Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Course List 2023–24

The major in gender, women’s, and sexuality studies requires the following:

Introduction to Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 111)
Theory and Methodology in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 249, offered fall only)
Five courses (20 credits) from at least three of the four thematic rubrics listed below:
- sexuality and queer studies
- cross-cultural and transnational approaches
- literary criticism and visual culture
- political/philosophical/historical/social analyses
At least two of these five courses (or 8 credits) must be at the 300-level
Senior Seminar in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS 495, offered spring only; only open to graduating majors)

Please consult the Course Schedule, available online at the Registrar’s page, for complete course information, including course descriptions and days and times of course offerings. Please note that each course can only be used to fulfill a single elective category (ABCD).

Fall 2023 Courses
Course #	Title	Professor	Major Category
AMS-220-01 Cross-list BIO 220-01 Cross-list ANT 220-01	Racing Through Genetics	Gregg-Jolly, L Gibel Mevorach	B
ANT-254-01 Cross-list AMS 254-01 Cross-list SAM 254-01	Jews, Multiculturalism, Anti-Semitism	Gibel Mevorach	B/D
ARH-213-01 Cross-list EAS-213-01	ST: Gender and Sex in East Asian Art	Shea	A/C
EAS-295-01	ST: Gender/Power Chinese History	Chen, X	B/D
EDU-295-01	Mapping Racial Trauma	Jones, S	D
ENG-328	Studies in American Poetry	Andrews	C/D
ENG-332-01	The Victorians	Jacobson, C	C
FRN-395-01	ST: Bodies, Memory, Identity	Galbraith	C
GWS-211-01	Foundations of LGBTQ Studies	Allen	A
GWS-243-01 Cross-list PHI-243-01	Epistemic Injustices	Nyden	D
GWS-395-01	ST: Gender-Based Violence	Yang, W	B/D
GWS-395-02	ST: Black Feminist Thought	Johnson. L	B
HIS-212-01	Democracy in America: 189-1848	Purcell	D
HIS-268-01 Cross-list REL-268-01	Islam and Gender	Saba	B/D
HIS-295-01	ST: Gender/Power Chinese History	Chen, X	B/D
HIS-314-01	U.S. Civil War: History & Memory	Purcell	D
MUS-208-01	Music, Mind, and Brain	Cha	C
PHI-243-01	Epistemic Injustices	Nyden	D
POL-219-01	Constitutional Law and Politics	Hanson	D
REL-268-01	Islam and Gender	Saba, E	B/D
SOC-240-01	Social Movements	Haenfler	B/D
SOC-270-01	Gender and Society	Janson	D
SOC-360-01	Work in the “New” Economy	Erickson	D
SOC-395-01	ST: Gender-Based Violence	Yang	B/D
SOC-395-02	ST: Social Network Analysis	Francisco	D
SPN-320-01	Cultures of Spanish-Speaking World	Benoist	B/D

Spring 2024 Courses
Course #	Title	Professor	Major Category
AMS-215-01	Foundations of U.S. Popular Culture	Purcell	C/D
ANT-225-01	Biodeterminism and Myth of Race	Marshack	A
ANT-233-01	Anthropology of Borderlands	Kulstad	B
CHI-230-01	Chinese Women: Past and Present	Yang	B
EDU-215-01 Cross-list ENG-215-01	Reading and Writing Youth Culture	Jones, S	C/D
ENG-210-01	Studies in Genre	Smith, P	C
ENG-231-01	American Literary Traditions III	Staff	C
FRN-305-01	Contemporary Francophone Cultures	Tricoire	C
FRN-312-01	French Literature From Knights to Libertines	Harrison	C
FRN-350-01	Adv Topics: Masculine/Feminine in French Literature and Film	Moisan, P	A/C
GRM-295-01 Cross-list GWS-295-01	ST: Jewish Life Central Europe	Poetzl	C/D
GWS-295-02	ST: The Mermaid Imaginary	Beauboeuf	B/D
GWS-295-03	ST: Chicana Feminist Thought	Johnson	B
GWS-324-01	Critical Race Feminisms	Johnson, L	B
GWS-395-01	ST: Feminist Geographies	Staff	B/D
HIS-214-01	American Civil War and Reconstruction	Purcell	D
HIS-215-01	Foundations of U.S. Popular Culture	Purcell	C/D
HIS-262-01	Modern Africa: Sahara to Zambezi	Prevost	B/D
PHI-245-01	Philosophy of Art	Dobe, J	D
POL-259-01	Human Rights: Foundations, Challenges, and Choices	Moyer	D
POL-319-01	Advanced Constitutional Law	Hanson	D
REL-295-02	ST: Womanist Religious Thought	Hills	B/D
SOC-242-01	Deviance and Social Control	Haenfler	D
SOC-255-01	Sociology of Asian America	Quinsaat	B
SOC-260-01	Human Sexuality U.S.	Erickson	A/D
SOC-330-01	Regimes and Resistance	Quinsaat, S	D