CSIS 301: Introduction to Trans* Studies
How race, citizenship, gender, sexuality, culture and dis/ability are materially and socially constructed together to give meaning to the category trans*. (Trans*: transgender, transsexual, gender variant and other articulations.)
CSIS 300A: Introduction to Critical Studies in Sexuality
A multidisciplinary course which provides an introduction to the study of sexuality, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, and transgender issues and related topics.
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
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
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
Data collection techniques, the politics of interpretation, and the formulation of a research proposal using a feminist, anti-racist framework.
GRSJ 316: Queer & Trans of Colour Theorizing
The intellectual and political interventions of queer of colour theorizing in the gender and sexual politics of racial and imperial projects, including its engagements with women of colour feminisms, settler colonial and indigenous studies, and immigration and diaspora studies.
GRSJ 315: Critical Racial Theories
Critical theories of racial and cultural difference. Initial formulations of theses against scientific racism and their later transformation by historical, social, and global-historical accounts of racial subjugation.
GRSJ 311: African/Black Women in the Americas
An interdisciplinary survey of gender studies and histories of African/Black women in the Americas from the beginning of the slave trade to the present.
GRSJ 310: Gender, Race, Social Justice & Health
Interdisciplinary introduction to gender and health issues using selected theoretical frameworks.