Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2897 |
WMGS-211-01 |
Global Intimacies |
1.00 |
LEC |
Zhang, Shunyuan |
MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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GLB
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Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: INTS-211-01 |
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What is globalization? A process of homogenization and Americanization? Where does globalization happen? In the economic realm that we usually associate with the public? In contrast to these conceptualizations, this course explores diverse and contingent processes of globalization in the domestic and private spheres. Specifically, we will look at how global mobilities trouble and complicate intimate relations such as marriage, love, sex, reproduction, family making, and self-identity across culture. |
| 2947 |
WMGS-260-01 |
Sexual Diversity and Society |
1.00 |
LEC |
Spurgas, Alyson |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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SOIP
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: SOCL-260-01 |
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Sexuality has often been considered to be a natural, biological instinct-a drive that is fueled by hormones, genes or deep psychic impulses. During the last twenty years, however, scholars (including sociologists) have challenged this view of sexuality. Instead, they argue that how we organize our sexuality-our desires, ideas, value systems, practices and identities-are profoundly shaped by social and cultural influences. Although this course focuses on the social construction of homosexuality, we will also examine the many ways that normative as well as nonnormative sexualities are socially constructed. We will also examine the many ways that the social construction of sexuality is informed by class, gender, race and ethnicity. Using materials from sociology and from the many other disciplines that are working in the areas of lesbian and gay studies and queer theory, we will explore the impact that history, economics, social structure and cultural logics have had on sexual behaviors, identities, and belief systems. Enrollment limited. |
| 2899 |
WMGS-310-01 |
Queer China |
1.00 |
SEM |
Zhang, Shunyuan |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
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GLB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: INTS-310-01 |
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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. |
| 2384 |
WMGS-324-01 |
Transgender Migrations |
1.00 |
SEM |
Provitola, Blase |
M: 6:30PM-9:10PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: LACS-324-01 |
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This interdisciplinary course explores the concept of migration through narratives of crossing geographical and gender borders. By putting films, memoirs, novels, and graphic novels in conversation with history and sociology, we will consider the ways in which bodies are regulated by political, legal, and economic forces as they come to occupy and invent new spaces for themselves Topics include the metaphor of "border crossing" in narratives of gender transition, interactions between global gender identities and local cultures, neoliberalism and the so-called "migrant crisis," transgender asylum seekers and sexual rights discourse, and representations of sex work. |
| 2948 |
WMGS-390-01 |
Medicine, Health, & Society |
1.00 |
SEM |
Spurgas, Alyson |
T: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
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SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: SOCL-390-01 |
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This course challenges common views of physical and mental health and illness, and encourages students to understand medicine and embodiment from a sociological perspective. Topics include the historical production and medical control of the human body and populations, sociocultural and structural determinants of health and wellness, the stratification of health outcomes via race, class, gender, sexual orientation and other social variables, the social construction of mental health and addiction, current and controversial issues in medical care and health insurance coverage, the role of corporate medicine in the commercialization of physical, psychological, and sexual health, the social construction of ability/disability, and popular representations of neuroscience, psychology, and medical research in the media and their effects on the categorization of "healthy" identities, bodies, and lifestyles. |
| 1146 |
WMGS-399-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment. |
| 1147 |
WMGS-466-01 |
Teaching Assistant |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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) |
| 2206 |
WMGS-497-01 |
Senior Thesis |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment in this single term thesis. |
| 2207 |
WMGS-499-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 2 |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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.) |
| 2394 |
ANTH-207-01 |
Anth Persp Women & Gender |
1.00 |
LEC |
Nadel-Klein, Jane |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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SOGI
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Enrollment limited to 30 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with WMGS |
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Using texts and films, this course will explore the nature of women’s lives in both the contemporary United States and a number of radically different societies around the world, including, for example, the !Kung San people of the Kalahari and the Mundurucù of Amazonian Brazil. As they examine the place of women in these societies, students will also be introduced to theoretical perspectives that help explain both variations in women’s status from society to society and "universal" aspects of their status. |
| 2887 |
ENGL-376-01 |
The Queer Premodern |
1.00 |
SEM |
Staples, James |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with WMGS |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260 or ENGL 160. |
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NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the pre-1800, elective, additional literature or film, and UVSJ requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement. |
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In The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, Michel Foucault insisted that sexual identity is a modern phenomenon, coming into existence at the end of the nineteenth century. Four years later, John Boswell provocatively described a flourishing "gay" subculture in twelfth-century Europe. Rather than disprove Boswell's fantastic claim, Foucault seriously considered it, and he began his history of sexuality anew to inquire what a "premodern" sexuality might entail. In this course, we will develop our own theory of "premodern queerness" by considering the acts and identities of premodern subjects in medieval literature, read alongside historical documents, theology, and queer theory. Rather than simply contrast a premodern sexuality to (post)modern queerness, we will consider the ways the past can inspire new horizons of possibility for queer expression. |