Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Courses Fall 2016
Core Courses (Courses meet 08/22/16-12/9/16 unless otherwise indicated) * Course Descriptions Below
GWSS 105A
10:30-11:20
MWF
LS 001
Sarmiento
8:30-9:20
9:30-10:20
MWF
MWF
LS 001
S 127
Staff
Sarmiento
12:30-1:20
8:05-9:20
9:30-10:45
MWF
TU
TU
LS 001
LS 001
LS 001
Staff
Sabates
Sabates
1:30-2:20
2:30-3:45
Distance
5:30-8:20
MWF
TuTh
TuTh
WA 41
LS 001
Distance
LS 001
Staff
Ruiz
Staff
Staff
2:30-3:45
1:05-2:20
TuTh
TuTh
EH 226
LS 6A
Weaver
Weaver
11:30-12:45
Distance
1:30-2:20
TuTh
T 213
Distance
LS 001
Sabates
Padilla Carroll
Hubler
2:30-3:45
Distance
11:30-12:20
MW
MWF
LS 001
Distance
LS 6A
Tushabe
Hubler
Tushabe
GWSS 550A
GWSS 700A
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
(1st Year Sem)
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
(Cat Comm)
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
(Cat Comm)
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
Intro to Gnd, Women, & Sex Std
(Meets 10/13/16 to 12/8/16)
Top/Interspecies Intersections
Fundamentals Gend, Wm & Sex
Studies
Latinas’ Life Stories
Gender in American Film
Resistance & Mvmts for Social
Change
Top/Black Sexualities
Independent Study
Research Methods in Gend, WM
Sex Study
Women & Popular Culture
Top/Black Sexualities
2:30-5:20
2:30-3:45
Tu
MW
C 202
LS 001
Padilla Carroll
Tushabe
GWSS 700B
Adv Top/Women & Pop Culture
2:30-5:20
Tu
C 202
Padilla Carroll
GWSS 784ZA
Internship/Gend,Wm Sex Stdy
APPT
APPT
Hubler
APPT
APPT
Hubler
GWSS 105B
GWSS 105C
GWSS 105D
GWSS 105E
GWSS 105F
GWSS 105G
GWSS 105I
GWSS 105ZA
GWSS 105ZB
GWSS 300A
GWSS 305A
GWSS 321A
GWSS 350A
GWSS 405A
GWSS 500A
GWSS 505ZA
GWSS 510A
MWF
(Instructor Consent Required)
GWSS 799ZA
IS/Grad or Adv Undergrad
Cross-Referenced Courses (Courses meet 8/22/16-12/9/16 unless otherwise indicated)
AMETH 370A
DAS 355ZA
DAS 590ZA
ENGL 387A
ENGL 660A
ENGL 705A
FSHS 350A
FSHS 350B
FSHS 350C
FSHS 350ZA
MC 612A
MUSIC 311A
SOCIO 510A
SOCIO 545Z
Politics of Women of Color
Intro to Non-Violence Studies
Applied Non-Violence
American Indian Lit
Read Major Authors/Brontes
Theories of Cultural Studies
Family Relation & Gender Roles
Family Relation & Gender Roles
Family Relation & Gender Roles
Family Relation & Gender Roles
Gender Issues and Media
Women in Music
Social Welfare as a Social
Institution
Sociology of Women
2:30-3:45
Distance
Distance
9:30-10:45
11:30-12:20
9:30-10:45
1:05-2:50
5:30-8:20
10:30-11:20
Distance
5:30-8:20
Distance
11:30-12:45
TuTh
Tu
W 120
Distance
Distance
EH 116
EH 021
EH 228
JU 109
JU 109
JU 163
Distance
K 210
Distance
KG 004
Roshanravan
Allen
Lopamudra De
Tatonetti
Longmuir
Gonzalez
Thompson
Brown
Conner
Welch
Wassmuth
Cooper
Kurtz
9:30-10:20
MWF
F 208
Shapkina
Tu
MWF
TuTh
Tu
M
MWF
W
Graduate Student Only Classes (Courses meet 8/22/16-12/9/16 unless otherwise indicated)
EDLEA 838A
EDLEA 838OB
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QVAL Research in EDU
QVAL Research in EDU
(meets 9/14/15 to 12/7/15)
4:30-6:55
5:30-8:30
W
M
BH 121
Olathe,
KS
Holloway-Libell
Bhattacharya
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Course Descriptions
Fall 2016
WOMST 105 Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section A: MWF 10:30; Section MWF 9:30—T Sarmiento
Gender, sexuality, and race structure all of our worlds. In this introductory course to the
interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies, we shall explore gender as a category of social, cultural, and
political analysis as it intersects with other social formations, including sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality,
socioeconomic class, and ability. Primarily focusing on the US context, but in dialogue with the translocal and
the global, we shall survey the herstories of the women’s movement, the parameters and possibilities of
feminist inquiry, and feminism’s contributions to social change. We shall also analyze how power operates
through gender in our contemporary moment, particularly engaging the site of popular culture. Together, these
approaches to the study of gender as a social construct as well as an embodied positionality will not only allow
students to recognize how knowledge production intimately circumscribes peoples lives but will also empower
them to be a part of its undoing.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section B: MWF 8:30; Section D: MWF 12:30--Staff
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WOMST 105 Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section E: TuTh 8:05; Section F: TuTh 9:30--G. Sabates
An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist scholarship, which seeks to understand the
creation and perpetuation of gender inequalities by examining historical, theoretical, and cross-cultural
frameworks for the comparative study of women and gender. This course aims to sharpen students' critical
awareness of how gender operates in institutional and cultural contexts and in their own lives. Particular
attention will be paid to the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, national origin,
disability, culture, and movements for social change.
