Fall 2022 Courses

Investigates the social and historical meanings of racial, gender, and sexual identities and their relationship to contemporary lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender communities. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences

How is literature shaped by cultural understandings of queer and non-normative genders and sexualities? How does it, in turn, shape those understandings? This class explores how genders, sexualities, and writing intersect with issues of race, class, nation, ability, and empire. Readings may include novels, short stories, poetry, graphic novels, films, essays, blogs, and more. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective, Arts & Humanities

Surveys theoretical, critical, and historical writings in the context of lesbian, bisexual, transgender and gay literature. Examines relationships among aesthetic, cultural and political agendas, and literary and visual texts of the 20th century. A&S Gen Ed: Arts & Humanities

Examines evidence of art, archaeology and literature of Greek antiquity from a contemporary feminist point of view. Focuses on women's roles in art, literature and daily life. No Greek or Latin required. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity- Global Perspective, Arts & Humanities

Uses art, archaeology, and literature to study, from a contemporary feminist point of view, the status of women in works of Roman art and literature, the development of attitudes expressed toward them, and their daily life. No Greek or Latin required. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity- Global Perspective, Arts & Humanities

Uses art, archaeology, and literature to study, from a contemporary feminist point of view, the status of women in works of Roman art and literature, the development of attitudes expressed toward them, and their daily life. No Greek or Latin required. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity- Global Perspective, Arts & Humanities

Studies the construction, interconnections, and replications of gender, race, class, and sexuality in popular culture and how these constructs become cultural norms and mores. Uses critical methods with a focus on producing responsible viewers and readers.

This course will use a combination of theories from gender studies, feminism, queer studies, and masculinity studies, with museum studies to encourage students to analyze and think critically on how museums have historically presented a binary, traditional and patriarchal inflected practices of gender. The course will focus on museums in a comparative and hemisphere way and study how gender is represented in diverse museums. Open to graduate and undergraduate students.

Discusses the social determinants of sexuality. Analyzes the economic, psychological, and cultural influences on human sexuality. Interactional perspective of human sexuality is presented. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective, Social Sciences

Discusses the social determinants of sexuality. Analyzes the economic, psychological, and cultural influences on human sexuality. Interactional perspective of human sexuality is presented. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective, Social Sciences

Examines the construction of gender and sexual identities in the modern world. Focuses on the role of social attitudes and material circumstances in shaping how individuals understand themselves and are understood by others, as well as the actions they take to accept, negotiate and resist these pressures. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective, Social Sciences

Explores diverse cultural forms such as film, popular fiction and non-fiction, music videos, public art, websites, blogs and zines which are shaped by, and in turn shape, popular understandings of gender at the intersections of race, class, ability, religion, nation and imperialism. A&S Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective, Arts & Humanities