Undergraduate Programs

Fall Term Schedule

Fall 2025

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
GSWS 100-01 Topics in GSWS Lauren Berlin R 2:00PM - 4:40PM
Changes by semester Location (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 105-01 Sex and Power Ur Staff M 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary scholarship of Gender, Sexuality and Women's studies. As a survey course, this class is designed to give students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines a basic understanding of debates and perspectives discussed in the field. We will use gender as a critical lens to examine some of the social, cultural, economic, scientific, and political practices that organize our lives. We will explore a multitude of feminist perspectives on the intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, religion, and other categories of identity. In this course, we will interrogate these categories as socially constructed while acknowledging that these constructions have real effects in subordinating groups, marking bodies, and creating structural, intersectional inequalities. Location (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 115-1 Introduction to Medical Anthropology – MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
This course provides an overview of the interdisciplinary field of medical anthropology. Using a range of ethnographic case materials (including graphic novels, documentaries, and texts), we will explore how cultural, biological, and political contexts variously shape understandings and experiences of health and illness. Key topics include cultures of medicine, medical pluralism, medicalization, social suffering, and ethics in medical research, medical technologies, and global health. This introductory survey in medical anthropology is open to first- and second-year undergraduate students. Location (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)
GSWS 185-01 Religion and Film Joshua Dubler TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
For as long as there have been movies, filmmakers have used the medium of film to explore concerns central to the study of religion: how does (or doesn’t) God act in the world? What worlds do “religious” institutions engender, and what room do these worlds afford for individual will and desire? Within and without these structures, how is one to be good? Special attention will be paid to questions of representing metaphysics, of ethics, and of power and agency, particularly vis-à-vis gender and sexuality. Location (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)
GSWS 200-1 History of Feminism: Colloquium Elizabeth Sapere T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
In this colloquium we will look at the history of international feminism and explore its many faces. We will examine the various factors that have contributed to women’s historically lower status in society; will look at the emergence of women’s rights and feminist movements as well as the distinctions among various feminist theories, and will discuss the relevance of feminism today. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 200W-1 History of Feminism: Colloquium Elizabeth Sapere T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
In this colloquium we will look at the history of international feminism and explore its many faces. We will examine the various factors that have contributed to women’s historically lower status in society; will look at the emergence of women’s rights and feminist movements as well as the distinctions among various feminist theories, and will discuss the relevance of feminism today. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 214-01 Imagining the Jew Nora Rubel T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This seminar will examine the representation of Orthodox Jews by American Jews on both page and screen. This course should equip you to understand—historically and critically—the core factors in this contemporary culture war such as (gender, religious authority, political affiliation) as well as to empathetically appreciate current concern over acculturation, Americanization, and Jewish continuity. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 218-1 Gender and Disability Liam Kusmierek TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Every day we rarely pause to consider how our understanding of what is ?normal? influences how we understand the present and how we imagine futures. This course centers the experiences of multiply-marginalized disabled people and introduces students to a transnational framework that considers how our thinking about disability is rooted in settler colonialism, Christian hegemony, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. From an intersectional, interdisciplinary multimedia perspective students will learn to critically examine the history of Western medicine, law, politics, and culture. This class offers a space in which we approach disabilities, from depression and anxiety to autism to spina bifida, as well as Deaf culture, chronic illnesses, body size, sexual orientation and gender identity, and many other forms of difference as complex sites of social expectations, personal experiences, state interventions, knowledge production, and exuberant life. Location (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)
GSWS 256-1 Guilt Joshua Dubler MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM
The category of “guilt” floats between theology, psychology, and criminology. Sometimes as a feeling, sometimes as a purported objective condition, guilt stars in big stories moderns tell about what it is to be a member of a society, what it is to be a religious person, and how it feels to be a creature with sexual appetites. Meanwhile, for legal and mental health professions, proof of guilt is used to sort the good from the bad, the normal from the deviant, and the socially respectable from the socially disposable. Not all is so dour, however. Guilt lives in confession, denunciation, and in criminal sentencing, but it is also the stuff of jokes, of ethnic pride, and of eroticism. Toward an anatomy of guilt, in this course we will draw on the works of Freud, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Janet Malcolm and Sarah Schulman, and we will wrestle with the films—and complicated legacies—of Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen, two filmmakers who are preoccupied with (and implicated by) guilt, as feeling and as fact. Location (MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM)
