Upcoming Courses: Fall 2025
The curriculum for the GSS program is changing. Courses will continue to be labeled with the old attributes as we transition to the new major/minor requirements.
GSS and will Core Courses
GSS 200 Intro: GSS (Snaza)
MW 10:30-11:45
FSSA, IFPE, AISO
An introduction to the broad, interdisciplinary field of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Special attention will be paid to the meaning and history of the terms "gender" and "sexuality" and to the political movements mobilized around those terms. Students will read both contemporary and historical materials and both primary and secondary sources.
GSS 279 ST: Queer Ecologies (Gonzales)
TR 3:00-4:15 pm
How are embodied experiences related to gender, sexuality, and other dimensions of identity intertwined with environmental concepts like “space,” “place,” and “nature”? This class will introduce the emerging field of queer ecology, which blends queer studies with ecological critique to explore various relationships between organisms and environments. We’ll consider how representations of human and nonhuman subjects encode or oppose expectations around gender and sexuality, and in turn will think about how these same representations condition our own daily experiences of the spaces and places we occupy.
GSS 280 Gender and Work (Ooten) WGHP
TR 12:00-1:15 pm
Examines the gendered nature of both historical and contemporary workplace issues from a global perspective. Gender and workplace issues will be examined from theoretical, historical, and comparative perspectives.
GSS 379 ST: Inheriting Gender & Sexuality (Snaza) WGFQ
MW 12:00-1:15 pm
To mark the change in GSS’s program name, this course will explore the history and relevance of the concepts “gender” and “sexuality.” Looking at highly influential texts in the history of the field, and some of the most current scholarship being published, we will track the emergence of “sexuality” as a problematic in the late 19th century and “gender” in the 20th, with careful attention to how scientific (and medical) practice, law, and social movements have shaped these terms. Readings will likely include work by Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Gayle Rubin, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Hil Malatino, Mel Y. Chen and Dana Luciano, Eleanor Craig, Jules Gill-Peterson, Hortense Spillers, Jack Halberstam, Jane Ward, Tavia Nyong’o, and Marquis Bey.
Graduating GSS seniors can register as GSS490, and all other students may register as GSS379.
GSS 400 Capstone (Inheriting Gender & Sexuality- Snaza) WGFQ
MW 12:00-1:15 pm
To mark the change in GSS’s program name, this course will explore the history and relevance of the concepts “gender” and “sexuality.” Looking at highly influential texts in the history of the field, and some of the most current scholarship being published, we will track the emergence of “sexuality” as a problematic in the late 19th century and “gender” in the 20th, with careful attention to how scientific (and medical) practice, law, and social movements have shaped these terms. Readings will likely include work by Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Gayle Rubin, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Hil Malatino, Mel Y. Chen and Dana Luciano, Eleanor Craig, Jules Gill-Peterson, Hortense Spillers, Jack Halberstam, Jane Ward, Tavia Nyong’o, and Marquis Bey.
Electives
ARTH 229 Women Artist, Agents, & Influence (Calvillo) WGHP
TR 12:00-1:15 pm
Examines the ways in which gender affected and informed theories of creativity, artistic style, critical reception, patronage, collecting and training in early modern Europe and its colonies. Focuses on specific women, whose work or influence substantially affected the developing canon of western European art: artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1654) or Queen Mary of Hungary, whose collection of paintings by Titian surpassed her Habsburg male relatives.
CLSC 302 Roman Art and Archaeology (Baughan) Special Contract WGHP
TR 3:00-4:15 pm
AIVP
A survey of Roman art and architecture from the early republic through the late empire, and throughout the Roman world, from Spain to Syria. Explores the meanings of 'style' in Roman art and the social and political significance of Roman sculpture, painting, and architecture. Usually offered every other fall.
CLSC 329 The Ancient World in Cinema (Damer) WGHP
IFWC; AILT
FYS 100-11 Gender, Violence, and Rome (Damer) WGGV
MW 10:30-11:45 am
HIST 213 Lawrence V. Texas (Holloway) WGHP
MW 9:00-10:15 am
AIHS, IFWC
Examines the 2003 US Supreme Court decision that found laws criminalizing private consensual sodomy unconstitutional and the impact of historical scholarship in this landmark decision. In addition to an in-depth examination of the case, topics include the history of sodomy laws, origins of the LGBT movement, the Lavender Scare of the 1950s, and the constitutional theories of liberty and privacy that formed the basis for the Court’s opinion.
LDST 386 Leadership in a Diverse Society (Hoyt) GSS
TR 9:00-10:15 am
The goal of this course is to understand how diversity affects social relations with an emphasis on leadership. To this end, we will examine diversity, primarily through the lens of social psychology, by examining individual and collective dynamics in pluralistic settings. We will examine the phenomena and processes associated with one’s beliefs about members of social groups (stereotypes), attitudes and evaluative responses toward group members (prejudice), and behaviors toward members of a social group based on their group membership (discrimination). On the flip side, we will examine how stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination shape the experiences of members of low-status or minority groups. We will focus primarily on large societal groups that differ on cultural dimensions of identity such as gender, sexuality, and race & ethnicity. We will also address approaches to ameliorating these problems and will apply the theoretical and empirical work to current events and relevant policy issues. Same as PSYC 359.
LING 203 Introductory Linguistics (Bonfiglio) Special Contract GSS
MW 3:00-4:15 pm
AISO, IFPE
General, historical and/or descriptive linguistics. Prerequisites: Completion of Communication Skills II-Language requirement.
LLC 322 Intro/20th C & Contemporary Russian Lit (McCauley) Special Contract WGTP
MW 3:00-4:15 pm
IFWC, AILT
What makes literature seem real? Deep? Mind-blowing? Funny? In the Soviet Union, people read literature as if their lives depended on it. Official sources of information were heavily censored, so the “voice of the people” was channeled instead through short stories, science fiction, satire, and other imaginative forms of truth-telling. This course focuses on Russian and Ukrainian authors from the Soviet and contemporary post-Soviet period. In translation, no prerequisites.
RHCS 271 Digital Humanities (Ogden) WGKP
MW 1:30-2:45 pm
IFQD
Brings together computational methods with humanities questions. Explores the possibilities and limits of methods such as data visualization, network analysis, and text analysis for analyzing humanities data and modes of communication for scholarly arguments. Asks questions about computation, data, and digital methods.
RHCS 353 Rhetoric and Law (Mifsud) GSS
W 12:00-2:40 pm
Inquiry into the law from rhetorical perspectives, using the history and theory of rhetoric and its long-standing association with law and justice. Examination of interpretive processes on which legal arguments and ideologies are based. Exploration of the language of legal argument, court decisions, and of the role of rhetoric and the law in shaping of public life and social justice.
SOC 379 ST: Gender, Sexuality, & Body (Troia) GSS
TR 10:30-11:45 am
THTR 319 Theatre History: Modern & Contemporary (staff) WGHP
MW 1:30-2:45 pm
A survey of theatre history from mid 18th-century Europe to the present, with emphasis on representative plays, performance practices, and theories, as well as the cultural, economic, and political contexts from which they emerged. Lecture/discussion format.
Updated 03/19/2025