Get Yourself Some Queer Class This Quarter!
Queer Performance Poetry!
CHID 496C (SLN# 11709) Instructed by Peer Facilitator/Performance Poet, Sara Giba
A fantastic, enjoyable, 2 credit class! Sign up now, limited availability! Contact sgiba@u.washington.edu for info
Queer 101!
Gen St 197 (SLN# 18893) Instructed by Q Center Director, Jennifer Self
FIG (Freshman Interest Group) course - great introduction to contemporary GLBTQ topics for freshmen!
Sociological Lenses: Contemporary Issues in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Gen St 197 (SLN# 19385, 19386, or 19387) Instructed by Steven Oliver. Check all three SLNs for availability.
FIG Priority. All others please contact instructor for add code: soliver@u.washington.edu
Other Courses of GLBTQ Interest
(Availability may differ by quarter; please check schedule.)
- CLAS 328 Sex, Gender, and Representation in Greek and Roman Literature (3) I&S/VLPA Hinds, Stroup
Affirmation and inversion of gender roles in Greek and Roman literature, myths of male and female heroism; marginalization of female consciousness; interaction of gender, status, and sexual preference in love poetry. Readings from epic, drama, historiography, romance, and lyric.
- COM 489 Ethnicity, Gender, and Media (5) I&S
Media portrayal of women and people of color; creation of alternative media systems by women and people of color in the United States. Offered: jointly with AES 489/WOMEN 489.
- COM 490 Representing Beyond the Binaries: Mixing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Media (5) I&S Joeseph
Cultural studies approach to examining the mixed formations that race, sexuality, and gender take in the contemporary United States media. Draws upon multi-disciplinary scholarship in examination of the media. Offered: jointly with AES 490/WOMEN 486.
- COM 567 Gender, Race, and Communication (5)
Analysis of the role of media in the construction of reality, production processes, and their influence on media representation of women and people of color. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 589.
- ENGL 317 Literature of the Americas (5) VLPA
Examines writings by and about people of the Americas, with a focus on intersections of gender, colonialism, race, sexuality, and ethnicity.
- ENGL 506 Modern and Contemporary Critical Theory (5)
Engages ongoing critical conversations that inform English studies, including: language, textual production, disciplinarity, the university, capital, nation formation, postcolonialism, the environment, race, gender, class, and sexuality. The historical focus is contemporary, with attention to foundational modern theorists.
- ENGL 367 Gender Studies in Literature (5, max. 15) VLPA
The study of contemporary approaches to analyzing the gender politics of literature and culture. Examines special topics in the history and development of the major theoretical trends, including the relationship of certain theories of gender to relevant works of literature.
Instructor Course Description: Andrea Opitz
- HIST 580 Gender and History (5)
Introduction to gender as category of historical analysis, examining the impact of feminist theory within the discipline of history. Course traces historiographical debates in women's and gender history and explores, through cross-cultural comparisons, how scholars have conceived the relationship between gender and categories such as class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
Instructor Course Description: Lynn M. Thomas Uta G. Poiger
- PHIL 206 Philosophy of Feminism (5) I&S
Philosophical analysis of the concepts and assumptions central to feminism. Theoretical positions within the feminist movement; view of the ideal society, goals and strategies of the movement, intersections of the sex-gender system with other systems of oppression. Offered: jointly with POL S 212/WOMEN 206.
Instructor Course Description: Margaret Alison Wylie Clare Bright Claire E. Rasmussen
- PSYCH 210 Human Sexuality (5) I&S McDermott
Broad survey of biological, psychological, and social determinants of human sexuality and sexual behavior. Topics include cultural diversity, sexual development (physical and psychological), sexual health, reproduction (pregnancy, contraception, abortion), development of sex, gender and orientation, adult sexual bonding, sexual abuse and assault.
Instructor Course Description: Lois J. Mc Dermott
- PSYCH 257 Psychology of Gender (5) I&S Kenney
Major psychological theories of gender-role development; biological and environmental influences that determine and maintain gender differences in behavior; roles in children and adults; topics include aggression, cognitive abilities, achievement motivation, affiliation. Recommended: either PSYCH 101 or WOMEN 200. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 257.
Instructor Course Description: Nancy J Kenney
- PSYCH 357 Psychobiology of Women (5) NW Kenney
Physiological and psychological aspects of women's lives; determinants of biological sex; physiological and psychological events of puberty; menopause; sexuality; contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation; role of culture in determining psychological response to physiological events. Recommended: PSYCH/WOMEN 257. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 357.
Instructor Course Description: Nancy J Kenney
- SOC 287 Introduction of the Sociology of Sexuality (5) I&S
Investigates sexuality on the basis of social construction of norms and values, within the context of gender, race, class, and sub-cultures and in the social control of sexuality and why it is so highly regulated. Looks for social, rather than biological or personal explanations for why human sexuality is conceptualize or practiced in a certain way.
- SOC 487 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality (5) I&S Schwartz
Addresses the intersection of gender and sexuality in U.S. society, social institutions and movements, families, and the individual. Topics include the history of sexuality as practiced and politicized since colonial times, major theoretical approaches to sexuality, and how gender and other social status characteristics influence the meanings of sexuality.
- WOMEN 310 Women and the Law (5) I&S
Examines how law addresses women, how the courts have made attempts to address women of color, poor women, lesbians, and women with disabilities. Topics include constitutional construction of equality, employment discrimination, reproductive rights, regulation of sexuality, families and motherhood, sexual harassment, violence against women and international women and human rights.
Instructor Course Description: Patricia S. Novotny
- WOMEN 322 Race, Class, and Gender (5) I&S Ramamurthy, Sunindyo
The intersection of race, class, and gender in the lives of women of color in the United States from historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics include racism, classism, sexism, activism, sexuality, and inter-racial dynamics between women of color groups. Offered: jointly with AES 322.
Instructor Course Description: Mae C Henderson Sasha Welland
- WOMEN 200 Introduction to Women Studies (5) I&S
Feminist analysis of the construction and enforcement of gender differences and gender inequalities in various contexts. Emphasis on the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and nationality in the lives of women. Topics include feminist theory, motherhood, popular culture, sexual autonomy, racism, and activism in the United States, Asia, Latin America. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description: Alison M. Mandaville Stacy E. Grooters Zakiya R. Adair Mae C Henderson Sydney F Lewis