GSWS 266-01 Psychology of Gender Marie-Joelle Estrada TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Exploration of the ways males and females differ in interaction, theories of development of sex differences, consequences for social change. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 This is a social science course. Location (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)
GSWS 285-1 Civil Disobedience John Downey T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This course will examine the varieties of thought about, and practice of, civil disobedience within social movements, with an emphasis on contemporary activism. When, why, and how do communities choose to push back against structures of violence and injustice? Throughout the semester, we will study canonical texts? of modern resistance history speeches, writing, direct action protests, art and will consider the role of this form of counter-conduct within larger campaign strategies to build power from below and get free. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 293-1 Gender, War, and Militarism Rachel O'Donnell MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
This course examines the contemporary interplay among gender, war, and militarism through engagement with feminist international relations and critical masculinities scholarship on these themes, as well as an exploration of their representation in media and popular culture, such as Pearl Harbor (2001) and television news coverage. We will identify the historical and sociopolitical conditions that enable the militarization of a society and give rise to war by considering examples from around the world, including 20th and 21st century conflicts in Cambodia, Somalia, Guatemala, Serbia, and Afghanistan. We will pay particular attention to the social construction of femininity, masculinity, and gender relations in a militarized culture. Topics will include security, foreign policy, development, peacekeeping, and human rights. Location (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)
GSWS 293W-1 Gender, War, and Militarism Rachel O'Donnell MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
This course examines the interplay among gender, war, and militarism through engagement with feminist international relations and critical masculinities scholarship on these themes, as well as an exploration of their representation in media and popular culture. We will identify the historical and sociopolitical conditions that enable the militarization of a society and give rise to war or peace by considering examples from around the world. We will pay particular attention to the social construction of femininity, masculinity, and gender relations in a militarized culture. Weekly topics include security, foreign policy, development, peacekeeping, and human rights. Location (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)
GSWS 389H-01 Major Senior Seminar - Honors Rachel O'Donnell M 2:00PM - 4:40PM
For GSWS majors completing an honors project in their fourth year, typically taken in the fall to be followed by 393H in the spring. The time of the class is flexible and will be decided by those enrolled in collaboration with the instructor. Location (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
GSWS 391-1 Independent Study – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
GSWS 392-1 Practicum in Women's Studies – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
GSWS 394-1 Internship Tanya Bakhmetyeva 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
GSWS 395-1 Independent Research – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
GSWS 105-01 Sex and Power Ur Staff
This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary scholarship of Gender, Sexuality and Women's studies. As a survey course, this class is designed to give students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines a basic understanding of debates and perspectives discussed in the field. We will use gender as a critical lens to examine some of the social, cultural, economic, scientific, and political practices that organize our lives. We will explore a multitude of feminist perspectives on the intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, religion, and other categories of identity. In this course, we will interrogate these categories as socially constructed while acknowledging that these constructions have real effects in subordinating groups, marking bodies, and creating structural, intersectional inequalities.
GSWS 389H-01 Major Senior Seminar - Honors Rachel O'Donnell
For GSWS majors completing an honors project in their fourth year, typically taken in the fall to be followed by 393H in the spring. The time of the class is flexible and will be decided by those enrolled in collaboration with the instructor.
Monday and Wednesday
GSWS 115-1 Introduction to Medical Anthropology –
This course provides an overview of the interdisciplinary field of medical anthropology. Using a range of ethnographic case materials (including graphic novels, documentaries, and texts), we will explore how cultural, biological, and political contexts variously shape understandings and experiences of health and illness. Key topics include cultures of medicine, medical pluralism, medicalization, social suffering, and ethics in medical research, medical technologies, and global health. This introductory survey in medical anthropology is open to first- and second-year undergraduate students.
GSWS 293-1 Gender, War, and Militarism Rachel O'Donnell
This course examines the contemporary interplay among gender, war, and militarism through engagement with feminist international relations and critical masculinities scholarship on these themes, as well as an exploration of their representation in media and popular culture, such as Pearl Harbor (2001) and television news coverage. We will identify the historical and sociopolitical conditions that enable the militarization of a society and give rise to war by considering examples from around the world, including 20th and 21st century conflicts in Cambodia, Somalia, Guatemala, Serbia, and Afghanistan. We will pay particular attention to the social construction of femininity, masculinity, and gender relations in a militarized culture. Topics will include security, foreign policy, development, peacekeeping, and human rights.
