19 courses with the subject WGS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WGS 111Women, History, and Culture
Explores the roles and images of women in Western culture and the realities of women's everyday lives through literature, film, history, art, psychology, and recent feminist scholarship. Analyz
Introduces the key topics and debates that have shaped the field of gender studies, including queer studies, masculinity studies, and women's studies. Through lecture and class di
WGS 225From Prophetess to Poetess: African Women Since 1800
In this course we will explore the history of women in Africa from 1800 to the present. The course takes a deliberately large swath of time, in order to give students an idea of the changing status of women in Africa between the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods. The princ
Explores feminist ideas and the fight for gender equality, primarily through fiction and visual texts - with a focus on 1945 to the present, but with a continual interrogation of h
Explores how gender and sexuality are depicted, constructed, and interrogated across a variety of visual mediums, including film, television, and photography. We will pair foundational readings in queer and feminist thought with representa
Examines a broad range of feminist-themed literature, with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century literature in a range of genres including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Texts consid
WGS 311Engendering Entertainment: Feminism and Popular Culture
Investigates the complex intersections between feminism and popular culture through several different lenses: by exploring how feminists make arguments about popular culture; by looking at the complexities of publ
Investigates how feminists, both today and in history, have understood inequality and difference and looked for the best ways to address these issues and bring about social justice. Exami
WGS 338Re-Imagine the World: Transnational Feminism in Film
This course explores the representations of cisgender and trans women in film through the critical lens of transnational feminism, which invites us to reimagine the ways we think about th
Examines the history of female portrayal on the Western stage including women in Shakespeare and other early modern plays (when female characters were played