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Course Listing for WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY - Fall 2026 (ALL: 09/08/2026 - 12/23/2026)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
2111 WMGS-201-01 Gender & Sexuality/Transnatl 1.00 LEC Zhang, Shunyuan MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA SOGI  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: INTS-201-01
  This broadly interdisciplinary course provides students with an introduction to the field of gender and sexuality studies. It pays particular attention to transnational approaches. Materials are drawn from a variety of disciplines and may include films, novels, ethnographies, oral histories, and legal cases.
3157 WMGS-221-01 Afro-European Feminisms 1.00 SEM Provitola, Blase MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUGI  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: LACS-221-01
  This course looks at the social movements and cultural production of women and gender minorities with Afro-European identities, with an emphasis on the diasporas of North and West Africa. In addition to critical works, readings may include fiction by Léonora Miano, May Ayim, and Assia Djebar, documentaries by Amandine Gay and Dagmar Schultz, and various podcasts and interviews. Key topics will include the relationship between anticolonial struggles and contemporary activism, colonial stereotypes, the influence of US-based black feminist thought on European black feminisms, debates in feminist historiography, and cultural constructions of gender and race.
3447 WMGS-269-01 Black Inner Lives 1.00 SEM Miller, Channon TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-268-01, AMST-268-01
  Prevailing understandings of Black life, read Black expression through a social, public lens. Their cultures, embodiments, and ideologies are often cast as responses to institutions and forms of protest. Often placed in conversation with worlds outside of themselves and their communities, they are cast as either disrupting a space, or transforming it. But what of Black life outside of public expression? This course complicates our conceptions of Black culture by tracing the inner lives of Black Americans. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and drawing from multidisciplinary works - we will trace their aspirations, longings, imaginations, as well as their fears, across race, gender, class, and time. With an emphasis on the intimate, we will redefine our sense of Black people's relationship to resistance.
3320 WMGS-320-01 Global 1001 Nights 1.00 SEM Antrim, Zayde TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HIST-320-01, INTS-320-01
  This seminar explores the history and global dissemination of the fantasy story collection known as the 1001 Nights. The recent success of movie adaptations of Aladdin is just one of the many waves of popularity that these stories have enjoyed over the centuries. We will begin with medieval story-telling and the circulation of the Nights in Arabic. We will then discuss its transformation into an international best-seller in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the context of British and French colonialism. Finally we will map its more recent reinventions in literature, film, and art across the globe. Key topics will include magic, gender, sexuality, race, empire, and orientalism. Students will undertake a final research project.
3369 WMGS-332-01 Religion, Law, Literature 1.00 SEM Catlin, Samuel W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: JWST-332-01, CLCV-332-01
  Religion and law interact in many ways, from religious law to legal regulation of religion. However, in this seminar we’ll read literary works that address other, more ambiguous relations between religious and juridical power. Do secular political institutions secretly depend on notions of divine authority? What happens when neither god nor state can deliver justice—or when these forces are themselves the causes of injustice? And why is it through literature, specifically, that we tend to pose these questions about religion, law, and power? We’ll put Greek tragedies, biblical and talmudic selections, and modern fictional, dramatic, and philosophical texts into conversation with themes and social issues like sovereignty, democracy, patriarchy, civil war, colonialism, immigration, xenophobia, incarceration, detention, apartheid, policing, due process, and protest.
3366 WMGS-359-01 Feminist Political Theory 1.00 SEM Terwiel, Anna MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA SOIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: POLS-359-01
  This course examines debates in feminist political theory. Topics will include liberal and socialist feminist theory, as well as radical, postcolonial, and postmodern feminist theory. We will also consider feminist perspectives on issues of race and sex, pornography, law and rights, and “hot button” issues like veiling. We will pay particular attention to the question of what feminism means and should mean in increasingly multicultural, global societies. Readings will include work by Mary Wollstonecraft, Carol Gilligan, Catherine MacKinnon, Chandra Mohanty, Wendy Brown, Audre Lorde, Patricia Williams, & Judith Butler.
3159 WMGS-379-01 Fem & Queer Theory/Postcol 1.00 SEM Zhang, Shunyuan MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: INTS-379-01
  Feminist and queer theory has influenced contemporary understandings of gender and sexuality globally. This course explores this body of theory specifically in relation to the processes and problematics of colonialism, postcolonialism, nationalism, and transnationalism. Readings will reflect a variety of critical perspectives and consider the intersection of gender and sexuality with race and class.
1440 WMGS-399-01 Independent Study 1.00 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment.
1441 WMGS-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
1969 WMGS-490-01 Research Assistantship 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor.
2451 WMGS-497-01 Senior Thesis 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment in this single term thesis.
2452 WMGS-498-01 Senior Thesis Part 1 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (2 course credits to be completed in two semesters.)
3186 PHIL-328-01 Freud 1.00 SEM Vogt, Erik W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with MNOR, WMGS
  This seminar will concentrate on the works of Sigmund Freud. We will begin with Freud’s psychological writings, then move on to his more anthropological writings. Our aim will be to see how Freud’s psychological theories inform is arguments about religion and culture.
3085 SOCL-228-01 Masculinities 1.00 LEC Hall, Rhys TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with WMGS
  Students in this course will investigate masculinity through a sociological lens. We will analyze meanings of being a man and lived experiences of masculinity, historically and today, and we will explore how these definitions and experiences are contoured by race, religion, culture, class, sexuality, age, embodiment, and nation, in addition to other variables. With a focus on the performance of heterosexuality—particularly among youth—we will study how gender roles operate in work, labor, and reproduction; motives for men's involvement in both anti-feminist and gender equality movements; experiences described in gender transition/affirmation narratives; militarization, policing, and violence and the bind some men feel trapped in when it comes to the exercise and maintenance of power and domination; and shifting discourses of masculinity, among other topics.