WGST 199 Writing in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Intermediate college writing course based on the subject and methodology of women's, gender and sexuality studies.

WGST 201 Women in American Culture
Examination of women's experiences in 19th and 20th century America, focusing on issues pertaining to family, religion, economy, politics, law, race and class.

WGST 202 Seeing Gender: Introduction to Gender in Visual Studies
This cours introduces students to the desciplines of Visual Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. It exlores the many ways in which these fields intersect through a consideration of two primary, related concepts: the social construction of vision and its inverse, the visual constructive of the social. The first highlights how humans are conditioned to see the way they do because they are social animals.The latter underscores the fact that it is equally true that social arrangements, such as gender and race, take the forms that they do because humans are seeing animals. This framework allows students to critically engage some of the central questions that have shaped both Visual Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. How does seeing impose itself upon the social construction of gender and other forms of identity, such as racial and sexual identity? What is the relationship between images and words, and how does relationship affect the politics of how images are used? What are the mechanisms used by which vision and visual images become genedered or racialized? Why is visual experience so fraught with anxiety and fantasy? How do visual encounters with other people (and with images and objects) inform the construction of social life as gendered and racialized?

WGST 203 Gender Issues in Public Dialogue
The objective of this course is to empower students to be persuasive and effective speakers. Students will utilize gender analytics as a tool to examine the cotent and structure of public dialogue. Students will practice the skills they need to be successful in today's corporate, non-profit, and government arenas.

WGST 204 The Digital Feminism
As a Cardinal Core course in Social & Behavioral Sicences (SB) and Global Diversity (D2), this class is concerned with understanding how human behaviors, interactions and environments are shaped by historical, cultural, and social structures and process of stratification in U.S and non-U.S societies. Specifically, Digital Feminism studies the recent history and current landscapes of gender, race, sexuality, and relation to digital media.

WGST 207 Diverse Perspective in Philosophy
Survey of historical canonical contributions to western philosophy juxtaposed with minority voices to understand how social, economic, and cultural situatedness affect bodies of knowledge.

WGST 240 World LGBTQ+ Cinema
This course examnies LGBTQ+ cluture around the globe through the lens of cinema.

WGST 300 Sex, Gender and Culture
A cross-culture perspective on the interactions among sex, gender, and cluture, including feminist/gender theory, the socially-constructed aspects of biological sex, intersex and gender-non-binary, mascunality studies, sexuality, and heteronormativity, with emphasis on US and non-U.S cultures. Course work will include independent reading and writing assignments.

WGST 301 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
Course focuses on the field of LGBTQ studies, examining the historical and social contexts of LGBTQ communities as well as the personal, cultural, and political aspects of LGBTQ life.

WGST 302 LGBTQ and Applied Healthcare
This course provides introductory exploration of health and healthcare as it applies to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Students will learn the foundation of inclusive healthcare and clinical skills to care for LGBTQ individuals competency, in addition to individuals born with differences of sex development (DSD; sometimes called intersex).

WGST 303 Humanities and Gender
Analysis of sex roles as embodied in classic works of philosophy, literature, history, drama, and art in ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary times.

WGST 312 Sociology of Women's Health
Introduces key theoretical and substantive issues in the sociology of women's health and healing. Draws from feminist theories and their intersections with critical perspective on gender, race/ehnicity, social structure, power, science and medicine. Attention to social and cultural factors in the U.S and abroad

WGST 313 Sociology of Gender
This course examines the social constructions of gender and the status of women and men in major social institutions such as educaton, family, the workplace, and the media. Students will be introduced to theoretical perspective on the development of gender, discuss gender sterotypes, and examine scientific research and perspectives on gender differences and similarities. The course will also exlore the structural foundations and theoretical explanations of gender inequalities, as well as the intersecionality of gender and other social locations and identities, such as race, social class, sexual orientation, and age.

WGST 316 Gender, Sexuality and Law
This course examines how legal policy both reflects and shapes norms related to gender and sexuality, and anlyzes the public policy implications of court decisions related to gender and sexualtiy.

