on Terror
• GSFS 301 - Feminist Theory
• GSFS 302 - Femmes Fatales: Narratives of Feminine Evil, Sexuality, and Perversity
• GSFS 304 - Transnational Feminisms
• GSFS 305 - Feminist Research Methodologies
• GSFS 309 - Performing America
• GSFS 312 - Music by Women
• GSFS 313 - Archives and Affects
• GSFS 315 - Queer Media, Activism and Thought in Franc
• GSFS 317 - Transgender Cultural Studies
• GSFS 319 - Sexual “Absences”
• GSFS 321 - Black Feminist Thought: Historical Perspective
• GSFS 330 - Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in India
• GSFS 335 - Queering Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice
• GSFS 339 - Prostitution and Social Control: Governing Loose Women
• GSFS 340 - Gender and the Visual Arts in Europe and Colonial Latin America, 1450-1650
• GSFS 347 - Sophistications: Queer Postwar New York-Paris Connections
• GSFS 353 - Radical “I”: Feminisms and the First Person Voice in Performance
• GSFS 385 - Women in/and “Bollywood”
• GSFS 386 - Nightlife: Place, Identity, and Feeling Alive
• GSFS 400 - Senior Capstone
• GSFS 408 - Bad Education: Female Instruction in Ibero-America
• GSFS 426 - Latin American Literature and the Narrative of the Queer and the Perverse

Africana Studies Courses

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Anthropology Courses

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Art History Courses

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• ARTH 282 - Black Feminist Art: Contemporary Feminist Practices from Africa and its Diasporas
• ARTH 283 - Gender and Power in the Arts of Africa
• ARTH 290 - Gender and the Visual Arts in Europe and Colonial Latin America, 1450-1650
• ARTH 382 - The Feminine as Method for Art Histories of the Black Atlantic
• ARTH 391 - Love, Lust, and Desire in Renaissance Art

Comparative American Studies Courses

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• CAST 100 - Introduction to Comparative American Studies
• CAST 201 - Latinas/os in Comparative Perspective
• CAST 202 - Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality
• CAST 207 - Introduction to Queer Studies
• CAST 209 - American Identities and Popular Culture
• CAST 211 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Identities
• CAST 214 - Friends, Foes, and Feminism: Relationships in Contemporary U.S. Novels
• CAST 260 - Asian American History
• CAST 284 - Disability and Queer Community Health in a Time of Pandemic
• CAST 311 - Militarization of American Daily Life
• CAST 315 - Brown TV
• CAST 319 - Sexual “Absences”
• CAST 408 - Race, Religion and Citizenship

Cinema Studies Courses

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• CINE 203 - Funny Women: Women, Comedy, and Film
• CINE 329 - Chinese Queer Cinema

•      ⇒ cross-listed with EAST 324 

Classics Courses

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• CLAS 219 - Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

Comparative Literature Courses

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• CMPL 208 - Queer Beginnings: 1990
• CMPL 265 - Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures
• CMPL 302 - Femmes Fatales: Narratives of Feminine Evil, Sexuality, and Perversity
• CMPL 305 - The Global Phenomenon of Elena Ferrante
• CMPL 471 - Medicine, Literature, Biopower LXC
• CMPL 472 - Medicine, Literature, Biopower

Creative Writing Courses

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• CRWR 241 - Queer Poetry

Dance Courses

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• DANC 132 - Contact Improvisation
• DANC 214 - Moving into Community
• DANC 247 - Dance Pedagogy

East Asian Studies Courses

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• EAST 206 - Modern Chinese Literature and Film: The Art of Adaptation
• EAST 241 - Living with the Bomb: A Comparative Study of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Japan and the U.S.
• EAST 309 - Chinese Popular Cinema and Public Intellectualism
• EAST 324 - Chinese Queer Cinema

•      ⇒ cross-listed with CINE 329 

English Courses

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• ENGL 217 - Transgender Literature: Transition, Narrative, and Desire

•      ⇒ cross-listed with GSFS 217 

• ENGL 242 - Asian American Literature at the Crossroads
• ENGL 253 - Pens and Needles: Gender and Media in Early America
• ENGL 261 - Constructing the Subject: African American Women and Auto/Biography
• ENGL 267 - Ethnic Experiments
• ENGL 290 - Shakespearean Comedy and Social Justice
• ENGL 309 - The Poetry of Love and Seduction in the Renaissance
• ENGL 338 - Modern Fiction and Sexual Difference
• ENGL 360 - The End: Globalization and Literature
• ENGL 379 - Welfare Queens and Tiger Moms: Narratives of the Maternal
• ENGL 385 - Women in/and “Bollywood”
• ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial
• ENGL 428 - Seminar: Virginia Woolf & Zadie Smith

French Courses

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First-Year Seminar Program Courses

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• FYSP 118 - Through the Looking Glass: Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Social Class in America
• FYSP 146 - Pilgrimage in Global History
• FYSP 154 - Freud’s Vienna: Artists, Intellectuals, and Anti-Semites at the Fin de Siecle

Hispanic Studies Courses

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• HISP 328 - Historias de Mujeres Argentinas
• HISP 341 - Inquisitorial Practices: Heretics, Torture & Fear
• HISP 416 - Constructs of Machismo and Marianismo in the Mexican Literary Canon
• HISP 417 - Saints, Sinners and Other Cursed Women

History Courses

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• HIST 104 - American History 1877-Present
• HIST 208 - Of Miracles and Microscopes: A History of Science from 1200-1800
• HIST 227 - The History and Practice of Whiteness in the United States
• HIST 236 - Orientalism and the Jewish Question
• HIST 251 - U.S. Foreign Policy
• HIST 260 - Asian American History
• HIST 270 - Latina/o History
• HIST 301 - The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• HIST 305 - Research Methods in Black Women’s Intellectual History
• HIST 396 - Seminar: U.S. Foreign Policy and MENA
• HIST 427 - Borderlands

Italian Courses

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• ITAL 305 - The Global Phenomenon of Elena Ferrante

Jewish Studies Courses

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• JWST 236 - Orientalism and the Jewish Question

Music Theory Courses

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• MUTH 312 - Music by Women

Philosophy Courses

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Politics Courses

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• POLT 276 - American Political Economy
• POLT 317 - Seminar: The Transformation of the Welfare State

Religion Courses

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• RELG 232 - Religion and Culture in Indian Epics
• RELG 283 - American Religious Traditions

Sociology Courses

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• SOCI 203 - Sociology of Sexuality
• SOCI 275 - Enacting the Law
• SOCI 314 - Unequal Educations
• SOCI 338 - Prostitution and Social Control: Governing Loose Women
• SOCI 348 - Constructing Immigrant Communities
• SOCI 499 - Advanced Research Methods

Theater Courses

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• THEA 245 - Queer and Trans Performance Practice

Writing and Communication Courses

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• WRCM 205 - Rhetorics of Gender Non-Conformity