Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Approved Courses

Art History

• AAH 223 -  The Nude
• AAH 360 -  Seminar: Visual Culture, Race and Gender

Classics

• CLS 146 -  Sex and Gender in Classical Antiquity
• CLS 147 -  Women in Ancient Rome

English

• EGL 102 -  The Study of Literature: Dramatic Literature and Social Justice
• EGL 190 -  Confronting the Canon: Reimagining Beowulf
• EGL 193 -  Confronting the Canon: Confronting the Hero’s Journey
• EGL 194 -  Confronting the Canon: Confronting Dido’s Many Faces
• EGL 202 -  Amazons, Saints and Scholars: Women’s Writing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• EGL 206 -  Gender in Renaissance Literature
• EGL 223 -  Jane Austen
• EGL 224 -  19th-Century Novel
• EGL 230 -  Seduction in Early American Republic
• EGL 233 -  18-19th Century Early Literature of African Diaspora
• EGL 236 -  Trans-Atlantic Realism and Naturalism
• EGL 244 -  The Contemporary British Imagination
• EGL 250 -  The Beats and Contemporary Culture
• EGL 253 -  Narratives of Haunting in US Ethnic Literature
• EGL 257 -  Irish American Literature: Race, Gender, Sexuality
• EGL 258 -  Changing Ireland
• EGL 259 -  Irish Literature and Film
• EGL 261 -  Modernism and Modernity
• EGL 262 -  Global Modernisms
• EGL 263 -  Literature and Sexuality
• EGL 266 -  Black Women Writers
• EGL 267 -  The Virginia Woolf
• EGL 268 -  Staging Black Feminisms
• EGL 269 -  New Women around the World
• EGL 274 -  Uncanny Texts: Literature and Psychoanalysis
• EGL 276 -  Literature of the Manor House
• EGL 282 -  The Theory of Things: Objects, Emotions, Ideas
• EGL 287 -  Gender and Sexuality in Film
• EGL 288 -  Film as Fictive Art
• EGL 292 -  Contemporary American Theater and Drama

• Note: Junior and Senior Seminars: Not listed here because topics vary year to year, but in order to earn GSWS credit, the topic must cover GSWS topics, such as Queer Theory, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, and others.

Modern Languages and Literatures

• FRN 308 -  Women on Top: Great Women Writers and Characters of French Narrative Fiction
• FRN 317 - France after #metoo
• FRN 318 -  From Witchcraft to Hysteria
• FRN 400 -  Whose Enlightenment?
• FRN 402 -  Sex Lives and Videotape: Casting Sexuality in French and Francophone Film
• GER 338 -  Poetry, Performance, Protest & Power: A History of Twentieth-Century Germany
• GER 340 -  Beyond Bedtime Stories: Retelling the Tales of the Brothers Grimm
• GER 402 -  German Film Studies
• LAT 242 -  Mythology in Latin Literature
• MLT 202 -  Gender and Sexuality in Modern China
• MLT 203 -  Asian American Film and Performance
• MLT 220 -  Spanish Horror Films
• MLT 236 -  Poetry, Performance, Protest & Power: A History of Twentieth-Century Germany
• MLT 239 -  Beyond Bedtime Stories: Retelling the Tales of the Brothers Grimm
• MLT 240 -  Resilient Voices in Ukrainian Literature: Defiance, National Identity and Triumph Over Imperial Arrogance
• MLT 250 -  Language, Identity, and Power in Japan
• MLT 281 -  Screening Identities in Latin American Cinema
• MLT 286T -  Gender and Identity in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
• MLT 289 -  Literature of the Mexican-American Border
• SPN 251 -  Stories of Power, Honor, and Love
• SPN 256 -  Rethinking Latin American Culture
• SPN 307 -  Melodrama in Latin American Culture
• SPN 314 -  Spain is Different: Current Debates Shaping Spain’s Future
• SPN 328 -  Inquiring Latin American Identities: Reading Context, Space and Cultural Artifacts
• SPN 330 -  Hispanic Women Writers Who Challenged the World
• SPN 336 -  Troubling Gender in Contemporary Argentine Literature and Cinema
• SPN 350 - Visions and Voices: Chicana Icons from Myth to Matter
• SPN 380 -  What’s Love Got to Do with It: Gender and Nation in Hispanic and US Latino Literatures
• SPN 381 -  Hauntings in Hispanic Fiction
• SPN 405 -  Lost and Found in Translation
• SPN 417 -  Death and Revenge in the Southern Cone
• SPN 424 -  Imaginarios urbanos: Interventions in the Latin American City