WGST 320 Women in Music: A History
Addresses the historical and social contexts and social constructions of gender related to women and music, as well as the portrayal of women in musical works. Includes focus on Western art music as well as various genres of popular music.

WGST 323 Queer Politics
The course examines the political organization of gays, lesbians, and transgendered persons, forms of oppression they experience, forms of political activism they utilize, and their relationship to mainstream political institutions.

WGST 324 Communication and Gender
The course examines how gender identities, roles and norms have been structued within different modes of communication (e:g interpersonal, mass media and institutional).

WGST 325 Women and Global Literature
This course examine literatues by women writers and about women subjects from non-U.S societies, exploring a variety of literary forms in relationship to social factors such as class, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and/or indigeneity.

WGST 326 Gender, Race, Sexuality in Children's Lit
Examination of how historical, soical and cultural structures and processes represented in British and North American literature for children/young adults from the late 19th century to the present shape our understandings of race, class, and gender. Historical period: Post-1900.

WGST 331 The History of Women, 1700 to the Present
A comparative treatment of women's changing status, including material from European and American history.

WGST 332 History of Childhood in America
An analysis of the impact of socioeconomic and ideological change in the experience of children and youth from the colonial period to the present, with attention to the effects of race, class, and gender on childhood experience.

WGST 333 Women in Latin American History
Examines the history women and gender in Latin America, with an emphasis on women's political participation.

WGST 337 Motherhood and the Law
Motherhood and the Law will examine the various legal system impacts and regulates mothers. Students will critically analyze the effect court decisions and laws have on mothers using intersectional approach (as developed by Kimberle Crenshaw). The course begins with setting a theoretical framework - built on both theories of motherhood and legal analysis - and from there will study the interplay between the law and motherhood, from reproductive rights through raising their children. The course is designed to give students and understanding of how the justice system impacts mothers' lives, maintains systems of inequality, and regulates their bodies.

WGST 339 Black Women and the Criminology System
This course will examine the various ways the legal system impacts and regulates Black women. Students will critically analyze the effect court decisions and laws have on Black women using an intersectional approach of race, gender, economicc class, differently abled bodies, sexual orientation, religion, and nationalities. Students will first study legal standards and terminology as well as race and gender theory to develop a solid foundation on which to examine case law, constitutional standards and current events. This course is designed to give students an understanding of how the justice system impacts Black women's lives, maintains systems of inequality, and regulates their bodies. We will look at women lead the criminal justice reform movement both within and outside of the lgeal system.

WGST 340 Women and Religion
An historical survey of the relationship between the social-cultural roles of women and their representation in world religions.

WGST 342 Black Women Novelists
Selected novels by contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean women writers, in-depth and in-comparative study. Historical period:Post-1900.

WGST 343 Faces of Global Poverty
Persistent poverty in the Third World and specific groups in the United States. Focuses on causes, consequences, solutions and survical strategies.

WGST 344 Black Lesbian Lives
Course focuses on black, lesbian-identified people cross-culturally, examining autobiographical accounts and visual culture within the context of LGBTQ politics and disclosure.

WGST 345 Women and Japanese Literature
Explore traditional and modern Japanese cultural ideas through the perspective of female identifying authors from Japan. Study the role of gender, class, and historical events in the formation of Japan's distinct culture through its literature, translated into English, in various genres, from Meiji period to contemporary Japan.

WGST 346 Women in Africa: Historical and Literary Perspectives
Survey of the role of women in historical Afican societies, women under colonialism, in nationalist movements, and in modern African countries. Literature about and by women will be considered. Emphasis on African/Female perspective.

WGST 347 Racism and Sexism
The impact of racism and sexism on marginally oppressed commnunities as well as their strategies of resistance.

WGST 348 African Ameriacan Women
Examination of the status and roles of African American women from the slave era to contemporary times. Emphasis on migration, urbanization and labor force participation in familial contexts.

