Graduate Courses
The Center for Gender Studies coordinates courses and activities that take up gender and sexuality as primary objects of study and category of analysis. Courses engage these domains in many different ways, including: the study of gender and/or sexuality as historical practice, scientific concept and site of representation; gendered social movements such as feminism and gay and lesbian liberation; feminist and queer theory; family structures; the gendering of labor force participation; representations of women in literature and the visual arts, intersections of race and gender, and women's and men's participation in politics.
Our courses both fall into traditional disciplinary rubrics, and use gender and sexuality as categories of analysis to track contemporary transformations in these and other domains of knowledge. We are interested in developing points of comparison within and among diverse areas of organized knowledge, not assuming that gender means the same thing in different disciplines, historical moments, epistemologies, or cultural frameworks. We are also dedicated to fostering debate about the construction and implications of categories of gender difference and sexual identity. Further, it promotes engagement with ways that gender and sexuality give us insight into other modes of social organization and change, including transformations of economic and political systems, media public spheres; forms of repression and resistance; modes of production, knowledge and experience, and everyday life.
Fall 2009
GNDR 40100/SOCI 40170. Theorizing Gender. Kristen Schilt.
Winter 2010
GNDR 20202/CMST 30101. Women Mystery Writers: From
Page to Screen. Rebecca West.
GNDR 35502/HIST. Motherhood as Institution and Historical Practice.
Christine Stansell.
GNDR 36501/HIST. Politics of Reproduction in Historical Perspective.
Christine Stansell.
GNDR 37700/CMLT 33901/ISHU 27610/SOSL 37610. Gender in the
Balkans through Literature and Film. Angelina Ilieva.
Spring 2010
GNDR 32600/CRPC 30204/HIST 30204. Women in Modern Africa. Rachel Jean-Baptiste.See Time Schedules for course titles and times.
Please check with the originating department for descriptions.