Feminist Studies Summer Courses
FMST 1
Session 1Restrictions lifted for all students in summer.
Introduces the core concepts underlying the interdisciplinary field-formation of feminist studies within multiple geopolitical contexts. Explores how feminist inquiry rethinks disciplinary assumptions and
categories, and animates our engagement with culture, history, and society. Topicsinclude: the social construction of gender; the gendered division of labor, production, and reproduction; intersections of gender, race, class, and ethnicity; and histories of sexuality. (Formerly Introduction to Feminisms.) (General Education Code(s): CC, IH.)Instructor: Wanda Alarcon
FMST 145
Session 2
Restrictions lifted for all students in summer.
Introduces the defining issues surrounding racial and gender formations in the U.S. through an understanding of the term "women of color" as an emergent, dynamic, and socio-political phenomenon. Interrogates organizing practices around women of color across multiple sites: film and media, globalization, representation, sexuality, historiography, and war, to name a select few. (General Education Code(s): ER.)
Instructor: Claire Urbanski
Feminist Studies: An Introduction
Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S.