WOMST 105 Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section G: MWF 1:30;—Staff
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WOMST 105 Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section I: TuTh 2:30—M. Ruiz
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WOMST 105 Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section ZA: Distance --Staff
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WOMST 300 Top/Interspecies Intersection
Section A: TuTh 2:30 –H. Weaver
“Interspecies Intersections” explores how relationships between humans and animals not only reflect
but also shape experiences of race, gender, sexuality, species, breed, and nation. By examining events such as
Hurricane Katrina and NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s conviction, the roles of animals and plants in histories
of colonization, as well as more contemporary popular internet memes of “unlikely friendships” between, say,
elephants and dogs, we work through co-evolutions of humans, plants, and other animals across species lines.
In addition to the above, some of the topics we address include the following: what does it mean to extend
Kimberlé Crenshaw’s writings on “intersectionality” to human/animal relationships? How does the
development of scientific understandings of “species” involve histories of sexuality and race and fears about
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miscegenation in the U.S.? What do contemporary dialogues around “animal hoarding” have to do with gender
and race? What does it mean to think about animals through the lens of queer theories?
WOMST 305 Fundamental of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section A: TuTh 1:05 –H. Weaver
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WOMST 321 Latina’s Life Stories
Section A:TuTh 11:30--G. Sabates
An interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of Latina women's life experiences, examining the
complex process of constructing cultural identities. Students will gain an understanding of how knowing about,
listening to, and telling of life stories intersect with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, location and class.
WOMST 350 Topic/Gender in American Film
Section A: Distance--V. Padilla Carroll
This course examines depictions of gender in American film. Because gender does not exist within a
vacuum, race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality will also be examined. This course will focus on how images in
film reinforce and normalize power and power relations as well as perpetuate stereotypes.
WOMST 405 Top/Resistance Movement & Social Change
Section A: MWF 1:30--A. Hubler
Women have been critically involved in demanding civil rights, achieving justice for indigenous people,
challenging military dictatorships, working for economic justice, and demanding for women's liberation and
freedom from violence. This course examines women’s resistance and movements against gender violence and
discrimination in the context of colonialism, globalization, war, militarism, and occupation.
In addition to viewing films including Made in Dagenham (on union women) and Las Madres (on the Mothers
of the Plaza de Mayo in Argenina), texts for the course include:
I, Rigoberta Menchu, by Rigoberta Menchu
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights
Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
A Woman Among the Warlords by Malalai Joya
The grade for the class will be based on a midterm, final, a paper (5-7 pages), attendance and participation.
WOMST 500 Black Sexualities
Section A: MWF 9:30;--Tushabe
This course investigates the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality. The course will
explore complex relations among identity categories such as lesbian, gay, bisexuality, and
transgender in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, religion, and nationality. The course will be
divided into three central parts: the sexualization of race and the racialization of sexuality; sociocultural perspectives on race and sexuality; and queering the Color Line and histories of
oppression, including colonialism. We will read some of the most influential authors in Gender
Theory, Queer Theory, Race Theory, Sexuality Studies, and Transgender studies.
WOMST 505 IS/Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section #: By Appointment--A. Hubler
(Obtain permission from Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department Head in 3 Leasure
Hall) This course is a broad overview of Women’s Studies as a disciplinary area of study drawing from a
variety of other disciplines including history, sociology, psychology, art, literature and philosophy among
others.
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WOMST 510 Research Methods in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section A: MW 11:30;--Tushabe
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WOMST 550 Top/Women & Pop Culture
Section A: TuTh 3:55--V. Padilla Carroll
This course uses a gendered lens to examine the images of women in popular culture forms like fiction,
film, television, music, magazines, advertising, and material culture. In this course we will use intersectional
feminist perspectives to interrogate the portrayal of women and feminism within historical and cultural
contexts. Student will develop their own popular culture research project and by the end of the course, will
present their research in a poster session.
WOMST 700 Black Sexualities
Section A: MWF 9:30—Tushabe
This course investigates the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality. The course will
explore complex relations among identity categories such as lesbian, gay, bisexuality, and
transgender in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, religion, and nationality. The course will be
divided into three central parts: the sexualization of race and the racialization of sexuality; sociocultural perspectives on race and sexuality; and queering the Color Line and histories of
oppression, including colonialism. We will read some of the most influential authors in Gender
Theory, Queer Theory, Race Theory, Sexuality Studies, and Transgender studies.
WOMST 700 Top/Women & Pop Culture
Section B: TuTh 3:55--V. Padilla Carroll
This course uses a gendered lens to examine the images of women in popular culture forms like fiction,
film, television, music, magazines, advertising, and material culture. In this course we will use intersectional
feminist perspectives to interrogate the portrayal of women and feminism within historical and cultural
contexts. Student will develop their own popular culture research project and by the end of the course, will
present their research in a poster session.
WOMST 784 Internship in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Section A & ZA: By Appointment--A. Hubler
(Obtain permission from Department Head 3 Leasure Hall) An opportunity to gain valuable
experience in community, volunteer, activist, or political organizations at the local, state, national, or
international levels.
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