35 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.
This course invites students to explore how gender is shaped within institutions and how these structures impact individuals, providing critical tools to examine, and claim, their education.
Students will address the complex historical and contemporary relationships among gender, race, and sexuality as important and interdependent aspects of social life.
This course provides historical background for understanding racial inequalities, focuses on the concepts of race and gender and how they are connected to racism and sexism, and explores the concept of intersectionality.
An interdisciplinary introduction to frameworks and approaches in the field of women's, gender and sexuality studies.
Focuses on the development of writing skills for the discipline of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Fosters information literacy, proficiency in engaging with and responding to scholarship, and the cultivation of strong research practices.
An introduction to the academic study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex histories, experiences, and cultures.
How politics and culture shape ideas about diverse women's health and bodies. Topics include gender, race, sexuality, disability, reproduction, disease, violence, and the health care system.
An exploration on how gender has shaped understandings of democracy in the United States. The course uses gender, cultural, and historical analysis to interpret and analyze some of the nation’s foundational texts and to explore their continued legacies.
Study of the role of categories of male and female in the creation and maintenance of Christian notions of holiness, authority, and hierarchy in historical perspective.
An exploration of gender-based violence in contemporary culture and social life. Topics discussed may include assault, stalking, intimate partner violence, and media portraits of gender violence.
Inquiry into status of genders in society with emphasis on structural and institutional relationships as well as socialization and the continuities and discontinuities in gendered displays across the life cycle.
Examines histories of, and critical feminist responses to, western colonialism and imperialism. Explores the construction of race, gender, class, and sexuality within imperial projects and anti-imperial movements.
This course invites students to learn about Latin American Feminist and Queer thought, its social impact, and related transnational networks from the 17th century until today. It will also include connections to the ideas and activism of Latinx feminists of the last century in the United States.
Explores and evaluates feminist theories in a socio-historical context. Raises questions about their implications for different methods of inquiry and about the nature of knowledge and rational thought.
Study of Ecofeminism as a philosophy and social movement that focuses on interconnections between feminism and environmentalism. Analysis of paradigms and inequalities that devalue and oppress both 'women' and 'nature'.
Exploration of the literatures, cultural productions, histories, and politics of indigenous peoples. Topic will vary depending on section.
Intensive independent study of specialized topics.
Examines key questions in scholarly literature on gender, crime, and deviance: how gender socialization, gender roles, and institutions affect males' and females' offending, deviant behavior, and victimization.
Examines sexuality as an identity and an object of knowledge in connection to race, class, and gender. Includes exploration of the history of, and new developments in, queer theory.
An in-depth study of a selected topic or topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies involving directed reading and research.
Practical experience in a variety of professional settings. Includes biweekly seminar with internship coordinator. Students complete at least 7-10 hours a week at internship sites.
Senior-level work on a major theme in the field of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Each student will design and complete a culminating research project.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; 3.30 GPA in the major, 12 s.h. in the major;
A research or creative project related to women's and gender studies supervised by a WGS faculty member.
Supervised experience related to women's, gender, and sexuality studies. May include teaching internship, service learning opportunity, applied research experience, or internship in social justice organizations and agencies.
Prerequisite: At least 15 credit hours of graduate level course work including WGS 650 and WGS 651;
Introduces feminist social movements across historical and global contexts. Relies on interdisciplinary lenses and epistemologies, particularly as contested identity politics intersect with other systems of power and relationships.
Feminist approaches to philosophical and practical inquiries: data collection, analysis, and presentation. Prepares students to critically read research to understand the place of gender in lived experiences and institutional spaces.
Interdisciplinary investigation of the social construction of race and gender in the context of U.S. warfare and imperial statecraft. Examines critiques of US empire using critical race and feminist frameworks.
A capstone experience for the master's degree in women's and gender studies. Students design and present culminating project in their area of specialization and professional portfolio developed from WGS courses.
Individual guidance in the development of a specific research problem.
Examines sexuality as an identity and an object of knowledge in connection to race, class, and gender. Includes exploration of the history of, and new developments in, queer theory.
Intensive work at an advanced level on a selected topic in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Thesis Extension.
Research Extension.
Source: University of North Carolina at Greensboro's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
