Upcoming Courses

Spring 2027

Courses subject to change

Dolly Studies: Gender, Labor, and the Politics of Being Too Much

CRN: 12647/12651 Special Topics in WGSS 4957/5957-200 Rebecca Tolley - LOCATION TBA - W 4-6:50PM

Undergraduate and Graduate level sections offered. What can Dolly Parton teach us about sex, work, poverty, religion, Appalachia, artificiality, authenticity, grief, capitalism, and who gets to become an American icon? We’ll treat songs, rhinestones, wigs, theme parks, philanthropy, performances, business decisions, fan devotion, and contradictions as evidence—asking not only who Dolly is, but what people have needed her to mean. The course ends not with a traditional final paper but with a public exhibition: research might become an infographic, listening station, garment, archive, performance, installation, or something we haven’t imagined yet. 3.000 Credit hours.

Feminist and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Teaching and Learning: Pedagogies of Care

CRN: 13451/13498 Special Topics in WGSS 4957/5957-002 Phyllis Thompson - LOCATION TBA - MW 1:40-3PM

Undergraduate and Graduate level sections offered. This course explores feminist and trauma-informed approaches to teaching and learning that centers equity, creates safety, fosters resilience, cultivates belonging, and practices care and that are foundational to what bell hooks' calls for in an anti-oppressive, transformational model of education as the practice of freedom. 3.000 Credit hours.

Women in Global Perspective

CRN: 12101 WGSS 2020-900 Kara Russell ONLINE

Emphasizes diversity of women’s experience in non-western, nonindustrialized societies. Concentrates on women’s participation in, interaction with, and resistance to patriarchal structures that inhibit economic, political, and human rights for women. 3.000 Credit hours.

WGSS Internship

CRN: 12103 - WGSS 4080-001 Stacey Williams

Prerequisites: WGSS 2010, senior standing, and director approval. Provides supervised experience with a professional, non-profit, civic, or other social justice group work experience that synthesizes the student’s program of study. A mandatory orientation meeting is required, and a completed internship permission form must be completed before working any hours on site. 3.000 Credit hours.

Independent Study

CRN: 12102 WGSS 4900-001 Stacey Williams

Offers independent study, under faculty supervision, in an area of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies not covered by Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies curriculum. Students desiring to use this option must prepare a proposal, in consultation with the faculty member, that describes the course objectives, learning outcomes, reading list, course requirements and their due dates, and method of faculty evaluation of the student’s work. Proposal must be approved by the program director. 3.000 Credit hours.

Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies WGSS 2010

On Ground Sections	Online Sections
CRN: 12084 Section 001 Marquis Clark TR 8:35-9:55AM CRN: 12085 Section 002 Rebecca Tolley TR 11:45AM-1:05PM CRN: 12087 Section 003 Heidi Marsh MW 3:10-4:30PM CRN: 12295 Section 004 Zoe Cameron MW 12:35-1:55PM	CRN: 12097 Section 900 Kara Russell CRN: 12098 Section 901 Darcy Martin CRN: 12099 Section 903 Marquis Clark CRN: 12100 Section 904 Vianna Isbister (LATE START)

Introduces this interdisciplinary academic field that has a triple focus: integrating information about women’s contributions to culture and history into the curriculum; uncovering and understanding structures of oppression (gender, sexuality, race, and class), and exploring possibilities for change. Topics for reading and discussion are drawn from material on social structures, law, language, history, religion, philosophy, the healing professions, and the arts. Articulating questions and points of view regarding issues related to gender and sexuality is emphasized. 3.000 Credit hours.