Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

FGSS 2010

Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program focused on understanding the impact of gender and sexuality on the world around us and on the power hierarchies that structure it. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2475 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Newman, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5882 FGSS 2010   LEC 002

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2160

In this introductory course, participants will study the economic and technological history of the television industry, with a particular emphasis on its manifestations in the United States and the United ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18269 FGSS 2160   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Salvato, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2232

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2232LGBT 2232MUSIC 2232

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19681 FGSS 2232   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Peraino, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19682 FGSS 2232   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19683 FGSS 2232   DIS 202

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 2723

This course raises profound theoretical questions about embodiment, agency, power, and race in virtual spaces. How do digital identities in their intersection with something called race, interact with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2723VISST 2723

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19168 FGSS 2723   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3000

This course will work across and between the disciplines to consider what it might mean to think 'as a feminist' about many things including, but not limited to 'gender', 'women' and 'sexuality'. We will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3642 FGSS 3000   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FGSS 2010 or permission of instructor.

FGSS 3318

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3318LGBT 3318MUSIC 3318

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19369 FGSS 3318   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Vigilante, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3322

In her pathbreaking text Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman writes that young Black women were radical thinkers who tirelessly imagined other ways ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3322MUSIC 3322RELST 3322

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9536 FGSS 3322   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Dromgoole, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3520

This course will offer an overview of theoretical and historical responses to bodily and cognitive difference. What was the status of people with (dis)abilities in the past, when they were called monsters, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3520SHUM 3520

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18905 FGSS 3520   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Long, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 3636

This course engages classical antiquity and its reception through the prism of queer studies. Cruising Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Plato, Ovid and more, we will explore how queer theoretical frameworks help ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 3635LGBT 3635SHUM 3635

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7199 FGSS 3636   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Lambert, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Please contact Ryan Belle (rtb95) to be added to the wait list.

FGSS 3990

Individual study program intended for juniors and seniors working on special topics with selected reading or research projects not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11856 FGSS 3990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12427 FGSS 3990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12428 FGSS 3990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12429 FGSS 3990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12515 FGSS 3990   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • McCullough, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13470 FGSS 3990   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Devault, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

FGSS 4127

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution. This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

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  • 19118 FGSS 4127   SEM 101

    • M
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19119 FGSS 4127   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4212

Black women first began to shape the genre of autobiography during antebellum era slavery. They were prolific in developing the genre of autobiography throughout the twentieth century, to the point of ... view course details

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  •  8826 FGSS 4212   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4265

This seminar explores the intertwined histories of sex, sexuality, and gender at the intersection of major themes in American transnational and global history: race, labour, empire, and the state. What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18401 FGSS 4265   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18402 FGSS 4265   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 4371

This course provides an introduction to the theoretical and empirical literature on the sociology of sex and gender. The readings cover theory and methods, feminism, masculinity, intersectionality, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 6371SOC 4370SOC 6370

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8099 FGSS 4371   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4458

This seminar explores the educational lives and schooling experiences of women and girls through ethnographies conducted in the U.S. and different regions of the world. Drawing on the anthropology of education, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19098 FGSS 4458   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Villenas, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4460

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECON 3440ILRLE 4450

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18743 FGSS 4460   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Patacchini, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4835

An understanding of performance as object and lens, modality and method, is integral to scholarship and research across the humanities and social sciences. Charting the advent and defining principles of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8074 FGSS 4835   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 4990

To graduate with honors, FGSS majors must complete a senior thesis under the supervision of an FGSS faculty member and defend that thesis orally before an honors committee. To be eligible for honors, students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  2596 FGSS 4990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Ghosh, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  3547 FGSS 4990   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  3614 FGSS 4990   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Ramberg, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  3874 FGSS 4990   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Hodzic, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 10036 FGSS 4990   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6127

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution. This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19173 FGSS 6127   SEM 101

    • M
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 19174 FGSS 6127   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Roebuck, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6265

This seminar explores the intertwined histories of sex, sexuality, and gender at the intersection of major themes in American transnational and global history: race, labour, empire, and the state. What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18407 FGSS 6265   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Lawlor, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18408 FGSS 6265   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 6371

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4371SOC 4370SOC 6370

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 19587 FGSS 6371   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Maralani, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6835

An understanding of performance as object and lens, modality and method, is integral to scholarship and research across the humanities and social sciences. Charting the advent and defining principles of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8077 FGSS 6835   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Jaime, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FGSS 6990

Independent reading course for graduate students on topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students develop a course of readings in consultation with a faculty member in the field of Feminist, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2853 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Zurn, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

FGSS 7458

This seminar explores the educational lives and schooling experiences of women and girls through ethnographies conducted in the U.S. and different regions of the world. Drawing on the anthropology of education, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19101 FGSS 7458   SEM 101

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Villenas, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person