Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a GSS faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the GSS Coordinator and Dean.

Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program. Topic and format must be approved by the GSS Coordinator and Dean. 

This course examines women's health and wellness of body, mind, and spirit. Readings, discussions, and exercises focus on an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and holistic approach to the health of women during the course of their lives. The course explores the social and historical dimensions of female health care participants from a variety of perspectives, including cross-culturally grounded ones.

This interdisciplinary course moves away from the axiom that masculinity is exclusively aligned with men. Students will examine the ways in which ideas of masculinity have been utilized by different populations to create structures of power and thought, organize societies, perform gender, and transgress traditional notions of masculinity (e.g., female masculinities). This seminar emphasizes critical thinking and independent research.

Notions of queerness date back to the 1800s but the discipline of queer theory emerges in the 1980s. This course chronologically explores the evolution of queerness as a fluid social construct leading to academic theories in many disciplines, resulting in political strategies to fight sexual oppression. Students, utilizing a trans-disciplinary approach, will examine how different groups and individuals define queer. 

This course examines the raced and gendered dimensions of the US-led "War on Terror," paying particular attention to the logics of masculinist protectionism, gendered vulnerability, and racialized demonization that make some of the War on Terror's most shocking atrocities, including torture, indefinite detention, extrajudicial drone killings, and mass deportation.

This course explores issues relating to the multiple forms of marriage, families, and intimate relationships in contemporary society. Through a close examination of the ever changing terrain of the meaning of family and marriage, we explore the social and structural forces which intersect to shape the lived experience of family life, marriage, and intimate relationships.

This course will examine how sexuality is historically and culturally specific and situated within a complex web of politics, economics, culture, and social life. Through theoretical and critical discussions about desire, identity, embodiment, stratification, politics, and power and privilege, the course will critically engage with essentialist and biological determinist perspectives regarding sexuality.

This course examines a variety of philosophical frameworks for thinking about gender, sexuality, women's movements, the problems of sexism, and proposed solutions to those problems. Students explore the complexity and diversity of feminist thought by examining many different philosophies of feminism including liberal, radical, cultural; Marxist/socialist, existentialist, postmodern, ecological, and indigenous perspectives.

This course invites students to think critically about the roles images play in constructing or deconstructing our concepts of gender. Drawing from contemporary cultural and gender theory, it surveys a diverse range of visuals from mass media to high art. Students build a historically and culturally nuanced understanding of gender as a central issue in visual representation.