Offered as SWG 252 and ANT 252. This course explores key issues and debates in feminist anthropology, focusing on how feminist theory and methods have transformed the discipline. Rather than presenting facts about sex and gender across cultures, it emphasizes developing a feminist lens to critically examine how categories of sex and gender intersect with race, ethnicity, class, indigeneity, and nationality.

Why do changemakers find it critical to remember, mourn, and (re)write wars, partitions, and historical trauma? How do they mobilize this work to build alternative futures? This course centers a wide range of texts, with an eye toward opening up the meanings of war, remembering, mourning, writing, performing, and reimagining. As well, these texts offer dreams and languages of justice and liberation that defy pregiven separations among the intellectual, political, psychic, and spiritual.

Offered as AMS 243 and SWG 243. This course considers such questions as: What does one know and how does one know it? What knowledges count as science? How is knowledge culturally situated? How has science been central to colonialism and capitalism, and what would it mean to decolonize science(s)? Is feminist science possible?

This course analyzes the history, prevalence and current manifestations of the white supremacist movement by examining ideological components, tactics and strategies, and its relationship to mainstream politics. Students research and discuss the relationship between white supremacy and white privilege, and explore how to build a human rights movement to counter the white supremacist movement in the U.S. Students develop analytical writing and research skills while engaging in multiple cultural perspectives.

Flickers of global finance capital across computer screens cannot compare to the travel preparations of women migrating from rural homes to work at computer chip factories. Yet both movements, of capital and people, constitute vital facets of globalization in the current era. This course centers on the political linkages and economic theories that address the politics of women, gender relations and capitalism. Students research social movements that challenge the raced, classed and gendered inequities, and the costs of maintaining order.

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of queer studies, including its historical formations and recent innovations. The course explores the roots of queer theory in feminist theories of subjectivity and desire, queer of color critique, and queer critiques of traditional domains of knowledge production, including psychoanalysis and visual culture. Students examine a wide range of media and forms of documentation ranging from archival material and oral histories, to critical theory.

This course explores sexual violence in the United States from psychological, sociological, public health, feminist, legal, social justice, and criminal justice perspectives. It addresses the sexual victimization of teenagers and adults (not children) of all genders in a variety of social contexts, using an anti-oppression framework. The course also focuses on ways to make sexual violence prevention and intervention services better suited to culturally diverse people. (E)

This course immerses students in the 1990s, looking specifically at the emergences and points of contention that made the ‘90s a queer, radical, deeply contested decade. This course examines the moment in lesbian and gay studies when the recuperation of the term "queer" emerged. By engaging with the readings and films assigned in this course, students gain an understanding of the AIDS crisis and the rage that mobilized ACT UP. Students learn what the Culture Wars, Welfare Reform, and the conservative attacks against the National Endowment for the Arts have to do with one another.