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We update our course descriptions each semester so you can find the classes that best suit your interests.

Spring semester courses (2023)

Fall semester courses (2023)

You can view the official list of course offerings in the University Graduate School Bulletin. This list includes all courses offered by our department. Not all are offered each semester. Check our Fall, Spring, and Summer course lists for current course options.

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Three core courses form the heart of our program

Concepts of Gender

G600

This course introduces historical, theoretical, behavioral, philosophical, scientific, multi- and cross-cultural perspectives on gender and its meanings, exploring its disciplinary and interdisciplinary uses and implications. Attention is given to the emergence of the category “gender” itself, and its variable applications to different fields of knowledge, experience, cultural expression, and institutional regulation, including queer, trans, and other theories of sex, sexuality, and desire. The course looks at gender as a way to understand multiple and interlocking systems of power, more specifically, as hierarchies that yield complex questions of race, class, ethnicity, nation/empire, among other markers of difference.

Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory

G603

This course explores classic and current feminist theories, asking questions about knowledge, subjectivity, sexuality, and ethics. Debates are situated within and against various intellectual movements, such as Marxism, post-structuralism, theories of race and ethnicity, postcolonial/transnational/diaspora and cultural studies, and others. Sexuality studies and queer theory’s relation to feminist praxis will form a key component of the course, as it juxtaposes classic social theory and feminist texts with more current works.

Researching Gender Issues

G702

Research methodologies and approaches relevant to Gender Studies are explored in this course, and students apply them to a particular scholarly project. The impact of Gender Studies on epistemological and methodological issues in a variety of academic disciplines is examined according to the backgrounds and interests of the students and the instructor.

Department of Gender Studies

Courses

Our courses

Three core courses form the heart of our program

Concepts of Gender

Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory

Researching Gender Issues

The College of Arts & Sciences

Courses

Our courses

Three core courses form the heart of our program

Concepts of Gender

Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory

Researching Gender Issues

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The College of Arts & Sciences