Upcoming Courses

Fulfill a requirement for the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor



Any of the classes below may be taken to fulfill a requirement for the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor. Email usif you have questions.

Upcoming Courses

 

Summer 2024

WGSS Courses

SUMMER SESSION 2 - Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - 51208 - WGSS 2010 - 910 | Marsh | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

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.

Approved Electives

SUMMER SESSION 2 - Undst Cult Diversity - 51553 - HDAL 2340 - 950| White | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

This course is designed for the student to develop competencies that allow her/ him to be more effective when relating and/or working with individuals of diverse groups in society. Students will have opportunities to develop awareness of their own cultural values and biases, to study prevalent beliefs and attitudes of different cultures, and to develop skills useful for appropriate interactions with particular groups.

SUMMER SESSION 2 - Cultural Diversity - 51202 - SOWK 1030 - 900 | Boa | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Introduces the knowledge necessary for social work practice with disadvantaged, marginalized, and oppressed groups and advances a philosophy that people come first and must be treated with dignity and respect. Issues of power, privilege, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, civil rights, historical and legal heritage, and contemporary news events are central course components. Opportunities are provided for examining personal values and beliefs and their impact on interactions with minority groups. Although several aspects of diversity are examined, the emphasis is on race, class, gender, ethnicity, and affectional orientation. Implications for sensitive, effective, and affirming practice with minority groups are examined.

*Students can count either HDAL 2340 - Understanding Cultural Diversity or SOWK 1030 - Cultural Diversity toward the minor, but not both.

Fall 2024

WGSS Courses

Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - 81454 - WGSS 2010 

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.

- 001 | Clark | MWF 9:20 am - 10:15 am| Location TBA (3.00 hrs)

- 002 | Tolley| TR 11:45 am - 1:05 pm | Location TBA (3.00 hrs)

 - 003 | Buck | TR 1:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Location TBA (3.00 hrs)

- 901 | Martin | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

- 902 | Clark | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

LATE START  - 910 | Marsh | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Sex, Gender, and the Body - 81491 - WGSS 2110 - 901 | Russell | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Examines the diverse and historically varying relationships forged between biological sex, culturally formulated discourses of masculinity and femininity, and the sexed body. Combining theoretical and historical texts from the fields of gender, sexuality, and disability studies with memoir, documentary, and visual art, this course investigates how the diverse experiences of embodiment are historically and politically shaped.

Feminist Thought and Practice - 84434 - WGSS 3330 - 940 | Williams | Course ONLINE TR 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm (Synchronous) (3.00 hrs)

Prerequisites: WGSS 2010 or WGSS 2020 or WGSS 2110. Explores a variety of theoretical frameworks for studying women, gender, and sexuality and links feminist theory to social action and civic responsibility.

Approved Electives

Sp Top Cj&Crim: Women in Criminal Justice - 82745 - CJCR 4950 - 902 | TBA | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Provides a seminar on selected topics of contemporary interest in criminal justice and criminology.

Speaking for Social Change - 83034 - COMM 3346 - 001 | Kinser | MW 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm | Warf-Pickel Hall 513 (3.00 hrs)

Prerequisites: COMM 2025, COMM 2045, or COMM 2055 or permission of instructor. Provides advanced-level training in various forms of public address for use in civic engagement efforts. Speeches address issues of privilege, power, and difference.

Women Authors - 82673 - ENGL 3500 - 001 | Byington | TR 8:35 am - 9:55 am | TBA (3.00 hrs)

Prerequisites: ENGL 1020. Study works by women authors and how they address gender issues across genres and modes of production.

Undst Cult Diversity - 82625 - HDAL 2340 

This course is designed for the student to develop competencies that allow her/ him to be more effective when relating and/or working with individuals of diverse groups in society. Students will have opportunities to develop awareness of their own cultural values and biases, to study prevalent beliefs and attitudes of different cultures, and to develop skills useful for appropriate interactions with particular groups.

- 901 | White | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)


- 902 | Wolfe| Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)


- 903 | TBA| Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

*Students can count either HDAL 2340 - Understanding Cultural Diversity or SOWK 1030 - Cultural Diversity toward the minor, but not both.

American Sexuality: Reconstruction to the Present - 84463 - HIST 3927 - 200 | Watson | W 6:00 pm - 8:50 pm (3.00 hrs) 

A historical survey that examines and analyzes the political, social, cultural, religious, economic, psychological as well as other aspects of gender and sexuality in American history from the late 19th century to the present.

Organizational Leadership - 82739 - MGMT 4460

Studies leadership theories and concepts in modern organizations from an administrative perspective. Topics include trait, behavior, and contingency theories of leadership, leadership in organizational development, ethical leadership, leadership and diversity, social and emotional intelligence, and followership.

- 001 | TBA | TR 1:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Sam Wilson Hall 343 (3.00 hrs)

- 002 | TBA | TR 11:45 am - 1:05 pm | Sam Wilson Hall 209 (3.00 hrs)

- 901 | Moore | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Cultural Diversity - 81579 - SOWK 1030

Introduces the knowledge necessary for social work practice with disadvantaged, marginalized, and oppressed groups and advances a philosophy that people come first and must be treated with dignity and respect. Issues of power, privilege, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, civil rights, historical and legal heritage, and contemporary news events are central course components. Opportunities are provided for examining personal values and beliefs and their impact on interactions with minority groups. Although several aspects of diversity are examined, the emphasis is on race, class, gender, ethnicity, and affectional orientation. Implications for sensitive, effective, and affirming practice with minority groups are examined.

*Students can count either HDAL 2340 - Understanding Cultural Diversity or SOWK 1030 - Cultural Diversity toward the minor, but not both. 

- 001 | Boa | TR 9:00 am - 10:20 am | Lamb Hall (3.00 hrs)

- 900 | Boa | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Human Sexuality - 81560 - SOWK 4567 - 900 | TBA | Course ONLINE (3.00 hrs)

Surveys human sexuality and introduces students to sexual attitudes, sexual physiology and response, sexual techniques and behavior, reproduction and reproductive control, sexually transmitted diseases, and how sexual behavior is learned and developed, i.e., psychosocial development and cultural impact. It provides the opportunity for value clarification and exploration of personal and social attitudes toward varying forms of sexual behavior and orientations.