Music

• AMU 221 -  From Rhythm and Blues to Radiohead: The History of Rock & Roll
• AMU 320 -  Encounters with East Asian Music Cultures

Philosophy

• PHL 222 -  Sports and Games
• PHL 263 -  Philosophy of Gender and Race
• PHL 337 -  Gender Issues in Buddhism

Religious Studies

Theater

• ATH 104 -  Dramatic Literature and Social Justice
• ATH 241 -  Contemporary American Theater and Drama
• ATH 248 -  Staging Black Feminisms
• ATH 305 -  American Dream on Stage

Anthropology

• ANT 184 -  Contemporary Japanese Society
• ANT 211 -  Anthropology of Intimacy
• ANT 220 -  Women’s Lives Across Cultures
• ANT 222 -  Childhood in Anthropological Perspective
• ANT 225 -  Gender and Society
• ANT 230 -  Medical Anthropology
• ANT 239 -  Family and Kinship
• ANT 240 -  Technology, Culture & Society
• ANT 272 -  Psychological Anthropology

Economics

• ECO 225 -  Economics of Sin
• ECO 238 -  Women, Technology and Globalization
• ECO 381 -  Seminar in Economics of Culture

History

• HST 135 -  Latinos In/As U.S. History
• HST 171 -  Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the Era of Columbus
• HST 172 -  Reform and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean
• HST 209 -  Race, Gender, and Nationalism in American Sports
• HST 212 -  “Remember the Ladies”: American Women to 1900
• HST 213 -  The New Woman: American Women from 1900
• HST 222 -  Other Voices: Women in the History of American Ideas
• HST 248 -  Men, Women, and Gender in Modern Europe
• HST 263 -  The Tudor and Stewart Queens
• HST 284 -  Hobbled and Heroic: Women in China and Japan
• HST 286 -  Technology & Empire
• HST 287 -  Film and Modern India
• HST 312 -  “Bonds of Womanhood”: History of Women’s Rights in the United States
• HST 372 -  Sex, Race and Gender in Latin America

Political Science

• PSC 234 -  Women Political Theorists
• PSC 235 -  African American Political Thought
• PSC 247 -  Human (In) Security in a Comparative Perspective
• PSC 266 -  Women and Politics
• PSC 284 -  Political Sociology
• PSC 333 -  Twenty-First Century American Political Thought
• PSC 335 - Antigones: Feminist Politics
• PSC 339 -  Seminar: Political Theory
• PSC 343 -  Women and Politics in the Muslim World
• PSC 434 -  Feminist Film

Sociology

• SOC 204 -  Social Construction of Deviance
• SOC 205 -  Social Work and Human Services
• SOC 206 -  Aging and Society
• SOC 208 - Social Identities and Science
• SOC 212 -  The American Family and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• SOC 231 -  Sex and Gender in American Society

• SOC 232 - Sociology of Sexualities

• SOC 233 -  Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
• SOC 284 -  Sociology of Women & Health
• SOC 346 -  Sociology of Black Women’s Culture
• SOC 360 -  Domestic Violence
• SOC 362 -  Family and Community Services
• SOC 364 -  Sex and Motherhood
• SOC 207 -  Sociology of the Black Religious Experience
• SOC 209 -  Staging Black Feminisms

Biology

• BIO 060 - Social Identities and Science

• BIO 354 -  Developmental Biology w/lab

Psychology

• PSY 245 -  Psychology of Gender Roles
• PSY 261 -  Psychology of Women and Gender
• PSY 262 - Clinical Psychology: Peer Interventions
• PSY 347 -  Psychology of Sexuality
• PSY 450 -  Seminar in Clinical Psychology

Brazil

• MLT 281 -  Screening Identities in Latin American Cinema
• MLT 286T -  Gender and Identity in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
• LAS 200T -  Women, Environment, Social Change

Argentina

• TAB 321T -  Buenos Aries Mini-term