Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

GNDR 300 History of Feminism

This course provides an in-depth study of the history of American feminist political movements and intellectual traditions from the beginnings of the woman suffrage movement through contemporary feminist activism.
3

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit allowed for only one of these courses: GNDR 300 and HIST 300

GNDR 316 Global Conflict and Gender

This course uses multiple theoretical perspectives to provide a cultural analysis of conflict and war and their gendered effects on women, men, and other genders across the globe.
3

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit allowed for only one of these courses: GNDR 316 and ANT 316

GNDR 320 Gender in Popular Culture

Students will engage in an analysis of how gender and sexuality operate in the media and pop culture and examine how these representations affect identity formation.
3

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit allowed for only one of these courses: GNDR 320 and SOC 323

GNDR 330 Interrogating Marriage

This class examines the gendered institution of marriage historically and in contemporary society.  It interrogates the purpose, nature, and function of marriage, particularly as marriage is made and remade by social categories of gender, race, class, and sexuality.

3

Special Notes

GNDR 330 cannot be retaken for credit if GNDR 395 "Interrogating Marriage" was taken in Spring of 2022.

Offered

Generally offered Spring - Check with department/school for next offering

GNDR 350 Feminist Theories

This course offers a survey of competing philosophical, political, and epistemological feminist frameworks for understanding gender inequality, examining how feminist theories both build on and critique Western philosophical traditions.
3

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit allowed for only one of these courses: GNDR 350 and PHIL 360

GNDR 372 Bodies and Power

We examine the body as object and subject of shifting race, gender, class, and sexual meanings and as the product of complex social processes, including culture, medicalization, objectification, commodification, and globalization.
3

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit allowed for only one of these courses: GNDR 372 and SOC 372

GNDR 380 Queer Studies

This course introduces students to the field of queer studies. It examines the histories, identities, and theories emerging from gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities and political movements.
3

GNDR 395 Topics in Gender Studies

This course provides opportunities to explore gender as a category of analysis in relationship to a variety of disciplinary approaches and selected topics.
3

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles and course may be repeated 1 time