98 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 101Field Guide to Gender and Sexuality Studies1.5-3
An opportunity to experience and reflect analytically in writing on the diverse cultural and intellectual life of Wake Forest, with an emphasis on women's, and gender, and sexuality studies events and topics. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours. Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 303
Explores the principles of feminist leadership to deepen self-awareness about personal leadership skills and gain tools for creating feminist social change. This highly interactive class welcomes students who are 5 new to feminist thought/activism as well as those seeking to deepen their engagement with feminism. Pass/fail only. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours.
Open to participants in the LGBTQ Center's Change Agent program. Participants will explore principles of identity development (individual and community), queer and feminist theories of leadership and change, understanding gender and sexuality as frameworks for community organizing and social change, and development and implementation of a final change related project. Pass/fail only. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours. P-Prerequisite override required.
Provides students with an intersectional overview of gender-based violence, and teaches them to design and implement community-engaged educational programs on this topic. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours.
Introduces feminism as a lens of analysis; gender, sexuality, and other social categories as social constructs; sexism, heterosexism, and other social systems as systems of oppression; and intersectionality as a lens of analysis. Topics of the course will vary based on the instructor. (D)
WGS 210Transnational Asia and Asian American Feminism3
Analyzes historical, socio-political, and cultural events as well as contemporary issues structuring the lives of Asian American women and queer community. Students will learn intersectional and transnational feminist approaches to examine race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, and kinship in Asian American art and activism.
Explores black and brown women’s political, social and cultural experiences. Students will analyze how laws, social norms, cultural traditions, education practices and labor expectations attempt to make women (in)visible and how they use artistic expressions, activism and media to organize, resist, and thrive.
Introduces the global and historical breadth of gender and sexual systems. Foundational and current approaches to cross-cultural historical analysis of masculinity, women’s rights, and differences between LGBTQ identities and other models. Also listed as HST 114. (CD,
Provides an interdisciplinary grounding in the foundations of queer culture and studies, with a critical interrogation of sex, gender, sexuality, pleasure, and embodiment in popular culture, literature, health, science, and politics. (CD, POR)
This introductory course examines key issues, questions, and concepts in feminist thought and women’s movements, which reflect a wide range of perspectives and methodologies from abolitionism to transnationalism.(D)
This seminar-syle reading course surveys classic and new works in queer theology. Queer theology transgresses dominant constructions of gender identity and sexuality; and as scuh, it can be seen as an expression of the Christian gospel that subverts human understandings of life, community, and the divine. The course explores biblical and Christian theological perspectives on sexuality, social constructions of sexuality, and issues such as power, marriage equality, and sexual ethics.
Addresses ways in which gender and literacy practices intersect in various cultures and historical periods. Attention will be paid to the role of literature in formulating, subverting, or resisting gender norms. May be repeated for credit if topic differs.
Offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of masculinity studies. Students examine the social, historical, and cultural construction of masculinity and male roles, considering how these constructions vary according to race, class, and sexuality. Students investigate possibilities for challenging hegemonic forms of masculinity and for creating new types of masculinity. (POR)
Examines how conflicts around gender and sexuality plays/played out domestically and globally in both the popular and high culture of the time. Can be repeated if the topic changes.
WGS 236Gender, Sexuality, Inequality and the Brain3
Examines the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and neuroscience. Topics include sexed brains, 'gay' versus 'straight' brains, and the neuroscience of racism. Students analyze scientific papers and WGSS texts, exploring how neuroscience shapes media and politics. No prior knowledge of neuroscience or gender studies is needed.
Different race and ethnic experiences are examined through an institutional approach that examines religion, work, schooling, marriage patterns, and culture from cross-cultural perspective. Grand theoretical schemes like the "melting pot" are critiqued for their relevance in an age of new cultural expectations among the many American ethnic groups. Also listed as AES 251. (CD, POR)
Critically examines the practices of state-defined citizenship and its effects on migrant people. We will explore the complex dynamics of migration, exploring how borders, gender, race, and nationalism intersect to define who gets to belong while looking at examples of resistance movements led by migrants that challenge these barriers.
WGS 271Making Sense of the News Through a Feminist Le1-3
Inquiry into news literacy from a feminist perspective, with the intention to identify gender bias and consider questions of empowerment, exclusion, consumerism, and how to navigate the digital landscape to distinguish verified, reliable news from propaganda.
