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Department for Gender and Sexuality Studies

Summer 2022 Undergraduate Course Offerings

MAYMESTER

GSS 1160W 01: Shatema Threadcraft, “Sex and Society,” MTWRF 1:10am-4pm (AXLE: P)

This class examines the changing meanings and cultural significance of sex, gender, and sexuality. Questions we will examine will include: What is sex? How do we learn about it? How is sex represented in the media? How has the meaning of sex and sexuality changed over time? And how does the meaning of sex change based on race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender, region, age, and disability? Students should be aware that this class has a sustained focus on sexual violence, with particular attention to sexual assault on college campuses and beyond. We’ll examine how feminist scholars and activists have aimed to end gender-based sexual violence. Finally, this class is about sex research: how do researchers ethically conduct research about sex and sexuality? What are contemporary researchers asking about sexuality and sex? And where will research move tomorrow?

FIRST SUMMER SESSION

GSS 1160 01: Allison Hammer, “Sex and Society,” MTWRF 1:10pm-3pm, Online Synchronous (AXLE: P)

In this exciting summer course, we will analyze the intersections of sex, sexuality and gender in our world(s). We will ask critical questions about our historical moment in the areas of popular culture (music, film, and visual art,) reproductive justice, sexual violence, and the LGBTQ+ community. We will discover the range of ways that sex, sexuality, and gender are expressed, regulated and resisted in society. The course will be taught asynchronously, which means you will not have to attend class at a specific time, and you can complete work in a way that fits your schedule. Projects and papers will be self-directed to reflect your own interests and fields of study. Looking forward to having you!

GSS 1160W 01: Kristen Navarro, “Sex and Society,” MTWRF 10:10am-12pm, Online Synchronous (AXLE: P)

This course introduces students to understandings of sexuality informs our personal, societal, and cultural views of the world around us. As a class, will explore such questions as:

  • How are sex and gender socially constructed and variable?
  • How do sexual practices, identities, and structures impact our daily lives?
  • In what specific ways do social, medical, legal and cultural institutions function to codify and normalize our understanding of sex and sexual expression?

The chief objective of this class is to engage in collaborative, student-centered dialogue and analytical writing in an exploration of how categories of race, class, gender, ability, disability, nationality and citizenship status intersect and shaped by structures of inequality that in turn inform our understandings of sex.

SECOND SUMMER SESSION

GSS 1160W 01: Danyelle Valentine, “Sex and Society,” MTWRF 10:10am-12pm (AXLE: P)

This course introduces students to understandings of sexuality informs our personal, societal, and cultural views of the world around us. As a class, will explore such questions as:

  • How are sex and gender socially constructed and variable?
  • How do sexual practices, identities, and structures impact our daily lives?
  • In what specific ways do social, medical, legal and cultural institutions function to codify and normalize our understanding of sex and sexual expression?

The chief objective of this class is to engage in collaborative, student-centered dialogue and analytical writing in an exploration of how categories of race, class, gender, ability, disability, nationality and citizenship status intersect and shaped by structures of inequality that in turn inform our understandings of sex.