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COURSES

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Here are the courses available for Spring 2026:

100-Level Courses

WGSS 101 PM: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Study

Introduction to issues, topics, and methodologies of women's studies in a global context. Examines the lives of women around the globe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with particular attention to the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the West, focusing on gender inequality, feminist ethics, gender as a category of analysis, and social construction of gender. (M5) Gauthier 

200-Level Courses

WGSS 252 A: Literature & Medical Humanities

Lucille Clifton states, "I don't write because I have a mission to heal the world. My mission is to heal Lucille if I can, as much as I can." Writing offers Clifton a medium through which she can enact a form of healing and self-preservation. Similarly, illness narrative communicate the embodied and disembodied experiences of people living with sickness, disease, and illness in an effort to make sense of their changing bodies, lives, and identities. This reading intensive course explores health, wellness, and illness narratives through a sustained engagement with non-fiction and imaginary literature. Prerequisite: LinC 101 or equivalent plus junior or senior class standing. (U1). Open to juniors and seniors only. Waller-Peterson

WGSS 260 A: Critical Gender Studies

This advanced-level political theory course introduces students to scholarly texts, activist writings, and historical documents pertinent to feminist theory and masculinity studies. Selected readings also address multiculturalism, race, class, sexuality, religion, and ethnicity. Theories studied will vary by semester. This class exposes students to diverse approaches to the politics of sex and gender. Prerequisite: POSC 120 or permission of the instructor. Haddad 

WGSS 269 A: Sex and Karma

How did the most popular Buddhist deity of worship transform from male (Avalokitesvara in India) to female (?? or Guanyin/Kannon/Gwan-eum in East Asia)? Does being born female indicate bad karma? How do goddesses and prostitutes use sex to help others? What are Buddhist and Hindu views on masturbation, sexual pleasure, homosexuality, gender fluidity, and queerness/ This course investigates these questions through Asian religious images, narratives, and films. Cheung

300-Level Courses

WGSS 362 A: Narrative and Film

Through close analyses of contemporary imaginative films, this course examines the relationship between narrative and cinema. Addressing the medium's relationship with more traditional narrative forms (e.g., novels, short stories, etc.) and these forms' contributions to the constructions of categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and (inter)nationality, we will explore the questions, "How do films narrate?" and "What do they narrate?" By the end of the course, we should have a more complex understanding of how narratives are constructed, how the medium of film challenges us to reimagine the shape and limits of what a text might be, and what the narratives offered tell us about the state of our societies and/or cultures. Prerequisite: None. LaRue