WGST 349 Color Complex of Black Women
Study of phenotypes, body image, iner-/intra-gender relationships, media influences, and social norms, from slavery to present, on the development of black female identities, using theories in pychology, sociology, and deconstruction.

WGST 355 Women in American Politics
A study of women's involvement in American politics as active political party members, as candidates for national, state, and local office, as elected officials, and as appointees to government positions at all levels.

WGST 360 Feminist Philosophy
An intersectional approach to theretical and applied issues in claasical and contemporary feminist philosophy.

WGST 364 Women's Health Issues
This course will identify a broad range of health issues that can be unique to women or of special importance to women throughout the world. The course will examine the roles women play as both providers and consumers of health care nationally and internationally.

WGST 373 Women Writers and Filmmakers
Explores issues relating to women's lives in their cinematic and fictional texts from 1970's until today; emphasis on foreign films. Texts are read in English tranlation; films are either subtitled or dubbed.

WGST 375 LGBTQ Literature in the United States
This course examines LGBTQ literature by U.S. writers and explores the portrayal of LGBTQ identities through a variety of literary forms and in relationship to social factors such as class,race,ethnicity, and/or location.

WGST 380 African-American Women in Theatre
This course will explore the theatrical representation of African American women through the lens of African American playwrights, designers and theoreticians. Course content will focus on the works of African American women playwrights, designers and theoreticians and encourage critical dicosure on the material covered. Assignments and activities will include Script Analysis, Discussion Board posts, Research Papers, and Quizzes. Assignments are designed to strenghten critical thinking skills, encourage perspective broadening dialogue and research, and enhance your understanding of the experience of the African Diaspora.

WGST 390 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Humanities
Focuses on a specific topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, humanities perpective. Topics announced in Schedule of Classes.

WGST 391 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Socaial Sciences
Focuses on a specific topic related women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective. Topics announced in Schedule of Courses.

WGST 392 Topicsin Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Social Sciences
Focuses on a specific topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective. Topics announced in the Schedule of Courses.

WGST 393 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Humanities
Focuses on a specifica topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective. Topics announced in the Schedule of Courses.

WGST 394 Lectures in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
A series of three or four public lectures in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies - with preparatory reading, a short writing assignment and post-lecture discussion for each lecture. Students will meet in a seminar to receive assignments and discuss the lecture.

WGST 395 Women, Media and Culture
The purpose of this course is to learn to evaluate critically how mass media communicates cultural understandings about gender, race, class and sexuality. We will also consider the role of media images in supporting the social, political and economis status quo, as well as the ways media audiences consume, negotiate, and resist media messages. In addition, we will consider how changing technical, economic, and political contexts influence media representations. Through screenings, readings, discussions and writing exercises you will gain practical experience in media literacy and criticism.

WGST 401 Community Internship
Working with a Women's, Gender and Sexuality faculty menber, the student will design a project based on volunteer work in a community organization related to WGST.

WGST 410 Black Feminism in Action
The course examines the evolution of Black Feminist in the U.S. from the 1803s to the present.

WGST 411 Psychology of Women
Analysis of scientific research and theory related to psychology of women. Multiple theoretical perspectives will be considered (e:g psychodynamic, social learning, coginitive, evolutionary, developmental). Specific topics evaluated will include: identity development, achievement, motherhood, work, family, aging, and menopause. Ethnicity, culture, and social class will be considered in the context of specific topics.

WGST 414 Gender and Work
The structural positsion of gender in the workplace;examination of changes, current trends, and difference in gender socialization of work.

WGST 415 Sociology of Disabilities
Sociological perspective on medicine, culture, and science are used to examine the meanings, experiences, demographics and impacts of disability in historical and contemporary social contacts.

