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Course Listing for WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY - Fall 2024 (ALL: 09/03/2024 - 12/18/2024)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Permission Required	Dist
3395	WMGS-133-01	Blues Women to Nicki Minaj	1.00	LEC	Woldu, Gail	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA		ART
		Enrollment limited to 39		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: MUSC-133-01
		This course explores the music of Black American women in music from the era of blues queens of the 1920s through Nicki Minaj. Along the way we will listen to and read about the music of blues greats Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith; trailblazer Marian Anderson; jazz legends Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dinah Washington; Motown superstar Diana Ross and the fabulous Supremes; disco queen Donna Summer; gospel and soul diva Aretha Franklin; rocker Tina Turner; and, ultimately, women in hip-hop, among them Queen Latifah, Lil' Kim, and Nicki Minaj. Because context is critical to the understanding of the music of these women, course readings will situate the women in their social and musical times.
2245	WMGS-201-01	Gender & Sexuality/Transnatl	1.00	LEC	Zhang, Shunyuan	MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		GLB5
		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.
2705	WMGS-209-01	War and the Asian Diaspora	1.00	SEM	Gunasena, Natassja	M: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA		SOC
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: INTS-209-01
		How has war shaped and reshaped the Asian diasporic experience in the mid to late 20th century? This course examines texts by Sri Lankan, Korean, Vietnamese and other anglophone Asian voices to examine how militarized conflict intersects with gender and sexuality to shape the politics and experiences of Asians in diaspora. We will read novels, poetry, academic articles and essays on the experiences of Asian subjects who have witnessed/survived/ been impacted by war in their homelands in order to understand the systemic and as well as everyday effects of militarization, ethnic violence and imperialism.
3358	WMGS-310-01	Queer China	1.00	SEM	Zhang, Shunyuan	MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: INTS-310-01
		This course offers an interdisciplinary perspective on non-normative gendered and sexual practices in urban(izing) China and how they have been represented, embodied, and regulated across time and space. The course will introduce students to materials-textual, visual, and audio-that span more than a hundred years from late imperial China to the present against the backdrop of modernization, urbanization, and globalization. Students will explore the different methodological, thematic, and analytic approaches to genders and sexualities in literature, cultural studies, history, and ethnographies.
3370	WMGS-337-01	Critical Ethnic Studies	1.00	SEM	Nebolon, Juliet	MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: AMST-337-01
		This course considers the relational formation of race in the United States, including its intersection with dynamics such as indigeneity, gender, sexuality, and class. We analyze race as both a social construction that contributes to differentiated access to power and privilege, and as an identity and source of solidarity, community, and political agency. We study the roots of racial capitalism in histories of slavery and settler colonialism. We examine transnational dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality as they circulate via global migration and US imperial expansion. With this relational understanding, we explore histories of and possibilities for antiracist, feminist, and decolonial social movements and cultural production. This interdisciplinary course brings together historical, theoretical, and cultural texts.
3167	WMGS-342-01	Global Histories of Sexuality	1.00	SEM	Antrim, Zayde	MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: INTS-342-01, HIST-342-01
		This course examines how notions of the body, gender, erotic desire, and sexuality have been organized over space and time. Beginning with the Mediterranean, Asia, and Latin America in the ancient and medieval periods, the course seeks to de-center discourses of Western sexual modernity. From the eighteenth century on, it considers how colonialism, racism, nationalism, and globalization have shaped modern sexualities, with particular attention to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Writing assignments focus on how scholars use theory and evidence to explore the sexual past.
3170	WMGS-342-02	Global Histories of Sexuality	1.00	SEM	Antrim, Zayde	MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: INTS-342-02, HIST-342-02
		This course examines how notions of the body, gender, erotic desire, and sexuality have been organized over space and time. Beginning with the Mediterranean, Asia, and Latin America in the ancient and medieval periods, the course seeks to de-center discourses of Western sexual modernity. From the eighteenth century on, it considers how colonialism, racism, nationalism, and globalization have shaped modern sexualities, with particular attention to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Writing assignments focus on how scholars use theory and evidence to explore the sexual past.