GSWS 293W-1 Gender, War, and Militarism Rachel O'Donnell
This course examines the interplay among gender, war, and militarism through engagement with feminist international relations and critical masculinities scholarship on these themes, as well as an exploration of their representation in media and popular culture. We will identify the historical and sociopolitical conditions that enable the militarization of a society and give rise to war or peace by considering examples from around the world. We will pay particular attention to the social construction of femininity, masculinity, and gender relations in a militarized culture. Weekly topics include security, foreign policy, development, peacekeeping, and human rights.
GSWS 256-1 Guilt Joshua Dubler
The category of “guilt” floats between theology, psychology, and criminology. Sometimes as a feeling, sometimes as a purported objective condition, guilt stars in big stories moderns tell about what it is to be a member of a society, what it is to be a religious person, and how it feels to be a creature with sexual appetites. Meanwhile, for legal and mental health professions, proof of guilt is used to sort the good from the bad, the normal from the deviant, and the socially respectable from the socially disposable. Not all is so dour, however. Guilt lives in confession, denunciation, and in criminal sentencing, but it is also the stuff of jokes, of ethnic pride, and of eroticism. Toward an anatomy of guilt, in this course we will draw on the works of Freud, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Janet Malcolm and Sarah Schulman, and we will wrestle with the films—and complicated legacies—of Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen, two filmmakers who are preoccupied with (and implicated by) guilt, as feeling and as fact.
Tuesday
GSWS 200-1 History of Feminism: Colloquium Elizabeth Sapere
In this colloquium we will look at the history of international feminism and explore its many faces. We will examine the various factors that have contributed to women’s historically lower status in society; will look at the emergence of women’s rights and feminist movements as well as the distinctions among various feminist theories, and will discuss the relevance of feminism today.
GSWS 200W-1 History of Feminism: Colloquium Elizabeth Sapere
In this colloquium we will look at the history of international feminism and explore its many faces. We will examine the various factors that have contributed to women’s historically lower status in society; will look at the emergence of women’s rights and feminist movements as well as the distinctions among various feminist theories, and will discuss the relevance of feminism today.
GSWS 214-01 Imagining the Jew Nora Rubel
This seminar will examine the representation of Orthodox Jews by American Jews on both page and screen. This course should equip you to understand—historically and critically—the core factors in this contemporary culture war such as (gender, religious authority, political affiliation) as well as to empathetically appreciate current concern over acculturation, Americanization, and Jewish continuity.
GSWS 285-1 Civil Disobedience John Downey
This course will examine the varieties of thought about, and practice of, civil disobedience within social movements, with an emphasis on contemporary activism. When, why, and how do communities choose to push back against structures of violence and injustice? Throughout the semester, we will study canonical texts? of modern resistance history speeches, writing, direct action protests, art and will consider the role of this form of counter-conduct within larger campaign strategies to build power from below and get free.
Tuesday and Thursday
GSWS 218-1 Gender and Disability Liam Kusmierek
Every day we rarely pause to consider how our understanding of what is ?normal? influences how we understand the present and how we imagine futures. This course centers the experiences of multiply-marginalized disabled people and introduces students to a transnational framework that considers how our thinking about disability is rooted in settler colonialism, Christian hegemony, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. From an intersectional, interdisciplinary multimedia perspective students will learn to critically examine the history of Western medicine, law, politics, and culture. This class offers a space in which we approach disabilities, from depression and anxiety to autism to spina bifida, as well as Deaf culture, chronic illnesses, body size, sexual orientation and gender identity, and many other forms of difference as complex sites of social expectations, personal experiences, state interventions, knowledge production, and exuberant life.
GSWS 185-01 Religion and Film Joshua Dubler
For as long as there have been movies, filmmakers have used the medium of film to explore concerns central to the study of religion: how does (or doesn’t) God act in the world? What worlds do “religious” institutions engender, and what room do these worlds afford for individual will and desire? Within and without these structures, how is one to be good? Special attention will be paid to questions of representing metaphysics, of ethics, and of power and agency, particularly vis-à-vis gender and sexuality.
GSWS 266-01 Psychology of Gender Marie-Joelle Estrada
Exploration of the ways males and females differ in interaction, theories of development of sex differences, consequences for social change. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 This is a social science course.
Thursday
GSWS 100-01 Topics in GSWS Lauren Berlin
Changes by semester