17 courses with the subject GSST H, 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.
GSST H125POPULAR MUSIC, FEMININITY, AND FEMINISMS1.0
This course interrogates popular music history through a feminist lens, asking why popular music is the venue of choice for so many iterations of feminist expression. By engaging in feminist thought, feminist musicology, and popular music studies, this course asks how questions of music, femininity, and feminism are imbricated in larger matrices of racial, socioeconomic, and gender identity; political economies; and other forms of power. More broadly, it asks: what makes music feminist? Crosslisted: GSST. Lottery Preference: No lottery preferences
GSST H190INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST AND GENDER STUDIES1.0
This course introduces students to major debates and issues within the interdisciplinary field of Feminist and Gender Studies. We will explore what feminist scholars have illuminated about the construction of gender and sexuality in multiple historic, present-day, and global contexts. Students will examine feminist debates about how race, class, and religion shape gender and sexuality in unequal ways. And, students will develop the skills to analyze how gender and sexuality have been regulated, reinforced, and transgressed in diverse settings.
Transgender (Trans) Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores understandings of sex and gender through the discussion of lived trans experiences and theoretical tools to analyze gender, desire, embodiment, and identity. Students will learn to situate and assess assumptions about gender and sexuality, categories of identity, and social location. This course will raise questions about the social, political, cultural, legal, and historical rhetoric surrounding gender diversity in the U.S. context.
GSST H194THE QUEER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACE AND SEXUALITY: INTRODUCTION TO QUEER STUDIES1.0
This course is designed to introduce students to the academic field and cultural contexts of Queer Studies through a focus on race and sexuality as identities/locations/markers positioned within the social structure of the United States. Our aim is to understand major concepts and vocabulary in Queer Studies, to situate and assess human experience within diverse theoretical frameworks, and to interrogate assumptions about sexuality and race as categories of identity.
This course explores the representation of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality within multiple forms of visual culture, including film, video, and mass media. In particular, we will examine the politics of representation in visual culture produced by and about queer communities of color. Drawing on queer studies, feminist studies, ethnic studies, visual culture studies, and film studies, this course will introduce students to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of queer of color studies. Throughout the course, students will develop their skills of visual analysis, which they will integrate with their analysis of written texts. Lottery Preference: Gender and Sexuality concentrators
GSST H203ASIAN AMERICAN QUEER AND TRANS STUDIES1.0
This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Asian American Queer and Trans Studies. As such, we will focus on scholarship and cultural production at the intersection of Asian American Studies and Queer/Trans Studies. Throughout the course, we will draw on a range of theoretical and ethnographic texts, as well as forms of queer Asian American cultural production (primarily film and performance). Crosslisted: GSST,ASAM. Lottery Preference: Preference given to Gen Sex and Asian American Studies minors.
GSST H204DISABILITY JUSTICE: INTERSECTIONAL APPROACHES TO CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES1.0
This course focuses on the intersection of disability justice with gender and sexuality studies. Disability justice is a method and epistemology that intersects with critical disability studies, which has defined disability as a social construct and relationship of differential power and privilege applied to bodies that give them meaning.
What counts as kinship? How do queer lives remake forms of relation such as family, friendship, inheritance, care, solidarity, and belonging? This course introduces students to queer theory through the question of kinship. Rather than treating kinship only as a matter of blood relation or the nuclear family, we will ask how literature, film, and visual culture imagine relation through desire, memory, performance, reproduction, affiliation, and time. Lottery Preference: Gen Sex minors
Focusing on the relationship between queer genders and sexualities to migration, globalization, and transnational belonging, this course draws mainly on three bodies of interdisciplinary scholarship: queer of color scholarship, queer globalization scholarship, and diaspora and transnational studies. We will begin by exploring the history of LGBT and queer identities in the West. We will then define concepts of nation and diaspora, focusing on the relationship between sexuality, migration, and citizenship. Lottery Preference: Gender and Sexuality Studies concentrators.
What stories about queer and trans people circulated in the medieval period, and what does this body of literature tell us about the social construction of sexuality, gender, and embodiment? In this course, we will read medieval literature featuring lesbian, gay, transgender, and asexual characters alongside documents of historical queer and trans people and contemporary queer theory and trans studies scholarship. All texts will be read in modern English translation. Crosslisted: GSST.
GSST H290INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER1.0
This course examines feminist theory as a dynamic and contested field of inquiry. Throughout the semester, we will center Black feminist thought, queer theory, trans feminism, abolition feminism, and transnational critique to explore how feminist theory challenges racism, capitalism, colonialism, cisnormativity, and state violence.
This seminar examines the intellectual and political issues at stake in the field of black queer studies. Black queer studies consists of theories and methods that examine how race, gender, and sexuality intersect in ways that shape our everyday lives. We will explore foundational texts, central themes, and key debates within black queer studies in relation to other fields of thought including queer of color critique, African diaspora studies, and trans studies. Crosslisted: GSST.
In this course students will watch short films that center queer identity and experience and put them in conversation with theory (Jack Halberstam, Jose Esteban Munoz, Sara Ahmed, Sianne Ngai, et. al) We will ask: what constitutes the canon? What are queer affects? What does the short form offer visual storytellers? Conversely, how might queerness reimagine the short form? All students will write two short papers and produce a final essay video project. Crosslisted: VIST,COML,GSST Pre-requisite(s): VIST 142 - Intro to Visual Studies
GSST H316WOMEN AND THE ARMED STRUGGLE IN LATIN AMERICA1.0
An examination of socialist armed struggles in 1970s, women’s rights and feminist movements in Latin America. A comparative study of literary texts, testimonials and documentary films addresses theoretical issues such as Marxism, global feminism, hegemony and feminisms produced in the periphery. This course is conducted in Spanish. Course taught in Spanish. Cross-listed: Spanish, Gen/Sex, and PJHR Prerequisite(s): One 200-level, preferred 300- level course, or instructor consent
GSST H322U.S. WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY IN A TIME OF CRISIS1.0
This course will explore a range of topics and debates in U.S. women's/gender history from the early nineteenth century through the mid twentieth century explicitly in light of a currently hostile political climate. As historians, we recognize the passion and political purpose that inspired early feminist, anti-racist, and queer scholarship; as people living through these times, we must address how the backlash against complex historical scholarship and memorializing is part of a larger political project. Crosslisted: HIST,GSST. Lottery Preference: History majors
GSST H329BELL HOOKS SEMINAR: BLACK FEMINIST AUTOTHEORY AND CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY1.0
This course will be a survey of the critical phenomenological work of Black feminist philosopher bell hooks, with a concentration on how hooks’ theory is intertwined with her lived experience. Crosslisted: AFST,GSST. Pre-requisite(s): 200- Level Philosophy course or Instructor Permission
GSST H332INTO THE THREAD: GENDER AND TEXTILE ARTWORK IN LATIN AMERICA1.0
Long dismissed as “women’s work,” fiber art carries quiet insurgency in its threads. Emerging from Indigenous, Black, and mestizo communities, its textures expose how race, labor, and intimacy intertwine. From domestic spaces to museum walls, Latin American feminist and queer artists have used fiberwork to unravel colonial legacies and re-stitch desire, memory, and resistance. Taught in Spanish, this course traces how touch, texture, and craft become acts of embodied, anti-colonial transformation. Crosslisted: SPAN,GSST,VIST
