Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2775 |
WMGS-268-01 |
Gender Sexuality African Diasp |
1.00 |
LEC |
Gunasena, Natassja |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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GLB
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: INTS-268-01 |
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This course will introduce students to the ways in which diasporic Black subjects understand, interpret, and navigate gender and sexuality in what Saidiya Hartman calls the "afterlife of slavery." A core component of this course is arriving at a definition of Blackness that is diasporic, transnational, and always already inflected by gendered and sexual markers. Taking the transnationalism of Black feminist thinkers like M.Jacqui Alexander, Dora Santana, Matt Richardson, and Audre Lorde as a starting point, we will examine how Blackness reconfigures western liberal ideas of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality and, in so doing, shapes diasporic Black subjects' relationships to empire and citizenship. |
| 2741 |
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. |
| 2694 |
WMGS-345-01 |
Film Noir |
1.00 |
SEM |
Corber, Robert |
T: 6:30PM-9:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with ENGL |
Cross-listing: FILM-350-01 |
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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. |
| 2904 |
WMGS-359-01 |
Feminist Political Theory |
1.00 |
SEM |
Terwiel, Anna |
MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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SOIP
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: POLS-359-01 |
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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. |
| 2696 |
WMGS-373-01 |
Hitchcock |
1.00 |
SEM |
Corber, Robert |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: FILM-373-01 |
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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. |
| 1160 |
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. |
| 1161 |
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) |
| 2306 |
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. |
| 2307 |
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.) |
| 2751 |
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. |
| 2706 |
HIST-364-01 |
Women Early Modern & Mod China |
1.00 |
SEM |
Alejandrino, Clark |
MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM |
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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Also cross-referenced with WMGS |
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This seminar explores how women experienced and shaped China's transition from the early modern to the modern. What did it mean to be a woman with bound feet in the commercializing late Ming empire? How did class, ethnicity, and status shape a woman's experience in the multi-ethnic Qing empire? How did a woman negotiate questions and demands of modernity and revolution on their gender roles, bodies, and sexualities? How did Qing, Republican, and Communist regimes manage gender norms, sexualities, and deviances? How does a woman exercise agency in a patriarchal system? Students will read, discuss, and write about material (in translation) by women and about women such as novels, films, letters, and poetry. |
| 2560 |
SOCL-272-01 |
Social Movements |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hall, Rhys |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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SOGI
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with WMGS |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Sociology 101 |
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This course will enhance your ability to think critically about the problems we face in society from a sociological perspective, analyze social movements that have developed in response, and examine specific groups working for change. In our investigation of social movements, we will utilize various theoretical perspectives, including theories of collective behavior, resource mobilization, political opportunity/process, network/media/alternative globalization, and new social movement theory for the digital age. We will be concerned with not only how social problems come to be defined as such, but also with who is affected by these problems and how, and with what people are doing, have done, and might continue to do to address unequal distributions of power, money, protection, and other resources -- in the face of efforts from state and global actors to stifle movements. We will examine how individuals have come together to change society through protest, revolution, and other forms of resistance in U.S.-based and international movements historically, and we will also discuss responses to inequalities and oppression as they characterize the national and global climate today. Finally, we will consider possibilities for social change in the future and examine the landscape of current social movements, comparing outcomes. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to research issues they deem worthy of collective response and envision their own social movements. |