2246	WMGS-345-01	Film Noir	1.00	SEM	Corber, Robert	T: 6:30PM-9:10PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: FILM-350-01
		This course traces the development of film noir, a distinctive style of Hollywood filmmaking inspired by the hardboiled detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, and Raymond Chandler. It pays particular attention to the genre’s complicated gender and sexual politics. In addition to classic examples of film noir, the course also considers novels by Hammett, Cain, and Chandler.
2521	WMGS-373-01	Hitchcock	1.00	SEM	Corber, Robert	W: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: FILM-373-01
		Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most important and influential directors of the mid-twentieth century. Starting with his first American film, Rebecca (1940), this course traces his development as a director. It pays particular attention to his controversial treatment of gender and sexuality, as well as the significance of his films for feminist and queer approaches to Hollywood cinema.
1460	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.
1461	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)
2072	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.
2915	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.
2916	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.)
3081	AHIS-226-01	Drinking & Dining in Antiquity	1.00	SEM	Risser, Martha	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		ART
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with WMGS				Cross-listing: CLCV-227-01
		The act of eating and drinking in self-defining social groups preoccupied ancient Greek and Roman societies in ways that modern societies have inherited—although the forms of these gatherings have changed. We will study the history of banqueting in the ancient Mediterranean world, from communal feasts at religious festivals to the private Greek symposion and Roman convivium. Through artistic representations, architectural remains, archaeological finds, and literary texts, we’ll explore what kind of food and drink was consumed at these banquets, and what was offered to the dead at their tombs; the origins of reclining to dine and this custom’s social implications, and how culinary and dining practices can serve as a lens for recognizing codes of gender, otherness, status, and power in a culture.
3080	CLCV-227-01	Drinking & Dining in Antiquity	1.00	SEM	Risser, Martha	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		ART
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with WMGS				Cross-listing: AHIS-226-01
		The act of eating and drinking in self-defining social groups preoccupied ancient Greek and Roman societies in ways that modern societies have inherited—although the forms of these gatherings have changed. We will study the history of banqueting in the ancient Mediterranean world, from communal feasts at religious festivals to the private Greek symposion and Roman convivium. Through artistic representations, architectural remains, archaeological finds, and literary texts, we’ll explore what kind of food and drink was consumed at these banquets, and what was offered to the dead at their tombs; the origins of reclining to dine and this custom’s social implications, and how culinary and dining practices can serve as a lens for recognizing codes of gender, otherness, status, and power in a culture.
3084	CLCV-311-01	Aegean Bronze Age	1.00	LEC	Risser, Martha	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	TBA		ART
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with WMGS
		How do we access the history of a period in which the primary media for representing culture and society were not literate? The art, architecture, and archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age, especially the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, provide tantalizing insights into the governmental structures, societal inequities, economies, wars, and religion in the region. Students will investigate the techniques and methods of Bronze Age artists and architects, as well as how their works represent race, gender, and ethnicity; the influence of foreign peoples on Aegean art and society; climate change, migrations, and piracy; and cult practices, including funerary customs through which so much of the material remains of this lost world has been preserved.
3306	EDUC-319-01	Gender, Sexuality, & Education	1.00	SEM	Evans, Khrysta	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		SOC
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with WMGS
		C- or better in EDUC 200 or WMGS 201, or permission of instructor.
		The course explores how gender and sexuality are conceptualized, practiced, protected, and policed in K-12 schools in the United States, with some attention to international and out-of-school contexts. While typically, we think about gender, sexuality, race, and class as standalone identities, in this class we will examine how they intersect and shape the experiences of youth. The course will start with a theoretical section focused on how gender and sexuality have been constructed in the United States. Students will develop an intersectional approach to understanding different educational experiences. The remaining sections will focus on contemporary literature that centers educational research, policies, and practices. Through this course students will explore how different educational environments and experiences differently socialize students.