WGS 300Gender and Sexuality in Literary Adaptations1.5-3
Focuses on understanding the relationship between written literature (novel, play, short story, poem) and its adaptation to another genre or medium (film, painting, video game, song, etc.) through the lens of gender and sexuality. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours.
Introduction to feminist thought and its implications for the study and practice of political theory. Topics include feminist critiques of the Western political tradition and schools of feminist political theory. Also listed as POL 277. (CD, POR)
Examination of feminist approaches to philosophical theorizing. Topics may include feminist critiques of the scope and methods of mainstream philosophy, feminist approaches to ethics, epistemology and philosophy of language, and feminist conceptions of the self, sexuality, and moral agency. Also listed as PHI 379. P-one PHI course or prerequisite override required.
Exploration of how Diasporic Black women talk back to institutional practices that marginalize them, and how Black women engage in the necessary labor to make a more democratic society. (CD)
WGS 305Transgender History, Identity, and Politics in the U.S3
This course explores the experiences of and responses to transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) people in nineteenth-and twentieth-century America. We will examine how scientific/medical authorities, legal authorities, and everyday people have understood and responded to various kinds of gender non-conformity. Same as HST 371. (CD)
Explores how public history projects (oral histories, museums, archives, documentaries) document gay, lesbian, and queer communities in the U.S. Discusses how historical and contemporary LGBTQ stories have been collected and examines the various queer identities that emerge through this process. Same as HST 372. (POR)
WGS 309Environmentalism, the Humanities, and Gender3
Survey of the global spread of Environmentalism, with an emphasis on its evolution as a disciplinary field that includes eco-feminism and feminist perspectives on the environment. Topics include the investigation of women's roles in environmental history and the construction of global environmental narratives. Also listed as HMN 292.
Using an intersectional approach, this class explores various issues related to violence, power, and gender in society. May be repeated for credit if the topic changes. (CD)
WGS 311Geeks, Girlies, and Fangirls: Gender, Race, and Belonging in
Online and Fan Communities.. (3 h) This course, using intersectional, fan, and internet studies, explores how media/digital audiences are policed across platforms and how marginalized communities challenge dominant power structures.
WGS 318Film Lab in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies1.5-3
Viewing, dissecting, and analyzing films. Fosters the skills to create complex cinematic analyses and explore feminist theoretical issues related to spectatorship.
Examination of selected plays and/or performance texts by women. Focus varies, for example, looking at works by contemporary American women or early women dramatists such as Hrosvitha, Sor Juana, and Aphra Behn. Also listed as THE 373. (CD)
3 Constructive Perspectives on Christian 3 Thought 3 Academic Community Engagement (ACE) 3 Coordinator Allison Walker, Director of Community Partnerships and 3 Experiential Learning in the Office of Civic and Community Engagement Academic Community Engagement (ACE) courses connect academic 3 content to community engagement through collaboration with 3 community partners. ACE courses align with the Carnegie Foundation’s 3 classification of community engagement as “the collaboration between 3 institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.” 1-3 Guided by the principle of Pro Humanitate, ACE-designated courses empower students to apply their academic knowledge in real-world 3 settings, fostering experiential learning and servant leadership through collaborative community partnerships. Through an interdisciplinary, 3 community-based approach to learning, research, and scholarship, students gain the knowledge, values, and skills to address perennial social problems and become catalysts for change, dedicated to serving humanity and advancing social progress for generations to come.
Analyzes core issues related to women in leadership through an intersectional lens, integrating diverse perspectives and methodologies to deepen the understanding of challenges and opportunities faced by women in leadership. May be repeated if topic changes.
A reading course designed to introduce students to classic and contemporary feminist texts. Emphasis on close reading, discussions, and writing. May be repeated for credit if texts differ. Only offered for 1. or 3 hours.
Examines cultural constructions of gender and sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective and the relationship between gender and sexuality and anthropology through time. Emphasizes how varied forms of feminisms are constituted within diverse social, cultural, and economic systems. Also listed as ANT 329.
