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- GNDR-G 101 Gender, Culture, and Society (3 cr.) Examination of the international emergence of the field of women’s studies; the achievements and limitations of scholarly work exploring oppression and discrimination based on sex and sex differences; the development of the category “gender” and its uses and abuses; and the relevance of changing understandings of the term “culture” for the study of women, gender, and/or sexuality across diverse historical periods, regions, nations, and societies. Exploration of a series of case studies. Particular attention devoted to the ways in which “gender” as practice, performance, and representation has differed for women and men according to race, class, and other divisions.
- GNDR-G 102 Sexual Politics (3 cr.) Investigation of cross-cultural meaning for the term “sexual politics,” from Kate Millet’s classic 1970 text to those offered by historians, social scientists, and other critics analyzing political structures, processes and mobilizations around sex, sex differences and sexual practices and statuses, including the inextricable links between sexual politics and “other/ mainstream” politics.
- GNDR-G 104 Topics in Gender Studies (1–3 cr.) Analysis of selected ideas, trends, and problems in the study of gender across academic disciplines. Explores a particular theme or themes and also provides critical introduction to the challenges of analyzing gender within the framework of different disciplines of knowledge. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- GNDR-G 105 Sex, Gender and the Body (3 cr.) The course examines the diverse and historically varying relationships forged between biological sex, culturally formulated discourses of masculinity and femininity, and the sexed body. With themes, the course may employ a range of different approaches, depending on the instructor.
- GNDR-G 205 Themes in Gender Studies (1–3 cr.) Exploration of a theme or series of themes arising from the study of gender, generally from within a particular discipline or subfield. The course will provide some critical reflection upon the challenges of analyzing gender within the framework of different disciplines of knowledge. Focus on specific instances, topics, or case studies, depending on the instructor. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- GNDR-G 206 Gay Histories, Queer Cultures (3 cr.) Examines the social, cultural, and political history of same-sex relationships and desires in the United States and abroad, emphasizing the historical emergence of certain American sexual subcultures, such as the modern lesbian and gay “movement” or “community.” The course also highlights particular formations such as race, class, and regional difference that interrupt unified, universal narratives of lesbian and gay history.
- GNDR-G 215 Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 cr.) Investigation of forms in which gender, gender markings, gender meanings, and gender relations are arranged in different cultures of the world. Assessment of debates concerning the global salience of feminist claims about women’s “oppression,” political mobilization around gender, body rituals marking masculinity and femininity, indigenous women, and resistance to gender formations beyond Euro-American borders.
- GNDR-G 225 Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture (3 cr.) Examination of popular cultural “makings” of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality through typical representation of gender within fiction, theater, cinema, radio, music, television, journalism, and other secular mass media. Analysis of the developing international telecommunications “superhighway” and struggles to secure increased representation of women and of feminist perspectives within existing culture industries.
- GNDR-G 230 Gendered Relations (3 cr.) Examines the gendered dynamics of social relations. Explores how gender and sexuality are imagined, constructed, and lived within a diverse set of institutions and cultural locations, such as the military, the antebellum slave plantation, the global sex market, the hospital, and the contemporary workplace.
- GNDR-G 235 Scientific Understandings of Sex and Gender (3 cr.) Interrogates the evolution of scientific approaches to, and conceptualizations of, the terminology of sex and gender from the perspective of the behavioral, medical, and social sciences. Topics may include: femininity, masculinity, and androgyny; femaleness, maleness, intersex, and transgender; heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality.