Current Course Offerings

This course introduces students to key concepts, debates, and analytical tools informing women, gender, and sexuality studies. As an interdisciplinary field of study, women, gender, and sexuality studies employs academic perspectives from a range of disciplines and theoretical approaches. It also incorporates lived experience and social location into its object of analysis. Though content will vary according to the expertise and focus of the instructor, this course will develop tools through readings and assignments that critically analyze how gender and sexuality are shaped by different networks of power and social relations and demonstrate how the intersections of race, class, disability, national status, and other categories identity and difference are central to their understanding and deployment. In addition to feminist though, areas of focus might include gender and sexuality in relation to social, cultural, political, creative, economic, or scientific discourses. This class is recommended for those with a general interest in the topic area as well as for those seeking a foundational course for further study.

Transgender studies is an emergent interdisciplinary field that centers and transgender people's experiences. Through the optic of "trans" this field theorizes sex, gender, identity, and embodiment, and their regulations in culture, science, and law.

Can be repeated for credit three times by students earning a major or minor in Women Studies. {Fall, Spring}

Planned and supervised work experience in a community agency serving women.

Student is expected to present a topic for study. Restriction: permission of instructor.

This course examines various feminist, queer, and transgender methods and methodologies.

A course exploring a topic not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

A course exploring a topic not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.