WGST 416 Sexual Assault and the Legal System
Sexual Assault and the Legal System is designed to give students and understanding of how rape culture impacts the justice system, and vice versa. Students will critically analyze the effects stories about sexual assault have on the legal system using an intersectional approach of race, gender, economic class, differently abled bodies, sexual orientation, religion, and nationaltiy. Students will study legal standards and terminolgy as well as critical race and feminist theory to develop a solid foundation on which to examine case law, constitutional standards and current events.

WGST 417 Reproductive Justice
In this course Reproductive Justice and the Law, we will examine how the legal system impacts reproductive justice. We will break down the term reproductive justice and how it differs from reproductive rights. We will discuss the complex political, social, religious, and cultural dynamics that make reproductive justice one of the most controversial, and pressing, issues of our time.

WGST 418 Domestic Violence
Our course on Domestic Violence will examine the ways the legal system shapes and enforces domestic violence law. We will examine the jurisprudence behind criminal law in general and lgeal foundation of domestic violence laws in particular. We will examine not only the history of domestic violence, but also the human element, studying the role of individual discretion and how neuroscience illuminates why outcomes for individuals can vary so greatly within the same legal system. We will study specific laws (e:g mandatory arrest) and we will apply an intersectional lens to all topics discussed. This class ultimately asks if the legal system is even capable of addressing the social harm of domestic violence, and if that answer is yes, how this it to be accomplished.

WGST 458 Women:International Perspective
Examination of major social concerns of women around the world, such as issues related to labor and slavery, sex trafficking, religion, media representation, health, education, political involvement, and violence against women.

WGST 460 Gender in the Middle East
This course examines the ways in which gender shapes and is shaped by social, political, economic, and cultural processes in the Middle East.

WGST 490 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Humanities
Focuses on a specific topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective. Topics announced in the schedule of courses.

WGST 491 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Social Sciences
Focuses on a specific topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective. Topics are announced in the Schedule of Classes.

WGST 492 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Social Sciences
Focuses on a specific topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective.

WGST 493 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Humanities
Focuses on a specific topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective.

WGST 498 Senior Honors Thesis: Social Sciences
An intensive examination from a social sciences perspective of a topical area in women's, gender or sexuality studies undertaken with a designated faculty advisor.

WGST 499 Senior Honors Thesis: Humanities
An intensive examination from a humanities perspective of a topical area in women's, gender or sexuality studies, undertaken with a designated faculty advisor.

WGST 500 Senior Seminar in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Social Sciences
This course is designed to deepen students' understanding of the evolution of interdisciplinary research on gender and its intersection with other structures of power and privilege. Students will investigate and critique the politics of issue-framing, question-formation, and rules of evidence that shape knowledge-production about gender and power. Students will apply gender-informed analyses to the hierarchies of difference structuring contemporary society. This course will help students become skilled analysts of the nuanced complexities of social change in diverse fields such as medicine, government, media, non-profit organizations, law, and education.

WGST 504 Community Engaged Research Methods
This course will examine the principles and methods of community-engaged research practices from a transdisciplinary gender studies framework and with two goals in mind. First, we will examine what it means to do community engaged scholarship in some branches of the social sciences and humanities through a) a brief survey of key canonical and experimental readings in histories, theories, ethics, and practices of community engaged scholarship, and b) a few models presented by other UL community engaged scholars whose work provides useful lessons learned. Second, the course will provide both an overview of key qualitative methods used in community engaged scholarship and hands-on opportunities for you to participate in, on a small scale, meaningful engaged research with a community partner (Muhammad Ali Center's Education Department). Together, this learning the literature and learning-by-doing are designed to help you imagine what it might be like for you to work in this tradition.

