• WGS 2100

    Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
     Rating

    4.02

     Difficulty

    2.72

     GPA

    3.54

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    An introduction to gender studies, including the fields of women's studies, feminist studies, LGBT studies, & masculinity studies. Students will examine historical movements, theoretical issues, & contemporary debates, especially as they pertain to issues of inequality & to the intersection of gender with race, class, sexuality, & nationalism. Topics will vary according to the interdisciplinary expertise & research focus of the instructor.

  • WGS 2125

    Race & Power in Gender & Sexuality
     Rating

    2.56

     Difficulty

    1.67

     GPA

    3.80

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Offers a study of race-racialization in relation to gender-sexuality. Consider how the concept of race shapes relationships between gendered selfhood & society, how it informs identity & experiences of the erotic, & how racialized gender & sexuality are created-maintained-monitored. With an interdisciplinary perspective, we will consider how race & power are reproduced & resisted through gender & sexuality, individually-national-international.

  • WGS 2600

    Human Sexualities
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    1.33

     GPA

    3.96

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Examines human sexuality from psychological, biological, behavioral, social, and historical perspectives. Topics include sexual research and theoretical perspectives, sexual anatomy and physiology, sexual health, intimacy, communication, patterns of sexual response and pleasure and sexual problems and therapies. Course will also include examination of the development of sexuality and the intersections of other identities, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexuality and the law, sexual assault, and other social issues in sexuality.

  • WGS 3100

    Intro to WGS Theory
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.84

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Explores major debates, key ideas, and historical developments in women, gender, & sexuality theory. Students will gain familiarity with queer, trans, and feminist theory, including Black, Native, socialist, crip, and other approaches. Will consider the different methods that gender & sexuality scholars have used to explain the social world, and why such explanations are vital to WGS. Course emphasizes reading, discussion,and critical writing.

  • WGS 3125

    Transnational Feminism
     Rating

    4.22

     Difficulty

    1.67

     GPA

    3.84

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course places women, feminism, and activism in a transnational perspective, and offers students the opportunity to examine how issues considered critical to the field of gender studies are impacting women's lives globally in contemporary national contexts. We will look closely at how violence, economic marginality, intersections of race and gender, and varied strategies for development are affecting women in specific geographical locations.

  • WGS 3305

    Issues in LGBTQ Studies
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    1.00

     GPA

    3.75

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) Studies. We will study historical events and political, literary and artistic figures and works; contemporary social and political issues; the meaning and development of sexual and gender identities; and different disciplinary definitions of meaning and knowledge.

  • WGS 3500

    Research and Methods in Women, Gender & Sexuality
     Rating

    3.17

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.52

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course develops fundamental skills for critical thinking, researching, writing, and communicating in WGS. Students will learn methods for finding and analyzing sources, approaches to framing arguments, and skills for effective written and oral communication. Seminars are offered on a variety of topics. This class fulfills the Second Writing Requirement and Enhanced Writing Requirement.

  • WGS 3600

    Pleasure Activism Across Time
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    The history of white supremacy & the heteropatriarchy includes denying sexual pleasure of marginalized communities. A major benefit of pleasure is empowerment, which threatens power structures & leads to restrictive practices & laws. This course focuses on queer activists & feminists of color who examine pleasure, systemic oppression, & the connection of inner desires & needs -physical, mental, & emotional -as a part of enacting social change.

  • WGS 3612

    Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1865-Present
     Rating

    4.50

     Difficulty

    3.50

     GPA

    3.30

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the Civil War to the present.

  • WGS 3680

    Eve's Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women's Writing Culture and Society
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.67

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women's socio-cultural history, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.

  • WGS 4500

    Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality
     Rating

    4.67

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.62

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.

  • WGS 4559

    New Course in Women, Gender & Sexuality
     Rating

    4.44

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.67

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of studies of women and gender.

  • WGS 4820

    Black Feminist Theory
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.65

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This course critically examines key ideas, issues, and debates in contemporary Black feminist thought. With a particular focus on Black feminist understandings of intersectionality and womanism, the course examines how Black feminist thinkers interrogate specific concepts including Black womanhood, sexual mythologies and vulnerabilities, class distinctions, colorism, leadership, crime and punishment, and popular culture.

  • WGS 4999

    Women, Gender & Sexuality Senior Thesis II
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Majors in Women, Gender and Sexuality (WGS) are encouraged to become Distinguished Majors. Students complete a two-semester written thesis (approximately 40-60 pages in length) in their fourth year under the supervision of a WGS faculty member. The thesis allows students to pursue their own interests in depth and have the intellectual satisfaction of defining and completing a sustained project. Please see your WGS advisor for more information. Prerequisite: WGS Major, 2nd Major

  • WGS 5559

    Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    To offer graduate level topics courses.