Fall & Summer 2024 Class Schedule

WGS 270: Introduction to Latine/x Feminist Thought- Plurality & Power 

Taught by Dr. Cortes – Monday & Thursday’s 12:30pm-1:50pm

This course is designed to provide a historical and contemporary survey of Latine women/folk within feminism by looking at their herstories, discourses, and practices through a feminist lens. Through our engagement with interdisciplinary readings/materials and a semester long project, we will explore how Latine communities theorize about feminism through their lived experiences; have practiced feminist activism and advocated for feminist issues; and articulate Latine feminist identities. Each class will be composed of a lecture and discussion component.

WGS 370: The Lavender Mirror: LGBTQ Reflections and Representations in Film and Media

Taught by Dr. Amtzis – Tuesday’s 5:30pm-8:20pm

TBD

• WGS 200 – Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – The preliminary course to the interdisciplinary field of Women’s and Gender Studies.  It will provide students with an introduction to the literature and the historical evolution of the discipline, as well as an understanding of how scholars and students in the field analyze women, gender, and feminist theories.  It will use an interdisciplinary approach to do this.  This introductory course encourages students to rethink and reevaluate much of what they have experienced and learned and to gain the critical vocabulary and analytic skills to question the gendered world in which they live.
• WGS 326 – Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods – Feminist Methodologies will provide Women and Gender Studies students with an understanding and knowledge of the research methods feminist scholars use and prepare students to apply these methods in their own research projects. The course focuses on the obligations of feminist researchers, the core issues in various feminist epistemologies and the feminist perspectives on various research methods and how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of knowledge and the major methodologies employed in the social sciences.
• WGS 498 – Senior Seminar: Methods & Theory – This course is the capstone course for the Women’s and Gender Studies major. Students are expected to use the expertise gained from their previous WGS courses to research and write their senior theses. Drawing on the methodologies and theories learned in previously taken courses, students work in a small focused seminar that not only emphasizes their own work but also constructively critiques the work of their peers. Students will produce a research paper (25+ pages) applying feminist theories and methodologies. In addition, they will share their work with other students, providing analysis and critiques of one another’s papers in progress.