WGST 508 Queer Performance
What constitutes queer performance? Is queer who you are or what you do? Is sexuality all we mean by queer? What are the historical, aesthetic, and political aspects of queer performance? Integral to our theoretical discussions will be questions of practice and production: Where is queer performance staged and how is it received? How is it produced, for whom, by whom, and with what funds? Is queer inherently or even necessarily radical? Within rigid Western notions of gender, the "Queer Performer," is a gender outlaw; an individual who pushed at the edges of gender, forcing us to recognize that gender has little to do with our biological sex. Their performances of their gender(s), race(s), and/or sexuality(ies) challenges our prevailing notions of what it means to be Queer and what it means to perform identity. This course will examine the artistic and aesthetic performances of various Queer Performers to foster an understanding and appreciation of the rich diversity of the forms of performance styles and practitioners that might be called "lesbian," "gay," "transgender," and "queer," among others. Secondly, it will motivate students to examine the broad social, political, religious, and cultural contexts in which queer performance takes place. Lastly, this course will allow students to contemplate what it means to be a spectator of performance through a queer perspective, regardless of one's identity, or sexual orientation.

WGST 509 Women and Medicine
In this course we will focus on women and medicine in the United States from the early 19th century to the 21st century. We will be concerned with women as patients, caretakers, and practitioners, and the sexual and racial politics of health care.

WGST 511 Transnational Feminism
Transnational Feminism in Theory and Praxis is both an introduction to transnational feminism and a methods class. Using a mix of recent and older texts, we will examine how scholars in our field of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) innovatively link research questions with methods, sources, and interlocutors. In the process, we will reflect on the relationship between what we value as knowledge, and how we pursue and construct knowledge: in other words, the relationship between feminist epistemology and methodology. With an eye towards praxis - the theoretically informed application of knowledge - we will ask ourselves, for whom do we research?

WGST 512 Gender, Race, Work and Welfare
Introduction to theory and research on labor market and welfare state with focus on gender race/ethnicity as they influence women's experiences of and ideas about work and welfare.Credit may not be earned for both PAS 512/PAS 512 and SOC 612/WGST 612/PAS 612.

WGST 513 U.S. Social Justice Movements of the 20th Century
Course will begin with abolitionism, then concentrate on social justice upsurges of the 20th century, with emphasis on women in the civil rights and Black liberation movements.

WGST 520 Women's Personal Narratives
Course examines issues such as race, class, religion, geography, and sexual orientation surrounding the writing/reading of women's personal narratives (e.g., diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, biographies, and films) from the 19th and 20th centuries.

WGST 522 The Body in Popular Media
Examines the relationship between culture and the body, focusing on how Western philosophy, as well as gender, race and class, have constructed popular images of and attitudes toward the body.

WGST 523 Gender and Popular Music
Course explores the way gender structures the production, distribution, and consumption of popular music, including variety of genres in the past and present, with attention to the intersectional roles of race, class, and sexuality.

WGST 525 Art and Trauma
Representations of Trauma in the Visual Arts is an advanced exploratory seminar examining the changing relationships between trauma and its representation in the twentieth century. Beginning with the Holocaust, the course charts a trajectory from this most profound of collective traumas, to the refinement of clinical definitions of trauma (e.g., PTSD) in the wake of the Vietnam War, the development of trauma studies in the humanities in the 1990s, to the recent "pictorial turn" within scholarship on trauma. This historical framework will be brought to bear upon the dynamics of how trauma and visuality have been approached by scientists, scholars, and artists. Each week's reading and viewing materials will offer students an example of historical or clinical account of trauma, a secondary or applied analysis, and its artist's original work that responds to the particular traumatic event under consideration. In this regard, students will be encouraged to negotiate the discursive relationships between history, theory, and practice.

WGST 530 Feminism in Western Civilization, 1790-1920
Comparative analysis of feminist movements in the United States, Britain, and Europe, stressing intellectual background, social composition, goals and political strategies.

WGST 531 Women in the Twentieth Century in Europe and the U.S.
The history of women in Western society, including Europe and the U.S. in the twentieth century. Includes political, economic, social, and cultural developments.

WGST 532 History of American Sexualities
The course focuses on sexual behaviors and meanings in America from the colonial period to the late twentieth century and how sexual meanings impact people's identities, choices, and social positions. The course also concerns the interaction of gender, race, and class.