Examines the intersections of gender, medicine, health, and illness, with a focus on the U.S. context. Topics include: reproduction, mental illness, breast cancer, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS, among others. We explore the following questions: How have women and men interacted differently with the field of medicine, as healers, patients, and subjects of medical research? How do social and cultural norms about gender influence the definition of illness categories? What role does medicine play in defining and enforcing the boundaries of what is considered socially acceptable in terms of gender? How does gender as a social role affect health outcomes? (POR)
Explores the politics of sexuality in the United States. Drawing on feminist scholarship, queer theory, and lesbian, gay, and transgender studies, we will explore different historical and theoretical approaches to thinking about issues of power and sexuality. We will discuss sexual identities and cultures, state regulation of sexuality, sexual commerce, and cultural representations of sexuality, among other topics. Throughout we will examine how other social categories such as race, class, gender, and disability intersect with the politics of sexuality.
Analyzes the changing perceptions of “bad” and “wild” girls and women from the twentieth to twenty-first centuries. Engaging with various forms of media, this course will explore the differences between sexual objectification and subjectivity, the impact of race and queerness, and how gender roles affect behavior for both men and women.
Investigates the relationship of image, sequence, and story in typography, comics, woodcut novels, and photographic books, and film, as well as fiction and poetry with unusual visual elements, and then asks how these various elements offer different visual and textual expressions of sexuality. Students will conduct formalist analyses and further investigate visual narrative through creative exercises with the goal of developing an aesthetic sensibility and a technical vocabulary that enable them to discuss visual narrative with precision. Please note that some visual narratives will include graphic scenes of sexuality. Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 305
WGS 349Invert, Pervert, Bull Dagger, Queen: Queer Fiction in the 20th
Century. (3 h) Explores the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered, and other queers as articulated by and about them in various media in the twentieth century. Topics include the relationship between homosexual desire and queerness, LGBTQ+ children, biological and psychological understandings of sexual orientation, and how social construction informs sexual identity and desire.
WGS 359Trans History, Machismo, and Sex Work in Latin America3
5 Explores the history of gender and sexuality across 20th century Latin America and the Caribbean. Applies new theoretical developments in gender, masculinity, and trans and queer studies to the region's history of race, revolutions, migrations, dictatorships, and social movements. Also listed as HST 359.(CD)
Introduces students to the intersection of theater and feminism and experience its interdisciplinary lineage and academic interventions. Students will learn and apply feminist theory, which looks beyond the conventional theater for a continuum of performance that includes play, ritual, sport, everyday life and social roles, as well as performance art, global and intercultural performance. Engaging with various feminist theoretical approaches from radical and liberal feminism to intersectional and transnational feminism, students will be encouraged to critically examine race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and nationality expressed on and offstage.
Examines gender and sexuality in TV, film, pop culture, protests, and everyday performances, focusing on diverse socio-political issues within and across Asia. Topics include: the evolution of feminism, #metoo movement, LGBTQ cultures, sex work, aging, plastic surgery industry, postcolonial and Intra-Asia conflicts, and transpacific affinities. (CD)
Includes such women's, gender and sexuality studies topics as gender issues in the twenty-first century, critical approaches to women's issues, and the emergence of feminist thought. May be repeated for credit if topic differs.
Explores a wide variety of issues related to sexual identity and orientation by looking at the ways in which the law can constrict social development as well as act as a catalyst for change. Examines how religion and popular morality shape the law and are shaped by it.
Examines how the law affects women’s lives in a number of contexts. Considers a number of different areas, including but not limited to employment, education, family responsibilities, violence against women, and other issues affecting women’s bodies, including pornography and prostitution. The class will also review a number of feminist legal theories and issues relating to the intersection of gender with race and class.
Examines the impact of state and federal court cases upon the evolution of race and gender relations in the U.S. from 1789 to the present. Each case is placed within the political, economic and social historical context for the given time periods. Race includes Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans. This class will analyze government intervention, inaction, and creative interpretation. Same as HST 358.
Independent projects in women's, gender, and sexuality studies which either continue study begun in regular courses or develop new areas of interest. Course may be repeated, but a maximum of 3 hours may apply to the minor. By prearrangement. P-Prerequisite override required.
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may be repeated, but a maximum of 3 hours may apply to the minor.
WGS 397Public Engagement in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(1.5-3 h) An opportunity for students to engage in work and research that is shared with the broader public, either on campus or in a local community. A maximum of 3 hours may apply to the major or minor. May be repeated for credit. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours. P-Prerequisite override required.
