Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.
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- Schedule of Classes - May 14, 2025 2:25PM EDT
Classes
FGSS 1100
Course Description
This course offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBT critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting social justice. ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Black Feminist Imaginings of Technology
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Jallow, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Punk Rock Feminism: Riot Grrrl and Archives
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Pasqualini, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FGSS 2010
Course Description
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
FGSS 2160
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2160, ENGL 2160, PMA 2660, VISST 2160
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 2232
Course Description
This course will survey the history and US political contexts of LGBTQ+ identities in popular music over three critical decades. We will cover the 1970s era of gay liberation and visibility with glam rock, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2232, LGBT 2232, MUSIC 2232
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Peraino, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 2535
Course Description
Dragons? Spaceships? Bodies that change gendered characteristics at will? Vampire archivists? Speculative fiction (sci fi, fantasy) imagines the world not as it is but as it should be. It can imagine worlds ... view course details
FGSS 2723
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2723, COML 2723, VISST 2723
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 2770
Course Description
This course explores the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the lives of Muslims past and present. Through a close examination of ethnographies, intellectual histories, and religious treatises, we ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2470, LGBT 2770, MEDVL 2770, NES 2770, RELST 2770
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 3000
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 3318
Course Description
This course surveys the histories, aesthetics, and politics of music and virtuality, focusing on contemporary manifestations of “virtual music” since the 2010s. We will learn about how music is created, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3318, LGBT 3318, MUSIC 3318, PMA 3418
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 3545
Course Description
Discussions surrounding controversies about gender often exclude intersex, perpetuating the assumption that nonbinary gender is not "natural". We will examine the social and political stakes of including ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3545
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 3555
Course Description
What is a comic? How might comics attend to complex historical, social, and political topics? How do comics facilitate a coming to terms with the past or function as an activist medium—spurring on political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 3555, LGBT 3555, PMA 3555, SHUM 3555, VISST 3555
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 3636
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3635, LGBT 3635, SHUM 3635
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 3990
Course Description
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
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Ghosh, D
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Additional Information
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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Ramberg, L
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Additional Information
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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Juffer, J
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Additional Information
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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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Additional Information
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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
McCullough, K
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Additional Information
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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Devault, I
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Additional Information
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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FGSS 4265
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4264, AMST 6264, ASRC 4265, FGSS 6265, HIST 4265, HIST 6265
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Lawlor, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 4371
Course Description
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
FGSS 4458
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4458, ANTHR 7458, EDUC 4458, EDUC 7458, FGSS 7458
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 4460
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ECON 3440, ILRLE 4450
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
FGSS 4705
Course Description
How do queer people make family? What cultural and artistic practices sustain queer bonds? To answer these questions, this course examines queer and trans kinship narratives across a range of genres, including ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4706, ENGL 6705, FGSS 6705, LGBT 4705, LGBT 6705, SHUM 4705, SHUM 6705, VISST 4705, VISST 6705
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 4815
Course Description
Judith Butler is one of today’s foremost theorists and cultural critics. Even though they are known, above all, for their work in gender studies and queer theory, their theoretical thought ranges widely. ... view course details
FGSS 4835
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 6835, LGBT 4835, PMA 4835, PMA 6835, VISST 4835
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 4990
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
FGSS 6211
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 6211
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 6265
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4264, AMST 6264, ASRC 4265, FGSS 4265, HIST 4265, HIST 6265
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
Instructors
Lawlor, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
FGSS 6365
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6364, GERST 6365, GOVT 6465
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 6371
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FGSS 6441
Course Description
This seminar will explore the both the intellectual grounding of and the nuts and bolts of feminist pedagogy. In what context did feminist pedagogy emerge and why? How have its practitioners variously ... view course details
FGSS 6705
Course Description
How do queer people make family? What cultural and artistic practices sustain queer bonds? To answer these questions, this course examines queer and trans kinship narratives across a range of genres, including ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4706, ENGL 6705, FGSS 4705, LGBT 4705, LGBT 6705, SHUM 4705, SHUM 6705, VISST 4705, VISST 6705
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FGSS 6815
Course Description
Judith Butler is one of today’s foremost theorists and cultural critics. Even though they are known, above all, for their work in gender studies and queer theory, their theoretical thought ranges widely. ... view course details
FGSS 6835
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4835, LGBT 4835, PMA 4835, PMA 6835, VISST 4835
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
FGSS 7458
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4458, ANTHR 7458, EDUC 4458, EDUC 7458, FGSS 4458
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)