Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Gender Studies Program

GNDR 101 Gender and Society

Why does gender matter? This interdisciplinary course interrogates the construction of gender in relationship to other social categories (such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, etc.) as they inform everyday life.
3

Course Attribute

LAB3Soc&BehSci-HumBeh,Cult,Soc and LAMS-Multicultural Studies and GT Human Behavior & Soc Sys

GNDR 240 Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality

This course examines multiple and shifting categories of gender, race, class, and sexuality in feminist perspective, investigating how they contribute to our understandings of systems of privilege and inequality.
3

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit allowed for only one of these courses: GNDR 240 and SOC 240

Course Attribute

LAB3Soc&BehSci-HumBeh,Cult,Soc and LAMS-Multicultural Studies and GT Human Behavior & Soc Sys

GNDR 285 Gender in the Contemporary Global Order

This course uses multiple theoretical perspectives to provide a cultural analysis of modernization, economic development, and globalization and their gendered effects on people in developed and underdeveloped countries.
3

Course Attribute

LAB3Soc&BehSci-HumBeh,Cult,Soc and LAIS-International Studies and GT Human Behavior & Soc Sys

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

GNDR 414 Masculinities

A sociological analysis not just of men, but of masculinities. We will address debates about meanings of masculinity, historical variations, and how these definitions involve both male and female bodies.
3

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit allowed for only one of these courses: GNDR 414 and SOC 414

GNDR 422 Directed Studies

Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.)
1- 3

Special Notes

Maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitations

GNDR 492 Internship

Supervised field practice on research related to gender issues. Paper analyzing experience required. Maximum of 3 semester credits count toward requirements for the Gender Studies Minor. S/U graded.
3-6

Special Notes

Prerequisite: 3 hours of GNDR credit or instructor permission.

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with a maximum of 6 credit hours