This hands-on course consists of gender/sexuality-focused lectures, readings, workshops, digital storytelling, and guided visits of university and art galleries, museums, historical societies and homes, community centers, and other local institutions that have relevant artwork or archive materials, whether print or digital. Provides opportunities to develop expertise in interpretation of collections through a gender lens while considering the role of public education and creative thinking in community settings.
Examines major themes, concepts and theories in feminist political thought. Themes explored include schools of feminist thinking, feminism's diverse expressions over time, theories of the interlocking systems of oppressions, and the connection between theory and practice.
Addresses ways in which gender and literary practices intersect in various cultures and historical periods. Attention will be paid to the role of literature in formulating, subverting, or resisting gender norms. May be repeated for credit if topic differs.
WGS 603Gender and Sexuality in Literary Adaptations1.5-3
Focuses on understanding the relationship between written literature (novel, play, short story, poem) and its adaptation to another genre or medium (film, painting, video game, song, etc.) through the lens of gender and sexuality. It can also involve adapting the same literary work in the same genre or medium for different purposes, i.e. to work with a cast of differing gender or race, in a smaller or larger venue (or on the road), for a different demographic or ethnic group, or in a different geographical/ 3 historical setting. This course studies how adaptations enable us to rework literature and rethink attitudes about issues of gender, ethnicity, class, history, and identity. 3 WGS 604. Transgender History, Identity, and Politics. (3 h) Explores the experiences of and responses to transgender, gender non- conforming, and intersex (TGI) people in nineteenth- and twentieth- century America. We will examine how scientific/medical authorities, 6 legal authorities, and everyday people have understood and responded to 2 various finds of gender non-conformity.
WGS 604Transgender History, Identity, and Politics3
Explores the experiences of and responses to transgender, gender non- conforming, and intersex (TGI) people in nineteenth- and twentieth- century America. We will examine how scientific/medical authorities, legal authorities, and everyday people have understood and responded to various finds of gender non-conformity.
This course explores how public history projects (oral histories, museums, archives, documentaries) document gay, lesbian, and queer communities in the U.S. Discusses how historical and contemporary LGBTQ stories have been collected and examines the various queer identities that merge through this process.
Provides a framework for understanding how the Humanities can contribute to civic conversations about environmental change, examining in particular the role of women environmentalist and eco-feminist in constructing global environmental narratives.
A research-centered study of various issues related to violence, power, and gender in American society. Emphasizes sociological analysis of competing theoretical explanations of violence with respect to race, class, gender, religion, and sexual orientation.
Provides an interdisciplinary grounding in the foundations of queer culture and studies, with a critical interrogation of sex, gender, sexuality, pleasure, and embodiment in popular culture, literature, health, science, and politics.
WGS 618Film Lab in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies1.5-3
Viewing, dissecting, and analyzing films. Fosters the skills to create complex cinematic analyses and explore feminist theoretical issues related to spectatorship.
Examination of selected plays and/or performance texts by women. Focus varies, for example, looking at works by contemporary American women or early women dramatists such as Hrosvitha, Sor Juana, and Aphra Behn.
WGS 621Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3
An interdisciplinary course that integrates materials from the humanities and the sciences, taught by WGS faculty representing at least two fields. Topics include critical methods and practical solutions, history and theory of women's gender, and sexuality studies, women in culture and society, and cross-cultural issues of gender, ethnicity, social class, disability, and sexual orientation.
WGS 622Introduction to Women's and Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (3
h) An interdisciplinary course that integrates materials from the humanities and the sciences, taught by WGS faculty representing the least two fields. Topics include critical methods and practical solutions, history and theory of women's gender, and sexuality studies, women in culture and society, and cross-cultural issues of gender, ethnicity, social class, disability, and sexual orientation.
WGS 623Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Theologies: Constructive
Perspectives on Christian Thought. (3 h) Discourse featuring womanist and feminist theologies as "lived" and "living" religious orientations that shape ethical worldviews, earth communal landscapes, and experiences of spiritual life.
This seminar-style reading course surveys classic and new works in queer theology. Queer theology transgresses dominant constructions of gender identity and sexuality; and as such, it can be seen as an expression of the Christian gospel that subverts human understandings of life, community, and the divine. The course explores biblical and Christian theological perspectives on sexuality, social constructions of sexuality, and issues such as power, marriage equality, and sexual ethics.
