The following directory lists the graduate courses which the University expects to offer, although the University in no way guarantees that all such courses will be offered in any given academic year, and reserves the right to alter the list if conditions warrant. Click on the links below for a list of courses in that subject area. You may then click “View Classes” to see scheduled classes for individual courses.
5333. Topics in the History of American Women
Also offered as: HIST 5555
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
5364. Professional Development and Praxis Seminar
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Professional orientation in the field of WGSS and potential future workplaces. Topics include starting an MA project, advice on mentoring and networking, preparing for the job market, and confronting institutional barriers to diversity, inclusion, and social justice.
View Classes »5365. Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Theoretical underpinnings of diverse feminist methodologies and interdisciplinary scholarship. Contemporary debates in the field and ethical dilemmas faced by researchers using feminist, interdisciplinary and intersectional epistemologies. Relationship to critical race, indigenous, and queer methodologies. Guided experience in designing and producing feminist scholarship.
View Classes »5366. Feminist Pedagogy
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Overview of feminist and critical epistemologies and pedagogical tools for use in interdisciplinary classrooms in varied academic contexts.
View Classes »5367. MA Capstone
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Instructor consent. Recommended preparation: WGSS 5365.
Grading Basis: Graded
A collaborative seminar focused on supporting students in completing their MA project. Opportunity to reflect on the WGSS knowledge and skills learned and future goals.
View Classes »5390. Independent Study for Graduate Students
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 24 credits.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
5395. Special Topics Seminar in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Topics of current interest from a feminist perspective.
View Classes »5398. Variable Topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
With a change in topics, may be repeated for credit.
View Classes »5410. Black Feminist Theory and Politics
Major debates at the core of black feminist theory, emphasizing the ways in which interlocking systems of oppression uphold and sustain each other in contemporary U.S. politics.
View Classes »5613. Theories of Intersectionality
Analyses of theories that simultaneously take into account dynamics of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, ability, and other dimensions of social inequality and difference. How scholars research intersectionality, the limits and possibilities of different approaches, and the types of methodologies that are most effective for intersectional analysis.
View Classes »5614. Sexual Citizenship
Sexuality as an axis of citizenship in diverse national and international contexts. Analysis of access to citizenship, relationship recognition, marriage rights, heteronormativity and compulsory heterosexuality, trans citizenship claims, immigration, asylum, sex work, reproductive rights, sex education, racism and racialization, colonialism, and social justice.
View Classes »5661. Feminist Approaches to Disability, Illness, and Care
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
An examination of care and caregiving across different threads of feminist scholarship in sociology, science and technology studies (STS), and disability studies. Key topics include how care is raced and gendered, disability as an axis of inequality, and how approaches to care have evolved, particularly in feminist disability studies/disability justice.
View Classes »