WGST 533 Women in 19th Century America
Course focuses on material conditions, ideologies, and knowledge-systems that shaped American women's lives in the 19th century, with attention to race, class, and regional differences.

WGST 538 Women and Sport
An effort to understand the role of the American woman in sport. Studies concepts about women, sport, and society in contemporary and historical perspectives.

WGST 540 Women's Health in Africa
Examination of population growth, early marriage, family size and cultural and religious beliefs on reproductive health of contemporary African women.

WGST 541 Feminism and Science Fiction
This class will examine the science fiction genre through the lens of gender and feminism. The course will develop students' critical reading, thinking, writing and presentation skills. Reading works of science fiction with and against classic readings in feminist theory, students will develop an understanding of the ways writers, particularly women writers, have worked within the genre to explore issues related to gender, race, class, and sexuality. Students will be asked to consider the ways the science fiction writers have participated in on-going dialogues within larger culture, within the SF community, and within feminism, related to gender roles, gender and sexual identity, and hegemonic social structures.

WGST 542 African American Women and History of Reproductive Justice
Course explores the fight for reproductive justice within African American communities. Using Loretta Ross' reproductive justice framework, the course examines how race, gender, class, sexuality and ability have impacted African American women's right to reproductive decision making. The course introduces primary and secondary sources that contextualize African American women's position as autonomous beings with the right to choose if, when, how, where and with whom to have children. The course discusses the following major themes: reproductive lives of enslaved Black women with a focus on gynecological acts of resistance; medical exploitation and the beginning of modern gynecology; development of eugenic health initiatives focused on African American women and girls; intersectional activist collectives; maternity and survival within carceral spaces; intersections of LGBTQ and reproductive justice movements; ethical use of reproductive technologies.

WGST 543 Black Women's Voices
Global synopsis of black women's studies and social thoughts. Highlights roadblocks and bridges experienced. Captures race, gender, class and spatial dimensions.

WGST 545 Southern Women: Black and White
Course focuses on questions of identity for southern women, black and white, by contrasting stereotypes and ideals with realities for these women in the slave, Jim Crow, and modern South.

WGST 547 Language, Race, Class, and Gender
Course investigates the intersections of linguistic behavior with questions of race, class and gender. Students will gain an understanding of the multiple characteristics of communication.

WGST 556 Feminist Theory
Survey of the history and scope of the feminist tradition with emphasis upon liberal, radical, Marxist, socialist, psychoanalytic, and postmodern approaches to feminist theory.

WGST 558 Women in Developing Countries
Follows the progress of the international women's movement by focusing on the emergence of women leaders and their work in developing countries since the First World Conference on Women, 1975 to the present.

WGST 547 Feminist Philosophical Literature
Examination of central works by feminist philosophers in such sub-disciplines as ethics, political philosophy, and epistemology.

WGST 571 Francophone Women Writers
Readings of literary and non-literary texts by women of the French-speaking world.

WGST 582 Health and Social Justice
An interdisciplinary approach to a wide array of issues pertaining to health and health care that arise at the intersection of gender, race, sex, disability, class, and culture.

WGST 584 Women in East Asian History
The history of women in China from ancient times to the twentieth century, with comparisons to women's experiences in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

WGST 589 Independent Study:Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies-Humanities
Provides opportunity for a student to do advanced interdisciplinary, humanities work on a Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies topic.

WGST 590 Independent Study:Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies-Social Sciences
Provides opportunity for a student to do advanced interdisciplinary, social sciences work on a Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies topic. Topics announced in Schedule of Courses.

WGST 591 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies:Social Sciences
Provides advanced study of a special topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective. Topics announced in Schedule of Courses.

WGST 592 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies:Social Studies
Provides advanced study of a special topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective. Topics announced in Schedule of Courses.

WGST 593 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies:Humanities
Provides advanced study of a special topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective. Topics announced in Schedule of Courses.

WGST 594 Topics in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Provides advanced study of a special topic related to women, gender or sexuality from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective. Topics announced in Schedule of Courses.