Explores the principles of feminist leadership to deepen self-awareness about personal leadership skills and gain tools for creating feminist social change. This highly interactive class welcomes students who are new to feminist thought/activism as well as those seeking to deepen their engagement with feminism. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.
WGS 626Telling Women's Lives: Writing about Entrepreneurs, Activists
and Thought Leaders. (3 h) This course will use an interdisciplinary approach to address fundamental issues of female leadership by examining recent developments in long- and short-form narratives about women (biography, essays, profiles) and employing journalistic tools to interview and write profiles of women entrepreneurs, activists, and thought leaders.
A reading course designed to introduce students to classic and contemporary feminist texts. Emphasis on close reading, discussion, and writing. May be repeated for credit if texts differ.
Examines cultural constructions of gender and sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective and the relationship between feminism and cultural rights activism through time. Emphasizes how varied forms of feminisms are constituted within diverse social, cultural, and economic systems. Students consider how feminists are negotiating positions at the intersection of cultural and human rights.
This course examines the intersections of gender, medicine, health, and illness, with a focus on the U.S. context. Topics include: reproduction, mental illness, breast cancer, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS, among others. We explore the following questions: How have women and men interacted differently with the field of medicine, as healers, patients, and subjects of medical research? How do social and cultural norms about gender influence the definition of illness categories? What role does medicine play in defining and enforcing the boundaries of what is considered socially acceptable in terms of gender? How does gender as social role affect health outcomes?.
Introduces the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of masculinity studies. Students will explore the social, historical, and cultural constructions of masculinity and male roles (as fathers, sexual and romantic partners, and workers) and how these constructions differ according to race, class, sexuality, etc. In addition, the course will examine how norms about masculinity simultaneously empower men as a group and many individual men, while also disadvantaging any individual men and regulating the behavior of all men. Students will explore possibilities for challenging hegemonic forms of masculinity and for creating new types of masculinity.
This course explores the politics of sexuality in the United States. Drawing on feminist scholarship, queer theory, and lesbian, gay and transgender studies, we will explore different historical and theoretical approaches to thinking about issues of power and sexuality. We will discuss sexual identities and cultures, state regulation of sexuality, sexual commerce, and cultural representations of sexuality, among other topics. Throughout we will examine how other social categories such as race, class, gender, and disability intersect with the politics of sexuality.
Examines feminist approaches to philosophical theorizing. Topics may include feminist critiques of the scope and methods of mainstream philosophy, feminist approaches to ethics, epistemology and philosophy of language, and feminist conceptions of the self, sexuality, and moral agency.
This course analyzes what made girls and women “bad” and “wild” in the twentieth-century United States, and how such judgments changed over time. This class engages closely with novels, short stories, movies, comics, podcasts, and an opera with an eye to what behaviors were considered appropriate, and how they interrelated with sexual attraction, with economics, and with love. We examine the relationship between being configured as a sexual object (a recipient of desire) and a sexual subject (a possessor of desire) and come to a critical understanding of how the “proper” and “improper” forms of both were constantly in flux. We ask how race, ethnicity, and queerness interacted with hegemonic concepts of beauty and desire, and whether “masculinity” and “femininity” are necessarily attached to men and women. We read theories of sex and gender, examine concepts of projection and male hegemony, and ask how men as well as women are shaped by rules of appropriate behavior.
This class investigates the relationship of image, sequence, and story in typography, comics, woodcut novels, and photographic books, and films, as well as fiction and poetry wit unusual visual elements, and then asks how these various elements offer different visual and textual expressions of sexuality. Students will conduct formalist analyses and further investigate visual narrative through creative exercises with the goal of developing an aesthetic sensibility and a technical vocabulary that enable them to discuss visual narrative with precision. Please note that some visual narrative will include graphic scenes of sexuality.
This course examines Didion and White, two of the most important American writers of the past fifty years. Both are known for their journalism as well as their fiction, and their interest in U.S. cultural and political history, especially in terms of gender and sexuality, permeates their novels. This course analyzes three works by each author, developing themes from motherhood, sexuality, imperialism, rebellion and AIDs.
