Undergraduate Course Description

CSIS 200: Critical Engagements in Sexuality Studies

CSIS 200: Critical Engagements in Sexuality Studies

Introductory survey to sexuality studies that emphasizes how sexuality intersects with race, gender, class, ability, and geography.

GRSJ 480: Decolonizing Praxis: A Practicum in Social Justice

GRSJ 480: Decolonizing Praxis: A Practicum in Social Justice

Connects feminist and critical race theory and practice through placement in a community organization.

GRSJ 450: Directed Studies

GRSJ 450: Directed Studies

General reading and/or a research undertaking, with the agreement, and under supervision of, a faculty member.

GRSJ 422: Advanced Research Seminar

GRSJ 422: Advanced Research Seminar

Critical theories, methodologies, ethics and practices appropriate for advanced feminist research.

GRSJ 415: Critical Racial & Anti-Colonial Feminist Approaches

GRSJ 415: Critical Racial & Anti-Colonial Feminist Approaches

Critical anti-colonial and feminist analyses of colonial and racial subjugation, as well as the many modalities of indigenous and minority resistance.

GRSJ 401: Gender, Body & Society

GRSJ 401: Gender, Body & Society

An interdisciplinary examination of the body, exploring how social relations and space are implicated in the constitution and experience of gendered bodies and identities, with an emphasis on feminist analyses of body-societal relations.

GRSJ 328: Theories of Subjectivity

GRSJ 328: Theories of Subjectivity

How feminist scholarship has shaped and reinterpreted accounts of the subject, drawing on such traditions as structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, and Queer Theory.

GRSJ 327: Theories of Representation & Difference

GRSJ 327: Theories of Representation & Difference

Feminist scholarship emphasizing languages and processes of representation and the construction of difference in cultural discourses and institutions.

GRSJ 326: The Politics of Gender, Families & Nation-Building

GRSJ 326: The Politics of Gender, Families & Nation-Building

Investigation of historical and contemporary scholarship on the diversity of families, focusing on differences of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and social class within and across national borders.

GRSJ 325: Anti-Colonial & Feminist Qualitative Methods

GRSJ 325: Anti-Colonial & Feminist Qualitative Methods

Data collection techniques, the politics of interpretation, and the formulation of a research proposal using a feminist, anti-racist framework.