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28 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 101Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

This course introduces students to key concepts and methods commonly employed in the interdisciplinary f

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 140Visual, Textual, Sonic, Spectacle: Gender and Global Content Production

How do contemporary writers, musicians and visual artists from different geo-cultural realities portray gender in their works? Moreover, how do they engage social media and what

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 204Gender and Environmentalism

This course merges key insights of environmental studies/activism, which focus on relationships between living beings and their environment, and f

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 235Gender and the Economy

Across the globe, we observe different economic outcomes across gender that are both significant and persistent. This course takes an in

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 240Transfeminisms

Transfeminism is an interdisciplinary, intersectional critical approach that engages with feminist, queer, and transgende

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 243Global Sexualities

This course explores how the movements of people across borders, whether for exploration, work, leisure, or war, shaped and reconfigur

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 245Queer Film Histories

This class will introduce students to histories of queer cinema from around the world and across a range of cinematic modes and practices: n

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 249Women in the US Criminal Justice System

This course engages students in critical analysis of the criminal justice system and of significant innovations and proposals for reform of policies, programs, and practices. This semi

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 250Gender and STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Math)

This course examines how gender and gender identity-as well as race/ethnicity and sexual identity-intersect with STEM-related

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 255Women Make Movies/Movies Make Women

This non-production course examines the work of women filmmakers and how women have historically

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 260Technologies of Violence

Violence is a central topic of study within the interdisciplinary field of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. The objectives for this c

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 261Masculinities

This course critically examines pervasive notions of masculinity, focusing especially on systemic, hierarchical power structures organiz

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 262Women, Gender, and Work in the Americas

What is work? Who does it and in what capacity? And how does gender influence ideas about and practices of women's and men

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 270279 Special Topics

These interdisciplinary courses explore issues of special interest to WGS fa

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026.json
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WGS 270-279Special Topics1

These interdisciplinary courses explore issues of special interest to WGS faculty and students.

Subject: WGS
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 280Feminist Theory

Feminist Theory explores the various interdisciplinary intellectual traditions that structure ideas about gender/gender identity and sexua

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 285Feminist Research Design

This interdisciplinary course begins from the question, “What is feminist research?” It explores how intersectional feminist thought shapes th

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 320Black Feminisms

This seminar addresses the theoretical contributions of "Black" (Continental, Diasporan, and American African) feminists working fr

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 330Queer Theory

Queer theory is an interdisciplinary critical approach that expands on feminist theory and LGBTQ studies. Queer theory rejects stable id

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 340Sexuality Studies

This course examines the various cultural and social regimes that create and organize ideas about sexuality, addresses

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 350Intersectional Feminist Activisms

This course examines contemporary forms of feminist activism that center the politics of gender and sexuality within broader US-based soci

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 353Single Motherhood (Community-Based Learning Course)

This course examines the cultural ideologies, institutions, and public policies that affect single women's experience of motherhood, with particular att

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 370379 Special Topics Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies

These advanced interdisciplinary seminars explore issues of special interest t

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026.json
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WGS 370-379Special Topics Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies1

These advanced interdisciplinary seminars explore issues of special interest to WGS faculty and students.

Subject: WGS
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com

WGS 380Internship in Women's and Gender Studies

This course gives students the opportunity to apply scholarship in the field of feminist and gender studies to c

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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WGS 390391 Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies

This course provides an opportunity for students to explore a topic in depth through the lens of fem

Subject: WGS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026.json
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WGS 390-391Independent Study in Women's and Gender Studies1

This course provides an opportunity for students to explore a topic in depth through the lens of feminist and gender theory. The student meets regularly with the supervising WGS faculty member to select and discuss relevant readings and to design an ambitious research project, generally one that culminates in a carefully researched paper.

Subject: WGS
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com

WGS 495-496Thesis1

Guided by faculty affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies Program, the student writes a thesis in a specialized aspect of the interdiscipline. If the student's project is deemed to be of sufficient quality at the end of the first semester (WGS 495), the student may complete honors in WGS (WGS 496) in the second semester.

Subject: WGS
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com

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