WGS 649Invert, Pervert, Bull Dagger, Queen: U.S. Queer Fiction in the
20th Century. (3 h) This class explores the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered, and other queers through fiction by and about them written over the last century in the United States. We also consider biography, artifacts of popular culture, comics, drama, and film. Topics include the relationship between homosexual desire and queerness in a broad sense; LGBTQ children; biological and psychological understandings of sexual orientation; and how social construction informs sexual identity and desire.
Different race and ethnic experiences are examined through an institutional approach that examines religion, work, gender, schooling, marriage patterns, and culture from a cross-cultural perspective. Grand theoretical schemes like the "melting pot" are critiqued for their relevance in an age of new cultural expectations among the many American ethnic groups.
Introduces the student to the intersection of theater and feminism and experience its interdisciplinary lineage and academic interventions. Students will learn and apply feminist theory which looks beyond the conventional theater for a continuum of performance that includes play, ritual, sports, everyday life and social roles, as well as performance art, global and intercultural performance. Engaging with various feminist theoretical approaches from radical and liberal feminism to intersectional and transnational feminism, students will be encouraged to critically examine race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and nationality expressed on and offstage. Through readings, discussions, lectures, research and creative assignments, indoor and outdoor classroom activities, and campus events, students will explore historical and socio-political factors entangled with representation, identification, and spectatorship, and strengthen their capacity to exercise feminist practice in theater and performance.
WGS 663Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Korea3
This course will examine gender and sexuality in Korean TV, film, K- pop, protests, and everyday performances, focusing on diverse socio- political issues within and beyond the Korean Peninsula. Topics include: the evaluation of feminism, #metoo movement, LGBTQ cultures, sex work, aging, plastic surgery industry, postcolonial and post-Korean war conflicts, and transpacific affinities.
WGS 664Women of Color, Feminism, and the Politics of Resistance in
the US. (3 h) Examines historical and contemporary issues and current events affecting the lives of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. Exploring major theoretical and practical viewpoints in women's studies scholarship, the course will reveal the importance of intersectionality between race, gender, sexuality, class, and/or ethnicity in the everyday lives of multicultural women. Through arts-based civic engagement projects and activities, this course will also encourage students to formulate their own language of resistance against multiple forms of oppression.
WGS 665Transnational Asia and Asian American Feminism3
This course will analyze historical, socio-political, and cultural events as well as contemporary issues structuring the lives of Asian American women and queer community. Students will learn intersectional and transnational feminist approaches to examine race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, and kinship in Asian American art and activism.
WGS 671Making Sense of the News through a Feminist Lens1-3
Inquiry into news literacy from a feminist perspective, with the intention to identify gender bias and consider questions of empowerment, exclusion, consumerism, and how to navigate the digital landscape to distinguish verified, reliable news from propaganda.
Includes such a wide range of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies topics as gender issues in the 21st century, critical approaches to gender issues, and the emergence of feminist thought. May be repeated for credit if topic differs.
Explores a wide variety of issues related to sexual identity and orientation by looking at the ways in which law can constrict development as well as a catalyst for change. Examines how religion and popular morality shape the law, and are shaped by it.
This course will examine how the law affects women's lives in a number of contexts. The class will consider a number of different areas, including but not limited to employment, education, family responsibilities, violence against women, and other issues affecting women's bodies, including pornography and prostitution. The class will also review a number of feminist legal theories and issues relating to the intersection of gender with race and class.
This course examines the impact of state and federal court cases upon the evolution of race and gender relations in the U.S. from 1789 to the present. Each case is placed within the political, economic and social historical context for the given time periods. Race includes Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans. This class will analyze government intervention, inaction, and creative interpretation.
Independent projects in women’s gender, and sexuality studies, which either continue study begun in regular courses or develop new areas of interest. By prearrangement. May be repeated for credit.
WGS 697Public Engagement in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(1.5-3 h) This class provides an opportunity for students to engage in work and research that is shared with the broader public, either on campus or in a local community. A maximum of 3 hours may apply to the major or minor.
WGS 698Theory and Practice of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(3 h) Examines the major themes and terminology in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, with focus on its diverse and multicultural expressions through time. Themes to be explored include schools of feminisms, interlocking systems of oppression and the connection between theory and practice.
WGS 699Research Seminar in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (3
h) A capstone, research-centered course in which students complete a significant research or creative project of their choosing situated within the field of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.